Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a a circus bear on a bicycle!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Mint Green Aida with DMC floss. Shown with red, yellow, cream and light blue beads. Stitch Count: 41x55. Finished size: 2.93" x 3.93".
Note - patterns calls for DMC 5270, 5284, 5290. The new numbers are DMC Light Effects E815, E3852 & E3843.
Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a a circus clown!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Aida, plastic canvas, or perforated paper with DMC floss. Shown with red, white and gold beads. Stitch Count: 25x46. Finished size: 1.79" x 3.29".
Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a a circus elephant!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Aida, plastic canvas, or perforated paper with DMC floss. Shown with blue, red, crystal and white beads. Stitch Count: 72x65. Finished size: 5.14" x 4.64".
Note: the pattern calls for DMC 5284, 5291, 5270. The new colors are DMC Light Effects #E3852, E825 & E815.
Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a a circus poodle!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Aida, plastic canvas, or perforated paper with DMC floss. Shown with gold beads. Stitch Count: 22x43. Finished size: 1.57" x 3.07".
Note: the pattern calls for DMC 5270, 5283, 5284, & 5290. The new colors are DMC Light Effects E816, E168, E3852, & E3843.
Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a a circus seal!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Aida, plastic canvas, or perforated paper with DMC floss. Shown with gold, blue & cream beads. Stitch Count: 31x43. Finished size: 2.21" x 3.07"
Note: the pattern calls for DMC 5270, 5284, & 5290. The new colors are DMC Light Effects E816, E3852, & E3843.
Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a baggage tag to take on your trip to Paris and a baggage tag that says "I heart travel" with an airplane!
Model stitched on 14 Ct. Sky Blue Aida with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 34 x 31. Finished size: 2.43" x 2.21". Luggage tags not included.
A cross stitch pattern from Chatelaine Designs featuring scenery from the North Pole - Northern lights and various arctic animals!
The pattern is stitched on the Aida or linen of your choice using DMC floss, Caron Waterlilies Silk threads, Caron Impressions, Dinky Dyes Silk, Dinky Dyes... Read more
Note from the designer - "As the purpose for making samplers evolved over the decades and the centuries, so did its form. This beautiful early 18th century English band sampler retains the shape of her predecessors, but has clearly changed into a form distinctly recognizable as a product of her... Read more
Note from the designer - "This Quaker sampler came from the vicinity of York, England, where a Quaker school existed at the same time as the more famous Ackworth School, not far from there. The Parnell name is still fairly common in the district, and the family was Quaker.
Linen count and finished size: 35-count 18-3/4" x 24"; or 40 count 16-1/2" x 21"
This is a pleasantly quirky, colorful sampler likely stitched in the north of England judging by some of the Scottish influences in the design. A four sided strawberry border surrounds an alphabet and a pious verse above a geometric pattern band. Below this is a scenic register with trees, birds,... Read more
Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Eaton finished her sampler on the 21st of July in 1712. She used bold, primary colors suggestive of Scottish influence. The original sampler was stitched with both silk and fine wool threads on linen using cross, eyelet, rice, queen, herringbone, double... Read more
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
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
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
"Jesus permit thy Gracious name to stand as the first effort of an infant hand. And while her fingers on the canvas move, engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love. With thy dear children, let her have a part and write thy name thyself upon her heart."
Note from the designer: "This finely worked sampler features pastoral scenes above and below a lovely verse about friendship. A four-sided honeysuckle border surrounds large baskets of fruits and flowers, a fenced pasture with seven large lazy sheep and an architectural folly in the background.... Read more
Note from the designer: "The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Soon after Mary and Jesus were visited by the Magi, who had learned that King Herod intended to kill the male infants in that region, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee... Read more
Displaying the traditional color scheme of Scottish samplers, this beautiful and delicately stitched piece also employs a variety of interesting counted thread stitches including queen, doublerunning, four-sided, back, counted satin filling, cross, Algerian eyelet, and cross over one (petit... Read more
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."
Note from the designer: "This densely worked sampler displays exquisite detail and contains many of the most popular needlework motifs of the seventeenth century. The flowers are realistically shaded to achieve a natural look."
Finished size on 35 count linen is 7 1/4" x 25... Read more
Note from the designer: "Samplers worked with black backgrounds are unique to New England, and this one is designed after a late 18th century Massachusetts piece. A portly clergyman is depicted strolling between a fashionable lady under a parasol, and a church or meeting -house; with a frisky... Read more
Model stitched two over two on 28 Ct. Touch of Yellow linen with DMC floss and Mill Hill Beads. Chart comes with tiny blue flower beads and white pearls. Stitch Count: 52W x 52H. Design Size: 4" x 4". Finishing instructions included.
Model stitched over two threads on 28 Ct. Black Evenweave using Classic Coloroworks (or DMC floss 3865, 931, 320, 729, 927, 321). Stitch Count: 112 x 131. Design Size: 8" x 9.5"
Home Is Where The Wreath Is- a new three part series. The first part features the H,M,E letters and the base wreath. Wreath Swap 1 and Wreath Swap 2 will have 6 monthly wreaths each to swap out with your base wreath! Wreath Swap 1 will release in March and Wreath Swap 2 in April.