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Stamped Cross Stitch Sampler

Posted on May 6, 2009May 9, 2009 by Martha

When I was a teenager in the early 60’s, I talked my mother into buying this sampler kit. I’m pretty sure it was offered in one of the tons of magazines we used to get. Because daddy worked in the advertising department at Phillips Petroleum, we received just about every magazine you could think of — all of them marked “sample copy.”

For some reason, it would take weeks for this stuff to make it through the mail system, so I was pretty excited when it finally arrived. The design was stamped on dark brown linen (I can’t remember if it had colored stamping or came with a chart) and included all the thread. Of course, I never finished it. I think I did one little motif and then the poor sampler sat around for months until my mother decided to finish it for me. I am famous for this technique of getting mother to finish my projects.

Later, mother and I (and all of my sisters) started doing counted cross stitch and we sort of looked down on these earlier stamped designs. I don’t understand why I thought that, because now I think they’re really cute.

Stamped Linen Sampler
Marjorie Dellasega, 1964
24″ x 24″

sampler

4 thoughts on “Stamped Cross Stitch Sampler”

  1. Jan says:
    May 6, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    I love the variety of motifs! Very unusual design.

    I have never done counted cross stitch. I never had the patience when I was younger. I don’t think my eyesight is sharp enought now to do it without a lot of frustration.

    Really beautiful!

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  2. Gina says:
    May 7, 2009 at 5:48 am

    That’s so cute! I used to do counted cross stitch but now it bores me to tears! Isn’t it funny how we go in and out of those “moods”! Wonder what we’ll be crafting 10 years from now!

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  3. Patty says:
    May 20, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    This is a great design! I’m so glad you still have it. A couple of years ago, I did a stamped sampler my mom picked up for me and it was nice not to have count and rip out my mistakes when I screwed up. I’ve been sticking to counted cross stitch for years — except for the sampler — but if I come across a stamped design that I like, why not do it?

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  4. diane says:
    June 22, 2009 at 7:52 am

    WOW, as stamped samplers go, this one is a gem. The motifs are amazingly colorful and varied. Your taste in needlework was sophisticated for a youngster.

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