Modern Folk Embroidery - Nine Medallions: A Quaker Style Sampler - Booklet Chart

For this year’s “Black Sampler November”, I wanted to design a Quaker-style medallion sampler. All medallions here are inspired by antique examples, but are not (to my knowledge) actually on any real Quaker samplers. Octagonal designs are super inspiring to create: there’s a limitation to a small surface, and you have to stick to certain rules of symmetry (usually along the central horizontal, vertical, and diagonal axes). And most importantly, there’s the Quaker medallion aesthetic that truly sets these medallions apart.

These nine medallions can all be worked as small pincushions. I designed them in a shape that fits perfectly into the 4th project of the “Quintessential Frisian Smalls” design, released as a collaboration with Evertote and Roxy Floss Co. in Canada. Instructions on how to assemble such a pincushion can be found in the booklet’s instructions. If you want to work the half medallions on a pincushion, you can mirror them by turning the booklet upside down and stitching the missing half this way.