(upbeat music) - Hello Flosstube, we're the
real housewives of Cross-stitch - I'm Priscilla
- And I'm Chelsea, - And Ronnie's at home.
- Cash is napping. (laughing) - And we're here to show you how to mount queen bee flower farm, just the truck portion, on sticky boards. - Sticky, sticky, sticky. So this is the long awaited
video for somebody looking to finish a project on
sticky board by Priscilla. So this is your chance to
gain all the information that she does in her basement, but not in the basement,
on the beautiful set. - Yes, we're still
gonna pack the workshop. - So, what do you start with? - Okay, so first of all, I measured my piece to see what size
I would like it to be. And I'm gonna cut it with
a guillotine trimmer. - So this is sticky board
that you can purchase at the Fat Quarter Shop. She's gonna use a five by seven piece. - Links are below. - Does it matter what side you cut? - I'll let you cut it since you're here. - Okay Lord have mercy. What am I cutting? - You cut it all the way up at the top. - Okay. - And then we need, what did I say? Five and a half by three, five and a half by three and a half. There you go. Oh that cut good. - Okay.
- There's a sharp. Five and a half by three and a half. - Okay. There's a first time for everything. These shirts weren't
made for that, you know? - Yeah, I know. (laughing) - This has a sticky side. You peel it off. I am going to add some
batting to this one. So we're using the batting squares. These are eight by eight squares. They're also available at the Fat Quarter Shop
and they're listed below. - These are what we use when
we did those string quilts. So we had some extra leftover that we'd be able to use at home. And also just prefacing this before we started any
of the finishing things, we ironed our stuff. So face down, stitches down
on a towel with, we use steam. You can, if you want to, but
steam out all of the wrinkles. So your piece has a nice,
finished look on it. - Sometimes I use batting and
sometimes I don't, usually on the smaller pieces I will use batting. - The batting can also
hide any imperfections- - Especially in the
round or oval finishes. - And the good thing about these pre-cut squares
is that they're 80/20. I've been told that if you just use cotton that your piece would
shift a little bit more. So this has kind of a grip to the fabric once you lay it on there, and it's not going to shift
when you're finishing it. So something wouldn't end up off center once you like flip it over
to finish it on the back. - Okay, so there's a sticky
side and it's the side with the printing and
you just peel it off. And I cut a piece of
batting that's the same size and I just put that on top of it - And this is just gonna give it some dimension, right?
- Right. And then I place it on the area. I'm bad about trimming it down
until I get it on my piece. So then I will trim it
a little bit closer. So I don't have as much bulk in the back. You could do this with a
rotary cutter or scissors. Okay, so I'm using a hot
glue gun to attach it. And what I do usually is I'll pick it up to make sure that everything
is right in the, I like to mount my stitching and have it close, like not a lot of edge, or black fabric or cross stitch fabric
showing I want it to be all about the design. So that looks perfect. So then I turn it over and I use hot glue. - So when you're
purchasing a hot glue gun, so there's those mini glue,
- Buy the good ones, yes. - Those mini glue guns, you will go through 20
before you're satisfied. So you invest in a good glue gun. I mean, you can use it
for any craft you do. Make sure that it's a good one that gets really hot. - So I just use a little
bit in the corner. - Now, this is the part
people get confused about. So you do the corners first. - Yes, and I fold it up
and I just press it down. I don't use a lot of glue because sometimes you want to take it off and you can peel it off if there's just a little bit of hot glue. - Okay. And if you're just using
a little, it's not gonna seep through and burn your hands, unless maybe you're- - Well you can still burn
your hands. (laughing) So it's, I've got the two sides done. And then I like to pick it
up again and just check. - And it wouldn't matter if people had like surged
their edges or anything. They could just glue it right?
- Right, right. - Okay, so now I've got
three of the sides done and I'm doing the fourth corner. And you just pull it a
little bit tight, but not extremely tight so that
you're distorting the fabric. - Right, or the sticky board that goes through the corners
- but you can see how, Oh, I'm supposed to
show it this way, sorry. You can see how it's all in the frame. So then I take the sides and I add a line of glue and I just fold it up and hold it until it sticks and press
it down with my fingers. Then I'll go over and do the other side. - Okay. - But you don't want
to yank it really hard so that you're distorting it. And these ends can be loose
because you can go back and attach them to make it,
your corners really crisp. - Okay. Yeah, a lot of people have
troubles with the corners. - And then I'll put a
little bit of extra glue underneath those sides
and then fold the ends up. And if you want to, in between, to check to make sure that, you know,
you're getting it all right. And flip it over. - Now, if you had a lot of excess fabric you're gonna trim, can
you trim at this point too if you still have more? - Yeah. - Well, I don't like to, I like to do it right when I lay the, the sticky board on top of it. - Okay. So then you have your corners and they're a little bit gappy. So you just take a little bit of glue. This glue gun's different from mine. It has a bigger tip, but
mine has a smaller tip and it's easier to get in there and you just pinch it together and that'll make your
corner so that it's perfect. And you just go around and
do all four sides like that. - Okay. - And it doesn't matter
if you get a little bit of glue on the back of your
fabric, just don't get it on the front because the back
of the, it's not gonna show. - Sorry.
- You're fine. - But then you can take your fingers and like press the corners like that to make them more
pointy and squared off. But there it is. And it's all on the sticky board. And then I'm gonna show
you what I do to add to the back of it. - All right, so we've
attached this stitching to the sticky board, where are we at now? - With a layer of batting underneath. And this is the frame, Kimberly had this, she had gotten it at Michaels. And I think that this is
gonna be really cute on here. But first we're going to add
a couple of layers of gingham. So we're gonna use a torn piece. So Chelsea is gonna tear this
for me to get a flat edge, 'cause sometimes when you get your fabric it's not exactly even and you got to tear it
first one time so that - So I have been tearing
fabric for something that we're going to, and I cut a, an inch off, so you get a perfect line
first, and then you'll cut to the size that you need. So this kind of evens out the fabric. - All right, do an inch for me then. She's a professional ripper now. 'Cause we only only ripped
like 300 pieces of fabric to go to the retreat. - Just a little snip at the end and pull. - And make sure you do it at
the end, not in the middle - Found that out the hard way. And that gives you kind
of that roughly look that. - Old and crusty, right? - Yes. - So sometimes I just glue it on and sometimes I gather it with a thread and Needle and I have
these big, soft sculpture doll needles that I like to
use because they're easy. So, and I use button and
Kraft thread or something and I just do a big gathering strip. - Can you move in the frame? So she's just taking her
needle and flip-flopping the fabric back and forth onto the needle. - And you get a really
cute gathered piece when you do it that way. When you do it with the glue it's a little bit less foofy I think - But if you don't have the needle, you don't have the thread, you can certainly just
whatever you want to gather. So you'd put a little
glue, gather a piece, put a little glue, gather a piece. And this is a rustic look, so you're gonna have threads that you're gonna have to
trim off if you don't wanna. Okay. - And then you cut off the salvage too, so that doesn't show. Those are such pretty scissors. We don't have good scissors like that. We have those ugly orange ones. Okay, so this might not
be enough for what I want, so I might have to do another strip. No, that's good, it's good. - Okay, so what I do
usually is I lay it down like that and make sure that
I have enough to fill it up. - And then I'll attach the two, once I get it to how big I want it, I'll attach the two ends together. - Do you want a little bit more? - A little bit more what? - Gingham.
- No, I think we're good, because we're going to add a backing of the black. So you just want to try
to get it kind of even so I'm gonna flip the gingham
over or the stitch piece over and then I'm gonna glue the
gingham to the back of it. But first I'm gonna just
knot this a little bit. Cut off some of these extra threads. Okay, so then you just place it on here. - Now I usually start towards a corner of the bottom and just
put a little bit of glue. You can always go back and add more if you feel like you need it. And just be careful not to get it in it until you want it in it. - And where you put your
glue along your stitch piece is gonna tell you how much shows, how much peaks through
the back of the project. - And you can kind of even out
your gathers as you go along I'm gonna probably need a glue stick. - Okay. - And I tried to do this
kind of quickly at home. I'm going a little bit slower
here so that if I turn it over and it's a little bit
wonky that I can fix it. So hopefully it's not gonna be wonky. - The way the glue hasn't dried yet, you can just replace it. - Mhm.
- Okay. - Let's just take a peak. And you can pull it up on it especially if you don't use a
whole lot to make it bigger, if you need to make it bigger. You cut off your threads. I just pulled that up a little bit and I'm moving it up a little
bit because it was too short. So hot glue is very forgiving like that if you don't use a lot. - That plus the batting underneath gave it a lot of dimension. That looks good. - Okay, so now I'm gonna take
some of this black gingham and I'm gonna cut another
piece of the sticky board and then this will go on top. I'm gonna add some more
glue to the back of that. We are using another piece of sticky board and this is the five by seven size. And we're gonna use
this for the background and I'm gonna attach the
black gingham to this. And this is the black gingham. Do you want to peel that a little bit? - And typically you
like your flat boards to be kind of a neutral
color, so you can swap out the seasons or things
that you do with it. So it's not, so each time you're not swapping out the backdrop. - Mhm.
- Okay. - Okay, so I like my
gingham fabrics on the bias, so I lay it upside down, and then I just place
this, I find the squares and I place it right on there. - Okay. - And then I cut around it. - You keep any last scrap because you can use it for everything. Even the sticky board scraps you can keep to help build up projects in the future if you needed them. - If I have to put two pieces
of sticky board together I use the pieces like
this to like run a bridge between them. Okay, so we're gonna do
it again with the corners - And this would be maybe a good- - Yes, if you're gonna try
this for the first time, do your fabric first, before
you do your stitching. - And again, just a small
dot to keep it in place, but you could rip it out if you needed to. - And then just fold it up. It's like you're wrapping a package. - I haven't seen you
wrap the package lately. we usually get just the bag at Cayman, so. (laughing) - I think I wrapped a
few gifts at Christmas, a few too many. And just fold it down
and make sure it's flat. And you can always add
glue anywhere you need it. Like right there. - Okay. - Just align the glue and fold it up. - Now say this were an
ornament or something where the back might show, you could put a piece of felt on the back, right? Or another piece of fabric- - Or another piece of sticky
board with fabric on it if you wanted to really make it. - Yeah, so there are ways to finish it, but if we're putting it on the back of a frame like this, we don't see that.
- We're don't worry about it. Right.
- So why waste the fabric or - the sticky board, yeah.
- Or the time. - But ornaments and things like that, a piece of fabric, or a piece
of felt would be beautiful. - So there you go. Then we take the piece
that has the ruffle on it and put it on there. And then I take hot glue and center it on there. - Just slap it on. - And the hot glue is very forgiving so you can move it around a little bit. And it's fun because just the corners are peeking out. Wrong way, sorry. So then to attach it to this frame we're just gonna open up the clip and stick the gingham board back there. - And then your stitching isn't clipped. You're not worried about
your stitching being wrecked. It's on that backboard, that's beautiful. - That's all done. So for me, this is the perfect
thing that I could change it out with the seasons. And there would be different
fabrics and different trims. And I would probably add a bow at the top but this is a good way to start out. And it's cute. It was a quick piece to stitch and it turns out really cute. - It's a frame. And then you could stick this on a Hutch, in a vignette. It doesn't have to be up on the wall. So you're not putting a
ton of holes in the wall. It's something you can
incorporate into all your decor. - And it has the stand back here, but if you want it to be more
upright, you get an easel. So it's cute. And this is the Queen Bee, the truck from Queen Bee Flower Farm, my collaboration with hands on design. I draw the chalkboards, she makes the charts and that's it. So thank you for joining us. - You can follow us. - Oh, yes, you can follow us. On Instagram,
@PriscillaBlain, @Chelsea356. Priscilla's2000 on Facebook, and Priscillas2000.blogspot.com
where you can see more of everything like this. So come join us and join us in our stitching with
the Housewives group. (upbeat music)
(sewing machine whirring)
