Samplers Cross Stitch Patterns Page 17

"With shades of silk like nature fair, I ply my needle with tender care. That with diligence and skill I'll make a pleasing sampler for posterity's sake."

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Pearled Barley from Lakeside Linens using Belle Soie with NPI or DMC with all DMC or NPI conversions available. Stitch count is 207 x 351.

Antrim's Folly - A Burlington County Inspiration Sampler No. 5 in the 13 Colonies Series Inspired by the Mary Antrim sampler, once part of Betty Ring's collection. Stitch Count: 257 x 355 Fabric: 36 ct Vintage Pecan Butter (Lakeside Linens) Floss: Belle Soie, NPI (requires NPI-157), or DMC ... Read more about Antrim's Folly - Burlington County Inspiration Cross Stitch

Cross stitch pattern from Heart in Hand Needleart featuring the alphabet and a hummingbird!

Model stitched on 32 ct Antique Lace linen using Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count is 60w x 67h. Approx. size is 3.75" x 4.2".

Cross stitch pattern by Hello From Liz Mathews featuring the 8th day of Christmas with maids, cows, trees and birds.

The sampler was stitched with Needlepoint Inc Silks over 2 threads of 40 Ct. Fog linen from Picture This Plus. Stitch Count: 97W x 132H. The Tree was stitched using 2... Read more about Eighth Day of Christmas Tree and Sampler

Cross stitch pattern from Erin Elizabeth featuring a fun sampler of everything Christmas!

Pattern is stitched on the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 162 x 189.

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

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

Stitch count 143w x 197h. Designed by Anna Gutova.

Cross stitch pattern featuring a sampler from Moira Blackburn with the phrase "To every thing there is a season and a time."

Model stitched on your choice of fabric using DMC floss. Stitch count is 325 x 205 and the finished size is 23.21" x 14.64" on 29 count.

"It is a dear thing, Friendship. A sweet balm, a fast elusive bird of calm that flutters o'er life's tumultuous ocean." Model stitched on fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 89W x 146H.

Cross stitch design from Needle Bling featuring a sailing ship, lighthouse, mermaids and "Bound to your mind, sirend by your voice. You look at me like I'd have a choice. But I'm a sailor and you are the sea. Give me your storms, don't stop singing to me."

The model was stitched... Read more about Siren of the Sea Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

This cross stitch sampler from NeedleWorkPress features alphabets, a house, "Be a Friend" and "Without a friend the world is but a wilderness."

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Beige linen by Weeks Dye Works with Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 221x177.... Read more about Be a Friend Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring a Christmas night and the phrase "Merry Christmas London. God bless us everyone."

Model is stitched on 30ct Old Salem Linen using DMC and Gentle Arts thread. Stitch count: 179 x 201.

The item is embroidered on a Zweigart 16 Thread 3077 or 323 linen using DMC threads. Stitch count is 262 x 242.

Model stitched on Zweigart 16 ct. linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 384 x 308.

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.

This 18 page booklet from Rosewood Manor includes a sampler, a lovely Welcome, and four fun royal smalls.

The sampler model was stitched over two threads on 32 Ct. White or Antique White linen with DMC floss and Rainbow Gallery threads. Stitch Count: 367x217. Finished size: 23" x 13.5"

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 86 x 106.

Note from the designer - "This sweet English sampler is the first I've ever seen with a border made up of flying cherubs. It also features a "geode" (mosaic) parrot- a distinctively stylized bird that appears on other samplers made in England, New England, and the Netherlands throughout... Read more about Elizabeth Eyles 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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

This reproduction sampler is from the Ackworth Quaker School and is dated 1800. It is rated for beginners.

Linen count and finished size: 35 or 40 count using either cotton or silk floss, 19" x 21" or 17" x 18-1/2"

