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The former ore sampler in Murray, Utah. Located "down rail' from the former Murray ASARCO smelter site, with connections to the then Union Pacific and Rio Grande mainlines. Undergoing some sort of demolition effort at the time of the photo, it would stall shortly afterwards leaving the building still standing as a hollowed out skeleton.
This is a sampler worked by Ann Odell in 1826. It has an unusual openwork stitch worked on the capital letters, you can just see the holes with stitches worked around them in the bottom half of the sampler.
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Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
Vogart colonial sampler stamped on pure linen. Listed in S.S. Kresge Co. advertising pamphlet promoting its Vogart Needlecraft Novelties line for the spring and summer of 1935. States that Vogart NY is a N.R.A [National Recovery Act] member No. 31-29. Instructions suggest the use of six strand cotton floss for embroidering the crosstitch pattern.
I found an excellent tutorial by Rachel Griffith for this pinwheel block here:
www.psiquilt.com/2010/02/pinwheel-sampler-quilt-along-blo...
Un sampler entièrement piécé à la main, envoyé par une de mes clientes. C'est un vrai patch traditionnel. Vu de dos: j'ai pratiquement rempli tout le fond avec du Mc Tavishing; cette technique convient particulièrement bien aux appliqués et aux traditionnels.
I am compulsively stitching on to my paper sampler.
I have added mainly waxed paper to a handmade paper and tissue paper background, and then altered the surface by using wire, hand and machine embroidery.
Mixed media - work in progress
There are not that many people in the Netherlands who are doing needlepoint at the moment, so I decided to teach it to myself. I made this sampler on plastic canvas to practise a couple of stitches. It is stitched with a double cotton thread.
Celebrate the happiest of days with this lovely sampler, all set to personalise with our pattern in issue 216 of The World of Cross Stitching magazine, out now.
Here is a wood inlay “Quilt Sampler” that will beatify any sewing room wall or any wall for that matter. It is made from 400 diamonds and triangles cut from seven different kinds of wood. It is finished in all their natural colors, no stains or dyes. It measures 16” x 16” square.
The wood is listed on the back from the center out. The center wood is “Purpleheart” from Central or South America, “Wenge” from West Africa, “Satinwood” from Brazil, (Satinwood is the most beautiful yellow color with a satin look.), “Lacewood” from Australia, (Lacewood has a pretty copper color with rays in the grain.), “Imbuia” from Brazil, and “Hackberry” and “Walnut from Missouri”.
Gift for my mother in it's planning stage. Lots of wrong, a few right.
Blogged about at backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/planning-the-bee-samp...
Some process shots of my HST sampler quilt. Made a a prize for the winner of a fundraiser auction for my friend's doula co-op.
For the Lomographians that I so detest, here is a Action Sampler type of camera that takes 4 pictures in one 24 x 36 frame at differed exposure times. Can be creative, but not for the prices and all the hype of the Lomographic mania
Some pictures of the first Choqoa Sampler 2009.
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