I just joined! You may have figured that bit out already!
My name's Caz, I recently turned 27, I live in Leicester and I've been stitching since about October/November last year. My partner's mother introduced me to it, my mother did some tapestry embroidery but mostly stopped that when she had kids so I feel that my first real introduction to it as a hobby was from my partner's mum.
All my family are pretty artistic - my mum painted, as did her mum, I can't draw for nuts but this is my creative medium. I love it.
I've come here to meet more people who are interested in stitching and similar stuff, I have a couple friends who I've introduced to it but they don't live locally so it can get kinda lonely. Ideally I'd like to start or join a stitching group, but a virtual group is cool too
I look forward to meeting you all!
WIPs:
Snow Princess and the Polar Bear HAED
Plans:
Twinkle twinkle cushion for nephew's third birthday (September 2015)
Man U crests for husband and brother-in-law
Hi Caz, and welcome -- glad you're joining us. Do show us pictures of what you've done and what you're doing, it's always great to see what everyone is stitching . Isn't it great that there are so many different ways to be creative in? Hope you'll find cross stitching the right way for you!
Welcome Caz! I hope you enjoy it here! Everyone is more than welcome to help with encouragement or advice when needed. Can't wait to see what you're working on!
WIPs: There Be Dragons, Feed My Sheep, Canyon Flight HAED, Lotus Flowers HAED, Christmas Cove
Thank you all for the welcomes I like this place already, everyone seems so friendly! I've got pictures on my computer of most of my completed projects so I'll put them up when I've had a proper look around I haven't done anything really big or exciting, but the main project I'm working on at the moment (between preparing for Christmas) is just flipping huge, it's a stitched version of a picture my mum painted I've been working on it since April and so far it's looking...fairly amorphous, but it's coming together. Slowly
WIPs:
Snow Princess and the Polar Bear HAED
Plans:
Twinkle twinkle cushion for nephew's third birthday (September 2015)
Man U crests for husband and brother-in-law
Welcome from the West of Scotland! You will find yourself with a whole host of virtual stitching pals here, so jump right in. We love newbies and we are always happy to answer questions or point out threads for you to read: no question is stupid (apart from the one you really, really ought to have asked first...!).
The project you're doing of your mother's painting sounds wonderful but very challenging too! Designs like that can look like just a blur of colours while you're working on them, and then suddenly it all comes miraculously together and you've got a stunning project. Do you have any photographs of your mother's painting, so we can look forward to what it'll look like? And do please put pictures of your stitched version in the SAL section, it'll be intriguing to watch it grow!
Hi Caz, I hope you'll enjoy our forum and getting to know everyone. Cross stitch seems like such a simple pastime, yet you'll be amazed at how much you learn here, but beware - you'll soon see your stash piling up before your eyes as you find lots of new things that you never even knew that you couldn't live without any more!!!
Susan
My Stitchy blog: SF Stitch
(updated 16th April 2010)
Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)
Hi welcome to the forum, ur project u are working on sounds great and i canat wait to see pics of it and also work u have done. I dont have no friends other than on here who does cross stitch, my partners mum tought me to and shes more into making cards/atc/scrapbooking now but does the odd cross stitch now as i have got her back into, if u will. Glad u found us and will see u around and about the forum.
Hello and welcome to the forum. I am sure you're going to love it here as we all love stitching and you get SOOOOOOOOOO much chocolate, erm, encouragement in the SAL section when you post a WIP.
Looking forward to seeing your work.
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