Flosstube #61 ~ Cross Stitch, Warm Spring Days and a Few Quilts

[Music] hello stitchy friends how have you all been uh today is friday april 23rd it's about 11 o'clock in my neck of the woods i hope you've all been well and they've been stitching and making and creating all of the things and i still do not understand why going in what now two and a half not quite two and a half years why it is that whenever it comes to the beginning of my video i always seem to have it takes forever it takes a lot of stops and starts but hopefully this one goes okay um i think i've tried to start the video for the past five minutes and uh there was a school bus that went by and so freddie was growling and barking and and um yeah so hopefully if you're seeing this part of the video i finally was able to get my video started and off to the right foot so if you're new here welcome my name is olivia and this is pumpkin hollow quilts this is a video podcast where i talk about my cross stitching and sometimes quilting however if you are not interested in seeing or hearing about the quilts i show those a little later on in the video and i let you know in plenty of time that they will be making an appearance so that way you can go on to the next flosstube video if you are a returning subscriber welcome back so the last two weeks have been fairly busy for me the weather here has been absolutely gorgeous we've had very warm weather which is not typical for this time of the year um there over the weekend it was almost 90 so that definitely was not something that we were used to or prepared for but i've been doing a lot of gardening since weather's been so nice and there's no threat of you know freezing temps uh for the foreseeable future we just decided to go ahead and work in all the flower beds so there's been a lot a lot a lot of work happening and even today when i get done with this video while hopefully it's percolating i will be out finishing up the last two flower beds and then getting all of the pots ready because it is supposed to rain for the next couple of days and so we we kind of want to get all that stuff done but there's been a lot of hauling of shrubbery and plants that we lost during icemageddon so there's been a lot of hauling and scooping and shoveling and digging and it's it's been it's been hard hard work and i'm very tired but um we just have one more day to go and then the gardening will be well the flower beds at least will be all done and then once we get past this rain that's supposed to come in then we'll probably work on uh planting some vegetables and things like that but it's been a lot of fun um a lot of hot sweaty work but i know that my flower beds will look amazing um at least i hope it will if i can't get any any of these plants to grow i'm probably going to throw a big old temper tantrum but hopefully i will and the thought is that not necessarily this year but next year next summer and everything will just kind of grow up and grow together and you'll just have this color just everywhere and that's kind of what i'm going for is just like constantly blooming color of all different flowers and and things like that so i don't really know too much about you know flat you know like flower beds and things like that but i'm learning i'm learning about the things that that do grow here um and i also know of some of the plants that grow really well here in my dirt but so it's just i'm learning as i go and i just i really hope i watch a lot of gardening shows so i'm i'm really hoping that it's all gonna look amazing so in my last video i um i was not paying attention to so when i'm recording these videos i have my phone um i guess it would be face up towards me so that way everything when i go to upload it everything is the right the right way and my phone did this update and the little time stamp that tells me how many minutes i've been talking was not on my was not on the display and so i'm talking talking talking talking and i go to hit the pause button and to start a new one and then i ended up having these two big um files and they just did not want to upload i just had a heck of a time getting them to upload because i usually can go 10 minutes and then i have to hit the pause button and then start a new video and then that way everything uploads really quickly and the video quality is really good and and all of that well the last time i did my video um during that long segment i showed what i had gotten in the mail and then at the time i was showing that i got two phone calls a text message and then the first phone call was leaving a message and so that little like five minute span of time the video quality and you couldn't hear the sound the video quality was terrible so i ended up having to cut it out and so it was uh some stash enhancement that i had gotten and also some happy mail that i had gone so i wanted to make sure that i showed them because i did have to take them out of the other video because there would have been no way that you would have been able to hear what i was saying and it was very fuzzy it was the strangest thing it was like my phone just didn't know what to do it was recording a video had two people calling text message just had all this stuff happening at once and i just i think i overwhelmed my phone so i wanted to make sure that i showed them this video because i felt really bad that i had to cut it out of my last video and so i've had it sitting waiting so i could share it and this one so i got some happy mail and this is from michelle from under the woolen willow she is on instagram as under the woolen willow and she also has an etsy shop and she's the one that makes those adorable little chenille strawberries which if i would have had enough time i they would be right over here and this right under this house that's where both of them would have been and they'll be there next time but she makes those adorable adorable little strawberries as well as a lot of other amazing things there is right here is her sunflower that i bought from her last year and i keep it out all year round because i just i love it but anyway she had contacted me uh because she'd been cleaning out her sewing room and she had some stuff she wanted to send me and she sent me this wonderful card handmade she just does amazing amazing work she's so super talented um but she sent me these two little happy easter ornaments which didn't quite make it on my tree because i took my tree down i