Flosstube #6 - Pillow Parade - New Starts & Finishes - Red Samplers & Tomato Stitching!!

[Music] [Music] [Music] well hi there today is friday february 5th 2021 and this is flosstube number six and i'm excited to be here today i have a lot to show you and so i hope you're ready so get you know like some cocoa cup of tea or coffee whatever you like to drink now or get your stitching which is even better and let's get started so first off i thought i would do a little pillow parade because i finished two of my stitches that i started last month into pillows and so i thought i would show those and then just talk about a few i just grabbed a few that i had on the shelf here in my hallway and on the table in my kitchen and things like that so i could show you a few so this is the the one i was talking about and i showed it on instagram that i um needed to finish last month i only have these little red flowers left to do let me grab the chart so that you can see what i'm talking about this is by the scarlet house and it's called the patriotic scissor pocket but i didn't make mine into a scissor pocket i just wanted to make it into a pillow and so what i did with that is i started out and i showed this um last month on my flosstube i started out with my barley 25 count lugana and which is a white color and then i after i stitched the whole thing i stitched two over two with just colors for my stash after i stitched the whole thing i was brave and i thought why not and i tried it out on a scrap of fabric but i used this instant antique which i've had for a long time but i had never used it because after i stitched i was a little bit too nervous to go ahead and spray it right on my stitching but now that i've done one you know then i won't be so nervous but i used to do something like this a long time ago when i was making dolls to sell years ago this is one of the ways that i would you know vintage my dolls up is i would do a really really strong tea brew and put it in a spray bottle and spray them in different spots as well so but i i believe this isn't tea i'm i'm sure this is probably actual fabric dye that's in here it's by primitive gatherings you can get this at the fat quarter shop and i will leave a link but what i did was i just after i stitched it i pressed it from the back and then i put saran wrap all over a cookie sheet the sticky kind so it would just like go go all over the cookie sheet then i laid this flat on the cookie sheet i took it out on my patio and i just sprayed it but before i did that i took like a scrap piece of muzzle and i just kind of wanted to see the pressure and the amount of spray that i could do and what it would look like so i i kind of you know like how that looks it adds some splotches here and there and obviously you could to do this on your fabric before the stitching but i wanted to do it after because i wanted to you know have a little bit darker parts in my stitching as well and this really was only i just kind of sprayed over it once but it does dry lighter than it appears and i if i wanted to go even more you know vintage up then i could just spray it again a second time after it dried and then i just let it sit you know out on the patio on that cookie sheet and and dried it and then i went ahead and sewed it into a pillow this is one of my prim fabric pieces and i used this chanel to go on the outside and i just sewed it because i knew i was doing chanel i just sewed it all the way around and left an opening at the bottom whip stitched that opening closed and then when i put my chanel on i like to use the aleene's glue and i like it because it's kind of sticky and i just put a very very thin coat around there of the glue and then this light just dries automatically and so that's that's a fun finish i really love that pillow and i love to do pillows because you can just tuck them in baskets put them on shelves put them in your cupboards you know put like things that go together all in one basket like the same holidays or themes it's just kind of fun so besides framing and finding different unique ways to frame i like to use pillows a lot so this is another finish that i had from last month it was one of my starts for that i did for one of my brother's birthdays and this is pineberry lane by pineberry lane it's called sisters farm fresh eggs and i just finished it thinking i might want to put chanel on the outside but i just kind of like how it looked like that so i used dmc and just for my stash can you see that clearly if i hold that still you can see what i did what this check mark means is i used that same color that was called for and then all of the other numbers beside it is the colors that i used and i thought about putting some of the spray on this one too but i really like how that looks now so i think i'm going to leave leave that one alone and let's see let's talk about this one right here this is called home and it's it's a needle book by lottie da and once again i didn't make it into a needle book i just simply finished it into a pillow and i did this quite a while ago and i put the year that we built our house so on the back i did i i sewed all the way around and i left this for the opening meaning i just cut a little piece like i did in my pillow tutorial my cute little pillows tutorial i'll put a link to that and i'll show you some of those pillows i made in the tutorial but i did some of my be cute lace back there to cover up the seam and i used let's see i got a bunch of these vintage pins while i was thrifting one day so i just thought that would be fun to pin through that so that's what i did on that one this one is by not forgotten farms this is called kind words i've had some questions on this one because i put it in several of my videos before but this is called kind words i love that one and i just did a quick little feather stitch after i added some of my prim fabric on the bottom then i added a little vintage pin and a vintage button and that's what that one looks like that's that finish this one i don't have a chart for this this was a freebie by the primitive hair and i will leave a link to that it's still available she did it quite a while ago and i stitched this quite a while ago as well but um i love this and what i did for that is i covered up my little whip stitches by putting a little vintage valentine pin there which i thought was fitting for love and let's see what else have i got this is the red bird sampler by heart in hand and this one came with a little button that came into the chart let's see i've got something on there and i can't remember what thread i used for this i stitched this quite a while ago and then finished it a while ago when when i my granny chic fabric came out this is a piece for my granny chic and i haven't even put any lace or anything on that but you can see i sewed all the way around here did my opening and then i just whip stitch to close but i can add anything