Cross Stitching is very relaxing and concentrating hobby. Theprocess of stitching really could raise your spirits when you seeyour work transform from one stitch to the whole picture. And it isreally exiting to look through different flower and choose yourfuture work. Now you can find plenty different design and styles.You can make a really big pictures for the thousand of stitches ornice small pictures which you can hang all over your place or givethem as a gift to your family and friends. But is Cross Stitchflower always were the same as now? Cross Stitching exits for areally long time and it changed through out years. Years ago girlsin small villages started cross stitching as young as five yearsold and did it all their life. But it wasn't just a hobby for themat that time. They stitched not only for their home to make it nicebut also they cross stitch their clothes to show everyone how theymastered this craft. In some villages there were days when thegirls all over the village showed up in clothes they stitched andpeople could choose which one were the best master. Sometimes youngboys chose a girls for marriage to look through her work. Sostitching plaid a big part in girls life. There were a lot of crossstitch flower and designs in old times but it wasn't just a regularflower, all design had some meaning and for different purposepeople made different designs. For example, weddings always wererich in cross stitch designs which express wishes of long and happylife for newly-married. design in different places had differentmeanings but usually old designs contained lots of birds(represents beauty and freedom at some nations), trees andsun(usually represent fertility). Sometimes this design were prettyeasy to make but not meaningless. It means that when our ancestorsstitched a cloths for particular person they could say who thisperson was: how old and how rich he/she was, what rank in societyhe/she has, how wise he/she was and so on. Can you imagine howevery big or small celebration people dressed up in a wonderfulcloths with stitching from top to bottom and from this stitchingyou can easily fined out what day they celebrate, what theyrepresent and who they are. Cross Stitching has a great history andsome people still find it interesting to make old style designs.All this designs look really antique, as something forgotten a longtime ago but still alive and meaningful. But if you know the routeof each Cross Stitch flower your work won't be just a craft, itwill be a message for everyone.