think well her package she mailed it to me in plenty of time but her package decided to circle the united states twice and so by the time it finally got to me it was after easter but i will put it with my easter decorations and i will have it on my easter tree next year and she also sent me this thimbleberry's book which when i was first learning how to quilt my grandma was a big fan of thimbleberries and she has made a lot of their quilts over the years but this quilt right here was the very first quilt i ever made and i gave it away i did it in mary inglebrite color so it was like um black and pink and like a lime green if you've ever seen mary inglebrite her colors her palette is very bright and and i think walmart used to sell it and that's where i had bought them but this was the very first quilt i ever made and i gave it away i think i gave it to my sister-in-law but it was fun when i was flipping through this book it just took me back to that very first quilt and it used to and this was before ethan was even born and so in our old house his room was my sewing room and it wasn't anything exciting it was an empty room and it had a sewing machine that sat in front of the window um but i remember sitting in there making it on it was a hot summer day we had no air conditioning and i remember sitting up there sewing on it on an old husqvarna viking sewing machine that my grandma had given me from her sewing group and i still have it the only thing it does is does the straight stitch because uh one of the cams in the back is broken but i still have it and i just yeah it just took me back to that hot summer day making that quilt and then my grandma made me this table runner right here which i put out every september october so yeah it was so fun to flip through that and i think at some point i would like to make i'd have it as a shower curtain but i would like to make this quilt because i love it i love it i just i like the simplicity of it and i know i'm showing quilting stuff so i'm sorry and then she also sent me these little um unfinished table toppers that she no longer wanted and so i will be finishing it and it will be out and about in all of my winter stuff next year and then she also sent me this christmas tree but she's already basted it she already did all the hard work so thank you so much michelle it was so sweet of you and i'm so sorry that i ended up having to cut it out of my video last week but i so appreciate you sending that my weight was so sweet of you i also did get a tiny little bit of a stash enhancements and this is souvenirs of summer this is the uh re-release that blackbirds just recently did and this is the one that i have patiently been waiting for four years to get my hands on and i think i bought mine from hobby house needleworks which i love they always have such great service and i'm never disappointed um i mean i'm not usually disappointed anyway but you know what i mean just great service um and i am super excited about this one so i have a piece of uh i think it's 36 count granite that i will be using for this so at some point coming up i'm going to make that because i i would love to have it this year somewhere over here but i think i'm going to work on it this summer sometime i don't know that it'll be before the 4th of july but even if i get it done after it's something that i definitely would display year-round i do have some quilting happy meal to show but i will hold on to that for a little while and i will show it in the quilting part of my video but now let's talk about what i have been working on over the past two weeks so i think i showed this in my last video i think i had one wednesday last time so now i've worked on this three wednesdays and that is uh not forgotten farms reverend gordon squash bottom i've been working on this one with yvette this is our wednesday stitch and we've decided to always have some sort of an autumn halloween fall stitch on wednesdays so that is a lot of fun and something to look forward to um but here is my progress so the only thing that i did not pull to show today are the threads um i just i ironed all of these last night and got them ready for today and i just made the decision to leave the threads in the project bags um but i am stitching this with the called for dmc i believe it is a 36 count creek bed brown by r r and i am stitching it one over two and that is my progress that house is quite the little beast i did not think that i would still be working on it two wednesdays later uh but here i am still working on it i still have a ways to go and one thing about this house is so the top so the top line of when windows line up but the second line of windows do not one of them is a little um in the pattern which you can't really see it but in the pattern the windows are a little they're not straight across um so that's one thing that i had to watch for because i i'm used to having wind windows being like you know uniform and when i got to that bottom row i ended up messing up and it's still um it's not exactly perfect but i've decided to leave it i think one of the windows is one side's up higher than the other and i just decided to leave it because i thought you know the windows through the whole chart are that way or one's bigger than the other ones and i decided to leave it it gives it kind of an eclectic look and i like it i really really do so that has been a lot of fun i know that a lot of you guys are also stitching along um uh becky from socks4mom and christy from crosshatch quilts they are um they're both stitching with yvette and i as well as a lot of a lot of other people and i meant to write down all the names of everybody who i saw posting their reverend and i just completely forgot i meant to do that but it's really really cool seeing so many of you guys you decided to join yvette and i and it's just it's awesome so we've really enjoyed seeing all of the gordon's pop up uh the next thing that i have been working on is liberty's welcome by plum street and talk about another beast of a house but here is my progress um so i uh started this january 1st this was my new year new start i'm also stitching this one with yvette and i'm stitching this on a piece of 36 count heartland by picture this plus with the called for dmc threads except for the house which is dmc 648 and i am loving working on this one and i cannot wait to have it finish my goal at this point is just to have it done by the end of summer i'm