Hi cuties, My number 1 passion is crochet and even though I spend my days with machine embroidery once I sit in the evenings I pick up my crochet. I HATE to sit idel in front of the tv so back in the 70's I began crocheting.

I do not like the thin no. 10 thread so I use the DMC Petra no. 5 thread and lately I have to order it from the UK so I get 10 balls at a time, either here in Jeddah or to my sisters in Florida. And the perfectionest that I am, I will tear out rows of stitches to get the pattern to lay flat and because I use the thicker thread this happens
often as the patterns I use are for the thinner thread.
I love using symbol patterns that are available in Europe and Asia, they are so much easier to follow than rows of text.
After years of giving away my work I started keeping pictures, here are some of my work.
Huggs Dolly

1- I stoped cross stitching and was trying to use up all those threads
2- made for my son's first home when he married
3- turned out really nice
4- the center pink stitches on this are overlaped and really look good
5- the center is done first then the outer edges, nice
6- squares together
7- something different, done by rows of pineapples
8- several colors and flowers
9- very pretty effect
10- a table cloth for my GD when she marries
11- pretty pattern
12- newly finished for a dinning room table
13- I'm into ovals now, another newly finished one
14- A doily I made for my mother in 1991 without a pattern and I'm going nuts trying to do it again LOL