Samplers Cross Stitch Page 17

This pattern from Heart in Hand Needlearts features a sampler design with a cuckoo bird!

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Antique Lace by Seraphim with Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 85W x 95H. Finished size: 4.72" x 5.27". Embellishments included.

This sampler design by Hello From Liz Mathews features flowers, trees, and "Youth and vigor soon will flee. Blooming beauty lose it's charms. All that's mortal soon will be enclosed in death's cold arms." A second chart combines a collection of the motifs from the large sampler... Read more about Vanity Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

This reproduction sampler from Hands To Work features "How many children in the street half naked I behind while I am clothed from head to foot, and sheltered from the cold."

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. Cappuccino from Fiber on a Whim with Classic Colorworks,... Read more about Sheltered From the Cold - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a sampler with a very patriotic Canadian house!

Model stitched on 14 ct. Aida using DMC thread. Stitch count is 167 x 118.

Model stitched on 32 count Wren Belfast linen using Classic Colorworks. Stitch Count: 51x55

Cross stitch pattern from Scarlett House.
"No glory I covet no riches I want
Ambition is nothing to me
The one thing I beg of good Heaven to grant
Is a mind independent and free" Sarah Elizabeth Brooke's Work in the 11th year of her age

Pattern is stitched 40... Read more about Sarah Elizabeth Brooke 1842 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This design from Annie Beez Folk Art features a lovely red house and the saying "Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show that mercy show to me."

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Summer Khaki linen with DMC floss and Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 163X196. Finished size: 9" x 10.8"

Stitch count 143w x 197h. Designed by Anna Gutova inspired by the textile of William Morris.

Stitch this patriotic sampler, designed in marking sampler style. "America" is repeated in several different alphabets in patriotic colors to honor our country with a prayer for God's grace. Fits in 8x10" standard picture frame.

Model stitched on 32 ct Latte Linen using DMC thread. Stitch Count: 112w x 146h.

Fond memories of 4th of July fireworks night are evoked in this fun patriotic banner. Finishing instructions included. Large, easy to read, black/white symbol chart.

Model stitched on 14ct lightly tea-dyed Aida using DMC thread. Stitch Count: 65w x 171h.

Cross stitch pattern from Calico Confectionery featuring this prim Yuletide sampler that will add a bit of rustic charm to your holiday decor. Fits in ready-made 7 x 7 inch picture frame.

The model was stitched on 32ct Platinum by Zweigart Linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 95w x 91h.

Charlotte Bronte's sampler from Moira Blackburn.

Pattern is stitched on 28 ct evenweave of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count: 103 x 101.

Cross stitch pattern from Modern Folkart Embroidery featuring a festive holiday sampler, Christmas town shows a north pole village with some of Santa's deer and a very large Christmas tree.

Stitched on 32ct linen (or 16ct aida) it would measure approximately 28.5 by 20.5cm. This chart... Read more about Christmas Town - A Holiday Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

"Be still my soul. The hour is hastening on when we shall be forever with the Lord. When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone, sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored. Be still my soul when change and tears are past. All safe and blessed we shall meet at last."

The model was... Read more about Forever With the Lord - Cross Stitch Pattern

"This design is a combination of cross stitch and many specialty stitches, with stitch diagrams and instructions provided for all stitches."

Model stitched on 32 count Bisque from Lakeside Linens, using Soie d'Alger silks. Dinky Dyes and DMC conversions are also provided. Stitch count is 144w x 288h.

This design features a cute little red house surrounded by flowers, birds and on the word "Garden."

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Hemingway by Needle and Flax with Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works, and Gentle Art Sampler threads. A DMC conversion is provided. Stitch Count: 118W x 108H.

Reproduction sampler by Reflets De Soie featuring a beautiful floral design!

Model stitched on 16ct linen from Zweigart using Soie d'Alger thread (with DMC conversion 224, 803, 932, 317, 597, 734, 733, 728, 725, 3824, 760, 221, 894, 3713, 819, 522, 3053, 3363, 936, 729, 524, 371, 612, 762, 739, 437, 436, 3721, 902, 453, 3042) Stitch count is 357w x 351h.

Model stitched on 16 ct. Zweigart linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 265 x 306. Finished size is 16.5" x 19".

This model can be stitched on a linen of your choice using Soie d'Alger 946 thread with a DMC equivalent 814. Stitch count is 366 x 214.

Note: How much floss to use will vary

A reproduction sampler from Reflets de Soie, worked in red, featuring an alphabet and "Uxeaux 1897."

Model stitched on 40 ct. Zweigart Newcastle or 36 ct. Edinburgh linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 208 x 210.

This pattern features 5 reproduction samplers worked in red.

"Germaine Besse 1905" model stitched on Zweigart Natural Linen using Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger 946. DMC alternative 814. Stitch count: 244w x 193h

"M. Parot 1886" model stitched on Zweigart Natural... Read more about Abecedaires Rouges 2017 - Five Cross Stitch Patterns

This design from Reflets de Soie has lots of bright pink roses, an alphabet sampler, and the text "Heloise Cornu 1896".

