"May there always be work for your hands to do. May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpanes. May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you." A Diane Arthurs design stitched on 14 Ct. Fiddlers Lite with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 86W x 144H.
Beautiful verse from Diane Williams - "I am humbled by the beauty of a flower in the breeze surrounded by an orchestra of softly buzzing bees." Model stitched on 32 Ct. Flax Fields from R&R Reproductions with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 107W x 135H.
Celebrate your inner mermaid by stitching this whimsical Mermaid Sampler. Model stitched on 32 count Barn Owl Linen using Weeks Dye Works Threads and DMC floss. Stitch count: 109W x 110H. Design Size: 7" x 7"
"Needlworker - thread, linen, pins." Model stitched on 28 Ct. Light Examplar Linen from Lakeside Linens with DMC floss and Classic Colorworks Stitch Count: 91W x 123H.
Designs by Diane Williams. Model stitched on 28 Ct. Cappuccino Linen with Belle Soie Thread with Crescent Colours conversion (Weeping Willow, Lunar Eclipse, Timber, Used Brick, Roasted Chestnut, Bamboo). Stitch Count: 138W x 113H.
Chart pack contains all 26 letters, the border, and an optional "R" block.
The model was stitched over two threads on 32 Ct. Dark Cappuccino Linen from R&R Reproductions with Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 235x293. Design Size: 15" x 19">
Model stitched on 35 Ct. Straw linen by Weeks Dye Works using one strand of Classic Colorworks Belle Soie silk over two threads. Stitch Count: 110W x 138H.
Model stitched on 40 Ct. Pearled Barley from Lakeside Linens using one strand of Needlepoint Inc. Silk over two threads of linen. Stitch Count: 181W x 125H. Design Size: 10" x 7"
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envey, it does not boast. It is not proud, it is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,... Read more
This detailed and rich design of the Great Plains features the early settlers, steam trains, stagecoaches, and Mt. Rushmore. Model stitched on 18 Ct. Ivory Aida using DMC floss. Stitch count: 270w x 300h. Design Size: 15" x 17"
"Here my work forever stands The labour of two busy hands." Model stitched on 28 Ct. Light Mocha linen using DMC floss. Stitch count 219x191. Finished Size: 16" x 14" (Pattern does contain specialty stitches such as, satin, eyelet, lazy daisy, & French knots)
From Diane Jourdan, a traditional Quaker sampler stitched on 34 Ct. Cream Devonshire linen with Vikki Clayton Hand Dyed Fibers (not available in 45 yds of Rouge) or DMC, or Au Ver a Soie. Stitch Count: 196W x 247H.
Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a sheep and a crow. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.
Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a large rooster. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.
Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a hen sitting on her nest. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.
Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a beautiful Chaparral alphabet design. This kit includes 18ct Ivory Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.
Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a beautiful springtime Easter alphabet design. This kit includes 18ct Ivory Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.
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.
About the Sampler: No name or year appears on this beautiful sampler to offer a clue about the maker. It is adorned with numerous Christian motifs and symbols. The sampler is representative of an Italian sampler style, as evidenced by the existence of other similar Italian
samplers, done in rows of... Read more
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
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
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
This sampler is an original design based on the layout of eighteenth century Irish Quaker samplers with the lettering and sampler motifs taken from a Mountmellick Irish Quaker sampler in the collection of Cross Stitch Antiques, Elizabeth Martin circa 1789. The town names at the bottom are the... 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
This chart contains all sixteen pattern pages from a tiny paper pattern album passed out as a souvenir in 1851 at Prince Albert's Crystal Palace Great Exhibition. They were mass produced inexpensively but are rarely found today due to the nature of the flimsy paper and the effects of time. Other... Read more
A Prequel to the Carter House Sampler, Franklin, Tennessee, The Sampler of Fountain Branch Carter's Mother, For the Battle of Franklin Trust, An Antique Sampler Reproduction.
Pattern is stitched on 36 count Hemingway by Needle and Flax. Stitch Count: 171 stitches wide x 224 stitches high.... Read more
This sampler was obtained from the M. Finkel and Daughter antique collectors who describe this sampler in their catalog as follows: "Documented Irish samplers are rare, and this one offers strong visual appeal with excellent color and composition. A fine, large alphabet, little house, pots of... Read more
Ireland: Elizabeth Martin, circa 1789, a Mountmellick Irish Quaker Sampler
Guernsey: Julia Rachel De La Mare, 1849, A Guernsey, Channel Island Sampler
Wales: Sarah Williams, Holyhead, Wales 1864
Scotland: Jean Donaldson, 1826, a Scottish Sampler and Anne Phillip, Edinburgh 1818
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Cross stitch pattern from Pansy Patch Quilts and Stitchery featuring a rustic house, the alphabet and the sentiment "Hope."
Model stitched oer 2 on 36ct Heartland from Picture This Plus using a mix of entle Art Threads, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks. Stitch count is 193w x 121h.
Cross stitch pattern from Dirty Annie's Southern Style featuring a sampler with two sisters and the phrase "Two are better than one....for if they fall, one will pick up the other"!
Model was stitched on 32ct Gray linen from Weeks Dye Works. Due to "one over one" stitching on the wording, this design is not suitable for Aida. Stitch count is 76 x 140.
Note from designer: This sampler features the historic home surrounded by Southern Live Oak trees and sitting on the bank of Bayou Black. The border depicts delicate cotton blossoms, another major crop grown in Louisiana. My great grandfather and his 17 children were sharecroppers who picked cotton... Read more
"United in Marriage. Na h-uile latha sona duibha" which translates to "Happiness Every Day." Model stitched on 28 Ct. Antique White Quaker's Cloth with Dinky Dye Silks. Stitch Count: 163W x 218H. Design Size: 12" x 16" Also required, but not included in the list above - Bijoux Lacquered Jewels in #437 Sapphire, #480 Regalia, and #482 Tiger Eye.
Model stitched over two on 32 Ct. Summer Khaki Belfast with Needlepoint, Inc. Silk. Also uses key, heart, acorn, scissors, and spool charms, and a 1/4" white button. Stitch Count: 108W x 204H. Design Size: 7" x 13".
"Here at the fountain's sliding foot or at some fruit trees mossy root, casting body's vest aside, my soul up to the boughs doth glide." Model stitched over 2 on 32 Ct. Antique Ivory Belfast with Needlepoint Silk, Caron Collection Waterlilies, and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count: 170W x 222H. Design Size: 11" x 4".
Cross stitch pattern from Homespun Samplar featuring a sampler with an Irish prayer: "May those who love you, love you and those who don't, may God turn there heart and if he can not, turn their ankle so you will know them by their limp"!
Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Linen using DMC threads. Stitch count is 207 x 167. Finished size is 12.94" x 10.44".
Model stitched over two threads with 28 Ct. Natural Light linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads and DMC floss. Shown with a button from Just Another Button Company. Stitch count: 72 X 72. Design size: 5" x 5"
Model stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Natural Light linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 72W x 72H. Finished size: 5" x 5". Use french knot for doorknob or Mill Hill bead #40557. Shown with a watermelon button from Just Another Button Company (or stitch as graphed)
"The leaves is green, the rose is red, here is my name when I am dead. Look on this and may you see, what care my parents took of me. Mary Knowles, her work 1824." Model stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Beige linen by Weeks Dye Works with DMC floss, Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 257W x 237H. Finished size: 14 1/2" x 13".