Ann Gardner 1723 Cross Stitch

Hands Across The Sea Cross Stitch

Ann Gardner 1723

The year of our Lord seventeen hundred and twenty-three was such a long time ago.

Almost three hundred years have passed since Ann Gardner of Pilerton Priery (sic) completed her sampler on the eighteenth day of Desember (sic). Ann did not record her age, but we suspect that she was a very young child and that this was her first attempt at stitching a sampler.

She diligently recorded the alphabet although her spelling certainly needed improvement.

She stitched seventeen birds and twenty-seven crowns which she scattered around the border of her sampler.