Cross stitch pattern from Homespun Samplar featuring a long sampler filled with animals and the phrase "Bless this child and keep him safe. I am Gerald Yesmyay born March 17 1995 in the town of south Kingstown state of RI. Born to Yoraine and Dennis Yesmyay"!
Pattern is stitched on 30 ct tea colored linen using DMC floss. Stitch count is 85 x 257.
Model stitched over 2 threads on 18 Ct. Dirty Linen using Caron Watercolours, DMC floss, and Mill Hill beads. Stitch count: 199w x 186h. Design Size: 12" x 11"
Also required but not listed are DMC Medicis Wool which are
white, 8102 red (3), 8410 navy (6), 8422 olive, 8725 yellow.
and Rainbow Gallery Threads ND1 and SB1.
Cute design for your country kitchen. Features an alphabet with the word "HEN" in bold letters. Model stitched on 32 Ct. Natural Light using Gentle Art and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count: 59W x 111H. Design Size: 4" x 7"
"1 for sorrow, 2 for mirth, 3 for a wedding, 4 for a birth, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret, not to be told. 8 for heaven and 9 for hell, 10 for the devil's own sel." (NOTE: the word "sel." in the last omen means "select" or "selection".)
Model stitched two over two on 28 Ct. Summer Khaki using Gentle Art Sampler Threads and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch Count: 76W x 120H. Design Size: 6" x 9"
"A tree is known by its fruit" This sweet sampler was stitched over two threads on 36 Ct. Meadow Lark Linen. using Gentle Art Sampler Threads. Stitch count: 67W x 124H. Finished Size: 4" x 7"
Stitched on 28 count Americana Blend Linen with DMC floss and Classic Color Works threads. The stitch count is 103W x 125H. Finished size is 7.36 in wide X 8.93 in high.
Lovely floral sampler stitched on 28 Ct. Country French Chantilly linen with DMC floss. Stitch Count: 61W x 94H. Finished Size is 4.36 in wide X 6.71 in high.
Model stitched two over two on 28 Ct. Glen Ellyn Blend linen using Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts Sampler Threads. Stitch Count: 58w x 105h. Design Size: 4" x 8".
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer...it sings because it has a song." Model stitched on 32 count jobelan using DMC floss. Stitch count: 151x70. Book # 128. Finished size is 9.44 in wide X 4.38 in high.
Model stitched over two on 32 count linen using DMC floss. Stitch count: Sampler - 151H x 70W and the finished size is 9.44" x 4.38"; Birds - 30H x 34W and the finished size is 1.88" x 2.13". Book #129
Stitched on 28 count Little Boy Blue Linen with DMC floss, Gentle Art Sampler Threads, and Weeks Dye Works. The stitch count is 56W x 86H. Finished Size is 4 in wide X 6.14 in high.
Model stitched on 28ct. Antique Tan Linen with Week Dye Works Thread. DMC alternate 3362, and The Gentle Arts Thread alternative Baby Spinach. Stitch count is 62W X 78H.
A reprint of a previously discontinued pattern. Model stitched two over two on 32 Ct. Lambswool using DMC floss. Sampler Stitch Count: 151H x 70W. Finished Size: 9 5/8" x 4 3/8". Summer Foursome Stitch Count: 74H x 72W. Finished Size: 4 5/8" x 4 1/2" Individual Ornaments Stitch Count: 30H x 34W. Finished Size: 1 7/8" x 2 1/8"
Model stitched on 35 Ct. Straw linen by Weeks Dye Works using one strand of Classic Colorworks Belle Soie silk over two threads. Stitch Count: 110W x 138H.
Wedding sampler designed by Sandra Parlow featuring the quote"As long as the sun rises, as long as the stars shine, I'll be yours and you'll be mine".Also a place to put your names and marriage date. Also includes Finished design sizes for the following Aida sizes 14ct 4.25"W x... Read more
"What is this that thou has done? Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field." Model stitched on 36 count Vintage Light Examplar using Needlepoint Inc. and Gloriana threads. Stitch count: 417W x 190H.
Model stitched on 32 count Lambswool linen using DMC, Classic Colorworks and Weeks Dye Works. Stitch count: 115W x 115H. Shown finished in a Family Tree Frame - Style: Michelle, Finish: Fleamarket, Color: Icing, Size: 8 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Model stitched on 32 Ct. fabric of your choice with DMC floss, Needlepoint Inc Silks, Thread Gatherer Silk N Colors and Dinky Dyes Silk, Caron Waterlilies, Gloriana Silk, and Rainbow Gallery Petite Treasure Braid. Stitch Count: 344H x 344W. Finished Size: 22" x 22"
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.
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.
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
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
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