17 cent.
18 cent.
19 cent.
20 cent. New: Gallery
We share our homes with our samplers. My customers allowed us a glance at their beautiful sampler walls. Thank you so much. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Elvira Farr has had much fun on holiday, amongst others she finished "Johanna Schramm 1920".
Karen Bugg's Mette is back from the framers. It's a great Vierlanden corner, isn't it?
A perfect place for "M. Geel 1880" and "MW 1903": Angelika Röhringer's new kitchen. Karen Bugg just finished her summer project - six fast stitches in red. Super!
Mijna from the Netherlands is very creative on "PAPA". Karen Bugg's "Antonie" is finished... stitched on 32 ct Jobelan 1 over 1. I really love it!
Donna Lemos finished MAW, she is onto #4 of her summer project - Antonie. We found each other on Facebook: Mireille Martini finished "DS 1842" a long time ago, soon it will be framed.
A great start into a new week: Donna Lemos sent pictures of her summer project - "Ida Anker", "Louise Ziegler", "MAW" on a piece of fabric.
Karen Bugg chose perfect reds from HDF for her "Louise Ziegler 1858" and "Ida Anker 1872"!
The Vierlanden sampler "KS 1794" is finished now! Hilde Oberer from Braunlage worked it on 40ct linen with silk from Soie d'Alger. Very, very lovely in red!!!
Here is Donna Lemos' summer project on Lakeside 40 ct vintage bisque. She is using HDF reds and these are the samplers she wants to use.. Angelika Überrück from Unna has a big project as well - Metta. Great!!!
Karen Bugg will receive lots of positive comments about her "Mette Putfarckens", too!
I got real mail, not electronic one, by Doris Niek from Berlin. She is currently working on "Hedwig Handlechner 1926". Dijn Duijs is busy stitching her Cherry Brandy cloth - in all kinds of red and terra.
I got nice email on Whit Monday: "ANLT 1831" worked by Ulrike Grommisch and "Johanna Schramm 1920" stitched by Hilde Oberer.
Elvira Farr's elephant has recovered. It has four legs.
I'm sure Bhooma Aravamudan will receive lots of positive comments about her "Mette Putfarckens".
Hilde Oberer from Braunlage has had her "SM 1678" framed and sent me over a picture! Great! Whether Elisabeth Aberra Guebrou from Clermont-Ferrand will still work her name in the wreath?
Mr. Fehr from Leverkusen sent me the amazing red Metta of his wife Helga. Papa worked by Jo Luijten arrived the next day.
I love Sundays. Elisabeth Knaeble sent me her completed beauties: Antonie Buzzi and M. Geel.
Jamie Quiroga from Spring, Texas stitched Daisy 1899 on 40ct Antique white Graziano using Hand Dyed Fibers color Gandy Dancer #1111. Dawn Lombard from Rochefort, France worked Edward 1874 with one thread of floss over one linen thread using 32 count Belfast vintage linen, colour Country Mocha and Vikki Claytons' hand-dyed silk OMG 1149. Her finished version measures 33cm x 42cm - nearly as small as the original sampler.
Christel Ross found the pug sampler amusing. Monika Asam from Munich sent me her "debut sampler". Her Jenny is marvellous.
Angelika Roehringer from Ziegra will finish "WCM 1820" soon. Two weeks later, it's done!
Here are some reproductions worked by Rosemarie Loeschenkohl last year. She modified the Ackworth sampler. The animals are colourfully designed.
Donna Lemos took a week off from "Mette" and worked a cute Vierlanden sampler. She used 40 ct
ricamo and HDF. I like the colours. The sampler from Vierlanden region is part of the gorgeous collection of the German Sampler Museum, Celle and was published in the current magazine SAMPLER & ANTIQUE NEEDLEWORK, Vol. 58.
They're great, aren't they! My friend Margit Ortmann from Berlin sent a picture of her "Eliza Trusted 1803". Christine Mugnier finished "Barber Meins". Gorgeous! She stitched her on 36 ct linen 2 over 2 with 1 strand of variegated hand dyed silk (Victoria Clayton).
