Saltbox Stitcher [Episode 24] "This and That" ... "Stitching in Hand... the Sewing Method

[Music] you hey it's Carol saltbox stitcher back for video number 24 it's June 16th it's a Tuesday and I think yesterday was three weeks ago that I did a video I think anyway um I'm back this is kind of a quickly thrown together I thought I didn't have very much to show but sometimes when you start putting stuff together you're like oh I guess I have more than I thought so and I can always show you stuff I want a stitch that maybe I have kidded or not kidded but just that I want to stitch so there'll be a little bit of that too so this is a video about cross stitch and a tiny tiny bit about quilting so I guess let's get started it's hot here in Florida sunny this week ring last week you have nothing to talk about you always talk about the weather right so I did have to finishes since I last saw you but first I want to talk about my cataract surgery just briefly so I won't bore you with all of it I did have the first I done my right eye and was scheduled to have the second eye down a week later I postponed the second one because I just was really having trouble adjusting to the new lens my eye itself is fine I'm not having excessive watering or anything like that but I am having it's almost like flickering I used the analogy if I was sitting under a fan and there was a light you know and it's it's it's lessening as time goes on I've had a couple other people that have told me that that's pretty common I also looked up on Mayo Clinic's website and they said that's common so I go back to the doctor on the 25th this month and probably scheduled the other one I just wasn't ready to have the second one done right away but in general I would say yes my surgery was a success I was a little anxious about it but don't like people touching I'm not really a hugger one of the gals in our sewing group she goes around hugs everybody and she gets to me she goes oh yeah I forgot you was like I just am NOT a weird weird thing but anyway um I asked the doctor when I went for my day after follow-up visit if I could start stitching and he was like oh yeah sure now prior to that the tech or whoever it was said oh no you need to wait a week so then I thought later I started stitching and I thought I wonder if he knows what kind of stitch he's probably thinking I'm you know I've got this big old needle and just you know whatever anyway um it's a little difficult getting used to the vision aspect of it because I never ever in my whole life have worn glasses until I hit my mid-40s and I needed readers for close-up then I went through this when my cataracts started and I always wore like 2.0 readers and then when my cataracts started I actually had what they call a myopic switch which means I could see close-up but I couldn't see distance distance was blurry now cataracts will eventually blind you so I know I know I need to eventually have the second one done but I wasn't ready to have my close-up vision go away which is basically what has happened in my new AI so I don't know what kind of readers I'm gonna end up having to use what strength I actually it's 6.0 I order readers from readers calm you can get coupons if you get their emails whatever because generally when you go to a store like the grocery store they don't have strong ones you know they might have 2.5 or whatever so I have a this is just a few I have a pretty big collection of readers anything from 2.0 - I think these red ones up here are for these these for 4.5 so I just don't know you know you try to close one eye and think okay that's not good anyway I have no idea but I was able to stitch and I picked up a couple pieces and started working it's gonna be an adjustment which is just have to deal with it as it comes so anyway that was more than you ever know aren't you sorry asked had so many people how was your surgery how's your surgery it's like you asked I'm gonna tell you okay so I had to complete finishes but they're not FF ode the first one that I picked up and I'll explain why I picked this up and want to get to my haul this is heartstrings sampler II cross stitch nation no idea there's some there's some kind of something coming on the computer let's close that anyway heartstrings see a blurry cross stitch nation I've always loved this I've had it kitted for a while so it was time where am I gonna put all the stuff I guess we'll see so I finished it I used all the call for threads I think they're all very cute love the dresses and the scissors and the needle and thread I was this is the stroke good luck so Beth twist puts her initials here BW t yeah whatever twist so I was able to use the C and I mean just add a C because I was able to use the B in the W in a different order but anyway and then I put the date oh there are people that have done this into a drum and it really does make a cute drum but I was looking through some of the friends that I have and I came across I used to kind of by primitive frames if I would see him and I came across this frame that I have and it fits perfect so I just need to get some foam core and I'll lace it in frame it it's kind of a dirty tannish with a little bit of a green but I think it works really well so that was my first finish finish I even pressed it for you or you and I kind of worked on that straight through