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 14-page booklet includes the detailed instructions for the six specialty stitches, an alphabet for personalizing and 2 beautiful WELCOME samplers.
Pattern is stitched on 32ct Sprit of the Forest linen from BE STITCH ME using DMC floss. Stitch count is 327 x 188.
This 10-page booklet includes four fun designs for needlebook covers, a bookmark or extra borders, and two smalls to finish as scissor fobs or small ornaments.
Pattern is stitched on 28ct Platinum Linen using Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch count is 144 X 252 stitches.
This leaflet size pattern includes numbers for personalizing y our piece and a lovely WELCOME HOME design! It is a fun fast stitch! Great as a hostess gift.
Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Parchment from Weeks Dye Works using DMC floss. Stitch count is 141 X 135 stitches. Finished Size is 8.81 in wide X 8.44 in high.
Cross stitch pattern from Rosewood Manor featuring a lovely sampler with Waterlilies! This 10-page booklet includes 3 borders or bookmarks, 1
needlebook cover or small pin pillow and 3 fun WELCOMES!
Pattern is stitched on 32 ct linen. Stitch count is 197 x 117 stitches. Finished size is 6.16 in wide X 3.66 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!
This nautical alphabet smapler set of patterns will create 5 designs perfect for pillows. Includes one silver anchor charm.
Stitched on 32 ct. linen of your choice with DMC and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch counts and finished sizes are listed below.
ABCD:Stitch count is 96 x 46,... Read more about Sea Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
Model is stitched on 40 ct. Cafe Au Lait by Zweigart using Classic Colorworks, The Gentle Arts, Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch count is 404 x 404.
How Sweetly They Sing, Inspired by an antique sampler, this sampler celebrates all the beauty God has placed right in our backyards. The antique is available for stitching as well via a QR code included in the pattern.
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. linen with NPI and Thread Gatherer Silk n Color floss. The stitch count is 230 x 157 and the finished size is 11.5" x 7.85".
Stitched Together, This sweet mattress is a perfect gift for a stitching friend. The verse reads, From near and far, we are stitched together. Finishing instructions are included.
Pattern is stitched on 40 count Chincilla with Weeks Dye Works floss. The stitch count is 88 x 88 and the finished size is 4.4" x 4.4".
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.
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".
Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches featuring the phrase "If they can get along, why can't we?"
Pattern is stitched on 18 ct Eucalyptus from Fox and Rabbit Aida using Bestitchme Silks, 1 Gloriana, 1 Weeks Dye Works, Accentuate & Wisper threads. Stitch count is 136 X 166. Finished size is 7.56 in wide X 9.22 in high.
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.
Cross stitch pattern from Sambrie Stitches featuring a vintage sampler with the phrase "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He Maketh me lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Prepare... Read more about Mary Ann Tunbridge 1860 - Cross Stitch Pattern
Note from the designer - "Designed after an early eighteenth century tent stitched picture, this expansive needlework scene depicts many episodes in the life of an affluent English family including its elaborate parterre and gardens, a stately brick and stone house, domestic, exotic and wild... Read more about The Manifesto - Cross Stitch Pattern
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 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 about Eunice Morton 1794 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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 about Emely C Newman 1831 - 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 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 about Ann Bowden 1811 - Cross Stitch Pattern
Note from the designer - "A classic Quaker sampler from the Delaware Valley, this sampler demonstrates the style and many of the motifs that make them so easy to identify. The inner oval vine-and-leaf cartouche surrounding the alphabets probably originated at the Westtown School in Chester... Read more about Ann Fleming - 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:
Note from the designer - "Several band samplers very similar to this one are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as well as in other important collections. This particular sampler came from the collection of The Scarlet Letter, and is now in a private collection. A... Read more about Ann Scutt circa 1675 - Cross Stitch Pattern
There is so much going on in this fascinating English sampler that it's hard to know where to begin looking. Apart from the somewhat conventional Adam and Eve at the top center, adorable flying cherubs flank them and the apple tree, bearing gold rings and sprays of flowers. The verse is as... Read more about Catharine Metcalf 1836 English Pictorial
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.
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 about Dutch Sampler of 1773 - 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
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
Note from the designer: "Adapted from a mid eighteenth century English sampler. The combination of several unusual stitch techniques with bold primary colors, makes this sampler outstandingly beautiful and a rewarding project to stitch.
While the majority is done in cross stitch, large... Read more about Emily Lucille - 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: "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
Note from the designer: "This sampler was probably made in Rhode Island, a poor sister, perhaps, to the magnificent creations coming out of the girls' schools in Newport, Providence and Bristol at this same period, but bearing some similar "signatures". The squat, long-tailed bird at the... Read more about Freelove Hazard 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern