Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers brings us a collection of biblically inspired samplers.
Worked in Cross Stitches, each is coded for DMC floss, as well as Needlepoint Silks.
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Sergei
Here is a plump redbird tucked amidst a festive alphabet and pretty quilt-inspired motifs. Companioning Boris and Olga -- two cats with extra personality!
Sergei finishes approx 5 x 5 and is offered as a chart. Just darling!
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Turkey Love
New from Plum Street comes this charming little primitive piece for Thanksgiving. Dated 1621 for the year the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, your 90 x 89 stitch count piece can turn out small or larger -- depending on your fabric choices.
Stitched in DMC floss or silks, the colors are rich, the acorns are plump and the turkeys are skinny! Not sure you'd want to eat them this year! Sweet little piece, offered in chart format.
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Favorite Font Sampler
Paulette has outdone herself with this charming and HUGE Noah's Ark piece! Offered in chart format, coded for either 36 different colors of silk or DMC floss, it measures a whopping 453 x 315 stitches... so on 32ct, it finishes approx 28 x 20. All the motifs are whimsical and stylized... the clouds are billow-y, the raindrops huge! The trees are neat, the animals scattered everywhere... so much to see... and stitch! The ark looks like an inlaid wooden masterpiece, and there are even hearts in the roof shingles.
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The Flood
Paulette has outdone herself with this charming and HUGE Noah's Ark piece! Offered in chart format, coded for either 36 different colors of silk or DMC floss, it measures a whopping 453 x 315 stitches... so on 32ct, it finishes approx 28 x 20. All the motifs are whimsical and stylized... the clouds are billow-y, the raindrops huge! The trees are neat, the animals scattered everywhere... so much to see... and stitch! The ark looks like an inlaid wooden masterpiece, and there are even hearts in the roof shingles.
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Hallow Eden
This is a interesting adaptation! You can stitch Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden -- complete with leaves and pumpkins for modesty... BUT you can also stitch Adam and Eve at Halloween time! There is a second chart in here that changes the pumpkins to Jack-o-lanterns, and adds a black cat down by the tree trunk, instead of the acorn.
Not sure I would have thought of these two stories together... but here it is! Stitched in Crescents or DMC, stitch count of 100 square.
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Hare's Autumn and Winter
2 More Mama Hares outings with kids in tow! Something about those skinny rabbits, the flat feet and the ears that stretch into the sky, these each
finish approx 5 x 5 on a 32ct... no special stitches or anything... just lonnnng on the charm -- like those ears!
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Boris
Mr Boris is Ms Olga's festive friend!!!!! He's the dog, she's the cat, this pair is just the best! He doesn't look any happier about standing
here for us than she does, maybe because his alphabet is all messy up there??? We have Olga stitched over one thread as a shop model, and this
little guy is next!
Charted for either DMC or Crescent Colours hand-dyeds, go ahead... Make His Day... I bet he still won't smile! Offered as a
chart, stitch count is 110 square.
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Olga
Oh my gosh, isn't this the cutest little cat? Stripes and stars, even her pumpkins and flowers have attitude! Approx 100 x 100 stitches, she is stitched in Crescent Colours hand dyed flosses or DMC.
Stitch her beneath her sky of alphabet letters, or leave them off... this will be charming either way! Offered as a chart.
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Hares' Christmas
Oh, isn't this cute? Skinny, skinny, skinny! Plum Street Samplers has a companion 'Hare Holiday' piece to Halloween. This one features Mom driving the Mini-Van!
Stitched with either DMC or Sampler Threads, this finishes approx 5 x 8 on 32ct. A slightly different twist to your Christmas Decor! Offered as the chart.
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Hares' Halloween
A cute little wisp of a design from Plum Street Samplers... the skinny bunnies are all out for Trick or Treat! Check out the little angel riding on the witch's broom!!! A pumpkin and ballerina -- with their bat balloons -- round out the parade!
Offered as a small chart, it finishes approx 5 x 6-1/2 on 28ct. Companion patterns are Spring and Summer Hares' (not on our site yet) and an upcoming Christmas design!
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Halloween Hornbook Sampler
This is one of three new releases by Plum Street Samplers! A small medley of Quaker-inspired designs, I just love all the peacocks and things perched on them!!! Pretty autumn colors, the pumpkins are darling up there in the top row!
Offered as a chart with a stitch count of 121 x 140, stitched with Belle Soie Hand-dyed silks... gotta have this one!
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Garden of Eerie!
Gosh, this is cute! It's a HALLOWEEN Adam and Eve!!!!! Some fun stitches in it's 176 x 161 stitch count, and dreary, but totally intense colors of silks!
Just a really fun piece to add to your collection! (Maybe if you have a friend with the right sense of humor, and she's getting married on Halloween... you could do this as a shower gift!)
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Paradise Lost
For all you Adam and Eve/Garden of Eden Sampler-lovers... this is awesome! The trees, the peacocks, all the little animals and details everywhere... just awesome!
Stitch count of a whopping 417 x 184 (that's 12 x 26 on 32ct!!!), lots of 'movement' in all the charming motifs! Offered as a chart.
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Still Waters
Plum Street Samplers has some lovely new designs... I liked 7 of them... Still Waters is just one! A peaceful, pastoral scene, The Lord is My Shepherd verse is from Psalm 23. Finishing approx 10 x 10 on 36ct linen, the motifs scattered throughout this piece are whimsical and cheery. There are a few of them that are stitched over one thread, and predominant colors for the entire piece are greens, golds, and taupes.
Charted for DMC floss, you could find some pretty overdyeds, and actually, I think you could even split this piece into three separate ones, if you like! Make sure to see the rest of the Plum Street things... good designs! Offered as a chart.
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Give, Gather, Gobble
A trio of matching designs, each of these if offered as an individual chart, each finishes approx 8 x 8 on 32ct linen, and the trio shares the same 5 colors of browns, green grays, and rosewood! Reminding me of stenciled designs from 200 years ago, these are perfect for a dining room
or family room.
Even though they all share the same colors, 975, 3021, 3051, 3828 and 3858... each looks different from the other... but they go together so beautifully. You might even have some overdyeds you'll want to
add. Simple cross stitches, they're a 'quick-stitch!'
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Fruit of the Spirit
I love the colors in this, the charming little houses, and the fruit growing from all the vines!!! 'The Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy and Peace.'
Offered as a chart, this finishes approx 6-1/2 x 9 on 32ct.
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Fishes and Bait
'Fishes and Bait, fishes and bait, when a woman marries, then trouble's her fate!' Well... maybe not a wedding sampler... but people DO ask for divorce samplers once in a while!!! So... maybe you have a special friend who might need this to bring a smile back to her face!
It's cute, and actually quite historic in the world of antique samplers! Offered as the chart, finishes approx 8-1/2 x 9 on 32ct.
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Jonah -- Stories to Live By
Jonah oh Jonah -- from God you did hide. He sent a great fish to swallow your pride. This is my Sunday School Lesson -- Hannah Whitman 1835, aged 9.'
Offered as the chart, this finishes approx 6 x 11 on 32ct, and is coded for Crescent Colours overdyed flosses as well as DMC. Very traditional in feel... it needs to be tucked into your stitched sampler collection!!!
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