Stitch Roadies No 127

[Music] good morning stitch roadies welcome welcome i am back home and i had a wonderful wonderful time uh i was at for those of you that aren't quilters you'll see more if you want to see more about retreat it will be on the quilt roadies youtube channel which is my quilting channel this is my stitching channel but i did do stitching on quilt retreat so i wanted to share that with you i also have a winner of the gift card for trimming all the things with the fat quarter shop and i'll have more of that later on and the winner will be posted at the end of this video so stay tuned if you're new to the channel this is a channel predominantly about cross stitch but it also is about moi i mean my life uh and what i'm doing currently um it is somewhat of a smorgasbord of how to move forward in this world a stitch at a time definitely a stitch at a time and i love cross stitch now for those who are new my cross stitch started back in 93. um no i take that back it started in 88 it is when i arrived in oregon and i worked night shift and my friend robin and i kind of held down the fort on the labor and delivery unit and back then the census at the hospital was pretty low and so the hospital allowed you to as long as you didn't have patients to take care of they still had to staff it or if your patients were sleeping you could do things to distract yourself and she taught me to cross stitch at that time and i just dabbled in a you know you know moderately not like now not like now but moderately and there used to be a very sweet uh cross stitch shop in downtown bend oregon and that has been closed for years and years and so i in 93 that reason that date kind of sticks in my head is because that's when i got into quilting and then i was like headlong into quilting but now i have a more balanced life if that's what you want to call it it's a little bit of a chaotic world only because um the chipmunks in my brain are always running in different directions you know if you would imagine a group of chipmunks in a park and a dog arrives and how they scatter that's kind of what's going on here but uh here on stitch roadies i'm happy to meet you and hope you will find something of benefit for yourself or to make yourself feel good about how you are progressing through your world i had a wonderful time at my quilting retreat there's it's just it was a nice nice diversion to today's world let me just say that but now i'm back home and i want to show you a little bit about uh what i have going on here i have a whole a bunch of shopping and i there is really no i cannot make a valid excuse for my shopping other than when i'm stressed or anxious i shop more i don't know if any of you have that issue but i i i have dozens of wish lists floating out in space and some things i'm confused about why i got them because i don't remember actually you know pulling the trigger on but i loved everything i got and so i'm going to share that with you i took several i took several projects with me to quilt retreat but i only finished one two i didn't even touch one i made some good progress on which is nice so i'll show those to you but let me just get back get my brain back on track so my one of my new favorite things right now is this my girlfriend robin turned me on to it it's little packets of um flavoring natural flavoring and i'm a freak for watermelon and i only use half a packet in my water and so i just fill up my water my lovely um chilled water cup that uh becca from zambry stitches gave me be the change and i hope i am the change so refreshing and reminding me that we're in to fall we are definitely into fall right here in fact at quilt retreat um snow actually fell up on the mountain which was a blessing let me tell you it was a blessing um on my way home from retreat i i have to make potty breaks and i i am totally way too paranoid and compulsive to actually use a porta potty so i have certain stops i make so the stops that i make require me to shop a bit because i feel guilty about using someone's bathroom without contributing to their bottom line and so i stopped it by mart and i got this which i just think is a hoot nap and i can't wait to to what i'm going to do is next month i am going to be with my older son his wife and my oldest grandson on a little vacation just a short little vacation to the beach and i am i i'm going to fill this with water and put it in the freezer and then i'm going to tell my grandson um can you go get me some ice cubes i can't wait i mean i have a fart machine i guess when you raise boys and all your grandchildren are boys you just get a potty brain when it comes to life and so i found this at bymart and it's called ice cube trays with gummy eyeballs and there's there's gummy eyeballs in there so i'm gonna as soon as we get there i'm gonna fill it with water and let it freeze and then i'm gonna ask my grandson to go get me some ice cubes i just think that's a hoot yeah so that's that's what i've got in my future you know when you when you're surrounded by boys you um and i was always somewhat of a tomboy so my mother was a tomboy and it just you know there's no pink bows in our lives there's fart machines there's part machines so i i had taken the stitching that i'm doing with becca from sanbury stitches at the tiny modernist halloween ouija i didn't take one stitch on it and i also took my birthday stitch from last year which is now you know i'm i'm heading heading into another birthday month next month and i am i celebrate my birthday all month i i can't handle just one day it's too much anticipation for one day so i spread it out all month but i do have a new start uh for october which means that i will have two birthday starts floating out there so that's going to be my limit for birthday