The creator of this sampler has used the Running Stitch, Algerian Eye Stitch, Backstitch, Satin Stitch, Chain Stitch, and Cross Stitch. We hope that as an experienced stitcher you will accept and enjoy this challenge from McIntosh Samplers. The Four Seasons Sampler is a reproduction of an antique sampler which was neither signed nor dated. It is composed of scenes of lambs in Spring, gardening in Summer, an apple harvest in Autumn, and Christmas in Winter. Colors used are antique blue, terra cotta, green, flesh, brown, black, and white.
Stitches used are cross stitch and backstitch.
But One Star Glows. The Mary Jane Smith sampler was stitched just before the turn of the century in 1880. The designs include two large apple trees, baskets of flowers, peacocks, geese, various other birds, butterflies, dogs, and a little girl. The entire sampler is worked in cross stitch. Original in the collection of McIntosh Samplers.