My Cross-Stitch History

25. February 2007 · 2 comments · Categories: Cross-Stitch
My Cross-Stitching

 

This post is for prosperity’s sake. I am beginning the process of phasing out our main website in favor of my blog, so I needed to make a post about my stitching so that I could link to it from my blog sidebar. Some of you will know all this already, but perhaps this will be new for some.I began stitching when I was 17, the summer after graduating high school. My mother used to stitch when I was younger, and I finally asked her to show me how to do it. Well, she did and it was on from there, I was hooked! I stitched off an on throughout school, and then starting in grad school, I started to stitch more frequently. Then, once I finished my master’s I began stitching obsessively. That time period lasted for about five years. Then, I had my daughter, and over the past couple of years, my stitching has seriously dwindled. The fact that I have also taken up new hobbies has also contributed to that. But, my love for it remains as high as ever and I know that in the next few years, I can look forward to having more time for it.

The last piece that I finished was this from an issue of Stitcher’s World. I finished in in March 2006 (just at a year ago at the time of this post).

Here are links to some of my stitching activities:

  • My Works in Progress (though, currently I am more of a one-at-a-time stitcher)
  • My Finished Projects – All the pieces I have finished.
  • XS Magazine Database – another site I created so it would be easier to look up magazine patterns.

It’s Been Relaxing & Hectic

17. January 2007 · 1 comment · Categories: Cross-Stitch, Uncategorized

It has been forever and a day since I last posted, but I’m still here. Have had a combination of relaxing/hectic few weeks – hectic during the week, but very relaxing on the weekends. New Year’s weekend we went to go visit the boys. Had a great time and my sister was even with us, so she got to see them again too.

Hobby wise, I still continue to work some stitching in and am still working on the Native American woman. Last week, I even stopped by my LNS for a quick visit and took Kaleya. Got to see some of the regular crew and even got to see a stitcher I haven’t seen in almost three years who lives up north from here.

Genealogy has been my other emphasis too. Check out my genealogy blog for what I’ve been up to in that respect lately. I’m hoping to get back to scrapping by the beginning of Feburary. I need to purchase Adobe PSE and just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

My TV shows are starting to come on again now – Rome, Sopranos, 24, American Idol, House – oh, the next few months will be great!

An Interview for xsmagdb

15. June 2005 · 2 comments · Categories: Cross-Stitch

Guess what? This weekend, I was interviewed by a stitching magazine that wants to do a feature on my Cross-Stitch Magazine Database site! At this point, I’m not going to say which one b/c I want to see if it actually makes it to print, but I was rather tickled to even be approached about it! I will of course post again if that all pans out.

In all other realms of life all is going well. Work is as usual keeping me busy and of course miss kaleya is keeping me busy. We are getting prepared for the move to Memphis so I am now in the process of getting rid of junk! I have started reading FlyLady b/c I want to maintain a neat household for us given that I have an opportunity for a fresh start.

Still Here!

30. March 2005 · 1 comment · Categories: Cross-Stitch, Kaleya

yeah – i’m still here — it’s been a hard week and a half since my last post. Kaleya got sick again with the same symptoms (vomiting and diarrhea), so she was out of daycare for 4 more days. She’s fine now, back in daycare and just as a happy as can be. :-)

We had a good Easter. Went to a friend’s for the day and Kaleya even got to do some Easter Egg hunting.

Stitching wise, I am starting to rotate a bit more. I stopped working on Angel of Grace and picked up New Zealand. This design is from an issue of Jill Oxton’s Cross Stitch magazine and one day when I finish it I will give it to a dear friend of mine. Then, over the past couple of days I’ve been working on a Stoney Creek design.

Angel of Grace Progress

19. March 2005 · 1 comment · Categories: Cross-Stitch

P1010075Here is my latest progress on Angel of Grace. The picture is not the best, but I’ve stitched a lot in the past month or so. I”ll continue to stitch on it until I get bored :-)

I Think I’m Gonna Cry

16. March 2005 · 1 comment · Categories: Cross-Stitch, Kaleya, Technology, Trips

My computer is giving me the black screen of death! Kalonji called me while I was in Philly to tell me he couldn’t get it to work and sure enough when I tried after I got home last night, no luck. I am afraid I may have to completely reinstall Windows XP and  hence, all the stuff I had stored on my harddrive is gone. I can reinstall all my programs that I normally use, but it’s such a pain to have to do it. What a pain — but I can’t even deal with it until next week…

I’m back home, had a great time in Philly. Had good food and had my first philly cheesesteak. Came home to a sick husband and daughter (they have colds) but all else is fine. Work was crazy today as of course I had to catch up!

Haven’t stitched very much in the past several days, but I’ll try to get a new pic up of Angel of Grace tomorrow. Today, Kaleya is 5 months old! and, tomorrow marks one year since we found out we were going to have her :-)

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