Multiply Kindness ~ PDF download

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Available as a pdf download printed and a printed booklet. Click HERE for the printed booklet.

I am thrilled to present to you an original design. Multiply Kindness has been a sampler many years in the making as borders, motifs, verses, and colours swirled around my head. It was not until the latter part of 2019 that those ideas were translated into a graph. Covid occurred, and as life changed, the sampler was put on the back burner. It was not until the latter part of 2023 that I finalised the chart and the model went into production.

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 across the one that 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!

I have personalised the design with my husband’s and my own initials. In the tabs below the thumbnail photos you will find the full alphabet charted in the font I used so that you too can personalise your sampler.

The sampler has been designed using a palette of twenty-two colours from Au Ver à Soie’s range of Soie 100.3 We have provided conversions and approximate thread usage for Soie d’Alger and DMC. The sampler can be stitched on Aida or linen, and we recommend that you use a count and fabric that you enjoy working with. The model was stitched using a Zweigart-based linen that was overdyed to the shade  Antique Lace by Seraphim Linen. 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.

There are 3 versions of the pdf. You will be able to download any or all of the following pdf and graph versions:

Version 1 ~ An sixteen-page colour chart.

Version 2 ~ A one-page colour chart (intended to be viewed/used on your tablet, phone, laptop, or computer).

Version 3 ~ A one-page black and white symbol chart (intended to be viewed/used on your tablet, phone, laptop, or computer).

 

Thread Legend

The sampler has been designed using a palette of twenty-two colours from Au Ver à Soie’s range of Soie 100.3 We have provided conversions and approximate thread usage for Soie d’Alger and DMC.

Soie 100.3 1 strand 40 – 56ct linen

002 ~ Turquoise ~ light

038 ~ Apricot ~ medium

061 ~ Forest green ~ dark

067 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

077 ~ Salmon

088 ~ Desert sand ~ light

124 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

133 ~ Grape ~ dark

148 ~ Straw ~ light

152 ~ Olive green

223 ~ Mauve ~ medium

307 ~ Rose ~ deep

362 ~ Blueberry

474 ~ Lavender ~ pale

478 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

605 ~ Turquoise

619 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

647 ~ Avocado green ~ light

656 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

681 ~ Christmas red

690 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

710 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

SDA 1 strand on 46ct

122 ~ Turquoise ~ light

236 ~ Forest green ~ dark

631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

1315 ~ Grape ~ dark

1342 ~ Blueberry

1344 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

1723 ~ Turquoise

1746 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

1836 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

2125 ~ Avocado green ~ light

2144 ~ Olive green

2532 ~ Straw ~ light

2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium

2924 x 2 ~ Christmas red

3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale

S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light

4622 ~ Salmon

4623 ~ Rose ~ deep

4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

SDA 1 strand on 40ct

122 ~ Turquoise ~ light

236 ~ Forest green ~ dark

631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

1315 ~ Grape ~ dark

1342 ~ Blueberry

1344 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

1723 ~ Turquoise

1746 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

1836 x 2 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

2125 ~ Avocado green ~ light

2144 ~ Olive green

2532 ~ Straw ~ light

2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium

2924 x 2 ~ Christmas red

3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale

4622 ~ Salmon

4623 ~ Rose ~ deep

4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light

SDA 1 strand on 36ct

122 ~ Turquoise ~ light

236 ~ Forest green ~ dark

631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

1315 ~ Grape ~ dark

1342 ~ Blueberry

1344 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

1723 ~ Turquoise

1746 x 2 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

1836 x 2 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

2125 ~ Avocado green ~ light

2144 ~ Olive green

2532 ~ Straw ~ light

2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium

2924 x 2 ~ Christmas red

3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale

S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light

4622 ~ Salmon

4623 ~ Rose ~ deep

4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

SDA 2 strands on 32ct

122 ~ Turquoise ~ light

236 ~ Forest green ~ dark

631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

1315 ~ Grape ~ dark

1342 ~ Blueberry

1344 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

1723 ~ Turquoise

1746 x 3 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

1836 x 2 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

2125 x 2 ~ Avocado green ~ light

2144 x 3 ~ Olive green

2532 ~ Straw ~ light

2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium

2924 x 4 ~ Christmas red

3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale

S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light

4622 ~ Salmon

4623 ~ Rose ~ deep

4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

SDA 2 strands on 28ct

122 ~ Turquoise ~ light

236 ~ Forest green ~ dark

631 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

1315 ~ Grape ~ dark

1342 ~ Blueberry

1344 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

1723 ~ Turquoise

1746 x 3 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

1836 x 3 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

2125 x 2 ~ Avocado green ~ light

2144 x 3 ~ Olive green

2532 ~ Straw ~ light

2643 ~ Apricot ~ medium

2924 x 4 ~ Christmas red

3024 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

3046 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3322 ~ Lavender ~ pale

S3596 ~ Desert sand ~ light

4622 ~ Salmon

4623 ~ Rose ~ deep

4633 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

4634 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

DMC 1 strand on 40-46ct linen

26 ~ Lavender ~ pale

31 ~ Blueberry

309 ~ Rose ~ deep

316 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

321  ~ Christmas red

333 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

470 ~ Avocado green ~ light

597 ~ Turquoise

601 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

732 ~ Olive green

760 ~ Salmon

890~ Pistachio green ~ dark

986 ~ Forest green ~ dark

3340 ~ Apricot ~ medium

3727 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

3774~ Desert sand ~ light

3803 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3808 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

3811 ~ Turquoise ~ light

3822 ~ Straw ~ light

3825 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

3834 ~ Grape ~ dark

DMC 2 strands on 28-36ct linen

26 ~ Lavender ~ pale

31 ~ Blueberry

309 ~ Rose ~ deep

316 ~ Antique mauve ~ medium

321 x 3 ~ Christmas red

333 ~ Blue violet ~ dark

470 ~ Avocado green ~ light

597 ~ Turquoise

601 ~ Cranberry ~ dark

732 x 2 ~ Olive green

760 ~ Salmon

890 x 2 ~ Pistachio green ~ dark

986 ~ Forest green ~ dark

3340 ~ Apricot ~ medium

3727 ~ Antique mauve ~ light

3774~ Desert sand ~ light

3803 ~ Mauve ~ medium

3808 x 2 ~ Turquoise ~ very dark

3811 ~ Turquoise ~ light

3822 ~ Straw ~ light

3825 ~ Pumpkin ~ pale

3834 ~ Grape ~ dark

Linen Sizes

The sampler can be stitched on Aida or linen, and we recommend that you use a count and fabric that you enjoy working with.

The model was stitched using a Zweigart-based linen that was overdyed to the shade  Antique Lace by Seraphim Linen.

The design area is 395 stitches (w) x 299 stitches (h). Our calculations have included a 3" margin for finishing and framing.

14ct Aida / 28ct linen:

Design: 28.21" x 21.36" Fabric: 34.21" x 27.36"

16ct Aida / 32ct linen:

Design: 24.69" x 18.69" Fabric: 30.69" x 24.69"

18ct Aida / 36ct linen:

Design: 21.94" x 16.61" Fabric: 27.94" x 22.61"

20ct Aida / 40ct linen:

Design: 19.75" x 14.95" Fabric: 25.75" x 20.95"

46ct linen:

Design: 17.17" x 13.00" Fabric: 23.17" x 19.00"

56ct linen:

Design: 14.11" x 10.68" Fabric: 20.11" x 16.68"

Stitch Guide

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.

Font for Personalisation