CROSS-STITCH

I recently moved with my husband and two sons to the Dayton, Ohio area. I enjoy trips with my family, reading, writing, photography, walking, hiking, interior decorating, arts and crafts, jewelry making, and counted cross stitch.

Born and raised in Texas, I have lived in Conn., Mass., Puerto Rico and, currently, in VA. I attended Texas Christian University with majors in history and English and a minor in philosophy. I have worked in the T.C.U. and Yale libraries, taught English as a foreign language at Interamerican U. in Puerto Rico, and retired after 30 years from the U.S. Dept. of Labor. I have an adult son and daughter. A wonderful, beautiful mutt (who looks like a chocolate retriever) resides with me. His only fault is that he decides when it is time for him to eat in the morning and pokes me out of bed. I am an avid quilter. I do machine and hand embroidery, needlepoint, cross-stitch, and occasionally make machine lace and do other types of needlework. I also read mysteries, science fiction, and the Washington Post. I have made and donated over 1,500 stuffed animals to the children's ward in local hospitals. l

I'm happy to to say that Associated Content was sold to Yahoo! Voices last year. I'm now writing for Yahoo! I'm excited about the new changes and I hope to bring my expertise to all yarn and pattern lovers. I'm a professional designer with patterns published by Annie's Attic, The Needlework Shop, The American School of Needlework, Annie's Patterns and Needlework, Crochet World and Annie's Scrap Crochet Club. I enjoy designing shawls and using the pineapple stitch Filet stitch whenever I can. Although crocheting is my first love, I'm also proficient in other needlework techniques including tapestry, knitting, cross stitch, embroidery, and plastic canvas. I also design in beading and mosaics. I do demonstrations for a leading craft store on the East Coast so I'm familiar with all types of crafts. I enjoy crafting with recyclables, anything that has to do with paper, plastic and glass. I like creating with clay. It's fun for me to design crafts for children especially interactive type crafts such as toys, puppets, games and after-school activities. Holidays bring out many new ideas but I'm not limited to Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter. I take pleasure in the more obscure celebrations, such as Three Kings Day and Beltane. I teach large crowds and individually, both young and old. I am always learning something new so, my skills are dynamic. I have a personal charity call A Stocking Full Of Love. Hand made stockings, collected from my internet friends are distributed to children that may be less fortunate than our own. I am a writer for Row Home Magazine, where I specialize in writing about people, places and things in South Philadelphia. The current issue is on the magazine website where you can read my work. Recently, I won two contests. My Ballet Stars Afghan won Pattern of the Month at Crochet World. At the website AntiCraft, my pattern for a Spider Stitch Trivet won in their Imbolc issue. I'm also a singer/songwriter, stand-up comic,

I am a stay at home mom. I love being able to spend time with my family. I have found it very enjoyable to write. It is very relaxing and can really open up your mind. I love to scrapbook, crochet, cross stitch, do couponing/rebates, and read.

I am a Married mother of three boys,married to the love of my life, who I met on a blind date. I run EMS Cross Stitch and Scrapbook. I find great joy in using the gifts God gave me to do his work in helping his people

I'm a 27 year old married mother of four. I'm a mother of four, and a full time college student. I'm working hard to earn my BAIS K-8. My family and I attend a Baptist church. I love to cross stitch, crochet, cook, read, and play with my kids.

I'm unemployed right now but I used to work in a salon and love anything that has to do with the beauty industry. I also love to scrapbook and cross stitch. I love to watch sports and I used to play softball growing up.

I'm old enough to know better and young enough to still do something about it, thank God! I'm interested in everything and anything and I'm not afraid to try new things. Writing has been a passion of mine since I was a kid but I only recently began letting other people read what I've written. Guess I'm a bit of a coward! So, between here and Wordpress, I'm taking a stab at writing. As a side note....I love to travel, go to good restaurants, take pictures, paint, write, and cross-stitch. I love my kids and grandson and hope to introduce him to all the things I enjoy just like I did his mom and uncle! lol

I am a single mother of a 7 month old and a 7 year old girl. I am currently attending school through an online university and working to obtain my masters degree in accounting. Some things I do in my spare time are cross stitch and I love to watch football mainly pittsburgh steelers.

Chris has been cooking for more than 40 years, collecting cookbooks, cooking equipment and recipes for those same 40 years. Cooking is her main passion, she loves food and anything connected to it. Chris is also an avid seamstress, sewing both garments and home decor projects. She has taught quilting, knitting, needlepoint, crochet, and cross stitch. She also tats, does macrame and makes hand beaded jewelry. She lives in a big old Victorian house she is rehabbing with her son and her partner, and has an extensive herb garden on the grounds.

I'm a mother, an aspiring Graphic Artist, and a military wife. I enjoy movies, cross-stitch, camping, canoeing, hanging out with friends, a good cold beer, and finding time to relax every once in awhile.