i want to the back of that i can put lace i can put wool or i can just leave it the way it is it's not a big deal if you see that and this last one i have is lucy tucker's gift by the humble stitcher and i just love that i love i love the saying on this and with my needle and my thread upon my flax and linen i stitched this simple gift for thee when i was only seven and so i put my grandma's name on it her first name item marie and then i put the year that she was born 1913. and then on the back of that i put some of my be cute lace on there again and i put an old vintage pin on on the back there now these are fun i brought these in to show you i have i always collect little pins like this that just has a little short pin and these would be so you know so pretty on the back of things or you can even put them on the front but i pick those up when i'm thrifting and you know for very inexpensive you can buy them for a lot of money you can spend a lot of money if you look in the glass cases at an antique shop a lot of times if you look through all the junk while you're thrifting you'll find a few pieces like that so i remembered that i had put all of these i mean i remembered that i had given you this tutorial tutorial so sorry i'm skipping over my words here but these are my cute little pillows that i made in the tutorial that i was talking you know to you about that i will leave a link most of these are from my stitch cards and i have stitch cards um that come out quarterly it's so emma which is a division of fat quarter shop publishes my cross stitch patterns for me so this is stitch card a that i started with a long time ago here's b here c are these are these glaring caskets here's d and so with each one um i do a different border with each one so you just have a little a lot of different ideas because the stitch count within each design inside is 24 by 24. so for instance if i wanted to um if i liked this little scalloped border that the snowman is on better than this other different looking scallop border i could put this snowman inside this border and i could put this trailer inside this border they all switch out that way so i do a different border each time so here's set e here's set f i don't know did i show that and then set g and i have set h coming out very shortly and that is farm animals next from my farm girl vintage books so typically i take a lot of my quilt blocks as you know and put them into my cross stitch patterns so then i take those stitch cards and i'll do little pillows according to um just my scraps of linen that i have left over so they're all different sizes these are on 40 counts so look how cute and tiny those are this is a larger count so it's a larger pillow but what i do for those is i take my cute little buttons i have several collections of cute little buttons and different styles and sizes and i'll just take scraps of wool and on pillows this tiny i don't really want to leave an opening on the bottom because it just it's it's become very fiddly and hard to work with and so i like to just sew all the way around and then use my seam ripper and make a little hole in the back of the fabric so that i can turn it and then i stuff it and iron on these little bits of wool and use these little these little pins here these loop pins and put my little buttons on there just for cuteness like it's not necessary you could just whip stitch it you know like i did let's see where's the red bird sampler like i just whip stitched that with matching thread and they could totally look like that on the back but i just you know why not with little things i'm always picking stuff up and looking at it i'm a tactile person and so i'm always liking to pick things up and look at them and it's just fun to have a little surprise on the back right so here's some maybe i'll just show a little bit closer now i will leave a link to that video tutorial that i did in case you want to see that if you've never watched it but i it's just fun to do traditional quilt blocks as well and these are all like i say on different styles of fabric different counts i don't know i don't think i necessarily need to go through and show you every one of these but i just want to give you an idea of what they're like and how fun it is to do these little pillows and i just grab fabric for my stash you know to put on the back these are my fabrics from different fabric collections so that's what i use i use the bq lace i use buttons i use vintage pins meaning safety pins loop pins and also jewelry pins and bits of wool bits of fabric and it's it's pretty fun and i love to do smalls and so pillows are just really easy and quick way to finish those up and display okay so now that my pillow parade is over i'm going to quickly clean this up and i'll be right back and i'm going to show you some pieces that i just picked up from the framers and i'm pretty excited about it okay so i grabbed these pieces that i got back from the framers and i got these framed at the craft center which is a local um stitchery shop here in utah that i've gone to for years and i just i'm really thrilled with the job that they did and i'll show you one by one so this one is i can't say i can't say the name because i can't read french but it's by trial allah but this is what the pattern looks like for those of you out there who can read french maybe you can leave in the comments the translation of what this is but here's the chart and here's my finished piece i love how that turned out so i stitched her because i mean there's a house there's a lady on there holding a basket i mean there's sheep there's birds there's bees there's strawberries and again the alphabet which makes it a sampler so i had to stitch her to go on my b wall which is fast becoming my birds and bees you know my the birds in the bees wall and uh i love sheep so much and chickens as you know growing up on a farm that i'll probably end up having a sheep and a chicken wall as well but looks like the way i'm going but isn't she pretty i just love her so there's one framed piece the other one is another one for my b wall which is no bees no honey and this is by birds of a feather but what i did is just the center portion right here and that's what this looks like i love love this frame with it and then the next one is samplers by the scarlet house and of course i stitched this to go on my sampler wall and that's what that looks like i believe i use the call for colors in this one so i usually say on the back on my library card i don't have my library cards with me because i haven't glued them on the back yet but um this is on 36 count beach brew let me see if i wrote on this chart oh i can't show that yeah this must have just been this must have just been from my stash but this actually looks like it's 40 count vintage country mocha to me so so there's the samplers love the frame just wanted a simple one that matched the color here of the