Mary 395-1869 by Hands Across the Sea Samplers Silk & Ivory yellow and accents of black

yellow and accents of black

The Little Lowery workstand works with the clamp and the base from the workstand

Stitch Count: 320H x 310W

Trish Believes Colour Is The Key To Any Successful Piece Of Embroidery So Has Used Quite Unusual Colour Combinations And Stitched Some Of The Projects In More Than One Colourway To Show How Different The Same Design Can Look When Stitched In Other Shades

Split Rail Scroll frame for Cross stitch

Mary 395-1869 by Hands Across the Sea Samplers Silk & Ivory yellow and accents of blackMarys sampler was done in plain cross stitch with red cotton thread on high count fabric. Most of these samplers were worked only in cross stitch which filled up most of the girls fabric. These samplers might not showcase the most challenging needlework techniques, unless you agree that doing cross stitch on fabric where the common thread count was 70+ threads per inch presented enough of a challenge. The format of many earlier (1860 1870) Bristol