Sandi Phipps has been creating and manufacturing designs and products for over thirty years. She is known for multitudes of varied products in many types of market places. Her Counted Cross-Stitch designs are sold in retail outlets around the world. Kits, Leaflets, Chart Packs, Greeting Cards, Bookmarks, Pillows, Check Book Covers, and CD's are a few of her needlework items. They encompass themes for Baby, Children, Mothers, Daughters, Friends, Family, Home, Wedding, Anniversary, Teachers, Husband, Father, and more. Award-winning poems, incorporated in her famous cross-stitch designs, are in poetry anthologies archived in The Library of Congress. She wrote the poems and designed the cross-stitch patterns to share with her needlework fans. Sandi has created many of the top-selling Cross-Stitch designs in the needlework industry. Sandi's designs have been sold in The Stitchery, Herrschners, Counted Cross-Stitch from The Stitchery, Potpourri Collection, The Fox Collection, Craft Basket, Mary Maxim, Better Homes and Gardens, Best To You for Cook Ministries, Keepsake Quilting. Sandi Phipps designs are featured on the Cover of Abbey Press, United Purchasing Exchange, The Amway Catalog, Current Inc., and many others. Her products are sold in retail outlets around the world such as: Christian Book Stores, Hallmark, Hobby Lobby Stores, Jo Ann Stores, Borders Books, Current Inc., Pay Less Drug Stores, Builders Emporium, Treasure Island, plus thousands more. Calico Christmas Cross-Stitch is her 128-page hardcover book published and sold worldwide by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. It was a Better Homes and Gardens Book Club selection. Her designs have appeared in Family Circle, Woman's Day, Woman's World, Crafts, Crafts N' Things, Lady's Circle and over 60 other magazines. Sandi's original sentiments are available in retail outlets and catalogs worldwide. They can be purchased matted and ready to frame, or framed and ready to give as beautiful

I'm still that sixteen year-old girl at heart. Every day something new inspires me. Currently, I am inspired by the color pink, flowers, kittens, bunnies, M.I.A, Japan, and hand-holding. It's very simple, you see. I live in a 100 year-old apartment building with my dog, Vaughn. In my spare time I enjoy visiting art museums, catching a rock show at the local watering hole, and subversive cross-stitch. I try and keep it simple.

I am a freelance knitwear and crochetwear designer for Fiesta yarns and Ironstone yarns.I have also had instructions printed in several magazines including: Vogue Knitting, Love of Knitting and Cast On magazines. l have over 20 years experience as a Graphic Designer. I also have extensive knowledge of dyslexia and ADHD, I was a reading therapist and was able to teach my son and several other children to read and to live with their dyslexia. I love to fish in my spare time and do plastic canvas and cross stitch.

I have been a nurse for 22 years. I am also a Death Investigator and Paralegal. I have worked in jail/prison for the last 12 years. I am a published poet. I like to cook, travel and cross-stitch. I enjoy entertain specifically music and movies. I am a 4-H alumnus and grew up on a small farm. I like animals and I love to write.

Retired technical writer with interests in genealogy, bluegrass banjo, counted cross stitch, reading and helping others find their missing relatives.

I live in Bloomsburg, a small college town in Pennsylvania with my friends who are really my family. I love the Lord and am very active in church. I'm an avid reader, writer and singer. I enjoy crafts; knitting, cross stitch, crocheting and scrapbooking.

I am a stay at home mom whose daughter has started college. I enjoy reading and love to write and make crafts in my spare time. I knit, crochet, cross stitch, hook rug, and make things out of plastic canvas.

After spending 25 years in deadend office jobs, I bailed out of the suit-and-pantyhose gig and took the chance on my own. I am now a freelance digital artist, writer, and cross-stitch and jewelry designer. I am also an avid reader and a fan of 60s music.

Old in spirit, young in age, I am a mother and wife. I am excited for my creative inspirations to finally be read and seen. Counted cross stitch, sudoku puzzles, and lengthy novels, such as my favorite, Jane Eyre, keep my mind keen and on track.

I am 36, wife for 16 years, mother of 15 year old, homeschooler. I enjoy writing reviews and articles on all subjects. I am self employed with online businesses. I like to do various crafts like scrapbooking, cross-stitch and crochet in my spare time.

I am a 34 year old Christian wife and mother from West Texas. I am a Work at home Mom who homeschools both of my children. I am a freelance writer, a cross stitch pattern designer and a blogger!

I am a stay at home mom of a 3 year old daughter. I am a former Marine musician, and a current volunteer for Army families, and the American Red Cross.

I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raised in far northern California in a small town called Willow Creek. I left home at fourteen and over the next approximately eight years lived in Oregon, Montana, Arizona, southern California and Oklahoma. I seemed to keep returning to Oklahoma so decided to save the moving expenses and stayed. I am married, have three grown children, a daughter and twin boys. I have held such odd jobs as pinsetter mechanic in a bowling alley, fry cook, waitress, change girl in a casino, horse shoer, horse trainer, night watch person druing foaling season at a thoroughbred breeding facility, and for some years drove truck cross country pulling flat bed. I have also prospected and dredged for gold in northern California, Oregon and Washington. In Montana I cut cedar trees and turned them into cedar shakes and as a crew we installed them on roofs. I graduated from Oklahoma City Community College in 2004 with an Associates Degree in Computer Science with the emphasis on Web Site Design and Development. I have been involved in computers since 1985.

Married, mother of 3, attending UOP online working towards my BS in Accounting

I'm just me. Southern, short, and sassy. I enjoy writing and I hope y'all enjoy reading whatever may come out of my mind. :)

I am a legal assistant living in New England who enjoys writing both creative and non-fiction pieces.

I am Mother of three, grandmother of one lovely little boy and a Nurse, looking for another field of work....

I am a MOTHER of four children, One girl age 10 and three boys ages 6, 4, and 10 months. I am a author and entrepreneur. I work very hard to provide for my family and I am always looking for ways to make our lives easier and to help other mother's and father's make life easi

I am a 21 year old stay at home mom to a beautiful 2 year old, and I am currently expecting another child at the end of this month. I have been married for almost 4 years to my highschool sweetheart.