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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 design by Reflets de Soie features an alphabet and number sampler with lots of flower. The bottom of the design reads "Marie Soulard Cholet Annee 1896".

Model stitched on 40ct Linen of your choice using Gloriana thread. Stitch count: 455 x 432.

Model stitched on 40 ct. Cream Zweigart linen using Soie d'Alger thread. DMC equivalents also listed. Stitch count is 339 x 387.

Note: Fabric suggestion is listed with a 3 inch border in mind.

Cross stitch pattern from Reflets De Soie featuring a sampler with different vases of flowers.

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct linen using Au Ver a Soie with DMC Conversion. Also required but not listed for Au Ver a Soie option: 95 and 607. Stitch count is 249 x 236.

Cross stitch pattern from Reflets De Soie featuring a sampler!

Pattern is stitched on the fabric of your choice with Soie d'Alger thread with DMC converion. Stitch count is 289 x 257.

Cross stitch pattern from Reflets De Soie featuring a French sampler reproduction! The translation could be: Little birds, adornment of the earth, Sweet messengers and smiles of heaven, Send me your most joyful cries: I want to sing my Mother Whom I would like, by a divine mystery, To have the lute... Read more about Marie Louise Rathge 1898 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This chart is an antique reproduction sampler, with options for the stitcher to customize. I have charted three options for the stitcher to choose from. The last line of this sampler is where the custom choices are. Three options include; the original antique version Prepare to meet thy God", a... Read more about Mary Sidgwick - Cross Stitch Pattern

This winter themed pattern features two snowman ready to craft together with the phrase "Stitching is better with friends".

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Belfast vintage country mocha linen using Romy's Creations threads with DMC conversion. The stitch count is 80 x 70 and the finished size is 5" x 4.38".

This 10-page booklet includes 14 smalls! You can create Mix & Match needlebooks, scissor fobs or fun small ornament! Plus, it includes several BE CREATIVE! ideas!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Antique White linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 228 x 198.

This 10-page booklet includes a small Welcome, plus an alphabet in case you want to change the wording or personalize your sampler, plus a small border and several BE C REATIVE! ideas! It is a fun stitch!

Pattern is stitched on 32ct Weeks Dye Works, Straw linen using Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 222 x 157.

This 10-page booklet includes two extra borders, six minis to finish as needlebook covers or ornaments, three minis to finish as scissor fobs, one small to finishing as pin drum and a lovely welcome!

Pattern is stitched on 32ct Cream Linen using Threadworx floss. Stitch count is 171 x 137.

Cross stitch pattern from Rosewood Manor featuring a lovely sampler you can use to teach young people how to cross stitch!

Pattern is stitched on 32ct White or Antique White Linen using DMC Threads. Stitch count is 109 x 134.

This 10-page booklet includes two smalls to create ornaments or needlebook covers, PLUS three beautiful WELCOME designs!

"Oh let my name engraven stand both on your heart and by your hand. KSK this is my work I share with you"

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Cream linen using... Read more about Lodden Acres - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Rosewood Manor featuring a lovely sampler with hydrangeas! This 10-page booklet includes 1 small sampler, 1 needlebook cover with 2 scissor fobs and 2 WELCOMES!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct linen. Stitch count is 176 X 187 stitches. Finished size is 5.5 in wide X 5.84 in high.

Cross stitch pattern from Rosewood Manor featuring a lovely sampler with a red house! This 10-page booklet includes 3 bookmarks, 2 extra borders, plus another lovely WELCOME!

Pattern is stitched on 32ct Parchment Linen from Weeks Dye Works or 32 count Cream. Stitch count is 191 x 192... Read more about Ye Olde Red House Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

This 14-page booklet includes four extra borders, a needlebook cover or pin pillow, a scissor fob, and two lovely welcomes! See the back cover for extras!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 217 x 249. Finished size is 13.56" x 15.56".

This 10-page booklet includes two extra borders, five smalls to mix & match as you finish them as needlebook cover, pin pillows, and scissor fobs!

Pattern is stitched on 28 ct white or antique white Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 185 x 129. Finished size is 13.21" x 9.21".

Model is stitched on 46 ct. using NPI silks. Stitch count is 334 x 321.