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Note from the designer - "The design of this piece was inspired by fine examples of early eighteenth century American and English needlework pictures. A picture like this would have been stitched as a painting, with great attention to detail, shading, color, and composition." The design... Read more about The Huntsman - 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 19th century American reproduction sampler features a brown bird on a tree branch. Rated for beginners. Model stitched on 35 count hand dyed linen using either cotton or silk thread. Two versions of the sampler graph have been furnished: one executed with a drawn partially freehand split and... Read more about Bird in Bough - 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 finely stitched German sampler begins with a single row of alphabets above an immensely intricate collection of symbolic cross stitched motifs, including battling angels, the figure of Justice with her scales, the spies of Canaan, the crucifixion, Adam and Eve... Read more about Hanna Katerina 1734 German Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "At age nine in 1818, Sarah Dutnel created this unusual "tree of life" sampler. A traditional carnation and tulip border in subtle, earthy shades of gold, brown, and cream surrounds the tree. Dogs, deer, birds, stars, potted plants, trees and flowers flank the... Read more about Sarah Dutnel 1818 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a beautiful sampler from Norwich (Norfolk, United Kingdom), possibly stitched at a school run by one Mrs. Wright or her descendent (hence the initials "MW" below Elizabeth's name in the attribution). A list of teachers in Norwich in 1783 includes Wright, Massey, and Cheetleburgh. The... Read more about Elizabeth Gooding 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern

A RED BRICK MANSION HOUSE is at the center of this wildly engaging English sampler featuring a small zoo/conservatory/aviary of flora and fauna as interpreted by an exceptionally talented young woman of the early nineteenth century. The verse is common enough on nineteenth-century samplers, unlike... Read more about Jane Moore 1820 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This English sampler was made in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, featuring the Sheffield General Infirmary, a verse, a fashionably dressed man and woman, and a collection of animals in the lawn in front (sheep, fox, squirrels, rabbit, dog), all surrounded by a four sided berry border.

The... Read more about Elizabeth Gray 1832 - 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

Note from the designer: "This sampler is a fine example of work done by Pennsylvania German girls in the early-to-mid nineteenth century. Similar motifs appear on the show towels that decorated kitchen and bedroom doors in these immigrant German households. It is thought that while the show... Read more about Elizabeth Wisler 1845 - Cross Stitch Pattern

"Jesus permit thy Gracious name to stand as the first effort of an infant hand. And while her fingers on the canvas move, engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love. With thy dear children, let her have a part and write thy name thyself upon her heart."

Note from the designer: "This finely worked sampler features pastoral scenes above and below a lovely verse about friendship. A four-sided honeysuckle border surrounds large baskets of fruits and flowers, a fenced pasture with seven large lazy sheep and an architectural folly in the background.... Read more about Grazing Sheep circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "From Dover, Massachusetts, comes Harriot Boardman's sampler, originally worked on a distinctive green linsey-woolsey found only on some North Shore samplers. A three-sided sawtooth border surrounds alphabet and numeral tests with geometric cross bands, two deer with... Read more about Harriet Boardman 1804 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Soon after Mary and Jesus were visited by the Magi, who had learned that King Herod intended to kill the male infants in that region, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee... Read more about Harriot Ringrose 1852 - Christian 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

Note from the designer: "This small and brilliantly preserved band sampler demonstrates a wide variety of stitches found on many seventeenth century samplers. The beautifully shaded flower heads and leaves are filled in with connecting tiers of trellis stitch."

Finished size on 35... Read more about Judeth Payne 1668 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a snowman in winter and the word "January"!

Model stitched on 28 ct. raw natural cashel linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Teresa Kogut featuring a rabbit collecting eggs that are hanging from a tree!

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. linen with Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 177 x 177. Finished size: 8 7/8" x 8 7/8"

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives featuring a floral border, a house, bees, beehives and the saying "Kind words are like honey; sweet to the soul."

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Summer Khaki using DMC floss. Stitch count is 228 x 269. Finished size is 11.4" x 13.45".

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives featuring a bees, beehives and the saying "Don't be afraid, just believe."

Pattern is stitched on 20 ct Espresso or 40 ct Heather form Fiber on a Whim using DMC floss. Stitch count is 257 x 198.

Inspiration for this design is from From Shakespeare's incredible play, MACBETH. Act III, Scene 2: "Light thickens, and the crow/ Makes wing to th' rooky wood."

Model stitched 2 over 2 on 28 ct Cream linen using Dinky Dyes threads. Stitch count is 172 x 190.

Hannah Cummins stitched her sampler in Stockton, England in 1828 when she was 9 years old. A photo of the antique sampler is included in the package. "My thoughts before they are my own are to my God distinctly known. He knows the words I mean to speak ere from opning lips they break.

... Read more about Hannah Cummins - Cross Stitch Pattern

Package contains patterns for both a multicolor and one color version of the design. The models were stitched on 32 Ct. Light Examplar by Lakeside Linens with DMC, Gentle Arts and Olde Willow Stitchery threads (not listed). Stitch Count: 222W x 139H. Finished size: 13.8" x 8.6".

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