Note from the designer: "From Dover, Massachusetts, comes Harriot Boardman's sampler, originally worked on a distinctive green linsey-woolsey found only on some North Shore samplers. A three-sided sawtooth border surrounds alphabet and numeral tests with geometric cross bands, two deer with curiously short legs, and a pot of springing daisies below."
Finished size on 25 Count linen is 11 1/4" x 18 1/4". Stitches used: cross, satin, eyelet, stem.
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