going to keep going i mean it's still going to stay in my rotation and i'm going to keep going on it until it is done but at this point if i can just finish it by the end of the summer i will be one happy camper and it is a piece that will probably stay up year round because in this house we are very patriotic so i am on page six which is basically a hate it is full coverage on that page and i feel like i've done i've done pretty well there was like one night that i was working on this where i probably i was paying more attention to the tv than i was stitching and i probably could have got a little bit farther but i think all in all um i've in the three day i guess it would have been yeah i had it in my rotation for three days so i think that's not too bad you know it's i've got a porch now and i've got the middle window started and yeah it's gonna take me a while i mean it really is i think i have it in my rotation again next week uh and then uh next is the scarlet houses and priests 1841. and this one was one that i started back in november on my birthday because i've loved this one for a really long time it was one of those ones that kept going out of stock every time i was getting ready to purchase it and then it finally came into stock and i got it i snapped that thing up lickety split and i started it back on my birthday um i think it's been in my rotation twice since the since i started you know doing it a new way but this is my progress and it's been a lot of fun to work on i'm stitching this on a piece of 36 count caramel by seraphim fabrics and i love it love it love it love it and i think this one is going to be in my rotation i think it next week i think i think um sunday monday tuesday i think it comes back into my rotation and i'm looking forward to it because i haven't had a chance to work on it i don't remember i don't know if i i don't have my book i usually keep track in my um i have one of those needle workers notebooks and i did not think to bring it but i feel like i think i don't remember if i've worked on it since my last video i either have or i haven't the days just kind of run all together um and then my morning stitch has been in full glory by blackbird of this book i started this one on [Music] last friday and this is my progress so i've been working on this in the mornings i'm stitching this on a piece of 30 count uh sunflower seed i'm not sure who like dyes the fabric i bought from one two three stitch and all it says at the bottom is fbr and i do not know who that is so this is a piece of 30 count and i was supposed to stitch this one two over two and i did stitch the border two over two but when i got to the flag which was monday i ended up stitching the flag with one strand of floss and didn't realize it until i had the flag and the eagle done and i decided to just leave it and so when i got to the house i decided to stitch the roof with two threads and then the with the red part of it with one so it's just gonna i've never done that before and i um i just decided to see what it would look like i know lots of people use one strand of floss when they are working on you know 28 30 32 but this is the first time i've done it and so i wasn't sure how i would like it or how well it would show up but i think i think it looks okay so i'm just going to keep going house i'm going to stitch with one strand of floss and then just kind of wherever i'll do it with two or one and maybe it'll create some sort of texture but i'm using the called for threads except i did not have any of the used i think it's used brick yeah it's classic color works use brick and i did not have any in my stash and i couldn't find it for sale anywhere so i decided to substitute ruby slipper by general arts and i like ruby slipper that's one of my favorite reds to use and the only thing is is the eagle's head you i ended up stitching that one with two strands of floss and i've decided to go back over it or not go back over it i've decided to back stitch it so i am loving working on that and then the last is autumn at hawker and hollow by carriage house samplings in every single one of the videos that i have done where i have showed this and showed the progress i just say autumn at hawker and hollow but i don't say who the designer is and maybe it's because the hawk run hollows everyone knows who they are designed by but every every video i i just i just say ottoman hawker and hollow but it's by carriage house samplings and i am stitching this on a piece of 40 count vintage country mocha with the dmc conversion except for the block i am currently working on which is the third one and i have changed out a bunch of the threads i was trying to go for i wanted to capture the sort of mustard color on the um the salt box house that is in that block and i think i've gotten pretty close to it i don't know if you'll be able to see it that far away but i think i think i've kind of i think i've kind of captured it to me it looks like it does on the um on the chart cover so i have been working on this when i started back on it last night so it will be in my rotation until saturday and then saturday night will be the last time i work on it for a couple of weeks so this one is gonna there's gonna be progress on it but it will be very slow progress and i'm stitching it one over two on 40 count so i love it it's a lot of fun i like the the um hawk run hollow series and i have several and i i'm not allowed to start one until i finish this one i have to finish at least this one i also have halloween that has been started but um i told myself that i am not allowed to start any of them because i really do want to start the houses of hawker and hollow but i cannot until i finish this one so at some point someday i will have it finished and it'll just rotate in and out of my rotation i've had people comment you know if you've had something you know that long in your rotation that you obviously don't love it but i do and the only reason why i haven't you know worked on it between like when i you know last picked it up and until this year was just because i was busy working on so many other things there's just so many things i want to stitch and sometimes something just calls to you and you just put down whatever you're working on and you you pick it up and and before you know it you got some whips going in your mocking basket and um but i've never not wanted to work on this i've always um it's always been that i've always