Mary and Meribah Chandler Sisters Samplers

  New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay Colony Connections circa 1810

   Quaker Style Antique Sampler Reproductions

Linen: 40 count Vintage Butter Cream by Lakeside Linens    Threads: DMC

                         Mary’s Stitch Count: 255 wide x 173 high Meribah’s Stitch Count: 253 wide x 172 high

              Mary’s Model and Meribah’s Model Finished Size: approx 12.75 wide x 8.6 inches high on 40 count linen

                       Original: Mary’s approximately 22 inches wide x 15 inches high, silk on 24 count linen

                                   Meribah’s approximately 21 inches wide x 15 inches high, silk on 24 count linen

Stitches Used: cross stitch over two, cross stitch over one,

 an eight-leg Algerian eyelet band and a queen stitch band.

Mary’s Verse: “Tho’ griefs unnumbered throng thee round, Still in thy God confide, Whose finger

marks the seas their bound, And curbs the headlong tide.”

Meribah’s Verse: “Let no fond love for earth exact a sigh; No doubts divit our steady steps aside:

Nor let us long to live, nor dread to die: Heaven is our hope, and Providence our guide.”