This amazing, unprecedented English sampler illustrates so many unique and bold elements of design, stitched in a balanced way inside a four-sided strawberry border. In all my decades of study I've never seen an antique sampler with quite this much bizarre personality.
Cross Stitch pattern from Silver Creek Samplers featuring a campfire with the phrase "Crisp cool air, moonlit night, warm bonfire, stars so bright, dancing flames, ancient lore, embers glowing, make a smore"!
Stitched on 'Hamlet' 18ct Aida by Under the Sea Fabrics, with DMC threads. Stitch count: 73 x 189.
Cross stitch pattern from The Sampler Girl featuring the phrase "Sea air was healing, relaxing. The sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure"!
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Cream using Classic Colorworks, Gentle Arts, and DMC threads. Stitch count is 107 x 132.
Cross stitch pattern from Needle Work Press featuring a sampler completed by 10 year old Hannah Smith in 1838 with the phrase "Defer not till to morrow to be wise. To morrows sun to thee may never rise. Be humble learn thy self to scan. Know pride was never made for man."
This pattern from Little Robin Designs features two elements from an old sampler by Grace Gill in 1838.
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Tobias from Seraphim using Classic Colorworks, Gentle Arts, and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch counts are 65 x 57 and 71 x 65.
Cross stitch pattern from Scarlett House featuring a sampler with the phrase "Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand as the first efforts of a youthful hand and as her fingers o'er the canvass move engage her tender heart to seek thy love with thy dear children may she have a part and write thy... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from The Sampler House featuring the alphabet and the phrase "Worked by Harriet Hazlin. Born in the state of Massachusetts August 17, 1856 by humility and the fear of God are riches honor and life"
Model stitched on 35 ct. Northern Cross linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 141 x 113.
Cross stitch pattern from Pansy Patch Quilts & Stitchery featuring a sampler with the alphabet and the phrase "Garden with joy and love fills a home with happiness"!
Pattern is stitched using Classic Colorworks, Gentle Arts, and Weeks Dye Works floss with DMC conversions. Stitch counts are 251 x 331 sampler, 169 x 60 pin keep, 128 x 128 scissor case, 34 x 34 scissor fob.
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring the phrase "1 Corinthians 13. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love"!
Recommended fabric is 28ct Cream Lugana. Model stitched with DMC floss. Stitch count: 101w x 151h. Designed by Pamela Kellogg.
Cross stitch pattern from Little Robin Designs featuring a sampler with the phrase "Christmas magic is silent, you don't hear it - you feel it, you know it, you believe it"!
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Cocoa from Weeks Dye Works usigng Classic Colorworks, The Gentle Arts and Weeks Dye Works floss. Size: 186w x 233h
Cross stitch pattern from Cross Stitch Antiques featuring a poem from Elizabeth Topham.
Believed to be an English girl, Elizabeth adorned her sampler with three decorative floral pots flanking the verse, the lowest of the three stitched partly over one. This pot has been modified so that... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Rosewood Manor Designs featuring a sampler with the phrase "If all mankind would live in mutual love this world would much resemble that above"!
Model stitched on 40 ct. Cobblestone Linen using DMC thread.
Stitch count is 259w x 259h.
The model was stitched on 30 count Old Salem Linen by The Primitive Hare using Gentle Arts Sampler Thread. The stitch count is 136 x 193.
The recommended fabric allows for a 2 inch border.
Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring the phrase "My soul is fed with needle and thread"!
Cross stitch pattern from Dirty Annie's Southern Style featuring a sampler with two sisters and the phrase "Two are better than one....for if they fall, one will pick up the other"!
Model was stitched on 32ct Gray linen from Weeks Dye Works. Due to "one over one" stitching on the wording, this design is not suitable for Aida. Stitch count is 76 x 140.