(upbeat music) - Hey guys, I'm Kimberly from
Fat Quarter Shop FlossTube. Thanks for watching. Today is August 5th, 2020. Today is a special day 'cause it is Will and
Peyton's 11th birthday. - [Lily] Yay. - Yay, they are so awesome. I hope they're watching, I hope
they're having a great day. So I'm gonna show you a picture of them when they were babies, so
look how cute they are. So on the left is Will
and on the right is Peyton and when Will was born, he was eight pounds and
Peyton was born a second later and he was five pounds 12 ounces. And look how cute they are and little Peyton still
has his blue blankie. So that little blue blankie right there still sleeps with one of them. And then I have a more recent picture, that is from Father's Day and so Peyton is on the left, then Emma, then Kevin and then
Christopher and then Will. So you can see the twins are
on the left and the right and they look nothing alike, but they're really
close and they're sweet. But yeah, when they were born, I think the biggest thing for me was they looked so different
and they, today to this day, like they're super close but they are not, there's very little
that's similar about them. So that's very, I guess you're just not like nobody ever told me, like your twins are gonna
be totally different. So happy birthday to them. - [Lily] Lots of people wishing
them a very happy birthday right now also people
complimenting your shirt. - Oh thanks. - [Lily] Yeah, thanks everyone
for the birthday wishes. - Yay, and I wanna show you, we have some free stuff that
we're gonna show you later on, but I wanted to show you
a lot of new stuff we have and some stuff that we have coming up. So the very first thing we
have is a brand new club and this is it, it's right here. This is the very first shipment. It is called Snapshot, and the designer is Pine Mountain Designs and I'm gonna show you kind of up close and talk a little bit about the club. So this is January, each
month you will get a kit if you join the club and in
the club you will get DMC that's hand selected by me so
it's gonna be different colors than the pattern. You're gonna get the pattern. You're gonna get the
vintage cloth by Lori Holt. We're gonna all use these
colors, it's farmhouse and then you get a conversion chart. So you can see what the
original chart was charted with, what I used and then we've gotten notes and it tells you how many strands to use for cross stitch, back stitch,
if there's any other changes and it's super cute. So I have January finished
and we have the video online of how to frame it and it's super easy. This is just a simple eight
by 10 frame from Hobby Lobby and in the video we linked to the frame and what you could do is
you could just buy one frame and switch out every
month, all of the frames. So you don't have to buy 12. I'm gonna also show you, May. This was my favorite one
and so I made this one first just because whenever
I'm making something, I like to make my favorite. So I made this one first
and each of your pieces will be similar in width and height. There might be one or two stitches off. So that is January, this is May. And then each month, of course,
I'm gonna be showing you, each week I'm gonna be
showing you what we make so that you can see. So for example, this weekend,
I am going to stitch February. So I have February ready to go, these are the colors and the patterns. So you can see, we kind of went
with traditional Halloween, I mean, traditional
Valentine's Day colors. Some of the colors were
a little bit hot pink, and we wanted them to be a
little bit more traditional. So I will show you that
when I finish that, and now I'm gonna show you
all of the different patterns. So you've seen January and May. So this is May, March. And so what I'm doing
is I'm picking colors and then stitching and then
I move to the next one, pick colors and stitch,
so this is March, April. You've seen May, this is June. I think that one's super cute. This is one of my favorites the July. August, September. October, November and December. And so the club starts in January goes all the way through December. It's gonna ship around
the third of the month. And like I said, you get
a 10 count vintage cloth and you get DMC that I pick and if you all ready have
the pattern set, for example, say, you've all ready
bought the pattern set 'cause you really liked it. After the club ships,
we will post on our blog the different color changes
so that if you wanna make it your own you can. And if we have any leftover kits, we will put them online after. So let me know if you'll have
any questions with anything. So yeah, that's our biggest
question that we've got is for people who all ready have patterns, we can't take the pattern out of the club. So you either buy the club and
then sell the current pattern you have on like eBay or something or you can just come to our blog and we will have that
after the club ships. - [Lily] All right, we got a
question from Sandra Garrido. What is the stitch count for the fabric for the Snapshot club. - It's 10 count and the
reason we did 10 count is because we want it to be really big and we want it to fit a frame. And so that was the one that
would fit and they will finish about nine by six, which
fits in an eight by 10. So it gives like a little
bit of room around. - [Lily] All right, we
had a question earlier from Marcia Roth, they said, good morning Kimberly and Lily. Kimberly mentioned a keeper
for the Lori Holt stitch cards coming after the first of the year. Can she give us any hints about it? - I can tell you that it's in development. So Lori is still designing it. We have picked the size,
but now we gotta decorate the outside of it. - [Lily] From Nita Poole, when
can we sign up for the club? - Now, so it should be in the links below. It should be the very first link and we have lots of members all ready, which was super exciting
because I do get nervous when I put stuff together because I put a lot of time
into it and then I think, gosh, what if I put it online and nobody buys it then I'm not very trendy
or I have really bad taste. So it's always really nice
when people believe in me because I get really scared sometimes. And I think it looks really
good with, you can see, like, it looks like a picture. If you made it smaller it,
like if you put it on 14 count, it wouldn't fit a
standard frame and I mean, you could make a pillow out of
it, but since it's snapshots, like with the little
things for the photos, we thought it fit best in a frame. And we also like that it's
just a plain eight by 10 frame you can frame it yourself. I mean, that frame didn't cost very much. And obviously I have two frames
because I needed to show you two different ones, but you
don't need more than one frame. - [Lily] All right from Mary Lou Kleiner, can you just get a few
favorites in the Snapshot club? - So if we have leftover kits, they will go online
probably two to three weeks after the club ships, they will
go at a higher price though. - [Lily] From Sewing Becca,
are you selling the patterns without the kit? - Yes and the patterns are online now. The patterns have been out for
about probably eight years. They are by Pine Mountain
Designs and she has a quilt shop in Utah near Lori's house that
I've been to lots of times. So she, her Lily's been
there too, she just hasn't, did you figure it out? - [Lily] I do remember, yes. - Yeah, so it's like part, the store is like part
cross-stitch and part quilting and so it's, I think her
quilt shop is called Pine. It's slightly different, it's
not Pine it's similar name, but different, Pine Needle Designs is her quilt shop I think
and then Pine Mountain is the cross-stitch, something like that. - [Lily] From Crafty Chats Cafe, you could do pin cushions too? Like the Snapshot? - I think it, you could,
they might be a little bit, I mean, maybe with the
month, but each of the, each of the ones will
be slightly different. - [Lily] All right and before we move on, we had a super chat, that came in earlier for
999 from Valeria Bower. And it has a little pare saying thank you. - Oh, thank you. - [Lily] Yay, thanks Valeria. - So I wanna show you
some other exciting stuff. I'm super, super, super, I can't even tell you how
excited I am for this. So next week I am going, we
have this PDF for sale now it's a very low price PDF, and we have a video online now
of how you would finish it. And if I can do this, you can do it because I am not a finisher, but this is a PDF. So what you wanna do is buy the PDF and then join me next Wednesday. So next Wednesday, I'm
