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Barbara Ana's New World Sampler, now available as a whole chart
If you haven't yet stitched this exceptional sampler by Barbara Ana, here's a unique opportunity to catch up. The sampler is now available as a single chart, both excellent value and practical.
Follow Barbara Ana as she enters her "New World" travelling overseas, reaching the city, crossing mysterious forests, settling down in a farm, and confronting ghosts and witches. You can of course pick your very own order. The beauty of this design is the way it is structured in colorful bands, each telling their own story.
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More exceptional samplers by Barbara Ana
 The Fall |  Portuguese Bird Sampler |  All creatures Great and Small |  The Snooty Parrots |
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Flamboyant Heart
Passionate Love as expressed by Barbara Ana in stitches, with a beating heart, chiselled diamond, and a mix of flames turning into blooms. Ever so creative, ever so feminine, ever so colorful, ever so fun to stitch using nuanced floss... vintage Barbara Ana.
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More patterns expressing Love, by Barbara Ana
 Love Never fails |  I give you my Heart |  I love you Snow much! |  Two Hearts, One Love |
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Telling a village's exciting story in stitches
Brought to you by Barbara Ana, this pattern is more than an attractive design, it also tells a whole story.
The village itself is a real treat to stitch, but move your eye around and you will have great fun discovering all the rich detail and entertaining motifs in each section of this super-rich chart.
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More Halloween Houses patterns by Barbara Ana
 Crowded House |  Haunted House |  Witch House |  The New World: Night of all Fears |
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Welcome into the magical Forest
Here are three new releases by Kateryna - Stitchy Princess, Ukrainian designer very much inspired by the folk tales of here homeland and especially the magical forest populated by fairies.
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More Autumn patterns by Kateryna - Stitchy Princess
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More Autumn patterns (all designers)
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Sweeping the Garden
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A playful explosion of colors
Here's a French sampler dated 1868, showing the traditional Linen-maid's alphabet, but with a special twist: in no fewer than 17 silk colors!
The original sampler is part of Meriem Chauvet's collection (the designer behind Couleur Tourterelle), and she loves to painstakingly reproduce and rechart antique samplers restoring them to their former glory. This one is a real treat to stitch!
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More samplers featuring the Linenmaid's alphabet
The alphabet passed through generations of women over several centuries, was used for marking household linen.
 E Loir |  Thérèse Barral 1843 |  Juliette Leveque 1913 |
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Autumn joys
Often we walk by, oblivious to our surroundings, our head occupied elsewhere. But in some rare moments, beauty strikes us. The ivy is turning to red, beautifully shaped golden leaves are falling from the trees. Designer Samantha Purdy captures those simple joys of life - in cross stitch - in a series of very personal contemporary-style patterns. Her latest fall designs focus on those fleeting moments, when the beauty of nature captures our attention and we forget about everything else.
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More Autumn patterns by Samantha Purdy Needlecrafts
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More patterns with Autumn foliage (all designers)
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Autumn in the British countryside, by Lesley Teare
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More seasonal samplers by Lesley Teare
 Seasonal Sampler: Autumn |  Georgian Garden Sampler (four seasons) |  Woodland Sampler |  All in a year Sampler |
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Racing around the cauldron
Mice and a friendly ghost race around a log fire playing peek-a-boo while swirls of steam emerge from a bubbling cauldron. Have fun adding all the details on the cross stitch base, including an intriguing specialty stitch, as Faby Reilly takes you by the hand with her excellent tutorials.
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An early 19th century English sampler, and a early 20th century French one
Thanks to Meriem Chauvet, the collector and designer behind Couleur Tourterelle, here are two charming reproduction samplers, that will let you reproduce the work of stitchers of yesteryears, and restitute the samplers to their former glory.
The samplers could not be more different, like the people of each country. But what they both have in common is their irresistible charm.
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More English reproduction samplers by Couleur Tourterelle
 Jane Butcher 1811 |  Create in Me a clean Heart |
More French reproduction samplers by Couleur Tourterelle
 Julia Waterloo 1904 |  Maria Moracchini 1905 |  Jeanne Podebon 1906 |
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When nature turns to golden colors
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More Birthday and generic Greeting Cards patterns
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