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jlongsta
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Hello from Kansas

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I recently joined the group. I live in Wichita, Kansas and am a department administrator at a medical school. I used to cross stitch and had not done it for a few years. I lost my mother a little over a year ago. She was an avid stitcher and completed many beautiful projects. I recently began cleaning, restoring and reframing several of her pieces and made me recall how much I enjoyed stitching. My daughter also is a cross stitcher and has completed some beautiful Disney designs. I decided to start stitching again. I have recently started a very challenging design. I love impressionist paintings and one of my favorites is Renoir's Girl with the Watering Can. I started it a few weeks ago and am enjoying the challenge.
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rcperryls
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:wave: Hello and welcome from South Carolina. Your project sounds beautiful. The painting is a lovely one and must be a beautiful cross stitch. I hope you will post pictures for us to see and admire it. We love pictures.

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Thanks Carole. I think I'll enjoy this group very much.
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Hi Jill and welcome from Brisbane Australia.

I am delighted that you have started stitching again and as Carole says, we love to see pictures. Your project will be awesome when it is done as that is a wonderful painting.

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Welcome to the group from Newcastle in Australia. Girl with the Watering Canis one of my favourite paintings too, I will love watching how your stitching of it goes. I wouldn't mindstitching that myself, but I had better weed down my pile of 'next in line' charts before I think of anything else LOL
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Hello, i'm also just joined here....
Nice to meet u.... :D
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welcome from southern california 8)

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Hi and welcome to the forum. Your current project sounds exciting and would love to see pics of your progress so far :)
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hello and a welcome from Belgium!
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Welcome from cold, but sunny Vermont. Your new project sounds challenging indeed, glad to hear you're enjoying it.
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jlongsta
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WOW, this truly is an international group of cross stitch fans! Thanks for all of the welcoming words.
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Serinde
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Welcome from the West of Scotland! :wave: Your new project sounds challenging, and I look forward to cheering you on in an SAL, if you would like to post your progress in a thread.
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Yes, I'm not sure how long the Girl with the Watering Can will take me. No hurry.... Here is one of my mom's works. She wasn't able to stitch the last few years of her life due to a brain disease. She did lots and lots of pieces during her life though.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/pho ... 9504XgxfNo
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Welcome from Ontario, Canada. :wave: Your project sounds lovely. It's a beautiful painting. Your Mom's work is very pretty too, and a wonderful rememberance of her. I have pieces of artwork and a needlepoint my Mom did too and remain in pride of place on my walls.
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Those are lovely pieces that your Mom did. I have some of those charts and have never gotten to them and love when I see them so well done. Thank you for sharing them with us.

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Your mum's work is beautiful and I love those quilts in it too. So colourful. What a wonderful heritage you have.

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What a lovely way of remembering your mother!
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Hello amd welcome :D
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Hello and welcome!
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A warm hello & welcome! :)
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