Hello from Santa Cruz, California

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Tue May 24, 2016 1:58 am

Hello everyone!

My name is Olga, I live in Santa Cruz county, California. I have been cross-stitching for about 17 years and I have been satin stitching even more years. I also paint and do other crafts: knitting, sewing, making pine needle baskets, etc. I love nature, animals, especially cats.
At times I feel lonely, I wish there were more cross-stitching people in my small town.

I am looking forward getting to know everyone in this community!

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:30 am

Well, you'll not be lonely now! You have a whole world of stitchers and craftspeople here to talk to. Welcome from the West of Scotland!

lavenderbee · Post by **lavenderbee** » Tue May 24, 2016 2:17 pm

Hello from North Wales which is sunny today. Yu certainly have a lot of hobbies & look forward to see photos of them on here. A lot of cat lovers on here too, well we like all animals but several have cats & plenty of cat stories

karen4bells · Post by **karen4bells** » Tue May 24, 2016 2:55 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum!!

fiddler · Post by **fiddler** » Tue May 24, 2016 5:26 pm

Hello and welcome

vanessanjf · Post by **vanessanjf** » Tue May 24, 2016 6:48 pm

Hello and welcome

fccs · Post by **fccs** » Tue May 24, 2016 7:09 pm

Hello from Colorado and welcome to the forum.

I'm glad you found us - you'll no longer be lacking in stitchy friends!

What are you working on now? Before I joined the forum, I was a "one project at a time" stitcher - no longer.

dawn0621 · Post by **dawn0621** » Tue May 24, 2016 8:42 pm

Hi from Sacramento! I love Santa Cruz and have been dying to get back there for a long time. Some day...

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:33 pm

Hi from chilly Brisbane where autumn seems to have arrived. It is great that you have found us and there is almost always someone on the forum from different parts of the world. Looking forward to see your stitching.

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Wed May 25, 2016 4:39 pm

Thank you for a warm welcoming! I am so glad I found your all!

Fccs, I am working on the Kitten Reflections by Dimensions.

Dawn0621, I hope you will make it to Santa Cruz soon! Better move here, Santa Cruz definitely needs more stitchers!

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Wed May 25, 2016 4:47 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum from South Carolina! Know what you mean about not having a lot of stitchers around. I was part of a lovely group at my local LNS for a few years, but it closed and I haven't found one since (either a LNS or a group) but this forum really makes up for it. As Sally said, because we cover so many places and time zones, someone is usually around. And many of us have pets (I am particularly fond of cats having been owned by several and currently am controlled by a feline supervisor) as well. Looking forward to getting to know you.

Carole

dawn0621 · Post by **dawn0621** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:00 pm

OlgasStitchingJoy wrote:Thank you for a warm welcoming! I am so glad I found your all!

Fccs, I am working on the Kitten Reflections by Dimensions.

Dawn0621, I hope you will make it to Santa Cruz soon! Better move here, Santa Cruz definitely needs more stitchers!

I so wish I could move there. Now maybe I have a good excuse to take a drive...visit a new stitchy friend.

What could be better, the beach and stitching.
Problem is I might have to bring my dog and maybe my mom. lol

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Wed May 25, 2016 11:47 pm

What a lovely design you are stitching Olga and I too am bossed by a cream/ginger part Siamese brat named Tuppence - Tuppy for short.

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Thu May 26, 2016 6:07 am

dawn0621 wrote: I so wish I could move there. Now maybe I have a good excuse to take a drive...visit a new stitchy friend. What could be better, the beach and stitching.
Problem is I might have to bring my dog and maybe my mom. lol

Welcome to Santa Cruz!

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Thu May 26, 2016 6:10 am

Squirrel wrote:What a lovely design you are stitching Olga and I too am bossed by a cream/ginger part Siamese brat named Tuppence - Tuppy for short.

How cute! My kitty, Barsik, is black:

fccs · Post by **fccs** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:41 pm

I love the kitten design, and your black cat is so pretty. I had a black cat (named Kitty - original, I know) and she used to sit on the edge of a small koi pool next door and watch the fish. (That was obviously before she became an indoor only Kitty.)

jen_rosero · Post by **jen_rosero** » Fri May 27, 2016 2:01 am

Same here from Philippines, I love stitching and I also love cat.

pollywog · Post by **pollywog** » Sat May 28, 2016 5:38 pm

Hi
I'm in the bay area! Santa Cruz, a small town? Moss Landing is a small town,but santa cru is a college town, and pretty big by my standards. But since my favorite restaurant changed hands, I don't drive over there too much. A bunch of us quilters go there on our shop hops! And my son mountain bikes there all the time. It's a nie place. Well, welcome and i bet if you went over to Judy's quilt shop, I think it is on Ocean, you should be able to hook up with other stitchers.
Take Care
Polly

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Sun May 29, 2016 6:52 am

fccs wrote:I love the kitten design, and your black cat is so pretty. I had a black cat (named Kitty - original, I know) and she used to sit on the edge of a small koi pool next door and watch the fish. (That was obviously before she became an indoor only Kitty.)

Dimensions make such lovely small designs! I wish they made more kittens.

OlgasStitchingJoy · Post by **OlgasStitchingJoy** » Sun May 29, 2016 6:54 am

jen_rosero wrote:Same here from Philippines, I love stitching and I also love cat.

Nice to meet you here, jen_rosero!

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