In the 1800s, the cross-stitch was used more heavily; designs were more open and even more pictorial than before. Those stitchery pictures often included cartoonlike figures and charming scenes.

Myers created most of the samplers, often using a magnifying glass to make the tiny and intricate cross-stitches, French knots and double running stitches.

Museum Director Nancy Alexander expects more than 100 entries in a number of categories, including needlepoint, sampler, cross-stitch, embroidery, quilting and lace.

Listen to how cross-stitching creates community connections in Southwest Ohio, from brewery meetups to 'craftivism,' as the ...

LE ROY — In October 1834, 10-year-old Jane Boyer of Le Roy finished her cross stitch sampler. Now, 190 years later, her work will be shown at a cross stitch retreat.

PORT TOWNSEND — A group of 23 women who spent four years creating a replica of a 135-year-old sampler have presented it to the Jefferson County Historical Society, which will have it on display ...

The quiet, serene art of counted cross stitch has been ramped up into a frenetic pace, cheered on and abetted by social media and YouTube videos called FlossTube.

These words, along with a lady seated at a spinning wheel, are stitched on the sampler in the photograph above. It is dated Feb. 15, 1932, and initialed “E.N. Wittenberg.” A pastel design ...