Hands Across the Sea - Ann Tong Uffindell 1835

If you would like to order the complete kit for this project including all threads and linen required, please contact me on 07 5546 0558 or [email protected].  We carry the complete range of Au Ver a Soie d’Alger. We carry most of the 100/3 threads with the remaining colours currently on their way to us. This shipment also includes all the Legacy Linen available for HATS Samplers. The threads and linens are due in the shop by mid July. If you require the kit before then, we have a wide range of other beautiful linens in stock.

Ann Tong Uffindell 1835 was originally published by Hands Across the Sea Samplers in a special limited-edition booklet as a duet with her sister Isabell Uffindell 1829. Ann and Isabella were our gift to our stitching sisters in 2017, and as they each make their solo appearance at the end of 2019, they are once again our gift to a new audience of sampler lovers. They come from our hearts to your hands.

When we reproduce samplers, we not only follow the path that the little girls’ needles and floss originally took but as we research the girls, we also follow a meandering thread back through time casting a light onto their lives.

Ann and Isabella are two very special samplers. They are special not only as they are very, very beautiful samplers but also because they were stitched by two sisters. Both the sisters were 10 years of age when they stitched their samplers, Isabella in 1829 and Ann 6 years later in 1835. As a collector sister samplers particularly fascinate me. I find it so remarkable that two samplers remain together through the centuries.

Ann has been reproduced using the colours on the front of the samplers in 2016.

Thread Legend - Ann

Ann’s sampler has been reproduced with Au Ver à Soie d’Alger silks and the skein quantities calculated based on 1 strand on 36ct fabric. We have provided a DMC conversion based on 2 strands on 36ct fabric. The model was stitched on 40ct Lakeside Linen Pecan Butter.  The sampler has been reproduced using the colours on the front of the original sampler.

Soie d’Alger / Soie 100.3 / DMC 

F5 x 2 / 080 x 2 / 739 x 2 ~ Tan – ultra very light

F9 x 1 /425 x 1 / 422 x 1 ~ Hazel nut brown – light

946 x 1 / 499 x 1 / 815 x 1 ~ Garnet – medium

1726 x 1 / 703 x 1 / 924 x 1 ~ Grey green – very dark

1741 x 1 / 071 x 1 / 928 x 1 ~ Grey green – very light

1743 x 1 / 486 x 1 / 3768 x 1 ~ Grey green – dark

1845 x 2 / 654 x 2  / 3362 x 2 ~ Pine green – dark

1846 x 2 / 210 x 2 / 500 x 2 ~ Blue green – very dark

2543 x 1 / 148 x 1 / 676 x 1 ~ Old gold – light

2646 x 1 / 2646 x 1 / 814 x 1 ~ Garnet – dark

2915 x 1 / 494 x 1 / 3712 x 1 ~ Salmon – medium

2916 x 2 / 523 x 2 / 3831 x 2 ~ Raspberry

3715 x 2 / 565 x 2 / 3051 x 2 ~ Green grey – dark

3745 x 2 /  455 x 2 / 829 x 2  ~ Golden olive – very dark

3832 x 1 / 328 x 1 / 3013 x 1 ~ Khaki green – light

3833 x 1 / 562 x 1 / 371 x 1 ~ Mustard

3834 x 1 / 603 x 1 / 642 x 1 ~ Beige grey – dark

3835 x 1 / 576 x 1 / 640 x 1 ~ Beige grey – very dark

3845 x 1 / 011 x 1 / 645 x 1 ~ Beaver grey – very dark

4244 x 1 / 156 x 1 / 832 x 1 ~ Golden olive

4245 x 1 / 492 x 1 / 420 x 1  ~ Hazel nut brown – dark

4246 x 1 / 048 x 1 / 869 x 1 ~ Hazel nut brown – very dark

4534 x 1 / 572 x 1 / 611 x 1 ~ Drab brown

4535 x 1 / 207 x 1 / 610 x 1 ~ Drab brown – dark

4541 x 1 / 217 x 1 / 950 x 1 ~ Desert sand – light

5384 x 1 / 072 x 1 / 926 x 1 ~ Grey green – medium

LINEN SIZES

The design area is 320 stitches (w) x 378 stitches (h). Our calculations have included a 3” margin for finishing and framing.

28ct – Design: 22.86″ x 27.00″ Fabric: 28.86″ x 33.00″

32ct – Design: 20.00″ x 23.63″ Fabric: 26.00″ x 29.63″

36ct – Design: 17.78″ x 21.00″ Fabric: 23.78″ x 27.00″

40ct – Design: 16.00″ x 18.90″ Fabric: 22.00″ x 24.90″