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.

Over the years, Myers has honed her skills and completed dozens of cross-stitch samplers. Most are made using linen, and nearly all are signed — using stitches rather than a pen — with her ...

Later in history, those needle skills also helped embellish the appearance of the family home. Among the fancy home furnishing adornments — hand-made needlepoint upholstery for chairs, ...

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.

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 ...

The Northwest Sampler Guild gave the replica of the 1875 Charlotte Clayton sampler to Bill Tennent, director of the historical society, and Steve Shively, the program and services supervisor for the ...

Cross-stitch’s last resurgence was in the 1990s. But when its popularity faded once more, ... There’s Sampler September, Arbitrary August, May-nia and so many others.