Amelia Fox Bristol Orphanage Sampler Cross Stitch Chart by Cross Stitch Antiques Very Velvet The smaller embroidery is DMC

The smaller embroidery is DMC 729 antique gold

I've loved this verse for many years

complete with frilly petticoat to be adorned with variegated silk ribbon and crinkle silk frills

For the nature enthusiast

Amelia Fox Bristol Orphanage Sampler Cross Stitch Chart by Cross Stitch Antiques Very Velvet The smaller embroidery is DMCThe Antique: Amelia stitched her sampler at the age of seventeen while living at the North Wing, 3 New Orphan House, Ashley Down, Bristol, in 1868. The original sampler's stitched area measures 13. 5 inches wide by 15. 25 inches high on a cream cotton ground fabric measuring 76 threads to the inch, over two in red cotton thread, which equates to approximately 38 stitches per inch. The stitch count is 519 stitches wide by 573 stitches high and the