starts until i at least get one of them done and um in all things be diligent is the one from last year and then this year i am stitching with a group of friends away we ride by blackbird design so if you're at all interested there is already a hashtag established for that chart and if you want to join us that would be just a hoot and a half right now we're all in the process of gathering and just making decisions about thread and fabric and all of that but away we ride is the one that will be started in october i did finish the you know the which you would have seen on instagram the prairie school or santa and i have started the new one because of course finish a prairie school or santa start a prairie schooler santa so i finished that one and let me see if i can find it let's see see it would be nice if i was just a hair bit more organized okay so here we go i changed a couple of things which i think is up to you when you look at any chart on the prairie school or santas i kind of on some of them i like to more personalize i like to personalize all my charts so i tend to change things in that way so this one if i showed you this my fabric is much lighter than the one that's shown here and so i could not use the call for threads for the alphabet because they wouldn't have shown up so i darkened i chose a darker thread and i i can't tell you which one i chose i just chose something dark and then um i was going to personalize it so as you know there's the a and the g for um g and i and then i i didn't really care for all the red dots on the trees um so i left them off but i did put a gold star at the top of each tree and i just absolutely love how how it turned out so i'm going to be making a pillow of that later today after i get back from visiting my younger grandson and i started just barely gotta start on um finish a prairie school or start a prairie schooler and that's the thing i have no rules when it comes to my cross stitch but uh that particular one is really and it's not really a rule it's a mantra and i think that mantra is a you kind of have to find for yourself in this world we're living in those things that bring you um peace and there's something about that finish of prairie school or santa start a prairie school or santa that does not add stress to my life it's actually this this sweet little mantra and i have no timeline so when i finish one i just start one and i love it i love it so this is the next one my middle grandson had chosen this i spread out all the prairie schooler santas and he chose this one i asked him why did you choose the santa with the fish because they're vegan as are we and so there's no fish and his dad doesn't fish and so i said well why did you choose the santa with the fish and he said i like fish you know sometimes it's just a simple answer there's no deep meaning so i cannot wait i've got a barely a start on this one you know i mean it's just i'm just putting my little little outline there and uh yeah the only uh rule not even a rule but a plan i have is that i do need to have this done before christmas to go on i'm gonna make this one into a hanging ornament to go on their tree their christmas tree okay so the shopping but that quarter shop now i don't um just so you know i don't work for fat quarter shop the relationship i have with fat quarter shop is like many you'll see on youtube and we all have a different way of of being in that relationship and my relationship with fat quarter shop is i i get um emails that show me a list of things that might interest me i'll have a conversation back and forth like do you do you think you're going to have something like this because you know i get overwhelmed easily and so i have to have some control of what's going to make me stressed and so i will pick and choose like uh i'm not a smorgasbord kind of gal i'm freaked out when there's too many people have touched those spoons i think now smorgasbord you know when i think about when i was young oh here's here's the portion of the channel if you're new where i start babbling um but when i was young you know the smorgasbords were like that's where you took your kids you know and and you wasted a whole bunch of food but you touched all you know thousands of people's touching the same spoon i i um i have issues with that hence why cruises can be so much challenging for me so why was i talking about that oh fat corner shop so i will look at what they have in the future and they always have oh such wonderful things and they are so generous and encouraging and you must you must sign up for their um youtube channel because the tutorials and the encouragement that you get are spot on plus the variety of products that they offer and their shipping has been really really spot on but because i can become easily overwhelmed my um relationship with them is very i'll do this i'm not interested in doing that i even though they'll send me a ton of things i i feel too responsible and then i i feel bad if i don't meet what i perceive as the expected expectation so i'm very careful with it and i generally prefer and kate is so nice this way is that when i have a giveaway that it be a gift card to the fat quarter shop because not only am i wanting to promote whatever the latest program that i want to do is but i also think you need to go check out the whole site and there might be other things that are fascinating to you so the latest one i'm getting to the point i am getting to the point the latest one that i um i don't even know it's a mystery it's a mystery stitch along and so i haven't even gotten the um i haven't been gotten here i i haven't even gotten the pattern the beginning of the pattern because they just sent it out a little bit at a time too but i in conversation i said i'm really interested in