The word ”sampler” is from the Latin exemplar, meaning ”pattern,” and that`s exactly what the early samplers were. Stitched on long, narrow pieces of cloth, samplers were records of random stitches in ...

LE ROY — In October 1834, 10-year-old Jane Boyer of Le Roy finished her cross stitch sampler. Now, 190 years later, her work will be shown at a cross stitch retreat. It’s set for Oct. 19 at St. Mark’s ...

Wherever you were two centuries ago, Mary Berry, I doubt you would have imagined your modest stitchery would be here. Were you aware of the establishment of a penal colony in Australia, on the other ...

A few centuries ago, kids in classrooms did needlework samplers. They’d stitch their ways through linen stretched tight in wooden hoops as part of this rather slow & demanding hobby. It also taught ...

Success has many faces. Sometimes it even looks like failure. If profit were the absolute measure of achievement, Nancy Sturgeon, 46, and Karen Knight, 44, would be has-beens instead of rising-star ...

Were you aware of the establishment of a penal colony in Australia, on the other side of the world, just 30 years earlier? Or did you stitch your sampler in this newly established outpost of the ...