Before I got addicted to quilting I was addicted to counted cross-stitch and I thought to share some of my work with you.

beautiful work, I love it

Very nice detail!

Beautiful! I am still addicted to x-stitching.

Beautiful.

Sybil

Love all, they are so pretty. But the portraits are outstanding, just perfect!

Absolutely beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing.

Truly amazing.

Wow, that is a lot of beautiful work! They are all gorgeous!

Beautiful work, very time consuming. I know, I have done many.

They are all very nice. Good work. You are very talented. It is amazing that you can do the photos of your family. Thank you for showing us.

amazing work. The people look like paintings!

embroidered portraits of a cross

Outstanding and beautiful work. Utterly amazing!!!

Wow! Beautiful work.

Beautiful, beautiful work ! I hope you have not given it up, because you are a master at counted cross stitch......an artist should never stop creating beautiful art !

Amazing work! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Breathtaking

Wow, wow and more wow! Beautiful stuff!

You have done some awesome crosstitching! I have done crosstitch but nothing like that. I do know that you spent some time on all yours. Have you had those framed yet?

You are an artist. Beautiful work.

I love the ones of your family, they will be something to pass down and cherish.

I am in awe. Fantastic work. And all framed and displayed. Like showing quilts.....Thanks for sharing.

You do beautiful work.

Beautiful! I cross stitch in between quilts and knitting and this board which is fast taking up all my time :)

You are a true artist! Your work is awesome.

Wow!!!!!

Very pretty, great stitching! I use to call myself a stitcher too, till the quilt bug bit. I still try to do some, but it really doesn't hold my interest much, unfortunately. I have alot of beautiful pieces in my stash, waiting to come alive, but the wait continues. I even have a beautiful oak stitching floor stand hubby made me, & still, it waits. I do some finished pieces that haven't gotten framed & am thinking of quilting around them now & making wall hangings or whatever, with them.

Maybe we need a stitcher's link on here too, to help us get excited & motivated once again, in the stitching dept., as well as our quilting. Sharing it might help too. What does anyone else think?

Your work is wonderful.

Your work is breathtaking. How do you do the family portraits? Is there a computer program that converts the picture to a cross stitch pattern? Or do you just eye-ball it? After looking at yours, I may never pick up a needle again.

I am speechless! Amazing amount of cross stitch completed.

Beautiful work... I also did lots of cross stitch..lot of lavender and lace angels and lots more...love your work the photo ones are awesome.

So very beautiful! You do truly nice work (really more than "nice" but I can't find the word to express just how wonderful your cross stiching is). Did you follow a chart for the family pictures? Years ago in catalogs I would see advisements to send in a picture and the company would convert it to a chart to be cross stiched. I always thought about doing that with my boys, just never got around to it, what with working outside the home 10 hour days, keeping house, and running after family.

Love your work ;)

I'm a loss for words??? You did LOVE to cross-stitch.
I still do but never did work like yours.....
AWESOME work!!!!

WOW!!! Beautiful work!!!
Loved looking at all the work. Thanks for sharing with us!

Cross stitch was my first love as well.
Sometime here I will share some of it with you all

Very nice.I do cross stitch as well but find it takes a lot longer to complete. I pefer patchwork because the results are achieved quicker. It must have taken you many hours of patience to complete your work especially the portraits. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful work...isn't it funny how many of us quilters also love cross stitch...it was also my first love before quilting :)

Simply--scratch that--complexly BEAUTIFUL dozen of ohh's and aahhs here.

Wow! What a fabulous collection! You do very nice work!