Course Type, Length, and Start Date Design and History 4-months. September 2026. Pre-Registration Open Subscription Payments Payment in full by button above. If prefer paying by Installment - click the gold link to be taken to PayPal for a subscription: 4-months Sampler Design Course ($75/month) Kit Contents There is no kit, this is a online only course Course Overview Have you wanted to design or modify your own historic-looking samplers? Perhaps you want to make a family genealogy sampler in a particular style? Have an over the top 17th century band sampler in your head? Maybe you love the monochromatic Quaker, Vierlande or French samplers and want to design your own. Have a needle book idea you wanted to design? This 4-month online course will teach the fundamentals of how to design using source material. The course includes: Lectures in both pdf and video formats covering the theory of design, how to choose motifs, layout samplers, identify common design mistakes, balance motifs by color and weight. How to choose a theme for your sampler and use constraints when designing to help you make decisions and avoid decision paralysis A method to use cut and pasting of motifs on base graph paper to design if using a computer isn't your forte. Over 100 pdf pages of motifs from historic samplers of the following genres and organized into themes: American, English (1600-1900), Quaker, French, Scottish, German, Dutch, and a smattering of Spanish/Mexican and Scandinavian motifs. The majority of motifs are from samplers in private collection and were selected to be representative and of enough variety to allow for design creativity. The electronic files in both .chart and .oxs format for all the motifs with video based directions on how to import them into MacStitch (Mac), WinStitch (Windows) or MobiStitch (iPad) software by Ursa Software so you can build new samplers using them. These software platforms can be purchased separately directly from Ursa Software if desired (
