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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. Sampler Exhibits Article published on May 26, 2010 describing an exhibition at the Historic Odessa Foundation in Odessa, Delaware entitled “With Needle and Thread: Hand Sewing Before Machines”. The exhibit includes 85 objects and celebrates the art of hand sewing and needlework in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Two of the objects are schoolgirl embroideries, one a large c. 1810 embroidered silk memorial. Other needlework objects include an embroidered bonnet, a canvaswork wool wallet (c. 1775), pincushions, and needlework tools, all from the Delaware Valley. Visitors should also tour the historic homes, where there are many other historic samplers and needlework on display. For example, in the Corbit-Sharp House there are two beautiful samplers worked by sisters Sarah and Mary Corbit, both in 1823 at Westtown School. The sisters were nieces of Mr. Corbit and had lived in the house. In the David Wilson House is an exquisite silk on silk needle painting stitched by Ann Jeffries. http://www.historicodessa.org/AboutUs.htm Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society When This You See Remember Me: Schoolgirl Samplers of Winchester and Frederick, Virginia April 1 - October 31 2010 The Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society is hosting a display of 25 antique samplers. The original Liddy Rodes 1814 sampler will be on display and our charts will be on sale in the gift shop. A booklet/catalogue will be available soon. Please visit the society's web-site for more information: http://www.winchesterhistory.org/index.htm. Annapolis, Maryland If you would like to visit the original Sands House Sampler and view two more Annapolis, MD samplers, visit: http://www.sandshouse.org/ . ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() The Needlework Show is 21 October through 26 October. We will be premiering new samplers in the show. You can visit the Needlework Show at The Needlework Show. 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 7/8/2010 |