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Patterns: Followed various patterns to knit the squares - see Ravelry for more info
Yarn: Plymouth Encore
Needles: US size 9 / 5.5 mm
Detail of a sewing sampler from Mount Gambier. The sampler is of fine calico bound at the ends with pink ribbon. There are rows of tucks, hem top and bottom, an applied strip in the centre, which are all hand stitched with fine running and back stitches.
22.5 cm x 45 cm
Mount Gambier, South Australia, 19th century (late) / 1890s
2003.031
1. 4 patch Crumb Block, 2. Block 5 - Friendship Star - Quilting Gallery's Beginner Quilt Along, 3. 9 patch - Quilting Gallery Beginner's Quilt Along, 4. Blogger's BOM, 5. Quilter's BOM, 6. Quilter's BOM, 7. Blogger's QAL - Block 4 from Pat Sloan, 8. Blogger's BOM - Block 6, 9. New York Beauty Quilt Along, 10. New York Beauty, 11. Quilter's BOM, 12. Block 1 - Blogger's BOM Quilt Along, 13. 9 Patch Crumb Block, 14. Beginner's Quilt Along at the Quilting Gallery - Block 5 - Friendship Sta, 15. Block 4 - Jump in the Pool - Quilting Gallery Beginner's Quilt Along, 16. New York Beauty, 17. New York Beauty, 18. Block 0 - New York Beauty Quilt Along, 19. Block 1, 20. Crumb Along with Me, 21. Blogger's BOM, 22. Quilter's BOM, 23. Blogger's BOM - Block 1, Take 2, 24. New York Beauty Quilt Along - Week 10, Block 9, 25. New York Beauty Quilt Along, 26. New York Beauty Quilt Along - Week 9, Block 2, 27. Crumb Along with Me, 28. Blogger's BOM, 29. "Crumb' Star block, 30. May Block from Blogger's BOM, 31. Block 3 - Time for Ice Cream - Quilting Blogger's Beginner's Quilt Along, 32. New York Beauty Block, 33. New York Beauty, 34. Block 2 - Peak Over the Fence - Quilting Blogger's Beginner's Quilt Along, 35. Block 4 - Jump in the Pool - Quilting Gallery Beginner's Quilt Along
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Photographer: Cindy Branham
Location: Oxford, New York, USA
Film: KODACOLOR Gold 100 (35mm)
Included on the Kodak Photo CD sampler disc PCD0992. Converted from PCD to TIFF with pcdtoppm and GraphicsMagick. Level‐adjusted with GIMP. Converted from TIFF to PNG for Flickr.
The PCD and TIFF files can be found here.
© Kodak. For the original rights, please see this text.
Cross-stitching on Aida cloth, various sizes, 2011.
Cross-stitched quotes from various romance novels in the style of traditional and modern samplers.
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Sampler like the one hanging in Bella's room. This one is dated 1879, but Bella's was done in 1865. It was very common for girls to do samplers like this as a way to learn needlepoint.