rather than the rest I'll start this so I've kind of been all over the board so the next one that I picked up I can't remember I saw that somebody had finished this or I can't remember this is scattered seed samplers and her name is Tammy and this is one of her it's I guess it's a club I think you get four four mailings during the year and you sign up for at the beginning of the year and you prepay for him and then you just get him whenever she sends him out this is called the little red series and this one is called out on a limb can you keep so and I didn't bring the box to shoot oh well so I finished that it's very sweet there's more stitching to it than you think but it turned out very sweet and if you see I kind of have a fold line here I'm going to make it into a round pin keep with sawdust in it and I have been slacking @ff following finishing finishing don't know why once I get going on it I can do you know two three four pieces in a day but just haven't mainly because I've had a lot of quilting while we've all been stitched during code quarantine the people that do quilting and sewing have also been so I have been getting I've been hearing from people I haven't heard from in a year oh I have three quilts can I bring so I have been busy quilting and I'd like to get that done you know really pretty much in the morning early afternoon well then it like two o'clock or so I'm not ready to go in and start finishing I'm ready for a nap and so can I take a nap and then I get up and stitch a little while or so or whatever and then I fix dinner and stay up late stitching and this is my life that's it anyway so I'm going to make a pin keep fill it with sawdust and I have a now my husband does boxes he does box right now he's into his lathes and doing stuff with his lathe so um you know you can leave you can lead a horse to water make him drink anyway scattered seed these little packets that you get are just full of goodies so this is the backing that was sent and it matches let's see if I can do this matches all the colors and stitching so this will go on the back and I'm gonna make a pinky and I'm going to not attach it to the box it'll just either sit on the inside of the box when the lid is closed or if I mean when the lid is open or when the lid is closed I'll be able to set it on top of the box and I'm actually using a LaHaye's box that I have that's almost exactly this goldish tan color in here and I left the Box in my sewing room sorry but you've seen LaHaye's boxes they're shaker boxes and then you get some ribbon and a cute little pin this one is like a little nest with eggs and then you can tie that on to your scissors so I'll put that in the box and when she sent you the threads they're all one a little cute thread keep she uses DMC so if you've never ordered anything from scattered seed samplers go to their Etsy shop and take a look because she has some fabulous things and I just thought I would show you just a few of her fun things now I have her just series after they're retired so to speak if she still has some left here's an example of one this is rest in the land a rest in the heart see I can't see this is a little scissors mat I just think that's adorable I'm not sure what what series this is in this is same one I just showed this is another one in that same series midsummer day tailor roll this might have been last year's terrible of the sower so anyway you can see how beautifully she packages things you almost don't want to start him she's too cute and she generally puts some sort of a little goodie in there a pin or a charm or something so I have quite a few of her other things and she does other patterns too this one is Lydia Barnes pigeon in 1827 this is not a kid this is just a sampler so go to her website and check her out because I don't think she would be disappointed at all with any of the things she sends so those are my two finishes now I'll show you what I've been working on and this is I'm usually kind of monogamous or at least maybe work on two or three things not this Oh let's start this Oh start this this is what I have been working on the last couple nights I can't remember I worked on this last night or not this is blackbird designs all Joy's all Joy's for thine I forgot to tell you on cross-stitch nation I think that's a piece of I'm not sure it's Lakeside linen that was cut off the sampler I want to say it was Meadow Roux with the call for the scattered seed came in a kit so not sure if it even says what it is it was vintage country mocha 36 count all joys for thine Blackbird designs I'm using the called four colors I think Brenda had this framed she stitched it and had it framed not too long ago and I think Nicole's New York has finished this too as always I do my border first I'm working on some of the flowers around the border and you know whenever I'm this is kind of so I did this flower here and the color that's the red is the same that's on the tip of these flowers so if I finished all of this and I still had you know half of a length of thread then I go work on some of these just to use up the thread it's my theory all joys for thine this is not big I'm doing this one on 30 I think it's 36 it's Heartland by picture this Plus and I'm using the called four threads [Music] here to start grand old flag by samplers not forgotten I got this a country