word samplers and then finally finally finally i did end up taking this to be professionally framed and i'm so happy that i did this is all creatures great and small by barbara anna designs i know i've talked about this before and showed you many times this is stitched on 36 count chamomile tea by r r and here she is all framed and finished and i just i just love it now i used all of the called for flosses in this which was anchor with just two exceptions i used two dmcs i used all of the greens that it called for but i threw in another dmc green and i don't know why but i did not write that down but it's just this little bit of a brighter green just because i like a good variety of greens i like gray greens and you know darker hunter greens and just i felt like i just needed a little bit of a brighter green and then as usual i changed the red i always do and i didn't write this down but i haven't memorized because my favorite red is dmc 347 and so that's what i used for the barn you know you can see there's not a lot of red in here but what there is because red is such a prominent color that it makes such a great impact and so you know just the little bits of red that i added here and then i loved these flowers so much that were just these little simple flowers see that's just in the chart that that's what i ended up doing in the border instead of these rose buds that it shows i just decided to do these little flowers that match the inside so you know as you know i love this piece i've talked about it enough times but um i love doing big projects they're fun to work on they take a long time there's a lot of anticipation in finishing them but once they're finished and in a frame and i can get it on my sampler wall i'm just you know super duper happy about it so there's that one and then i have one more framed piece that i'm going to show you and i framed this one and i talked about this in my last several floss tubes and i finish winter rose manor and this is by brenda gervais and this is my finish so i showed you last month my frame that i bought at hobby lobby which really wasn't a frame it was just like a piece of artwork that had the words this is us on it and so i just popped out the back piece and i bought it because it was square and i knew this was going to finish square and honestly i love a square frame so whenever i see artwork that has a square frame i usually pick them up but i just knew that this would be perfect these scallops and this color right here to go with all these whites for the snow and again yes i think brenda meant this to be you know maybe christmassy i'm not sure but i think she did a beautiful job whether you know she meant it for christmas or just for winter but for me it's going to be displayed in my house right now it's still winter here it's february 5th and it happens to be snowing outside right now so here in utah we have quite a long winter and i think this is beautiful and feminine i love the colors now i used all of the called four colors with the exception of just a few and let me tell you those so on my library card again i wanted to let you know that i used 36 count edinboro dirty linen and i stitched with all of the overdyed flosses with a few substitutions so what those substitutions are let me open here i don't want to show you the chart so i'll just put it away so for the house it called for conch now last time i was calling this conch and someone from florida thank you so much for letting me know that um the correct pronunciation is conch so it's a conch shell so but it just looked too brown on my fabric for some reason and so i switched that out for classic color works perfect pie crust and you can see how the floss looks one way when you lay it on the fabric when you're doing a floss toss but when you actually stitch it it kind of looks a little bit different so what i always do is i just do like a square of 9x9 or 12 by 12 and just kind of see what that's going to look like with you know i'm using one thread this is 36 counts so i stitch with one thread over two and i love love love how that looks so that was perfect and i love how they called it perfect pie crust because it was perfect for that then for my snow i switched it out and i ended up using parchment because the one that they called for that brenda called for let's see what does it say on here now i can't remember because i switched it out it was roasted marshmallow and i decided to use week styworks parchment because i just felt like that it would show up more and again look how different that looks as compared to how it actually looks when you use one strand and put it on the cloth but i think it's beautiful and then one more substitution i did let's see is i used genelard's brick right here instead of wood rose the wood rose was just too brown for me again so i used that i used cayenne was that called for yeah the cayenne's called for for the darker colors now when it came to um this right here the mulberry which is the dark in these flowers the dark in this wing and this cardinal notice there's there's quite a bit of orange in some of this but i just used the darker parts and didn't use the orange i'm only using one strand so by the time i pulled out one strand i could see there was an orange section so i just started on the other end so that i could have darker parts because you know that might be perfect for another sampler but i didn't want to all of a sudden introduce orange in here when i didn't have any so those are my substitutions that's my cloth now i have all of this i can put my finish date on here and then i can glue it onto the back now i haven't put a piece of fabric or paper on the back yet but this is what the back looks like so i usually will put some scrapbook paper or you know something or a piece of fabric to cover this and then i'll glue this on here with all the information and add other information on here if i need it and that's how i keep it so i laced this myself and i just used the piece of wood that i popped out from the back and i do have a tutorial on how i lace and so i will leave a link to that in case you haven't seen that or or are interested in finishing your own winter rose manor in this frame i've had a lot of people message me and a lot of people left a comment saying they bought the frame and um you know put it on their piece and you know i was watching um celeste creates on instagram and on her flosstube and she has hers finished as well and popped it inside this frame after she had purchased it after she saw my floss tube and it looks wonderful she used different cloth and a few different colors and it looks fabulous so so i love it and there's that one okay so now i've showed you all my framing i will be right back and move this out of the way so i can bring in all of my other things and show you even more all right so now i've got another stack of stuff i want to talk to you about um the first thing let's see underneath here i've got my red samplers let me tell you about that in a minute and let me pull in this tomato bag so this adorable tomato bag was made for me last year by my friend christy from crosshatch quilts and she took my tomato pattern from my farm girl vintage ii quilt book and used my fabrics and pieced some tomatoes and then this is my decorator weight fabric that i've talked to you about in one of my videos when i talk to you about covering my ironing boards and how to do that yourself and so that's what she put in the top and on the back so it's like a lightweight canvas decorator weight so you can so fun things with it but look how cute when i put my tomato charm there and of course cassidy did this little macrame pull from my chunky thread and you know she just hasn't had time to make anymore but you can easily just grab a thing of my chunky thread and search here on youtube like macrame keychains and and i'm sure there's tutorials for that if you're really really wanting one if she ever gets time i'll list some but so far she's been super busy with her business which is great so okay let me show you what's inside here these are just charts but what i did is you know i love tomatoes all things tomatoes garden tomatoes i was always the the kid me and my little brother was always you know raiding the tomato patch and uh would take those little teeny salt and pepper shakers out to the garden and would sit in the tomato patch and just eat tomatoes and let me tell you there's nothing better than a garden tomato that's been warmed by the sun and ripened and it's on the vine it's perfect so i digress okay so tomato bag so anything tomato i've been collecting tomato charts and patterns that have anything to do with tomatoes whether they're for sewing tomatoes or they're in the garden and i've got them all in here and i'm going to start stitching them i'm going to start adding adding them to my starts this year so that i can get going so let me just show you what i have in my tomato bag here i've got so sisters by plum street samplers and look at that cute basket i hope that's not too i know i always say that i should have taken these out of the package but look at that cute sewing basket with that pyramid of tomato pen cushions then we've got uh queen of the needle there she is holding her giant tomato pen cushion this is by brenda gervais here's another one by um brenda and it's project quarantine and we've got some tomato pin cushions in here so it goes in the tomato bag mice in the sewing room i should just grab these out and go through and see what other ones are by brenda i guess these are the last two okay so we've got mice in the sewing room and that is adorable i'm gonna do this forever i just haven't done it and of course the i collect which i do collect vintage tomato pin cushions i should have brought i should have brought that in and showed you my bowl full of tomato pin cushions but maybe when i'm clearing this out i'll bring that back in and show you when i'm showing you the next thing okay so there's that one i think those are all the sewing ones related no here's one stacy nash primitives and this is tomato harvest sewing bag but i'm not gonna do a sewing bag i'm gonna be doing it for my i don't know if i'm gonna make these all into pillows probably i'll probably just have like a great big bowl with um my tray of tomato pillows or whatever oh cass she's going to try to get my bowl of tomato pen cushion so i don't have to clear it all out okay look at this one the scarlet house sweet plump tomato ripening on the vine one day soon you're going to be mine that's what we all say when we're growing our tomatoes right okay cast you want to set that up that's a big heavy bowl but here's here's just some of them most of them are in here but i have a few more scattered around but look how fun that is some are you know for my mom my grandma's just from thrifting and uh i never pass up a good good old tomato pin cushion okay i want to keep showing you these so i showed you that one showed you that one which one did i miss here we go got a few more this one's by not forgotten farm and this is tomato season and look at that big giant tomato with the crow on and then we've got cherry tomatoes growing on here on the vine summertime blessings look at those tomatoes and the flag and the lady riding the crow i mean that's adorable okay so the last two i have are both by subrosa designs and one is tomato season and tomato harvest oh this one's sewing related and this one's tomatoes in the garden love them both so yeah i'll be stitching tomatoes but i'll probably start that when it's time to put the tomatoes in the garden and then i'll start stitching stitching up a few of them and uh find me a cute basket or something that i can put them all in these larger ones i might have to stitch on a high count fabric so they turn out small so that i can make them into you know pillows that aren't too giant all right thanks cass for getting my collection off my shelf and thanks christy again for making me this darning tomato bag now christy loves tomatoes as much as i do so she's got her own tomato stuff going she's probably got a lot of these stitched already because you know that's how christy is she's awesome if you haven't seen her floss tube which who are you kidding i'm sure you have seen her floss too but she's cross-hatched quilts just in case you haven't you need to go check her out and all right now i'll talk to you about my red samplers okay so i showed you this last month that this was going to be one of my starts one of my uh holiday starts i happened to start this one on my husband's birthday and it's called red rhapsody and i just love that and i i decided to start this one on his birthday because of all the roses down here at the bottom because when we build our house i wanted a huge rose garden i love old-fashioned roses i love david austin roses and i love their looks i love their smell they're beautiful for cutting and they're just old-fashioned roses not like the modern roses and uh so i planted a whole bunch and then long story short he's the one who ended up learning how to take care of the roses and as i you know got busy with other things and so then they kind of turned into his roses so now he takes care of the roses and he does a beautiful job and he often cuts them and brings them in even just a single rose and brings them into my studio during growing season and i so appreciate that okay so this is what i've decided to use was the silken colors in kringle's coat and it's got just a little bit of variegation in it from pink's a little bit orangey to i just love a good red now this is over let's see what have i decided to stitch this on i know i told you last time but i'm pretty sure it's 36 count because that's my sweet spot i like to do 36 count because i love to use one strand so when i'm using these higher counts i usually do 36 because i like to use one strand if i use 40 count sometimes it's a little bit too much coverage for me and just depending on you know the which kind of linen it is but i've just found that i can never go wrong with 36 and so this silk is just any silk is just beautiful to stitch with i love this and how i've been doing my red samplers i started this last month and i used to do this but i had gotten out of the habit was i stitch on this every day meaning whether i just do a letter or two every when i say night i i stitch at night i crochet in the morning i quilt so design in the middle of the day and then at night is when i do my stitching when i'm relaxing and you know unwinding from the day and uh so i crochet to wake me up and then i work all day so before i pick up my stitching for the night i'll pick up my red sampler and do one or two threads which usually ends up being a couple of letters and literally that's how i've got to this point when i started it like the second week in january i've got this far already and it seems like i haven't even hardly stitched on it but look how much i've accomplished just by grabbing a thread or two and stitching it so i love a red sampler there are so many patterns that you can turn into red samplers that aren't just red samplers now this is my big dotty bag and um i wanted a big bag so that i could put my crochet in i could put my fabric my quilting bigger projects or different things that like collections that go together just such as this so this is one of the things that i've been keeping in my big dotty and that is things that i can use for red samplers and you don't have to do red you can do blue or green or whatever color that you want or black or whatever i just most of the time i like to do red now i had picked these i'm ticking strike wind and bandings up from one two three stitch and i haven't stitched on them yet there's one that's longer and one that's shorter but i need to go through here and find an alphabet that will fit in here because it's 27 count it's not a very high count so you know i might take this antique rooster sampler and just take some of these motives and put in here and then do an alphabet i plan on doing that but i've just thrown some um these patterns in here that i can use for a red sampler such as this in here so that i have them all together so that i as soon as i finish this one i'll be starting on another one and i'll be stitching it the same way that i just told you just every day with one or two threads at a time but look at this one by marjorie massey this prairie easter two i know she has this in two or three colors but i just think this would be so so dang cute and red so i might have to start that one next because it's so springy and eastery and then of course heartstring samplery my funny valentine this is one of my favorite vintage old songs i love that so that would be so fun to stitch this not forgotten farm i i need to do this one right away this is just a little hoop uh tiny little stitches be so cute and just red and then tuck here in my sewing room amongst my stuff maybe i can just put it in my tomato pin cushion bowl here's one by stacey nash primitives little red work pink pineberry lane token of love so many good ones i need to live to be 400 so i can stitch all the things heart string samplery this is like really i need to do this i need to do this like quick like laura says from um brenda and laura i need to i need to get on this stat okay look at this one find barry lane sarah platt she's got this done in all neutral colors but i think it would be beautiful as a red sampler so i'm going to do that too here's another one by stacy nash the harriet brown redwork sampler pin keep and i love that i love how these these are like lowercase and how they're the spacing is so cute then i've also put a few freebies in here box and rabbit here's a few by lottie da and here's one that came with one of my orders from tree so the kitten stitcher and it's from marjorie massey that's so cute so i threw that in there six red alphabets i need a wordpress awesome sarah emerson sampler i mean some of these i've had forever this one i bought i remember at the attic i believe it was just new or else new to the shop but they pointed it out to me and i'm like uh yes i don't know if i'll do that whole thing but i could do pieces of it i don't know i might end up doing the whole thing it's amazing carolina house designs american coverlet series birds and bees those are just so cute even just some pieces of it like look at that pear that beehive and of course modern folk embroidery love this the love in unity quaker sampler now um jacob has some amazing floss tubes that he is just um doing now he's so informative and i just love watching his floss tubes so you should check him out as well here's a sub rosa i think i showed you that last month already got the cloth in that one this one is either blue or black i can't really tell but it's um perfect perfect for a red sampler so and this is by ggr and it's elizabeth a windham 1864. here's another modern folk embroidery this is the stitch along from last year 2020 a family patchwork sampler and there's 12 parts in here i have all 12 parts and so he had you do them in sections just love that what's not to love about that here's another ggr i'm surprised i don't have duplicates in here you know we always have duplicate patterns on accident be to others kind and true as you'd have others do to you love that one another one by needlework press this would be awesome to do these separate and put in little hoops like that first one that i showed you there's another one look at that one i just love how it's all circles like that and some are solid they're like positive and negative that's what i look at like they've got the dark background with the white and then they've got the white background with the dark just love that here's another one modern folk emboardry again beautiful in blue gorgeous and red again logged on long dog samplers i've wanted to do this one forever the quakers dozen this is what really drew me those roosters right there and then all of it let's see a few more quaker sampling three look at that love it love it let's see the final thing i have in here is the school room alphabet i can't open the book because i i don't want to show you the charts but this red school house that's what i want to do in there well this is blue but i want to do it into a red schoolhouse because believe it or not growing up in a very small rural town that i did i attended a three-room school house and it was red brick just like that and attended that up until fourth grade so that would be really really fun to stitch so that's what i've got in my big daddy bag and again i'm gonna have to live you know to be 400 but a girl can dream right maybe only 200 maybe i could get it done in 200 years okay so let's see what's next on my list i'm going to show you