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Model stitched on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 55x58. Design Size: 4" x 4".

This Shannon Christine Design features a lovely gingerbread house in winter!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 58 x 57

Model stitched on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 183x65. Design Size: 13" x 5".

Pattern by Shannon Christine Designs featuring a cute holiday design with the phrase "I'll be home for Christmas".

Model stitched on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 49 x 88. Finished size: 3.50"x 6.29".

Model stitched two over one on your choice of 14 Ct. Aida using DMC floss. Stitch Count: 78 x 72. Design Size: 5.57" x 5.14"

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christie Designs featuring a truck driving past winter trees with the phrase "Happy Holidays"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 83 x 89.

Shannon Christine Design featuring a Hippo as a Christmas gift!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct Aida in the color of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 50 x 50.

This Erin Elizabeth Design features gift wrapping with the phrase "Home Sweet Home"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 60 x 57.

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christine featuring a reindeer in a mug that says "joy"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct. Aida of your choice using DMC thread. Stitch count is 39 x 46.

Model stitched two over one on your choice of 14 Ct. Aida using DMC floss.Stitch Count: 69x90. Design Size: 4.93" x 6.43"

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christine Designs featuring a large key and a home decorated for Christmas!

Stitched on 14 count fabric using DMC threads. Stitch count is 70 x 55. Finished Size is 5 x 3.93.

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christine featuring a sweet little reindeer in a left mitten!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct Aida in the color of your choice using DMC threads. Stitch count is 40 x 54.

Model stitched on Crystal Haunted Linen, but a fabric of your choice can be used. Uses DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid, and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 199x148. Design Size: 14" x 11".

Model stitched two over one on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 70x62. Finished size: 5" x 4.43".

Shannon Christine Design featuring two homes covered in purple flowers!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct Aida in the color of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 203 x 110.

"You are the Pumpkin to My Spice" is surrounded by Autumn leaves, pumpkins and a latte!"

Model stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 88 x 120.

Cross stitch pattern from Shannon Christine featuring a sign that says "Pumpkins Picked Daily"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct Aida in the color of your choice using DMC threads. Stitch count is 64 x 88.

Model stitched two over one on your choice of 14 Ct. Aida using DMC floss and Mill Hill Beads. Stitch Count: 185x185. Design Size: 13" x 13"

Shannon Christine Design featuring a rolling pin with the word "Gingerbread"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct Aida in the color of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 99 x 56.

Model stitched two over one on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 70x62. Finished size: 5" x 4.43".

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 96 x 76.

Model stitched two over one on your choice of 14 Ct. Aida using DMC floss. Stitch Count: 113x105. Design Size: 8.07" x 7.50"

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 50 x 50.

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 50 x 50.

Pattern by Shannon Christine Designs featuring a cute Thanksgiving themed sampler with the word "Thankful", pumpkins, and falling leaves.

Model stitched two over one on 14 Ct. Aida of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch Count: 100 x 100. Finished Size: 7.14" x 7.14"

Cross Stitch pattern from Silver Creek Samplers featuring a book with 10 playful patterns!

Stitched on your choice of fabric using DMC floss. Stitch count for all patterns are 59 x 58. Finished Sizes vary on fabric used.

Cross Stitch pattern from Silver Creek Samplers featuring the phrase "Love at frost sight" with a snowglobe!

Stitched on 'Blue Morpho' 18ct Aida by Seraphim Hand Dyed Fabrics using Weeks Dye Works and DMC. Stitch count is 173 x 65

Note from the designer - "This little needlework was likely made as a panel of a "huswif"/aka a "housewife", which was an embroidered, double-sided vertical series of pockets made to hold needleworking supplies. It could be folded up or hung from a peg for swift access to the... Read more about Huswife Circa 1780 - 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