wanted to work on it and so i'm just glad that i finally able to and yes the progress will be very slow some of the blocks obviously will take longer than others but yeah i've never not wanted to work on it and i definitely you know i definitely don't want to set it aside because i do love it so i did have a couple of finishes over the past two weeks i also got a lot of questions about olga's stocking and hats off to uncle sam uh have i finished those when will i finish those and originally i had planned on working on them last weekend i was going to get both of them done so that way i would have them to show in this video but unfortunately with the weather being so nice i've been outside for the majority of the two weeks and so that's taken me away from working on you know everything you know quilting cross stitching so my hope is i have everything for both of those projects um and my hope is that in these next two weeks because it is supposed to rain over the weekend so my hope is is that in these next two weeks i will be able to sit down and i will be able to get those finished and have those to show you guys i'm anxious to get them done too but in my last video i showed threadwork primitives greyhouse and this was my morning stitch and i loved working on this one and i finished it and i finished it last week and i i love it i had so much fun working on this one um and i decided to you know you had the option of course of changing the date but i liked it saying established you know 1799 i love colonial america i love history and i just liked i i just liked the way the whole thing looked i didn't want to change a thing about it i stitched this with the called for dmc and it stitched one over one over two on 32 count a light cappuccino so if you watched my last video i kept calling this something else i kept calling the linen something else i must have done it like four times but it is light cappuccino by r and it was i think it was a scrap linen that dora had sent me she sent me a box last year and it was full of a scrap linen and so this was one one of the pieces and i also think last time i said you know when i got it done i was gonna spray it with some antiquing spray and grunge it up a little bit but when i got it done i loved it just as it was so um i did put it into a frame when it was done i laced it and it's laced over a piece of mat board and two pieces of batting and then i had this old frame one of my friends gave me this big box of wooden frames that she no longer wanted so i pulled one of the frames i painted it black and then i took some sandpaper and i roughed it up to give it that you know rusty crusty look i love and then i finished it it's not the best i don't have any of that paper that people you know that framers put over this uh i don't have any of that so it's just yeah it's fine um and i can't think what these things are called but framers use them when they're you know it goes into the wood and attacks down the back and then this we had to pull off of another frame and these are staples that also had come off of the other frame too but i like it i think it turned out really really good and i think i kind of got it straight you know i'm still um i mean i've laced several of my pieces now and i'm planning on and i don't know if i'm insane or not but my anniversary is of the heart i'm planning on framing that one myself i'm going to go and they have frames at like frames that you can get a hobby lobby and i'm gonna go pick out one the next time i go and i'm gonna get the mat board and i'm going to frame it myself so we'll see how it goes i'm probably crazy it's such a big piece but you know i figure if i can save myself a whole bunch of money that's more money that i can you know buy linen with so um so i i think i've i've framed or i've i framed a couple of things myself and i think i'm getting a little bit better you know about depth perception and and how to like you know fiddle with it to get it to you know after you lace it you kind of you know you you manipulate it a little bit to get it straight and um i like it it's fun it's sort of like when when you're making a quilt and you get to the end and you've sewn um the binding on and now you're flipping it over to the other side to hand tack it down um it kind of reminds me of that it's sort of like the binding is the framing i also have several pieces that i finished previously and i had done like a priscilla five finish and then i don't even think i had them out last year but i've decided i'm going to take all of those apart and i'm going to frame them so i'll have all of those to show because right now they're just hanging out in this drawer right here and i and i didn't have them out last year and i don't even think i put them out the year before um because the way i finish them i just don't feel looks good with my decor anymore and um so i'm gonna take them apart and i'm gonna reframe them all right and the last finish that i had was feast of friendship by blackbird designs i was so close to a finish in my last video and i think i think i was i worked on it over that weekend and i finished it on tuesday did i finish it this last tuesday or the tuesday before i think it was the tuesday before maybe i just recently finished this but here it is so this is a feast of friendship stitched on 36 count heartland by picture this plus with various threads most of the called for but in the house instead of stitching so i've always for some reason even though when i've looked at the chart i've always said that the house had four colors in it the house only had three and one of the colors which i had in my stash was tin roof and then of the two other blue colors that go into the house i substituted um freedom by general arts and midnight by general arts and i think they look really really good together with the um is it 10 riff or 10 bucket let me look here it is 10 bucket i might have just been 10 rough but tin roof is one of the colors in the house and then freedom and midnight are the ones that i substituted because i did not have classic color works blue corn or uniform blue which is by general arts so instead i substituted but that is the only substitutions that i made i had all of the other threads in my stash so i love it this was a stitch along that started last fall it was hosted by laurie holt and christy from crosshatch quilts and the hashtag was lori and christy and friends sal and i can't believe i finally remembered