i just wanted to introduce myself i live in washington state in the us (but originally a southern girl, from alabama). i've been stitching since i was 12-ish, mainly because my favorite aunt did a lot of embroidery. i wanted to learn embroidery because it allowed me to spend time with her, and i've done it ever since. i'm currently trying to finish college (2 semesters!) and love stitching in my free time hope to make lots of friends here and learn new things
Howdy to you too, Rubyviolet and welcome to the forum We're a friendly bunch, so join in and I hope you enjoy your visits. Collette is right, we've had lots of new members recently from all over the world - it's great!
Welcome, Rubyviolet, from the sunny and warm west of Scotland. I visited your part of the world once, and it was fabulous: Mt Ranier! King Crabs! Cascade mountains! Rain... just like home!
Welcome Rubyviolet from hot and humid Canada. Glad you found us. This is a great forum. Lots of interesting members . What are you working on at the moment? You should post pics in the gallery, we love to see what everyone is stitching.
Welcome rubyviolet from another West Coaster. I am down in California. Don't think anything I am not a native I was born and raised in Montana.
Two Aunts lived in Washington Ephrata and Moses Lake. I still have cousins there but don't get to see them much.
Hope you stick around there is always something new going on. We play bingo, are trying to get an RR going in Sept. there is a chart swap in progress but the mail system is making it slow. And another recent member just introduced us to ATC, if you are like I was don't know about them but they are trading cards that you exchange with your own personal art work on them. We would like to try an exchange of those also sometime after Sept as we are all very busy right now. Please feel free to join any of this things and ask any question we are full of information.
We are full of other things too. A bit of a zany bunch we can be so I hope you enjoy your time here.
If you are looking for some one to help change you, look in the mirror
Welcome, Rubyviolet, from the sunny and warm west of Scotland. I visited your part of the world once, and it was fabulous: Mt Ranier! King Crabs! Cascade mountains! Rain... just like home!
hehe i've actually heard several friends who have visited from london say that the weather is very similiar. rainy, rainy, rainy, couple minutes of sunshine, rain, rain, rain. hehe. i like it though. i can see mt. rainier from my house, so you weren't too far away from where i live!
as far as what i'm stitching, right now it's a teddy bear piece. i've done several patterns with cats in them, so i try to stay away from them now heh (i have three cat children myself, so i'm partial). as far as patterns of my own design, i'm planning on doing 4 or 5 cross stitches of my favorite quotations. nothing special, just something i'd like to do
And a welcome from me too, an ex-pat UK stitcher, now retired and living in SW France. It's amazing just how wide an appeal cross stitching has isn't it?
Hi Ruby and welcome! We are really from around the whole world. I am from New York, but originally I came here from Ukraine (Kiev). This is so interesting to meet many different people who have same hobby. I am new too and believe to make friends here.
i live in washington state in the us (but originally a southern girl, from alabama). i've been stitching since i was 12-ish, mainly because my favorite aunt did a lot of embroidery. i wanted to learn embroidery because it allowed me to spend time with her, and i've done it ever since. i'm currently trying to finish college (2 semesters!) and love stitching in my free time 
hope to make lots of friends here and learn new things 
A bit of a zany bunch we can be so I hope you enjoy your time here.
