People always ask me why I do counted cross stitch. Well the answer is simple, I find it very relaxing. I first started to cross stitch after trying to buy some country cross stitch for my house & finding that most of them were way to expensive for my budget. After looking at them for a while, I said to myself, "you could do that" & so I did. While making my first cross stitch for a friends birthday, I found that I enjoyed the relaxed feeling as well as the time to think & pray. I have made more cross stitch works but most of them were made as gifts for others. I found another great advantage for a guy doing cross stitch, when I used to fly more & ride the train up the Santa Barbara, people tended to leave me alone because they had no clue what to make of it. So for me, it's a win/win hobby, I save money, they make great gifts & I don't have to talk to guy that smells like cheese next to me on the plane.