Hands Across the Sea - Multiply Kindness ~ Silk Thread Kit
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Multiply Kindness is an original design sampler from Hands Across the Sea.
The stitches used are cross stitch over two threads, satin stitches for the centre of some flower head (the satin stitches can be replaced with cross stitch) and some straight stitches for the flower stamens.
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 Russian Tea Cake- 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for both Soie d'Alger and Soie 1003 threads
38 ct Fat Half - Fuller's Teazel- 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for both Soie d'Alger and Soie 1003 threads
45 ct FatHalf -Jersey Cream - 35" x 36" ~ Recommended for Soie 1003 Threads
Thread Options:
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger - 37 ct version includes 25 skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 38 ct or lower.
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger - 30 ct version includes 31skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 37 ct or lower.
SDF 122 ~ Turquoise ~ light SDF 236 ~ Forest green ~ dark SDF 631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale SDF 1315 ~ Grape ~ dark SDF 1342 ~ Blueberry SDF 1344 ~ Blue violet dark SDF 1723 ~ Turquoise SDF 1746 x 2 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark (3 skeins for 30 ct) SDF 1836 x 2 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark SDF 2125 ~ Avocado green ~ light (2 skeins for 30 ct) SDF 2144 ~ Olive green (3 skeins for 30 ct) SDF 2532 ~ Straw ~ light SDF 2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium SDF 2924 x 2 ~ Christmas red (4 skeins for 30 ct) SDF 3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark SDF 3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium SDF 3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale SDF S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light SDF 4622 ~ Salmon SDF 4623 ~ Rose ~ deep SDF 4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light SDF 4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie 1003 includes 22 spools. Recommended linen for this thread is 37 ct or higher.
SMS 002 ~ Turquoise ~ light SMS 038 ~ Apricot ~ medium SMS 061 ~ Forest green ~ dark SMS 067 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium SMS 077 ~ Salmon SMS 088 ~ Desert sand ~ light SMS 124 ~ Antique mauve ~ light SMS 133 ~ Grape ~ dark SMS 148 ~ Straw ~ light SMS 152 ~ Olive green SMS 223 ~ Mauve ~ medium SMS 307 ~ Rose ~ deep SMS 362 ~ Blueberry SMS 474 ~ Lavender ~ pale SMS 478 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale SMS 605 ~ Turquoise SMS 619 ~ Cranberry ~ dark SMS 647 ~ Avocado green ~ light SMS 656 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark SMS 681 ~ Christmas red SMS 690 ~ Blue violet ~ dark SMS 710 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark
***Please note, this item is excluded from any discounts or sales.
About the Sampler from the Designer
"Why an original design versus a reproduction sampler? Since I first started to collect antique samplers, I have obsessively searched for multiplication samplers, but I have never come acrosstheonethat made my heart sing and my fingers itch to stitch. Whilst I have a few in my collection, none of them called to me to stitch them.
It was a colourful multiplication table sampler that caught my eye back in the 1980s that led to me stitching my first sampler. Whilst in a dentist’s waiting room, I picked up a magazine and came across an article which featured an interview with Moria Blackburn. There were many photographs of Moria’s beautiful designs, but one particular sampler stood out – a large colourful multiplication table sampler. I immediately wanted to take up stitching and recreate the sampler for my son. My journey with cross stitch and samplers was about to begin.
Within days I visited a needlework store and, whilst I could not find the chart for the multiplication table sampler, I came away with a kit to stitch my first sampler. Several years later, I had stitched all the samplers that Moira had charted but not the multiplication table sampler. After exhausting Moria’s portfolio of work, I went in search of other designers and discovered the needlework community and blogs. It was then that the world of needlework with its beautiful linens and glorious silks flung open its doors and my deep love of samplers worked in centuries past bloomed. This in turn led me to collect samplers and to research their history. A few years later, Hands Across the Sea Samplers released its first reproduction sampler.
Shortly after HATS’ first release, I entered into correspondence with Moria and discovered that the multiplication table sampler featured in the magazine was not one of her own designs but another designer’s. The sampler had caught her eye too, and she had stitched it for her children!"
