Vintage Tina

Vintage Tina Richards
Here is a listing of some vintage Tina Richards designs
when she was with the Vanessa-Ann Collection

Marshmallow Moon – Cross Stitch for Little Ones
This book has the same charts as A Pink Parfait.

Sweet Treats - Crafts from the Kitchen
On page 76 it has recipes and designs for Simple Country Folk people, lamb and goose. They are displayed in the front of Lavender Tea sampler.

Sleeptown Days
The month of November of in it The Balloon Woman, A Shepherd's Afghan to knit with design of hearts, sheep and geese, friendship garland and patterns for knit folk dolls (large and small).

Sweetheart Pictures
It is from VAC Christmas in Cross Stitch from 1989. It is leaflet 1B-5. The caption reads: "These delicate designs are stitched on silk canvas and framed between two pieces of glass, allowing the light to play upon the tiny silk threads. The folk figures are by Tina Richards, a popular designer whose work is heavily influenced by the time she spent in Europe visiting relatives and attending school.

Special Effects - Leisure Arts
(1984) Charts included are Blue Heart, Peasant Man in Square, Pink Heart, Peasant Woman in Square, Wreath with Poem (several poems to choose from), Peasant Border, Alphabet Sampler, Peasant Man in Circle, Goose, Sheep, Peasant Woman in Circle, Wreath, Goose and Sheep Sampler, String of Hearts.

Pincushion
This is from Vanessa-Ann's Collection's Christmas in Cross Stitch which was a monthly "pattern-of-the-month" club. No designers are identified individually, but listed as a whole, so there IS a chance that this is not Tina's pattern, but we're pretty sure it is!

A Signature in Time
(1987) Designers are not identified for each pattern, just for the entire book where Tina is listed. But I think it's pretty safe to say these are Tina's designs: A Sampler for a Friend, For a Sister, Christmas Dream, For an Infant, A Wedding Festival, A Wedding Sampler.

In Times Past
(l982) Goose Woman, Winter Basket Sampler, Silk Ribbons Tied, Thanksgiving Heart, Mother Heart, Irish Luck Heart, July 4 Heart, Love Heart, Joy Heart, Wreath.

A Linen Symphony

A Grand Celebration
Advent Angels, Father Christmas, Bon Bons and Treacles, A Sombrio Melody, Christmas Hearts.

Whispers on the Wind (candle wicking)

Sweet Memories
Heart Card, Heart on Christmas Tree, Les Fleur's Egg, Chick Egg, Heart & Rabbits Egg, Eggs Card, Valentine Book Mark.

Lavendar and Old Lace
Pillow with Initial Band, Love, Neck Roll Pillow, Sachet Bags (3), Rimini Pillow.

A Pink Parfait (later put out as Evening Sampler)

Weatherbee Farm: Windmill Sampler

Folk Tales
Gaggle of Geese, Shaded Meadow, Provincial Sampler, Shepherd's Pillow, Traditional Sampler

Dreamer's Tapestry
Balloon Woman, Goose Border, Folk Sampler

Blueberry Tea: Evening's Children

The Hedgerow Sampler from the Summer 1989 issue of Needlewords

Lavendar Tea

Little Lambs and Ivy: SB designs for knitting

Cross Stitch and Country Crafts May/June 88 issue - "Flock of Briar Root", sampler page 10-11.

The Vanessa Ann Collection annual books for "Holidays in Cross Stitch" both 1987 and 1988 have some of Tina's work.

A Shepherd's Sampler published in 1987 by The Vanessa Ann Collection.

Vanessa Ann Christmas "All Through the House" dated 1985.

Cross Stitch Country Sampler
This is in a Current, Inc. craft book called Ribbons & Lace. It says that Vanessa Ann designed some of the patterns in the book. It doesn't identify who designed what, but you can tell that the Country Cross Stitch Country Sampler is definitely a Tina Richards design. It has the following bands: gees, hearts border, A-S, T-Z and 1-9, flower border, worsted mantle, waxen wine, winger's crocus, wanderer's dream, circle border, sheep facing left, flower border, wheat flowers and little people facing away from each other, heart border, TNR - Her Sampler - 1984.