Designer's Note: In 2019, while visiting my paternal grandparents in Canada, my grandfather shared with me a lifelong project of his - tracing back our family tree! I learned from my grandfather that many generations ago, my Irish and Scottish ancestors immigrated to Canada. This pattern was... Read more
Cross stitch pattern from Stitching With The Housewives featuring birds and flowers on the scale in this May themed weigh in!!
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. Tea Dyed Monaco fabric with Classic Colorworks floss, DMC conversions listed. Stitch count is 84 x 98. Finished size: 6" x 7".
Cross stitch pattern from Stitching With The Housewives featuring two bunnies and the word "Rabbits"!!
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 28 Ct. White Monaco fabric with Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch count is 175 x 41. Finished size: 12.5" x 3".
This is a celebration of the unique flora and fauna of Australia! Bring a little bit of Aussie flavor into your home with your stitching.
The model is stitched on 40 count linen. Stitch count is 101 wide x 80 high. The model is backed with "Polar Ice" velveteen and trimmed with... Read more
Cross Stitch pattern from Thistles featuring bird congregating around a birdhouse condo!
Pattern is stitched on 32 count Cauldron by Picture this Plus using The Gentle Arts, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count is 118 x 104.
Mystery Cross Stitch pattern from Thistles contains 6 mini books!
Pattern is stitched 1 over 2 on 36 count linen using Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count: 6 times 62 x 66. Charts contain french knots and backstitching.
Hello Spring - A festive book from Teresa Kogut with 8 new designs!
Cottage Bouquet: stitched on 18 count Vintage Mocha using DMC, Classic Colorworks, and Weeks Dye Works threads. Stitch count is 199 x 198. Finished Size is 11.06 in wide X 11 in high.
Cottage House: stitched on 36 count... Read more
Sampler design from Teresa Kogut featuring the phrase "Remembrance is the sweetest flower of all this world's perfuming. Memory guards it sun and shower. Love keeps it blooming"!
Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Legacy by Picture This Plus using Classic Colorworks and DMC threads. Stitch Count 173 x 193.
The final installment in the Dance Series (Reindeer Dance, Bunny Hop & Squirrel Frolic), Butterfly Dance was stitched on #32 Wexford from Silkweaver in the color Deep Caribbean. The following Weeks Dye Works threads were used: Amethyst, Begonia, Buttercup, Emerald, Emma's Pink, Merlin, Monkey Grass & Purple Majesty. DMC & Sullivans thread substitutes are given. Stitch count: 57 W x 57 H
This darling biscornu is based on a quilt square. It was worked on #32 Antique White Lugana using two colors of Sullivan's threads: #45162 & #45470. Stitch count: 64 W x 64 H
This elegant Quaker heart makes a lovely Valentine's Day, Wedding or Anniversary gift. Choose a small alphabet to personalize the design with names, initials and dates. It was worked on 35 ct Weeks Dye Works Kirs Bon Bon. Don't shy away from the dark fabric - use a white cloth on your lap to make... Read more
Elsie Glennie Watt is a reproduction of a colorful late 19th century genealogy sampler stitched on Zweigart 40 ct Mushroom/Light Mocha. I love the rainbow of colors that Elsie used in stitching her sampler that is perfect for a springtime stitch! And the border - whether roses or strawberries, what... Read more
This is the latest in what I refer to as my "repeating motif" series. The same motif is stitched over and over, but, with a planned placement of colors within those motifs, an image of cherry blossom trees on a spring day emerges.
Model stitched 1 over 2 on 32 count white Jobelan using 7 Gentle Arts threads. Stitch count: 96 x 64
A three-dimensional cross stitch flower - how fun! I called this five-petal flower a wild rose, because of a sweet memory of a time spent with these flowers in the midwest. But, truly, it can be any five-petal flower, especially keeping in mind that you can change the color.
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.
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
I love Roses and you can find them scattered throughout this chart. I sure did enjoy designing and stitching this one!
Model was stitched on 32ct "Sand Dollar" laguna linen from Be Stitch Me using floss from Colour and Cotton, Weeks Dye Works, Cottage Garden Threads, Classic Colorworks threads, and The Gentle Art. Stitch count is 190 x 233.