Are introductions in order?

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

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

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

Name: Michelle
nick: cocoa (actually the dog's name )
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

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

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

Caryn wrote:
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

No way... Bex is NOT 10! Nope, not buying it... not at all.... she's
six at most!

Hi Alice,
I'm Tegan, no kids, widowed (I guess, never really sure about
claiming that status, since we were never married, but were together 20
years), and have one aged cat, Chen Li, who'll be 18 in December. I
started stitching when I first saw TW's "The Castle" chart and knew I
wanted to do it. 20 odd years later, I've still not done it, but it
doesn't stop me from starting other things. I lost interest for quite a
while after my SO passed away, and still struggle with maintaining my
commitment to actually stitching something. He was disabled, so was
home all the time, and when I would work on stitching something, he was
almost as fascinated with seeing the design emerge from nothing as I
was. He was quite the cheerleader and for a very long time it was
almost impossible for me to stitch because it seemed like the best part
was missing.

I still can't believe Bex is 10.... gods I'm feeling old....
Tegan

On 11/19/06 12:08 PM, " wrote:


Caryn wrote:
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

No way... Bex is NOT 10! Nope, not buying it... not at all.... she's
six at most!

LOL - I must arrange visit to Chez Caryn & Clan - to verify this.

Hi Alice,
I'm Tegan, no kids, widowed (I guess, never really sure about
claiming that status, since we were never married, but were together 20
years), and have one aged cat, Chen Li, who'll be 18 in December. I
started stitching when I first saw TW's "The Castle" chart and knew I
wanted to do it. 20 odd years later, I've still not done it, but it
doesn't stop me from starting other things. I lost interest for quite a
while after my SO passed away, and still struggle with maintaining my
commitment to actually stitching something. He was disabled, so was
home all the time, and when I would work on stitching something, he was
almost as fascinated with seeing the design emerge from nothing as I
was. He was quite the cheerleader and for a very long time it was
almost impossible for me to stitch because it seemed like the best part
was missing.

Tegan - seems to me you definitely can claim widowhood - 20 years is a long
time together. And sometimes it's just easier to use a standard kind of
title to describe something like your situation. Can certainly feel for you
missing your cheerleader - DH - who is well - is amazingly my cheerleader
and always intrigued with whatever creative thing is happening. So much so,
that a couple of times in the LNS, he's been helping people - then realized
- "Oh, no - this has sunk in on me" . Just enjoy your stitching for you.

And I'm saving my Castle chart to do when you're ready to start. Isn't
someone on the group going to start with a cyber crew in January, IIRC?

I still can't believe Bex is 10.... gods I'm feeling old....

LOL- I definitely am going to go see the evidence in person next time DH has
to go to the rink in Prince William - we pass within a mile of their place
on our back road route.

With us, we have 1 godchild in college, 1 a senior in high school - with a
personality scarily similar to mine, 1 that graduated BU in May, a niece
that started law school in Sept, a nephew in college (same age as godchild
guy), and a niece in 10th grade. The kids are all convinced that DH & I are
much, much younger than their parents. By the time we're done with them,
they'll think I started university at 10 instead of 15.

ellice

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

On 11/16/06 7:53 AM, "Donna" wrote:

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

Isn't that that truth - gorgeous place. I spent some time at the Naval
Postgrad school, and the then DH & I almost took positions teaching there
for 2 years - but then realized that we'd have to live in a slum, so, well,
that was out.

Ellice

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