 Boy,
is it scary to say I’ve been stitching for 30 years, but it's
oh-so-true!
My first love was Petit point. I had
trouble finding patterns the right size so I started designing
my own. I had so many requests for my jewelry pieces that I found
the manufacturer of the findings, Rayberts . I became friends
with Margaret Seemann, the owner, and began designing patterns
for their catalogues. In 1997 we released petite point kits featuring
my patterns and her jewelry. Margaret decided to announce her
retirement in 2003, at the age of 75. With that, and the selling
of her company, the jewelry line was lost. What a shame. Her
findings were widely sold across Europe and of the best quality.
God Bless her as she travels the world, enjoys her grandchildren,
and is still skiing.
In the summer of 2003, I met with my best friends, CC and Nancy,
for a girls’ night. We talked about our dreams and what we
would like to accomplish. CC is a wonderful artist and wanted to
start a cultural arts & crafts center. Nancy loved to write
and wanted to be published. I wanted to find a way to design now
that I would not have the jewelry findings to use. So we all made
a pact that in the next year we were going to work on making our
dreams come true. That was a good motivation. CC moved to Kekaha,
Hawaii, and is continuing to gather research materials for the
center. Nancy is traveling all over the world, busy writing, and
has had stories and articles published in the “Chicken Soup
For The Soul” series as well as other publications. I published
my first 6 patterns and released them in time for the Columbus
wholesale market in May of 2004.
I release new patterns monthly. We also have a new line called
"The Feel Good People". These were designed by CC, and she has
given me permission to bring them alive in cross-stitch. I hope
you will enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed stitching them. I
will also offer some very limited jewelry kits with the remainder
of the findings that I have left from Rayberts The kit will include
the 40 count silk mesh, pattern, instructions, and jewelry finding.
Happy Stitching!
Lynda
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