Samplers Cross Stitch Page 37

Stitched on your favorite fabric.The embroidery cover was stitched on 32 ct. cream belfast by Zweigart with DMC thread 2 over 2. Stitch counts are 100 x 100 (big square), 45 x 45 (small square), 177 x 122 (All three with border). Finished size on 32 ct is 11 5/8" x 8".

Model stitched on 36 count Vintage Pecan Butter by Lakeside Linen using NPI silks. Stitch count is 267 x 212.

Also required but not listed is Au Ver A Soie Soie d Alger 2512 and Lecien Cosmo Cotton Embroidery Floss 444.

Model stitched on 36 count Baked Clay from Fox and Rabbit using Au Ver A Soie 100.3 Silk. DMC alternatives also provided. Stitch count is 161 x 255.

Au Ver A Soie 100/3 #390 is discontinued - use DMC 930 as a replacement.

Model stitched on 40 count Tobias linen from Seraphim using Au Ver A Soie Silk. Stitch count is 173 x 204.

Mary's sampler has been reproduced on 40ct Lakeside Linen in Vintage Buttercream with Soie d'Alger floss. The stitch count is 278 x 354. Stitch on fabric of your choice.

Note: 2 QTY of Soie 100.3 thread 705 is not available.

Rosa's sampler has been reproduced on 56 fabric of your choice with Au Ver A Soie - Silk 100/3. Stitch count is 126x170. Finished size on 40 count is 6.3" x 8.5". Stitched on fabric of your choice.

Also required, but currently out of production - Au Ver A Soie Silk 100/3 #410. ... Read more about Rosa Sugars 1881 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Model stitched on 32 count Cream Belfast by Zweigart using DMC floss. Stitch count long rectange: 22 x 67; small square: 67 x 67

Model stitched on 30 count Putty by Weeks Dye Works threads using DMC and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count: 59 x 45. Finished size: 4 x 3.

Model was stitched on a 46ct fabric of your choice with 1 strand of Soie 100.3. Stitch Count: 124W x 176H. Finished size on 40 ct is 5.4" x 7.65".

Note from designer: For 46ct to 56ct linen, we recommend using Soie Surfine #2335 to work the cross stitches over one thread of linen.

Model stitched on 46 count Weeks Dye Works Cocoa Linen using Au Ver A Soie Silk 100/3 Silk threads. Stitch Count: 232 x 313.

Model stitched over two on 37 Ct. Sotema "Mistletoe" from Tabbycat Linen using Au Ver A Soie - Soie d'Alger Thread. Specialty Stitches Used: Algerian Eyelets, Satin Stitches and Back Stitches. Stitch Count: 300W x 413H. Finished Size: 16 3/4" x 23". Color Chart.

Model stitched one over two on 37 Ct. Aesthetic White Legacy Linen using Gloriana Red Tudor Silk or Classic Colorworks. Stitch Count: 485W x 233H. Design Size: 27" x 13"

Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Raw/White Petit Point linen with Weeks Dye Works floss. Other options are to stitch over one threads on 28 Ct. red linen with White DMC floss and over 2 threads on 40 Ct. Attic Lace linen with DMC #809. Stitch count is 97 x 110. Finished size on 32 ct is 6.06" x 6.9".

Features the sentiment "Susie Susie sampler maker, how does your garden grow? With houses and deer on old linen & flowers lined up in a row" Pattern can be stitched on 32 count linen of your own choice using Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works, and DMC floss. Stitch count is 198 x 161.

"Plying our needle on linen with thread, our work with live on long after we're dead. Our gentle art gives us such pleasure. The stitchers before us we truly do treasure, for we are the sampler makers."

Model stitched on 36ct. Mocha linen from Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 167 x 106.

Note: The DMC conversion for Weeks Dye Works Occar is not listed.

Model stitched on 40 count VIntage Navy Bean by Lakeside Linen using Needlepoint Inc floss. Stitch count is 297W x 90H.

Model stitched on 56 count using Au Ver a Soie 100.3 threads, but you may use whatever count and type of fabric you are comfortable with! Stitch Count: 106W x 116H

The sampler model is stitched on 45 ct. Jersey Cream Legacy linen using Au ver a Soie 100/3 silk #SMS-241. Stitch count is 129 x 124. Oranments are shown on 32 count Cream Belfast linen using Classic Colorworks Belle Soie Silk Floss. Stitch counts vary. Finished with Lasy Dot Creates Modtherlode rayon ribbon.

Cross stitch pattern from Romy's Creations featuring the sentiment "Samplers are my happy place" below a woman with a needle and thread, among a number of miniature cross stitch designs!

Model stitched on 32ct Belfast Raw from Zweigart originally using a mix of Romy's Creations and DMC thread (with DMC conversion for Romy's Creations) Stitch count is 90w x 117h.

Cross stitch pattern from Little House Needleworks with a "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" theme!
Model stitched on 32 ct. Silkweaver, Tuscan Clay Linen using Classic Colorworks thread. Stitch count is 131 x 122. Finished size is 8" x 7.5".

