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
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 stitch,... Read more
Note from the designer - "This picture was originally designed to be used as a cushion or footstool cover, or perhaps as a decorative vignette inserted into the top of a wooden box for storing precious objects. Executed entirely in cross stitch, its most prominent characters are a large squirrel... Read more
Note from the designer - "This finely stitched German sampler begins with a single row of alphabets above an immensely intricate collection of symbolic cross stitched motifs, including battling angels, the figure of Justice with her scales, the spies of Canaan, the crucifixion, Adam and Eve... Read more
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
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
Note from the designer - "This beautiful. petite, energetic sampler expressed three fine verses and, at the end, one of the truest "signatures" I've ever read on a piece of needlework:
By this ingenous Maids
may see what by the
needl wrought
may be
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: "A beautiful meandering four-sided floral border in an unusually rich color palette surrounds this traditional Scottish sampler, also featuring a beautiful arcaded floral band at the top and a substantial mansion house in the lower register. Trees, tulips and flying birds... Read more
Note from the designer: "This Scottish sampler is a riot of brilliant color and intricate motifs, from the Scotsman in his kilt playing a traditional dulcimer (which looks like a butter churn) in the upper left, to an elaborate mansion house fronted by a three dimensional turkeywork lawn in the... Read more
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
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 321, 946, 155, 333, 336, 503, 989, 3345, 732, 3821, 677, 3820, 945, 352, 3865, 3042, 3835, 154, 155, 762, 437, 435, 434, 902, 3753, 3807, 310). Also required, but not listed above 1343,... Read more
Model stitched over 2 threads on 35 Ct. Beige linen with DMC, Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 313W x 212H. Finished Size: 17 3/4" x 12 1/4".
Model stitched over 2 threads on 35 Ct. Beige linen with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count: 198W x 127H. Finished size: 11 1/4" x 7 1/4".
This is a reproduction of an antique European sampler, circa 1790. Model stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. Beige linen with Weeks Dye Works floss, Gentle Art Sampler threads and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 326W x 186H. Finished size: 16 1/4" x 9 1/4".
"A Yuletide Welcome to Thee." Model stitched on 36 Ct. Vintage Buttercream by Lakeside Linens with Gentle Art Sampler threads and Needlepoint Inc Silks. Stitch Count: 333W x 172H.
Stitch Count: 292W x 388H. Model stitched on 40 ct Autumn Gold from Lakeside linen using Gloriana's, Dinky Dyes and Classic Colorworks silks. Shown on an Ackfeld Manufacturing hanger.
Model stitched on 32 Ct. Beige linen by Weeks Dye Works with Gentle Art Sampler threads Simply Wool. Stitch Count: 125x115. Design Size: 8" x 7".
Also required, but not listed above, Simply Wool Thread - Claret.
"I myself am made entirely of flaws stitched together with good intentions." Model stitched on 36 Ct. Beige Linen with Needlepoint Silks. The design is worked over 2 threads and also over 1 thread for the girl's face. Stitch Count: 112W x 110H
Chart recommends 32 count linen and DMC floss, but you can stitch on any fabric of your choice! Stitch count is 630 x 390. Fabric size needed 45 inches x 31 inches. Finished size is 39.38 in wide X 24.38 in high.
Model stitched on 36 Ct. Wren by Picture this Plus using one strand over two linen threads. Stitched with Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Art Sampler threads. Stitch Count: 113W x 143H
Model stitched over two threads on 36 Ct. Chocolate Milk linen using Gentle Art Sampler threads, Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch Count: 150W x 98H
Model stitched over two on 32 Ct. Cream Belfast linen using Gentle Arts threads. Stitch Count for Ornament: 94 x 57. Finished Size: 6" x 4". Stitch Count for Pin keep: 123 x 97. Finished Size: 8" x 6".
Model stitched over two on 36 Ct Stars Hollow Blend by R&R Reproductions using Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Art threads. Stitch count 150x81.
Model stitched over two on 32 Ct. Parchment Linen by Weeks Dye Works using DMC floss. Stitch count 79h x 74w.
Additional supplies needed: Backing fabric (cotton) approximate size 9"x7", small piece of cardboard for the bottom, cord or ribbon for bow, and fiber-fill for stuffing.
Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Raw Natural linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count 115x53. Finished size of drum: 4 1/2" x 3 1/2". Finishing instructions included.
Model stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Vintage Sand Dune by Lakeside Linens with Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Deep Orange with red (not listed), Gloriana Silk, and DMC threads. Stitch Count: 88 x 58
Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Gray linen by Weeks Dye Works with DMC floss, Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch Count: 76W x 79H. Finishing instructions included.
"the Bee. The industrious bee extracts from every flower it's fragrant sweets, and mild balsamic power. Learn thence, with greatest care and nicest skill, to take the good, and to reject the ill. By her example taught, enrich they mind, improve kind nature's gift be sense refined. Be thou the... Read more
Model stitched over two on 32 Ct. Raw Natural Belfast Linen using Gentle Arts threads. Stitch Count for Front: 50x76. Design Size: 3" x 5". Stitch Count for Back: 53x78. Design Size; 3" x 5".
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