sampler when I went there last summer grand old you're a grand old flag by samplers not forgotten this is a country sampler conversion but I think it's just about the same I don't think they changed many Anthony great colors and this is on 36 count tin roof by weeks and I'll be honest I had a little trouble seeing this when I was working on it so I put it down so it may be something I need to work on during the day you know whenever I do a border like this I also kind of need to get in a rhythm I try to stitch wisely I guess would be the word I know I think Carol wise anyway it's a little hard to describe but instead of doing this outside and then as I'm they're coming in and doing that middle I found that I can do the middle part of the middle from when I do this outside leaf see that outside leaves there so in other words I can do that leaf as I'm coming down and then I can when I'm doing the leaf I can come in and do that little four and then go back to the leaf and then come around here and then go in and do the stem and then come around that makes sense efficiently it's not wisely I like to stitch efficiently whatever is the easiest and the shortest amount of you know trailing or whatever going across the next one I worked on this is not necessarily in the order that I worked on them because I don't know I'd have to look at my calendar I do write everything down this one is and I started this last year of some time I didn't do very much on it this is Miss Manners by ggr the poor child wrote her name without the Z which is why it's in parentheses I don't know how old she was so Miss Manners ggr so I've worked on this periodically and this is where I am I finished the border did a little bit I did all of this blue band a little bit of this blue band finished the tree not finished the tree but the trunk of the tree did a few leaves on the border did all the flowers on the border this one is on 36 count I think it's pecan butter by lakeside it was kind of a mystery piece but it fit and for this I'm using the attic conversion there is one color this gold it's kind of bothering me because it's to me it's a little strong color for some of the other colors but when I look at it here with the darker green it looks fine all that to say I've grabbed a couple other golds just in case and actually truth be known this is what that stronger gold and this flower on this side is with one of the alternatives I don't think you'd ever notice it I think the little girl could have used two different bulbs and it would have been fine so I'm just going to do a mirror image of those same colors because the flowers repeated on this side that's my story I'm sticking to it see poor thing name was easy so anyway I need to get back to this and I will at some point Elizabeth banners ggr then I worked a little bit on this I told you pick up here pick up there Maria Selby Humphrey 1831 bye blackbird I'm doing this one and keep in mind black bird did not this is the antique they did not actually rista CH the reproduction so like the pictures on the back are the antique or from the antique blackbird doesn't usually do true reproductions they usually buy antique samplers and then a tweaked parts of it or they'll reproduce it with an alphabet in the middle of it you know they do all kinds of different things with their own creativity which is fantastically talented to me these are the colors blues tans know reds and I got a little bit done on this mostly I've been working on those alphabets at the top and filling in these little motifs at the top Maria Selby Humphrey I did not do the bottom border because it's satin stitched and I'll do that when I get to it I mean I obviously stopped this just like been mid stitch okay I'm done go to bed oh I did the top of the tea and then I said okay bye anyway I even pressed this one too so I worked on that a little bit and then so many people have been doing this one manner at Quaker Hill Ricci stitching with Ricci from Australia I think she's Austrian I don't think she's New Zealand pretty sure she's Australia fact I know she's Australia anyway she has this really a lot of it done and the border is a little bit tedious but not bad because you really just have to really count on all this over here it's not what we do it's count that was a dumb statement Carol and this let's see this is the top right this is how far I've got on that so on the side border I've added some of the color this one I'm oh I forgot to tell you on Maria Selby Humphrey hmm this is either exemplar 40-count example or by lakeside or I don't think it's sanding but it could be sanding it's one of their darker colors and I'm using the color this one actually calls for legacy by picture this plus I did have some legacy but I decided to do it instead on this is 40 count a second fawn which is one of the new colors picture this plus came out with that market and I think it looks good on there 40 count fawn buy pictures bless with the cultural colors and one of the colors everybody gets a little concerned with is this gold which is harvest basket so you have to make sure and mine doesn't even look gold here but you have to make sure your harvest basket is yellow enough because some harvest basket colors are more tannish manner at Quaker Hill to show you the picture oops bye Brenda Gervais with a needle and thread this