Samplers Cross Stitch Patterns Page 47

Cross stitch pattern from October House Fiber Arts featuring the phrase "Calico pie, the little birds fly down to the calico tree"

The pattern is stitched on 32 ct. Light Khaki linen by Weeks Dye Works using Classic Colorworks, Gentle Arts, and Weeks Dye Works floss (DMC conversion included). Stitch count is 315 x 82 and the finished size is 19.69" x 5.13".

This sampler is a unique and colorful German sampler. It contains picturesque scenes typical of German samplers.

The model was stitched on Tabbycat "Cockleshell" with Weeks Dye Works floss. DMC equivalents are included. The design is stiched in cross stitch over 2. Stitch count: 259 (w) x 252 (h)

This design is exclusive for the Nashville show for 2 months. This is a quick stitch with shades of blue, green, and rust accomplished in cross stitch over 2.

Stitched on Cedar River "Maple Bar" 40 ct. with 100/3 silks. Stitch count: 149 (w) x 202 (h). Finished size is 7 1/2" x 10 1/8".

This colorful sampler will be a delight to stitch. Maria added some bright colors to her sampler with her birth date and date of stitching.

Stitched on Fox and Rabbit "Baked Clay" 40 ct. with 100/3 silks. Stitch count: 155 (w) x 205 (h). Finished size is 7 3/4" x 10 1/4".

Redwork sampler with accessories and finishing instructions included.

Stitched on Fox and Rabbit "Hogbristle" 40 ct. linen with DMC floss. Stitch count: 135 (w) x 206 (h). Finished size is 6 3/4" x 10 1/4".

Charlotte Sweet wrought a very pretty sampler in hues of blues, browns, greens and teal. The trees and basket add to the charm of the flowery border.

The sampler chart includes a very detailed family ancestry. Charlotte's family is mentioned in the "Re-Union of the Sons and Daughters... Read more about Charlotte Sweet - 1837 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Hannah Judge's house with verse are a sweet sentiment for this little girl of 7 years.

"This is my needle work to show when I was young what I could do and by my making you you may see what care my parents took of me"

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct linen using Au Ver A... Read more about Hannah Judge - 1839 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This cute, fast stitch is new to the Willow Samplings line of our designs. It is very easy to frame yourself.

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct linen using Au Ver A Soie Silk threads with DMC conversion. Stitch Count: 200 (w) x 155 (h). Finished size is 10" x 7.75".

This is a primitive stitch added to the Willow Samplings line of designs. It is very colorful and the verse is telling. Ann was 10 years old in 1824 when she stitched her sampler.

"This I have done for you to see what care my parents took of me"

Pattern is stitched on... Read more about Ann Hookham - 1824 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This design is a modern design in the style of Traditional Samplers. It celebrates Spring because that is where Australia is headed next! There are deer, birds, bunnies, butterflies, a dog and cat enjoying the new fruits and flowers of the season.

Sampler Model is stitched on 18 count Bush Scrub fabric by Paddock Lane Designs. Stitch count 160x90.

This design is a modern design in the style of Traditional Samplers. It celebrates Spring because that is where Australia is headed next! There are deer, birds, bunnies, butterflies, a dog and cat enjoying the new fruits and flowers of the season.

The smalls are stitched on 32 count Bush Scrub linen fabric by Paddock Lane Designs. Stitch counts 50x50, 59x39 and 60x70

This vintage inspired red alphabet sampler will be a great addition to your collection.

Stitched on 18 count fabric using DMC threads. Stitch count is 117 x 56. Finished size is 3.1 x 6.5 inches

"Live Simply that Others May Simply Live."

A sampler in the style of the Quaker samplers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Stitched with a single color of dark floss (Gentle Arts and Vikki Clayton Hand Dyed Fibers (not available) Stitch Count: 108W x 170H.

A stunning sampler that would make a fabulous wedding gift - "Love is Patient, Love is Kind. It does not envy, it does not boast...."

The sampler can be worked in two thread colors of your choice. The stitch count is 260W x 434H and uses all full stitches so is suitable for linen, evenweave, or aida.

A nostalgic look back to a simpler place and time. This quaint sampler shows a Swiss Shepherd and his family standing in their band-sampler garden in the shadow of the alphabet mountains. The stitch count is 194W x 245H. Choose your favorite fabric and one color of any thread (you will need 63 yards).