Model stitched on your choice of 16ct Linen by Zweigart using Soie d'Alger thread. Stitch count: 283 x 320.

Cross stitch pattern from Relets de Soie with a winding ribbon border, alphabet, roses in the center, and "Marthe Salle 1912."

Model stitched on 40 ct. Zweigart linen using Soie d'Alger thread. DMC alternatives also provided. Stitch count is 299 x 323.

Note from the designer - "Reproduction of a French sampler dated 1888. Claudia was 8 years old when she embroidered her sampler. A very elegant monochrome sampler."

Model stitched on 40ct Linen using Soie d'Alger thread. Stitch Count: 259 x 260.

Cross stitch pattern from Reflets de Soie featuring a French sampler with the alphabet and parrots.

Model stitched on 16 ct. linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 323 x 278. Finished size is 20.2" x 17.4"

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 about And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Dorothy Walpole 1774 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Typical of so many Scottish samplers, Elizabeth Masterton's features an abundance of initials (likely familial), rows of evergreen trees, peacocks with seven tail feathers, and the now famous mansion house fronted by a pillared fence and gates enclosing sheep. Apart... Read more about Elizabeth Masterton 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This picture was originally designed to be used as a cushion or footstool cover, or perhaps as a decorative vignette inserted into the top of a wooden box for storing precious objects. Executed entirely in cross stitch, its most prominent characters are a large squirrel... Read more about Elizabeth's Squirrel - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - This is the most symmetrical, balanced, counted thread sampler that we have ever charted from. It is also one of the most satisfying, challenging, and beautiful samplers in the world. Originally worked on a fine wool ground, the colors of our reproduction have been matched... Read more about Dorcas Haynes 1720 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a pleasantly quirky, colorful sampler likely stitched in the north of England judging by some of the Scottish influences in the design. A four sided strawberry border surrounds an alphabet and a pious verse above a geometric pattern band. Below this is a scenic register with trees, birds,... Read more about Elizabeth Cheetham 1824 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Adapted from an English sampler dated 1783. The original sampler from which this piece was adapted measures 15 1/2" x 12 1/2", and was stitched over one thread of linen on approximately 50-thread-count glazed linen. The house on the left alone, which measures 71 by 62 squares on the graph,... Read more about Country Life Sampler 1783 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Elizabeth Lilly 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This English sampler combines embroidered pictorial, alphabetic, and upholstery techniques, becoming in every sense a sampler of Ms. Topham's best work. Bargello work (also known as canvaswork, Irish stitch, flamestitch, or Florentine stitch) appeared on the earliest seventeenth century samplers,... Read more about Elizabeth Topham 1727 - Cross Stitch Pattern

What makes this early Victorian English sampler so intriguing are the wonderfully naive figures of Adam, Eve and St. Michael flanking the Tree of Life. St. Michael's sword is drawn to slay the serpent, but he hardly looks formidable with his large feet and doughy body. Playskool-like Adam and Eve... Read more about Frances Marshall 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This original design blends a mid-18th century floral sampler border with a late 18th century lettering and cartouche style, and a mid-19th century sentiment. Instructions are provided for working the sampler in a different color scheme (red, blues, greens) on a neutral... Read more about Home Sweet Home Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "The figures depicted on this original design were derived from wood block engravings of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The format of the hornbook follows actual examples from the late 18th century. Hornbooks functioned as primers, used to teach young children their... Read more about Hornbook Bestiary - Cross Stitch Pattern

Displaying the traditional color scheme of Scottish samplers, this beautiful and delicately stitched piece also employs a variety of interesting counted thread stitches including queen, doublerunning, four-sided, back, counted satin filling, cross, Algerian eyelet, and cross over one (petit... Read more about Janet Burnet 1830 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Janet Carsels 1787 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This Scottish sampler is a riot of brilliant color and intricate motifs, from the Scotsman in his kilt playing a traditional dulcimer (which looks like a butter churn) in the upper left, to an elaborate mansion house fronted by a three dimensional turkeywork lawn in the... Read more about Katharine Mitchel circa 1785 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a valentines themed monthly sampler for February!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a house, sheep and the words "Irish Blessings" and "March"!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a chicks, Easter eggs and the words "Welcome Spring" and "April"!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a carousal, beach toys and the words "Summer Fun" and "August"!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring jack-o-lantern pumpkins decorated with sunflowers for autumn!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a delightful Christmas sampler complete with the word Noel and a festively decorated home!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen or the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

This collection by Teresa Kogut includes 9 different designs! They all feature lovely images of homes, flowers, trees, and pets.

"This Small Sampler" model stitched 1 over 2 on 56 count Little Bunny by XJuDesigns, using DMC and Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count: 148w x... Read more about Love Lives Here - 9 Designs - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch sampler design from Twin Peak Primitives featuring birds, trees, plants and more.

Pattern is stitched on 20 or 40 ct Cappuccino from Fiber on a Whim using DMC floss. Stitch count is 445 x 307. Finished size is 22.25" x 15.35 on 40 count. Skeins of DMC vary depending on fabric count.