Fabric: 40 count Vintage Buttercream by Lakeside Linens

Floss: NPI with DMC and Au Ver a Soie 100/3 silk conversion provided

Stitch Count: 232 wide x 239 high Model Design Size: 11.6 inches wide x 11.95 inches high

Original: 12 inches wide x 11 ¾ inches high with cotton on 46 ct linen

Stitches Used: cross stitch over two threads, Algerian eyelet

Believed to be an English girl, Elizabeth adorned her sampler with three decorative floral pots flanking the verse, the lowest of the three stitched partly over one. This pot has been modified so that today’s stitcher can stitch the entire sampler over two threads. This sampler is perfect for commemorating a marriage, and the chart provides an example for placement of the couple’s names and wedding date using letters from the verse and numbers in the antique.

ON LOVE

They sin who tell us love can die

With life all other passions fly

All others are but vanity

In heaven ambition cannot dwell

Nor avarice in the vaults of hell

Earthly these passions are of earth

They perish where they have their birth

But love is indestructible

Its holy flame for ever burneth

From heaven it came to heaven it returneth