Origin: The Netherlands
Stitch Count: 103H x 171W
Stitches: Darning (running stitch), cross stitch, star stitch (smyrna stitch)

An attractive darning sampler from the Netherlands. Composed without alphabet and clearly designed.

Nellie's plain and pretty "Doorstoplap" of 1901 (“darning” without a hole in only one direction) is typical of that period it was just one of several tasks in needlework classes. It is usually worked without an alphabet, without motifs, but in three different types of stitches - cross-stitch in the name, Smyrna or star stitch and just running stich.