OK - wait until I have my road atlas from the car and can peruse the actual route we are talking about. Where exactly are you? Is Omaha out of reach ? Don't give up yet. My friend keeps saying to me that she is putty in my hands and that she will go where I want to go, it's all exciting to her. Now if there are good bridge clubs there, associated to the ACBL in Memphis - well, that's our aim to bridge across Canada and back through the USA. Always assuming too they are going to allow me over the border into the US !!
Well, geewillikers! If you're coming down from Winnipeg (home of Fred), you'll most likely be going down I29 right through Grand Forks (where I live) and Fargo (Nordic Needle land)!!! Unless you're veering off into the back roads of MN to go through actual lake country to get to MPLS?
Contact me offlist if you're interested in meeting somewhere!
I thought Fred was further north than Winnipeg! We are definitely going to Winnipeg, I have a friend there who stitches and who also is a bridge player.
I certainly am interested in meeting! I must have a big study of the atlas when I come back in later lol
I'm on that I-29 corridor mentioned by Joan, just further south. Omaha is about a two hour drive from me. It's my understanding that Fargo is only about 8 hours, but I'm not really sure since I've never been. If I can get my ducks straightened out, it could be doable. Don't hold your breath, but it could happen. Tegan
Kathie and Lou, I seem to live between you both. I live 45 minutes south of Canton and an hour east of Newark. I usually lurk here, but have learnt a lot from the group. Would love to try Hardanger and Needlepoint, but am a coward. Denise
Get some basic instructions either from reference books or online and go for it! Neither are hard if you can count to five and know your alphabet and numbers from about 1 to 20! If you run into something you can't figure out on your own ask here and someone will be only to glad to try and help you. Personally I think it's easier to do either of these techniques than it is to 'properly' do a complicated cross stitch design.
I've been doing Needlepoint for years but never had done Hardanger.
I bought a little Hardanger kit from Nordic Needle that had a good set of instructions and plunged right in. As Mavia said, if you can count up to 5 and can follow written directions it won't be terribly hard for you.
I personally didn't much like the doing, but I'm delighted that I learned something new and doubt I would ever have tried it if it weren't for the encouragement of the people on this newsgroup.
Now I'm going to try a blackwork piece. Again, something I don't think I would ever have thought of if it weren't for all the talented people here.
Some British musicians once quipped, "The difference between the US and the UK is this: In America 100 years is a long time, and in England 100 miles is a long distance."
I find the same thing applies, although to a lesser extent, between our western and eastern provinces! :) When I visit in Alberta I sometimes am under whelmed by their historic sites which aren't too much older than a hundred years. When friends from there visit here they plan to tour all the Maritime provinces within a ten day visit! When you enjoy the beautiful scenery, history, culture, local art, crafts and hospitality of the area it takes at least 5 days to skim through Cape Breton Island alone! All things are relative! :)
I'm with you, Mavia. I'm from the East Coast, where we have Revolutionary War history all over. I did not just learn about Washington in school -- I went into houses he'd slept in. I've been in buildings dating to the 1600s.
And then I arrive in California, where history dates back only to 1849. This house was built in 1905. To my mind, it's relatively new, "only" 100 years old. To the locals, it's almost prehistoric. They have no sense at all that some places in the US have 400 year old houses, still standing.
Aahh...but Karen you are forgetting the true Americans - visit Arizona and New Mexico and check out the ruins of the Anasazi or visit the Navajo or Hopi reservations. THEY have been here for hundreds of years before the Europeans took over.
Even in California there are hundreds of small Indian tribes that were here long before the Russians or Spaniards showed up acting like they owned the place.
However - it all is still very new compared to Europe and the Middle East ... MelissaD
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I'm with you, Mavia. =A0I'm from the East Coast, where we have Revolutionary War history all over. =A0I did not just learn about Washington in school -- I went into houses he'd slept in. =A0I've been in
buildings dating to the 1600s.
And then I arrive in California, where history dates back only to 1849.
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"only" 100 years old. =A0To the locals, it's almost prehistoric. =A0They have no sense at all that some places in the US have 400 year old houses, still standing.
-- Karen C - California Maybe it is because you aren't a native Californian that you say that history dates back to 1849 but California has a much longer history than that & I can't have been the only one to have learned it in California schools. :-))) There are all kinds of Native American Indian tribes who's pictures were scattered throughout my history books & most kids between the Bay Area & LA (at least in the 60s) had visited at least one of the missions (originally built to have been one traveling day apart) during a school field trip. Honest, California really did have a population prior to the discovery of gold in 1848. :-)))=20 Liz from Humbug
Kathie, Lou and Denise, I'm from Marion, to your west. My aunt and uncle lived in Newark so I was there a lot as a kid. Anyhow, would love to know of more LNS in your areas. I have heard a lot about Blueberry Hill Stitchery up in Akron. Is it worth the trip? I've been stitching either embroidery or cross-stitch since I was 10, and have just recently started trying hardanger. It's not bad once you get into the rhythm of it.
I know. San Diego was quite proud of Old Town, first permanent Spanish settlement, which dates back much further. But in this part of California, most people seem convinced that there were no Indians, no Spanish, no Russians, nothing but bugs, until Marshall and Sutter were dropped from the sky into a pile of gold in 1848.
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