Cross stitch pattern from Madame La Fee featuring the French sentiment "Retour au Chalet (Back to the Cottage) with a cozy fire, Christmas holly, warm mittens, and more!
Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 185 x 185.
Cross stitch pattern from Madame La Fee featuring the French sentiment "Un Hiver a la Montagne (Mountain Winter), with bird, berries, snowman, hot cocoa, and more!
Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 191 x 191.
Cross stitch pattern from Madame La Fee featuring the French sentiment "Herbes et Epices" (Herbs and Spices), with onion, pepper, scallions, parsley, and much more!
Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 188 x 188.
Cross stitch pattern from Madame La Fee featuring the French sentiment "Vin de France (Wine of France), with wine glass, grapes, and European vineyardmore!
Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 204 x 194. Finished size is 12.75" x 12.13" on 32 count.
Cross stitch pattern from Madame La Fee featuring the French sentiment "Le Village Sous La Neige" (The Village Under Snow), with a stately European church, snowflakes, winter plants, and more!
Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 204x178.
This is a beautiful sampler from Norwich (Norfolk, United Kingdom), possibly stitched at a school run by one Mrs. Wright or her descendent (hence the initials "MW" below Elizabeth's name in the attribution). A list of teachers in Norwich in 1783 includes Wright, Massey, and Cheetleburgh. The... Read more
Note from the designer - "ANN WHITTAKER created an almost comically theatrical sampler depicting Adam and Eve, angels, pious verses, and elaborate meandering vines beneath dramatic multi-colored draperies and tassels. Hovering over the verse which is framed by large columns, are two angels with... Read more
Note from the designer - "A characteristically northern German sampler, this example from Hamburg consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a unifying central scene and borders. Religious symbols are commonly found on almost all continental samplers, and Adam and Eve in particular is often... Read more
Note from the designer - "This unusual sampler is probably of Scottish origin. The distinctive French-inspired mansion house and the peacocks are commonly found on Scottish samplers. Adam and Eve are realistically stitched in the Garden, by effectively working two quite simple stitches together:... Read more
Note from the designer - "A sophisticated painterly use of perspective distinguishes this pictorial English sampler. An idealized rural scene with a thatched cottage nestled in a fertile valley, with white misted hills rising in the distance, also features a windmill, a flock of sheep,... Read more
Note from the designer - "So many unusual and enigmatic features were left by Ann Carbutt on her sampler, made when she was sixteen years old, very likely in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The surname "Carbutt" is first found in Cheshire after the... Read more
Note from the designer - "This is a beautifully balanced, intensely stitched transitional sampler. Worked originally in brightly colored silk threads on a fine tammy (wool) ground, it features a repeating, four-sided carnation border, surrounding five horizontal bands interspersed by lines of... Read more
Note from the designer - "This wonderful English sampler has to be an original inspired composition by a very clever young girl with a singular artistic vision! Potbellied cherubs fly trumpeting alongside a doughy, asexual Adam and Eve, beneath whom perch an enormous plumed Bird of Paradise on a... 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
Europe Sampler inspired by European Old School Samplers. You may see the glimpse of the typical motives of Dutch, English and German old samplers. Purple is the color of the Royal dynasties of Europe.
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Platinum using DMC threads. Stitch count is 279 x 279.
Model stitched with two strands on your choice of fabric using DMC floss. Stitch Count: 168x168. Specialty Stitches Used: French Knot and Smyrna Cross. Design Size on 16/32 Ct.: 10 1/2" x 10 1/2"