I'm Joan from North Dakota, just 70 miles north of the famed Nordic
Needle. I have worked at the university library for over 30 years, have
a DH, 3 grown children, 2 grandkids, a girl almost 5 gasp! and a 2yo
boy, and a lively German shorthair, whose 2 speeds are run and stop.

I know how to sew, knit, crochet, needlepoint, have dabbled in hardanger
and crewel but my passion is cross stitch. I always have a project
going (just one at a time or I'd never get any done! lol). I just
finished crocheting a doily for the back of my new couch. Previously
this year I made an advent calendar for the gks (*must* remember to do
the finishing before Dec.!), knit an afghan out of some *wonderfully*
soft bulky baby alpaca yarn, (just in time for summer! LOLOL!!!) and
made a cushion for my rocking chair (now that the grandbabes are almost
too old for rocking...that's me...a day late and dollar short).

Just today I will be starting the last of 3 coordinating designs that I
got at the one stitching festival I attended in Las Vegas a number of
years ago. It's called "Believe in the magic of stitching" by Lori
Birmingham. The other 2 are by Stoney Creek and Liz Turner-Diehl.

I really miss all of our previous posters that we've lost to FB and all
the help and enabling they provided.

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Joan

See my pictures he http://ndjoan.shutterfly.com/pictures

If worries can cure your sickness, prolong your life, or replace
happiness, then go ahead and worry! If they can't, why worry?

Enjoy every moment of your life...there is no second chance.

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