Samplers Cross Stitch Page 37

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler with an outdoor theme!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct using NPI silks. Stitch count is 127 x 226.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler by Lizze Paine Gross!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Straw from Weeks Dye Works using The Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 263 x 54.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler by Elizabeth Eldredge!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 255 x 66.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler by Cora Morgan in 1878!

Pattern is stitched on 18 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 75 x 105.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler by Aline Sachot in 1921!

Pattern is stitched on 18 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 144 x 109.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler from Charlotte Hatch in 1838!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Vintage Country Mocha using DMC floss. Stitch count is 145 x 73.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler by Charlotte Schmidt in 1914!

Pattern is stitched on 18 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 139 x 127.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a sampler with the phrase "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest"!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Summer Khaki using NPI silks. Stitch count is 153 x 179.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring the phrase "Be as enduring as the tiger, as free as the eagle, as fleet as the deer, as strong as the lion , so as to fulfill the will of your Father in Heaven"!

Pattern is stitched on 18 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 187 x 220.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring the inspirational phrase "In a world of darkness be the light in times of war. Be the peace. Don't hide in the shadows. You were born to shine"!

Pattern is stitched on 20 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 141 x 92.

Cross stitch pattern from SamBrie Stitches Designs featuring a door with a sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 18 ct using DMC floss. Stitch count is 141 x 92.

Cross stitch pattern from Mindful Needle featuring a sampler with lovebirds!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Antique Ivory linen using Classic Colorworks floss. Stitch count is 60 x 75.

Cross stitch pattern from Mindful Needle featuring a lovely blue sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 30 ct Old Salem linen using Kreinik Silk Mori floss. Stitch count is 132 x 132.

Kreinik silk milkpaint #0544E and #0553S are also needed but not listed. Four skeins each.

Cross stitch pattern from Elegant Thread featuring fun floral sampler accessories!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Agave Edinburgh Linen using DMC threads. Stitch count is 123 x 77.

Cross stitch pattern from Elegant Thread featuring fun sampler with a bird!

Pattern is stitched on 35 ct Putty from Weeks Dye Works using DMC threads. Stitch count is 66w x 49h.

Cross stitch pattern from Elegant Thread featuring a sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Cafe Au Lait Newcastle using Au Ver A Soie threads. Also required for Au Ver A Soie option but not listed: Au Ver A Soie 539. Stitch count is 226w x 222h.

Cross stitch pattern from Elegant Thread featuring sampler accessories!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct Flax Edinburgh Linen using Au Ver A Soie threads. Also required for Au Ver A Soie option but not listed: Au Ver A Soie 539. Stitch count is 30 x 30 and 150 x 30.

Cross stitch pattern from From The Heart featuring a lovely sampler! Note from the designer: The original Matilda Rowe 1843 Sampler included an adaptation designed to be a Baby Sampler. You could choose to change the pinks to blue and include the babies name and birthdate. The little sampler can be... Read more about Matilda's Little Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Wishing Thorn featuring a sampler with the alphabet!

Pattern is stitched on 36 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 205 x 261.

Cross stitch pattern from Kathy Barrick featuring Christmas animals in a sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Fragile from Needle and Flax using either DMC or NPI floss. Stitch count is 215 x 242.

Cross stitch pattern from Scarlett House featuring a sampler with a spring theme!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Dolley Madison from Needle and Flax using Classic Colorworks or DMC floss. Stitch count is 91 x 78.

Cross stitch pattern from Shakespeare's Peddler featuring a beautiful sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 28 ct Earth lugana from Fiber on a Whim using DMC and Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 127 x 133.

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives featuring a sampler of a couple in front of a house!

Pattern is stitched on 16 or 32 ct Cappuccino from Weeks Dye Works using DMC floss. Stitch count is 237 x 251.

Cross stitch pattern from Shakespeare's Peddler featuring a fun sampler!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct using DMC or Soie D'Alger and Gloriana silks. Stitch count is 418 x 426.

Cross stitch pattern from Hands Across The Sea Samplers featuring a cute sampler with flowers!

