is my name and with my needle I wrought the same'. The inspiration for the company name comes from a verse that appears on many samplers: '. After a long conversation on a train from Hamburg to Amsterdam, Edna convinced me to jump right in. Edna and I were together with a small group touring needlework collections in Germany, the Netherlands, and England in 1999. Today I would never use anything else.Īlthough Tom and friends encouraged me to try my hand at designing, it was Edna Medlin of Threads of Gold who convinced me that I should really do this. Then came the great 'awakening' when I discovered linen.

I really liked the freedom it provided to make design and color changes compared to previous pieces I had done on stamped linen. It was during this time that I discovered counted cross stitch on aida. When our kids were young, I did lots of volunteer work at church, at their schools, and for Kindervelt, a community organization that raises money for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Tom and I are now enjoying being grandparents to Haiden (son of Carolyn and her husband, Greg) and Garrett, Katie and Norah (children of Stephen and his wife, Michelle). We raised our two children, Carolyn and Stephen, in Cincinnati. In 1976, we moved to Ohio where Tom worked as a research chemist at the Procter and Gamble Company. I stitched several samplers and quilt squares.

During this time, I discovered cross-stitch-the stamped kind. The following year, we returned to Florida, and Tom started graduate school. I must have had 'big eyes'-the project I picked was 22 by 26 inches…probably not the average starter project. I needed something to occupy my time before school started in the fall, so I bought a very large crewel kit. I didn’t stitch any more until after my husband, Tom, and I, both recent graduates of Florida State University, moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he worked as a chemist and I as a teacher. My first needlework project was filling the background on a small needlepoint piece when I was in junior high school. Choose your own 2 day Winter Escape and then add on up to 3 more days for a Stitchers-Hide-A-Week!

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