This design from Hearstring Samplery features the saying "Home is Where Your is."
Model stitched 1 over 2 on 36ct Graham Cracker by Graham Cracker Fabrics, using Classic Colorworks and Weeks Dye Works threads. DMC conversion provided. Stitch count: 110 x 45.
These goofy birds are sure to put you in a good mood. This muster of peacocks find their inspiration from a 1918 magazine article discussing using textile motifs to decorate ceramic wares. So, historically accurate but aesthetically questionable. They finish up at a stitch count of 195 x 153... Read more
This playful geometric design will have your needle twisting and turning around the dots and crosses. It's based on a traditional Indian design style called Rangoli or Kolam.
Pattern is stitched on 30 ct Gray by Weeks Dye Works using DMC threads. Pattern includes the stitching chart only,... Read more
Note from the designer: A Collection of Petite Samplers includes five samplers which were stitched from the years 1828 and 1894. The collection includes two small red samplers and another sampler worked in pastels. One of the most interesting samplers is worked in blue and was originally part of... Read more
This pattern from JBW Designs features a tree full of colorful birds.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. French Vanilla from R&R Reproductions with Classic Colorworks and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 144W x 107H
Note from designer: My Heart To You Is Given is a collection of seven designs , using the most universal sign for love - a heart. The designs could be used for so many occasions, including a wedding shower or a wedding gift, as a birthday gift, for a friend, for an anniversary, or as a Christmas... Read more
This pattern was stitched on 36 ct Dead Sea Scroll by Seraphim Fabrics. Finished Size: 7.75" x 7.75" and Stitch Count: 140 x 140. This piece was stitched with silk threads, introducing the stitcher also to some Silk Lame by Rainbow Gallery.
Soon it will be garden time and so we have another in the set of boxed pieces that fit in the shadow boxes like Christmas Box and Stitch Box. There are no specialty stitches in this pattern. Design size is a 3 05 x 4 on 32 ct. for the left sampler square with 2 smalls on the side and one long one... Read more
I am delighted to share this antique with you. It is from 1840 of Dutch origin. The sampler had lots of great motifs and I loved the top rows of crowns and shields, but the composition did not please me, it had large blank spots on it. I saw this piece as more enjoyable in the vertical format as... Read more
I'm really loving Quakers lately. This design was first released in an exclusive Box in 2023 and hasn't been seen since. I've had it stitched in both Sulky 12wt Cottons and in overdyed Cottage Garden Threads(Marigold, Lima, Hearth, Hugs & Kisses, and Story). The chart will provide both conversions,... Read more
This design is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthrone's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" in which Dr. Rappaccini cultivates a beautiful but deadly garden filled with wonderous plants. Inspired by this story, I "gathered" plants from my own life and experience and put them together with... Read more
This design is inspired by an antique pocketbook that I have in my collection. The birds and flowers are charted as they appear on the handbag, the arrangement is new. I hope you use this opportunity to give Cosmo flosses a try; they're wonderful.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 ct Touch of Yellow linen. Stitch count: 97w x 78h
Strawberry Dream is third in the series, From Trudy's Kitchen. The stitch count is 81 wide by 96 high. The model was stitched in DMC (Needlepoint Silk conversions are provided) on 32ct Needle Bling Designs & Hand Dyed Linens' Shrekie's Tan. Stitch count is 81 x 96.
Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring a joyful spring scene with frolicking rabbits!
Model stitched using Roxy Floss, two strands over two, on 32 count Panettone linen by Roxy Floss Co. DMC conversion included. Stitch count is 130W x 162H
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.
Cross Stitch pattern from Annie Beez Folk Art featuring a patriotic truck with the phrase "Every heart beats true".
Model stitched on 32 count Ice Blue linen using Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works, and DMC floss, using 2 strands of floss over 2 linen threads. Stitch count: 74w X 66h.
Note: DMC 3881 has been discontinued. We suggest DMC 3364.
Cross Stitch pattern from Annie Beez Folk Art featuring a bee and the phrase "How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour".
The model is stitched on 32 count Salt Rock linen by Colour and Cotton, using 1 strand of floss over 2 linen threads. Stitch count: 88 w X 75 h. Design size approx.: 5 1/2" X 4 3/4"
A Christmas cross stitch pattern from Autumn Lane Stitchery featuring three designs - a curious cat looking out a window, a happy fox, and jolly ol' St. Nick.
Patterns stitched on 28 count.
Santa stitch Count: 49 x 52
Christmas Fox stitch count: 51 x 54
Curious Cat stitch count: 56 x 56
A skipjack boat used for oyster harvesting in the Chesapeake Bay. The sails are adorned with quilt block motifs. A traditional alphabet and numbers are in the background.
Pattern is stitched on 32 ct using Forbidden Fiber Co not listed (101, 212, 217, 224, 302, 411, 601, 605). Stitch count is 154 x 91.
Ann Hunt inscribed the town she stitched her sampler in as Nailsea in 1805. Nailsea is a town in Somerset, England. Research does not reveal the existence of a Quaker school there, although at least one other very similar polychrome Quaker medallion sampler has been discovered stitched a year... 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
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
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
Jane Hornibrook completed her sampler in March of 1806. She painstakingly stitched in cross stitch the tenets of the Catholic Faith over one and two threads of finely woven 52 count linen. The lettering for the large letters leads one to determine this to be of Irish origin, based on the Benezet... 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
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.
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