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Girls, Places, and Stitches Used

Girl's Samplers, State and Stitches Used

Maine

Clarissa Dyer  - Cross, Eyelet, Half-cross

Fanny Whitney - Cross, Eyelet, Running, Satin

Sarah Skillin - Four-sided, Crosslet, Cross, Satin, Straight, Chain, Stem

Arvilla Grower - Cross, Chain, Eyelet, Four-sided, Long and short, Rice, Satin, Straight 

Massachusetts

Molley Russel - Cross, Satin, Algerian Eye (Eyelet Stitch).

Rebekah White - None mentioned

Lydia Dickman - Cross, two-sided cross, Eyelet, marking cross, Gobelin, Satin, Tent (petit-point), hem.  

Sarah Collins - Satin, Back, Double Running, Reversible and Diagonal Cross

Sarah Stone - Cross, Buttonhole, Eyelet, Longarm cross, Running, Satin, Reversible and Diagonal cross, Double running.

Rebeckah Bullfinch - Cross, Eyelet, Queen or rococo, Satin, Stem, Romanina - aka Roman, Hemstitch 

Hephzeba Baker - Cross, Eyelet, Half cross, Knotted, Long and short, Satin, Stem, Straight, Bullions, Herringbone, reversible cross 

Elizabeth Holland - Cross, two-sided cross, marking cross, Satin, Straight, Fern, Algerian eye (Eyelet Stitch), herringbone, long-armed cross 

Katherine Mayo - Cross, Crosslet, two-sided cross, marking cross, and Algerian Eye (Eyelet Stitch)

Rhode Island

Anne Chase - None mentioned

Mary Bown - Cross, Chain, Satin, Stem, Straight, Hemstitch

Melisa Usher - Cross Stitch

Maria Barker - Cross, Eyelet, Queen or rococo, Satin, Stem, hemstitch

Sarah Borden - Cross stitch

Chloe Allen - Cross Stitch

Rebecca Starkweather -  Cross Stitch

New Hampshire

Betsey Hamlet - Cross, Eyelet, Satin, Stem, Split, Back

Anna Lyford - Cross, Long and Short, Satin, Bullion 

Anna Green - Straight

Eliza Ricker - Cross, Chain, Eyelet, Long arm cross, Satin, Stem, French knot,

Vermont

Martha Slocum - Cross sitch 

Susanna Goodale - Cross, tent

Betsey Colcords - Cross 

Diana Austin - Cross, detached chain, Four-sided, Algerian Eye (Eyelet Stitch), buttonhole, outline, and Satin 

Betsey Bruce - Cross, Algerian Eye, and Crosslet 

Connecticut

Hannah Magil - Cross, Rice 

Harriet Eggleston - Cross, Eyelet 

Lydia Fitch - Cross, Chain, Eyelet, Four-sided, Stem 

Phebe Copp - Cross, Algerian eye, long-armed cross, Tent Stitch (Petit point), Rice.

Esther Copp - Cross, petit point, Algerian eye, rice, queen.

Elizabeth Fowler - Cross