doing a fall stitch and generally they do um a cross stitch and a quilt in conjunction uh that are the same basic design just different ways of the outcome is one's quilts and one is cross stitch and so i really wanted to do a fall themed because i don't have a lot of fall themed stitching you know i have halloween stitching that kind of thing but like fall you know like you could smell the fall air you can feel it the leaves all of that and so they sent me a packet and i can't wait i can't wait for the chart it's a mystery so you're going to want to go to the site and check that out and you're going to want to sign up for their you're going to want to subscribe to the youtube channel on fat quarter shop and you're also going to want to subscribe to this particular channel to enter this giveaway and please check that you're subscribed because youtube every so often for whatever reason people get kicked on and off so make sure that you're a subscriber um to the channel before you even enter okay well this is autumn beauties you're gonna have to check it's a mystery stitch along but what they sent me so far was a project bag isn't that adorable i'm not taking it out of the oh i'm not taking this all out uh it's the um fabric is 14 count ada vintage cloth by laurie holt an oatmeal color they give an option of threads for their different mystery kits and it's usually either dmc or um some other thread and i chose the classic color works um autumn beauties packet and so look at that isn't that gorgeous floss floss bitties needle minder and this is the thing that i was most fascinated about it's called a line keeper yeah that's what i'm talking about so you put this on your chart and it keeps track of what line you are so you don't have to keep counting down i i'm anxious to use this one and see how adaptive my brain is is to if i can keep moving it down and if it does keep me on track rather than off stitch if you know what i mean so go on to the fat quarter shop and if you are interested in a gift card from the fat quarter shop be sure your subscriber and let's use the word um autumn let's use the word autumn okay and this is supposed to start october 1st so go on there um i i need to you know uh i follow several people on instagram i can't follow everybody because you just can't keep up and i'm such a poor um i'm not a good follower in terms of that i don't look at the whole day's posts i only see the posts that show up at the time i actually turn i'm looking at my instagram or facebook which is usually first thing in the morning when i'm having coffee um or when i'm in a waiting line um that's when i'm going so i only get snippets so that actually saves me and i don't have notifications turned on so that saves me um probably a good chunk of change because if something catches my eye when i've turned my social media on i'm kind of sucked in and so i do follow um luminous fiber arts and i went to her shop and i'll put the links below i tried to put the links below for everything and let me tell you you'd think i could remember from line a to line 10 what i said and what i did no so i try to put the links below but sometimes i forget but i'm all into fall right now and so this chart um just got me it just got me and it's a plum street sampler and it's called gobble gobble so this is going to be a sooner than later start although i don't know exactly when and because you know charts can't travel alone i ended up buying some lady dot creates little bonbons in the color jack because yeah it's fall so why not i love that she sends it in this really pretty pretty bag the longest part of this video is is the hauling i had a bladder infection what can i say i was feeling sorry for myself i i am we don't get to go on vacation like we used to and um so i'm saving a lot of money that way but heck gas is now over four dollars a gallon what happened over the weekend i was shocked when i stopped to get gas and i thought holy moly now here's the thing i went on to be stitch me's site and i actually don't remember ordering this i remember choosing a few things but i don't actually remember pulling the trigger on it it was like like like when you're standing in front of a candy counter and you say in your brain you're saying i want this one this one this one this one this one and then you see your reflection of your body in the window and you go i don't need that but you leave it in the cart because it was a moment of i want this one this one this one this one this one well i thought that's what i did but this arrived i thought i must have said cha-ching i don't know what happened but i got three pieces of fabric lugana and um yeah it's all the colors that i want that i like so here's here's um you know and you just love a shop that surges the edges and it's just so perfect but this is a and they were all 32 count lugana this is vanilla latte yum and let me tell you at retreat one of the gals brought their espresso machine and she could froth almond milk i was like oh my gosh so vanilla latte feeling the fall same count same pumpkin patch i'm not even going to make excuses for this these are all like absolutely and this is called this is a lugana 32 count grog modeling the this is absolutely my new favorite um fabric store and it's be stitch me and i will put the link down below and it came in this adorable bag of cherry blossoms like you feel like you're in japan or washington d.c i'm not even making excuses for this i had a bladder infection did i did i tell you that already i mean jiminy and it took me four days of navigating the current medical system and i know how to navigate it to finally be comfortable but i received this lovely this is not all the oh maybe i'll wait till the end for this i'll continue i only have one more haul besides