The Festive Collection
The Festive Collection brings together embroidery and sewing patterns designed for a slower, more personal kind of Christmas making.
At its heart is the idea of creating gifts that feel thoughtful and individual. Personalised embroidery sits alongside practical sewing projects, allowing your gifts and wrapping to become treasures used again and again.
Inspired by family traditions, handwritten memories and the joy of making for others, these are patterns to help you hand-make your way to Christmas.
Embroidery Patterns
Mistletoe Monogram
The Mistletoe Monogram combines delicate mistletoe with an elegant embroidered initial, making it a beautiful way to personalise Christmas stockings, gift bags and other festive makes. The pattern includes a design for every letter of the alphabet and 2 colourways, so you have everything you need to personalise your gifts.
The lettering uses the Barbara font, an embroidery alphabet inspired by my grandmother's handwriting and designed especially to flow beautifully in thread.
View the Mistletoe Monogram pattern
Winter Vine Name
The Winter Vine Name allows you to create a personalised embroidery design using a name (the pattern includes up to 5 of your choice), surrounded by an elegant botanical vine. Designed with gifting in mind, it's one of those makes that will be treasured for years to come.
View the Winter Vine Name pattern
Companion Sewing Patterns
The sewing patterns in The Festive Collection were designed to give your embroidery somewhere useful to live. Each can be made on its own or combined with embroidery to create personalised gifts and reusable Christmas wrapping.
Drawstring Bags
Four sizes of reusable gift wrapping, each bag is designed around a common embroidery hoop size. Make them simply in beautiful fabric or add embroidery to turn the bag itself into a personalised gift.
Read the Drawstring Bags story
View the Drawstring Bags pattern
Christmas Sack
A generously sized reusable Christmas sack with both quilted and non-quilted construction options. Its large front panel provides plenty of room for personalisation and embroidery.
View the Christmas Sack pattern
Christmas Stocking
A fully lined Christmas stocking designed as a gentle introduction to fabric manipulation. Make it simply or explore quilting and optional gathered, pleated or beaded-smocked skirts for added texture and detail.
Read the Christmas Stocking story
View the Christmas Stocking pattern
Inspired by Family and Handwritten Traditions
You probably know of my seamstress grandmother Kathleen, but I was doubly blessed. My paternal grandmother, Barbara, was an equally wonderful woman. She was an expert knitter and baker, and we spent much of our time together in her kitchen, baking and dancing to Neil Diamond and Julio Iglesias.
I still have some of her handwritten recipes. Her Christmas Cake recipe is particularly precious to me. On the other side of the page are my childhood spellings alongside her gentle, helpful notes. That little piece of paper captures those years and her compassionate heart to share so much of her life with me.
When I began designing The Festive Collection, personalisation was at its heart. I wanted to create designs that would allow names and monograms to become part of handmade gifts. Embroidery, with its ability to form long, elegant lines, was perfect for the task, but I couldn't find a font that felt quite right.
So I made one.
And, of course, I reached for that little piece of paper for inspiration.
I'll never quite capture Granny's handwriting. She belonged to an era when writing on paper was at the heart of correspondence and was given such care. But the Barbara font is a little ode to her, an expression of gratitude and a reminder that these women gave me so much.
You'll find it stitched throughout The Mistletoe Monogram and The Winter Vine Name.
Classical Influences and Colour
As a child I was fascinated by Ancient Rome. I studied Latin until I was eighteen, learning not only the language but exploring its history, art and culture. I can still see traces of that influence in the things I'm drawn to today.
When I designed The Winter Vine, those classical forms were somewhere in my mind, particularly the elegant pointed petals that appear throughout Roman decorative art.
Colour became another opportunity to play. Alongside traditional Christmas greens and whites, I found myself drawn to deep blue, plum red and warm mocha tones. The result was a Christmas palette that felt a little unexpected, but still rich, timeless and celebratory.
Embroidery & Sewing Together...Pattern Bundles
One of the ideas at the heart of Heather & Co. is that embroidery can be enjoyed in everyday use. The sewing and embroidery patterns in The Festive Collection were created to work alongside one another.
If you'd like to combine embroidery and sewing, I've brought some of the companion patterns together as bundles, making it easy to create a complete personalised project.
Mistletoe Monogram & Drawstring Bags
Combine the Mistletoe Monogram with the Drawstring Bags sewing pattern. The monogram fits perfectly on the largest of the 4 drawstring bags.
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Mistletoe Monogram & Christmas Stocking
Combine the Mistletoe Monogram with the Christmas Stocking sewing pattern to create an embroidered stocking.
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Winter Vine Name & Christmas Sack
Combine the Winter Vine Personalised Name with the Christmas Sack sewing pattern to add a special touch to your heirloom make.
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You don't have to combine them, of course. Each pattern stands on its own. But when you do, I love that the time spent stitching becomes something you'll enjoy again and again.
I hope this collection gives you a canvas for your creativity, but more than that, a way to pour a little of your heart into the things you make for others.
Much love,
Lisa xx