Dijn Duijs sent me her personal version of Lehncke Albers' sampler from Vierlanden. She works it In black and some autumn colours. She calls it "Black Magic, A Touch of Gold and a Drop of Wine". She spilled some Portwine over it. More on her blog
Merry Christmas! Rianne van Roozendaal presents her dad with a terrific version of "Papa".
Helga Urban-Baule sent me pictures of her three Vierlanden reproductions: ANLT, Becke Geller and a very early red sampler from German Sampler Museum in Celle.
Sue Hertzog has finished M. Levy. She took a break in between as she wanted to do the Anna Schuetze 1847 for her mother's 80th birthday present. The M. Levy turned out at 34cm X 27cm, the Anne Schuetze 1847 size was 23 1/2cm X 25 1/2cm. She used the same cloth as she has done for the other ones - 1cm = 7 holes. Gorgeous!!!
Great! Christel Ross has finished the Sampler of the Month of August. RET 1714 is stitched on 36 ct linen with 1 thread of DMC. Elisabeth Knaeble finished "Brandenburg 1833" in the summer vacations and got it framed recently.
Karen Bugg's "Metta 1848", "Anna Schween 1853", "Mary Wigham 1790", "Barber Meins 1840-42" and "Dorothea Padies ca. 1820" are framed! Gorgeous! Karen has expanded her Quaker Wall and made a Vierlanden Corner.
Ulrike Grommisch from Essen, Germany is often in the garden in the summer and she does not find plenty of time for stitching, but she still makes progress, as you see at the finished and framed Biedermeier sampler "DV-CV 1844" and at "ANLT 1831" from the Vierlanden area.
Sunday is a good day to send me pictures for the gallery. Today, I’ve been receiving an image of the framed reproduction of "CAK 1769" worked by Elisabeth Knaeble. Sonngard Haag from Fleischwangen, Baden-Wuerttemberg has not come to that point yet on "Barber Meins", since she passionately does her gardening in spring. And there is an awful lot to do.
Elfriede Kleiber from Hirschbach, Bavaria has not stitched the reproduction of "Jenny 1904" is, but she had made a gift of the cross stitch kit. Now she has sent me a picture of the finished sampler.
From Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Elvira Farr sent an Easter gift for the gallery: her reproduction of "AVS 1731" - the "Old Man".
Ulla Waldmann from Hamburg sent me her little mermaid "ACO 1772" in the Easter holiday .
Thought you may like to see Sue's three latest needlepoints. They are all done on 1cm = 7 holes. EDFS 1807 turned out to be 25.5cm x 24cm. Antonie 1845 turned out at 17.5cm x 24cm, the other one which will go to her niece Caroline for her wedding in August is 25cm x 34cm.
Voilà! Christine Mugnier's Gardryth. Magnifique! Christine stitched it on 36 ct linen Edinburgh with 1 thread of Gloriana silk - colour : Rosebud. Elisabeth Aberra Guébrou from Clermont-Ferrand has finished a sampler again. She sent me a photo of her nice "Anna Schaarschmidt 1891".
Elisabeth Knaeble has sent her Martha Jones, Rosemarie Loeschenkohl her framed Dorothea Padies. Great!
Elske van Kammen from the Netherlands made the webshots of her beautiful samplers available to me. Please click onto the photo to peruse her collection.
Elisabeth Knaeble's Frances Rae and AH 1810..
My friend Margit visited Francine Zeil in Gerstheim, Alsace - a collection in two barns!
Donna Lemos has built up her Quaker wall and starts with Vierlande. Wow!:
Worked and framed by Rosemarie Loeschenkohl: Hannah Wallis 1802, EDFS 1807 and CSK 1680
My ex-sister-in-law Sue Hertzog from Saugus, California sent me her fine version of Nannette. The needle point itself measures at 70 x 24cm.