I was about 8 years old. I remember watching my Mom stitch and asked her to teach me. She always stitched these huge pictures from counted cross stitch. So I never really took a liking to anything other than counted.
ive been stitching since I was about 14 years old stopped for a while when I had my son and then started again ... all in all I have been stitching for about 25 years now :)
I started with stamped embroidery many, many years ago; started with cross stitch about 25 years ago but stopped for a long time and just started again.
Just after before my first son was born. I went to get some wool and fell in live with a Noahs ark. He is 23 next year, and Im still stitching but mild arthritis has stopped me knitting g