Amo Angelus

 Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Amo Angelus, a 22 year old from Sheffield. And this is my stitching website, Ido hope that you like it. Here you will find everything from my own personal designs to my projects, past, present and future. It's all here. 

Now I know a lot of people think that cross stitch is a hobby for the elderly, and I must admit that I thought like that myself at first, but it's really not. I have learned a lot since I first picked up my needle and while I know that the elder generations do stitch, so do a lot of younger people. I have been an Avid Stitcher since I was 20, and I am quite proud of that!

So it may strike you as amusing that I came upon this delightful hobby purely by chance. A rather amusing chance in hindsight, but at the time the circumstances that caused me to begin were quite stressful and worrying. Let me tell you about it.

It all began a few years ago, while I was still at college.
Wednesdays were my favourite day of the week, classes were all finished by noon and I'd grab a bite to eat and make my way over to my grammas house where I'd pretend I'd not eaten and get something else to eat. I'd stay there and chat and watch tv for hours on end and pretty soon it became a regular thing. It was on one of these Wednesdays when my gramma handed me a copy of "Quick and Easy" which contained, in the back, a section titles "Stitch a Star" and held none other than the heartthrob David Boreanez. My gramma was always crafting and she'd introduced me to many crafts over the years, but Cross stitch was one she had failed to entice me with, regardless she let me take the mag, some aida and some of the threads home with me, promising to collect all that I would need. These promptly went in a drawer for some years.

It was in December 2006 when I next came across cross stitch. I had just moved into my second flat of the year and unlike the last, this one was unfurnished so all my furnature came with me. Then my flat began to get wet...there was a leak somewhere and my flat being on the basement level flooded. So one night I was up late, unable to sleep and I came across this magazine my gramma had given me and fell in love with one of the designs, not the stitch a star, but some adorable snow bunnies which I wanted to stitch on my pillows. Of course first I had to learn to stitch. So I went and bought a new magazine with a small kit on the front. I thought that would be easy to stitch, it was only small afterall. This made it ideal as I knew I would be living out of a suitcase for an indeffinate period of time.

...The kit was for Lickle Ted.

For those of you who have no idea who that adorable little bear is, there were two different shades of white, five different shades of cream and four different shades of tan, all of which looked perfectly identical to me. And to make matters worse, I worked in rows rather than blocks of colour like I do now. Thankfully though, I found a forum that helped me learn and even though I've yet to do those bunnies, I now have a veritable stash going, design my own charts, run a stitching club and am thoroughly addicted.