all of my um progress and the things that i stitched on last month so i've continued to stitch on this is my sew by row and kimberly over at fat quarter shop of course this is a pattern that they published for me it's designed by me it's designed after one of my quilts which is also going to be a sew along and a block of the month starting in march i think i hope i'm right but all of that information is on fat quarter shop's blog which is called jolly jabber but anyway we're right in the middle of this and we should have this many rows done down to this point but you can see i have you know sort of i'll i'll get there i'm getting there this is on my new 20 count cork here's the header for that called prairie and i'm doing it one over one this is my needle miner that i designed to go with it and then i'm using my floss flowers to hold all of my flosses and i am using the call for dmc on this chart i give weeks die works and dmc now when mine is finished it's going to fit inside of an 8x10 frame and i've already got the frame i didn't pull it out to show you but i had picked up and it's a denim blue frame so i think that's going to be really really pretty and here's another bag that's made out of my decorator weight fabric so that's my progress on that i'm going to try to catch up i've been doing a lot of stitching and i've been doing a lot of secret stitching that i can't show you as well so that's kind of a little bit why i'm behind on that one okay so this one we've got here another one i'm excited about this one was my new year's day start and um this is called land that i love by theresa koget love this chart and last month i had just showed you that i was i think my last flosstube was actually on new year's day and so i started it that night and then stitched on it for you know four or five days before i put it away when i have starts i like to stitch on each one of them at least three days if i can and i have a lot of starts but then as i go on you know through the months and things like that then um you know i have time to get back to each one but i'd really like to get this one done by the fourth of july but we'll see because i've got a lot of big projects and i've got a lot of small too but this is the progress that i've made i just love this border i still need to do the second row of the alphabet but right now i decided i wanted to work on this whole little motive i know it's a basket with a bird and flowers and a flag but for some reason i see it as a ship even though it's not a ship i think it's because the flag looks kind of like a sale or something you know i don't know just in my mind's eye that's what it looks like to me but basket ship whatever it is it's adorable so i'm doing it and i'm pretty much using the call for um colors except for three i subbed out so i'll tell you what those are my cloth is 36 count platinum by weeks dye work and i'm loving how how all the blues and everything look on this so what i'm using for my red is licorice red you can see it here from classic color works and i'm using that instead of the dmc 3777 that looked a little bit too brown for me on this cloth so i needed a brighter red like i always i always feel like i need a brighter red and then i'm using this deeper lancaster red instead of three eight five seven and this is weak style works lancaster red and she uses two colors of red so you can see the two in the flag here so i needed two that went together nicely so i'm using that and then i for my white i felt like it needed to be a little bit brighter to show up on this cloth and so i'm using 3865 dmc instead of the 712 was a little too creamy for this everything else is what um trees called for love this chart and so that's my progress on that land that i love by teresa poget i'm gonna hand that off to cass these are really in no particular order i just stacked them all up okay this is a start that i have for one of my brother's birthdays in january and this is the milk and cream company by plum street samplers and you know what i was pretty shocked even though i knew the stitch count of this and everything i was like um this is a lot bigger than i thought it was going to be for some reason i thought it was smaller i have no idea why but i'm having so much fun stitching this this goes so fast because i'm doing it on my 25 count lugana in farmhouse and i love how this has kind of just a little bit of a warm light pinky peach tint and i just thought that would look beautiful with these flosses so let me take those off so you can see the progress that i have have made on it so far so look at these cute little swirly trees and i'll fill those in with a lighter green but that's adorable so i think i'm going to have to this doesn't finish exactly square but pretty close to it i think because the barn sticks up here i could get away with putting it in a square frame so i'm going to see if i can find a square frame for that one if i can't i may sew this into a bigger pillow by piecing fabric around it and put that on the the bench in my in my kitchen i have a big old bench that i have in front of the bay window that i put pillows on this might be perfect for that okay so there is my progress on that one this is one i showed you last month as well this is another bag that christy made for me this is out of my vintage happy 2 fabric and this is oh joyous day look at those flosses this is oh joyous day by blackbird designs and i'm stitching this on 36 count winter white by seraphim here's the chart it's gorgeous i did do just one or two color changes that i told you about last month in my floss tube but i only have this section down here to go all these fun flowers and i need to finish this alphabet too down here but i did go ahead and do the one on one which is right here and i finished that up for um now this was a wedding sampler and so i decided to keep it as a wedding sampler but i'm doing it for my husband's parents who are just like my other parents they're like my other mother another father and um carrie and i will be married come this august for 40 years and that's a long time to have another set of parents and that's exactly what they are to me and they were married in march and then down here i'll go ahead and put the year that they were married in i think it was i think it was 53 pretty sure it was 53 but of course i'll find that out for sure before i stitch it in and so this is all one-on-one don't do much of the one-on-one on samplers except for where you need it smaller so that's where it usually calls for the smaller so i don't know is that focusing cassini or is it just blurry because i brought it closer so i'm super excited about that and i will definitely get that finished up and then i'm going to take it over to the craft center over to jamie and um pick out a beautiful beautiful vintage looking frame and get that hung up so there's oh joyous day i keep showing you all these christie bags this is