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ABOUT CALICO CROSSROADS®
CALICO CROSSROADS® is a needleart design company that produces counted thread designs in leaflet and chartpak format as well as some bead patterns. This year we celebrate our 15th year!
Our goal is to share our love of needlework with our stitchers. We pride ourselves on our innovative designs with quality instructions that enable stitchers everywhere to recreate our designs with needle and thread by hand & machine.
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The principals of Calico Crossroads® include me, Linda Connors, and my husband, Jim (mostly me). I do everything including all of the design and digitizing work plus all computer charting, all model stitching, finishing and some of the framing. Jim does the photography and some of the digital imaging and accounting.
Jim and the Easter Bunny
We have two cats that let us live with them (with all those Kats by Kelly™ designs how could there NOT be a couple of cats involved?). There's 16-year-old Murphy, who looks & acts just like all those black cats in our Kats by Kelly™ series! He lives for food!! Fourteen-year-old George, my bestest buddy ever, died in August 2002. (He's the white and black one by the fishbowl and on our Home page.) I miss him still! It is amazing how attached we can get to the furry little buggers! BUT. . . we have a new one called Dexter and what a corker (he's the black and white kitten with the lopsided splotch on his nose below)! Since George was 14 years old when he passed away, it had been a while since we'd had a small kitten. It's easy to forget how mischievous and energetic they are! It's a full time job just keeping up with that one!! But already we love him immensely! What would life be without cats??!! (Dexter is now 5 years old and not a little kitten any more--how the time flies!)
All my life I've been involved in one way or the other with the fiber arts. Throughout the years, I've tried my hand in many forms of fiberart including macrame, knitting, sewing, embroidery, crocheting, weaving, crewel, spinning, natural dyeing, needle-point, beading, batik and too many different needlework techniques to name. I also am an avid beader. However, I fell in love with counted thread work in 1982 and have been an obsessive stitcher ever since. I designed my first piece for a contest and although I didn't win, I was hooked and have continued to design from that time on. My design range is very eclectic as I like to experiment with many different styles, fibers, fabrics and embellishments which I hope my stitchers appreciate, too.
Dexter on water cooler Dex on first day home Nap Time
There are two aspects of designing that I find the most rewarding and fun. One is the unfettered freedom of expression. The other is hearing from stitchers how much they enjoy my designs. It makes me very happy to know that I've brought a little joy and beauty to someone's life.
I always love to hear from stitchers, so feel free to write, fax or e-mail me at any time.
Happy stitching and enjoy!
Always in stitches,
Linda Connors
