Adam and Eve Cross Stitch Patterns

This nautical themed stitching bag features two mermaids, a serpent in a tree and the saying "Eve was tempted, the fruit was sweet. Adam sinned also, for he did eat."

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct linen using Gentle Arts, Classic Colorworks, and Weeks Dye Works threads with DMC conversion. Stitch count is 126 x 295. Finished size is 8" x 18.5".

Cross stitch pattern from Jardin Prive' featuring a scene at the garden of Eden!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct mocha belfast linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 120w x 73h.

This pattern from By The Bay Needleart features Adam and Eve on temptation hill.

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Star Sapphire linen with Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 74 x 147. Finished size: 4.6" x 9.2".

A derivative 17th-century canvas work picture. The Adam and Eve legend was a more popular theme on samplers after the early eighteenth century so this example is quite unusual. The pair are not often seen on earlier needleworks, even though most illustrated bibles of the sixteenth and seventeenth... Read more about And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This naive Adam and Eve sampler might have been made in Maryland around 1810. At first I believed that the sampler was either English or Irish, judging by the unusual surname, until, in my research, I came upon the gravestone of a Fanny H. Peachey, born 24 November 1799,... Read more about Fanny Peachey Circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "German and Dutch samplers are known for their iconography, especially the symbolic religious motifs. This piece, reproduced from the collection of the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, portrays many of these motifs. Adam and Eve, in particular, are often... Read more about IAMEK 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a reproduction of an antique English sampler made by Hannah Hammond in 1845. Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Cocoa linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 192W x 206H. Finished size: 12" x 12 3/4".

"Eden was a Paradise."

Part 2 of an 8 part series. Model is stitched on 36 count Wren Linen by Picture this Plus using Gentle Art Sampler Threads or DMC floss. Stitch Count: 170W x 100H

The booklet contains four wonderful patterns to make your heart content.

Patterns are stitched on 32 Ct. Winter's Brew linen using Gentle Arts threads.

Stitch counts: Eve's Pinkeep: 23x36
The Gift is Small: 31x19
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day: 115x78
Darling Buds of May: 92x81

Model stitched one over two on 36 Ct. Straw with Classic Colorworks and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count: 221 x 234. Design Size: 12" x 13".

A cross stitch patterns featuring an apple tree, Adam & Eve and "Be you to other kind and true as you would have other be to you."

Model stitched on 36ct Beach Brew linen by R&R Reproductions using Weeks Dye Works thread. Stitch count: 237w x 177h.

Cross stitch pattern from Lucy Beam featuring an antique religious sampler with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and the words "God hath said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die".

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. Jackalope from Lapin Loops with Gentle Art floss. The stitch count is 164 x 190 and the finished size is 8.2" x 9.5".

Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 275x369.

Model stitched on 32 Ct. Vintage Navy Bean with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 108 x 108. Finished size is 6.75" x 6.75".

Model stitched on 35 Ct. Cocoa Linen by Weeks Dye Works with Gentle Art Sampler Threads. Stitch count 250W x 258H.

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 35 Ct. Straw linen by Weeks Dye Works with The Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 151W x 208H. Finished size: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4".

This cross stitch pattern from Hands to Work features a unique portrayal of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. Tephra from Cedar River Linen with Needlepoint Inc Silks. Stitch Count: 141H x 112W. Finished size: 7" x 5.6"

Cross stitch pattern from La d Da featuring Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Aspen by Weeks Dye Works with Classic Colorworks, DMC and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 152W x 158H. Finished size: 8.4" x 8.7"

Cross stitch pattern from Modern Folkart Embroidery featuring a small sampler featuring Adam and Eve, a series of plants and ornaments, and a beautiful set of Algerian eyelet letters.

The sampler features Algerian eyelets and full crosses. If you stitch the eyelets, I would recommend... Read more about Ann Flatt, 1828 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from NeedleWorkPress featuring Adam and Eve in a sampler!

The antique was stitched on slightly unevenweave linen, close in color to Baked Clay by Fox and Rabbit. Stitch count is 116 x 165. Finished size on 32 Ct is 7.25" x 10.3".

Note from the designer - "ANN WHITTAKER created an almost comically theatrical sampler depicting Adam and Eve, angels, pious verses, and elaborate meandering vines beneath dramatic multi-colored draperies and tassels. Hovering over the verse which is framed by large columns, are two angels with... Read more about Ann Whittaker 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This unusual sampler is probably of Scottish origin. The distinctive French-inspired mansion house and the peacocks are commonly found on Scottish samplers. Adam and Eve are realistically stitched in the Garden, by effectively working two quite simple stitches together:... Read more about Ann Bowden 1811 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Stitch count is 271 x 325.

Note from the designer - "So many unusual and enigmatic features were left by Ann Carbutt on her sampler, made when she was sixteen years old, very likely in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The surname "Carbutt" is first found in Cheshire after the... Read more about Ann Carbutt 1830 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This wonderful English sampler has to be an original inspired composition by a very clever young girl with a singular artistic vision! Potbellied cherubs fly trumpeting alongside a doughy, asexual Adam and Eve, beneath whom perch an enormous plumed Bird of Paradise on a... Read more about Ann Hall 1812 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern

In the upper register of this finely stitched English sampler there is featured an unusual vignette of Adam and Eve beneath the tree of life (with a menacing black faced serpent) flanked by mirror image brick cottages, followed by a pious verse:

Praise the Lord enthron'd on high
... Read more about Ann Jones 1776 - Cross Stitch Pattern

What makes this early Victorian English sampler so intriguing are the wonderfully naive figures of Adam, Eve and St. Michael flanking the Tree of Life. St. Michael's sword is drawn to slay the serpent, but he hardly looks formidable with his large feet and doughy body. Playskool-like Adam and Eve... Read more about Frances Marshall 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern