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This pattern from Shannon Christine Designs features the word "Create" on a rainbow background.

Model stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 102 x 68.

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 86 x 106.

The Easter bunny, colorful flowers and eggs are featured in this Shannon Christine Design.

Pattern is stitched on the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 126 x 91. Finished size on 28 count is 9 in wide X 6.5 in high.

Shannon Christine Design with strawberries, cherries, bananas, oranges, pears, blueberries and more!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct. Aida of your choice using DMC thread. Stitch count is 90 x 90.

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

This Shannon Christine Design features snowflakes, Christmas ornaments, and "Ho Ho Ho"!

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct black Aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is 58 x 60. Finished size is 4.14" x 4.29".

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 27 x 60 each.

Cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine in pretty pastel colors featuring the saying "Easter Egg Hunting Season."

Model stitched on 14 count Aida using DMC threads. Stitch count is 80 x 116.

A St. Patrick's Day cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine featuring a rainbow, shamrocks and the saying "Irish at Heart."

Model stitched on 14 count Aida of your choice with DMC threads. Stitch count is 62 x 74.

This designs is worked in red, green and white on a black background and says "We Wish You a Merry Christmas!"

Model stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss, Mill Hill beads and Kreinik very fine braids. Stitch count is 70 x 70. Finished size is 5" x 5".

Shannon Christine Design, worked on black fabric, with the words "Old-Fashioned Cocoa served daily".

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 114 x 160. Finished size is 8" x 11.4"

Model stitched on 14 ct. fabric using DMC thread. Stitch count is 52 x 122.

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

Model stitched on 14 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss, Kreinik #4 Braid and Mill Hill beads. Stitch Count: 142W x 118H. Finished Size: 10" x 8".

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

Cross Stitch pattern from Silver Creek Samplers featuring a bee wearing the Stars & Stripes, a beehive, and the saying "Free Bee."

The model was stitched on 18 Ct. Latte Aida by Fiber on a Whim with Weeks Dye Works floss.

Note from the designer - "This sweet English sampler is the first I've ever seen with a border made up of flying cherubs. It also features a "geode" (mosaic) parrot- a distinctively stylized bird that appears on other samplers made in England, New England, and the Netherlands throughout... Read more about Elizabeth Eyles 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Rhode Island samplers were among the first American schoolgirl embroideries to be recognized by serious collectors and textile scholars as a distinctive group with extraordinary visual appeal. The Sheffield sampler is delicately worked with an unusually pleasing... Read more about Elizabeth Sheffield 1784 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This reproduction sampler is from the Ackworth Quaker School and is dated 1800. It is rated for beginners.

Linen count and finished size: 35 or 40 count using either cotton or silk floss, 19" x 21" or 17" x 18-1/2"

Chart only.

Note from the designer - "The design of this piece was inspired by fine examples of early eighteenth century American and English needlework pictures. A picture like this would have been stitched as a painting, with great attention to detail, shading, color, and composition." The design... Read more about The Huntsman - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This design was inspired by an early eighteenth century English picture executed in tent stitch." The designs features a lion, a leopard and a parrot surrounded by bright flowers.

The design is stitched over one thread on 35 Ct. linen. It uses cross... Read more about A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Typical of so many Scottish samplers, Elizabeth Masterton's features an abundance of initials (likely familial), rows of evergreen trees, peacocks with seven tail feathers, and the now famous mansion house fronted by a pillared fence and gates enclosing sheep. Apart... Read more about Elizabeth Masterton 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Mary Bailey stitched this sampler in England and finished it in 1818. It demonstrates an advanced level of skill given the symmetry of the design and its many diverse elements: a red brick mansion house with four chimneys- a sign of wealth in early 19th century England,... Read more about Mary Bailey 1818 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "Designed after a mid-eighteenth century New Hampshire sampler, this piece is delightfully naive with its oversized animals, insects, and birds. Around 1760, the New-Hampshire Gazette began publishing advertisements for girls' schools, placed by female instructresses,... Read more about Susan Singleton - 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

A RED BRICK MANSION HOUSE is at the center of this wildly engaging English sampler featuring a small zoo/conservatory/aviary of flora and fauna as interpreted by an exceptionally talented young woman of the early nineteenth century. The verse is common enough on nineteenth-century samplers, unlike... Read more about Jane Moore 1820 - 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 - "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

Adapted from an English sampler dated 1783. The original sampler from which this piece was adapted measures 15 1/2" x 12 1/2", and was stitched over one thread of linen on approximately 50-thread-count glazed linen. The house on the left alone, which measures 71 by 62 squares on the graph,... Read more about Country Life Sampler 1783 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This band sampler was designed after a piece in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, most remarkable for the colorful, solidly filled geometric and floral sections. It also features double running stitch sections found on Italian embroideries of the sixteenth and... Read more about Elizabeth Pain 1667 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This English sampler combines embroidered pictorial, alphabetic, and upholstery techniques, becoming in every sense a sampler of Ms. Topham's best work. Bargello work (also known as canvaswork, Irish stitch, flamestitch, or Florentine stitch) appeared on the earliest seventeenth century samplers,... Read more about Elizabeth Topham 1727 - 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: "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

Note from the designer: "This original design blends a mid-18th century floral sampler border with a late 18th century lettering and cartouche style, and a mid-19th century sentiment. Instructions are provided for working the sampler in a different color scheme (red, blues, greens) on a neutral... Read more about Home Sweet Home Sampler - 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

Note from the designer: "This small and brilliantly preserved band sampler demonstrates a wide variety of stitches found on many seventeenth century samplers. The beautifully shaded flower heads and leaves are filled in with connecting tiers of trellis stitch."

Finished size on 35... Read more about Judeth Payne 1668 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a snowman in winter and the word "January"!

Model stitched on 28 ct. raw natural cashel linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a girl on a farm with a cow and the word "August"!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 82 x 85. Also required dmc 3893.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring two ghosts who are "best boos"! BOOville Series Chart #11.

Model stitched on 32 count Raw Natural Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 60 x 60.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring two ghost and a black cat celebrating Halloween with a pumpkin! BOOville Series Chart #12.

Model stitched on 32 count Raw Natural Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 60 x 60.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a ghost holding balloons with a pumpkin! BOOville Series Chart #7.

Model stitched on 32 count Raw Natural Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 60 x 60.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring lots of yummy holiday candy! Holiday Cheer Series Chart #8.

Model stitched on 32 count Gingerbread Belfast Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 61 x 61.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a snowman with candy! Holiday Cheer Series Chart #6.

Model stitched on 32 count Gingerbread Belfast Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 61 x 61.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a delightful Halloween sampler complete with ghosts, candy corn and a haunted house!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen or the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 192 x 192.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring the whole Boo Crew, pumpkins, ghosts and a black cat!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen or the fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 192 x 192.

Victorian paper ornament designs from Summer House Stitche Workes. Can be personalized with family photos, old cards, etc. There are 3 patterns in this chart and there will be two more charts in the series.

The models were stitched on 14 Ct. Antique Brown perforated paper (one package should be enough for 9 ornaments) with any one color of floss.