is one of her newer releases as if this I've only been gone three weeks this is when I've done it three weeks surgery talk about all over the board the next one I worked on Jane Baxter love this one this is by Victoria Victoria no Victorian Victorian rose needle arts I bought this kit at country sampler I think last summer I've only been to country sampler twice so I think about it less similar I work just a little bit on this one so I'm using the country sampler conversion which is fabulous you know if you call country sampler and you maybe you have the pattern or a pattern and now they don't do conversions of everything but you can you can go to their website you can call them and just say you know I want to do such-and-such and they mostly do what I would call more primitive ones and samplers although they do a lot of Blackbird and anyway let's say you have the pattern but you just want the conversion for the threads if you buy the threads from them they'll give you your the conversion or if you need you have the pattern but you need the threads and the linen then you just tell them you want the guts to the kit that's what they call it the guts you don't need the pattern you just need the guts so these are the colors and this one is done on I can't smell you I came to you this is 36 count parchment by weeks I didn't get a lot done on this but I did get the border the structure of the border finished and then I started on these first little sheep in a box because you know who doesn't need sheep in a box I guess no I can't fishy Jane Baxter the Victorian rose needle arts and then last night my husband had some sort of zoom or something conference call type thing he still teaches at the junior it's not June golf game it's Florida State College at Jacksonville FSCJ and he still teaches he's doing an online class right now but anyway he had another meeting or with occupational therapist whatever and I'm not done playing it it's just his thing I've told you in the grains can they you know kids identify body parts you know this is you know what is this my knee no that's your patella okay anyway so um I went in my sewing room and I forgot to take my stitching with me and I didn't know how long he was gonna be so I picked up something that was in my sewing room that I've been wanting to start so what I picked up this is the only thing I didn't check out of the plastic shame shame shame this is an older pattern I have no idea if you could find it I searched and searched and searched for this before I finally had somebody offer to sell it to me and I was overjoyed that was years ago so why haven't I started it when I needed it's so bad damn it today it's called the es spot motif sampler because right in the middle of yes you barely see it it's right above the flower the red flower in the middle it's by of female worth maybe eBay I'm always hesitant to show things like this because if it was me and I was watching it and somebody said well you can't get this anymore be like why did you know it because now I want it so I apologize for that but I searched for it for a long time and ended up with it so anyway and thank you so many people offered to send me the plantation sampler but I have one coming my way so I'm excited so this is where I got to last night I stitched the whole border part of it twice it sort of repeats but then you know you'll be repeating and then you sort of try to take for advant take it for granted that's gonna keep repeating and then you're like I should have counted because that one is different so anyway so now I'm ready to add flowers and leaves and all that good stuff it's a funky looking border isn't it and you probably didn't even notice the border when you looked at it so it's you know the border will not be a biggy as far as being out of whack and these are the colors it's very pretty lots of reds kind of pinky red let's see what is the red in this Turkish red and then also Bluecoat read the tab did it orange sit on in there so this is what I've been to right now I have to add all those to the whips that I already had and I'm not crazy about adding whips really I'm happy with about 10 to 15 whips and usually they're samplers because usually I finished smaller ones like cross stitch nation the little Wren I finished those but now I have even more whips so I guess you could call that my non mania mania so then of course once you you know go to do a video you're like okay let's show some other things that I really want to stitch a couple of these are kitted a couple of them are not oh and while I'm thinking about it a lot of people asked always about quilts that I have hanging this particular one I did not make when I was well both of the quilt shops here in Jacksonville we used to have exchanges twice a year we would have the summer one would be like celebrated everybody's birthday regardless when it was and then we would have a Christmas exchange and you would have a name of somebody secret name and you would make him quilt so this was one that somebody made for me but I think the pattern is by joined-at-the-hip either joined a bib or country threads and mow those patterns were out in the early 2000s I don't know the name of it some stars these little Raggedy Ann and Andy I did not make but I loved them this house that's up here and I should have turned it round because