Quilting Bee Sampler - Embroidery and Cross Stitch Pattern - PDF Download

"Where quilters gather.... friendships blossom"  - This beautiful sampler brings Quilting and Stitching together in a way that touches your heart. The top shows a scene familiar to most quilters, a group of friends working on a quilt together. Chatting and telling each other their stories, creating a quilt brings people together in so many magical ways. Regular meetings of a quilting group and the camaraderie of stitching are emotional ‘ties that bind’ when we work with our needles. The symbolic branches overhead, give the feeling of shelter and safety. Below the scene is a lovely line of lace, embellished with bugle beads, and right below that is a wonderful quilt of specialty stitches. The quilt is similar to the one worked on in the scene at the top of the sampler, and has the same colours. I’ve created the impression of some typical colourful quilt blocks put together with some special whitework blocks, and bound the entire quilt with a gorgeous floral garland band. What a beautifu