The birds are in pairs and cooing at each other it would seem. There is symmetry here with some particularly lovely vases and baskets of flowers. There are owls here, as well as the birds the men are handling and then there are the dogs… My favourite is the dachshund type one at the bottom. Others are a little smarter as they pose or parade themselves. I am sorry about the guy who, because he has a bucket in each hand, cannot hitch his trousers up a bit. I have been amazed by the different baskets and bowls that were thought of and the birds who happily join in on whatever is happening on any sampler. This is another favourite motif, appearing very often but never quite the same from one sampler to another. As almost always, the formation is one of a curving zig-zag form from which a variety of plants are able to grow together. Spring time shades give this sampler the feel of wildflowers in a meadow. It might take you a while, unless, like the rich of Holland and elsewhere, you have a set of staff to do this for you. In northern Holland, on one of our trips, we saw a wonderful set of sheets decorated with such a border. Here they are particularly sumptuous with wonderful variations of form. Honeysuckle, Carnations and Lily shapes are recurring features on old borders. On this sampler there are many flowers and a choice of cartouches for some initials. Quite a different colour scheme, but you will find that the palette used over all the samplers is a limited one, so set together on a wall they will complement each other very well. Mind you, I stitch just for fun and mostly just for me! There are a handful of hearts too, so this could be a good sampler for a couple or an engagement perhaps. More wonderful flowers, a simple alphabet and a few birds intermingling with other motifs. Notice too the stripey cat and the cartouche, which can be personalised with letters from the alphabet. Enjoy the dogs and the flowers and birds that adorn the bordered area. You will see some of the samplers straight away, but if you want to see a particular one you can also put the article number (shown here next to each of the titles) in the search box and it will bring up the sampler for you.Ī traditional sampler with some splendid people – note the long, long legs of the man on the right and the sailor outfit of the one on the left. If you would like to see more of any of them or to buy a sampler go to . Kits are ready for either fabric and chart packs are ready too, but downloads are giving me a technical problem so far. Now the first batch of eleven are ready for you to see and, I hope, buy. To display them I set about designing some samplers, each to be a size 12 ins x 16 ins when worked on a 16ct Aida or 32 count evenweave, as this size of frame is easily available. Some are just beautiful, others are my take on cute and many are just quirky! This set me collecting motifs in my spare time and I now have around 3000 of them.
For a long time I was a little cool where samplers were concerned but I have warmed to them very much and now know how worthwhile it is to study them. It is all the fault of the sampler tours we have taken. This is fortunate as it means he does not have to stand at his back door calling “Brexit! Come on Brexit! Hurry up Brexit.” Even in Dubai this might be seen as odd! He is in a fifteenth floor flat, so she is a house cat. Isn’t she beautiful! Brexit belongs to my son, Stefan, who lives in Dubai. What I did think is that you might like to see the face of Brexit. I have not heard the question of embroidery supplies being raised in Parliament, although most other things seem to have been. I am sure the firms dealing with it will have made plans and, in the event, there should be no problems for us.
My fabric still went in the cage! Most of our fabric and thread does come to us from the continent, of course. I forgot, though, that Zweigart have a factory in Switzerland and that that is where the rolls of white Aida are made. My fabric would come straight to me with no bother.
Who does? In fact, I am one of the few people (I imagine) who were buying fabric from Zweigart in Germany before we joined the EU! It would come in to Dover and be put in a cage, where it stayed until I paid the duty on it. I am sure you do not want to hear much about Brexit.
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