Hi
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and welcome to the fantastic world of stitching
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from West Tn. on the Ark. border.
I've been stitching since 1983 when preg. with our last child.
I was taught by my neighbor, who at the time was my natural childbirth coach, and she started with Christmas ornaments and then we both switched to doing charts from magazines, then we started buying books, of all kinds of subjects.We organized the charts into categories into notebook binders. Between the 2 of us, we had over 40, 3-ring binders apiece. After the last child started kindergarten, I went back to work and over the years, 20+, started making baby and wedding announcements for people at work. At one of the places I worked at, I had a co-worker who had a daughter that was starting to stitch. I asked her if we could me, as I wanted another stitcher to talk with, and after our meeting, I decided I would give her all the binders that didn't "fancy" my "taste" anymore, mostly the "country look" charts. We never got into the fantasy charts.
So now, I only have my 30 yr. collection of baby/wedding charts, Christmas magazines, and I found different charts to do the 8 afghans for the family, which I "hopefully" will start in 2015. My "obsession" now is to keep my thread stash supplied, which are also stored into 7, 3-ring binders, and 3, 4 " "deep" plastic containers.
I buy my fabric as needed for the amount of people I have projects lined up for the current year of the projects to do. It looks like this year will be the "last" of the amount of people I have to do projects for. 15 total projects for 7 people.
After I get the 8 afghans done, planning on 1 a year, as they are "new" to me to work with, I have 3 projects to do for myself, The Lord Supper, by Leisure Arts, Angel of Cross Stitch, by Joan Elliot, and Flower of the Month Angels, by Joan Elliot, thinking of "either" this made on a afghan or made into a picture.
Again, welcome
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to the "fantastic" world of meeting people forum.
Just relax and sit back with your
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with "either" a
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or
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with
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or
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or whatever is your "fancy" and
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while you
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and don't let
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bug bite you.
HAPPY STITCHING IN STITCHING LAND.
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