Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen squiggle pattern In addition to those striped

In addition to those striped embroidered eyes

crayon and pencil on construction paper

and I really love her rendering of those fish

I think these are the perfect addendum to a white shirt and pair of jeans or all black

which I regard as the most special thing I found at Brimfield--purchased from Stephen Corrigan (Stephen-Douglas) who I regard as having the most good and special things around

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen squiggle pattern In addition to those stripedIt is the fantastic embroidered border which happily consumes much of the space! that really sold me on this American schoolgirl sampler, which dates sometime between 1800 1830 I believe. Details show it best two borders, really, with this wonderful snaking vine punctuated with a variety of flowers in between. With a cross stitch alphabet at center, and then again in lower case with numbers 1,2,3,4 running along the bottom, uninterrupted. The color on