I just love the way she turned out! Mary is the second sampler in the Samplings in Color, where I take a very simple little sampler and give her a makeover, although the sampler is a reproduction, and the colors are in keeping with the original. She would look great on a neutral linen as well.... Read more about Mary Wightman 1848 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Has it been a year already since this sampler was released as a club piece? It was released in a very muted version, however, my original vision of the sampler was a bit brighter. So now you have the option of both. The title is the brainchild of my friend Lisa Duffin, who is great with coming up... Read more about Milady's Courting Conundrum - Cross Stitch Pattern

Charlotte Bell is a very sweet sampler that I have included in my Sampling in Color series.

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct fabric using Gloriana silk floss. Stitch count: 142 x 218. Finished size is 7.89 in wide X 12.11 in high.

A very detailed autumn-themed sampler, containing various forest animals, autumn motifs and ornaments.

Stitched on your choice of fabric using DMC, Gentle Art, Threadworx and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 181w X 254h.

Cross stitch pattern from Samplers And Primitives featuring a lovely sampler with sheep!

Stitched on Cream Linen or Evenweave. Stitch count is 139w X 167h. Finished size is 8.69 in wide X 10.44 in high for 32 count fabric.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches featuring a reproduction sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Calvin Baker Sampler fabric custom made by Fabric Flair using DMC floss. Stitch count is 233 x 73.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches featuring a lovely sampler with flowers and crowns!

Pattern is stitched on 36ct Antique Lace by Seraphim Hand Dyed Fabrics using DMC floss. Stitch count is 197 x 166.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches featuring a young Jewish girl's story of survival reproduction sampler.

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Up in the Attic by Fox and Rabbit using The Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 145 x 136.

Note from designer: Isabella Hunter was born February 16, 1875 in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. There was a paper originally attached to the back of the sampler with the written words "Isa(bella) & Ma". This suggests that maybe Isa and her mother worked on this sampler together.

... Read more about Isa Hunter - Cross Stitch Pattern

Pattern is stitched on 18ct Valor by Picture this Plus using Weeks Dye Works & Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 70 x 70.

The stitching in this beautiful sampler with the sacred hearts includes the name Malvina Roisset and the date 1891. I think Marie Louise Malvina Roisset, who would have been 10 years old in 1891, could very well be the stitcher.

Pattern is stitched on 36ct linen using Caron Impressions. Stitch count is 166 x 172. Finished size is 10" x 10".

Note from designer: George Wishart Creighton was born 22 June 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The words Native American (with emphasis on the capitalization of the N and A) on the sampler refer not to George's lineage but rather to a group of Protestants. We believe that the motif immediately to... Read more about George W. Creighton - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from designer: The only part I left off of the reproduction is the section just below the alphabet. This sampler does have a lot of over 1 & eyelets.

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Baked Clay from Fox and Rabbit using Classic Colorworks and DMC. Stitch Count 140 x 240. Finished size is 7.78 in wide X 13.33 in high.

Pattern is stitched on 40ct. Vintage Sand Dune from Lakeside Linen using Classic Colorworks and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 210 x 148. DMC conversion included

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

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 - "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

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

Note from the designer: "A gift from the collection of Rosalind and Edwin Miller to the museum. Emma Lerch was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and she stitched this sampler in her thirteenth year. It is a very simple work, with a lovely meandering floral border. While perhaps... Read more about Emma Lerch 1843 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Band samplers of the 17th century exhibit the widest range of stitches and techniques. Counted thread stitches on linen were artfully combined with panels of floral, geometric, or figural cut and drawn work- a technique where the background threads of linen are carefully bound, then cut and pulled... Read more about EN 1657 A 17th Century Band Sampler - 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

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 design was excerpted from the top of an early nineteenth-century English sampler. It features an unusual and amusing hunting scene with a solo hunter on horseback pursuing a single hapless stag with a pack of ten spotted hounds on its trail.

The verse reads: Give me O Lord thy early... Read more about Mary Randal 1803 - 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

A sampler from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

Skill and expertise in sampler-making did not necessarily peak in the mid-to-late seventeenth century and then wane during what is often called the "golden age" of English sampler-making. These skills... Read more about Rachel Jarratt circa 1760 - Cross Stitch Pattern