another christie bag another cassidy macrame pole and this one is out of my farm girl vintage collection and this was a start for my other brother's birthday in january and this is called the homestead sampler i believe yeah heartland sampler not homestead okay by the scarlet by the scarlet house heartland sampler i showed you that last month and um let's see i know i told you last month what cloth i'm using let me see if i can find it real quick on my notes but that was my um progress on it and i'm pretty happy with the progress you know you always want to do a little bit more than you did but okay i'm not showing it in here i don't know where my library card is but here's my color changes that i'm doing on that if you can see that but i love this chart i'm gonna keep rifling through my papers because maybe it's in the bag maybe my library card's in here oh it's um 36 count lakeside pearl barley that's what the fabric is and let me show you this one more time just in case i didn't show it long enough so that you can either get a screenshot of this if you're watching on your phone or if you're watching on your ipad or your big screen you can just take your phone and take a picture and then you can copy it down and have those color changes okay once again that's the heart one sampler my tile's dwindling down i've been stitching a lot i usually stitch a lot in the wintertime wintertime makes me want to just snuggle up and stitch okay this one is a savior's praise and i showed you this last month and i think i just had this top part and maybe the first row done and so i was able to get back to it for a few days this month and i finished this row i need to finish doing these feather looking stitches across here and let me get the chart out and show you i really wanted to get to this basket there's the chart this is by teresa aka kitten stitcher aka shakespeare's peddler and this is what i'm working on right now now i've decided what i'm going to do to personalize this she's got six sets of initials here and then she's got the name here and where it was stitched so i think in honor of my great grandmother and my grandmother who has five sisters so there were six daughters in her family and my mom has six daughters of which i'm number four and so i just thought it might be kind of fun to honor my great aunts who i grew up with and they're the ones who taught me to quilt along with my grandmother and they've had all remained very very close and quilted and did everything together and so i think that i will do all of their initials here and then i'll put my great grandmother who is their mother who taught them how to quilt and garden and stitch and cook and do everything and her name is martha butterfield so i'll put martha butterfield and they all grew up in the same hometown that i grew up in which is harriman so i'm going to stitch martha butterfield harriman there and then i don't know what year i'm going to put there i don't know what year but um and then somewhere i'll put my initials to somewhere i'll fill in my initials but that's my plans for that i used all of the call four colors except for two on this one i told you about that last time instead of anchor 842 i used dmc 320 which is this kind of a blue rainy it was a really light green which is a beautiful color but it did not show up on my cloth and i really wanted it to show up so i decided to introduce this greeny teal in there and then of course again my red i always change my reds so this red i'm using dmc 3831 and uh i thought 347 which is my favorite red was just a little bit orangey for this one so this is my second favorite red 3831 and this is on 36 count beach brew so again thanks teresa for such a beautiful chart on that i'm sure having fun with it okay so the last did i already show that one cass okay so this is the last one wow okay i did get a small start on this this is the stitch along that is the anne morrison oops from hands across the sea and this is let's see i have written on here this is this is the one that was designed exclusively for traditional stitches for their 20th anniversary and it's called the hashtag is anne morrison stitch along sal and um it's on instagram and facebook all year long and this is what the chart looks like so you know i've got a small start but i am going to catch up i'm going to move on down this is a fun one to do just real viral so there's that one and so that's my progress now i need to talk to you about my stitchy start so i want to show you all of those you want to push those in here sis and let me talk to you about my stitching and um how i do my starts so january you may think wow you have a lot of starts and i did because i i have a lot of starts because i start on holidays of the month and birthdays of my brothers and sisters my parents and grandparents and of course my children and my husband so that's a lot but they're obviously divided throughout the year and some months there's a ton in january have a lot of birthdays um my husband my son two of my brothers in february i'm gonna have equally a huge amount of starts but in march i only have a couple in april i don't have any except for like easter and may you know there's just a few and so on and so forth it just goes on down the road but when i have these starts i do like to um go about three days each and i keep track of my starts in my in my notebooks um i do have planners that i keep more detailed projects in let me see i'll just grab this planner to show you the kind of things this is like my scheduled planners but here's this is my scrappy project planner and uh i like to put all different kinds of you know like scrapbooking papers and paper crafting and different things like that in there and just you know i use photos vintage patterns everything this is like for my quilting stuff and with my stitching stuff i really don't have to be this as detailed but um i've been using my new prim calendar so i typically just use a calendar for the year this is my 2021 trim calendar and so this is january i'll show you the little applique and of course this is based off of my prim quilt and my primal fabric so this is january and so i write in you know the birthdays and so first i fill in my starts and then i go ahead afterwards and fill in what i worked on that day so this is february so now we're into february today is the fifth it's my oldest son ben's birthday and so uh my husband and i will be celebrating that and with him and i'm going to be starting sweet land of liberty i have all of these stars so let me show you what i'm going to be starting for each one who knows how long i'll be able to work on each one but they'll be started and what i mean by started is i grab the pattern i pick the fabric i fully kit it up and do my color changes do whatever i'm going to do and i'll usually stitch on it you know that entire evening and get it ready to go and started so that i can just pick it up at