Samplers Cross Stitch Page 18

"A soft wind blows through the Spanish moss that hangs from the live oak trees. The trees that line the long road home to distant memories of a fine old house with columns tall and porches all around. Where the sweet scent of magnolia blooms, in the spring abound. A lady fair in a flowery gown,... Read more about A Time Forever Gone - Cross Stitch Pattern

"Peace on Earth, Good will to all."

Pattern is stitched on 40 ct Misty Rain from Lakeside Linens using Belle Soie or DMC floss with NPI and Rainbow Gallery. Stitch count is 159 x 227.

Also required but not listed W61, W114, W112 and CR02.

Cross stitch pattern from Heart in Hand Needleart featuring the alphabet and a hummingbird!

Model stitched on 32 ct Antique Lace linen using Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count is 60w x 67h. Approx. size is 3.75" x 4.2".

Cross stitch pattern from Artmishka featuring beautiful Christmas trees!

Model stitched on the Aida of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is 273w x 95h. Designed by Anna Gutova.

Cross stitch pattern from Artmishka featuring an adorable Easter sampler filled with chicks!

Model stitched on 32ct murano evenweave from Zweigart on the color of your choice using DMC floss. Stitch count is approximately 230w x 158h. Designed by Anna Gutova.

This pattern from By The Bay Needleart features houses on the shore with ships in the background.

The model was stitched on 16 Ct. Star Sapphire Aida with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 307x87. Finished size: 19.19" x 5.44".

Cross stitch pattern from Crocette A Gogo featuring a fun mix of all things Christmas!

Model stitched on 32ct Natural Belfast Linen using DMC thread. Stitch count: 193 X 295.

Cross stitch pattern from Calico Confectionery featuring a love sampler in your favorite red floss as a sampler or as small stitcheries!

Model stitched on 16 or 32 ct French Country mocha Linen using DMC thread. Stitch Count: 117w x 204h.

Cross Stitch pattern from The Primitive Hare featuring a Christmas night and the phrase "Merry Christmas London. God bless us everyone."

Model is stitched on 30ct Old Salem Linen using DMC and Gentle Arts thread. Stitch count: 179 x 201.

Model stitched on the color of your choice 16 ct. Zweigart linen using Soie d'Alger thread Soie Surfine thread. Stitch count is 213 x 213.

Note: Needed Soie 4135 required but not listed.

Reproduction sampler by Reflets De Soie featuring a beautiful floral design!

Model stitched on 16ct linen from Zweigart using Soie d'Alger thread (with DMC conversion 224, 803, 932, 317, 597, 734, 733, 728, 725, 3824, 760, 221, 894, 3713, 819, 522, 3053, 3363, 936, 729, 524, 371, 612, 762, 739, 437, 436, 3721, 902, 453, 3042) Stitch count is 357w x 351h.

This cross stitch pattern is worked in one color and features a lacy border, two swans at the top and a vase with flowers in the center.

Pattern is stitched on 36ct Ancient Blue Linen using Au Ver a Soie Soie de Paris, or Soie d'Alger thread (listed). Stitch count: 257 x 349. Finished size is 14.3" x 19.4".

This design features the text "Vivez longtemps soyez heureux Bien chers Parents ce sont mes voeux." A wish from a child to her parents, for long and happy lives. They are surrounded by birds and flowers, while shepherding lambs in the French countryside.

Stitch count is 339 x 402.

This design from Reflets de Soie features the months listed in French along with different flowers.

Model stitched on 40 ct. Zweigart linen using Soie Gloriana thread. DMC alternatives listed. Stitch count is 279 x 367. Finished size is 14" x 18.35".

Cross stitch pattern from Reflects De Soie featuring an incredible French sampler reproduction!

Pattern is stitched on 16 ct Aida using either Soie D'Alger or DMC floss. Stitch count is 381 x 337. Finished size is 23.8" x 21" on 16/32 count.

This sampler from Rosewood Manor features the following saying - "What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth and are we not stars in the flowers of heaven." The booklet also... Read more about Cobham House Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

A Rovaris design featuring French Christmas sampler with the alphabet!

Pattern is stitched on 32 ct Sand linen using Weeks Dye Works, Valdani, and DMC floss. Stitch count is 197 x 148.

Shannon Christine Design featuring bees, beehives and sayings such as "Always bee humble", "Create lots of buzzz" and "Stick with your honey."

Pattern is stitched on 14 ct. Aida of your choice using DMC thread. Stitch count is 90 x 115.

A cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine Designs with a bluebird, blue flowers, and blue motifs.

Model stitched on 14 ct fabric of your choice using DMC floss and Mill Hill beads. Stitch count is 143 x 124. Finished size is 10.21" x 8.86".

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 about Elizabeth Eyles 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

A derivative 17th-century canvas work picture. The Adam and Eve legend was a more popular theme on samplers after the early eighteenth century so this example is quite unusual. The pair are not often seen on earlier needleworks, even though most illustrated bibles of the sixteenth and seventeenth... Read more about And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern

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... Read more about A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

This Irish Quaker sampler features an alphabet at the tope, verse, bands, and flowers. The verse reads "Great Almighty God above plant in my heart a fund of love, that I my mercies may adore and bless and praise thee evermore."

