Quaker Samplers

This book is packed with a wide-ranging collection of Quaker designs. You’ll find 10 traditional and 10 modern samplers, each with a full chart and beautiful photography. The book also includes 180 motifs and medallions, allowing you to create your own unique sampler designs, plus three alphabets for personalising your work in the classic Quaker style. You can also get started on two modern projects - a Quaker motif heart and a pincushion.

Lesley Wilkins discovered embroidered samplers on a school visit to the V&A Museum in London when she was 10, and has been hooked ever since. Her fascination with the craft led her to become not only an embroiderer of extraordinary skill, but also an expert in the history of blackwork and embroidered samplers. She has collected thousands of patterns from all over the world, and her own work is inspired by historical motifs, patterns and borders. Her designs have appeared in Needlecraft, Needlework and Stitch magazines, and she also edited her own publications - Blackwork and Antique Samplerstitcher - for 9 years. She now edits Quaker Samplers magazine. Now retired from local government, Lesley self-publishes a variety of embroidered projects, especially Quaker style, online. Lesley lives in Derbyshire, UK.