Note from the designer - "ANN WHITTAKER created an almost comically theatrical sampler depicting Adam and Eve, angels, pious verses, and elaborate meandering vines beneath dramatic multi-colored draperies and tassels. Hovering over the verse which is framed by large columns, are two angels with... Read more about Ann Whittaker 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This sampler shows a man and a woman beneath an apple tree, reminiscent of Adam and Eve, but in contemporary dress. Possibly of New York origin (the format and background suggest this), this reproduction is stitched on linen with either cotton or silk, with the... Read more about Abigail Gould's Sampler 1796 - 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 - "Although there has not been the extensive research and study of English Quaker samplers as there has been of their American counterparts, we believe that this sampler was created under the tutelage of a Quaker sewing instructress in England. The fine bleached linen and... Read more about Amelia Pewmer 1782 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This is a very graceful and finely stitched sampler, an unusual combination for the late date. Nine ethereal female figures, like penitents in an Edward Gorey cartoon, march solemnly about the sampler, paying homage to the house. The huge house appears to be welcoming... Read more about Ann Cottee 1848 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This very delicate Scottish sampler with its bold color scheme was designed with a four sided stylized honeysuckle border surrounding horizontal rows of illuminated alphabets and double running stitch motifs. The extensive use of double running stitch lends the sampler... Read more about Ann Forrest 1757 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This wonderful English sampler has to be an original inspired composition by a very clever young girl with a singular artistic vision! Potbellied cherubs fly trumpeting alongside a doughy, asexual Adam and Eve, beneath whom perch an enormous plumed Bird of Paradise on a... Read more about Ann Hall 1812 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "As the purpose for making samplers evolved over the decades and the centuries, so did its form. This beautiful early 18th century English band sampler retains the shape of her predecessors, but has clearly changed into a form distinctly recognizable as a product of her... Read more about Ann Johnson 1729 - Cross Stitch Pattern

In the upper register of this finely stitched English sampler there is featured an unusual vignette of Adam and Eve beneath the tree of life (with a menacing black faced serpent) flanked by mirror image brick cottages, followed by a pious verse:

Praise the Lord enthron'd on high
... Read more about Ann Jones 1776 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Mansfield finished her sampler in England on 13th June 1792, during the reign of King George III (1760-1820: note the cushioned crown in the upper third, marked on either side by the initials G R for George Rex). The original sampler was stitched on a very... Read more about Elizabeth Mansfield 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern

According to a note attached to the back of the original sampler, it was probably made near Newtown, Pennsylvania. The attribution at the center is surrounded by a typical Quaker leafy cartouche with opposing flowers and facing birds above. Other characteristic Quaker motifs include eight point... Read more about Elizabeth Mitchell 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern

The Temperance Movement of the early nineteenth century began in the United States prior to 1808. Preachers, most notably John Bartholomew Gough, promulgated a pledge of abstinence from members of his congregation. While temperance efforts have existed as long as spirits have, the movement was not... Read more about Drunkenness by Emma George 1842 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This northern German sampler consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a simple zigzag border. Religious symbols are commonly found on continental samplers. On this example, we find the wreath carried by angels (the wreath as a symbol for eternal life): the ship... Read more about FAK-MEK 1779 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This sweet little American sampler features two little houses above alphabets and a short verse:

Would you be wise
Each moment prize

It is surrounded on four sides by a double sided satin stitched sawtooth border. Stitches used include cross, outline, stem filling, counted... Read more about Fanny M Forister 1828 - 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

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

Rose's unusual middle name should have provided some clues about where she was born, and where she lived, but the name "Shenamon" is elusive despite my efforts to discover its origins as well as hers. It is spelled many different ways when researched (including Shinimon and Schinnamon which... Read more about Rose Shenamon Mitchell 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a reproduction of a Quaker sampler made in Chester County, Pennsylvania consisting of alphabets, numerals, ligatures* and lineal patterns executed in a variety of stitches. The uppermost border with the dangling central flower is often seen on American Quaker samplers of this period (see... Read more about Ann Ward 1808 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is an expansive English sampler with an unusual four-sided leafy branch and floral border, centering a very busy reserve filled with baskets of fruits and flowers, stylized trees and plants, birds, lions rampant, butterflies, rabbits, and stags. A large building/mansion/institution is at the... Read more about Sarah Elizabeth Hollings 1825 - Cross Stitch Pattern