Included in this issue:

• Common Threads: A Showcase of Samplers

• Strawberry Sampler designed by Phyllis Hoffman (includes hemstitching instructions) (2)

• The Acorn Sampler designed by Brenda Keyes of The Sampler Company (Cover)

• Storks on Guard designed by Ruth Ann Russell (3)

• Life's Song Keeper designed by Phyllis Hoffman (4)

• Flower Medallion Keeper designed by Phyllis Hoffman (4)

• Sewing and Drizzling Etuis by Linda Gordanier Jary

• 1800 Ann Crooks Sampler reproduced by Yukie McLean and Lorna Reeves (5)

• 1765 Queen Charlotte Sampler reproduced by Rebecca Dorrie of Samplers and Such (6)

• English Pictorial Embroideries of the Seventeenth Century Part 1: Lessons in Virtuous Living by Kathleen Epstein Staples

• The Globe Samplers of Westtown Boarding School by Beth Meree

• Three-Piece Thimbles From the Sixteenth Century by Paula Moore