"August brings the golden grain. Harvest time is here again." Both models stitched on 32 Ct. Lambswool Linen with DMC floss. "August Sampler" Stitch Count: 144H x 90W. "Small Sampler" Stitch Count: 81H x 81W. Book #176
"The tortoise and the hare...slow and steady wins the race!" Models stitched on 16 count Lambswool using DMC. Stitch count for Tortoise & the Hare: 90W x 144H. Stitch count for bonus sampler: 81W x 81H. Book #162
Models stitched over two on 32 count lambswool linen using DMC floss. Stitch count: "All you can eat" - 68H x 203W; "Better a Small Fish" - 100H x 69W; "Picnic Area" - 100H x 128W. Book #97
Inspired by and adapted from an antique sampler, this wonderful tree is the centerpiece with its woodland creatures and classic border. I've added the verse to remind us of the season of thanksgiving, but it's a sentiment to honor all year long. The companion berry features the squirrel, and... Read more
Note from the designer: This sweet little verse comes from an entry in my great-grandmother's autograph book, dated from the early 1880's. Combined with motifs and pattern bands from my collection of little books' of the same time period, the pin pillow and berries make a sweet trio of smalls. Shown... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Antique Needleworkers featuring a lovely sampler!
The model was stitched on 40 ct fabric using The Gentle Arts and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 125 x 142. Finished size is 6.25 in wide X 7.1 in high.
Cross stitch pattern from Madame Chantilly featuring a dispenser full of Valentines hearts!
Stitched on your choice of fabric. Stitch counts are 107w x 125h and 74 x 87. Finished sizes are 10.78 in wide X 7.06 in high and 4.11 in wide X 4.83 in high.
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
I placed real gourds all over my studio so I could get realistic shapes and colors for this charming "Just Gourds" pattern. Then I sprinkled the letters around to spell out the word. Can you find them? Make a pillow or frame it for a decoration that will span from Halloween and right through... Read more
Cross Stitch pattern from Tralala featuring a lovely sampler and strawberry with flowers!
Pattern is stitched on Flax from Zweigart using Atalie and Histoires de lin threads with Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts conversion. Stitch count is 157 x 106 (sampler) and 94 x 58 (berry).
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Cross stitch pattern from Running With Needles & Scissor featuring three Christmas pillows with the phrases "Comfort and Joy", "Rejoice", and "Good Tidings"!
Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Flax using Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count is 151 x 198.
Note from the designer: "Count the days with a design which can be stitched three ways! Create the calendar (perhaps stitch a bit each day throughout the month), a December drum, or a berry for the big day!"
Pattern is stitched on 36 count Tycho linen from Picture This Plus using... Read more
"Nothing's ever prefect but things can be just right." This band sampler is the second in a trio of band samplers from Tempting Tangles, with the first being Solitude. Each have colorful, unusual varieties of bands - some wide, some narrow.
Model stitched on 32 ct White Linen using DMC or Dinky Dyes threads. Stitch count is 121 x 185.
Cross stitch pattern from Rebel Stitcher Designs featuring a Halloween coffin with the phrase "May you arrive at heaven and hour before the devil knows your dead"!
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct using Classic Colorworks and Forbidden Fiber Co. (Devil Knows). Stitch count is 156 x 136.
Cross stitch pattern from Pansy Patch Quilts & Stitchery featuring a home with the phrase "The skep is to the bee what the churn dash is to the quilter"!
Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Doubloon from Picture This Plus using Classic Colorworks, The Gentle Arts and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 133 x 121.
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
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
This letterndoek (lettering) form of Dutch sampler appears from the late 17th through the early 19th century. It is easy to recognize by its horizontal shape, and beautifully illuminated lettering, interspersed with various symbolic shapes and Biblical motifs. The color scheme used on so many of... Read more
Note from the designer - "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Elisabeth Hoover and one other student of the former Mrs. Galligher of Lancaster are known to have named Mrs. Leah Bratten on their samplers in 1803. The twin Bratten sisters, Leah and Rachel, both married schoolmasters, kept schools with them,... Read more
A unique four-sided geometric border is the highlight of this American sampler, consisting of nine rows of letters and numerals surrounded by a counted satin stitch sawtooth inner border. The design looks like something that might have inspired the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. I have not been able... Read more
This American sampler was stitched on a loosely woven homespun linen with vegetable-dyed silk threads. Despite its size and simplicity, the design is striking, delicate, and well-balanced. Eunice Morton was born in 1783 in Gorham County, Maine. Sometime in 1809-1810, she married Jesse Harding, and... Read more
Note from the designer - "At the age of fourteen, Mary Lee stitched this beautiful band sampler with a good assortment of flowers, birds, swans, squirrels, and other traditional motifs. Worked into the center of a band in tight, precise stitches, is the cautionary aphorism "In thy youth... Read more
Note from the designer - "This unusual sampler is probably of Scottish origin. The distinctive French-inspired mansion house and the peacocks are commonly found on Scottish samplers. Adam and Eve are realistically stitched in the Garden, by effectively working two quite simple stitches together:... Read more
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
Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring three Santa themed hoop designs with the phrases "Milk for Santa" and "Dear Santa...it wasn't me"!
Model stitched on 30ct Old Salem Linen by Primitive Hare using DMC thread.
Stitch count: 60w x 61h.
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