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Cross stitch pattern from Cross Stitch Antiques featuring a sampler with the phrase "When house and land is gone and spent, learning is most excellent"!

Model stitched on 40 ct. Vintage Examplar by Lakeside Linens using DMC thread. Stitch count is 131 x 185.

Cross stitch pattern from Cross Stitch Antiques featuring a sampler with many flowers!
Model stitched on 40ct. Tickerty-Boo by Tabbycat Linen using NPI thread with DMC conversions listed. Stitch count is 216 x 218.

Cross stitch pattern from Cross Stitch Antiques featuring two adorable turtle doves!
Model stitched on 38 ct. Fullers Teasel by Legacy Linens using DMC thread. Stitch count is 63 x 57.

No clues have been provided by the stitcher as to her name, year of origin, or place where she stitched her sampler. The only clue as to place might be in the lettering she used itself, giving one an indication it was stitched in Ireland. "A slightly surprising source of lettering which became... Read more about Benezet Alphabet Irish Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

An ancestor of the stitcher placed a typewritten note on the back of the framed sampler, dated August 28, 1997. Thomasina Henrietta Jackson (nee Willis) wrote the following: "This sampler was made by Charlotte Keightley, my great aunt by marriage, circa 1840. Her married name at the time was... Read more about The Two Lands, Circa 1840 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This sampler is an original design based on the layout of eighteenth century Irish Quaker samplers with the lettering and sampler motifs taken from a Mountmellick Irish Quaker sampler in the collection of Cross Stitch Antiques, Elizabeth Martin circa 1789. The town names at the bottom are the... Read more about Ligatures and Lettering of Irish Antique - Cross Stitch

This chart contains all sixteen pattern pages from a tiny paper pattern album passed out as a souvenir in 1851 at Prince Albert's Crystal Palace Great Exhibition. They were mass produced inexpensively but are rarely found today due to the nature of the flimsy paper and the effects of time. Other... Read more about Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 - Cross Stitch Pattern

A Prequel to the Carter House Sampler, Franklin, Tennessee, The Sampler of Fountain Branch Carter's Mother, For the Battle of Franklin Trust, An Antique Sampler Reproduction.

Pattern is stitched on 36 count Hemingway by Needle and Flax. Stitch Count: 171 stitches wide x 224 stitches high.... Read more about Sarah Holcombe Anderson, 1789 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Inspired by a Bristol Orphanage Sampler, Amelia Fox 1868

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct linen using Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silk. Stitch counts is 121 wide x 135 high. Finished size is 5.26 x 5.87 inches.

Catharine Shenaman, Cumru Township, c. 1840 - A Berks County, Pennsylvania Sampler

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. linen with NPI silk floss. The stitch count is 274 x 234 and the finished size is 13.7" x 11.7".

When stitching with Au Ver A Soie silk floss, you will also need 705, 661, and 607.