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I joined the group in October and have been posting since I discovered
this great group. I see some of you post daily and others come in when
they can. I thought it might be nice for those of us who are newer to
the group to get to know the rest of you. I saw another newbie on the
threads the other day so I don't think I am the only one wondering who
is here and such.

I will start since this was my bright idea.

Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

How long I have been stitching:
Well when living in Turkey I had my DM send me some needlepoint kits
since I had read every book in the library that I wanted to read. (I
was with my USArmy husband and one of the few women there.) When we
got back Stateside I tried a class in quilting but lasted until I made
a new friend who did Danish Cross Stitch. That was 26 years ago. Been
stitching ever since.

Groups I belong to:
EGA - I live in the Rocky Mountain Region
Swan Sampler Stitchers (home nest is in Salt Lake City but, members
from all over the world.)

More of possible interest:
I have done some designing for EGA and Swans as well as for myself. I
have entered items in our State Fair for about four years. The first
entry was one of my designs based on a view of the Pacific Ocean just
south of Monterey, CA and I won First place. I have entered ever since
with my lowest showing a Forth place.

Family: Great husband and two sons ages 25 and 23 and a soon to be
daughter-in-law (as of December 29).

Hope to get to know all of you.
Alice

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Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

Alice


Hi Alice

I'm Margaret (Mag)

I live in Beaverton, Oregon which is near Portland. I started stitching 16
years ago.
I stopped for a year and half or so after my DH lost his battle with cancer
in 2001.
But I am back as enthusiastically as ever.

I have a DS and I must say, two of the cutest GK's ever! I met one of my
closest friends right here on RCTN. You just never know where it will lead
and to what.

Keep Stitching,
mag

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Name: Michelle
nick: cocoa (actually the dog's name :D)
from: Minneapolis, MN

I've been stitching off & on for years, started again about 4 years ago.
Current favorites are blackwork & Christian/Inspirational. Also a big TW
fan, although I haven't yet attempted any of her stuff. I also collect free
patterns from online - I have literally thousands from newsletters,
websites, newsgroups, etc. Only the legal ones though - I have no interest
in the ones that violate copyrights & such!

personal - married 8+ years, 2 daughters, 15 & 16, disabled veteran, 37,
master's degree in Counseling Psychology.......and a dog (toy poodle) and a
cat (rescued, probably at least part Maine Coon - weighs about 18 lb. & is
about the size of a small cocker spaniel!)

did I miss anything?
--cocoa
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ups.com...
I joined the group in October and have been posting since I discovered
this great group. I see some of you post daily and others come in when
they can. I thought it might be nice for those of us who are newer to
the group to get to know the rest of you. I saw another newbie on the
threads the other day so I don't think I am the only one wondering who
is here and such.

I will start since this was my bright idea.

Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

How long I have been stitching:
Well when living in Turkey I had my DM send me some needlepoint kits
since I had read every book in the library that I wanted to read. (I
was with my USArmy husband and one of the few women there.) When we
got back Stateside I tried a class in quilting but lasted until I made
a new friend who did Danish Cross Stitch. That was 26 years ago. Been
stitching ever since.

Groups I belong to:
EGA - I live in the Rocky Mountain Region
Swan Sampler Stitchers (home nest is in Salt Lake City but, members
from all over the world.)

More of possible interest:
I have done some designing for EGA and Swans as well as for myself. I
have entered items in our State Fair for about four years. The first
entry was one of my designs based on a view of the Pacific Ocean just
south of Monterey, CA and I won First place. I have entered ever since
with my lowest showing a Forth place.

Family: Great husband and two sons ages 25 and 23 and a soon to be
daughter-in-law (as of December 29).

Hope to get to know all of you.
Alice

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Karen, born/raised in NY, 26 years in California

Divorced, no kids, 2 cats. Medically "retired" from paralegal work;
reinvented myself as an editor/proofreader, which I can do lying down at
home.

My grandmother put a needle in my hand when I was a toddler, which is
(gack!) 45 years ago.

