Kim Guyer was raised a Navy Brat. She is divorced and currently lives in Suffolk, Virgina. She is a recently "retired" veterinary technician, mom to a Navy son (26yrs old) proudly serving in Iraq and a beautiful daughter and college student (24 yrs) to whom she is a now a full-time caretaker due to an auto accident 3 years ago. She is also a self-taught stitcher. Kim has just learned cross stitch, crochet, crewel, and tatting. She also dabbles in dried flowers. She started with the small cross stitch kits that you can buy and went from there. The Thomas Kincaid cross stitch is her latest finished project and took her forever to complete--almost 6 months! It was her first time working with braided and sparkle blending threads. The 2 crewel pictures were the first pieces of crewel she ever worked. (She had to go back to the store to have them show her how to do a stitch called "cut turkey work".). She hopes to learn quilting. She LOVEs the hand stitching embellishments added to the quilts I have seen on International Hand Stitchers yahoo group!

Susan Hahn is a very accomplished artist. She not only does wonderful intricate embroidery, but she does silk ribbon embroidery and she also specializes in Scherenschnitte which is intricate paper cutting.
Born and raised in the South, Susan grew up surrounded by the creativity of arts and crafts beginning with her grandmother, who taught Susan to embroider, sew and, as she got older, to quilt.
Her mother was also artistic, especially in home décor, and, in later years, as an artist and still life painter.
Susan's dad was also an artist in his woodshop. He was always building something and had numerous projects going all year. He created some beautiful furniture for their home. With all this inspiration surrounding Susan's growing up years, it was only natural for her to gravitate towards some sort of creative endeavor.
As a child, she loved paper! Books, ephemera, cards, illustrations, old photographs! So when Susan discovered Scherenschnitte back in the 1980's, it was love at first sight. She's been cutting ever since, and always looking for new ideas for paper designs. She especially loves to adapt cuttings from photographs, art, history and archaelogy.
In 1998, She designed a series of papercuttings, called 'Ancient Artifacts.' These designs feature urns, bowls and pitchers adapted from many actual archaelogical finds at various 'goddess' sites in Europe. In recent years, She expanded her cutting passion into a love affair with silhouettes, with an emphasis on the history and historical aspect of this folk art. For silhouettes, she cuts mainly from side photographs of the subject, and has also adapted darkened landscape photos to the silhouette genre, using many of her own photographs
Her work has found homes in Israel, Greece, England, Scotland and various states across the U.S.
She is 52 years young, married with grown children and now living in the great Pacific Northwest. Her other artistic pursuits include being a published poet (3 chapbooks), Poetry editor/publisher, writer, genealogist, historian, and bibliophile.

Lori's work

We are featuring some more of Lori's work. She is really great at CQ and has been featured on CQ online website. And she also does a lot of cross-stitching. I just love her house shown here.

Khristine is from Georgia and her work is so unique. She has her own quirky style and love making prim style dolls and stitcheries. She joins in alot of the swaps and even hosts one from time to time. She is a stay at home mom who has home schooled her children. She has recently set up a webpage and is selling her prim style works from there. Check out our links to see more of her work. I have been blest with many of her items and I love every one of them.

Liza from Guatemala

Liza is from Guatemala and presently lives in the USA. She travels home from time to time and does fabric paintings in oil and then she highlights with embroidery stitches. This is a new technique to most of us and we are excited to have her as part of our hand stitchers group. Her work is fabulous. Thanks Liza for joining us and sharing your work.

Janie does alot of beadwork with her stitchery. She is showing some of her beaded beads and a leaf design that goes on a mask. She uses embroidery for the leaves and garnet red beads.

Angela lives with husband, daughter, 2cats and 2dogs in a small country town in New Zealand. They live on an 11 acre block that keeps them busy. Two acres are garden, 4 acres in pine trees and rest are paddocks. They own a small furniture making business. Angela loves all sorts of crafts and has tried most things. Her passion is Genealogy, cloth doll making, Embroidery, gardening and miniatures. Her embroidery featured is stump-work which entails working embroidery over felt, other threads, beads to give it a 3D effect.