Samplers Page 14

Cross stitch pattern from Lila's Studio featuring a lovely samplers of a seaside village! Stitch count is 326w x 146h. The stitched verse. "Flowers, plants, and fishes, beasts, birds, flies and bees, Hills, dales, Plants, pastures, skies, seas, rivers, trees. There's nothing near at hand or farthest sought But the needle may be shaped and wrought."

The Fisher King is an undeniably enigmatic figure; mysterious and eternally difficult to interpret or, indeed, understand. He represents many things to many people.

The Grail King, Anfortas,The Angler, King Pellam, Bron, Le Roi Pcheur, The Once and Future King, call him what you will; Long... Read more about The Fisher King - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Blackbird Designs featuring a sampler with the phrase "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it"! This is a reprint.

Modeled stitched over two threads on 30 count Espresso by R&R Reproductions using Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 89w x 120h. Finished size: 6" x 8".

This birth announcement kit from Vervaco is worked in Sepia tones and features a baby and puppy. A chart is included for personalization.

The kit includes 14 Ct. Ecru Aida, thread, needle and instructions. The finished size is 10.4" x 8".

Cross stitch pattern from Quaint Rose Needlearts featuring a fall themed Quaker sampler!

Model Stitched on 36 Linen using Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 186w x 163h. Finished size is 10.33" x 9.06".

This 10 page booklet includes detailed instructions for creating the fourteen specialty stitches or details for backstitching, plus a fun WELCOME, a small needlebook cover and a lovely bookmark!

Pattern is stitched on 28ct Platinum Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 221 X 105 stitches.

Made in Providence, Rhode Island, this sampler is a superb example of the work done at Miss Mary (Polly) Balch's school, one of the most important female learning institutions in America at that time. Combining sophisticated architectural, landscape and figural motifs with elaborate and unusual... Read more about Betsy Davis 1797 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This wonderfully symmetrical English sampler features a pair of silky floating swans and large twin sunflowers, executed in a rich natural palette of color. Birds fly over the tops of three flower-trees in the top third. A sumptuous basket of fruit is stitched between the golden swans, and towering... Read more about Jane Smith 1814 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This colorful William III English needlework vignette is executed entirely in gros and petit point stitches (cross stitch over one and two threads of linen). It depicts a large gros point fruiting tree above a scene with very finely stitched petit point leaves, flowers, and two animals, the larger... Read more about Needlework Panel of a Fruit Tree With Two Animals- Pattern

This English sampler comes from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Jarrett, who established Witney Antiques. It was featured in one of their exhibition catalogs in December 1996 titled "All Creatures Great and Small."

The work is extremely fine and accomplished,... Read more about Elizabeth Ginger 1735 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This sampler is an adaption from the Harmon Museum in Lebanon Ohio. Lydia stitched her sampler on linen with wool floss. She was 11 years old at the time.

The model was stitched Linen with Gentle Arts Wool threads. Stitch count: 125 (w) x 145 (h).

Cross stitch pattern from The Prairie Schooler featuring crows invading a sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 16ct Aida or 32ct Linen using DMC floss. Stitch counts: As the Crow Flies - 89w x 143h, Sow 4 Seeds - 81w x 81h. Finished sizes: As the Crow Flies - 5.625" x 9", Sow 4 Seeds - 5.125" x 5.125".

Cross stitch pattern from Jean Farish Needleworks featuring the phrase "When I am dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten. When this you see remember me or I shall be forgotten"

Pattern is stitched on 30 Count Victoria Sponge Cake Linen using either DMC or Cosmo threads! Stitch count is 206 x 268.

The motifs I'ved used in Gardens of Saxony are drawn from the large German antique sampler I reproduced, CRS 1713. There are so many wonderful motifs on CRS 1713 that they deserve their own (much smaller!) sampler! This also gives the stitcher a chance to stitch these wonderful designs if they feel... Read more about Gardens of Saxony - Cross Stitch Pattern

This design is stitched on 40-Count Linen using Needlepoint Silks. The Stitch Count is 168 Wide by 200 High.

This colorful design from Anabella's featuring an American sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 28 count Mushroom Light Mocha using DMC threads. Stitch Count: 70w x 94h

Cross stitch pattern from Waxing Moon Designs featuring a lovely house in autumn!

Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Clay/Barn Grey Linen using Classic Colorwork threads with DMC conversion. Stitch count is 99w x 104h.

Cross stitch pattern from Hands Across The Sea Samplers featuring a lovely sampler with flowers!

Pattern is stitched on Wild Honey from Legacy Linens using Au Ver a Soie threads with DMC conversion. Not listed: 100.3 Silk - 171. Stitch count is 336 x 488.

Cross stitch pattern from Anabella's featuring a spring sampler with cottages!

Pattern is stitched on 16 count white aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is 56w x 56h.

Cross stitch pattern from The Sweetheart Tree featuring a lovely patriotic sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 32 count Clay using DMC threads. Stitch count is 47 x 130. 40023 beads are needed too.

Cross stitch pattern from Needle WorkPress featuring a fun floral sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 36 count Higbristle from Fox and Rabbit using Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count is 93 x 110.

Cross stitch pattern from Robin Pickens featuring a nautical sampler with shells, anchors and seagulls!

Pattern is stitched on 28 ct White Monaco Evenweave (Pillows on 14 ct) using Cosmo threads (156 not listed) with DMC conversion. Stitch count is 112w x 139h. Finished Size: 8" x 10".

Cross stitch pattern from Hands Across The Sea Samplers featuring a lovely monotone sampler!

Pattern was stitched on Woodsmoke by Tabby Cat linen using Soie 100.3. Stitch count is 160 x 174.