I'm a member of EGA, but rarely have it in me to go to meetings.

--

Karen C - California
www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Watch/Listen at http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/psas.htm

Finished 11/12/06 -- Jukebox Saturday Night (my own design)

WIP: baby and housewarming gifts, July birthstone, Flowers of
Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel
LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn,
Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe

Editor/Proofreader www.KarenMCampbell.com
Design page http://www.KarenMCampbell.com/designs.html

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wrote:
I joined the group in October and have been posting since I discovered
this great group. I see some of you post daily and others come in when
they can. I thought it might be nice for those of us who are newer to
the group to get to know the rest of you. I saw another newbie on the
threads the other day so I don't think I am the only one wondering who
is here and such.

I will start since this was my bright idea.

Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

How long I have been stitching:
Well when living in Turkey I had my DM send me some needlepoint kits
since I had read every book in the library that I wanted to read. (I
was with my USArmy husband and one of the few women there.) When we
got back Stateside I tried a class in quilting but lasted until I made
a new friend who did Danish Cross Stitch. That was 26 years ago. Been
stitching ever since.

Groups I belong to:
EGA - I live in the Rocky Mountain Region
Swan Sampler Stitchers (home nest is in Salt Lake City but, members
from all over the world.)

More of possible interest:
I have done some designing for EGA and Swans as well as for myself. I
have entered items in our State Fair for about four years. The first
entry was one of my designs based on a view of the Pacific Ocean just
south of Monterey, CA and I won First place. I have entered ever since
with my lowest showing a Forth place.

Family: Great husband and two sons ages 25 and 23 and a soon to be
daughter-in-law (as of December 29).

Hope to get to know all of you.
Alice


Hey Alice!

I'm Caryn, age 44, wife to Dude, mom to three girls 16, 15, and 10.

After doing the stay at home mom thing for 12 years I went back to work
just over a year ago. I used to design, mostly fantasy stuff, but also
some very silly cat pictures (real cats in fake costumes).

We also have two golden retrievers and 5 cats (having had the old man
of the group put down last week).

Caryn

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I would love to see a picture of your first place entry. We lived at Ft
Ord for a while and if I had the money, Monterey is where we'd live.

Donna in Virginia

wrote:
I joined the group in October and have been posting since I discovered
this great group. I see some of you post daily and others come in when
they can. I thought it might be nice for those of us who are newer to
the group to get to know the rest of you. I saw another newbie on the
threads the other day so I don't think I am the only one wondering who
is here and such.

I will start since this was my bright idea.

Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

How long I have been stitching:
Well when living in Turkey I had my DM send me some needlepoint kits
since I had read every book in the library that I wanted to read. (I
was with my USArmy husband and one of the few women there.) When we
got back Stateside I tried a class in quilting but lasted until I made
a new friend who did Danish Cross Stitch. That was 26 years ago. Been
stitching ever since.

Groups I belong to:
EGA - I live in the Rocky Mountain Region
Swan Sampler Stitchers (home nest is in Salt Lake City but, members
from all over the world.)

More of possible interest:
I have done some designing for EGA and Swans as well as for myself. I
have entered items in our State Fair for about four years. The first
entry was one of my designs based on a view of the Pacific Ocean just
south of Monterey, CA and I won First place. I have entered ever since
with my lowest showing a Forth place.

Family: Great husband and two sons ages 25 and 23 and a soon to be
daughter-in-law (as of December 29).

Hope to get to know all of you.
Alice

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I guess it's been a while since we did the introduction thing.

I'm Donna. Married - 22 years - one daughter who's a sophmore in
college 452 miles away from me - one son who is a senior in HS

I've always done some form of needlework ever since my grandmother put
a needle in my hand. But I came to cross stitch in 1986 in Germany
courtesy of another Army wife.

Thanks to the Army, we have lived in many places. But retirement has
brought us back to northern Virginia - stitching paradise for
stashaholics.

I've got two cats - one black with white, one white with black - who
like to contribute their furriness to whatever I'm working on.