you could see the other side there's a gal in Kansas City her name is Lynn Hosford and she did a lot of contributing to different um books quote books need a love renee manaman used to do needle love books and she would contribute to those she also taught at the gathering the liberty gathering that i used to go to with my sister in the early 2000s and that at the gathering they usually had things that the teachers designers whoever was there and it was a plethora chessy and me an impact from R&R dining to stitch blackbird girls it was just a plethora of people it was like a four-day event and you could sign up for different classes it wasn't really a mean it was retreat but you got your own lodging and then you just took classes and there were events dinners and auction and it was so fabulous it was put on by the Liberty quilt shop and the old mill stitchery they were neighbors in a building and they put it on and both of those stores have since closed so those are just memories but anyway Lynn used to sell some of her painted goods she also did well wool stuff she was just very very talented her wool stuff is similar to like Maggie banana me anyway I have a couple pieces one was a kit that I made in a class and then this one that I bought from her directly yeah I love it that was a little side not really commercial but just a little side note for your listening and viewing pleasure okay let's talk about some things that I want to stitch I love this I've seen people do this and I just need to kit it and do it it's by thread work permit it's called land that I love it only calls for one two three four five five colors five threads you can either do it in gentle are slash classic color works or DMC originally it was done on digit that doesn't say any way just cute so I I'm gonna kick that up today here's another one this was one of those things when I talk about the gathering that and and hats I'm dying to stitch who are also are our linen as well as on our reproductions of samplers this one is Abigail M Harrison and this is kid with the MC which I need to put on lost tags blues reds Dan's originally I bought what it called for either that was a kid I actually can't remember if it was a kid the linen was a weeks and it's kind of a green bluish green and I started it probably a year or so ago I started it but whatever it is I think it's either 30 or 30 I think it's 32 count I was starting it with two strands I just didn't want to do it on two strings so I have a piece of lakeside Tundra which also it's kind of hard to see it's close it's a little more gray not quite as blue green and it's 36 count and I'm I I think I want to do it on that because I think it will come out nice now when our NR does reproductions they actually reproduce exactly as the little girl stitched it so if there's a thread hanging if she doesn't cross her ex you know properly maybe she does it over three threads they go ahead and repeat that but they usually point out those kind of things so if you decide you don't want to stitch it that way you want to just do it you know different the right way whatever then you can do that so they are true reproductions and that cool it's not huge I just think it's pretty fabulous and you can see what I'm talking about on the back they talk about how the little girl variations of the cross stitch to me it's almost more work to stitch it like that than it is to just stitch it with regular classes and I'm sure that's okay here's another piece a little kid I've always wanted to do this my kids are like creamy I always wanted this um I saw this on brenda's one of her posts on Instagram and I've been horrible posting on Instagram I kind of got anyway I won't say anything but I kind of didn't look at Instagram for a little while but I did see this that Brenda had posted her smalls and her patriotic smells and this is one of the things that she she's done so you can do a girl with a blue dress or you can do a girl with a white dress and then you can do the hurrah in red or you can do it in tan this is by pine berry Lane and it's called hurrah hurrah for the red white and blue the flowers change colors too so it actually has two different charts as far as I thought maybe they would have just two different the same symbols but a different thread list but they actually have two different charts however you want to stitch it I believe I'm going to do the girl with the white dress but it's actually more tan then this looks in the picture because I like that red or raw it's Ruby slipper I have a piece of 40-count vintage flagstone by lakeside so you can see that that white dress is going to not white the tan cream I'm just gonna show up so that's something and it's it's a small piece so there's another patriotic one actually a couple of them this one I showed when I did the collaborative floss tube with Brendon Laura this is July 2011 cross stitch and needlework land of the free bye blackbird it has some Smyrna cross it's supposed to have some chain stitch I think the chain stitch is just around that flag but I'm not gonna do that I'll just do X's and it actually calls for and I have a kiddin else wha which I just need to do this so I can free up those colors I have a piece of 36 count week's tin roof I'm not sure what it called for button and then the last one that I really want to do is this one