A sampler is a project made from a "sampling" of different stitches or different motifs.
Once the learning tool that helped generations of youngsters master basic needlework skills, this traditional project is still a great way to learn and practice embroidery skills as well as a creative way to add colour to a room or a fabric item. This book brings the sampler into the 21st century with 16 beautiful, contemporary designs for sampler art using cross-stitch, surface, counted-thread, and freestyle embroidery (including instructions and diagrams for each technique).
Each design can be framed like a traditional sampler or finished with a number of creative ideas for taking sampler art beyond the wall hanging.
About Cheryl Fall
Cheryl Fall is the author of 13 books, and more than two thousand articles on crafts. She maintains the Needle-Knowledge.com website and was the host of the nationally distributed PBS Plus series The Creative Life. Cheryl has been designing professionally since 1986 and has been a designer for DMC Threads and J&P Coats/Anchor. She lives near Portland, Oregon.
