Alphabets Samplers

-40 easy-to-stitch alphabet and sampler designs in cross stitch and other counted techniques-Features celebratory projects for births, weddings, and Christmas-Attractive and decorative ideas for using single initials -Superb color photographs and easy-to-read charts

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Describes the samplers stitched by girls in colonial America and explains what these samplers tell about the lives of their makers. Includes simple projects.

Cross-stitch design - Samplers of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Inscriptions and verses.

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