The Needlework of Dorcie Sampson is a lovely 3 sampler project from Hands Across the Sea. 

The sampler has been rated as suitable for needleworkers of all abilities.

The samplers are worked with cross stitch over two threads of linen and some Algerian eyelets. 

Kit Options : 

Choice of purchasing thread only OR as full kit.

Full Kit options:

Includes linen of choice + 10 spools of Soie 1003 thread, Printed Chart and 2 Tapestry Size 10 Beading Needles (Gift with Purchase + Free Shipping)

Linen Choices:

• 37 ct Fat Half of Corn Tassel - 35" x 36"
  
• 45 ct Fat Half of Foxtail Millet - 35" x 35" 
• 53/63 ct Fat Quarter of Sycamore Seed Pod - 18" x 59"

10 spools of Au Ver a Soie®, Soie 100/3 Kit Includes:                   

• The 1906 Sampler:                                           
  SMS 067  ~ Antique mauve
  SMS 077  ~ Raspberry
  SMS 109  ~ Garnet
  SMS 152  ~ Moss green
  SMS 427  ~ Steel grey
  SMS 491**   ~ Hunter green  May be substituted with SMS 079
  SMS 647  ~ Avocado green
  SMS 679**   ~ Yellow  May be substituted with SMS 674
   
  
• The 1905 Sampler  :              
• SMS 313 ~ Navy Blue
  SMS 664 ~ Christmas Red 

***Please note, this item is excluded from any discounts or sales.

About the Sampler from Nicola Parkman:

"Dorcie Elizabeth Sampson was born in 1892 in Kintbury, Berkshire. She was the eldest of five children born to George John Sampson, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife Sarah, née Norris.

There were two fee-paying boarding schools in the village together with Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist Sunday schools. Dorcie recorded on her 1905 sampler that she attended St Mary’s School which was a daily school founded 1831.

A friend who is a needleworker was born in the village of Kintbury and lived there until she married in 1963. She wrote to me to tell me “… the name Sampson was quite common in the village, and I was (unsuccessfully) given piano lessons by a Mrs Sampson in the 50s; her family were farriers with a smithy in the nearby village of Elcot and another in the village of Hamstead Marshall. Her son Geoff was farrier for Royalty and had a Royal Warrant from the late Queen Mother, as he shod her racehorses.”

Dorcie married Albert Jubilee Beavis in 1916. In the 1911 census return, Albert can be found boarding with the Sampson family in Church Street, Kintbury. Albert’s occupation was recorded as a farrier and Dorcie’s as a draper’s assistant."