Model stitched two over two on 32 Ct. Ivory Lugana using Gloriana Silk Floss. The sampler can be worked in two thread colors of your choice. Stitch Count: 125 x 125. Design Size: 8" x 8"

Model stitched on 32 ct. linen using Gloriana Silks. Stitch count: 125w x 125h and the finished size is 7.81" x 7.81".

This design takes its inspiration from the beautiful patchwork quilts that are a tradition in so many countries. It is charted for six colours but, just as patchworks were made from scraps of fabric left over from other projects, this design would be a wonderful way to use up threads you have... Read more about Flower Patch - Cross Stitch Pattern

This Marjorie Massey designs features 2 patterns - A Spring Quaker Sampler with a big rabbit in the center and a Easter design with a rabbit and eggs.

Pattern is stitched on 35 ct or 32 ct Off White linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 125 x 129. Instructions are in French. Finished size is 7.8" x 8" on 32 count.

This pattern features two designs - a small sampler worked in red, and two prairie girls by a home with "Home Sweet Home". Instructions in French.
Model can be stitched on 35 ct. or 32 ct. tea colored linen using DMC thread. Stitch count is 85 x 85.

This Marjorie Massey pattern comes with two designs - a Prairie Girl Sampler and a small pincushion that says "With my Needles & Thread." Instructions are in French.

Pattern is stitched on 35 or 32 ct tea dyed linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 106 x 259.

The model was stitched on 30 count Old Salem Linen by The Primitive Hare using Gentle Arts Sampler Thread. The stitch count is 136 x 193. The recommended fabric allows for a 2 inch border. Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring the phrase "My soul is fed with needle and thread"!

The model was stitched on 40 count Old Massachusetts Linen by The Primitive Hare using DMC thread. The stitch count is 167 x 166. Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring a gorgeous home!

Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring good sentiments with needles and threads. Six patterns included!

Patterns are stitched on 40 count or 30 count Primitive Hare fabric using DMC, Gentle Arts, Weeks Dye works, and Classic Colorworks threads. "Home is Where My... Read more about The Cross Stitcher's World - 6 Cross Stitch Patterns

A Marjorie Massey pattern featuring a festive chart with multiple options to choose from! Choose from French and English, as well as four center medallions. Perfect for Christmas!

Pattern is stitched on 35 or 32 ct fabric using DMC threads. Stitch count is 126 x 196.

A Marjorie Massey pattern featuring a prairie-themed sampler with wildlife, numbers and alphabet.

Pattern is stitched on 35 or 32 ct Linen using DMC threads. Stitch count is 113 x 225.

A Marjorie Massey pattern featuring a collage of florals, wildlife, and alphabets.

Pattern is stitched on 35 or 32 ct Linen using DMC threads. Stitch count is 189 x 181. Finished size is 11.8" x 11.3" on 32 count.

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

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

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 about Bristol Pattern Page - Cross Stitch Pattern

Inspired by a Bristol Orphanage Sampler, Amelia Fox 1868

Pattern is stitched on 46 ct linen using Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silk. Stitch counts is 121 wide x 135 high. Finished size is 5.26 x 5.87 inches.

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 about Sarah A. Hewes 1826 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Mary Wallace 1847 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Ireland: Elizabeth Martin, circa 1789, a Mountmellick Irish Quaker Sampler Guernsey: Julia Rachel De La Mare, 1849, A Guernsey, Channel Island Sampler
Wales: Sarah Williams, Holyhead, Wales 1864 Scotland: Jean Donaldson, 1826, a Scottish Sampler and Anne Phillip, Edinburgh 1818
... Read more about British Isles Band Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

Catharine Shenaman, Cumru Township, c. 1840 - A Berks County, Pennsylvania Sampler

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. linen with NPI silk floss. The stitch count is 274 x 234 and the finished size is 13.7" x 11.7".

When stitching with Au Ver A Soie silk floss, you will also need 705, 661, and 607.

Caroline Branch, 1831, a Norfolk Sampler

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct. Dirty Teacup by Needle and Flax with 100/3 silks by Au Ver a Soie. The stitch count is 145 x 173 and the finished size is 7.25" x 8.65".