I belong to my EGA chapter. And I still follow what the Internet
Sampler Band is doing, though I only completed one project - The
Newburyport Sampler from 1998.

Donna in Virginia



Caryn wrote:
wrote:
I joined the group in October and have been posting since I discovered
this great group. I see some of you post daily and others come in when
they can. I thought it might be nice for those of us who are newer to
the group to get to know the rest of you. I saw another newbie on the
threads the other day so I don't think I am the only one wondering who
is here and such.

I will start since this was my bright idea.

Name:
Alice

I live in:
Salt Lake City, Utah

How long I have been stitching:
Well when living in Turkey I had my DM send me some needlepoint kits
since I had read every book in the library that I wanted to read. (I
was with my USArmy husband and one of the few women there.) When we
got back Stateside I tried a class in quilting but lasted until I made
a new friend who did Danish Cross Stitch. That was 26 years ago. Been
stitching ever since.

Groups I belong to:
EGA - I live in the Rocky Mountain Region
Swan Sampler Stitchers (home nest is in Salt Lake City but, members
from all over the world.)

More of possible interest:
I have done some designing for EGA and Swans as well as for myself. I
have entered items in our State Fair for about four years. The first
entry was one of my designs based on a view of the Pacific Ocean just
south of Monterey, CA and I won First place. I have entered ever since
with my lowest showing a Forth place.

Family: Great husband and two sons ages 25 and 23 and a soon to be
daughter-in-law (as of December 29).

Hope to get to know all of you.
Alice


Hey Alice!

I'm Caryn, age 44, wife to Dude, mom to three girls 16, 15, and 10.

After doing the stay at home mom thing for 12 years I went back to work
just over a year ago. I used to design, mostly fantasy stuff, but also
some very silly cat pictures (real cats in fake costumes).

We also have two golden retrievers and 5 cats (having had the old man
of the group put down last week).

Caryn

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Cheryl Isaak - southern New Hampshire
Married, DS age 14, DD age 8. Spend most of my winters haunting hockey rinks
as both play hockey for travel teams and DS has high school tryouts next
week. Stretched a tad thin as DH is ailing at the moment.

Stitching - all sort of bits but really want to get back to Ladybug
Gardeners. I have some knitting in the bag with me right now along with a
canvas work ornament, a flower fairies card and couple of samplers.

Cheryl

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I'm Frances. I turned 76 this year. Been stitching ever since my
Mother decided I needed to know the "gentle arts" when I was 8 or 9.
Got out of it once I hit my teens, and didn't get back to it until I
was 19 or so and was bored sitting home all day.

Learned to tat when I was 45. Learned macrame when I was 40. I also
do needlepoint, crochet and knit. But love counted cross stitch the
most. Have enough SABLE (Stash Above and Beyond Life Expectancy) to
last 3 lifetimes. My 16 yr old toy poodle likes to sit beside me as I
stitch. Frances

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wrote:

Name:
Alice

Hi, Alice! Always nice to see new faces in the group.

I'm Elizabeth and I've been stitching since I was about 13. I actually
started being interested in it when I was about 7 or 8 or so, but at the
time, my motor skills weren't up to the visions in my head so I quit in
frustration.

I'm 38, have a DH of 4 years, a 3-year-old daughter and an
almost-1-year-old son, two cats, and a house full of DIY projects. I
work at home as a medical transcriptionist, which I hope to not have to
do for very many more years.

I live in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. I entered the state fair
last year (adolescent wish fulfillment) and won 2 first-place and 2
second-place ribbons.

I don't knit. I can crochet, but don't like it much (though our recent
conversation about Tunisian got me thinking about More Stuff To Do). I
don't quilt if I can help it. I sew. I mostly do counted cross stitch
with a good helping of surface work thrown in for good measure. I'm a
budding handyman/carpenter, which would interest me more if I had the
$$$ for the workshop. My favorite thing is to make pretty things with
my hands or fix something that was broken.

Again, welcome to the group!




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Elizabeth
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