How old is everyone?

[Crimson Star]

I'm 30.. and right now I want to be sitting in front of my tv playing metroid =)

I'm 17 still. In my country, cross stitch is one of the most expensive hobbies next to sewing and beading. Hell, the price of one yard of aida cloth is more expensive than a damn golf club! Can you believe that?! I mean seriously, $90 a metre!

Holy Crap! I can buy you stuff and mail it over for much cheaper if you want to supplies!
I can spend $5 and have enough for a quite a few projects!

No, no, it's fine. I just ordered a crapload of aida cloth online. I don't know when I'll get it but there's enough for me to stitch the entire Minish Cap world map and a normal world map and have some left over!

[PixelPockets]

yey!

well, if you need anything I don't mind picking you up stuff and shipping it.
at michael's (a craft store), DMC is 35 cents.. though you could find it cheaper bulk online
and aida generally is around $3 depending on what you get.. and shipping in an envelope for that would be pretty cheap.

So I'd be happy to pick you up any supplies and send them out if you wanted to pay for them via paypal. =)

[LinkIsMyHomeboy]

25 year old female from Indiana, USA. I got into cross-stitching from a very young age (4 or 5) as both of my parents were into it, and it was mostly my dad who taught me so my cross-stitching technique is about 75% his tips, 20% my mother's, and the other 5% is my own spin on it. I never thought it was weird that my father did crafts like that, especially since this is the same man that let me put makeup and nail polish on him and would play Barbies with me

[rockinwithrammstein]

I'm a 23 year old female. I only just discovered my love of stitching since the new year. My mom taught me when I was younger, but I kinda got in that "this is lame" mode, but since becoming a mommy, I've found that it helps me relax and believe it or not has helped me lose weight because I'm too focused on that and my kid, so I don't do any boredom grazing anymore lol

Shocked the fudge out of my mom when I told her I was stitching again (it's been like 10 years since the last time I did it)

[Shereebedee]

24 here 25 in June

[rogueprincess20]

I'm 24. I'll be 25 in July.

[Aggie Tsubi]

I'm 29 and female. I want to say I learned cross stitch when I was 7? 8? Something like that. I learned from my best friend at the time and my great aunt when she'd come to visit (which was only a few times through my whole childhood, since she was on the opposite side of the country). While I don't have any cross stitchers in my immediate family, all of my family, men and women alike, know how to sew, just as a basic life skill. To my family, you're kinda hopeless if you can't even sew a loose button back on your clothes. When I was very, very little, though, my mom was a quilter, all by hand, no less.

I was biggest on stitching and sewing in general as a kid. I was sort of the darling of my Sewing & Serging class in junior high. I was the only person to take the class two times over (since there was no follow-up class and I wanted more). The teacher gave me permission to do so the second time, and she altered each assignment specially for me to make it more complex and challenging than the first time I did it. Whenever the teacher was out sick, she made me the sort of "honorary teacher" to help all of the other students since the substitutes never knew squat about sewing, haha. I also took a class like home economics, which had a little bit of sewing in it too. I never got particularly good at making clothes, but I was always doing cross stitch or making all sorts of pillows and stuffed animals from kits. I've only done cross stitch since graduating high school, but even that has tapered down a lot. Sometimes I've even gone years without stitching, but I always come back, doing it like crazy until I completely burn out, haha.

I am admittedly a bigger gamer than stitcher. I'm huge on game history and collecting, I play everything from Colecovision to Xbox 360 (although I'm mostly a retro gamer with my biggest interest lying in systems from the NES through to the PlayStation and N64), I import a lot of games and game merchandise from Japan (so a lot of my favorite games are very obscure, like how my avatar is from a Japan-exclusive N64 game called Wonder Project J2), and I even write for a couple game magazines. I currently own over 1200 games. And I'm with a guy that's just as crazy about games. It's almost silly that I haven't done cross stitching of game sprites earlier, but I'm ready now and maybe I'll start stitching more often. I definitely already have a whole folder of sprites I'd like to stitch up, haha. Oh, and it's fun to be on a board loaded with female gamers, since I go to a lot of different video game message boards and women are always WAY in the minority on them.

[RMDC]

I was sort of the darling of my Sewing & Serging class in junior high. I was the only person to take the class two times over (since there was no follow-up class and I wanted more). The teacher gave me permission to do so the second time, and she altered each assignment specially for me to make it more complex and challenging than the first time I did it. Whenever the teacher was out sick, she made me the sort of "honorary teacher" to help all of the other students since the substitutes never knew squat about sewing, haha.

You are so hardcore. I am completely envious of junior high you.

[half-stitched]

I'm 14.. about half the age of most of you. I started stitching actually a very short while ago.. maybe 1-2 months if that. It feels like its been forever though. I really don't know where I got the crafty gene from, but ALL my life I've been crafting: some things have stuck, some haven't. I've been crocheting for 6 years now, though, so I guess needle arts are my forte.

My mom, although she's fine with me doing whatever crafts and is really awesome about driving me to the craft store if I have money (in the process of setting up an etsy shop because I need money to support all these crafty habits of mine! ..not to mention the video game habit..), wishes I would do more 'traditional' needlepoint patterns haha. 'What are you making?' - 'a ninja guy' - 'why won't you make something that I could hang up, like roses? You can't hang up a ninja guy' - 'You wouldn't, but I would. '

[Aridesh]

'why won't you make something that I could hang up, like roses? You can't hang up a ninja guy'

I would totally hang up a ninja guy! Though, I guess that's why I hang out on this site. I have a couple of ninjas made out of perler beads hanging out on my bookshelf, actually.
I'm 21 in December, by the way. Seeing as this is the age board and all.