Ghost and Halloween are the eleventh and twelfth of twelve designs from the Halloween Boo Club Series. Models stitched on 30 Ct. Weeks Dye Works Mocha linen with Gentle Arts Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count for each design is 77W x 38H. Includes buttons.
"My favorite time every year", "Remember and rejoice!". Part 1 of the Mery Christmas by the Letter Double Flip series. Model stitched over two threads on 30 Ct. Weeks Dye Works Parchment linen with Weeks Dye Works. The stitch Count for each design is 77W x 51H.
"Ringing bells - Icicles glow", "Snow falls - time together". Part 3 of the Mery Christmas by the Letter Double Flip series. Model stitched on 30 Ct. Weeks Dye Works Parchment linen with DMC floss and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count for each design is 77W x 51H.
"Magic moments - Angels sing", "Season of joy". Part 3 of the Mery Christmas by the Letter Double Flip series. Models stitched over two threads on 30 Ct. Weeks Dye Works Parchment linen with DMC floss and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count for each design is 77W x 51H.
Ride a Bike is the second of six designs from the Green Flip-It Series. Model stitched on 28 count Light Mocha Cashel Linen with Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Classic Colorworks floss, Weeks Dye Works, DMC floss, and button (included). The stitch count is 40W x 63H.
This cross stitch pattern from Finally a Farmgirl features a frog in a baseball uniform and the saying "Catching flies."
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Vintage Country Mocha Cashel linen with Weeks Dye Works, Classic Colorworks and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 82 x 102.
Main Street embraces life in a small town with a patriotic flair. This main street is a stitcher's dream featuring everything from a coffee shop to a fabric and cross-stitch shop.
The model was stitched on 30 Ct Weeks Dye Works Parchment. Stitch Count: 306 x 106.
Two cute designs to celebrate "Our 1st Christmas" or baby's "1st Christmas." Models stitched over two threads on 28 Ct. Cream Cashel linen and 28 Ct. Opalescent Lugana with Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count: 56W x 60H.
Be on the lookout for a "Jolly Man Bearing Gifts!" Stitch Count: 81W x 84H. Model is stitched over 2 threads on 28ct Natural Cashel using Weeks Dye Works, DMC floss and Rainbow Gallery Wisper. Shown with buttons from Just Another Button Company. Finished size is 5.79 in wide X 6 in high.
"When you stop believing, you get socks and underwear!" Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 count New Khaki Lugana (or similar) with DMC floss, Rainbow Gallery Whisper and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 85W x 85H. Finished size is 6" X 6". Embellishment pack available.
Cross stitch pattern from Artmishka featuring cats bundled up for winter!
Model stitched on the Aida of your choice from Zweigart using DMC floss. Stitch count of each design is approximately 143 x 146. Designed by Anna Gutova.
"I'm old school and I like to hear people say Merry Christmas". Model stitched on 32 Ct. Natural Light linen with Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 80x80. Shown with snowflake buttons. Finished size is 5 in wide X 5 in high.
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Natural Cashel linen with Weeks Dye Works, Gentle Art Sampler threads, DMC floss, and Rainbow Gallery Wisper. Shown with charms. Stitch Count: 80W x 79H. Finished size is 5.71 in wide X 5.64 in high.
Adapted from an English sampler dated 1783. The original sampler from which this piece was adapted measures 15 1/2" x 12 1/2", and was stitched over one thread of linen on approximately 50-thread-count glazed linen. The house on the left alone, which measures 71 by 62 squares on the graph,... 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 - "This beautiful. petite, energetic sampler expressed three fine verses and, at the end, one of the truest "signatures" I've ever read on a piece of needlework:
By this ingenous Maids
may see what by the
needl wrought
may be
Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Mansfield finished her sampler in England on 13th June 1792, during the reign of King George III (1760-1820: note the cushioned crown in the upper third, marked on either side by the initials G R for George Rex). The original sampler was stitched on a very... Read more
According to a note attached to the back of the original sampler, it was probably made near Newtown, Pennsylvania. The attribution at the center is surrounded by a typical Quaker leafy cartouche with opposing flowers and facing birds above. Other characteristic Quaker motifs include eight point... Read more
Note from the designer: "This band sampler was designed after a piece in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, most remarkable for the colorful, solidly filled geometric and floral sections. It also features double running stitch sections found on Italian embroideries of the sixteenth and... Read more
Note from the designer: "A Pennsylvania German sampler that may not be, strictly speaking, a miniature, but is nonetheless small for its type. Typical Pennsylvania German folk culture motifs - birds, trees, hearts, flowers, crowns and stars - adorn it."
Note from the designer: "Adapted from a mid eighteenth century English sampler. The combination of several unusual stitch techniques with bold primary colors, makes this sampler outstandingly beautiful and a rewarding project to stitch.
While the majority is done in cross stitch, large... Read more
The Temperance Movement of the early nineteenth century began in the United States prior to 1808. Preachers, most notably John Bartholomew Gough, promulgated a pledge of abstinence from members of his congregation. While temperance efforts have existed as long as spirits have, the movement was not... 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
Band samplers of the 17th century exhibit the widest range of stitches and techniques. Counted thread stitches on linen were artfully combined with panels of floral, geometric, or figural cut and drawn work- a technique where the background threads of linen are carefully bound, then cut and pulled... 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: "Our own original design created in collaboration with Terry Meinke, draws upon the needlework traditions of two centuries, in both England and America. The idyllic landscape and more naturalistic figures (as opposed to the blocky shapes of later figures on American... Read more
Note from the designer: "The characteristic that readily identifies the origin of this sampler is the distinctive vine and rose border, configured such that a leaf on one side and a rosebud stem on the other give the illusion of a double vine. It is almost always found executed in cross stitch... Read more
What makes this early Victorian English sampler so intriguing are the wonderfully naive figures of Adam, Eve and St. Michael flanking the Tree of Life. St. Michael's sword is drawn to slay the serpent, but he hardly looks formidable with his large feet and doughy body. Playskool-like Adam and Eve... Read more
Note from the designer: "This sampler was probably made in Rhode Island, a poor sister, perhaps, to the magnificent creations coming out of the girls' schools in Newport, Providence and Bristol at this same period, but bearing some similar "signatures". The squat, long-tailed bird at the... Read more
This sampler features two uncommon verses taken from the book Sentences and Maxims Divine, Moral and Historical, in Prose and Instruction of Human Life: and Particularly for the Improvement of Youth in Good Sence and correct English by George Shelley, published in London in 1712.
"Jesus permit thy Gracious name to stand as the first effort of an infant hand. And while her fingers on the canvas move, engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love. With thy dear children, let her have a part and write thy name thyself upon her heart."
Note from the designer: "This finely worked sampler features pastoral scenes above and below a lovely verse about friendship. A four-sided honeysuckle border surrounds large baskets of fruits and flowers, a fenced pasture with seven large lazy sheep and an architectural folly in the background.... 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: "The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Soon after Mary and Jesus were visited by the Magi, who had learned that King Herod intended to kill the male infants in that region, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee... Read more
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