A Victorian style greenhouse that grows the world's strangest plants. Includes an illustrated index to identify each plant. Muted color chart for easy readability. Pattern booklet size: 8.5 x 11 inches, 16 pages. Stitched on 36 ct Cottage Stone by Colour and Cotton using DMC threads. Stitch count is 218w x 160h.
This spooky (but cute) library scene is packed with books and haunted by ghosts, literary characters and an author or two. Muted color chart for easy readability. Pattern booklet size: 8.5 x 11 inches, 8 pages.
Pattern is stitched on 36 count Vintage Country Mocha using DMC threads.
Stitch count is 174w x 161h.
Colorful mushrooms gather around a log in the moonlight. Full color chart. Pattern leaflet size: 8.5 x 11 inches. Pattern is stitched on 18 ct Black Aida using DMC threads. Stitch count is 104w x 100h.
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.
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.
The wise, the gentle Wizard Cat predicts the future and he has good news for you! This adorable pattern is sure to bring a smile to a friend's face and is oh so relaxing to stitch -- like filling in a coloring book! This pattern is worked up in some very cool COSMO floss colors, as you can see in... Read more
The Queen of Thread stitches in red! This adorable cross stitch pattern would look great personalized to any queen and hung in the craft room! Quick to work up with some gorgeous overdyed flosses on polka-dot linen!
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 count Mini Dots Basalt on... 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 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.
Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Clay/Barn Grey linen using Gentle Arts floss with DMC Conversions. Stitch count is 245 x 421.
"Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy... Read more
Cross Stitch pattern from My Big Toe Designs featuring the phrase "He that blesses his neighbor with a loud voice rising early in the morning it shall be counted as a curse Proverbs 27:14"!
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct. country french linen, lambswool using The Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 111w x 123h.
Cross Stitch pattern from My Big Toe Designs featuring the phrase "In You Lord my God I put my trust Psalm 25:1"!
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct. Jobelan, China Pearl using Weeks Dye Works floss and a button from Just Another Button company. Stitch count is 71w x 71h.
The pattern is stitched on 32 ct. French Lace linen. All of the Skin - stitch with 1 Stand Classic Color Works Rod &Reel, eyelashes have 2 Strands Classic Color Works Old Blue Jean, Shoes have 1 Strand of Classic Color Works Jelly Roll, Shoe Laces stitch with 2 Strands of Classic Color Works Jelly... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a bee making honey for a local farm!
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Light Taupe Lugana using DMC thread. Stitch count is 70 x 70.
Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a jar of honey surrounded by lavender!
Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Light Mocha linen by Zweigart using DMC thread. Stitch count is 74 x 58.
Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a Christmas tree with presents!
Pattern is stitched on 14 ct. Aida of your choice, suggested fabric listed, using DMC thread. Stitch count is 70 x 70.
Note from the designer: Next in the seasonal buttoned-up designs features spring. It's full of happy, colorful blooms - and those hand-dyed buttons are included. The design says "Spring, Live simply, Bloom Wildly."
Models are stitched on 40ct Picadill White legacy linen from... Read more
Note from the designer: A stunning reproduction, with unusual alphabet placement and a garden teeming with birds and lovely floral motifs; a charted adaptation for the lower portion only is also included. Other than a small number of eyelets, everything is standard cross stitches
Note from the designer: Based on a silk gauze antique embroidery in my collection, this plump, pampered cat is adapted for linen and finished as a drum - although easily framed up or finished as you like.
Model stitched 1 over 2 on 36ct Shiloh from Needle & Flax (comparable to DMC 422)... Read more
Featuring three designs for moms - "Moms, makers of all the difference", "Sometimes when I open my mouth, my mother comes out" and "Mother." Models are stitched 1 over 2 on 37ct Russian Tea Cake legacy linen from Access Commodities (comparable to DMC ecru), using Weeks Dye... Read more
Where There Are Bees There Are Flowers is an original sampler, combining Karen's love of big houses and bees. Stitch count 235w X 238h. The sampler was stitched on Fox and Rabbit 40 count Saltbush linen, using Colour and Cotton threads not listed (Bumblebee, Coal, Chestnuts Roasting, Iron,... Read more
Continuing our insect series, They Come at Night celebrates Lunar Moths. Stitch Count 185w X 185h. The model was stitched on Fox and Rabbit 40ct Black Swan linen using DMC threads.
Pattern is stitched on 40 count Black Swan linen ( suggested fabric listed) using DMC threads. Stitch count is 185 x 185.
Our companion piece for They Come at Night is Queen of the Night. Stitch count 77w X 95h. The model was stitched on Fox and Rabbit 40ct Black Swan linen using DMC and Kreinik thread.
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
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
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
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
The proud image of the lion is everywhere in Venice; gazing down from buildings, looking out from the keystone of an archway, or standing on fluted columns. The more you look, the more you see: no one knows how many there are. There are plenty of Lions throughout Venice for Leo lovers to enjoy. Best... Read more
This is part of a 9 chart series of Gulf Coast Treasures. They Each measure in at about 3 inches (stitch count 50x50) so they are perfect as little ornaments, bowl fillers, or stitch all 9 together.
The models were stitched on 32ct "Dwarf" linen from Picture this plus and finished by Starry Nights Studio where you can also purchase the fabric covered mounting board.