Samplers Cross Stitch Patterns Page 16

Mary Garrett stitched her fine sampler at Claverton school in 1854 at age fifteen. It is a remarkable piece of needlework, incorporating five different alphabets all stitched meticulously over two on 72 count linen. More history is included on the chart.

Pattern is stitched on 46 count... Read more about Mary Garrett, Claverton School 1854 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a fun sampler with a classic farmhouse!
Model stitched on 14 ct. Aida using DMC thread. Stitch count is 177 x 96.

Cross stitch pattern from Frog Cottage featuring the alphabet surrounding a tree with crows.

Model stitched on 32 count Vintage Country Mocha Belfast Linen using Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 86w x 92h. Approximately 5.6"x 5.8".

Cross stitch pattern from From The Heart featuring a fun quaker chart with a quote about friendship! "Life is better with friends"!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Heartland by Picture this PLus using Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch Count: 72 by 108.

Model stitched on 36 Ct. "beige" colored linen from Weeks Dye Works with DMC threads. Stitch Count: 286W x 324H. Finished size 16" x 18".

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 about Stone House on the Brandywine - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Artmishka featuring a colorful quilted design!

Model is stitched on either 14 ct White Aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is approximately 210W x 210H stitches. Designed by Anna Gutova.

Cross stitch pattern from Artmishka featuring an adorable Easter sampler filled with chicks!

Model stitched on 32ct murano evenweave from Zweigart on the color of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is approximately 230w x 158h. Designed by Anna Gutova.

Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a lighthouse!

Model stitched on 14ct sky blue aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is : 76 x 92. Finished size is 5.43 x 6.57 inches.

Cross stitch pattern from By The Bay Needleart featuring nine different lighthouses!

Model stitched on 28 ct "Star Sapphire" linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 148 x 148. Finished size: 5.28" x 5.28"

Cross stitch pattern from Crocette A Gogo featuring a fun mix of all things Christmas!

Model stitched on 32ct Natural Belfast Linen using DMC thread. Stitch count: 193 X 295.

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.

Cross stitch pattern from Calico Confectionery featuring this vintage look, all in red sampler with lots of reindeer and Christmas trees, to wish everyone a Happy Christmas.

Pattern is stitched on 16 ct Tea-Dyed aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is 203w x 61h. Finished size is 12.7" x 3.8".

Reproduction sampler from NeedleWorkPress - "The greatest blessing of our God, what mortals can explain. He gives the blossom and the bud and gives us timely rain."

The model was stitched over 2 threads (with some lettering over one thread) on 46 Ct. Cocoa linen from Weeks Dye Works... Read more about Hannah Elliott 1848 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This pattern features two designs - a small sampler worked in red, and two prairie girls by a home with "Home Sweet Home". Instructions in French.
Model can be stitched on 35 ct. or 32 ct. tea colored linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 85 x 85.

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.

This design is to be stitched on a linen of choice using Soie d' Alger thread with a DMC Alternative listed below. Stitch count is 314 x 279.

Model stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 337 x 188.

Model stitched on 16 ct. Zweigart linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 319 x 412. Finished size is 20" x 25.75".

Cross stitch pattern from Relets de Soie, worked in white, with lacy motifs and roses.

Pattern is stitched on 14 count linen of your choice using Soie D'Alger silk floss. Stitch count is 267 x 394. Finished size is 19.07 in wide X 28.14 in high.

Cross stitch pattern from Reflets de Soie featuring a beautiful Virgin Mary surrounded by colored motifs.

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct linen using Soie D'Alger silk floss. Stitch count is 312 x 235. Required Au Ver A Soie Soie d'Alger 2928 and 3996 have been discontinued.
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Cross stitch pattern from Reflects De Soie featuring an incredible French sampler reproduction!

Pattern is stitched on 16 ct Aida using either Soie D'Alger or DMC floss. Stitch count is 381 x 337. Finished size is 23.8" x 21" on 16/32 count.

This 10-page booklet includes 1 small sampler, 2 personalized small designs that can be finished as needlebooks or pin pillows, plus 4 Mix & Match scissor fobs! It also includes several BEW CREATIVE! ideas!

Pattern is stitched on 28ct Spice Linen from Picture This Plus using Weeks Dye... Read more about Hawthorne Hill Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Scarlett House featuring a reproduction sampler chart!

Pattern is stitched on 40 Ct Dusty Road from Seraphim using Classic Colorworks Belle Soie Silk with DMC conversions. Also required but not listed: Classic Colorworks Belle Soie Silk:Tree Trunk. Stitch count is 144 x 136.

