Ginnie decided she needed to do some research to find out where cross stitch came from and how it began. Now you know how to cross stitch, and that is all there is to it!’ ” She said, ‘One, two, three, four, cross them back, one, two, three, four. “We sat down in The Hammock Shop, on the side porch on a small settee, and she taught us her famous 10-second course in a hoop. “We got in the car the very next day and drove to Pawley’s Island and met Ginnie Thompson, the most gracious woman in the world,” she said. The ornaments came from The Hammock Shop in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. If you could follow the chart, you could do it. “With this cross stitch, you were the artist. “There was nothing printed on the fabric,” she said. She remembered the stamped pillowcases from her childhood. Pat was immediately drawn to the ornaments. Pat started teaching in the back room of Gloria’s shop, and about three months later, somebody came into the shop with little cross-stitch ornaments. Why don’t you come and do some arts and crafts classes? We don’t have anything in Sumter like that.” Her new friend told her: “Pat, I’ve got a little room in the back. At the time, Pat was doing macramé and making Dip and Drape dolls. Gloria owned The Cross Stitch Cottage, a small embroidery shop, where she taught needlepoint and Japanese Bunka embroidery. Pat met Gloria Steele at the Newcomer’s Club in Sumter, South Carolina. To meet people in her new community, Pat joined a club and embarked on a journey that would change her life. She was introduced to cross stitch when she was a military wife with two little girls and a son. “Every summer, we girls were given a hoop and a stamped pillowcase and a needle and thread,” she said.
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