Pattern is stitched on the linen of your choice using Soie 100.3, Soie D'Alger or DMC floss. Stitch count is 155 x 156.

Cross stitch pattern from Tralala featuring a sampler with flowers!

Pattern is stitched on 16 ct fabric of your choice using Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts floss. Stitch count is 97 x 137

Cross stitch pattern from Hands Across The Sea Samplers featuring a fun sampler!

Model stitched on 46 count Parchment by Fiber on a Whim using Au Ver Soie Soie d'Alger silks. Stitch count is 271w x 329h.

28ct linen: Design: 19.36" x 23.50" Fabric: 25.36" x... Read more about Maria Ewin - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Fox And Rabbit Designs featuring a sampler with a vase of flowers!

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Flannel Flower using DMC and Color and Cotton threads. Weeks Dye Works conversion and DMC conversion are provided. Stitch count is 112 x 96.

Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a sheep and a crow. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.

Finished project size: 8.25" x 5.25"

Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a large rooster. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.

Finished project size: 5.25" x 8.25"

Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a sampler design with a hen sitting on her nest. This kit includes 16ct Sea Lily Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.

Finished project size: 6" x 6.25"

Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a beautiful Chaparral alphabet design. This kit includes 18ct Ivory Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.

Finished project size: 6" x 7.75"

Cross stitch kit from Colonial Needle featuring a beautiful springtime Easter alphabet design. This kit includes 18ct Ivory Aida Cloth, Presencia Floss, Tapestry Needle, Black & White Pattern, and Illustrated Basic Cross Stitch Instructions.

Finished project size: 5.625" x 8.25"

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.

About the Sampler: No name or year appears on this beautiful sampler to offer a clue about the maker. It is adorned with numerous Christian motifs and symbols. The sampler is representative of an Italian sampler style, as evidenced by the existence of other similar Italian samplers, done in rows of... Read more about Viva Gesu Viva Maria, A Sampler of Italy - Cross Stitch

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.

Pattern is stitched on 46 count... Read more about Mary Garrett, Claverton School 1854 - Cross Stitch Pattern

About the Sampler: Given the few clues provided, a scattering of initials and a year only, it is impossible to know more about the stitcher of this lovely sampler with its motifs of delicately arching floral stems, oval leafed cartouche, paired birds and potted florals. The motifs themselves are... Read more about AB 1816 Quaker Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Ann Hunt inscribed the town she stitched her sampler in as Nailsea in 1805. Nailsea is a town in Somerset, England. Research does not reveal the existence of a Quaker school there, although at least one other very similar polychrome Quaker medallion sampler has been discovered stitched a year... Read more about Ann Hunt Nailsea 1805 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Lydia C. Mendenhall 1817, Pennsylvania - Cross Stitch

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 about Suir Island (SI) Quaker - Cross Stitch Pattern

No clues have been provided by the stitcher as to her name, year of origin, or place where she stitched her sampler. The only clue as to place might be in the lettering she used itself, giving one an indication it was stitched in Ireland. "A slightly surprising source of lettering which became... Read more about Benezet Alphabet Irish Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

An ancestor of the stitcher placed a typewritten note on the back of the framed sampler, dated August 28, 1997. Thomasina Henrietta Jackson (nee Willis) wrote the following: "This sampler was made by Charlotte Keightley, my great aunt by marriage, circa 1840. Her married name at the time was... Read more about The Two Lands, Circa 1840 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Ligatures and Lettering of Irish Antique - Cross Stitch

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 about Annie Matilda Moss - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Sarah Welch 1764 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Sarah Holcombe Anderson, 1789 - Cross Stitch Pattern

The Antique: Amelia stitched her sampler at the age of seventeen while living at the North Wing, 3 New Orphan House, Ashley Down, Bristol, in 1868. The original sampler's stitched area measures 13.5 inches wide by 15.25 inches high on a cream cotton ground fabric measuring 76 threads to the inch,... Read more about Amelia Fox 1868 Bristol Orphanage Sampler - Pattern