it every video where i showed this i could not remember what the hashtag was and now that i'm done now i can finally remember because that's just the way my thread unravels i guess anyway i've had a lot of people ask now that i'm done with feast of friendship what will be my new start that will replace it and originally i was gonna be really good and i was gonna go into the whip basket and i was gonna pull out american farmhouse by the scarlet house but all i could think about was that it had that big chunk of grass and i've been working on grass on um liberty's welcome and i just did not want to work on any more grass so instead um stacy nash back in february sometime she re-released or not re-released in her etsy shop well i guess it is technically a re-release um but stacy nash and her etsy shop um put up cherry halo farms and for the longest time it was only available as i think it was a kit that you got from somewhere i i don't know if it was part of a retreat i can't quite remember but the only place you could really find it was in the kit form on ebay and i was never quick enough to get it but then when i saw that she had listed the pdf for sale in the shop i jumped on it i think that was right after snow or ice magnet and i felt like i deserved it i got a piece of a 36 count beige linen by weeks die works to stitch it on and i also picked up all of the cauliflower colors which i don't have on a floss ring just yet i meant to but there they all are so i'm excited to start that one i think it comes up into my rotation next week so i'm looking forward to that because i that's this is a chart that i have been wanting to work on for a long time and i know exactly where it's going to go it's going to go across the room above my quilt ladder when it is done so hopefully i can get that one done i'm guessing i'll be working working on it all through the summer and then hopefully sometime in the fall i will be able to get that finished so but i was very very happy when i got it and i had to of course break my you know no new charts rule and i think i even texted you and told her that i had bought it and she told me i deserved it after the icemageddon so well as far as all of the cross-stitching goes oh you know what i forgot something so in my last video i went all through the video and this and here's my my trench bowl i went through the whole entire video went and showed you what i had finished what i had fully finished and i meant to reach behind me and grab this and so for the past two weeks it has been mocking me because it's just been sitting there and i have not shown it and i i even had a couple people ask me about it because they could see it sitting behind me in the trench bowl and they knew i had finished it and they didn't they didn't know why i didn't show it and it was just simply because i forgot so this is project quarantine by with thy needle and thread and this was my morning stitch several weeks ago and i was able to finish it and i fully finished it into a pillow i used some reproduction fabric that yvette had sent me in the wonderful box of fabric i also attached some of my grandma's um vintage buttons that she had given me and i think it's perfect and then over here because when i showed it finished i hadn't added the thread yet so i put it in there and i just threaded it through the needle that you um that you stitch and i love this finish i do have it quite a bit stuffed because i do like my pillows to be um it's not perfect it's lumpy bumpy i tried my best not to but um i tried my best to get it smooth but there is a couple of places where it's a little bit bumpy originally i was gonna pop the stitches because i left the hole open here and that's where i stuffed it and then i whip stitch it closed uh originally i was gonna take it all out and try again but i decided to leave it so i love it i think this is a piece of 36 count summer khaki that i had sprayed with the primitive gatherings antiquing spray and i had somebody ask in this section here where it is the over one they wanted to know if i did a full stitch or half stitch and i did full stitches and i also didn't use any magnification on this i did i did it while i was sitting at the kitchen table and i i don't really have because my magnifier that i have clips to my lap stand and i don't really have any place when i'm sitting at the kitchen table to clip my magnifier so i had to do it with i also had to take my glasses off because when i'm working on small pieces i can't wear my glasses for some reason i think it's because i've had those glasses for three years now and the prescription is old and my eyes have changed and it's time to get some new glasses so now as far as all of the cross stitching goes that is all i have to share in this video i am going to talk about quilts next so if that's not something you're interested in seeing this is a great stopping off point and of course i will be back in two weeks and i hope you get tons and tons of tons and tons of stitching done and if you want to know what i'm up to in between the videos you're always welcome to follow me on instagram and facebook and i will put that information down below but if you're on instagram um i'm just pumpkin hollow quilts on instagram and my facebook page is pumpkin hollow quilting so but i will put a link to both of those down below and other than that i'm gonna go ahead and i'm going to pull the quilts that i have been working on and i am going to show those down i had a little bit more quilting to bring over than i thought i did i thought over the past two weeks i hadn't really got a lot of time to work on anything but i am actually surprised so in my last video i showed this pattern and i was working on this quilt out of civil war reproduction fabrics this is stars and stripes by thimble blossoms and i kept getting them mixed up with thimble berries it's thimble blossoms you can buy this as a pdf from their online shop which uh if i can remember i will put a link to it down below but one of the things i forgot to say and that i did get asked was is this um pattern beginner friendly and yes yes it is in fact if you like to sew american flags if you love you know if you're very patriotic if you you know love this and this is a very very very easy good beginner quilt because it is all straight sewing the directions are very well written and yes i definitely would recommend this one as a beginner quilt but i finished it and i think i had