Model stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch count for each square is 65W x 65H (4.5" x 4.5"). Stitch count for all 9 squares together with 8 rows between each square is 211H x 211H (15" x 15").
Model stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill Hill Beads. Fabric for main design - cut 28W x 17H. Also need 2 pieces of 16 Ct. Aida Stitch Band cut 25" x 1 1/2" and 26" x 1 1/2". The stitch band creates pockets to hold candy, etc... Read more about Santa & Friends Advent Calendar - Cross Stitch Pattern
Pattern by Joan Elliot featuring the prayer "God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway. The good fortune to run into the ones I do. And the eyesight to know the difference".
Stitched on 14 count Aida using DMC floss. Stitch count: 101W x 129H and the finished size is 7" x 9".
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Blue Moon Lugana by Polstitches (or fabric of your choice) with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 120W x 180H.
The model was stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count for the sampler: 115W x 345H. Each monogram letter is 23x23, Square card designs are 47x47.
Models stitched on 14 ct. Plastic Canvas/Perforated Paper, 14 CT Aida or 28 ct. evenweave. All six angels will fit on one 8.5" x 11" piece of 14 Ct. Plastic Canvas. Models stitched with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill Hill Beads. Stitch count for vertical angels: 46x69, horizontal... Read more about Christmas Angel Ornaments - Cross Stitch Pattern
Models stitched on 14 ct. Plastic Canvas/Perforated Paper, 14 CT Aida or 28 ct. evenweave. All six angels will fit on one 8.5" x 11" piece of 14 Ct. Plastic Canvas. Models stitched with DMC floss and Kreinik #4 Braid. Stitch count for each design is around 45W x 55H. Finished size is 3"... Read more about Jolly Snowman Ornaments - Cross Stitch Pattern
Model stitched on 28 Ct. Snow Cap Lugana by Polstitches (or fabric of your choice) with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill Hill Beads. Stitch count: 167 x 197. Finished size: 11.9 x 14.1 on 14 count.
Model stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill hill Beads. Stitch Count: 169W x 197H. Finished Size is 12.07 in wide X 14.07 in high.
Model stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill Beads. Stitch Count: 61W x 61H. Finishing instructions included.
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Storminess Lugana from Polstitches, or fabric of your choice, with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 166W x 222H.
Model stitched on 28 Ct. Bouquet Lugana from Polsitches (or fabric of your choice) with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 126W x 168H.
Model stitched on 14 Ct./28 Ct. Raindrops Lugana from Polstitches (or fabric of your choice) with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 160W x 215H. Finished size: 12" x 16".
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Daybreak Jobelan by Polstitches (or fabric of your choice) with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 165W x 208H
The initials appearing on the sampler, SI, in two places, may perhaps indicate the school where the sampler was stitched, and not the initials of the stitcher. The Suir Island Quaker School (SI) was a boarding and finishing school for girls established in 1787 in Clonmel in County Tipperary by... Read more about Suir Island (SI) Quaker - Cross Stitch Pattern
No clues have been provided by the stitcher as to her name, year of origin, or place where she stitched her sampler. The only clue as to place might be in the lettering she used itself, giving one an indication it was stitched in Ireland. "A slightly surprising source of lettering which became... Read more about Benezet Alphabet Irish Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
An ancestor of the stitcher placed a typewritten note on the back of the framed sampler, dated August 28, 1997. Thomasina Henrietta Jackson (nee Willis) wrote the following: "This sampler was made by Charlotte Keightley, my great aunt by marriage, circa 1840. Her married name at the time was... Read more about The Two Lands, Circa 1840 - Cross Stitch Pattern
This sampler is an original design based on the layout of eighteenth century Irish Quaker samplers with the lettering and sampler motifs taken from a Mountmellick Irish Quaker sampler in the collection of Cross Stitch Antiques, Elizabeth Martin circa 1789. The town names at the bottom are the... Read more about Ligatures and Lettering of Irish Antique - Cross Stitch
This sampler's appeal was its similarity to Bristol orphanage motifs, bands and alphabets. While clearly not a Bristol school sampler, as it was stitched at Daglingworth School, curiosity leads one to wonder why similar motifs? Daglingworth lies only fifty miles from Bristol, England. It has been... Read more about Annie Matilda Moss - Cross Stitch Pattern
Several girls named Sarah Welch appear in the historical records born in the year1756, in Devon and Berkshire, England, and so without more information it is hard to say which Sarah stitched this sampler at the age of eight in 1764. History does chronicle what was happening in England at that time:... Read more about Sarah Welch 1764 - Cross Stitch Pattern
This chart contains all sixteen pattern pages from a tiny paper pattern album passed out as a souvenir in 1851 at Prince Albert's Crystal Palace Great Exhibition. They were mass produced inexpensively but are rarely found today due to the nature of the flimsy paper and the effects of time. Other... Read more about Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 - Cross Stitch Pattern
A Prequel to the Carter House Sampler, Franklin, Tennessee, The Sampler of Fountain Branch Carter's Mother, For the Battle of Franklin Trust, An Antique Sampler Reproduction.