Brenda just finished this summer Jubilee by Blackbird which is in the book souvenirs of summer I had people asked me about this one that I showed that was a collaborative well Susan Hockey our girl started it and then she didn't like the color she gave it to me and people asked me what what's the name of it it's summers souvenir in the book souvenirs of summer but that summer Jubilee and I have it kitted with a piece of this is actually the what it calls for it's a 30 count eighteenth-century blackbird by RNR I'm gonna call dying to stitch and see if I can't get something that's similar because if I do 30 count I'd have to use two strands but I'm fine with 36 on this with the darker lemon that's the call for colors on them I'm not sure what Brenda did her son but she it still has that look of that great linen and then since I want to be like Brenda when I grow up she just started this Baltimore saltbox this is one of frienda gervase newest ones baltimore salt box with a needle and thread this is done on 28 count mush from Lulu Ghana sorry I left that in the plastic but that's what the name of it is on the plastic so that's why I left it in a plastic there's the call for colors and yes it's over one and yes that's not my favorite or no that's not my favorite however I did start and I know everybody and her brother your sister has done the summer school house series I absolutely love this I love this when I first started it I was like I just don't know if I can do this but there is a key to doing over one and I would suggest go to Ruth Sparrow stitching over just type in Rhys barrel stitching over one and you'll see how you have to stitch in order to get your stitches to lay nice so that your stitches don't go hide behind the threads of the linen so anyway I started this went on all sometime this spring I had started it I take that back I had started it and you can actually see my other stitches because they're horrible then when I got the hang of it I was like oh I can do this so I need to get back to this cuz I really want to stitch all of those and I figured if I got started on those then I could do the over one on the Baltimore salt box and it would kind of play nice together the next one these are ones that I want to stitch so that's kind of some of the patriotic songs I do like to stitch in season so between now and 4th of July or shortly I will be working on patriotic with some samplers thrown in once the middle of July hits I'm going to work on gule tied welcome which is by plum street it's a companion to the other Yuletide welcome and it's a Christmas one no that's the question Christmas Yuletide welcome and then there's the summer one Liberty welcome I have Liberty welcome finished I have Yuletide finished and I want to do ghoul tied which is the Halloween ish i Emily C eclectic possessions is working on that I don't know if she's shown it recently but I know she's been working on that so but here's a sampler I really want to do this is Mary Applewhite by ggr it's a nice little small Adam and Eve again these are the antiques so don't judge a book by it's cover or sampler by its I'm not gonna take these out but I have it kitted with Flora's favorite NPI's which stands for needlepoint pink silks you can get them a lot of shops that carry silks and you can even get them on one two three stitch and I have it kitted with a piece of 40-count buttercream which I will not use that whole there's another one that I want desperately to start in my red house series this is my scarlet house Hannah Tingy this actually came out in 2011 the dear I just love this to me it almost has a little bit of a Christmas feel I don't know why well because you look like reindeer Hannah Tingy scarlet house it actually you can do it in oh I showed you the wrong thing this is what happens when you take stuff out of plastic this buttercream with the NPI's is for Hannah Tingy and this is for the ggr Mary Applewhite and this is a piece of straw by weeks with the called for over die Cotton's so the needlepoint silk and the buttercream are for Hannah Tingy and these are for Mary Applewhite Gigi are generally charts for overnight Cotton's if you have availability of shop ok rattling the other thing that I almost started is this one I showed you this when I showed you mine on mania mania the inverter is stocking by Cathy bear and that is kitted with NPI's I'm missing a few I think I hit this look a few and I'm going to do that with vintage exemplar it takes almost a half the whole fat quarter yeah a whole fat quarter because of the way the stocking curves that's I'm remiss in the fact that I did not do my may word play and now it's June and I haven't done so I'm not sure whether to go back and do May and June or just skip it and go to July I might just skip it and go to July so I have to collect the my word play I guess I should show you what I'm talking about here's July and I'm doing these on R&R abecedarian July Stars and Stripes parade day at the beach I have those all in my blended your baby bag it's nice when you have bags that you can specifically earmarked for certain things and then it's like easy to find okay I'm going to show you my haul so let me start by showing you what started this is an 1803 Ohio farm house basket and that's what started my okay if I'm gonna have it on the basket I want to do it now it's