28ct linen: Design: 11.43" x 12.43" Fabric: 17.43" x 18.43"
32ct... Read more about Georgiana Caroline Williams - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Cotton Pixels featuring a sampler on two mice!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Twilight Blue using Gentle Arts Simply Wool threads with DMC conversion. Stitch count is 64 x 66 each.

This sampler is designed in band/marking sampler, color emphasis for lovers of pink.

Model stitched on 32ct Winter Moon Linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 111w x 141h.

Cross stitch pattern from Blackbird Designs featuring a lovely sampler! Model stitched over two threads on 30 count linen using The Gentle Arts floss with DMC conversions. Stitch count 127w x 131h.

Cross stitch pattern from Blackbird Designs featuring a sampler with a bird! Model stitched on 30 count linen. Stitch count is 88 x 88.

To achieve a DMC variegated look of Fragrant Cloves use DMC 921/3776 and for Garden Gate use DMC 3787/3021.

Pattern is stitched on the fabric with the floss of your choice, suggestion is listed. Stitch count is 171 x 339.

Note from the designer: "The mini kit is like our others....a nice computer image, readable chart, and six full skeins of thread to complete the design. The pattern is free with the purchase of the threads. We are recommending a tan or neutral fabric to contrast with the lightest stitching. ... Read more about Summer Floss Pack (Chart Included)

Cross stitch pattern from Little Robin Designs featuring a beautiful sampler with flowers!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Linen using Gentle Arts, Classic Colorworks, and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 134 x 134. Finished size is 6.7" x 6.7".

Cross stitch pattern from Little Robin Designs featuring a spooky Halloween sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Linen using Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts threads.
Stitch counts:
Boo: 57 x 48
Eek: 79 x 51
Oct 31: 69 x 61

Here is the summer version of these seasonal buttoned-up designs - sundrenched days and starlit nights. It's another quick stitch using a sunny color palette - again with hand-dyed buttons included.

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Linen from Weeks Dye Works using Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 65 x 80 and 127 x 72.

150 years ago, in September of 1874, Anna Funk arrived in New York as part of a large and organized immigration of Mennonites from what is now Ukraine to the central plains of the United States. Her sampler of motifs, requested of her friends before her departure, is a small part of the larger story... Read more about Anna Funk - Cross Stitch Pattern

Pumpkins, colorful leaves, squirrels - just a few things that come to mind when thinking of fall. It's a favorite season for many of us and a dream to design for! Hand-dyed buttons and a brass charm are included.

Pattern is stitched on 36 count Wheat using Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count is 65 x 79 for pin pillow and 127 x 72 for berry.

This model is stitched on 40 count Baklava Linen from Grace Notes Fabrics with 1 ply of Gloriana Silk Threads. Stitch count is 131 x 153.

This is an exciting new standalone chart that is close to my heart. I love spending time outdoors and the inspiration for my stitching comes mainly from nature.

Pattern is stitched on 36 Sampler Khaky by xJu Design usong Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts threads. DMC option listed as well. Stitch count is 201 x 160.

My Sampler Seasons series was very popular, and the response to it blew me away! I thought I would add on to the series with some holiday versions, so the first will be Halloween.

Pattern is stitched on 36 count Early Halloween by xJu Design using Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch Count: 147 x 172.

My Mother's Garden 2 is a follow up piece to my first design ever. The original was done as a tribute to my mom, as is this one. The verse, written by me, still chokes her up to this day!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Crescent Cream from the bright colourway or 40 ct Parchment from Weeks... Read more about My Mother's Garden 2 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Shades of Green is the seventh in a series of twelve shaded designs featuring bands and motifs shaped into geometric patterns. Because the design is entirely cross stitch, any type of fabric is suitable.

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Chrysalis from Picture This Plus using Dinky Dyes or DMC threads. Stitch count is 249 x 249.

Peacock Mandala is the first in a series of themed mandala designs. These are just as detailed and intricate as my larger designs, but with a smaller finished size for those who don't like big projects. I fell in love with these colours while stitching it, they're just so bright, vibrant and fun! ... Read more about Peacock Mandala - Cross Stitch Pattern

You know how much I like diagonals. It was inevitable this would happen someday. This actually started as a stocking, but I figured there would be those who didn't care about stockings but wanted to stitch it as a sampler, so I took the liberty of getting ahead of the request. :)

Pattern... Read more about Twisted Christmas Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

This sampler is a unique and colorful German sampler. It contains picturesque scenes typical of German samplers.

The model was stitched on Tabbycat "Cockleshell" with Weeks Dye Works floss. DMC equivalents are included. The design is stiched in cross stitch over 2. Stitch count: 259 (w) x 252 (h)

This birth announcement cross stitch kit from Vervaco features a baby lion, elephant, rhino and giraffe.

Kit includes 14 Ct. Aida, thread, needles and instructions. Finished size: 14.4" x 13.2".

This birth announcement cross stitch kit from Vervaco features baby feet in the center of floral and heart circular border.

Kit includes 14 Ct. Aida, thread, needles and instructions. Finished size: 10.8" x 10".

Vintage Farmhouse Sampler was originally featured in the Summer 2024 issue of Primitive Quilts and Projects. Vintage Farmhouse Sampler is stitched on 36 count Wheat linen by Fiber on a Whim, one strand of floss over two linen threads. Stitch count is 208w x 133h.

Pattern is stitched on 32 count Milk and Honey by Fiber on a Whim using Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch Count: 162 x 52. Rick Rack Used: Lady Dot Creates 7/32 inch wide - Storm Blue

Armande stitched her sampler from 1888 to 1891, it is actually very finely stitched and the original measures only 37 cm x 34 cm (14.6 inch x 13.4 inch). Multiple motifs are inserted among the alphabets. Stitch count is 491 x 439.

As in previous years, each month is illustrated by a sampler from my private collection.