gonna sit here and the video is gonna be just this
little set right here. And I am going to have the pattern and I'm basically gonna have
all the things that I'm using. So I will basically be set
up kind of I'll show you how I'm gonna be set up. I'm gonna set up just like I was starting. So I'm gonna have my fabric,
I'm gonna cut my fabric down. I'm gonna show you how I calculate it. I'm gonna have my floss flowers. I'm gonna wind my floss
on my floss flowers. And then I'm gonna stitch
this and I'm gonna just stitch in hand and I'm just gonna
show you different tips and tricks on what I do. And the reason I'm doing it
is we get so many questions on how to do different things. And I wanna just show you how I do it and how I go really fast. Now, I just want you
to know when you watch, you don't have to do it the way I do it and so I'm just gonna show you
what I do, what works for me. I'm sure a lot of you will
think kind of how I do things is a little crazy, 'cause I don't really carry
threads and I just do different, I just do everything a
little bit different. So I'm just gonna show you what I do and I'm gonna try to
stitch the whole thing. Now it's gonna take more than an hour, but I'm gonna try to just
stitch fast and just show you what you can get done in a day. It's a great weekend project. This is just a simple little
circle frame from Hobby Lobby. And we link to it in the video, but so we want you to get this and then basically pick
whatever Aida you want. This, we picked 14 count, aqua, sorry, I'm like where's the name? So we just did 14 count aqua and then the DMC we're
using is BLANC, 347, 989 and 535. But I know a lot of you
will pick different colors. I think you should pick something that would match your house, you know, if you decorate a lot with aqua use aqua, if you decorate with
black or navy or green, do whatever you think will
match your house the best. And then this little frame, actually, if you go to Hobby Lobby, it
comes in like four colors. So you could pick, you could pick any color you
don't have to have an aqua outside frame and of
course you could also just get a wooden frame and just have a wooden. You could paint it. And then what we did is we
put sticky board on the back with a fabric that was similar. So I'm excited because we've
never done anything like that before and so I guess
I'm a little bit nervous about since I haven't done it before, and I know a lot of you are gonna be like, oh my goodness, you're silly, you waste time blah, blah, blah so I'm kind of opening
myself up to you guys seeing the craziness that I do, but I hope that maybe you get one tip. Maybe there's one thing I
do that might save you time or one thing you never thought of. And so we thought we would do that, in celebrating World Cross-stitch Day, which is actually next Friday. But I thought, well, let's just celebrate on Wednesday instead. - [Lily] All right, sweet
comment from Laura Hafner she said, no worries you have good taste and you definitely know what you're doing. - Oh, thanks sometimes
I know what I'm doing. I woke up at 4:00 AM yesterday so I'm a little bit tired today. - [Lily] From Crafty Chad's Cafe, how do you avoid puckering
where the hoop closes? So you just do it over and
over and you just pull it. Yeah, you just pull it
and if you put it in and it's not tight enough, you can just pull it and you
can see there's a tiny here. There's a tiny pucker
right here and that's okay. I mean, when you put it up
on the wall or on a stand, nobody's gonna notice, it's
never gonna be a 100% perfect. But what you do is you put it in and then if it's not tight enough
you can like pull out here or you just take it all
the way off and start again and then you wanna go tight here. - [Lily] From Dot Dot Goose
Designs, Denise what section in Hobby Lobby did you
find the circle hoop frame? - In the stitching section, so
in the cross-stitch section, and if you look online,
when you see the frame, 'cause we do have a link to it, it's gonna say multiple colors
so if you bought it online, you're just gonna get a random color. So that is one thing but we
were trying to find something that was inexpensive,
that you could do at home just like the eight by 10 frame. Something you can do and
you can start and finish in one weekend and you can feel like you
did all of it by yourself. - [Lily] Yeah also I had seen
some questions on our YouTube on the video asking if the sticky tape to hold the back together, how it holds up or if
they should use hot glue? - Oh, I, you can use either. But I, me and a hot glue
gun we're not friends. (Lily chuckles) I somehow cannot figure
out how to get the glue to not spit out everywhere
but it is stuck. I mean, it's stuck, it's not coming off. So, but if you like hot glue
use hot glue, I am just, I think hot glue is also something
that if you use it a lot, you really get used to it. It, but if you don't use it
daily and then you just get out a hot glue gun and you think
you're gonna do something, that's a disaster for me waiting to happen because I try to do stuff
so fast and I'm kinda hyper. I cannot, hot glue gun no, no. - [Lily] All right from Lori Holt, Kimberly, you need to add a library card to the back of your hooped frame, or your frame tube sorry. - Oh, I do, okay I will. - [Lily] From Gail Stale,
with 10 count fabric do you use more strands of floss? - You use four and when I'm stitching, I am going to give an, I'm
basically stitching the samples myself and if you need more than one skein you're gonna get more than one skein. So in January you get an
extra blue and an extra red and in then in May you
get like an extra white and an extra blue or something. So you will have enough when
you use the four strands and we're just using DMC 'cause I think DMC looks best on 10 count. And I just think it looks so cute I can't wait to put these out in my house. - [Lily] From C and M Flowers, question I'm a sporadic stitcher
and just started watching. I've noticed no hoop
marks, do you not use one? - I don't use one and so
next week I'll show you how I stitch in hand. I used to use a Q-snap, Cheryl who we show a lot of her work, she uses a spring tension
hoop and even with hers, you don't see a hoop mark in the end. So it's really whatever you prefer, but I will show how I stitch in hand. So I'm gonna show you my Jolly July finish 'cause we have finished Jolly July. So Jolly July is a collaboration
with us, Fat Quarter Shop and Priscilla and Chelsea of
Stitching With The Housewives where you celebrate Christmas in July and just stitch Christmas. So I'm gonna show you, I
am so excited to show you that Jolly July I have
completed everything. So what I did is I put each day, I put the total number of hours because I'm a little bit OCD, but this means I'm totally done and then I'm gonna finish this book up. This is gonna be my book. It's gonna be just for Jolly
July, so if in two years somebody asks a question
on the YouTube channel about what I did in Jolly
July it's right here. So Jolly July is done
and I'm gonna show you what I was able to finish. So this one is Kringles. So this is Little House
Needleworks Kringles pattern that came out at
Needlework Market in 2020. And I love it, I have never
made anything like this. So I am, I guess a little
bit more than halfway done. So my very next section is
gonna be to put Jolly here or Jollies and then do the bottom. I am going to take a break from this because it has a lot of color
changes and it's really hard to watch Dateline when
you keep changing colors. (Lily laughs) So I need to do this when
I am not watching TV. Like if I was at a baseball
game or at a dance convention, that's gonna drag on and on, that's when I need to do this. It looks really good, but
yeah, I've never done anything with as much detail. I obviously I'm gonna do
all of my back stitching and French knots,
colonial knots at the end, but it's really pretty and it's gonna look
really nice in my house. I'm not sure if I'm gonna
finish it this year or not, but it definitely will be finished maybe by March of next year. And I kinda just, this
is how my bag looks. I literally just throw everything in there and that's what I like
about having different bags 'cause you just pick it up
and go nothing has to be neat. When I'm done with the project I will neaten all the threads
and then put them in my stash and I can actually show
you that in a little bit. This one, is Jolly St Nick. So I finished this one, this
is Priscilla and Chelsea of Stitching With
