"Preserve the Union - Let us have Peace." Model stitched on 32 Ct. Gray linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 85x145. Design Size: 6" x 10"
"Free from sea to sea". Model stitched on 28 Ct. Natural Cashel linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 60wx44h. Comes with flag button.
Model stitched over two on 30 Ct. Gray by Weeks Dye Works using Gentle Art Sampler threads, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks. Stitch Count: 56H x 93W
All models stitched on 32 Ct. Wren Belfast by Picture This Plus with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. (DMC alternates are 3808 613 221 3051 842 167 3021 310 712 3064 640 169) "Western Scrub Jay" - Stitch Count: 69x69. Design Size: 5" x 5" "Black Capped... Read more
"The bell proclaims on Liberty Hill, freedom reigns & always will." Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Beige linen by Weeks Dye Works with Gentle Art Sampler threads, Weeks Dye Works floss and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 135x65. Design Size: 8" x 4".
Model stitched over two threads on 40 Ct. Putty linen by Weeks Dye Works using Weeks Dye Works floss. (DMC alternates are 712 950 3371 642 610 3362 317 934 310 355) Stitch count for pin pillow 99x69. stitch count for hornbook 57x51, Fob 29x29 and spool 59x23. (NOTE: 14x18 cut of 40 ct linen will work for all pieces)
Model stitched over two on 28 Ct Light Mocha by Zweigart using Gentle Art Threads. (DMC alternates are (839, 937 932 310 B5200 355 930 3827 3023 644 3859. Linen to be cut into all the pieces for pincusion, top of box, thread keeper, needle book and scissor fob. Templates & instructions included for... Read more
Model stitched over 2 threads on 35 Ct. Classic Homespun linen by R&R Reproductions with Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 126x72. Finished Size: 7" x 4"
Model stitched on 28 Ct. Wren Cashel Linen using Classic Colorworks floss, Gentle Art Sampler Threads and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch count is 23W x 31H. Design Size: 2" x 3"
Model stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Tin Roof linen with Weeks Dye Works floss, Classic Colorworks floss, and Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 233W x 233H.
This cross stitch pattern by Quaint Rose Needle Arts featuring the month of July! With American Flags and a patriotic design to celebrate Independence Day! This is part of monthly calendar series coming throughout this year!
Model stitched on 32 count Vintage Country Mocha linen using DMC... Read more
A reproduction from the collection of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, Baltimore, MD - the first African-American Roman Catholic Sisterhood.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Ivory Belfast linen with DMC floss and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 150H x 258W. Finished... Read more
Patriotic design featuring "Sweet land of liberty", a red pick up and the American flag. Design shown finished as a pillow. The model was stitched on 32 Ct. fabric with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 134x53. Finished size: 8 1/3" x 3 1/3". Comes with embellishments.
It's an election year, and things are very interesting. This design not only reminds us of our civic duty, but also that we are One Nation, and we do have lots of common ground. Lets not forget that and go out and vote. The design can be stitched as the larger combined piece or you can stitch the... Read more
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 sampler shows a man and a woman beneath an apple tree, reminiscent of Adam and Eve, but in contemporary dress. Possibly of New York origin (the format and background suggest this), this reproduction is stitched on linen with either cotton or silk, with the... 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
Note from the designer: "A gift from the collection of Rosalind and Edwin Miller to the museum. Emma Lerch was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and she stitched this sampler in her thirteenth year. It is a very simple work, with a lovely meandering floral border. While perhaps... 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: "Hannah Mosher was born March 12th, 1786, in Hollis, New Hampshire, the fourth and last child of Abijah and Hannah Mosher. On March 7, 1813, she married the Rev. Walter Chapin of Woodstock, Vermont. Apart from this sketchy biographical information, found in the History of... Read more
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