Available as a printed booklet or as a PDF download. Click HERE for the PDF download. We are pleased to present to you Magdalena’s beautiful sampler worked in the year 1833 when she was 12 years old. Magdalena had a good eye for colour and composition; her sampler is visually very pleasing. There are some very pretty motifs to delight your needle. Available as a printed booklet and as a pdf download. Click HERE for the PDF download. Magdalena was born in 1820 in Sutton in Holderness, Yorkshire to George and Mary Outhwaite. The rural village is now a suburb of the city of Hull and known as Sutton on Hull. Magdalena was baptised on May 28 of that year. George died in 1827 and life was no doubt hard for his widow raising her five children. By the time Magdalene worked her sampler she had lost her father and a sister. The verse and aphorisms that she so diligently stitched would have brought her comfort when there was much to fear. Magdalena’s life was one of domestic service. In the census returns between the years 1841 to 1881 she is recorded as a domestic servant, a cook, and a housekeeper. She never married and in the 1891 census she can be found as an elderly maiden aunt in the household of her niece. She died shortly after the 1891 census return. We hope that Magdalena was beloved and that, throughout the many hardships she faced, her confidence was strong. Magdalena’s beautiful sampler has been reproduced using a palette of 23 colours carefully matched to the colours found on the front of the sampler. The model was stitched using Soie 100.3 from Au Ver à Soie, and we have included conversions for Soie d’Alger (SDA) and DMC. The sampler is worked mainly in cross stitch over two threads of linen. Magdalena’s name, age, and the year are worked in cross stitch over one thread of linen. The sampler is suitable for needleworkers of all levels of ability. With grateful thanks to Sandra Moffitt who reproduced the sampler and Leona Sweeny who stitched the model. At the very core of Hands Across the Sea Samplers there is a team of needleworkers who are passionate about antique samplers and being able to share those samplers with you. We have a printed fabric project bag panel featuring Magdalena’s sampler. Please click HERE for details.