Note from the designer:

This sampler is an adaptation of an undated and unsigned antique in my collection. I made minor changes to a few of the motifs, and I changed some of the thread colors. However, the spirit of this lovely sampler remains the same as the antique. I hope you'll... Read more about Peacocks in the Garden - Cross Stitch Pattern

This little Quaker sampler can be attached to an antique wooden bobbin, framed, or made into a pillow. Perhaps you have other ideas.

Charts are included for three different sampler versions of various dimensions. Antique bobbins vary in size, so instructions guide you to match one of the... Read more about Quaker Sampling VI - Cross Stitch Pattern

This sweet little sampler can be attached to an antique wooden bobbin, framed, or made into a pillow. Perhaps you have other ideas. I hope you'll change the girl's hair, eye, and skin colors to match your own. Perhaps you might also want the change to color of her dress to your favorite color.
... Read more about Sampler Maker - Cross Stitch Pattern

Stitch count 94w x 100h.

Note from the designer:

I fell in love with the unique border on this diminutive antique sampler the moment I saw it. I've modified the border from the antique to bring what I loved most about it - the subtle gradation of greens - into greater... Read more about Sampler in Blue & Green - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives. Stitch count is 202w x 252h! Model stitched 2 over 2 on 28 count Zweigart Brittney Lugana with DMC floss. Finished Size is 14.43 in wide X 18 in high.

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.

Finished project size: 8.25" x 5.25"

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.

Finished project size: 5.25" x 8.25"

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.

Finished project size: 6" x 6.25"

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.

Finished project size: 6" x 7.75"

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.

Finished project size: 5.625" x 8.25"

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.

Celebrate a special little one when you cross stitch this modern baby sampler. This design features a sparkling teal vase filled with a gorgeous arrangement of flowers. Two butterflies circle the blooms, and a ribbon is front and center for you to customize with the name of a special little one,... Read more about Modern Baby Bouquet Butterflies - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Suir Island (SI) Quaker - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Benezet Alphabet Irish Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about The Two Lands, Circa 1840 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Annie Matilda Moss - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Sarah Welch 1764 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Sarah Holcombe Anderson, 1789 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This page from an Antique Pattern Album made in Germany contains common motifs used in Bristol samplers and English day schools. These pattern booklets from France, England and Germany were published widely and used for embellishing samplers. The motifs on this particular page appear on The Amelia... Read more about Bristol Pattern Page - Cross Stitch Pattern

Inspired by a Bristol Orphanage Sampler, Amelia Fox 1868

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct linen using Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silk. Stitch counts is 121 wide x 135 high. Finished size is 5.26 x 5.87 inches.

This beautiful sampler was obtained from the collection of Stephen and Carol Huber. The framed antique contained handwritten notes on the genealogy of Sarah which was written on the back in ink on the sealing paper. It contained the lineage of Sarah Hewes, and the names of her children. Extensive... Read more about Sarah A. Hewes 1826 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Adelaide Underwood 1846 - A Norfolk Antique Sampler Reproduction

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. Vintage Buttercream by Lakeside Linens with 100/3 silks. The stitch count is 300 x 462 with a finished size of 13.04" x 20.09".

Catharine Shenaman, Cumru Township, c. 1840 - A Berks County, Pennsylvania Sampler

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. linen with NPI silk floss. The stitch count is 274 x 234 and the finished size is 13.7" x 11.7".

When stitching with Au Ver A Soie silk floss, you will also need 705, 661, and 607.

Mary and Meribah Chandler Sisters Samplers - New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay Colony Connections circa 1810.

Mary's Verse: "Tho' griefs unnumbered throng thee round, Still in thy God confide, Whose finge marks the seas their bound, And curbs the headlong tide."

Pattern... Read more about Mary C Chandler Sister Samplers - Cross Stitch Pattern

Mary and Meribah Chandler Sisters Samplers - New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay Colony Connections circa 1810.

Meribah's Verse: "Let no fond love for earth exact a sigh; No doubts divit our steady steps aside: Nor let us long to live, nor dread to die: Heaven is our hope, and Providence... Read more about Meribah M. Chandler Sister Samplers - Cross Stitch Pattern

Little Alice, An Original Design - Taken from Alice Clark, 1844. I Had A Father Kind & True. Honor Alice and yourself as you stitch her lovely border surrounding your initials and year stitched.

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. linen using Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silks floss. The stitch count is 89 x 85 and the finished size is 3.87" x 3.70".

The Sandery Sisters Samplers - Sarah aged 8, September 1837 and Mary aged 10, 1846. Mary Sandery Model (over one version) Graph to stitch completely over two Included in Pattern as well as Muted Color Tone Thread Legend Alternate

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct. Dirty Teacup by Needle and... Read more about The Sandery Sisters Samplers - Mary - Cross Stitch Pattern