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Quick Start Sets
About In the Company of Friends™
Quick Start Sets
There you are at the beginning of a sampler class when the teacher says - "measure in three inches from the side and three inches down from the top to begin your stitching", and pandemonium reigns as everyone looks around for a ruler or measuring tape! While everyone else scrambles, you simply reach into your bag and pull out your Quick Start Set. The three-inch square sits at the top left corner of your linen and you put in your first stitches while your neighbor is still searching for a ruler.
The Quick Start set includes two inch, three inch and four inch squares - just place them on the corner of your linen, and you can put your needle in exactly where you want it. Get a quick start in class or when you're itching to begin that next sampler... The three squares are adorned with high quality photos of antique needlework. They are mounted on artist's board and have a protective coating.
We have a lot of fun shopping for just the right ribbon to enhance your Quick Start set - but sometimes when we go back to buy more, we can't find exactly the same thing - so rest assured the ribbon which adorns your set will have been chosen to complement the designs in the set, even if it's not quite what you see in the pictures here.
Our Quick Start Sets are not only practical - they're gorgeous! They grace your stitching basket and make you look really smart!
To place an order from outside the United States, please contact us!
Just place your quick start
square on your linen and start stitching!
©2009
2
inches
3
inches
4 inches
2" Elizabeth
Elliott May 30, 1811. Private Collection.
3"
Sara Jones Aged 9. 1840 . Private Collection.
4"
Jessie Brown,13. August 4, 1827. Scottish. Private collection.
New!
Now I Know My ABC's Quick Start Set $8.50*
©2008
1.
2.
3.
1.Caroline Reeves, 1830 - her work.
American - probably Pennsylvania. Private collection.
2.Eleanor
Dade aged 13 years on the 14th of May 1835. Private Collection.
3. I.R.S.
1738.German. Private Collection.
Adam and Eve Quick Start Set $8.50*
1817. Sarah Almy’s Sampler Wrought in the 11th year of her age, 10th
month. American.
Quaker Quick Start Set $8.50*
©2007
2"
IRS MDG 1738
3" Sara Jones Aged 9 1840
4"
Jessie Brown, 13. August 4, 1827. Scottish. Samplers are from a
private collection
Three different views of houses from antique samplers grace this set.
House Quick Start Set $8.50*
All images are the property of In the Company of Friends™
*A small handling charge will be added to actual shipping costs at checkout.