This stunning French sampler contains some of the most beautiful alphabets I've come across, and can be stitched as a whole, or used for reference to personalize your own stitching. 'Joyeux Noel' was inspired by the antique, showing how you can use elements of the design for smalls.
This alphabet design from New York Dreamer features flowers and the saying "A bloom c daisy e flowers g h ice cream j kite m n o pots q rain spring time u v w x y z."
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Kenneth from Grace Notes Fabric with Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch Count; 134 x 180. Finished size: 8.375" x 11.25"
You might be familiar with this piece from the Little Sampler Series. Susans Little Sampler has the colorful moth and some of the small motifs. This is the full reproduction of the antique. There are thread conversions in Needlepoint Inc. Silk, Classic Colorworks hand dyed cotton threads, and DMC. Stitch count 284 wide by 286 high.
Note from the designer: "Between Friends - A Spring Sampling is the 1st of 4 seasonal books from Hands On Design & Summer House Stitche Workes. Beautiful photographs, detailed finishing instructions, with 8 projects to inspire."
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Note from the designer: "Between Friends - A Summer Sampling is the 2nd of 4 seasonal books from Hands On Design & Summer House Stitche Workes. Beautiful photographs, detailed finishing instructions, with 8 projects to inspire."
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Note from designer: "The verse was composed by me in remembrance of the wonderful times I spent driving through the Brandywine
Valley and admiring the beautiful old stone houses and scenery."
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Maple Sugar from Lakeside Linens using Belle Soie or NPI... Read more
"With shades of silk like nature fair, I ply my needle with tender care. That with diligence and skill I'll make a pleasing sampler for posterity's sake."
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Pearled Barley from Lakeside Linens using Belle Soie with NPI or DMC with all DMC or NPI conversions available. Stitch count is 207 x 351.
"A soft wind blows through the Spanish moss that hangs from the live oak trees. The trees that line the long road home to distant memories of a fine old house with columns tall and porches all around. Where the sweet scent of magnolia blooms, in the spring abound. A lady fair in a flowery gown,... Read more
Cross stitch pattern by Hello From Liz Mathews featuring the 8th day of Christmas with maids, cows, trees and birds.
The sampler was stitched with Needlepoint Inc Silks over 2 threads of 40 Ct. Fog linen from Picture This Plus. Stitch Count: 97W x 132H. The Tree was stitched using 2... Read more
This 18 page booklet from Rosewood Manor includes a sampler, a lovely Welcome, and four fun royal smalls.
The sampler model was stitched over two threads on 32 Ct. White or Antique White linen with DMC floss and Rainbow Gallery threads. Stitch Count: 367x217. Finished size: 23" x 13.5"
This Irish Quaker sampler features an alphabet at the tope, verse, bands, and flowers. The verse reads "Great Almighty God above plant in my heart a fund of love, that I my mercies may adore and bless and praise thee evermore."
Model is stitched on 40 ct linen using either cotton... Read more
Note from the designer - "This sweet English sampler is the first I've ever seen with a border made up of flying cherubs. It also features a "geode" (mosaic) parrot- a distinctively stylized bird that appears on other samplers made in England, New England, and the Netherlands throughout... Read more
A derivative 17th-century canvas work picture. The Adam and Eve legend was a more popular theme on samplers after the early eighteenth century so this example is quite unusual. The pair are not often seen on earlier needleworks, even though most illustrated bibles of the sixteenth and seventeenth... Read more
Note from the designer - This needlework was designed after an English sampler in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston. The lush border flowers are similar to those on a sampler made by Sarah Brignell from around the same period, suggesting the existence of a school or teacher whose... Read more
Note from the designer - "At age nine in 1818, Sarah Dutnel created this unusual "tree of life" sampler. A traditional carnation and tulip border in subtle, earthy shades of gold, brown, and cream surrounds the tree. Dogs, deer, birds, stars, potted plants, trees and flowers flank the... Read more
Note from the designer - "Designed after an early eighteenth century tent stitched picture, this expansive needlework scene depicts many episodes in the life of an affluent English family including its elaborate parterre and gardens, a stately brick and stone house, domestic, exotic and wild... 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 - "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
This is a reproduction of an English sampler that features a four-sided carnation border, centering many intricate organic petit point motifs. The large mansion house dominates the central reserve, standing above an extensive pasture occupied by two very large and cockeyed sheep. These imaginative... 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: "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: "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
This sampler was made in Scotland and includes many of the traditional motifs associated with samplermaking in this region. Firstly, Janet has included many initials of family members. However the initials at the center- G R 3 -refer to the then-reigning monarch, King George III. The flowering... Read more
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. White Lugana with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 89W x 196H. Finished size: 6 1/4" x 14". Designed by Pamela Kellogg.
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring beautiful poinsettia blossoms and blue berries!
Model stitched over 2 on 28 ct antique white evenweave fabric with DMC thread and Kreinik #4 braid. Stitch Count: 88w x 272h. Finished size: 6 1/4" x 19 3/8". Designed by Pamela Kellogg.
Patriotic cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring a bald eagle above two American flags and the lyric "America / God shed His grace on thee" from the song "America The Beautiful"!
Model stitched over 2 on 28 count natural evenweave fabric with The Gentle Art sampler threads. Stitch count 96w x 148h. Designed by Pamela Kellogg.
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring a bird, flowers, and bible verse "joy cometh in the morning - Psalm 30:5"
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 ct. Vintage Evenweave with Gentle Art thread (or all DMC 471, 834, 3021, 920, 590, 712, 310, 469). Stitch Count: 100w x 147h. Finished size: 7 1/8" x 10 1/2". Designed by Pamela Kellogg
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring birds, flowers, and motivational quote "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph - Thomas Paine"
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 ct. Antique White Lugana with Gentle Art thread (or all DMC 832, 834, 347, 3822, 310,... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring bird, flowers, and civil war quote "a house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln"
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 ct. Vintage Lugana with Gentle Art thread (or all DMC 3348, 3841, 334, 223, 310, 3802, 3347). Stitch Count: 104w x 151h. Finished size: 7 1/8" x 10 3/4". Designed by Pamela Kellogg
Cross stitch pattern from Kitty and Me featuring the phrase "1 Corinthians 13. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love"!
Recommended fabric is 28ct Cream Lugana. Model stitched with DMC floss. Stitch count: 101w x 151h. Designed by Pamela Kellogg.
Cross stitch pattern from Modern Folkart Embroidery featuring an original cross-stitch design inspired by tradition Quaker style medallion samplers. It features a whole assortment of medallions and the words "Love & Union" and the quote "True unity may be found under great apparent... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Modern Folkart Embroidery featuring a Quaker style medallion sampler featuring many little birds, the Little Bird Quaker Sampler is a joyful and happy design. The pattern features 22 birds in total and two alphabets numbers.