Cross stitch pattern from Scarlett House featuring an antique sampler adaptation chart!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Old Stationary linen from Seraphim Hand Dyed Fabric using Classic Colorworks and Gloriana threads with DMC conversions. Stitch count is 191 x 82.

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christine Designs featuring a large white house, keys, and beautiful morning glory flowers!

Pattern is stitched on the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 226 x 127.

Note from the designer - "Rhode Island samplers were among the first American schoolgirl embroideries to be recognized by serious collectors and textile scholars as a distinctive group with extraordinary visual appeal. The Sheffield sampler is delicately worked with an unusually pleasing... Read more about Elizabeth Sheffield 1784 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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

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 about Jane Atkinson circa 1780 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This design was inspired by an early eighteenth century English picture executed in tent stitch." The designs features a lion, a leopard and a parrot surrounded by bright flowers.

The design is stitched over one thread on 35 Ct. linen. It uses cross... Read more about A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - 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 - "Eleanor Parr created this amazing and unique sampler some time before 1835. The border of birds encircled by vines and leaves is unprecedented. Fleurs de lys embellish each of the four corners surrounding a central reserve containing a traditional verse, floral sprays... Read more about Eleanor Parr 1816 - 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 - "An intensely stitched and well-planned sampler, this unusual piece probably originated in Pennsylvania. The allegorical figure hovering over the house could represent Liberty. The unconnected border of floating honeysuckle is unique, as well as the little pastoral... Read more about Rebecca Robinson 1821 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "A characteristically northern German sampler, this example from Hamburg consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a unifying central scene and borders. Religious symbols are commonly found on almost all continental samplers, and Adam and Eve in particular is often... Read more about German Sampler by AEDEGNES 1746 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This Dover, Massachusetts, sampler features an unusual border surrounding alphabetical and numerical tests, and a four-line verse often found on early 19th century American samplers. The colors are remarkably well preserved. The maker, Ann Harding (who was actually... Read more about Ann Harding 1821 - 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

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 about Elizabeth Pain 1667 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "Mourning pictures were not an uncommon art form in England and America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Evolving from European commemorative art honoring deceased heroes, mourning pictures were a cherished way to remember loved ones, designed to... Read more about Four Angels Mourning Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "Who would love this world or prize whats in it that gives and takes and chops and changes every minute.

This brilliant English traditional band sampler comes from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Drawing on traditional sampler motifs of the 17th... Read more about Grace Catlin 1719 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a very finely stitched classic Scottish sampler featuring three complete rows of beautifully illuminated letters, an arcaded floral band as well as other traditional motifs including peacocks, birds drinking at the fountain of life, feather trees and family initials. A four sided berry... Read more about Katie Sym 1769 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a delightful Halloween sampler complete with ghosts, candy corn and a haunted house!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen or the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 192 x 192.

This collection by Teresa Kogut has 3 different designs! Each design features a different gathering of flora and fauna, and uses the same color threads and symbols. "ABC 123" and "Sally Emerson" do not use DMC 435, 611, 822, and 3781.

"ABC 123" model stitched on 2... Read more about Gather - 3 Designs - Cross Stitch Pattern

Dwelling Place is stitched on 40 ct Dunes at Dusk by LFA Linens using Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch count it 284 x 318. Finished size: 14" x 15 1/2"

Dwelling Place Pillows is stitched on 40 ct Boston Tea Party by LFA Linens using Classic Colorworks,... Read more about Dwelling Place Sampler - Cross Stitch Book

This sampler design from Teresa Kogut features flowers, a house and "When this you see, remember me."

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. Ballet Slippers by Fox & Rabbit with Classic Colorworks, DMC and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 229x264. Finished size: 11 1/2" x 13 1/4"

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives featuring quilts and "Contentment is not getting what we want but being satisfied with what we have."

Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Smokey Blue linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 219x269

This lovely sampler is of Scottish origin.

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Summer Khaki linen with Soie d'Alger silks and silk chenille. Stitch Count: 204W x 278H. Finished size: 12 3/4" x 17 3/8" Stitches used: cross stitch, satin stitch, queen stitch, double running stitch, outline stitch, chain stitch, and stitching over one. Stitch diagrams are included.

Note from the designer - This sampler takes its name from the town of Blairgowrie, located in the region of Perthshire in the center of Scotland. The town, with its red stone buildings, grew rapidly due largely to the town's location on the banks of the River Ericht. In the 18th century the... Read more about Blairgowrie - Cross Stitch Pattern