Model is stitched on 40 ct linen using either cotton... Read more about Dorothy Walpole 1774 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "A sophisticated painterly use of perspective distinguishes this pictorial English sampler. An idealized rural scene with a thatched cottage nestled in a fertile valley, with white misted hills rising in the distance, also features a windmill, a flock of sheep,... Read more about Ann Brockbank 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - This is the most symmetrical, balanced, counted thread sampler that we have ever charted from. It is also one of the most satisfying, challenging, and beautiful samplers in the world. Originally worked on a fine wool ground, the colors of our reproduction have been matched... Read more about Dorcas Haynes 1720 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This is a pleasantly quirky, colorful sampler likely stitched in the north of England judging by some of the Scottish influences in the design. A four sided strawberry border surrounds an alphabet and a pious verse above a geometric pattern band. Below this is a scenic register with trees, birds,... Read more about Elizabeth Cheetham 1824 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "This band sampler was designed after a piece in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, most remarkable for the colorful, solidly filled geometric and floral sections. It also features double running stitch sections found on Italian embroideries of the sixteenth and... Read more about Elizabeth Pain 1667 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer: "Our own original design created in collaboration with Terry Meinke, draws upon the needlework traditions of two centuries, in both England and America. The idyllic landscape and more naturalistic figures (as opposed to the blocky shapes of later figures on American... Read more about Fishing Lady - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Grazing Sheep circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Helen Vertue 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern

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 about Joanna Warren 1655 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring a snowman in winter and the word "January"!

Model stitched on 28 ct. raw natural cashel linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

Cross stitch pattern from Sugar Stitches featuring jack-o-lantern pumpkins decorated with sunflowers for autumn!

Model stitched on 28 count Raw Natural Cashel Linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 117 x 111.

This collection by Teresa Kogut includes 9 different designs! They all feature lovely images of homes, flowers, trees, and pets.

"This Small Sampler" model stitched 1 over 2 on 56 count Little Bunny by XJuDesigns, using DMC and Classic Colorworks threads. Stitch count: 148w x... Read more about Love Lives Here - 9 Designs - Cross Stitch Pattern

This collection by Teresa Kogut has 3 different designs! Each design features a different gathering of flora and fauna, and uses the same color threads and symbols. "ABC 123" and "Sally Emerson" do not use DMC 435, 611, 822, and 3781.

"ABC 123" model stitched on 2... Read more about Gather - 3 Designs - Cross Stitch Pattern

Sampler design from Teresa Kogut featuring a red house, man, woman, angel and lots of strawberries!

The model was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. with DMC floss and Weeks Dye Works floss. Stitch Count 213x152. Finished size: 10 5/8" x 7 5/8"

Cross stitch pattern from Twin Peak Primitives featuring quilts and "Contentment is not getting what we want but being satisfied with what we have."

Model stitched over 2 threads on 32 Ct. Smokey Blue linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 219x269

"Stitch by stitch row by row I'm gonna make my sampler grow. All it takes is a needle 'n' threads, Stitch it up in purple 'n' red." Tempting Tangles filled their sampler with all the goodies they love to use when creating their needlework, especially cross stitch. Have fun!!

Model stitched on 32 ct Antique White linen using DMC or Dinky Dyes threads. Stitch count is 190 x 164.

The model was stitched over one thread on 32 Ct. Meadow Rue from Lakeside Linens with The Gentle Art Sampler threads. DMC conversions are provided. Stitch Count: 131W x 204H. Finished size: 8.18" x 12.75"

These two samplers were inspired by Ackworth School, one of the most famous Quaker schools, located in Yorkshire in northern England. The package contains charts for BOTH samplers I and II.

The models were stitched entirely in cross stitch with Classic Colorworks floss on 32 count Maple... Read more about Quaker Samplings - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Atelier Soed Idee featuring a number of small embroidery projects ("Smalls"), inspired by the Randjes and embroidered them all in her favorite color red . Such as a pindrum, biscornu, mattress cushion, needle roller, etc. Finished with a beautiful French General... Read more about Simone's Smalls - Cross Stitch Pattern

Model stitched on 14 ct. Perforated paper using Weeks Dye Works thread, stitch count is 67 x 90.

Note from the designer - "In 1779, the Quaker Friends School at Ackworth, Yorkshire, was established for the purpose of educating young people of both sexes, and instilling the values of their Society; equality, simplicity, peace. Girls received nearly the same instruction as boys. Out of this... Read more about M Quertier 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Cross stitch pattern from Cute Embroidery By Kate featuring a lighthouse!

Model stitched on 14ct sky blue aida using DMC floss. Stitch count is : 76 x 92. Finished size is 5.43 x 6.57 inches.

Model stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. Light Examplar with DMC floss (conversions provided for AVAS silk). Stitch Count: 281W x 380H. Finished size: 15.61" x 21.11".

A reprint of a previously discontinued pattern. All models stitched over two threads on 32 Ct Sage Jobelan using DMC floss. Maximum Stitch count 185x82. Finished size is 11.56 in wide X 5.13 in high.

Model stitched on 29 Ct. linen two over two using DMC floss. Stitch count: 96W x 674H. Finished size: 44 2/3" x 6 3/8"

Cross stitch pattern from Bent Creek featuring a sampler with the alphabet.

Model stitched over two threads on 28ct Lambswool linen using Weeks Dye Works and The Gentle Arts threads. The stitch count is 80 x 118.