| West, 56, gives her new friends lessons in embroidery, knitting and cross-stitching. |
| Women often sit on their front porches knitting for their families, or cross-stitching or embroidering the bodices for their traditional dresses. |
| I was cross-stitching in a chair on the lawn when he approached me. |
| The craft of cross-stitching has gained many followers globally that even men are now in it as a hobby, past-time or even as a source of livelihood. |
| Work the design on it and when the cross-stitching is all finished pull out the scrim thread by thread. |