the first three rows sewn together and i was going to be very clever and i was going to get the whole quilt done and quilt it and bound and show it in this video and i didn't get a chance to get it quilted but i do have it finished so here it is so i did this out of all civil war reproduction fabrics that i picked up from the quilt shop and i love it i love love love it such a beautiful quilt and i love all of the fabrics together it just makes me so happy and here it is i haven't decided yet how i want to quilt it and maybe that's one of the reasons why i haven't quilted it yet because the quilt that i had made previously out of this pattern the one that i sold last or the year before last i quilted clouds all over it and i don't think i want clouds on this one i want something else i just can't quite decide i did get a question about the type of quilting machine i have it is a handy quilter sweet 16. it does not have a computer on it i am the computer so whatever um so i do free motion quilting um i could probably take the time to learn how to do pantographs but for whatever reason it's like my brain doesn't like being told what it needs to do and instead it likes to do its own thing so that's been a little bit of a battle so i do all sorts of free motion quilting and yeah that's how i do it um the backing fabric that i picked out for the quilt is this one this is by marcus brothers i think it was called savannah no blue meadow it's called blue metal and blue meadow by laura bearinger and there it is right there so that is going to be the backing of course the backing is quite a bit bigger but it's already out on my quilt machine and this was a piece i cut off of it so that is what the backing will look like when it's done and hopefully in my next video i will have it to show you all finished and then this particular quilt i've shown this before i think i showed it last spring but it's made a couple of appearances and some pictures that i've posted on instagram and then i think that i used it as the photo backdrop for my last video and i've had a lot of people ask me to show the whole quilt again and that is sweet red bird by renee renee plains and she is liberty star is her company and i got this chart at my local quilt shop and i do not know if you can still get it anywhere i know i've had a couple of people ask but that was earlier on and i can't remember what the reason why i don't remember if the designer has retired i'm i'm not really sure what the reason was but here is the quilt so it's not very big it was a lot of fun this is a fabric from kim deal out of her line from i think it came out last year but i love it it was hanging in my dining room and i don't know if you can see the quilting but i just did swirls i love swirls that's like my favorite motif i love it and i put it on a lot of my quilts and i know um you know some people get probably tired of seeing all the swirls but i love them i love them so much and i like i put them on a lot of stuff i just i really like the way that they look you know they just they're very elegant and fun and you can make them as big or as small as you want to and you can make them as close together as you want or as far apart as you want to it's just one of my favorite motifs so i have continued on on the temecula quilt album i was finally able to get the fifth month finished and i um i fell a little bit behind it all of the well i'm i have two block of the months but i fell a little bit behind in it because i was cutting out the jane austen quilt and i've had a lot of questions about one i will be starting that one and i will be starting it very very soon i just i don't feel comfortable sitting down to start working on it until i can really pay attention to what i'm doing because i do not want to mess up on it and so it's just there's just been a lot of stuff going on there's just been no time to sit down and really focus on it but i promise you'll see it one of these days coming up soon but here is the first block love this one i love this one so much i love it uh and then there was this one and i love all the colors and this one and this one which i believe this block was called t for temecula so those are all of the fifth months blocks and i'm hoping to start the sixth month here like next week i usually what i'll do is at night i will go through and i will i will cut all of the blocks out and then just kind of as the week goes i will just grab one and assemble it and then i was i know i talked about this earlier on but temecula was doing a on the second tuesday of every month they call it sewing bee and they have a block that they release for free and you make four of the block and at the end of the year sometime you'll have 48 blocks to put into a quilt so i decided to participate in it i am behind this month's block but i did finish april's and you just had to make four of these and i think one of mine for whatever reason turned out a smidge smaller than it was supposed to and so i might have to go redo that one so i finished that and then hopefully i can get the april block finished which were bow ties so also over the past two weeks i got my um forevermore block of the month block or month four came in the mail and so now i'm officially two months behind and i need to find some time to sit down and get these cut out and get them made because i don't want to fall too far behind because i would like to have it done by the end of the year when the block of the month ends um but those blocks you have to really pay attention there's a lot of little little fiddly pieces and you you have to be paying attention you can go like years and years and not participate in a block of the month of any kind and then just like that you just you're like all the block of the months you just want to do them all um so that being said uh lori holt uh bmi bonnet she is doing a sew along and it started last monday and it is the red sampler quilt sew along i think that's the correct i'm pretty sure it's the red sampler quilt sew along and it's a free one as one and all you need are like her there's four or five books and i have all of her books uh but she has taken the blocks from uh the farm girl vintage one and two and um i should have brought them in here it's the christmas book that she did and then um oh my gosh what is the other one the spelling bee um and then there's uh the great granny square i will list all of the books down below and i should have brought