Welcome Vaecordia

Welcome to our group. You are right and this is the friendliest group and possibly the most knowledgeable in a thousand areas. You can ask anything and be certain you will get an answer, and happily that answer will probably be correct and helpful.

I'm widowed and retired, living in Port St Lucie, FL, but at heart I am a New Yorker and will remain so forever. I have one 8 lb. Maltese named Puff who runs my life very efficiently and treats me like staff, lots of time on my hands and a slew of great friends here in PSL and on the internet. I have met several people through this newsgroup that I really consider more then just acquaintances.

I have been doing some kind of needlework since I'm a little kid, including knitting, crocheting, crewel embroidery, cross stitch and petit point and sewed my own clothing for years. I've tried quilting and hardanger, but it doesn't appeal to me so I only do it if I must. I love to try new things, but I most always wind up going back to cross stitch, needlepoint, knitting and crocheting, in that order. For me to be happy it's either read a book or have a needle in my hand.

Happy to have you here and I hope you stay and participate.

Lucille

I am Bobbie V. I live north of Cheryl in NH.

I do all kinds of needlework including hardanger, samplers, temari and various knitting as time allows. Some of my finish projects are here

Bobbie Viorritto

LOL - and then there will be a debate of what is the most bestest way, and then someone will accuse someone else of dissing them.....But, certainly, there will be answers. And truly there are some amazingly talented & knowledgable stitchers in this group.

Amen to that - some of use are lucky enough to get to meet in "real life" - and have found true personal friends thru this group.

Indeed - from Ellice who hopes to get to S FL to see her family, and meet up with Lucille in the not toooooo distant future.

Yes, yes & yes, but I was talking about everything, not just stitchers. It seems to me that nearly everything is covered from soup recipes to engineering questions, computers, photography, music and books and kitchen appliances. You dream up the question and there just might be someone here who can give you a detailed answer, or head you in the right direction so you can do your own research.

That would be sooooooooooo nice. Maybe we could talk Gillian into taking a ride down here then.

You just proved my point !

We're hopeful - it would be really nice. Just waiting to get this mortgage redo finalized....and the final determination on the big girl job. We're very overdue for a trip to see my family in FL, so I'm hoping to work it out within the next couple of months. And surely we'll get to meet - and I can bring goodies.....And we can attempt to coax Gillian down!

Ellice

Aaaaagghhhhhhh - has spring sprung????

Ellice

No - you proved mine. Continuing conversation by adding an additional comment with someone in your opinion evidently seems to be correcting - which it isn't - at least when it's me adding the comment. That said, this comment is correcting - or disagreeing. As I don't see how my adding a jocular comment to Lucille's remark is in any way a correction.

So shall we take this to mean that any thing you say is an end-all to any chat? Or are we allowed to comment further when other people make remarks? Oh - yes - sarcasm switch on, to go along with your excellent use of editing to only show what you care to.

Clearly, Lucille didn't feel she was corrected.

Ellice - who admires Sheena's clearly demonstrated stitching skills and leaves the rest alone

I respectfully ask that you leave me the hell out of this. I really don't want to get in the middle of a "discussion" between two people that I consider friends.

Can't you two agree to disagree?

Sorry - but the poke at me was made with reference to my response to you, that's all - not taking your name in vain.

Absolutely.

Ellice

Not too sure where to start. I am in my "senior years" but still love to stitch, knit, and basically enjoy the needle arts. I am originally from UK, now settled in Florida. Don't like it, but it rarely snows. LOL

I enjoy looking at different techniques, but am not ready to start them when I have yet to master the ones I work with. I have learned so very much from this group of friends, and I hope you will too.

I have been very fortunate to have met in person, needle-to-needle, over a half dozen of the members here.\

WE are a good group of honest friends. Squabble "yes", hate "never".

Just like a family.

Gillian aka/.Gill Welcome

Gillian visited Newfoundland when she and Jim came up around here - she loved it.

when she and Jim came up around here -

Sheena knows full well that if Jim and I could be reborn, we would be newfies.

Fantastic people, honest way of life...nothing else needs to be said.....except the really cool lady who played music ,and said "we are locals you know".

They live life the way it should!!

Gillian

I'm Fran, who mostly lurks, and I live in northwest North Carolina, about 75 miles due north of Charlotte. I am owned by two cats - Miss Scarlett, otherwise known as either the Inspector General or Miss Pig, and Jabba, otherwise known as Sir Fuss-a-lot.

I do a variety of needlework, including xstitch, canvas work (am working on my Master Craftsman for this), goldwork (just started working on my Master Craftsman), japanese embroidery, and quilting. I've tried and dropped knitting and crochet as I found them boring.

I also have a very landscapedquarter-acre yard that I maintain (just started the seeds for this year - about a month late), and am a voracious reader.

Unfortunately, I have only a few hours a week to devote to all this as I am a computer programmer at large national company, and work 40+ hours most weeks, so it takes me forever to get any projects done.

Just curious, Fran - where in NC are you, if you don't mind sharing?

WOW - congrats - that's a lot of work. Are you doing yours thru EGA? I think I'm going to pick up into the MC in canvas work soon - once all the Master Teacher stuff is a bit further along, more definite. No wonder when we see your pictures the work is always so stunning!

So harsh that the other parts of life just seem to keep interfering! Nice of you to chime in.

ellice

I was stationed at Naval Facility Argentia NFLD in the 1970's. I well remember the long ambulance runs into St. John. Bobbie V.

Unquestionably the Newfoundlanders are amongst the most hospitable people on earth, and I have seen a lot of it, the earth I mean. I took my uncle and aunt over one summer and we B & B'd it all up the eastern coast through tremendous scenery and at each place it was as if we were long lost relatives returning.

Now I expect we have embarrassed Vae nicely !

Thanks. It helps me keep my sanity :) I'm just starting step 5 in the Canvas Embroidery MC, and yes, both MC's are being done thru EGA.

Yeah, I know. But, ya know, I do have to pay the bills...... sigh.

And I'm currently pulling white cat hairs out of a black-section-on-black-material piece. Can't see Sir Fuss' black hairs, but I can sure see Miss Furry's white ones!