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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
Welcome This is the Queenstown Sampler Designs website. We hope you find it interesting and helpful. We welcome your input and comments so that we may make it better. ![]() Please visit the web site below to view the latest sampler designed by Queenstown Sampler Designs. The sampler is in the January 2010 issue. http://www.thegiftofstitching.com.au QSD Trunk Show ![]() Paula of Haus Tirol and Barbara Thank you to everyone who visited the QSD trunk show over the 2009 holidays in Williamsburg. God Bless our Troops! Jim and I invite you to see our home in the Baltimore Sun newspaper, dated 1 November, 2009. Copy the below site into your browser. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/real-estate/bal-re.dream01nov01,0,4043977.story Read the story on the first page. Click on the photo and see our home. Find "The Happy Choice" sampler in the fall issue of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly The original sampler is in the Queenstown Sampler Designs collection and was reproduced specifically for the magazine. ![]() We are pleased to announce Queenstown Sampler Designs are now being distributed by Yarn Tree. Please visit their web site for details. IT'S NOW AVAILABLE! R. Le Tellier 1873 ![]() The R. Le Tellier 1873 sampler is typical of French or French/Canadian school girl samplers worked through-out the 19th century. The prominent tabernacle motif is characteristic and the colors are distinctive to French school girl samplers. The original was worked in wool on duo canvas. Please refer to the book Les Marquoirs Anciens by Catherine Pouchelon, ISBN: 2842704959
We purchased the R. Le Tellier 1873 sampler this summer
from the daughter of a Corsica River Sampler The Corsica River Sampler is based on early Assisi (voided work) and blackwork patterns. The early patterns are from Italy, France, Spain, England, and now Maryland USA. The sampler is named after a river close to my home. Most of the creatures in the last row can be found around my home or from my imagination. There really was a black bear that frequently destroyed our backyard birdfeeders from October 2008 to April 2009. The DNR finally captured him and took him to a better place - far away to the mountains of Western Maryland. Pearl, the white squirrel of Queenstown is represented. We are also famous for our Chesapeake Blue Crabs. The bee motif is a nod to Corsica, France, the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. Please see the sampler stitching details in the "Original Designs" page. queenstownsamplerdesigns@atlanticbb.net This web site is managed and maintained by "Bubba". Bubba also serves as the big BM (Business Manager) for Queenstown Sampler Designs. Bubba last worked here on 01/31/2010 |