Alison's Samplers

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

A Dutch Sampler

Last month, January, I purchased a tomato plant at Tagawa's Garden Center. It is in my conservatory, and I put a grow light on it. I now have a few red tomatoes. This helps to get through the month of February in Colorado.

"A Dutch Beauty is the name for this wonderful sampler, made around 1790 by a 13 year old girl from the Low Countries. Only knowing her initials HVZ, we still admire this embroidery on which she succeeded to bring alive 68 creatures with needle and thread. This book contains the complete cross-stitch pattern." Permin of Copenhagen, NCH Breda, Design nr. 15108

It took me at least a year and a half to stitch this wonderful sampler.

Hope all is well,

Alison

John 3:16-17 King James Version (KJV)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Jane Rees Sampler 1869

This is a reproduction sampler that I stitched. Jane Rees 1869, A Bristol Orphan House Sampler. I purchased this pattern from the Scarlet Letter.

Have a great day, Alison.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Ann Rayner Sampler 1839

The First Sampler I stitched is this Ann Rayner Sampler 1839.

This is one of my favorite samplers. I had a friend whose walls were covered with samplers that she had stitched. This sampler, at that time, was the last one that she finished, and it inspired me so much, that I knew I had to learn to cross-stitch antiques samplers.

~Alison

One of my favorite passages:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, hall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deut. 6:4-9 KJV