Cross Stitch Designs

My interest in cross stitch is relatively recent. The first piece I am aware of really noticing was in September 1987. This was at an Arts and Craft Exhibition at the Waigani Arts Centre in Papua New Guinea. The very next day I bought a chart, some fabric, threads and a needle and the rest is history — I was hooked! There was no going back. Do one piece of cross stitch and you're addicted for life. In the five years since that day 1 have stitched innumerable pieces, designing in excess of one hundred and thirty of them so far. I am constantly being asked how I go about designing. It seems that I work completely in reverse to the way that is usually taught. I design by stitching first, charring what 1 have done as each thread or area of colour is completed. It never ceases to amaze me that, when sitting with pen on graph paper, so many people will ask: 'Do you work all that out on computer first?' But then again, I am often asked if I am working in acrylics or watercolours. Have I tried oils? Have I ever tried designing anything original? And there am I sitting outside my little gallery that is crammed with all the originals that I have managed to keep my hands on.

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