just a wooden piece that that's been adhered to they have a nice bottom the workmanship is fabulous this is a great size still squeaky I love it so excited to get this when I she I think she showed on Instagram these and when I went to her Etsy shop right away she only had like one left and she it said something like stock is limited so they wouldn't let you put it in your cart with one so I emailed her and she said there'll be more in stock and so that's I got right on it so I put my haul in there I'm gonna go quickly through this okay okay got the new Prairie schooler because you know I'm doing on them every month I'm doing one this is another piece of hall I didn't take this out of the plastic Brenda and Laura just showed theirs this is from hold on it's called homespun needlework cross-stitch and samplers you have to join that group no you can't see sorry too much glare homespun needlework comma cross stitch and samplers it's a private group you join it and you can find out where to order this it's a black bird design united we stand came complete and it even had a thread keep in there that says you know it we stand with the threads in the linen fabulous here's another one I got ggr I didn't take it out of the bag Mary Forsyth / Mary Brown Brown should not have been hard to read Mary Forsyth Mary Brown that's a red house it's not huge a tiny bit of over one there again I just think that's really cool I love all these birds up here I have a few threads I haven't collected all that this one I ordered from the Attic handwork samplers the Eliza Hills 1856 sampler if you go to the Scarlet house Tanya the designer and owner of the Scarlet house just finished this on darker linen and so I searched in my stash and I came up with a piece I also got the silk conversion from the Attic and I came up with a piece that's it's am not sure what it is it's a darker linen they used something called camouflage I found a piece of my stash but I'm not sure what it is that I think will work for it I don't put these things back I end up with a mess the only other thing I got other than I think I had a one two three stitch or there was just some threads I got some linen this one is my okay when your mind just goes totally blank think of it heritage sampler half-yard it's part of the club from oh my gosh I'll have to have Mike put tree remember you know that does all the hand dyed threads Victorian motto thank you fold brain Victorian motto I'm in the club this was the latest called heritage sampler I get 40 County half yards then I got a few pieces from the famous kitten stitch you're Shakespeare's peddler these three pieces are picture this Plus 36 count fresco very neutral some oaken 36 count open with picture this plus I don't I don't see a whole lot of difference between the 36 in the 40 cuz it's such a tightly woven and then I got a half yard of 40 count fawn this is the same one that I'm using for manner at Quaker Hill by Brenda Gervais with onion thread and then a while ago and I don't know if I showed these and Christie is a one one-man show this is crosshatch quilts I know Brendan Laura has shown some of her bags I sent her a message I wanted some and I actually wanted Blackbird and she told me she was out of blackbird fabric because I have oodles so I actually sent her the fabric to make this but I still paid the full amount because it's her workmanship it's her design I'm not gonna so this is the black bird first black bird one and then this is the second black bird one so I have two black bird once one has a little more pink in it this one is the sampler fabric on the back this one so they're just reverse one has the sampler fabric as far as the backing and the inside she does a beautiful job I have some more black bird fabrics and I'm gonna send her because I will never in my life make all the quilts and if I did make all the quotes I have fabric for I'd have to move out of my house because that's how much room the colds would take which is one of the reasons I'm kind of into doing smaller quilts they quicker and they don't they don't take near as much space this is I belong this is quilting now but I do have some video at the end that I'm gonna add so hang on don't go away come back at least come back that's forward whatever um Temecula quilt company in California I'm not too sure exactly what city it's in but anyway might be Temecula California anyway I'm in a club thing where I kid I don't think they're monthly but I get these little kits for small quilts so this is one I just recently finished let's go this way this little basket quote the kit actually had a few different fabrics that were a little brighter but I switched out a couple so I need to quote that and then I did this one these are easy I can do them in a day especially if I have Mari cut out little hourglass block and then I also did this one so I need to quote these which won't take me long at all this is a little nine patch not nine patch of nine patches so if you want to get on their list if you like to do small quilts Temecula cocoa okay that's all I have I did record a little video of how I stitch and I'm going to have Mike insert it at the end now keep in mind the way I videoed this was I taped my phone to my light so here's my light I mean here's my phone here's my light so I'm trying to like stitch from the side and it was