Looking for Male Stitchers/ Textile Artists

Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

"vincentfalkenberg" ) writes:
Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

Try my web site at www.ncf.ca/~bf906.

(*VERY* tongue in cheek) Assuming you are male, and most stitchers
are female, why on earth do you want to hang out with *male* stitchers? I
know gay marriages are all the rage these days, but I am *definitely* not
looking for any other male stitcher to "hang out with" (VBG).

--
Jim Cripwell.
From Canada. Land of the Key Bird.
This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter,
shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

Welcome to our group. Your work is lovely.

Lucille

"vincentfalkenberg" wrote in message
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Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

Hi! I'm new here too, or at least I've been gone from here for about 4 yrs
and have just returned. I'm not male, but I am very interested in your work.
My daughter who loved to xstitch died in 2000 and I have been pondering a
tribute to her for a couple of years now and had just decided on TW's
Millennium, except that I didn't like the angels' faces, when I saw your
post this morning. It's perfect. I hope it's okay for me to copy your work,
since it's only for myself. I love the way you've turned it into a plea for
conservation, but I'll be keeping the Millennium theme. I thought I might
change the quotation to Psalm 90: a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
"Lucille" wrote in message
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Welcome to our group. Your work is lovely.

Lucille

"vincentfalkenberg" wrote in message
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Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

Oh my I wonder what Gay Marriages have to do with Male Stitchers? Are you
trying to "hint" that all male stitchers are "Gay"? Boy I know a few
hundred that would argue that point quite strongly.

Marc

--
http://community.webshots.com/user/needlemania

http://www.cyberstitchers.com/Galler...=1065918331265
"F.James Cripwell" wrote in message
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"vincentfalkenberg" ) writes:
Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

Try my web site at www.ncf.ca/~bf906.

(*VERY* tongue in cheek) Assuming you are male, and most stitchers
are female, why on earth do you want to hang out with *male* stitchers? I
know gay marriages are all the rage these days, but I am *definitely* not
looking for any other male stitcher to "hang out with" (VBG).

--
Jim Cripwell.
From Canada. Land of the Key Bird.
This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter,
shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

wrote in message
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Oh my I wonder what Gay Marriages have to do with Male Stitchers? Are
you
trying to "hint" that all male stitchers are "Gay"? Boy I know a few
hundred that would argue that point quite strongly.

Marc

I just wish they hadn`t stolen a perfectly good word, like "Gay" so you
daren`t use it in it`s normal context any more!

Pat P

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Oh my I wonder what Gay Marriages have to do with Male Stitchers? Are you
trying to "hint" that all male stitchers are "Gay"? Boy I know a few
hundred that would argue that point quite strongly.

Marc

I did write "*VERY* tongue in cheek", and was merely trying to be
funny. But there may be a serious side to this. When Jill died, I had to
put together what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was
fortunate to love embroidery and needlework, so I was able to join the
Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery. As a result I have met, and continue to
work with, a wonderful group of delightful ladies; and I thoroughly enjoy
female company.
Now if I have an asset like loving needlework, and as a result I have
an "in" to lots of female company, why would I, as a full red-blooded
male, be so stupid to go out of my way to seek out *male* stitchers? It
makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
--
Jim Cripwell.
From Canada. Land of the Key Bird.
This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter,
shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

Welcome to the group Vince

I usually keep everyone in stitches, but mine ain't long enough to 'hang
out'........

TTUL
Gary


"vincentfalkenberg" wrote:
Hello everyone! I am new here! I will go around looking for interesting
posts. I am also looking for other male stitchers to hang out with.

here are my needleworks:
http://community.webshots.com/user/worksofhands2

I fully understand where you are coming from AND I recognized the humor in
your "Tongue in Cheek". I think the main thing is that you ARE stitching.
Several years ago I started a male stitchers group on Yahoo and we got up to
about 70 members (of all persuasions)but it wasn't really very active so I
deleted it not too long ago. Someone else has started it back up. There
once was a Gay Male Stitchers group on Yahoo but because it had the word
"Gay" in it Yahoo deemed it necessary to delete it without notification.
Had about a hundred plus members.
I am in so many Yahoo Groups where I am sometimes the only male
member....even my own group which has well over 600 members all stitchers I
am about only one of three male stitchers and probably the only one that
speaks out. All the groups I'm in with the *female* stitchers has been a
wonderful experience AND I've made many a good friend from those groups.
Again the main thing is WE stitch.

As for Gay Marriage.... I happen to be Gay and living with the same person
for almost 37 years now and I detest the term "Gay Marriage". If only they
had chosen some other name I might have been able to abide by it. You
don't need a paper to hang on the wall to make you a stitcher any more than
a person has to have a piece of paper saying you are married.

I'm sorry if I've offended anyone...that is completely not my intention.
I shall now keep still on the subject.

Marc

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http://community.webshots.com/user/needlemania

http://www.cyberstitchers.com/Galler...=1065918331265
"F.James Cripwell" wrote in message
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) writes:
Oh my I wonder what Gay Marriages have to do with Male Stitchers? Are
you
trying to "hint" that all male stitchers are "Gay"? Boy I know a few
hundred that would argue that point quite strongly.

Marc

I did write "*VERY* tongue in cheek", and was merely trying to be
funny. But there may be a serious side to this. When Jill died, I had to
put together what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was
fortunate to love embroidery and needlework, so I was able to join the
Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery. As a result I have met, and continue to
work with, a wonderful group of delightful ladies; and I thoroughly enjoy
female company.
Now if I have an asset like loving needlework, and as a result I have
an "in" to lots of female company, why would I, as a full red-blooded
male, be so stupid to go out of my way to seek out *male* stitchers? It
makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
--
Jim Cripwell.
From Canada. Land of the Key Bird.
This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter,
shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

The one obvious reason a male stitcher would seek out another male
stitcher is to commiserate over the particular way male stitchers are
snubbed by certain needlework shop owners. No female stitcher can quite
relate to that. It is also probably nice to know there are other men
who enjoy what some in society deem a "woman's hobby".

Your work is lovely, Vincent. I'm a T.W. fan but haven't got around to
actually stitching any of her pieces yet. I also like the frames you
have built from that old crib. I've got a crib sitting down in the
basement...wheels are spinning...

--
Brenda
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