Hello from North Carolina

[JeanFarish]

I am so happy to be here! I have been away from the cross stitch community for too long! I retired from teaching social studies about a year ago and now I have time once again to immerse myself in needlework. I'm a little rusty but it's coming back. Currently, I am doing a whitework project with one cross stitch inner border. As I learn to post pictures, I'll add one. I think I mastered creating an avatar and a signature. I guess I'll find out when I post this. For those of you in the UK, the flower (if it posts!) is one I unearthed when working in the research room of the Victoria and Albert Museum many years ago.

[rcperryls]

Hi Jean and welcome to the forum from your neighbor to the South in South Carolina! So glad that you have returned to stitching and that you found us. I love your avatar and I am looking forward to seeing your pictures. If you've been following us for a while you know that we never get tired of pictures. What types of projects (besides whitework) do you like to do?

Carole

[JeanFarish]

Carole,

I like samplers, Americana, whimsical and traditional projects. Other than stamped embroidery when I was a child, and one crewel work project, I have only stitched things that I design. I admire the work of many designers but I come up with ideas faster than I can stitch so I guess my stash of WIP is pretty substantial.

Thanks for the welcome!

[karen4bells]

Hello and welcome to the forum---I think all of us have a list similar to yours---I've got sooooooo many projects lined up, I'd need years, decades even, to stitch them all

[fccs]

Hello from Colorado and welcome to the forum.

[Squirrel]

Hi and Welcome from me too in chilly Brisbane. So glad you found us and now have time to enjoy your passions. Love the flower in your Avatar - is it done in cross stitch or bullion stitch please?

[JeanFarish]

Carole, it's me again! I was wondering what to write in my blog today and you provided the inspiration I needed! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[JeanFarish]

To Sally in Brisbane:

The center is the cross cornered cushion stitch. I think I can walk you through it if you want to learn. The rest of the flower motif is cross stitch. It's a detail from my "Hare & the Basket" Sampler. I wrote about that design in my blog today.

[Oriettait]

Hello and welcome to the forum from italy

[littleturtlegirl]

Welcome to the forum from Virginia!

[Squirrel]

Thank you Jean for the information about the stitches. I had heard about the cross corner cushion stitch and I am almost sure it is in one of my embroidery mags.

What a beautiful sampler that is and a very true verse as well. I learnt from my Grandmother and my daughter and a grand daughter stitch occasionally. Lovely to share our passion.

[suepollock]

I am so happy to be here! I have been away from the cross stitch community for too long!

Hi Jean...from another North Carolinian. I'm in Kernersville which is dead center of Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro. I was beginning to think I was the only stitcher that lived in the state .

I've not been away from the cross stitch community or stitching for that matter but I did just return to this forum. So again, I'm glad to see you here and look forward to getting to know you better.

[bookknurd]

Welcome to the forum from yet another North Carolinian (and a newly minted one at that)!

I am glad to know others in my new state like to stitch as well.

Looking forward to seeing your work!