really hard for me to see what I was actually doing so let's do you think I am that bad of a stitcher rethink it because there were a couple times I wasn't it's done on ate like a dough with pearl cotton is how I did it um I want to say it was seven count but I can't remember there's a couple times that I don't actually get in the right hole when I'm stitching but the whole idea so that you see how I stitch in hand because I have had so so many people ask me how do you stitch in hand and I the term stitching in hand can be done and used for different things I have no idea who was just talking anyway stitching in hand I have a friend that stitches in hand and she actually holds her fabric in her hand she doesn't use a hope but she still goes in and out in and out I stitch in hand with the sewing method and I sew from right to left no yeah right to left so even though it looks like I'm doing the opposite when you see the video I think you'll understand which way I do it I urge you if you're interested in stitching in hand and the reason I know about this is because I used to go to quilt market with the owner and I used to take classes and I taught hand applique at the store for quilting and one of the classes I took one time was how to teach hand applique and one of the things they said was different people hold their hand in a different way when they stitch now I'm talking about stitching with needle and thread on fabric versus cross stitching so I would if you're interested in just trying it take a piece of just fabric and a needle and a thread and just do a basting line and see which way is most comfortable you might stitch across you might stitch down you might stitch away from yourself there's different ways that people are comfortable their hand position as far as how they stitch so when you're interested in doing it just get a piece of muslin you know a piece of fabric and just just experiment with what's most comfortable for you if you find that you like to stitch horizontally going from right to left you might be able to use the method I use if you like to stitch up or down I mean when I say down I mean toward yourself or versus away from yourself I know Teresa kitten stitcher she seems to stitch the way that kind of method and Nicole's needlework has done both and Christie now Christie is stitches the same way I do except she's and so she's going the opposite direction and she's crossing her ex's opposite so you have a bunch of videos out there from different people and just experiment what works for you and don't give up you know try it on a small piece try it on something that's a big count the reason I had some pearl cotton and ate it was while ago I ordered some kits from quite a while ago from Shepherds Bush and they use that for the Prairie School of Santa's to make big pillows and they use pearl cotton and that big eight of cloth and they're really cute so anyway that's what I did the video on and here I thought I didn't and I'm already at an hour in 12 minutes I guess I just blab anyway I hope you're all doing well I hope all this craziness that's going on in our world doesn't dampen your spirits because life is still great so I'm hope you're having a wonderful June hope it's great weather nothing else let's talk about the weather okay all right I'm gonna let you go but just hang on in that video will be inserted at the end here Thanks love ya bye the first thing I do when I start is a diagonal pin stitch so the first stitch I'm going to take it's coming up in the middle now this is ADA so it's difficult to come up in the middle but you can get the general idea and then I come from the middle to the top right down to the bottom left back into the middle and I've made my first stitch then I go over hold on okay so then the next thing I'm going to do after I've made that first stitch I come up at the bottom left I go oops hard on either bottom left I'm gonna go to the top right come up the top left go down bottom right and then I take what I call a long stitch so I'm crossing under two threads again to the bottom left now this is very easy for me because I can do the motion this way some people stitch this way some people stitch this way so if it's comfortable for you to stitch right to left horizontally you can do this come up the bottom left top right top left bottom right so you're continually going back and forth to make those X's now this means that on the back you just have horizontal stitches so you don't have cross stitches to weave your thread through you have to weave it through these horizontal stitches again I'm using pearl cotton so with ADA so and I'm trying to video this having my camera taped I mean my phone taped my light which is kind of difficult now if I want to go up then I simply do the same motion but instead of doing that long stitch I'm actually doing an X on the back as well now since I only work right to left I want to come back I turn my fabric now I also if it's something that's you know 2 here 3 there or whatever I will also turn my chart upside down but if I'm doing like a long stretch of grass or whatever I don't turn the chart [Music] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Saltbox Stitcher

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Length: 77min 40sec (4660 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 16 2020