Housewives and he's so cute. So I did remember, I almost
forgot to put the back stitch on the words and the eyes,
but I somehow remembered, but I'm gonna send this to
Priscilla to finish for me. Super excited and also we can do a popup of the four ornaments
'cause I sent those to her and those are also designed by them. So I all ready sent
these to her last week. So she has these and Priscilla
has a brand new fabric called Priscilla's Pretty
Plaids by Henry Glass and so I asked her to just
finish it with her plaid fabric. So that's super exciting
and with their plaid fabric, we are gonna have a quilt
kit and a table runner called Farmhouse Plaids
called plaid, sorry, called Plaid Farmhouse. That is the pattern, the fabric,
the kits are gonna come out in October, but that's super exciting and Priscilla designed it. We're gonna publish it for her and it's gonna be very beginner friendly. So I'm excited about that, but I'm gonna send this to her today. And then, yay, Mistletoe
Lane is all finished. So this is a pattern
by us, Fat Quarter Shop and it was a five part series
and if you buy the PDF now you just get the entire thing. So it was like part one,
part two, part three, part four and part five. I'm gonna actually hold it up
and show you next to Cheryl's, if possible. Well, this is not, there we go. So I just wanted to show you,
we use the same exact thread, we use the same exact fabric. She stitches one stitch
at a time with fancy floss and I stitch with whatever. I just go, whatever order is fastest. And you can see that
her banner, can you get? Okay, so like right here, you
can really see a difference between the two. You can see that mine
has little variegation and hers has more and
also here and that is why, because she stitches one stitch at a time. And, but overall in general,
if you just look at it, they look the same. So to me, I've gotten so many
questions on YouTube about, oops, this fell off from that. I get so many questions on
YouTube about, you know, why do you stitch in a row instead of an X because you lose the variegation? And I'm like, to me it's all the same. So I think it looks similar and then I have a big, big finish. So I'm gonna take, I'm gonna
have Lily take a little poll and y'all okay, so what I
do, I do wanna show you this, what I do when I'm
finished with a project, at the very end of my project, I go in and I neaten up
all my floss flowers, any that have very little left I take off and I will take this home and
put this in my thread cabinet, but it's, I keep it all neat when I put it in my thread cabinet. So you see it's messy during the project, when I'm done I clean it up
and I save anything that I have any thread on these, I had to run out. So I'll take these home today. I wanted to show you
we sell it as a thread, as a pattern set now. So you can get all 11 now
because the 11th one came out last week so you can get the pattern set. And we are gonna have
more of my thread sets, which are totally different
than the designer's thread and that is gonna come
out probably next week 'cause we ran out of one of
the whites and on the back you see the original version, my version and what you get in your pack. But now I can show you what I made. It's all done. I want y'all to guess in the comments how many hours this took. So Lily gets to guess first. - [Lily] 45. - Oh no, (Lily laughs) okay y'all keep guessing
and I'm gonna talk. So what I did was I finished
this one and then I went back and it took me three hours
to do all of the back stitch and the colonial knots. So if the colonial knots right here, you can see in the snow man's eyes. I learned that from Cheryl,
we have a great video that we've linked below to colonial knots. And that will show you
kinda how I did them. A colonial knot is, it
shows up a little bit bigger and it's not as bulky you don't
have to pull it out as much, but I will tell you one of the things that I did is in the pattern, you will see that there are
back stitches right here that is like, makes the sign. It like connects the sign
and I put that in and I just, I thought that when I got it framed, these are gonna drive me
crazy 'cause they're so long and I mess with it to
try to make it look good and I just really didn't like
it and I just pulled it out. Because I'm not really
sure if anybody looks at it that they're gonna really be like, oh, those back stitches are
missing, I just didn't love it. So, or do you notice it Denise? (indistinct) - [Lily] The back stitches. - [Denise] No. - No, I just, I don't know,
I just, I didn't love it so I pulled it out. So I did all that back stitching
and I just didn't love it. So yeah, I did all of my, so yeah, okay tell me the other guesses. - [Lily] Oh man, we got a lot, okay. - Okay, tell me the guesses
and I'm gonna take a drink because I'm really thirsty I'm sorry. - [Lily] Okay, we got a 100 hours from MJ, - Okay. - 29 from Christy Smokavich,
Stephanie Marie says 80, Frankie Easter says 112, Krispy says 108 , Amy Suniva says 80, Norma
Jean Succar says 125. Dot Dot Goose Design says
101, 85 from Red Head Beauty, 106 from Jennifer Jungles, 112 American, there's a lot of guesses. - So it's 110 and a half hours. So that's a lot, but I'm
happy to have it done and I am gonna take it to the framer and I've all ready picked the
frame at the framing place and Emma has dance. It's the framing place is
like downtown and Emma's dance is pretty far from our house
so she has dance this week. It's like a choreo camp with just 13 girls and so I'm gonna get this
framed somehow, so excited. But when I go to the
framer, I'm gonna show, I'm gonna take this too. So this is my other last
finish from Jolly July, just to show you all my finishes. This is Christmas typography
by Pine Mountain Designs. So I'm gonna take this to get it framed. We have a beautiful frame
here that we had gotten, we have a beautiful frame
here that is so pretty. We've had it for like ever, and it's a red frame
that has like a scallop, but when we put it in there, it was like probably
maybe an inch too big. So I was sad 'cause I thought, well, I could just take that to the
framer, but it didn't fit. But if I could find like a red
frame with kind of a scallop, I think that would look pretty. We do have kits available for this, with exactly what I used, which is slightly different
than what the author or the designer used. And I wanted to talk
about one little thing. So we got a lot of you calling
customer service about this. So on anything that Pine Mountain does, when she shows you the list
of threads that she uses on the back, she does not
designate how many skeins and we couldn't figure
out, we thought at first, okay, she used 32 count on her sample maybe that's why she didn't
list the number of skeins. But then because we got so many questions, we went through a lot
of her other patterns and it's just not
something that she lists. So I'm sorry for everyone
who had to come back and buy more skeins. We just didn't even think
about that or notice that, or, you know, most designers
list the number of skeins and we just had no idea that she didn't. So I'm just throwing that out there and what we put on our
website now, we adjusted it. What you need is you need
three greens, two reds and two blues. Now this is 25 count. So, you know, if you use 14
count, it might be different or if you stitched over one,
it's gonna be different. And when I stitch, this
is also gonna affect it, is I don't carry over between my letters. So I don't go from H to
O to H, I start and stop. So I use more thread because of that. So for example, I'm working
on a sample this weekend for something really
cute that we're gonna do. And I told Denise, hey,
get me extra skeins 'cause I don't carry over. So it really depends how you stitch, how much thread you use. So super cute, so that
is all of my Jolly July and this is a cute bag from
Denise at Dot Dot Goose Designs. Let me know if y'all have
any questions on any of this and we do have the kit available now for Christmas typography and
we use some of the colors she used, but some of them are different and the fabric that we put in here was 25 count cloud by Lori Holt. - [Lily] Okay, real quick I
wanna shout out the people who guessed the number of hours correctly. - Yes. - [Lily] It was three people, Mary Fowler, Sherry Wilkinson Crawford
and Marcia Freeman. - Yay. - [Lily] Good job guessing everyone. - Lily, she guessed 40, - [Lily] (laughs) I was
like, I should have guessed an outrageous number. - What did you guess, 40? - [Lily] 45. - 45.
- [Lily] Yeah. - She was only off by point, times two - [Lily] Double it and add a little more. - Oh yeah, 1.2 or something (laughs). - [Lily] Yeah, I was not, I was not doing something. - But you know, and it's so funny because I really do
keep track of my hours. But you know, when I finish something, I'm so excited to go to
the office to keep track of my hours and the reason I do that, if I was just stitching in the real world and I didn't have a job and I
wasn't doing this for a job, I wouldn't write any of that down. The reason I do it is
I have to plan my hours and you can ask anybody who works here, I have every hour planned. There's no lunch breaks, I mean, I take a lunch maybe once every two weeks, I don't have lunch breaks,
I don't have free time. I have to plan exactly
what I'm gonna be doing every hour, almost of every day. So I keep track of it so I can
actually plan my days better. But I am really excited
about next week instruction with you guys, even though I'm nervous. - [Lily] Oh, Patricia Lawson
had said, what about purple? And then she said, mom's
interested to try a simple pattern. - Oh, well I can get you some purple and I can get you the pattern
and you can stitch next week. So she, my mom is just like my daughter. So I tried to teach Emma
a couple of weeks ago, how to cross stitch because
obviously in the pandemic they have nothing to do. So I, she knows how to sew a little bit, but she doesn't really like it and which means she
doesn't like it at all. So I actually got her like her
initials and had her try it and she like, after an hour,
it was like, you do this, this takes too much time. I'm not doing this and she, but then she, I had her do it for like a week and she just really did not enjoy it. And she's just like my mom, my mom and my daughter are just alike. So I'll bring you some purple and we're gonna see how
many stitches you get and if you get past what Emma did. You and Emma can sit next to each other and y'all can see how far you get. - [Lily] All right, let
me see the questions here from Karen Dean, do you always stitch
vertically or horizontally? - Okay, so we're gonna
go over that next week, but I stitch top to bottom
because when you carry threads from the bottom to the top, sometimes they don't lie
perfectly and I'm OCD. I know some of you guys don't like my OCD, that's just how I am and I
stitch from left to right. That's just how I stitch and
that's how my brain works, but that's all just preference. And I'm gonna kinda show you,
if you go from the bottom to the top, a little trick you can do to make your stitches lie flat. 'Cause I can not stand if you
do it and then your stitches all start weaving or
like, they go like that. That's my, that's my dance for today. (Lily laughs) But they do and I can
show you that next week. - [Lily] From Nita Poole,
she was saying, if you take your project out of the
hoop every time you finish, you don't get any hoop marks, for the person who was asking earlier. - Yes and I think that's
what Cheryl does, right? - [Lily] Oh yeah. - Yeah Denise says yes. - [Lily] Mom was asking how
many projects bags do you own? I love them all. - Oh, I have about 30. So I have a drawer and I
have some cross-hatch quilts, is that right? That's the one I showed
you that Lori got me, I'll show it to you. She sells them on Instagram
and so Lori bought me this one and for, I think my
birthday and then I'm gonna buy some more. So this is my cross-hatch quilt. She's only on Instagram
and then I also get them from Dot Dot Goose of, her
name is Denise off of Etsy and then we sell some and we make some, and then when we're making them, I think of what I would want, but I have two drawers and
I keep them nice and flat. And then if, basically
when I kit a project, I throw it in here. I have a bucket and it's in my office and so if it's in the bucket,
that means it's ready to go. And I like, for example,
yesterday, oh yeah yesterday I had to take Christopher to,
it was a doctor's appointment, but it couldn't be virtual. So when I took him, I thought,
oh, I have to have something to stitch in the waiting room or whatever. So I just go to that bucket,
I just pick out anything and you're gonna see what I
picked out in a little bit. So yeah, I just keep everything
in a bag if it's ready to go or flat, if it isn't,
if it's not ready to go and you know, I just, I
like bags, I have so many. Okay, let's tell this story. I have so many like tote bags, Kevin and I got a storage unit. So when we bought our
house like three years ago, we didn't realize it didn't
have an attic, so that's fine. And then we have a lot of storage in our, we just put like the cheap little, what do you call those? Shelves that you can
get at like Home Depot. - [Lily] Oh ClosetMaid. - Yeah like that, like on,
you just throw it in your, your garage and you just put stuff on it. But then we still didn't have enough room because we have like, we keep everything. Like we keep all of our kids baby clothes. We have all, everything
Christopher and Emma wore until they were two years old. We have like stuff from when I was a kid, like Kevin has a trunk
from when he was a kid. We had nowhere to put stuff. So we rented a storage
room and then I decided, well, since we have a storage room, I can clean up my closet. And I took all these
bags, like boxes of bags and when we got, okay I
stuffed all this with my kids and then my kids took it to the car. But then Kevin is the only one with a key so we drove there and
Kevin got these boxes out and he was like, why are you storing bags? Why don't you just get rid of the bags? And I was like, they're my
bags like, leave it alone. - [Lily] (indistinct) Them bags (chuckles) - Why do you have baseball cards in there from when you were five? Same thing. So, yeah so I have a problem
with bags, but I like my bags. - [Lily] Sweet comment from Wesco Jean. Great job, you completed your
Christmas and July projects. Treat yourself, go get an ice cream. - Ice cream, yeah we're
gonna have cake tonight for my boys' birthday. So I'm gonna go to, there's a
Whole Foods right by my house and I'm gonna get two different
cakes that are smaller because they have the best cakes and then they can just personalize it. So I'm trying to decide what to get 'cause they like different things. So they like different
foods, they like different, they like everything different. One likes rap music and one
likes reading Harry Potter that's how different they are. They're night and day. Their skin color is different. Their hair color is different. Their height is different. Their weight is different. Kevin always says they're
similar and I'm like, I would like to know
what they're similar in. And I think their similarity
is that they like each other that's about it. And they do they get along great but they are not anything alike. - [Lily] From Crafts For
Others, how big is Snow Village if you do it all in one piece? - Denise can measure it, I don't know or we can look, we can look on
Country Cottage Needle Works. I stitched on 18 count,
so mine came out smaller. So we'll look, it's all on
countrycottageneedleworks.com. Let's see, it has a stitch
count of 223 by 185. So it depends what kind of fabric you use. So mine, you would just
divide like 223 Divided by 18, which is what I did,
it's 12 and a half by, 10 and a quarter. So kind of that's one thing to think about when you're buying fabric
for a project, for example, for the club, we wanted it to be something that you can start and
finish in your house. You don't have to go to a framer. You don't have to buy fabric. You don't have to do anything else. So we specifically pick the 10 count because it would fit a eight by 10. And I don't, everybody can
get an eight by 10 frame, whether you're in the United
States or in Australia, it's a standard frame. You know, if it would have
fit an eight by 10 frame in a 14 count, we would
have put it on 14 count. So it's kind of one of those
things where when you start, you think about what you wanna do. Now on Snow Village 'cause
it's so big, I'm gonna take it to a custom framer so it didn't matter. - [Lily] From Denise Marie, when will Snow Village number nine, be back in stock, I'm at a standstill. - Oh, any day, it's all on order. One of our distributors
was out of one them, but should be any day, I ordered it from the second distributor. - [Lily] And Crystal Rose said today is also her son's 10th birthday. That's sweet, happy birthday. - I know, so when I talked to
them this morning and I said, do you know, you know how y'all were born? And I, 'cause one of them was
born exactly at eight o'clock and one of them was born at eight O one. - [Lily] Wow. - So I told them 'cause I
left the house at like 7:30 I was like, watch your
clock, say your thing. And then, I mean, one's
older by one second, but like they use that over each other. - [Lily] Oh, we have a few more questions but I'm gonna save those for the end. - Okay, so I'm gonna show
you some other Jolly July. So Terry has been stitching
Vintage Christmas Sampler and she's using DMC and she
stitching on 32 count Belfast. So if you have seen, she's
done some previous ones and then I think she's gonna
make them into ornaments. And then when she makes
them, we can show 'em. And then Christina made
Mistletoe Lane with 10 count black by Lori Holt and I
wanted to show you on the edge. She used masking tape and
if you use masking tape on the end, it will stay in place if you don't have a sewing
machine and it works just fine. Now, when you put on the edge,
washi tape will not work, but masking tape, this is
just straight masking tape from Home Depot. So if you can't zigzag your edges, just throw some masking tape on there. When you frame it,
you're gonna cut it off. It doesn't even matter and it
doesn't even get in your way. So that's one question that we get a lot, but you can see it doesn't,
it doesn't come off. Washi tape will though. And then I wanted to show
you to celebrate Christmas a little bit more. There was an event called
Flamingo Toes Christmas in July and it was a little Christmas series. And what they did is they
did, there's three designers and they did two free cross stitches each. So there's six free cross
stitches right here. So you can use these for
this year's Christmas or for next year is Jolly July. So this is Flamingo Toes her two, these are three inch hoops
and she did pom pom trim. So that's the front. So this is Bev McCullough
and then this is the back. So she just put that pom
pom trim and it covers her three inch hoop and it's so cute. And everything about what
they did is on their blogs completely free, it has the
thread, it has everything in it. So you would go to Flamingo
Toes to get these two free. And then the next two are by
Jedi Craft Girl, it's Amanda and she has a Christmas
tree and a Christmas block. And so she did the same
thing where she used a three inch wood-frame and
I'm sure you could just get those at Hobby Lobby or JOANN's and she did the same thing on the back. And then what they did is
they just put the ribbon through the hoop thing. So these are super cute and again, Jedi Craft Girl go to
her blog completely free and everything is on the pattern. That's a PDF that you can
download and on the blog. And then Christopher from
The Tattooed Quilter, he has done a lot of videos
for us on our quilting channel, which is Fat Quarter YouTube
if you wanna subscribe there, he's a quilter and he did a
snowman and a little block. Cute, right? And then it looks really cute on the back. So they all kinda did the
same thing, but very different and those are all completely free. So if you are looking for something free, I would encourage you to
go to those three blogs, which is The Tattooed
Quilter, Jedi Craft Girl and Bev from Flamingo Toes,
and all the links are below, but those are free and thank
you to them for letting us borrow their cute little ornaments
to finish out Jolly July. It came just in time. - [Lily] So cute, all right. I'm gonna start going through
some of the older questions we have here from Kelsey Peterson, for Prim Stitch Series how
big of a border do you leave if using Aida? - Depends, so we have a
cutting guide, right here. This is for 25 count and
on the very back page, this comes with your
club or free on our site and it tells you option one, option two, and you just have to calculate. So you would leave, you
could leave a smaller border if you cut from one piece
versus a bigger border. So you just have to calculate, you have to calculate
your total stitch size, which is right here, Divided it by 14 and then you can add two inches around or three inches around it's up to you. And you can see, we can show you a popup of what Lori has done. Hers is stitching on the 25 count and she's doing it all as one big piece. And I think she's used
about a two and a half, three inch border and so
that's how she's doing hers. I'm doing mine individually,
which I can show you now, this is part one. And Lori finished it for me
and she used her prim fabric, her natural lace, her paint
and her paint is denim. And then part two, if you're in the club, it's shipping today. So if you are in the
club, you get this pattern and this pattern will
be shipping out today. She's, she made this one for me. She also used her prim fabric, her lace and this is blossom paint. And these are how the patterns look, they're full color, glossy card stock. So if you look on the inside,
this is how they look, color, super easy to read, and we give you Aurifloss and DMC. They all come out to the same
size and you can stitch that as one piece or two pieces and
then a super exciting thing to announce is we just finished our sample for Lori's next cross stitch design. It was our most requested quilt that people wanna turn into a cross stitch and so we will be
releasing that very soon. I believe that next week we
will probably be able to show it on the Coming Soon page. And then the week after we
will have the actual sample to be able to show on live stream. - [Lily] All right, questions
here from Marcia Freeman, are the thread colors marked? I think she meant on some of
the patterns we were showing. - Yes, thread color is marked. So most patterns have the thread name and then you can change your colors and then the thread name
usually has a symbol. If you wanna ask, like what
specific one I can answer, but I don't think anything in
here doesn't have a thread. Even on these, they have the thread here and they used Aurifloss. (indistinct) Oh, so on this they used
symbols and you just have to figure out which one goes with which, but it's super easy 'cause
it's like dark green, light green, red, black, super I mean they're so beginner. They'd be great for kids. So I wanted to show you some other whips. So this one I decided
to get out yesterday. This is one of our gingham on the go bags and I had this thrown in. This is how much of a mess I have it, but I had this in my bag ready to stitch. It is the Liberty Chalk
Full by Hands On Design and Priscilla Blaine and
I've had it in there a while and I decided to start it. This is the very last Chalk
Full that I have not finished so I'm gonna try to
finish this pretty quick. Usually what I do is I do all
the white and then I fill in the red, the green and
then the light blue. And I just kinda wanted to see
how the colors were looking, but I can probably have
this done in a week or two. So that's my whip for the week
and I started that yesterday. I didn't get very far, but I got enough. And what I do with this bag is
I kinda just fold it in half and then I can just go wherever. Another whip that we have
is amazing, so amazing. So this is Theresa Kogut's CW Samplers called Land That I Love. Cheryl is stitching us
on 32 count Legacy Lugana by Picture This Plus. Oh my goodness. - [Lily] Wow. - It's amazing, look at that. It's amazing so, and you
can see where she, like, she just finished her stitches
and she's just through. Now, the one thing that I think is amazing is she doesn't really, she just stitches, she doesn't have to use a magnifier. - [Lily] Wow. - So, so pretty, and there's
some brown in this flag and it gives it that dimensional
look, it's so pretty. So let's see, she's about a
third of the way down at least 'cause she's like right here, I wanna admit that any
kind of border like this, I've never done, I've never
done something that intricate. And I watch a lot of
Floss tubers and they, they make me nervous 'cause
what they do is they'll do the whole outside and they
hope it meets up at the end and I'm like, oh no, I would
have to just do a little bit. I would be so scared that
my, it wouldn't complete, but it's so pretty. And then I wanted to show
you some framed finishes by Priscilla and Chelsea. So the very first one is
October Truckin' Along. So this is Priscilla stitched
it and she finished it and it is part of our Truckin' Along club. It shipped out today. Now, if so, if you're in the club, you'll be getting it very soon and if we have any kits left over, they will be online in
about two to three weeks 'cause our club members get it first. And look how cute, so what
she's doing is she stitches on this two different pieces right here. And then she put the cat in the middle. Now when I'm stitching them,
I'm stitching them as one piece and then you can see the difference. But I love it and I love the, I love how these are
like pumpkins with vines, but then her next one is this one, which is pumpkins and a little candy jar. So what is that called? You keep the pumpkins in the, - [Lily] Jack O lantern - [Denise] Trick or treat baskets. - Trick or treat baskets,
so they look different. So this one is Calvin and Trixie, so cute. So if you signed up for
this pattern preorder, it shipped earlier this week. If you didn't sign up for it pre-sold you can order it online. She finished this with her brand new, this is her brand new Priscilla's Plaids that will be in stock in about a month, this is a different plaid here. And this little tray right
here is a pumpkin tray or a pumpkin wood piece and you can buy this
from Layla May Designs. They are gonna be selling
these on their Facebook page. We're not affiliated in any way with them, but I have boughten, I have boughten, (both laughs) I have, I bought some stuff from them and it's all been great. So her son and son-in-law or one of them, I can't remember if it's
their son or son-in-law make these wood pieces. So if you wanted to make
it like this, it's so cute and this is like the cutest
thing I've ever seen. So maybe she'll save some
for when I make mine. And then the very next one, is big, so you have to give me a second. I'm gonna just put it right here 'cause it's too big to lay down. So it is called Trick or Treat And it's so cute, it's so big. Look how big it is. (Lily laughs) And so she finished it with
the same cute little things and this is a pumpkin from Hobby Lobby. The number on it is 5015375 and it says Hobby Lobby fall 2020. So she must've got this recently. So lots of different ways you
can finish, but oh my gosh thank you for letting us
borrow it, it's so cute. - [Lily] It's so cute. - I know, right? Look, this is what Lily can dress up. She can dress up for Halloween in this. - [Lily] Oh yeah. - Next year and then she can match it. - [Lily] Yes. - She likes to dress up for Halloween. - [Lily] I love it. - So big, okay so let me know
if you'll have any questions on Priscilla and Chelsea's
pieces, they're so beautiful and thank you for letting us borrow those. I'm gonna make, so we're
gonna be doing again, stitch-tober and I'm gonna
stitch Calvin and Trixie, even though I don't have a cat. Maybe Priscilla can draw me Piggy's face. - [Lily] Halloween witch's hat. - I know Piggy will get you. I know my mom asked me the other day has Piggy ever bitten anybody? And I was like, no, that dog
is like the nicest dog ever. - [Lily] He's very sweet. All right, while I wait
for questions to roll in about this I'm gonna go back
to some of the older ones here from mom, what is your
favorite floss to use? - Oh, I like all flosses. Okay I like Aurifloss because it comes in this little spools. And so I can just pull it
off the spool and start. I like that about it
because I don't have to sit and put it on floss flowers. I like DMC because it's
cheaper and I like the colors, but I don't like have to
putting, I don't like having to start and put them
on the floss flowers. It takes like an hour. I like Classic Color Works
'cause it just comes right off the skein and it's all ready pre cut. I really like Weeks Dye Works
on that one you have to cut it before you start honestly,
I like all the thread I think Cosmo is really nice
because it's got a sheen to it or like a shininess that
other thread doesn't. But to be honest, I like any thread. It would be hard for me to
say which one I like the best. And I think each project, you know, maybe it's a little bit different. Like I think this one looks
really good 'cause it's got the variegation I think
this one looks really good 'cause it doesn't have the variegation just the different styles. So I think the style of your design with if you want it hand dyed or not, I haven't tried NPI silks. I will say I love Bell's Wall. I haven't used it recently, but that stuff is like
butter and it is awesome, but there's no way I could
stitch all my stuff in that. It's way too expensive for me
to like do all these things and I like to do a variety 'cause then it doesn't get as boring. So I didn't answer your question, but I don't have an answer, I'm sorry. - [Lily] I think that was an answer. From Deborah Carol how
are silk threads different than DMC in use and look? - Okay, so silk is thinner. Some come with eight strands,
some come with 12 strands. Some silk is spun and some is woven. It is, some is variegated and some is not. So they're all different. It would be the same thing
as like every other thread is different, they're all different. So Bell's Wall has the variegated look 'cause it's by Classic Color Works. NPI is just a solid, I
haven't tried NPI yet. I think it's easier to work
with 'cause it's really soft. So when you thread the
needle and you just stitch it just glides much better,
so you can go faster. And I think it's just really pretty, I really like the starlet
snowflake that I did with the Bell's Wall
because of the variegation it gave to the star and
that only used four colors. So I would never do a project
that had like 20 colors in a silk because to me I'm like, okay, that's like a lot of money
when I could just do it in DMC. So I think I consider all
of the things, the size, the number of skeins,
the look or the style, or just kinda what I'm in the mood for, or maybe what's on the shelf or right then like I had a project that I
did this weekend, guess what? I had it and I just picked
what was right on my shelf and it has all my
Aurifloss, like by color. So I just was like, here we go. - [Lily] And we had a
suggestion from Jenny Lombardo. They said, what about doing
a kit for a small project that includes the new silk thread? We all wanna try it, but it can be overwhelming
to jump in on our own. - Yeah, I think that's a great idea. So when I get to the NPI
silk, when I get to that, I will think about something
that's small and yeah, totally do that. I'm not NPI silk is on my list for about two months from now. From BB, will there be a
stitch along in stitch-tober? - Oh yes, there's gonna be
like four that I know of, at least, two are original designs. One I'm gonna stitch
Calvin and Trixie, this one and I am going to stitch autumn typography and I'm also going to
stitch the brand new, Denise is gonna have to
help me with the name, Hands On Design that has the text. - [Denise] Let's Talk Chalk. - Let's Talk Chalk and guess what? They're all kitted up
and they're ready to go I just have to wait till October. So they're in my box,
we'll just have to wait. So I wanted to show you, I am continuing on with Singing
On The Rain I'm almost done. This is by Bev McCullough of
Flamingo Toes, so this is hers. This is just a simple eight by 10 frame. She used the 25 count by
Lori Holt and here's mine. So I used my thread pack that
I put together for Aurifloss and I wanted to show you
some differences on this row. So on hers, she outlined all
of her fabrics in back stitch and I honestly will do
anything to not back stitch. I just don't like it. So what I did instead is, right here. Can you see that? Can you zoom in a little bit? I think it might be okay though, right here I added two stitches
yeah, I think it's fine. So like see how that's like flat. I added two stitches and I
made it kinda like a flower that had two points and then
I did I inverted the colors throughout, so I did like light, dark and then I just did all green
stems where she did blue. And then she has an outline
on her blue, on her, what she did is like a
half stitch right here and then a back stitch, I
just did one cross-stitch. So I think that's what's
great about cross stitching is you can have fun, you
can just change stuff up and you can just do it
the way you wanna do it. I just really do not like back stitching so I will come up with
anything to not do that. So let me know if you'll have
any questions that is all my stitch stuff for this
week, which oh my gosh. Thank you to everyone who
stitched, sample makers, Cheryl, Terry, Christina, did I get everybody? And Priscilla and Chelsea
and Lori, everybody and let me know if you have any questions and I'll show you some new stuff
we have also when I'm done. And then this cute little
bag Bev made for me, so cute. I know I love it. It's like the perfect size 'cause it just goes right in my purse. I wanna get a new purse. So I'm gonna get like a new, big purse. - From Michelle Moore on the
Lori Holt Stitch Card club, which set will it begin with? - F and it's amazing and it's been photoed and it went to the printer
on Monday and I love it. And it's going to be part of stitch-tober and it is amazing what Lori did. I cannot wait to stitch it
and we will have everything like the thread like Lily, I mean, Lily, Denise ordered all the thread and it's great Halloween
colors and then yeah, it's gonna be awesome, it's
so cute, it's Halloween. - From Donna Monk, how
do you think one over one would work for prim if I want
to do it as one but smaller? I have the 25 count Lugana. - I think that Jan Hicks
is doing it over one. So go check out her, I'm like 90% sure that's what she's doing and I know she has like
part one partly done. So if you wanna see it
she's got a video on it and I have zero experience in 25, I mean stitching over one. I'd probably pull my hair out, but I, Jan Hicks go to her
channel and she's super awesome and if you put a comment or
something, she'll write back. And so I've got some
new stuff to show you. And this one I'm super excited about. So I love Christmas and
I really like this book. I rarely, if something comes in, you know, I get to see all the new stuff. I rarely will say, oh,
can I get one of those? This book is really well done. It is kind of a hard back. Is that what you call this Lily? Like a, - [Lily] Yeah hard cover. - Hard cover, okay and it's just real, I don't, let me try to find
some pages that I could show you without a chart. So like for example, there's
just lots of different designs. They're traditional,
there's kind of a modern, there's kind of a young,
this is I'll show you one that's not, I can't show you the charts. So like, I mean, isn't that cute? This is like the best thing ever. So I would totally make this, but I would totally change the colors. Like I could see this in Lily's house. 'Cause it's got like, it's very
trendy and it's got purple, like she likes purple. My mom would like this, but I love this. How they did the letters with, there's just a lot of detail in this book. I, the only thing I
would say about this book is I would change the colors
in every single design, because some of them are very modern and some of them are very
like 1980s Christmas, but the designs in this
are spot on, I love it. So I took this home, I love it. Some other new things we got that this one I'm excited about. This is the Christmas
Square Dance part three. So at Needle Work Market
in 2020 Heart In Hand came out with this. It's gonna be a four part series so in the end you will have 12. And I think it will be maybe
my Jolly July next year, where I make it all into one. And we did a Trunk Show
on it about two weeks ago so you can, you can see all that. But I do think all 12 will look great. She also has Patchwork Crow which I know a lot of you like birds, and Pocket Round Crow. So this is like, when she
showed her Trunk Show, we sell these little bowls
and you like finish it and you set it on top of the bowl. It's kind of like a clay potteryish bowl. And then Hands On Design
has brand new pattern called Ghosties and Gourds. And we have the thread
pack for color and cotton. We are gonna stock color
and cotton every skein, we should have it in about
two to three weeks or so. And the difference in
color and cotton is they eight yards versus five yards. So you get more per skein
and it is variegated. I haven't tried it, Cheryl
loves it I will tell you that. And it is here, oh, wait,
no, they're 65% done filling our order. So basically when they
have our whole order, we will have all of this by the skein. But what Kathy at Hands
On Design wanted to do when I read her blog is she
wanted someone to be able to just come and buy this,
you know, and get it. And this is Kermit fabric by
Picture This Plus and it is, and we do have it on
order for everyone wanting Picture This Plus they have
put out several updates that you can find online. They're very behind because of COVID, so the fabric will come when
they're available to send it, but it is on order and it's Kermit and there's also (indistinct)
color that's yellow. I mean, yellow green,
I guess that's green, but it's a similar color. We also have this one,
which I'm excited about. Look at it, I think
Denise is gonna make it. I think she has to make it for Floss Tube. - [Lily] Yes. - You have to make it, it's so cute. - [Lily] Yes. - I wouldn't even change the colors. It's so cute, I love it. And then Prairie Schooler Country Season, so this is book 123. So it's their 123rd pattern
and they re-released it. And then two Hands On Design
patterns that just came in Grace of a Flower and Present Blessings. And then our flash sale today is we have this easy count
grid and we got this 'cause of a customer request, but this is if you are a
beginner and you don't wanna have to grid every 10 stitches
and then it will come out. It says like, when you
finish your project, soak it in bath of 90 degree
water with a gentle cleanser, soak it for about an hour
and the lines will disappear. Now, I wanna be totally
transparent and tell you, I haven't tried it, but I know a lot of people
that I see on Reddit use it. So, and then this is
our flash sale pattern from Madam Chantilly,
called Spring Jasmine Tea. - [Lily] That's really cute. - Yeah so let me know if
you'll have any questions on any of that and just
remember to come back next week, where I'm gonna stitch with you and you can get all your
stuff, you can buy the PDF. You can go to Hobby Lobby,
pick your own colors. You can stitch with whatever you want. We just wanted to have
a day where we stitch and then it'll kinda give me a break and then I don't have to
stitch as much this week to show you 'cause I do
feel like I have to stitch like a million things and I
might need a little break. - Denise from Dot Dot Goose
Design said, how's Piggy? - Oh, Piggy's good, he's good. - And then Priscilla and Chelsea said, thanks for showing our
new designs Kimberly happy birthday to the boys. - Oh thanks. - [Lily] So sweet. - Yeah, I'll have to take,
I was gonna take pictures of them this morning to
show, but then I was like, you know what? They don't wanna be up yet. They were both up. They just weren't, one was
downstairs and one was upstairs. - [Lily] From Pokey Little Pineapple, is Color and Cotton a
new FQS stocked floss? - It is going to be in stock
in about two to three weeks. And it is a hand dyed floss, similar to General Arts, Weeks Dye Works, Classic Color Works, it
just comes in larger skeins. It's a newer company and we
had a lot of requests for it and Cheryl really likes it. So we decided if Cheryl
likes it, we should have it. So, oh, I wanted to show one other thing. - [Lily] Yes. - Okay, sorry, so Lily pop this up. I've had a lot of questions. So I thought I would address it. So that is me. (Lily laughs) And I'm gonna tell a little funny story. So the other night I couldn't sleep, which is typical, woke
up and Amanda had sent me all these emails and was like, I don't understand what's going on. All these people are asking,
they say, you're on TV. Why didn't you tell
me, are you in a movie? And I was like, what is she talking about? So I had to wake up and then I looked and so what happened is on
HBO, they are doing a special, it is done with Billy Jensen
and Michelle McNamara. Michelle McNamara passed away, she was married to a very famous comedian. Can't think of his name right now. And she was on the hunt to
find the Golden State Killer. She's the one who actually coined the name Golden State Killer. She worked with Paul Holes to, she really pushed him
to use genetic genealogy and then she passed away and then they caught
the Golden State Killer. That was about two
months before Crime Con, which is where this
picture was taken in 2018. And I had gone, and that was
when they were introducing Billy Jensen and I was
just like, oh my gosh, Billy Jensen and Paul
Holes and, oh my goodness. Patton Oswalt was her husband. So they did a panel and they
talked for about an hour about, you know, the book. Well, now that book has
turned into a HBO special and apparently that day I
was on TV and had no idea. And what's interesting as Lori and I both had talked about the show, it's a series and we both
agreed 'cause we talk every day. So we agreed, we were gonna
watch that series when it ends at the end of part six, because we like to binge
and we wanna wait 'til we have a day to watch the whole thing. So if I had been watching it on time, I would have seen myself, but imagine waking up and
getting all these emails and you're like, I'm
not, she was like, what? I'm like, I'm not on TV I don't know what you're talking about. She was like, yeah so it took
me a while to get my bearings, but it was really awesome
that customers saw this. And I just thought, I
would like say where I was some people were concerned
that I was in public during Corona virus that was
in 2018 and it was awesome. So it was probably, I
mean, I'm crime obsessed, but that was my favorite
vacation I've ever taken ever. It was by myself, which does
say a lot about how much of an introvert I am, but it was an awesome way
to just hear about people and you know, how the genetic genealogy, 'cause now, you know, two years
later, that's all the rage. Genetic genealogy two years
ago was not what it is today and just learning about it
in the very early stages of what people are doing to fight crime even if it's like a 40 year old crime, all the things they're
doing for victim advocates. And then actually some
of the victims were there and they got to speak and
I thought it was great. - [Lily] So funny comment from my side, when I woke up and saw the
picture they had posted in the morning, I showed my boyfriend. And at first he's like,
no, that's just someone who looks like Kimberly, it's not her. Like the lighting's all wrong. - [Kimberly] Oh, no. - [Lily] Well, funny part I was like, no, I know it's her because
of the nail polish. That's Cajun Shrimp. - [Kimberly] Yeah that's true. - [Lily] But yeah just the way you are- - [Kimberly] But weren't you
confused when you saw it? - [Lily] Yeah.
- [Kimberly] You were like why, I was so confused.
- [Lily] Yeah, that's why he was like, well, no, she's like lit so well,
like it doesn't look, - [Kimberly] Right.
- [Lily] Like real TV, yeah. - Yeah, so what they did
is at the Crime Con it, they had Oxygen, the TV channel
sponsors that entire event. They film everything, when you go you sign a release that you
agree to be in any picture, that's how it is and you
go and you, there are like, I mean, and I had decided it was really like the best vacation ever. I would say it was a
little bit overcrowded, but I paid for the VIP so I
could get like a better seat. It's not guaranteed, but if
you're stuck in the back, it's not gonna be a great experience 'cause you're in there
with 1000s of people. But you know, it's one
of those things where I will probably go again. But I mean, I don't
really like, I don't know, it was just awesome. But yeah, it was pretty
exciting to be on TV. So I was like telling
my kids 'cause you know, I want my kids to think I'm half cool. So I was like, Emma, I
was so excited to tell you and I was like trying
to explain the HBO show and she was like, what? She's like, I don't know
what you're talking about. So then I was like, look,
here's a picture of your mom I'm on HBO and she was like, you're crazy. So then I went home and
I was like, Peyton look, I was on HBO and they're like, what's HBO? Because you gotta think
about like kids today they don't know what HBO is. So I thought I was gonna be so cool. I was like, I'm on TV and
then I sent it to Kevin like, 'cause it's in the middle
of the night and I'm like, look, I'm on TV he's
like, what are you doing? I mean, like, everybody was so confused, but I am, that is one thing I'm gonna do. Basically it'll just be a
day that probably I'm at work and have to order a bunch of stuff. I'll just sit and watch
that whole series through. But me and Lori are excited
so we can watch and see, we're gonna watch it
just so we can see me. - [Lily] Yes. - So I just wanted to
answer those questions because we got so many questions, people said, please talk about it. So I'm talking about it but
I will say when I woke up, I was so excited that you guys told me, 'cause I would have never known. I mean, I would've eventually known and that's the thing that
Lori and I were talking about. We would have eventually
known because both of us are gonna, we were gonna watch it anyway, we would have eventually seen it, but probably like three weeks after. So anyway, that's my,
like, that's my famous, I'm famous now 'cause I
was on HBO, not really. - [Lily] Your fifteen minutes of fame. - Yeah that's my like five seconds. What did they call it? - [Lily] Oh five seconds of fame. - Five seconds of whatever,
isn't that what they call it. - [Lily] Yeah. - Okay, so y'all have a great
week and come back next week with four skeins, any
cloth you want and our PDF and we will stay Happiness
Is Homemade together and I'm just gonna talk about stitching and we'll have fun. - [Lily] Bye everyone.
