E. Prophet 1916

Elsa stitched her cute sledge ride sampler during the time of the First World War. Sparsely stitched are the initial rows - half cross stitches, simple borders, letters from simple alphabets, more elaborate in two colours the name and the year.

What an idyll: A larger boy on ice skates pulling a sledge with a smaller one. He warms his hands in a muff. A small dog with a collar follows them through the snow.