them and i totally didn't and i think it's because one of the blocks has or one of the books has some blocks in it for another quilt and i was afraid they would get lost but i will remember next time to to have them with me or you can go to lori's facebook page or her blog or her blog and she will have all the information there and show you which books have the blocks in them anyways so she started doing the red sampler sew along and there's been two weeks worth of instruction like the blocks you're supposed to make and i managed to finish the first week's blocks i have to do this week's blocks um [Music] i'm like butchering this really bad so when i saw that she was doing this and um i decided i'm gonna do it and i'm gonna do it out of reproduction fabrics now i don't have like a big stash of like red and cream reproduction but i can get along for a little while and then i will just um i will like collect them little bits at a time because some of the blocks you don't need very much and then other blocks you'll need you know quite a bit more but this is one of the blocks from the first week and i think this particular block was out of the is it the vintage christmas book i'll scroll it or i'll put it here um so this one came out of that one and this came out of the second farm girl vented farm girl vintage two and again i'll put the i'll just put a picture of the book right here or i'll scroll it it depends on how i'm feeling after i get all my gardening done and i'm editing this and then this one came out of her very first farm girl vintage and i can remember i can remember making this particular block for the quilt that i made because it's a sunflower block and so i did it to look exactly like a sunflower so i'm doing them all out of reproduction fabrics and i'm loving them and my hope is my hope is that i'm not going to fall but far behind i need to get the other um i need to pull some fabrics for the other for the three for this week um and i'm taking my grandma to the quilt shop tomorrow so i'm gonna pick up some red fat quarters and some cream fat quarters uh and then maybe i'll maybe i'll wait until i get those and i'm probably not gonna have any time to work on tonight because i'll be editing the video anyway so but that is uh so my hope is that i'll be able to keep up i think it runs until sometime in july and one of like the first five quilts that i ever made was a red and white quilt and it was on our bed for years and years and and that was back when i you know was i was fairly new to quilting i didn't realize that there were different qualities of fabric and so i went to joann's and i had bought some like really cheap red fabric and that fabric is now falling apart from the quilt so this one will kind of make up for the for the quilt that i'm going to have to like cut up and do something else with but anyway so i'm excited i love red quilts something truly truly truly amazing came i mean it's just i'm still a little bit in shock and i i i just i'm like flabbergasted i just there's like all these words that just want to like come up and just out but i don't know how to that's just like all of the good words um but in my last video i had a lot of questions about the jane austen quilt and i a lot of you guys you know you you're saying well i'm a beginner and that's a little bit out of my you know i'm not there yet um and i i felt like i really needed to stress the importance of that fabric lines do not stay around forever and that if it's a quilt that you knew that you wanted to make and you want to have it in your life at some point you want to make it and have it you you need to get it because the fabric lines won't be around forever and then i told the story of the civil war tribute quilt line that had come out back in 2010 2011 and how at that time my grandma and i were on shophop and i had saved up because i was just about ready to finish my hocus pocusville quilt which hung up here in september and october and so we went shop hopping and i had saved up so that i could buy the fabric because i wanted to do scrappy and a lot of the fabrics in hocus pocusville are civil war reproduction because i always you know even though it wasn't what the cool kids were doing or at least my the cool kids i was following or that i know in real life um i still would sneak in little bits of it here and there and that was one of the quilts that a lot of it is it's civil war reproduction or it is um uh like a 30s reproduction or like halloween 50s reproduction um anyway so when we went to the very first shop on the shophop um i saw the civil war tribute quilt line i saw all of the fabric and they had a fat quarter bundle and i picked it up and it was for the it was basically for the exact amount of money minus one cent that i had in my wallet to buy the fabrics for hocus pocusville and my grandma ever sensible said olivia you came this is what you need to buy that's not what you need to buy you can save up for it and we'll get it in six months when we come back i was like okay six months later i come back fabric line gone and i went up and i had asked the shopkeeper you know do you have any of this left and she said no because they did the civil war tribute block of the month and all of the fabric had went towards that and people had bought the rent of what was left over for their backings and then she showed me the quilt and i yeah i was way too late to participate in the block of the month i was very upset very upset well i told the story and on it was like last week i think it was like monday or tuesday there was an email that popped up and i was talking to my brother on the phone and i was reading the email and i'm like i ended up having to read the email like three times because i'm like there's no way that i'm reading these words on the screen and regina had contacted me and said that she wanted to send me the civil war tribute black of the month i'm like dying i'm like so i'm i'm i'm dying i just i'm dying i'm dying i can't i just can't believe it i've been just over the moon i every single day i pull this out like four times a day and i look through all of the the months and i'm just like oh wow wow wow so she had had this in her stash the block of the month started in december of 2010 and it went all through 2010 in the hopes that everybody would have it finished that in 2011 which 2011 started the 150th anniversary of the civil war and there were three block of the months which i this was