I love cross stitching! It is my stress reliever. I have been stitching for 25+ years and I never get bored with it. I learned to embroider when I was a child and I never cared for cross stitching because back then there was nothing but stamped. But then I discovered counted cross stitching and an addiction began! One of my co-workers was stitching on her lunch break. It amazed me that she was working on a blank piece of material. She explained what she was doing and I was intrigued! The next week, I was in OKC for business and I knew I needed to have something to pass the evening away. I remembered seeing a Hobby Lobby near the hotel, so off I went. I thought of cs and I picked up a kit with Christmas ornaments stitched on 18ct white aida. I haven't stopped since! I bought a shop in 1987, we added a frame shop and my son, Mike, did all the framing. I had it for 5 years. I enjoyed it very much, but I just didn't have a good business head, and was tired of the stress, so I sold the cross stitch part of it. Mike is still in the framing business.
I have taken classes from Darlene O'Steen, Eileen Bennett, and Linda Driskell. All of these were 2-day classes and I learned a lot. If you have a chance to take classes, I highly recommend it. I hope to get pictures taken of all the patterns I have stitched, and I am working on it. This is just part of the many patterns I have stitched over the years, many were given away as gifts and many where sold with the shop. I am in the process of learning about the digital camera. Egads, another techno invention to learn!
My son, Mike, has done all the framing that is in the attached pictures. He has a framing shop here in Joplin, MO, called Heirloom Picture Frames. He is a member of the Professional Picture Framers Assn.(PPFA) and a Certified Picture Framer(CPF). If you are interested in his framing or want him to frame something for you or have any questions, just email me.
I hope you enjoy seeing my needlework as much as I have had stitching it and creating this page. Any questions, just email me. Please be sure to sign my guestbook! Thanks!
This page updated on July 9, 2009. (I will be adding pictures and removing bad links, gradually.)
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The Drawn Thread Gallery
Shepherd's Bush Gallery
Kingsland Gallery
Miscellaneous Designers
CSCC Heirloom Stockings
Cross Stitch Related Items
Labels for Mill Hill Beads to use on small plastic boxes. Use 1/2" x 1 3/4" return address labels, it will print two per label so you will need to cut in half. Be sure to print out both pages.
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Labels for Weeks Dye Works threads. Use the same size labels as described above. Click here!
Labels for Gentle Art Sampler Threads. Newest colors added. Updated 10/27/04 Click here!
Sampler Threads Inventory/Shopping Checklist Updated 10/27/04. Click here!
Weeks Dye Works Threads Inventory/Shopping Checklist Updated 10/27/04 Click here!
Labels for Needlepoint Inc. Silks. The Drawn Thread uses these lovely silks in her kits. NIS doesn't name each number, they are in color ranges. There are 6 pages, use the 1/2" x 1 3/4" return address labels. Click here!
Can't figure out how to do that certain stitch?? Go here!
Dog graph to replace the cat on DT Random Thoughts...Click Here!
It is stitched over one, half-stitch.
. = 973 Dark Brown
/ = 714 Dark Rose
x = 992 White
Conversion Chart-DMC to Au Ver a Soie Silks
Conversion Chart-DMC to Needlepoint Inc. Silks
Shops That I Have Personally Visited
My first award!!
Thanks, Judy!
My Favorite Web Sites
The Drawn Thread Web Site
Shepherd's Bush Web Site
Elegant Stitch Cross Stitch Shop
The Silver Needle Cross Stitch Shop-Tulsa
The Cross Stitcher Magazine
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