Garden tea is a heartwarming design inspired by a beloved aunt, capturing her deep love for tea and flowers. The design features a delicate tea cup filled with vibrant blooms.
Pattern is stitched on 32 count linen using Cosmo and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 86 x 124. Finished size is 5.38" x 7.75".
Cross stitch pattern from Cherry Hill Stitchery featuring beautiful flowers with the phrase "Freshly picked"!
Model stitched on 32 ct. Raw Natural Belfast linen using DMC, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks thread. Stitch count is 66 x 75.
Cross stitch pattern from Cherry Hill Stitchery featuring beautiful roses with the phrase "Flower Market"!
Model stitched on 32 ct. Raw Natural Belfast linen using DMC, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks thread. Stitch count is 75 x 67.
An addition to the Bouquet Collection of designs, Spice stitch count at 149w x 149h. All full stitches in 12 DMC autumn spice colors. Stitched on 14 ct Cream Aida. Motifs can also be pulled out to use on other stitchy projects!
A warm Christmas bouquet inspired by the colors I envision when sitting at a holiday table with a cup of coffee. All full stitches. Stitched on 14 ct Light Mocha Aida. Project finishes at 149w x 149h stitch count with pletny of motifs that can be pulled to use in other holiday stitching. Charted with 10 DMC colors.
A granny square motif design inspired by the colors of the violet. Final stitch count is 105w x 121h. 41 different motifs. All full stitches. Stitched on 14 ct Light Blue Aida.
"Bless my cozy kitchen, bless my pots and pans, bless my stove that warmly glows, bless each friend that comes and goes." Model stitched on 36 Ct. Flax Edinburgh linen with Gentle Art Sampler Threads. Stitch Count: 123W x 219H. Design Size: 7" x 13"
Model stitched on 36 Ct. White Edinburgh Linen with DMC floss, Gentle Art Sampler threads and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 84W x 71H. Design Size: 5" x 4"
"All Flakes Welcome." Model stitched on 32 Ct. Water Lily Linen with DMC floss, Gentle Art Sampler threads, and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 79W x 71H. Design Size: 5" x 5"
Part 2 of the 12 part My Garden Journal series."Love isn't Love till you give it away." Part 2 in the 12 part My Garden Journal Series. Each of the designs are perfect to stitch alone, but can also be stitched as one large piece on 40 Ct. Lambswool linen. Stitch count as one piece would be... Read more
Part 7 of the 12 part My Garden Journal series."Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love." Model stitched on 32 Ct. Lambswool linen with DMC floss, Gentle Art Sampler threads and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 125W x 74H. Design Size: 8" x 5" Color chart.
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Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring a sampler with flowers and the phrase "O, My love is like the melody. That's sweetly play'd in tune"!
Model stitched using The Gentle Arts thread, two strands over two, on 36 count Cocoa linen by Weeks Dye Works. DMC conversion included. Stitch count: 141W x 339H.
Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring a biscornu of Starry Night!
Model stitched on 36 ct Mystic by Picture This Plus using The Gentle Arts, one strand over two. DMC conversion included. Stitch count 101h x 101w, two sides. Finished size is 5.6 x 5.6
Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring the homes of literary writers Sylvia Plath, T.E. Lawrence and Virgina Woolfe!
Model stitched on 36 ct Legacy by Picture This Plus using The Gentle Arts, one strand over two. DMC conversion included. Stitch count for all designs 67 x 50 stitches. Finished size is 3.72 in wide X 2.78 in high.
Cross Stitch pattern from Cosford Rise Stitchery featuring the homes of literary writers Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens and John Keats!
Model stitched on 36 ct Legacy by Picture This Plus using The Gentle Arts, one strand over two. DMC conversion included. Stitch count for all designs 67 x 50 stitches. Finished size is 3.72 in wide X 2.78 in high.
Cross stitch pattern from Cotton Pixels featuring a lovely geometric lace pattern!
Model stitched on 32ct. Wheat Belfast Linen by Fiber on a Whim using Gloriana Hand-dyed silk. Stitch Count is 89w x 89h stitches. Finished size is 5.5 w x 5.5 h inches approx.
Cross stitch pattern from Cotton Pixels featuring a Christmas ornament with a silent town!
Model stitched on 32ct. Sapphire' Belfast Linen by Fiber on a Whim using DMC GA Simply Wool Chalk'. Stitch count is 144 w x 72 h stitches. Finished size Diameter 3 inches approx.
It's a classic for a reason - there's no place like home! This modern cross stitch design features a cozy little cottage nestled in a valley of wildflowers, with trees flanking its sides and mountains with fluffy clouds in the background. A winding rock path leads up to the door, and the words... Read more
Mary Garrett stitched her fine sampler at Claverton school in 1854 at age fifteen. It is a remarkable piece of needlework, incorporating five different alphabets all stitched meticulously over two on 72 count linen. More history is included on the chart.
Lydia's sampler is an example of a more decorative Quaker marking sampler containing four different alphabets, six dividing bands, and an often seen swan and birds motif, as well as a floral spray. The colors are muted as in the Quaker style, copying those found in nature. Lydia was a talented young... Read more
The initials appearing on the sampler, SI, in two places, may perhaps indicate the school where the sampler was stitched, and not the initials of the stitcher. The Suir Island Quaker School (SI) was a boarding and finishing school for girls established in 1787 in Clonmel in County Tipperary by... Read more
Jane Hornibrook completed her sampler in March of 1806. She painstakingly stitched in cross stitch the tenets of the Catholic Faith over one and two threads of finely woven 52 count linen. The lettering for the large letters leads one to determine this to be of Irish origin, based on the Benezet... Read more
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
Now in a private collection, this sampler was stitched in Lacolle, a southern municipality in Quebec, Canada in 1846 by Emeline Hotchkiss, aged 11. Research reveals an Emeline Hotchkiss was baptized in nearby Laprairie St. Luke's Anglican Church in 1834, around the year our stitcher would have been... Read more
This sampler's appeal was its similarity to Bristol orphanage motifs, bands and alphabets. While clearly not a Bristol school sampler, as it was stitched at Daglingworth School, curiosity leads one to wonder why similar motifs? Daglingworth lies only fifty miles from Bristol, England. It has been... Read more
Several girls named Sarah Welch appear in the historical records born in the year1756, in Devon and Berkshire, England, and so without more information it is hard to say which Sarah stitched this sampler at the age of eight in 1764. History does chronicle what was happening in England at that time:... Read more
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
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
This page from an Antique Pattern Album made in Germany contains common motifs used in Bristol samplers and English day schools. These pattern booklets from France, England and Germany were published widely and used for embellishing samplers. The motifs on this particular page appear on The Amelia... Read more
This beautiful sampler was obtained from the collection of Stephen and Carol Huber. The framed antique contained handwritten notes on the genealogy of Sarah which was written on the back in ink on the sealing paper. It contained the lineage of Sarah Hewes, and the names of her children. Extensive... Read more
This sampler was obtained from the M. Finkel and Daughter antique collectors who describe this sampler in their catalog as follows: "Documented Irish samplers are rare, and this one offers strong visual appeal with excellent color and composition. A fine, large alphabet, little house, pots of... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more
THE GNOMES OF TIME! Each design features 2 heart designs - one regular and one upside down, which are within an Hourglass! Also included are 4 sayings that fit within the heart shapes. Mix and match as you would like. The "FULL/ENTIRE" Hourglass design has been designed to be stitched on... Read more