before i was even on social media or any of that but there was civil war tribute was the first one then it was civil war journal and um civil war medleys but i remember that when i saw this quilt hanging in the quote shop the lady said that they had done the block of the month and each month is a battle that had taken place during the civil war which killed me even more because i'm a huge civil war buff and oh my gosh i'm just like i'm still i'm like i just can't even believe it i cannot believe it and it was so sweet of regina to send that all the way to me and i i yeah i'm just like i can't even believe it i still can't believe that i just every day i come and i look at these blocks because i just cannot believe that i'm like holding it regina sent me this beautiful card and her sweet note and she's very happy that she was able to send it to somebody who would love it and i will love it forever trust me trust me i just yes so um the first month is uh in here this is fort sumter sumpner so that was where the very first shots of the american civil war were fired and then it goes from there so the second month is the first manassas and bull run battles so they have two some of them have two battles in them so you make several of these blocks and you make them in different sizes so this one you make four 15-inch blocks and then this is the battle of shiloh which this battle is truly sad um and then this is antietam and sharpsburg i'm sorry there's a glare and you know i will be so i'm i'm making myself finish temecula first because it was really hard not to just like rip into this thing but i can't have that many block of the months going at the same time so as soon as i finish um the temecula quilt album which i'm almost at the halfway point and i'm going to start this one so i think that this one is going to be my fall project and then this is fredericksburg and all of the fabrics are by judy rothermell and i love her and she's also the designer who did civil war journey journals civil war journals and um civil war medley and this is battle of the iron clads with that fabric all of the fabric is absolutely gorgeous and this one is the siege at vicksburg and this one you make eight 12 inch blocks oh that was showing up really good love and then this one oh my gosh this one is gettysburg and if you followed me for any length of time you know that gettysburg is the battlefield that if i can't go to any of the other ones gettysburg is the number one battlefield that i want to go to so much history on that battlefield yes yes yes yes and you make four 12 inch blocks this is the chickamanga campaign and you make one 12 inch and one 18 inch block oh and i forgot to show the fabric this is the fabric for gettysburg yummy yummy yummy yummy i love all of these and then uh month 10 is battle of the wilderness and this one just kind of this battle just kind of took place when two armies just kind of like uh oh um and then this one's sherman's march to the sea and appomattox and you make 1 36 this is the middle block and sherman's march to the sea is how all of my relatives records were burned to a crisp and why i can't find anything after 1865 because they lived right in his path and then this one is the battle of franklin and the battle of franklin is the one it goes all the way around the quilt and so this is the border and the fabrics oh and these are the fabrics in case i forgot to show them for the metal block so gorgeous and then she also sent me the delicious backing fabric even my husband was like wow that's really good looking fabric i like that oh my gosh i can't even like when i first opened up the box i was shaking because i just cannot believe that it's here i'm just oh i cannot wait so i'm gonna finish the temecula album quilt and then this one i will start and this is the one that i'm gonna work on all fall and i cannot wait okay so i had to um my phone came up with a message saying i had run out of room on my phone so i only have a little bit of room left um but my plan is to and i don't remember what i was saying but if i'm repeating myself i'll edit my i'll edit it but anyway my plan is to work on this quilt in the fall of the year and i am so very very very excited that i have it i never in a million years ever thought that i would ever have like any of the fabric let alone the block of the month because i completely missed out on it and i'm just so grateful that regina was watching my video and that she decided to send me the beautiful beautiful quilt it was so be i mean it was so absolutely generous of her and i've already talked to her um but yeah thank you so much i i am so excited and i promise you will see this quilt come to life i'm i'm planning on working on it very very soon and i just i cannot wait it's going to be so much fun so much fun and each block has details about the battle and or the battle that it represents and i'm already i mean i'm a huge civil war buff so um i love all of that stuff anyway so i'm just oh my gosh i'm it was so generous of her and this community has been absolutely so generous to me i just can't i hope that someday i am able to pay it all forward i just i yeah thank you so much i'm just like i'm still shaking i'm just so excited i i'm ah i'm so excited i can't wait anyway guys um since my phone is going to be running out of batteries or storage um i'm going to go ahead and in this video here and thank you so much for stopping by today if i have forgotten anything i will i'll talk about them in my next video which will be in two weeks as always you can follow me on instagram i'm pumpkin hollow quilts or i do have a facebook page which is pumpkin hollow quilting if you have any questions please feel free to leave them down below or you can send me an email um it might take me a couple of days to get back to you and it's just because there's a lot going on but i will i promise and i appreciate you all so much if you've stuck around for this far into the video i do appreciate it so so much and i hope you have a wonderful two weeks and i'm going to go look through all of these again and put them all away and go make lunch for everything and then or go make lunch for everybody and then go out and continue working on my flower beds so thank you again for stopping by and i will see you all again later bye [Music] you

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Length: 65min 39sec (3939 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 24 2021