instagram facebook watching flosstube love watching flosstube i mean the only flosstuber i don't watch watches myself yeah that's that's just like a circus but um watching flosstube and look at me my brain is is i'm stalling here so i can try to think i'll figure it out and when i in the description box when i list the floss tubes that i've watched this week um i will list this person's floss tube but oh okay i have it on the tip of my tongue she's in wales she was doing it for her son i love her i'm so embarrassed you know have you ever gone to a party and you can't remember remember someone's name oh and you and it's someone you should know like your boss yeah okay no no more excuses but she talked about this book and so i went and they they have it on a fat quarter shop site so i um i went ahead well i'll tell you what i went ahead and did but it's by emma congdon and they're uplifting cross stitches um sayings like this is what the front of the book looks like and it's a paperback book and so you know all everything in here a smooth sea never made a skill for skillful sailor you know do what makes you happy so they are uplifting cross stitch done in a graphic design that you could not only do for yourself but you could do it as gifts um when it rains look for rainbows when it's dark look for stars you know it's just it's a fun book just to read through even if you never stitched one thing on it believe in yourself so i went on the site to order this and and there was another book by the same author 20 designs to cherish cross stitch for the earth and let me tell you mother nature is crying right now up until this week i was just sick sick when i looked at mount hood i had never seen mount hood without snow i mean there's glaciers up there but what little glaciers there were left were so dirty because the dirt was all uncovered on mount hood that it looked like mount hood was bare that it had cried all the tears it had and there was no more moisture so when it snowed a dusting of snow that covered the top the little peak of it i was i just gave a sigh of relief but this is um this is a beautiful book like this one's all good things are wild and free this book is filled with cross stitches that you know cross stitches about mother earth leaving nothing but footprints kill nothing but time and you know my life is filled with outdoor people my life is filled with outdoor people um so i just love these two books uh that was a that was a happy purchase okay now we're to stitchy kindness and this stitchy kindness i was i was just like flabbergasted this is from peter and kathy and um it was a thank you for the flosstube and yeah it's as important i mean i know many of you have expressed how important flosstube and flosstubers have been to you but i think i'm okay in speaking for other flosstubers for the most part this this relationship has been as important to us as to you it just has it's and i want you to know that we are grateful and we thank each and every one of you that leaves a comment that takes time to subscribe that takes time to give a thumbs up it it's um we are grateful for that relationship and i i know i receive hundreds of notes that say how important i have been to you it goes both ways it does go both ways that's all i can say is that it's um it has been a lifesaver in more ways than one yeah and so thank you thank you um but this is a a gallon or husband and they have a company and so i'll put their link down below and so they sent this to me as a thank you for the flosstube but i'm going to put all their contact information because i think you're going to want one too i think you're going to want one too it's a bee skep that you can use in any way you want in your stitchy room or quilty room and yeah way will you see this and her husband makes these and it's made out of beautiful ambrosia maple i want to see i'm i'm going to go google what that looks like with all the leaves because this was like holy moly are you ready look at that look at that and it's it's you know that's it it feels like a chunk of wood it it is not like a um it's not like prefabricated this actually was a branch off of a real tree and then it has um a hole down the center so you know you could put a pair of scissors you could put a pen a couple pens whatever you want you could put a bouquet of flowers it's i can't thank you enough i can't thank you guys enough for this um it's absolutely beautiful and you know wood turning and you know it's it's another art form peter firth uh ambrosia maple wow this is gorgeous so i will definitely put the link for this down below and they have um they also are on instagram so i'll put that link too ambrosia maple wow on that note i'm done on that note i am done so you will see right here i'll have g put in the winner of the gift card from fat quarter shop and what i'll need from you and i'll put my email address in the description box i will need you to email your email address because i forward that to the fat quarter shop and then kate sends you a link via email that you can then use to shop on their site thank you thank you for spending the time and i hope um all is well with you know that there are people that need your prayers definitely people in my life that need your prayers and people probably and all your youtube friends that need prayers a lot it goes on even in this altered universe we're living in life still goes on and there are still the same difficulties and challenges that were before we just have this added layer now so say your prayers um positive thoughts and i hope that your stitching brings you peace as it does for me thank you i love you guys

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Length: 40min 49sec (2449 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021