New member from NJ saying hello.

[gb2nyc]

Where to start eh? I have been playing with fabric and embroidery since I was given a scrap piece of fabric from my mum's (a professional tailor) sewing project at the tender age of five, making her a needle book with embroidery on the front, it was replaced last year as it was falling to bits from 49 years of use, mum thought it was funny and said my embroidery had vastly improved as she help up the sad remains of the original, I used to make my own clothes and over the years have become more interested in hand needlework, I have been cross stitching since 1989 mostly for my family, last year I made them all christmas stockings some cross stitch and some felt. I have an embroidery machine that never gets used as I like the look of not so perfect stitches that the hands make. I live in North NJ just in case you wanna pop over and have a cuppa tea as long as you're not allergic to cats and dogs. Well, thats it for now, Hello Everyone.

[karen4bells]

Hello and welcome to the forum!!! It's great to have you join!!

[Tia]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia!

[Brekkana]

Hello from Texas and a big warm welcome!! I hope to see some pictures of your work, that's my favorite part

[fccs]

Hello from sunny Colorado and welcome to the forum. I hope you'll share pics of your work - if you've been browsing here, you must already know how much we like pictures.

[Squirrel]

Hi and Welcome from me too in warm and humid Brisbane. So glad you have joined us. I look forward to seeing pictures of your work.

[playswithpaper]

Hello and welcome I'm new too....just jump in and get your feet wet!

[rcperryls]

Hello and welcome from South Carolina!! Glad that you found us and like the others, hope you will post pictures of your work. What types of projects do you like to stitch?

Carole

[gb2nyc]

Thank you all for a warm welcome, I have never taken pictures of the projects I stitched, BUT, I will from now on, I like to make christmas, nature and animal themes, large and small, I have found a few vintage kits on Ebay and Etsy that I loved and change it to the modern way of backstitching, at the moment my WIP is a 18" stocking for my horse mad niece called Deck the Stalls by Needle treasures, it is a kit, it took me a year to find it on Ebay. I shall post a picture as soon as I work out how to upload it.

[lavenderbee]

Hello & welcome from North Wales. Glad you cold join us. Hope you enjoy being on here & look forward to seeing your projects as you go along.

1st edit. Photobucket is best to get photos on here. upload yours & then copy & paste on here.

[gb2nyc]

here goes nothing then hope the pics show up

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm40 ... 1425924364" target="_blank



That not what I was expecting, how do I get them to show up on my post?

[gb2nyc]

Lets try this again, now I have read the instructions hehehehe.
This was my very first cross stitch back in 1989.



edited by Carole
I hope you don't mind, but I fixed this for you. When you click on the IMG code on the right side of the photobucket page, it automatically copies the code. When you post that code into your thread, do a "control v". Don't click on the insert image link also. You can preview your post and see if it worked.

Love the kitties!!!!!!

[playswithpaper]

How cute are those kittens!!!

[gb2nyc]

This just needs to be backstitched started and nearly finished 2014. Too Pooped by Dimensions.

[rcperryls]

Love it!!!!

and it looks like you've the posting pictures under control. Wonderful that we can now see your work!

Carole

[gb2nyc]

Thank you Carole, I use a mac and it's so easy to drag and drop, I am lost on this way of moving pics.

here's another one using Carole's way, fingers crossed.



BY jove I thinks I've got it.

This is a picture that was damaged by not using acid free card, thanks Micheals framers for that one. Stitched in1989.

[gb2nyc]

This is a Brittercup chart fast and easy. stitched in 2014

[gb2nyc]

This is my WIP started 1st Jan 2015, Deck the stalls by Needle treasures, this took me a year to find.

[lavenderbee]

They are all lovely. Very well done I love cats too & donkeys, my 2 top animals Hope to see more of your work & glad you can get photos on as it is good to see them.

Just edited as I can see rabbits now, they are cute. Horses are coming on too. Had a message just before I pressed 'submit' saying another added. I've always been an animal lover & it is great to see your choice of animal projects

[rcperryls]

Thank you Carole, I use a mac and it's so easy to drag and drop, I am lost on this way of moving pics.

here's another one using Carole's way, fingers crossed.



BY jove I thinks I've got it.

This is a picture that was damaged by not using acid free card, thanks Micheals framers for that one. Stitched in1989.

I use a mac also and to be honest never thought about dragging and dropping photos from photobucket to here. Glad you figured it out and didn't have to

Carole