any time and continue on and that's what i consider a start is when it's kitted and i do you know one or two hours of stitching on it so for for ben's birthday which is obviously today and um tonight after this is all uploaded onto youtube and everything while i'm waiting for it to upload which it seems to take forever most of the time i'm gonna be stitching out of blackboard designs sweet land of liberty there's so many projects in here there's five and i want to do all five of them but i've got this scrap of flax when i say scrap it's not really a scrap you can see i cut it off from another piece of something that i did over here so i can cut this in two and i can get these two smalls out of it so i don't want to open the book because i don't want to show you the chart but here's here's the colors that i have and i'm going to be doing this one and this one but i'm not going to be finishing that round i'll be doing the whole thing and so i can do two little pillows for my patriotic bowl so that'll be fun so that's what i'll be stitching on tonight and then as i go along i can just fill in what i stitched that day but here's how my starts can you believe it and this is what i had filled in that that's when i had finished the patriotic one that i did with the scarlet house with the pillow that i um tea dyed i mean that did that uh antique spray on okay so i don't know if i put these in order i just stuck them in this bowl one of my vintage bowls so look at that cute vintage yellow wear bowl just love these i can't ever pass up a good bowl okay so on the next one on lincoln's birthday i showed you this last month and it just makes sense that i should start lincoln's eagle so i'll be starting that and that is sorry i didn't tell you that was by theresa koget in case you didn't see but look at that that's amazing you know what i don't know if i'm going to do all this fill in right here i think i might take this red color and just do it as a border do the whole eagle and you know this wreath of stars around him and then of course do the flowers and then i may take this and do blue words instead of doing it on blue so that it's not as much coverage in the stitching but i still think it will do a great impact we'll see how that goes but um loving that haven't picked my fabric yet but i'm just using the called for flosses i think i don't know never can say until i start to stitch but that's lincoln's eagle next up is valentine's day and i've been going to do this forever so this is a perfect perfect start for barbara anna designs love never fails so i love this chart i love the folk art i love the pennsylvania dutch i love everything about it except i may have to give my little people a tan i don't know i don't know about that so we'll see i may switch out that floss but i love this scripture um i loved it so much i loved it 40 years ago when we got married that i had it put on our some little um gift cards that we did for all of our guests so i think what i'm going to do is kind of turn this into a to a marriage sampler for my husband and i and i think i'll put our initials here instead of the word love i think i'll put um hold i think that'll fit in there perfectly and then of course i'll stitch the year that we were married and then i'll put it in the bedroom but i just i love that so that will be my valentine's day start and then look at this i got three starts in a row so my next one is for president's day and i'll be pulling out my not forgotten farm flag folk love that that's going to be fun and that's not really a lot of stitching there's a lot of background space in there but i think that's really going to be fun don't know what colors i'm going to use but because of what's going on in the world nowadays i'm sure i'll just go to my little cupboard with my stash and pick something there but that's what i'll be doing for valentine's day and then the next start i'm going to be doing is i'm going to be doing this for my birthday i guess i really didn't really realize i'd be telling you what my birthday is but yeah okay my birthday and i am inviting you to do this with me i've got this all figured out and i'd like to do a sal a stitch along with this to celebrate with me and um this is a chart by heartstring samplery i belong to the cross stitch nation and so we'll just i'm going to start then if you guys want to start and use the hashtag cross stitch nation and that's going to be really fun because i am proud to belong to the crossfit nation and this is such a great great chart and it's perfect for it i'm going to put it in my sewing room i'm going to be using weeks dye works linen called linen i've got a 13 by 17 piece here and i just grabbed all the call for colors and dmc and maybe some overdyed floss and we'll see where we go from there but that's going to be fun so please join me i already talked to christy about this she said she wants to start it too so i know christy will be doing it so i know there'll be at least two of us but if you if you want to join in let me know in the comments the more the merrier that'll be fun and then i get a few days in between and i have my sister's birthday and for tammy's birthday i'm going to start by the scarlet house of sampler grows i love this this is so sweet and i love everything about it and it says inch by inch row by row x's make my sampler grow so cute so i'll be starting that on my sister tammy's birthday and then we've got george's birthday on the 22nd washington's birthday and so this is a chart i've always wanted to do and since i'm doing the lincoln's eagle on um abe's birthday i'm going to go ahead and start blue skin by paulette from plum street samplers and love his horse the cherry tree the flag everything everything about him so i'll be starting that for george washington's birthday and then another sister of mine carolyn i'm gonna be doing summer at cherry hill and this is by brenda gervais and i've had this chart forever kitted up i don't know if i'm going to use all the cold for but i have all the flosses in here haven't picked my fabric yet but um i'm going to be doing that and so i have a lot of stars happening but like i say it gets it gets to where i don't have you know very many starts as the months go along like next month i have uh literally st patrick's day and my granddaughter's birthday so i'll only have two starts for that and you know i'll just keep going along so i know this has really been a lot to talk to you about but i appreciate you tuning in i hope you got some fun stitching finished while you were listen to listening to me chat on and on about all the stuff i have happening around here and i'm going to try to you know get some of this done before i turn 400 and uh i'll see you next week where i'm going to be doing another special edition of my floss tube with a special guest and i'll see you then thanks for tuning in bye you

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