Fall Sunshine is the first in a seasonal series of smalls featuring mandalas. Fall Sunshine is stitched in gorgeous jewel-toned over-dyed flosses. As always, I provide a DMC conversion in the chart as well. This design was previously released in the fall issue of Punch Needle and Primitive Stitcher... Read more
Years and years ago, I designed a piece called Pennsylvania Pinwheel. It was a Carriage House samplings design and a few months ago I saw a photo of it on someone's blog and loved the motion I saw in the design. I just had to recreate that feeling!
The sampler version of this design is... Read more
Originally, I planned for these to be included in the Animals sampler design above, but the project quickly grew into something to big to be included in that chart pack.
These designs are so fun and can be stitched in any color, on any linen, and finished in any way possible! Each pincushion has a Stitch Count of: 74 Wide by 52 High. FOr Camels and Tigers needs DMC0313.
Cross stitch pattern from 1897 Schoolhouse Samplers featuring a sampler!
Patterns are stitched on 40 ct Parchment by Weeks Dye Works using Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 118w X 170h and 107w X 161h.
Cross Stitch pattern from Lucy Beam Love in Stitches featuring a sampler with the phrase "The lord is mu shepherd, I shall not want"!
The model was stitched on 36ct. Jackalope from Lapin Loops, suggested fabric listed, using Gentle Arts and Weeks Dye Work Threads. Stitch count is 124 x 152.
Cross Stitch pattern from Lucy Beam Love in Stitches featuring a sampler with the alphabet!
The model was stitched on 36ct. Small Potatoes from Lapin Loops, fabric suggestion listed using Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 139 x 245.
The final design in my Seasonal Trio Series is here! It's a celebration of iconic American symbols: the Statue of Liberty, Old Glory, and the Great Seal.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 count Milk & Honey linen by Fiber on a Whim. Stitch Count: 160H x 60W.
Note from the designer: To go along with the new Classic Colorworks threads, London Fog, Weathervane, and Misty Mauve, I've created a design that can be stitched in different color ways.
Nashville 2024 New Classic Colorworks Thread Pack includes three 5-yard skeins of Classic Colorworks... Read more
Two new patterns from Little Robin Design - "Charlotte McGilis is a cheery sampler" and "Posy" features beautiful pink posies.
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Bramble from Picture This Plus using Weeks Dye Works, Classic Colorworks, and Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 122 x 118.
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.
Three love notes from literary giants Fitzgerald, Bronte and Austin. "I wanted to know you breathed and moved in the same world with me", "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same", and "You have bewitched me body and soul."
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct using Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch counts: 146 x 42, 109 x 69, 125 x 59.
This sampler features a house, trees, flowers and the saying "In books, or work or healthful play, let my first years be past that I may give for every day some good account at last."
Pattern is stitched on 40 Count Beige, suggested fabric listed, using Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 237 x 201.
Mousy is very excited to welcome you to his little corner of the forest, Strawberry Cottage! He has his basket, a sign to let his woodland neighbors know when strawberries are ripe, and of course a sweet strawberry for himself.
Model is stitched on 28 count Green Sapphire Cashel Linen... Read more
Cross Stitch pattern from Mani Di Dona featuring an elegant sewing box!
The model was stitched over 2 threads on n 32 ct Frog Gray by Mani di Donna using Belle Soie Classic Colorworks with DMC Conversions. Stitch Count: : Lid 63 X 63, Drawer 59 X 24
Cross Stitch pattern from Mani Di Dona featuring a biscournu for every season!
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 ct Cocoa linen by Weeks Dye Works using Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: Each side of the biscornu is 59 X 59.
Cross Stitch pattern from Mani Di Dona featuring the phrase "I have made up my mind now to be a sailors wife, to have a purse full of money and a very easy life, but when he says goodbye my love, I'm off across the sea"!
The model was stitched on 32ct Hand Dyed Linen by Mani di Donna "burnt sand" using Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 123 x 49.
Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring a sampler with flowers and the phrase "O, My love is like the melody. That's sweetly play'd in tune"!
Model stitched using The Gentle Arts thread, two strands over two, on 36 count Cocoa linen by Weeks Dye Works. DMC conversion included. Stitch count: 141W x 339H.
About the Sampler: Given the few clues provided, a scattering of initials and a year only, it is impossible to know more about the stitcher of this lovely sampler with its motifs of delicately arching floral stems, oval leafed cartouche, paired birds and potted florals. The motifs themselves are... Read more
Lydia's sampler is an example of a more decorative Quaker marking sampler containing four different alphabets, six dividing bands, and an often seen swan and birds motif, as well as a floral spray. The colors are muted as in the Quaker style, copying those found in nature. Lydia was a talented young... Read more
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
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
Now in a private collection, this sampler was stitched in Lacolle, a southern municipality in Quebec, Canada in 1846 by Emeline Hotchkiss, aged 11. Research reveals an Emeline Hotchkiss was baptized in nearby Laprairie St. Luke's Anglican Church in 1834, around the year our stitcher would have been... Read more
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
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
I love Roses and you can find them scattered throughout this chart. I sure did enjoy designing and stitching this one!
Model was stitched on 32ct "Sand Dollar" laguna linen from Be Stitch Me using floss from Colour and Cotton, Weeks Dye Works, Cottage Garden Threads, Classic Colorworks threads, and The Gentle Art. Stitch count is 190 x 233.
Model was stitched on 32ct "Cold Foam" linen from Be Stitch Me using threads from Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works, and Colour and Cotton. We trimmed the model with "Birds Nest" ric rac from Lady Dot
The handcrafted wooden star button is included with the chart. Stitch count is 119 x 119.
Bessie is grazing in the Bluebells with her little calf while their Shepherdess watches the butterflies. The chart is encircled by a delicate white rose border with a sampler of numbers at the bottom. My friend Maria from Mystic Meadow Creations turned this chart into a lovely project bag but you... Read more
Proverbs 31:19- "She Layeth her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff"
A distaff is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax and wool, but can... Read more
This is the first in a series of 6 houses inspired by the shotgun houses found throughout New Orleans. Stitch each house separately or all together as.
We stitched them on 32ct "Pioneer Trail" linen from Mountain Aire using threads from DMC, Weeks Dye Works, and Classic Colorworks. Stitch count is 77 x 65.