Hands Across the Sea - Magdalena Outhwaite 1833 ~ Silk Thread Kit

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Soie 1003 Thread Kit Soie d'Alger Thread Kit - 37 ct Soie d'Alger Thread Kit - 30 ct Chart Only

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Pre Order Available for both kits - Estimated ship date late Feb 2026

Magdalena Outhwaite 1833 is a beautiful sampler from Hands Across the Sea.

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.

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.

Choice of purchasing thread kit only, Printed Chart only or as full kit with linen.

Full Kit options:

Includes linen of choice, Chart Booklet + Soie d'Alger or Soie 1003 threads (+Free Shipping).

Linen Choices:

30 ct Fat Half - Victoria Sponge Cake -35" x 36" ~ Recommended for Soie d'Alger Threads only
37 ct Fat Half Corn Tassel - 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for both Soie d'Alger and Soie 1003 threads
37 ct Fat Half Russian Tea Cake - 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for both Soie d'Alger and Soie 1003 threads
45 ct Fat Half -Foxtail Millet - 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for Soie 1003 Threads
48 ct Fat Half - Bride Cake - 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for Soie 1003 Threads

Thread Options:

Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger - 37 ct version includes 23 skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 38 ct or lower.

Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger - 30 ct version includes 27 skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 30 ct or lower.

Au Ver a Soie®, Soie 1003 includes 23 spools. Recommended linen for this thread is 37 ct or higher.

***Please note, this item is excluded from any discounts or sales.

About the Sampler from the Designer

"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."

Hands Across the Sea - Magdalena Outhwaite 1833 ~ Silk Thread Kit

It was originally executed with fine silks on a linen ground, in tent stitch, and is composed of many different ‘slips” or spot motifs, cleverly fitted together. Many of these motifs have symbolic and/or heraldic significance, and they can be traced directly from the drawings in Peter Stent’s pattern books, published in England in the mid seventeenth century. Almost identical to drawings in Stent are the various creepy-crawlies (snails, caterpillars, wasps, moths), the speckled Lillies of the Mountaine, the columbine, the ape (a symbol of mischief as well as the sense of taste), A Tulipa, and more. While much of the maker’s inspiration was likely gleaned from Stent, other contemporary sources certainly inspired this wonderful, cleverly composed and well-balanced needlework picture.

Like the original, it is executed entirely in tent stitch (petit point), in a palette of 34 colors, and the reproduction measures almost exactly the same size as the original.

Instructions are provided for stitching this over one or two threads of linen on linens of 25, 30/32, 35, and 40 count. The kit is supplied with 35 count linen, designed to be stitched over one thread of linen.