This page from an Antique Pattern Album made in Germany contains common motifs used in Bristol samplers and English day schools. These pattern booklets from France, England and Germany were published widely and used for embellishing samplers. The motifs on this particular page appear on The Amelia... Read more about Bristol Pattern Page - Cross Stitch Pattern
This beautiful sampler was obtained from the collection of Stephen and Carol Huber. The framed antique contained handwritten notes on the genealogy of Sarah which was written on the back in ink on the sealing paper. It contained the lineage of Sarah Hewes, and the names of her children. Extensive... Read more about Sarah A. Hewes 1826 - Cross Stitch Pattern
Adelaide Underwood 1846 - A Norfolk Antique Sampler Reproduction
Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. Vintage Buttercream by Lakeside Linens with 100/3 silks. The stitch count is 300 x 462 with a finished size of 13.04" x 20.09".
Mary and Meribah Chandler Sisters Samplers - New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay Colony Connections circa 1810.
Mary's Verse: "Tho' griefs unnumbered throng thee round, Still in thy God confide, Whose finge marks the seas their bound, And curbs the headlong tide."
Little Alice, An Original Design - Taken from Alice Clark, 1844. I Had A Father Kind & True. Honor Alice and yourself as you stitch her lovely border surrounding your initials and year stitched.
Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. linen using Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silks floss. The stitch count is 89 x 85 and the finished size is 3.87" x 3.70".
The Sandery Sisters Samplers - Sarah aged 8, September 1837 and Mary aged 10, 1846. Mary Sandery Model (over one version) Graph to stitch completely over two Included in Pattern as well as Muted Color Tone Thread Legend Alternate
The Sandery Sisters Samplers - Sarah aged 8, September 1837 and Mary aged 10, 1846. Sarah Sandery Model (over two threads) Graph to stitch as antique looks over two and over one thread included in Pattern as well as Muted Color tone Thread Legend Alternate.
SS Harris is Sarah Sylyina Harris who stitched her sampler in the thirteenth year of her life. With no year and no place provided it is difficult to find out more about her. What we do know from the way she carried her thread and misspelled a word or two, perhaps even her middle name, is that she... Read more about SS Harris - Cross Stitch Pattern
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. Dirty Teacup by Needle and Flax with 100/3 silks by Au Ver a Soie. The stitch count is 145 x 173 and the finished size is 7.25" x 8.65".
S is for Sampler Stitcher With logo from Cross Stitch Antiques
Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. Dirty Teacup by Needle and Flax with Painters Threads Soie 100/3. The stitch count is 48 x 63 and the finished size is 2.08" x 2.74".
About Martha Schmidt 1880 Sampler: with such a common name, and no location provided, the stitcher's identify remains unknown. However, Schmidt is a common German surname derived from the German word "Schmied" meaning... Read more about Martha Schmidt 1880 - Cross Stitch Pattern
Mary Ann Slough, Specimen Book Cross Stitch Piece Reproduction circa 1840s
Specimen Books: During the 1800s in England and Ireland, sewing instruction books to be used by teachers and pupils were published, their purpose being the production of competent rather than creative needlework.... Read more about Mary Ann Slough, Specimen Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern