Saltbox Stitcher [Episode 10] "Serious WIPE"

[Music] you you hey Saul buck stitcher Carol I'm back I always say oh I'm sorry it's been so long and I don't know it just it just takes me a while to like get everything going for a video so I'm sorry or not I don't know maybe we're nuts we'll say I'm sorry it is what it is so um I did have a few people that have reached out to me and kindly said where are you I'm here I'm in Jacksonville I can't even say it's been a crazy few months I I know one thing for sure is that I delayed of having a video a little bit because I really wanted to finish the Eliza Mitchell sampler which I did and I'll show you that in a minute but um you know I kind of feel like if I have one really often I'm not gonna have anything to show you and I like to have it all about stitching I mean I could spend hours talking about my kids you know you know that gets boring too so we're all here for stitching and so that's kind of you know why I wait til I can have enough to show you so I think I'm gonna start by showing you a few vintage these are things I did eons ago I don't know the first one I know this is cross-eyed cricket cross-eyed cricket was really popular late 80s mid 80s 90s I mean it's still popular so I didn't I don't mean to me it's not anymore but it was really appealed to me because it was kind of had a lot of similar to what my style some folk art and all that kind of stuff so anyway there was a alphabet sampler I never made the whole sampler but I did do different elements or different letters of the sampler I think I did one for my sister that said like welcome on one side or home on one side not oh my I don't know what it said it was a little pillow and she hung it on her closet her closet door but I can't remember what but anyway open and closed it was one thing on one side one thing on another boy I'm really rambling anyway I did this for my daughter Elle was obviously for Liam and I did her name and it was a little purse it's been around the world and back I mean this child used it a lot and I should make one for Camille I don't even know if they still make these this was pre-made the first or the little tote was pre-made but girls you know when they're like four or five they love to collect stuff and she used to put those little pocket dolls in here so anyway that was fun I know it's cross-eyed cricket I can't tell you what number and what that but it's one of the ones that they did that had an alphabet this is another one I did the frame is really beat up I'm thinking it's falling off of the wall a few times cause it's I keep it now in the toy room I think it's also cross-eyed cricket guess I was into sheep still like sheep I think they're really cute the Lord is my shepherd I was cute and I hang it now in the I call it the toy room it's got the bunk beds and the toys for the kids when they come to stay we had a whole weekend of kids we had Camilla on Friday night and Elijah Camille's 3 almost for Elijah's five almost six and when you have them together they can kind of bicker with each other so I had one one night and one the other night so he was a weekend of play these are two others that I did and these um I have no idea I have I just have no idea where they were from but they're bunnies and I still think they're adorable yeah mr. and mrs. bunny or brother and sister who knows just thought they were really cute when I originally did my daughter's nursery it was that country blue and country pinkish rose and then that kind of green those were popular colors so to me these are kind of timeless I still have them out Easter ish Easter time ish but during the year they hang in the toy room so those that's what I have for vintage I have some other things but I'll show them another time and then I thought I'd chase my two framed pieces that I got back and now I had these framed at heart's desire which is my sister's local native workshop in Wichita Kansas and the owner is Deb and she does a fabulous job framing I've taken things there or sent her things and then picked him up off there or I've taken things and then had her send them to me so this is the first one and I think y'all well I know I showed this it was a mania start and then I finished it during last year and then I just got it back from being framed this is Sara Turner and this is by oh my I'll think of it in a minute it's an older chart and my mind just went blank and I didn't write it in my notes anyway this is the same designer that did this big one back here the Lord is The Good Shepherd I can see it I just can't think of it so that was one that I got back from being framed I actually have four others that are in transit they called me Saturday and said they were putting them in there I think they're gonna come ups so hopefully I'll do another video in the next couple weeks because I'll get those probably today or tomorrow and then I'll have four more framed ones to show you this is the other one I had framed from heart's desire this is a MPEG and this was by the Scarlet house and I did a silk conversion one of the gals I know from Orlando who lives to own a quilt shop I follow her on Instagram Carol Craig oh and she was at the attic and decided to do a silk conversion so I had the Attic send me the silks - so this is a on peg by the Scarlet house all framed I like these primitive frames there by east side moldings and not every shop that does framing carries them but the one in Wichita does so NK the Scarlet house the next frame thing I wanted to show you I know a lot of people are doing a stitch along with matters choice Jen Lee from quirks and stitches I think she's kind of hosting or I think it was had to do with her birthday and age doesn't matter I did not stitch this a friend of mine stitched it for me as a gift but I did frame it and I framed it myself I didn't do a great job but it's satisfactory I actually got the frame at Hobby Lobby one of the main problems I have with doing my own framing is well the stretching I think is difficult because I pin I don't lace but when you order a frame and you give them a measurement and let's say you measure let's say you measure okay I want a half an inch or I want an inch or whatever and I never know whether to measure the outs this opening here or whether to measure the inside opening that includes that little whatever it's called the little extra that they give you - that holds the actual piece but this is matters choice this is by I think this is Kathy Barrack but a lot of people are doing this now and my friend did it it's kind of a blackish blue I think it's blackboard by general art I think that's what thread she used but I love it I keep it but anyway what I started to say is sometimes when I order a frame and then I measure once I get the frame and it's sometimes different than what I ordered I've never really taken any of them back because they're close enough but I feel like it's not as precise as I'd like it to be so anyway those are my vintage and my framed pieces the other thing that I I will show you my finishes in just a second but the other thing I wanted to announce drumroll is the winner because last time if you'll remember at the end of January kitten stitcher decided to do a sale on charts that I had picked out as my favorites now I don't own all of them nor have I stitched all of them i stitched some but not all of them and so anyway she wanted to gift me for doing that with a $50 credit or gift certificate or whatever to her shop and I I just didn't want to take that I thought that was too much so I decided to use her 50 plus I would put in 50 so whoever wins would get $100 credit or gift certificate to kitten stitcher calm to her shop and so I cut up I had my husband prints and I cut up all the I can't do random number generator and that's like way out of my comfort zone and I'm sure it's just an app and you put it in and then you type in all the names but I am I do just as well with a scissors and so then I drew a name and that name is Yvette Gonzalez so Yvette you are the winner of a hundred dollar gift certificate to kitten stitcher comm so if you will send me a private message I will give you the special code and then you can email El Teresa at I think her email is Shakespeare's pedlar at AOL not a hundred percent sure of that so um when you private message me and I give you the code I'll also give you the email and then you can pick out what you want and send those in an email to her and she will send him out to you how fun I think that's great okay the next this may not be that long of a video because like I said I just feel like I really I haven't had that much to talk about I've mentioned before when I work on a sampler I generally will work on it till it's finished I think if I get bored or kind of Nick about a sampler especially a bigger sampler if I put it down I'm probably not gonna want to pick it up again um that's just me I know a lot of people put things in timeout and I actually have put something in timeout I put and they send in timeout for a little while that's not a big deal to me because I know I want to eventually finish it I'm just not super super happy with the colors of the floss on the color of linen that I picked so I'm going to a number of retreats where I can have the opportunity to really look at some threads and compare and so I think I'm gonna put it in timeout until I can do that and then I want to pick out some colors that are close to the what's called for but maybe a little bit more subdued I feel like some of the colors are kind of bright and that's not me so anyway so that's why I've put that in timeout but generally what I was saying was I we'll work on a sampler until it's finished it's just me so the first one that I finished did I show you this already I don't know if I showed you this I know I put it on Instagram but I finished the pink house sampler sorry this got wrinkled again when I put it in a stack to show this is the pink house sampler and this is by plum Street and she has Mary Jane Carver 1899 which I think was a relative I don't claim to be any kind of an expert about samplers I like when they look old some are reproductions and some are designed to look like reproduction if it's designed to look like a reproduction I don't have a problem putting my own relatives name if it's an actual reproduction I will generally put the name of the girl that originally stitched it in other words copy not copy but mirror or mimic the the actual antique this one right here is a blackbird and the original one I want to say was Louisa bill but I'm not sure about the name of that but it's in a book by Blackbird and Blackbird put their own name of a relative and so they did not put the original girl who stitched its name and I think since they changed then I felt okay changing it myself so that's kind of an exception I guess I don't know but the original i I think its Louisa Bell maybe it's something like that they made their say Hana Lavinia my great-grandmother was Anna Lavonia which is so close that I decided to put my great-grandmother and the year of her birth which was 1869 1889 I don't know anyway this one is my grandfather's mother her maiden name was Fields and then when she married my great-grandfather the last name Thompson she was born in 1866 if I showed you this already I'm sorry I need to probably watch my most recent video before I do one that would be painful anyway so that's one of the things like the samplers I finished I really enjoyed that one I thought it was really fun wasn't my very very favorite I have some samplers that absolutely I am like a dog with a bone I just want to finish them because I love them I think they're wonderful and in fact one of the pieces that I have coming back from being framed is Rachel howl by the Scarlet house and I know I've showed you that before has the big birds and the beautiful red flowers all the way around the border and so I'm anxious to get that one back from being framed but the next one and this this sampler got a little tedious [Music] it doesn't have a lot of colors and so in that respect it felt like it was a little bit boring to stitch because I'm you know all of it was kind of monochromatic there was quite a bit of over one which I've told you before is not my favorite because it's slow-going for me because I'm with a hoop or key snap whatever because over one I think has you have to have that really tight so it's very difficult to stitch it in hand and have your stitches show up even halfway nice so anyway I did finish this I don't know I post it on Facebook I mean Instagram it's been within the last couple weeks and I'm so pleased with it that it's done I think once it's framed and I I think it's gonna be one of the next few that I said to get framed it and when I send this I'm gonna send this one to total framing which is in Virginia I know there's other people on Instagram that use total framing they're very good about sending you text with their choices you know and if you say well none of those work for me then they'll send you more choices and one of the gals I it's sherry and Terry and I believe sherry is a stitcher and that and the one the gal from heart's desire and Wichita she's a stitcher I just feel personally like if a stitcher frames my piece they're gonna understand you know following a linen thread to straighten it and stretching it and all of that maybe I'm wrong I don't know but that's just my personal opinion so this is I think that another one Sierra Turner was Mildred and Mildred I'm thinking that just came in my brain never do that you're like cannot think of something cannot think of some and then you'll like random at a completely different time oh that's the answer people but I know it happens to other people besides me so other people are notes too anyway this is Eliza Mitchell by la-dee-da here's the pattern this is the antique on the front of the pattern I believe you know sometimes it's hard to tell and sometimes it's real obvious which ones are the antiques and which are the ones that they've stitched as a reproduction first of all wasn't thrilled with the fabric this is 40-count week's confederate gray and the 40-count just there's a lot of variation in the strands of the actual threads that make up the linen and some of them are like as thin as a hair I mean they're really so you really first of all you have to really be careful with your count because it's easy to stitch three threads instead of two and you can see what I mean the colors are kind of you know greens and tans when I originally pulled the colors I thought oh well there's some Reds there's very little pinkish red there's some on those flowers and there's a little bit on that middle border there's quite a bit of over one there's six six lines of over one plus you have her name and the year what I did and on 40-count I feel like I kind of have permission to do this my own permission I love when people come up with their own idea and then they make their own rules and then they force themselves to follow their own room I love it I have a friend like that she's like well I'm doing this you know quilt and bla bla bla bla and here's the rules and I can't do that because that wouldn't be father's like didn't you set up the rules yourself well I guess I'm allowed to do that too anyway on the named Eliza Mitchell age 11 years 1824 I did a full cross on those over one and it got so tedious and I was losing stitches they were kind of bumpy and I just was like I this is not and I'm not gonna rip out over what that is like torture so when I did the actual verse I just did a ten stitch which is half so consequently the name is darker because obviously it's a full cross and up here it's a half across the verse I'm okay with that because her name is what I would want to emphasize anyway now if I'd done it the opposite and did the whole verse with a full cross and her name with a half cross I I don't think I'd like that so to me it almost looks like it's just a different a darker thread rather than oh that's a full crossing that the half cross but I think once it's framed it's gonna look really old it's gonna look like an antique you know the flowers are kind of funky it was there was a lot of stitching to this a lot of stitching so it took me a little while to finish it I think when I I started this in mania and I did a portion of the border and a portion of this year and this inner border is very similar to the outer border on Sarah red red fear it's got these flowers that have like a double let's see you can see it maybe better on this it's like double there's like one row and then the second row behind it so just it just is tedious but I love the this basket of flowers right here to me that would make a nice small right there that's really pretty but it's done praise the Lord it's not because I was like over it so then I said okay since Alan got a little tedious maybe I should change up my whole strategy on samplers it sort of made me have wipe what is wipe wipe is whip Envy WIP NV e wipe or whippy because I see other people that I'm thinking okay now they're probably not stitching one sampler at a time they're probably doing you know two or three at a time I could not handle doing a rotation that's just not me and a random rotation I would be nuts nuttier because I don't I don't want a rotation that tells me okay today you have to stitch da da da because I guess I'm just I don't know self-centered crazy I don't know to where I don't I don't I don't want some app telling me what this did so in my pursuit of how to do my next few samplers and combined with whip Envy and combined with I will call it sed stitching easily distracted I decided to start two or three or four or five manageable okay so one of the reasons I like to stitch a sampler continually is because I've mentioned before that way I'm kind of like I remember you know I memorize the symbols for each color thread and I see a triangle and I know that's whatever and so it's easy to like progress because you get into emotion you finish motifs and you know that's kind of accomplishment you know what and I always do my border first always because I like the idea of knowing that it's gonna meet before I do segments if because there's been times where my border didn't meet and so I figure okay if I did a section or a middle band with motifs and I come around and my border didn't meet then you have the dilemma do I take out those no you don't so then you have to just make it work and I don't like that so all of that to say you guys want to see so you gotta listen to my rambling some of you're like why did we ask for this all that to say first of all I started Red Deer and I've talked about Red Deer over and over and I said it's high time this is one of those where the picture and I think Gigi are for the most part puts the picture of the antique and I've mentioned before it's easy to look at this and say oh really not very cute but it is trust me you have to have sampler vision so here is the start of sorry for the wrinkles but not really because I stitch in hand this is the start of the red deer the border is very symmetrical and that you know once you count a whole section it stays true to it and you can just go go go now because I didn't want to show you just a border I did a couple flowers this one actually is I think that's lexington green so it kind of fades in but that's that's fine so I did a couple of flowers so that you could get the idea that this is really gonna be a beautiful sampler and to do it Nicole's needlework she's so good at this floss here are all of the colors so there's gonna be some vibrant colors and the deer is in my favorite here it is schoolhouse red and on that linen which by the way is I can't remember 36 or 40 I think it's 36 count cedar plank by lakeside Linens pretty very pretty so number one I started I worked on that and I'm keeping very good track in my journal I worked on that for maybe 2 or 3 nights I didn't want to switch because of my past way of doing things I I made myself switch which is OK and keep in mind I use rings and I put a little thing like this which I got at Joanne's I do it in pencils as red-ear sampler it's in the paper scrapbooking section where they have all this good type stuff and then when I'm done with it I race and I use them again so that next one that I decided to do is and this is where I get stitching easily distracted because if I see somebody that I follow that does a lot of samplers and they have this finished and framed and on their wall Brenda I get like have that and I have it kitted and so all I have to do is Serge the edges and I can start that that's what goes on in my brain so the next one is Sara Unwin now this one was a stitch along through country sampler I think she released this at market I think not a hundred percent sure I know she released a section of it I saw somebody that there was another pattern that's just you know if you want to do just part of a sampler I like that idea I think that's cool but because my last one that I did did not have a red house I was in red house withdrawal yes I do have a red house my house is red brick so I was like okay number one there isn't any over one and this so and there isn't any over one in Red Deer so these were kind of my rules that I set up myself that I had to follow so Red Deer has no over one sir Unwin has no over one I don't think now all of this is just straight crosses there may be an over one a little bit in a motif but that's not a big deal so and it has a red house so this is sampler number two that I started Sarah Unwin and this is how far I've gotten so the borders done all the way around this is going to be fairly big this is 36 count it was a kit [Music] vintage pearl barley by lakeside lemons I love lakeside and after I I like weeks and I've done a lot on weeks but that high count 40-count contrite or Cray was like not my favorite excuse me born and raised go Cardinals anyway Sarah Unwin I went ahead and did a couple flowers just for y'all I never used to say y'all come both my kids say y'all y'all look and see it so you guys could see it so it's going to be gorgeous and if you want to see it finished frame to go to Brenda sampler stitcher on Instagram it's gorgeous that's sampler number two Oh floss toss once again love the red this particular red is lancaster red which is probably a second favorite by weeks the schoolhouse red that I used in that I'm using in Red Deer is gentle art a little bit of pink beautiful greens it's a deal I'm doing it Sarah Unwin so I thought well it's too enough you know it's like you know candy M&Ms are - enough wood three even be better to eat three M&Ms not me I had to stop buying I'd like to have a little bit of chocolate around my house not that I need it because I don't but occasionally everybody likes just for most people for normal people like a little bit of chocolate so the best for me because I try to follow WW formerly Weight Watchers is to have the little candy kisses pre-wrapped you just have a certain amount eat - it's like manageable but my husband forgets where the trashcan is so he grabs a group of them then he takes the wrapper and sticks it in his pocket so that I do laundry and I have all these little silver balls this is my life this is my life that I live I have all these little aluminum foil silver balls in the wash I can't I can't I just can't so I started buying a menem's a little bit of chocolate but M&Ms are really hard just to have one or two so then you end up six or seven or eight or nine and that's like I can't do that so if I might candy kisses I stash them and I put M&Ms out for him and hopefully I'm not tempted the next one that I said okay let's let's let's go for three I did four but I meant three I thought the right ice that's getting harder to do so once again I have whip n V stitching easily distracted and I saw faith Rigsby Carolina stitcher and she just finished or she working on I think she's working on Martha PUD Z by scarlet house and Nicole's needlework also did this and framed it so it's like why is this languishing in my pile so I decided I would start it doesn't have a red house but it has an Adam and Eve has some great Reds why not so this one I started last night and this one let's see where I am this is how I started because I usually start in the upper left-hand corner so this is how far I got last night on the border which the border is consistent by each side so in other words once you count one side you can go go go but then when you get to the next side you have to recount because it may be different this is actually what it calls for which is the vintage autumn gold my lakeside linens and this is 40 count it's dark it's darker than a sand dune this is actually a double dyed lemon it's gorgeous and every when I start stitching it and I'm stitching it with new point silks which is what it calls for and I started stitching it and I was like this red is a little it's a little pinky but then I realized on the pattern there's two rows of red with a green in between so once I finish the first go round the second and third will be just following it I won't even have to look at the chart that's mindless you know you just go go go so and that's why it appears darker in the picture because it has two rows of red with green in between so the color is kind of blend so hmm mystery enough should I go for four well let's just see this one I actually did not think oh I'm gonna start this this one I went to a stitching group and at the time I was working on Eliza Mitchell and I was like there is no way I want to take this with me because 40-count I knew it would be hard people would be talking and it was like okay I need to start something simpler so hold on the other thing I wanted to say about Martha putzie is it has a little tiny bit of over one but not a whole lot so anyway the next one that I had started in my stitching group was one by Brenda Gervais sampler Hill I've had this for a while and I had it kitted up with all of the called for and it actually calls for a Lenin called corn silk and mine corn silk was very yellow-green but I thought well I'm I'm gonna try it and then the border the vine borer they post around was like avocado I think by classic color works and I just on that yellow green it was just too much yellow green so I thought well I really want it to look like the picture which is more muted so I changed a lot of the colors and at some point when I finish it I will give you a list of what I changed because right now I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm gonna stick with what I've changed it to but I went with colors that were a little bit more muted more my colors I like the blue I stayed with that I think I changed I know I changed I've changed the outer border to endive the leaves to putty so when I get all that done but here's my start so I'm working on just I've gone all the way around there's a bee skip in the middle here so you don't really have to have your border meet and it's a manageable size it actually looks light here but it's a it's a little bit darker so I think it'll go fairly fast but so obviously I changed the linen to Oldtown blend by arnar 36 count and I'm changing some of the colors because I want it to look more like the picture so and it has a house it's not a red house but as red roofs so that kind of counts and then the other one that I'm going to start I've wanted to do this for a while and this is Hale 36 count ale I picture this Plus and it's this fabulous pattern samplers by Scarlet house so I'm gonna start this one in the next couple days and then what I'm going to know here's the colors for that the red and this one is Ruby slipper and then it has the black which is black licorice it's very pretty um now all that to say that's probably that's probably a rotation but I still have choices you know like okay let's say it's a night we go to my grandson's baseball game I don't even start stitching until 9:00 o'clock I usually stitch to a one-ish sometimes 1:30 sometimes midnight it just depends on you know if my eyes are continuing to see and not on me and you know I might decide I'd rather work on one of the smaller ones or maybe I'm close to you know getting the border finished and so I'm like okay I don't have a high only a few hours but I'm still gonna work on a border so those are all like in my head that'll make up my choices so that's where I am with all that and then the other one that I'm gonna work on and I've showed you this before this is Jessie and me Esther Addison this does have some over one and but it has a red house and I have quite a bit of this finished but not enough to say even half but the borders finished part of the top motifs so done in the house is done and this is done on I think a lakeside lemon or maybe not sure it's 36 count I know that so that'll be my other part my rotation if I get a chance I'm also gonna start Mary Lynn Lee and this one I just watched Nicole's needlework and I have watched her in fact I went back and watched all of she's one of the ones I watched from the very you know I jumped in in the middle then went back and watched all of them from the beginning because she does much of the same designs as I like she loves samplers she does black birds she does scarlet house she does some Scarlet Letter she's she's prolific stitcher and I watched her it was her most recent video and she showed this was one of the ones that she had finished and eventually wants to get framed she had some she showed that were gone she was immediately gonna get framed and then some that she was showing that she eventually wants to get framed so anyway this one's not large it does have some over one the fabrics that I'm using is 40-count meadow Roux this is too big of a piece but I'm gonna cut it down once I get the border done and then it's bail SWA and one NPI bail swab I classic color works oh and there's also a Gloriana so I think there's a Gloriana I this this is the same threads that are also on another scarlet house and I had them in the same bag and the same thing so what am I going to talk about next I'm very getting too old this would be imagining that I'm gonna be stitching all this stuff but I'm still I'm hanging on to hope so I'm not gonna show you all this because you will think I'm nuts but I went ahead and went through some things that I'd really like to stitch this myself I'd like to stitch this spring and I some of my head kitted some I went ahead and kitted and you know I cut the linen to size I pulled all the threads if I didn't have them all and I Serg the edges of the linen I've had a serger food eons and I put them in a basket so this is my basket of and a lot some of them are small I'll pick up you and show you this is with my needle and thread Pete parade that would be fun to stitch and some of these I might take with me like when I go on a retreat manageable this is needle and thread Brenda Gervais this is scattered seed spring gathering and some of these would go fairly fast this is life on sampler Hill scarlet house may change that to red I saw somebody had changed it to red or not I don't know this is Lady Liberty by with a Newland thread this is not very big it looks like it would be bigger but it's not and this somebody had written a comment that they were really disappointed I hadn't started this yet American sampler but I want to start that because I want that done how I work on that for sure by summer um here's another sampler Hester Kingdom Hingham Hester Kingdom I would service yeah test her kingdom by samplers revisited red house the Reds are sticking out this is also done with needlepoint silks and this one also does not have any over won the verse and all that is one over two and the last one I'll show you is another one that's a red house no over one Jane Stanwix also by samplers revisited this was a kid I got some country sampler so those are my plans I thought I would insert a couple pictures of quilts that I have done over the years these are two of the primitive applique quilts or some of my favorite the one of them is by Jan paddock and the other one that has that's a little bit bigger um is by country threads and they are no longer in business I know she has a blog and if you would send her a letter she might or an email she might still be able to give you the patterns it was a block of the month it was cold summer summer block of the haunts something like that by country threads so I'll insert those here and then I have a couple other quotes small ones these are pictures of my kits that I got from Temecula this this one I have cut out just need to piece it this one I just got I'm like in the last couple days I also have one cut out that is a kit got it all cut out put in a little tin and it is this one scrappy Chevron looks like my brain every one of these is a different sampler that my brain is going oh yes we can do that oh yes we can do that what's good let's get it wanted to say one thing about market I thought market looked fabulous I still have more videos that I want to watch from market i pre-ordered people said what did you buy what did you buy i pre-ordered all of the width I needle and thread her designs are she's very very creative she's probably one of the most one of the most creative people in the needlework market one there's more than one but she's one of them so i pre-ordered all of those i pre-ordered I think every one of the new kathy barek love those love the big stockings I have collected some of her long stockings and I have yet to do one but I think they're fabulous i pre-ordered some of the plum street I think a couple of the plum Street maybe had been club pieces and so I already have them i pre-ordered all of the new the three new black bird books one of them I actually have a pack the pattern but it has other things in the book so you've got to have that I will order kitten stitchers new pieces I think her saviors praise is absolutely to die for fabulous there again one of the most creative people out there and she's my BFF if you look at the border on a saviours praise and just look at all the elements that she has put just in the border it it's amazing it's amazing so I know there's other sampler patterns out there I am going to in April I'm going to the dyeing distance retreat at the end of April in May I'm going back to the Midwest cross-stitch retreat in June I'm on a waiting list for a country sampler retreat I don't know if I'll get into that one in August I got into the Attic summer school which I am over the moon about because that is definitely on my bucket list and then in October I'm also going to the Midwest cross-stitch retreat and that one will be in Iowa not in Minneapolis so I know that I'll see samplers at the attic I'll see samplers that dine tested so I did not pre-order any of those because you know I know I'll see lots and lots of samplers so that's kind of where I am um I did get I got I got a couple of patterns I don't have them out here oh I also pre-ordered a couple of the hands across the sea yet to do one but love those charts I think they're fabulous the other thing I wanted to show you and if you watch niccola's hands across the sea that tape the table makes the noise so I'm sorry if you watch her floss tube she one of them she talked about like needle scissors accoutrements that go with stitching and I watched her video and immediately after I got done watching the video I went to Amazon and ordered slang this is the most fabulous lamp and being since I'm going to all the retreats I'm going to I decided I had to have it it does have a plug that plugs in here so it's not like it's battery or it's you need a plug it's by daylight it was around $70 ish she talks a lot about it and I think it also has a connection for European plugs it has this magnifying glass here with a hot spot ooh let me see I can do this right here this i specially wanted for doing over one and it goes this moves and this moves so it's perfect for traveling I mean you can stick that in your suitcase I use it every night and sometimes when you have an overhead light on it's by daylight sometimes when you have an overhead light the person in the same room gets a little bit of glare if you don't have it angled exactly right and so this one I can set on my chair or my table by my chair and angle it so that you know it goes so it not only goes this way it goes this way so you can angle it however you need to highly recommend it it's fabulous let's see the only other thing that's going on and I will try to have another video in about well let's say two weeks maybe two weeks because I want to show you those four pieces that I had framed and we'll kind of look at where I am on my rotation that's not a rotation my non rotation rotation I guess when you're crazy you're happy I don't know because I think I'm a fairly happy person but I guess it's because I'm crazy um and not to insult anybody who really is Chris anyway um one of the other things we have going on is because I have four new pieces coming not a lot of wall space not a lot of wall space over this way see if I can do this okay in the hallway and I think it shows a little bit on my Christmas video I think my husband took a hallway shot because I had all my Santa's on top of I had a red shelf it's fairly big that my husband had built for me years and years ago I've had it in the kitchen I've had it in the hallway I've had it different places around the house and I decided I wanted to put it in the bedroom and then I could hang a quilt on it and you know put other little stuff up on the top houses and dolls and all that kind of good stuff so when he took it down it entailed some fixing of the wall because you know when you have something like that that big especially ain't strong enough to hold quilts you practically have to use you know the giant heavy-duty Molly bolt things you know whatever they are and so he's been patching the wall and he just repainted it so the wall in the hallway and the hallway goes from our main living area down to the bathroom in bedrooms and I'm going to put say a cross stitch down there that's not really sampler so for example this one I probably will put in the hallway it's it's has an alphabet has a red house but it's not what I would technically call a sampler same with the one that's up here and then and I have other ones like that that are black bird and adorable I love them but I want to do that whole wall in crust egde then whatever comes off of these few walls I'm gonna replace with just reproduction samplers I say reproduction because some of them may not be reproduction but they have a sampler it's not Mildred Mildred it's Margaret and Margaret it just hit me so the one I showed you that's a very very beginning Sara Turner is Margaret martyr finally the brain kicked it anyway so this one will stay this one will stay and I probably will rearrange because I have other ones on other walls I have ones on easels but I'm gonna try to you know it's like rearranging the furniture sometimes you just have to get a new look so that's what I'm gonna do so that's one of the changes I'm gonna make I think that's all I have I'm looking at my notes I think I've kept you long enough the crazy lady thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for subscribing my husband said well I think I owe you a couple hundred a couple hundred but more than one steak dinner and I said well how about when I get to a certain number you just buy me a new couch he's like so keep subscribing I need a new guy anyway it's all fun so anyway I hope you have a great stitching week I hope you survive your weather it's been cold here for Jacksonville I think today's in the 40s and we're supposed to have maybe a freeze tonight but it'll be back to 75 or 80 on Saturday so I don't mind it hot as long as it's not humid when it starts getting really humid it's got to be inside but I hope you have a great stitching week hope life is going well for you and if it is just praise the Lord love you oh my gosh I forgot one more thing I mentioned at the end of my video in whatever first part J and whenever I did that one about my husband's shaker boxes and we had a tremendous response and we thank you thank you thank you thank you he is in the process and he ordered the wood he ordered the wood he's you know getting the garage all set up some of the days when it's really cold he not really out in the garage working but he's definitely working toward getting the boxes I wanted to show you he has 6 he's going to have six sizes this is a five this is what about sizing my head so that's a five this no this is a five this is a four smaller than a five and he'll be selling them individually maybe as a set I'm not sure what all that's to be worked out so five no let's see five four three this is an acht which is a fancy way of saying 0 this is 1 2 3 4 5 pull back a little bit so you can see all of them ah 1 2 3 4 5 so he's in the process of setting up a website and email and all that stuff if you're still interested and he hasn't determined the price but it's going to be competitive with some of the other people that make shaker boxes go to saltbox Woodworks dot-com that's his website and on in the website it says if you want to be notified or to sign up for emails or something to that effect he's gonna shoot me I'm not quoting it exactly saltbox Woodworks comm go to the click the word says the information or to find out anyway and then when he has available you'll be notified so he's working on him we've had some other crazy stuff my daughter's husband he's in the Naval Reserves as well as a full-time job and he was gone for I don't know week week and a half during that time her plumbing backed up and so my husband was over there helping and so there's been a lot of stuff that's kind of you know gotten in the way but he's and it took a long time for him to get the wood cuz it's all cherry and he ordered most of it so anyway didn't want to forget about the box that's I anyway so that's salt box wood works calm just go to that if you have any questions that should be able to answer it so thank you for your interest and hopefully you'll be able to get a box eventually or two or three or four Thanks bye [Music] [Music]

Channel: Saltbox Stitcher

Views: 16,387

Keywords: Cross Stitch Sampler, Floss Tube, Antique Samplers, Cross Stitch, Carol, Saltbox Stitcher

Id: -RbbTM3Hzh8

Length: 71min 26sec (4286 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2019