Customer Completed Samplers

Dear Marsha,Last night over a glass of wine, a friend asked me if I believe in fate. Fate, yes, I answered. Pre-destiny, no. I mention this rather weighty conversation because when I sorely need a diversion from the tedium of life, a Scarlet Letter supplement arrives. Whatever the reason, No. 27 was in my mail…

Dear Scarlett Letter, Please find attached a picture of the finished Unicorn Bell Pull stitched on canvas with DMC floss. Thanks for your advice about finishing the bell pull which was very helpful. I did change one colour – I changed DMC 371 to 372 – to getter better contrast on the birds and animals…

Marsha,Last year I worked the Scarlet Letter’s EMILY LUCILLE sampler. Three changes that I made to it: I used my initials rather than the original It called for filling the entire background with the white silk. But in my growing collection of sampler source books I had seen another variation on this Emily Lucille sampler…

I just saw on your web site that you would like photos of work done by your customers, and thought that you would be interested in ‘Coraggio’ that I did a few years ago. I did it in silk, and it has received many comments. It was displayed at the Albuquerque Internationl Airport for several…

Congratulations for your knew website, very clear and very easy to explore. I here send you photos of my two samplers made from your collection. I am very sad because I cannot do embroiderie for a certain time because I have a serious problem in my right arm, I just hope that doctors put me…

by Deb McCann Marsha,I recall reading that the Scarlet Letter was interested in knowing how stitchers personalized samplers. I enjoy stitching reproduction samplers,and was introduced to this in 2003 when I had broken my ankle and needed something to do that was meaningful. I had done cross stitch on aida but never stitched on linen.…

Dear Marsha,I love your webside and your reproduced samplers are wonderful!I stitched the Lydia Hart sampler and want to sent a photo for your customer gallery.Greetings from Germany! Sigrid Eckel

Dear Marsha,Hi Marsha.. was just on your site and saw that you are looking for pics for your gallery… I am able to help if you are interested… last year I finished both Jane Rees and Jane Atkinson… I have attached both of them for you and the last several are both pieces up on…

by Debbie Roman Dear Marsha –I was just looking around on your website and saw that you would like to have pictures of finished Scarlett Letter samplers so I thought that I would send a picture of Ann Medd to you. I so enjoyed working on Ann, although she took me almost five years to…

by Debbie Roman Hi Marsha –I finally had Sun and Moon framed and wanted to send it to you for your Gallery. I had so much fun with this sampler. I chose a rather simple frame for the piece as it wasn’t a large sampler and I think that it worked out well. I look…