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updated December 1998 

I started to cross stitch about 10 years ago and soon got hooked. I started with kits but the discovered Jo Verso books and began to design my own. I usually stitch on 18 count aida although I have done some on 22 count which I find a bit fiddly as the stitches slip.

I've recently got the Easy Cross computer programme to help me with my designing - and am gradually tranferring designs from scrappy bits of paper to the computer - all I need now is the time.

Here is a small selection of my pictures

This was my first large picture and it took me nearly 6 months to complete (it was a bit ambitious for a first effort). As you can see it was inspired by Jo Verso's book, Picture it in Cross Stitch.

King Tut took me ages to work out because of the strange angles - not at 45 degrees - so there are a lot of half stitches and infill with back stitching but I got there in the end.

This was worked on 22 count aida, dark brown silk on cream. I kept the angles to 45 degrees so I had to make sure that all the roads and houses stayed relative to each other. (I used to draw maps for the O.S. so that helped).

This is my anti fox-hunting picture. I did it for our hunting friends who may notice it hanging on our wall and get the message. Even in 1763 there was an anti-hunt movement I hope to get the pattern available shortly.

This was done in 1997 for my daughter's 16th Birthday. It is actually a Baby Afgan, with the designs worked over two threads. Each square represents one aspect of her life as she was growing up - as you see it contains an awful lot of animals.

I designed this after my mother died as she used to help with a camp for disabled guides at the Woodlarks Camp Site and her ashes are buried in the grounds. Click on the picture to get the pattern The pattern uses a lot of half stitches and the back stitch helps to form the shape

For the millennium our village is making a quilt of cross stitch or other fabric art squares, showing the village, village life or whatever. The idea is that as many individuals as possible contribute a square. The finished size of each square will be 5" and hopefully a minimum of 100 squares. So far a over 40 squares have been distributed and lots of different designs have been drawn up - houses, dogs, the village pump - even a map of the foot paths. The parish council purchased the aida, so only a needle and silks need be bought and individuals are sharing colours! I'll keep you posted on progress - we may get it finished by the year 2000!

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