Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring an patriotic wooden sign point the way towards "Vote", "Flag", and "Freedom" with fireworks exploding around it.
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Aida of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 52 x 59. Finished size: 3.71" x 4.21".
Cross stitch pattern from Samplers And Primitives featuring a bouquet of patriotic flowers!
Pattern is stitched on a vintage/neutral color linen or evenweave using
DMC, Weeks Dye Works, The Gentle Arts Sampler threads, Classic Colorworks, ThreadworX. Stitch count is 86w X 107h. Finished size is 5.38 in wide X 6.69 in high for 32 count fabric.
Cross stitch pattern from Samplers And Primitives featuring two patriotic-themed pincushion designs!
Pattern is stitched on 36 count neutral colored linen using DMC, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch counts are 87w x 82h and 63w x 62h. Finished sizes are 4.8" x 4.6" and 3.5" x 3.44" on 36 count fabric.
Note from designer: "Dedicated Hero" is a design created to honor those that serve. My family is so proud of our hero and his commitment to protect and defend our country. I designed this pattern, Dedicated Hero, to honor those that serve and their sacrifices in the name of freedom. I... Read more
This American sampler was stitched on a loosely woven homespun linen with vegetable-dyed silk threads. Despite its size and simplicity, the design is striking, delicate, and well-balanced. Eunice Morton was born in 1783 in Gorham County, Maine. Sometime in 1809-1810, she married Jesse Harding, and... Read more
A unique four-sided geometric border is the highlight of this American sampler, consisting of nine rows of letters and numerals surrounded by a counted satin stitch sawtooth inner border. The design looks like something that might have inspired the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. I have not been able... Read more
Note from the designer - "Few samplers were stitched on this unusual dark green linsey woosey fabric that combines linen and wool to create a dramatic dark background color to highlight brightly colored floss. Most of these samplers were made in the coastal towns of Massachusetts up to New... Read more
Note from the designer - "Abigail Ann was born October 27, 1799, in East Caln, Chester County Pennsylvania. Her parents were Joseph and Ann (Wells) Fleming, the fourth generation of Flemings living in the East Caln area. Abigail Ann attended one of the Quaker schools in Chester County but we are... Read more
This sampler could possibly have been made in Connecticut but the surname is quite common throughout New England. Abigail was ten years old when she made her sampler. The original was stitched on unbleached homespun linen using silk threads, and the reproduction very closely approximates the size of... Read more
Note from the designer - "This Dover, Massachusetts, sampler features an unusual border surrounding alphabetical and numerical tests, and a four-line verse often found on early 19th century American samplers. The colors are remarkably well preserved. The maker, Ann Harding (who was actually... Read more
This sampler is a fanciful adaptation of 19th century American and English sampler motifs. Fluffy white sheep are outstanding on a large green lawn that stretches between two elegant red brick houses that are flanked by flying eagles. Needlework pictures of this type can be considered as traditional... Read more
Note from the designer - "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Elisabeth Hoover and one other student of the former Mrs. Galligher of Lancaster are known to have named Mrs. Leah Bratten on their samplers in 1803. The twin Bratten sisters, Leah and Rachel, both married schoolmasters, kept schools with them,... Read more
This sweet little American sampler features two little houses above alphabets and a short verse:
Would you be wise
Each moment prize
It is surrounded on four sides by a double sided satin stitched sawtooth border. Stitches used include cross, outline, stem filling, counted... Read more
Fanny Hancock's father, Ebenezer Hancock, was cousin to the famous John Hancock. Born in 1785, Fanny sewed her sampler at age 11. She married Nathaniel Parker of Boston in 1803, and died in 1834. The colors on the back side of her sampler retained much of their original brilliance, and are... Read more
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
Note from the designer: "This American band sampler was originally worked in Lynn, Massachusetts. Hannah Breed is mentioned in Bolton and Coe's authoritative book American Samplers. Rows of lettering are intermixed with a row of sheep and cows, a verse, and floral bands. The verse says:
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... Read more
Note from the designer: "A beautiful meandering four-sided floral border in an unusually rich color palette surrounds this traditional Scottish sampler, also featuring a beautiful arcaded floral band at the top and a substantial mansion house in the lower register. Trees, tulips and flying birds... Read more
Rose's unusual middle name should have provided some clues about where she was born, and where she lived, but the name "Shenamon" is elusive despite my efforts to discover its origins as well as hers. It is spelled many different ways when researched (including Shinimon and Schinnamon which... Read more
This design was excerpted from the top of an early nineteenth-century English sampler. It features an unusual and amusing hunting scene with a solo hunter on horseback pursuing a single hapless stag with a pack of ten spotted hounds on its trail.
The verse reads:
Give me O Lord thy early... Read more
This English sampler comes from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Jarrett, who established Witney Antiques. It was featured in one of their exhibition catalogs in December 1996 titled "All Creatures Great and Small."
The work is extremely fine and accomplished,... Read more
This pattern from Stacy Nash features three nautical pinkeep designs.
Patterns are stitched on 46 ct Antique Lace by Seraphim Linen using Weeks Dye Works threads.
Stitch Counts:
Whale 145 x 112
Ship 77 x 73
Compass 68 x 65
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Monaco (dyed with coffee) with Classic Colorworks and DMC floss (or all DMC 3865, 3768, ecru, 3347, 729, 304, 950, 3862, 310, 3778). Stitch Count: 84x112. Finished size: 6" x 8".
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Black evenweave fabric with Classic Colorworks and DMC floss (or all DMC 167, 3777, 3347, 729, 931, 927, 304, 3865-2). Stitch Count: 154x126. Finished size: 11"x9".