Mary Barr 1828 Sampler Pattern PDF Red sampler Perfect if you can't decide

Perfect if you can't decide which style

She used eyelet and cross stitches

cut fabric 17" x 17"46ct 9

Fabric Size: 25 inches wide by 13 inches high

Jane stitched this at a time when the Poor Law was instated and right before the Great Hunger in 1845

Mary Barr 1828 Sampler Pattern PDF Red sampler Perfect if you can't decideIn 1828, at the young age of 12, Mary began working on a semi traditional sampler that incorporated many traditional aspects, such as several upper case alphabets but aligned vertically and horizontally in a decorative square design with the bottom rows stitched upside down. She then adds many geometric shapes; triangles, diamonds, hexagons, etc., all in bold colors that sets her sampler well apart from the more traditional samplers of her day. Mary