Stitch Roadies No 93

[Music] good afternoon stitch roadies welcome to the stitch roadie chair and place um i have lots to share with you today lots to share with you today we are in the midst of a winter weather advisory and it has been snowing non-stop since last night but what's really fascinating to me is that we're used to big snow big flakes and here it has been snowing continuously since the middle of the night but the flakes are so tiny that it is building up but at such a much smaller rate than we're used to like if it had been snowing this many hours and sisters we'd be buried we'd be buried but in reality here this type of snow really shuts everything down so there's nobody walking outside hardly anybody is driving in fact there's some roads in the portland area that they've just closed you you can't even go on them because when you think about it you know we live on a big hill big mountain and um when you only have snow once in a great while people aren't their cars aren't prepared for it like i think there's some driveways on my street that people wouldn't even be able to get up if they went out somewhere so they just don't go out and um for us we have snow tires on and we'll continue to put snow tires on our car because the you know we go over the mountain we're going to be going over the mountain at a regular pace even in the winter in an emergency if we have to so that this is quite lovely because everything has quieted down it's made all of life slow down and not in the way that covid has you know that is like ugh but this is actually very lovely uh very lovely i've been in my pjs all day yes all day and um i've been stitching away and figuring out i've been binge watching floss tube let me tell you before we get started though i have had several questions about this quilt that's on the back of my chair and i thought i would share it with you it's a lovely story this is a crazy patch block quilt that was taught by lori thorne at the stitching post and sisters and i'm i'm pretty sure they probably have access to this pattern but when i made this [Applause] i was having a particularly challenging mother-daughter relationship you know how that goes every so often you have challenging times in your life with a parent and i decided to parent myself for a while and i'm i'm not telling you that i like wasn't speaking to my mom there's no way that could ever have happened but i decided to nurture myself during that period so when i made this crazy patch block which is what this is called in the middle of each block i put something lovely that i wanted um that i wished for that i wished for so there it says love and i embroidered love you love you and you know so each block has something special in it i put down creative and i embroidered that into the block i embroidered into this block a blessing so that's what i did throughout the whole quilt and um oh here's i love this one i embroidered you are so beautiful and it's such a warm fuzzy quilt uh in terms of the emotion behind it and what i can say is that sometimes in relationships you have to not expect that other person to nurture you you need to nurture yourself so so that quilt has always been in our bedroom area and it was all these different flannels it's flannel so it's quite lovely and cozy so what have i been up to i have been stitching i have been practicing my two-handed stitching i have done some in hand stitching too which i love and for small projects i'm going to continue doing my end hand stitching i did have um an ffo i finished my um this was a stitchery i did in honor of emmett till who was born in 1941 and was murdered in 1955 and it's this lovely um you know blackbird singing in the dead of night and then i put his uh i um stitched his name and his birth year in his death year in there and just as a reminder that we have to stand up so and i put i looked in my stash and i found some musical notes that i think was perfect because i can hear i can hear the music playing yeah and i know that this was i'm i'm pretty sure this was a free design maybe online but i for the life of me can't remember but maybe somebody else remembers um this but i i loved it and it's gonna be a little um bowl filler pillow yeah then what else um see where is everything's kind of discombubulated here oh i'm almost done with my february um ornament block but or ornament stitch the thing you have to know is that on the hashtag monthlyorni sal which was started by uh becca of sambri stitches and audrey stitchywich42 and myself is that it there's no real rules to it it's for enjoyment so you don't have to do one every month you can do it as often as you want and it doesn't have to be an ornament it could be any kind of small that you want to stitch and you could turn it into an ornament or not it's up to you there's no stitchy police for us so i decided that i was going to in february stitch one of brenda gervais love notes and so i'm stitching this one down here be mine and i'm almost done i mean this is going to be a finish this week all i have to do is a little male bird and there we go this is stitched on 40 count it was a scrap that i had in my stash and i tried to stick fairly close to the call for dmc but i didn't have every color imagine that and so i just kind of worked worked a little bit of flexibility into that stitch so i that that should be done by the end of today i would think i'd be done with that so what's been going on well because i've been catching up on flosstube i've been enabled big time and i know that i said i wasn't going to start anything until i got stuff done but let me tell you you just can't watch flosstube and that and have that happen um everybody everybody just gets under your stitchy mojo and makes you want to do all the stuff yeah so i decided that i was going to do a valentine start i i don't know how many people are doing a valentine's art but i said what am i going to do for a valentine start well i remembered i bought this pattern from liz matthews loved by you and i decided i'm going to do it i'm just going to do it i'm going to start it it's not going to be like one of those stitches it takes forever but i love it and i'm gonna do it and so i'm gonna start that on valentine's day because we're gonna be stuck on valentine's day i i mean the snow's going to go on for another 24 hours or so then it'll take a while you know the thing about here well i already told you about the difference in snowflakes but the thing i noticed yesterday is i couldn't even see out my front windows because the wind was blowing that way and it was a mix of rain and sleet and snow and so as the water hit the windows it froze and so it looked like all the windows on the front side of the house were out of frosted glass fascinating we never had that i never had that issue in sisters so i suspect that the roads are going to be kind of icy for a while so valentine's day i'm going to start that loved by you i don't know what fabric i'm going to do it on this is actually done on 36 count weathered shingle linen by ir rnr and um yeah i don't know if i have that but i'm sure i have something that i'll just substitute to substitute it for yeah and they used two skeins of weeks die work coal and i do believe i had that yeah so that is my valentine start then i think i was watching maybe it's kansas city girl in a colorado world yeah maybe that's who i was right i just watched so many uh since i got up this morning that um i remembered that i had this pattern what i didn't know was that the trees were books i had no idea but it's a stone street stitch works and i bought the pdf called book house and um i have to do that for my my younger son i just have to do that for him and so i need to get started on that and i know that i believe lady robin s also did this so i have to start that so i am starting i'm already here you know we're into february i wasn't going to start any new stuff and i'm already i was only going to work on my whips look at me ramble ramble ramble and i've already got two on the books to start this week so um you know the thing about flosstube and flosstubers is they aren't on their um it's not like a business model thing you know everybody we're all doing it uh for the fun of it and that we're seeking connection with other people that love the things that we love and in this day and age that can be done around the world which is incredible during this sheltering in place that you can still connect with someone on the other side of the world it it's just i mean it makes my heart sing and i have been enjoying now that we're kind of settling a little bit i mean there's still tons of stuff to do around here but we're kind of fitting in our fun times in between you know g's playing the guitar and and he's setting up his workshop down in the garage with his woodworking tools i'm very excited about that but um so i'm i'm finally getting back in to floss tubes watching floss tubes and getting enabled by flosstubes and i so love my sassanatch stitcher i mean i love it her outlook on life you know just how she looks at her stitching how she thinks of her dogs i mean it's just i find and the terminology that she uses for certain things is so lovely it's just so lovely that i could just listen to her all day i could listen to her all day but um also um alma's little stitches and i'll put the list in the description box of what i've been up to this week um but she mostly does full coverage it's mostly full coverage pieces which i have never done but after watching her and i had that gritted fabric that she showed and i thought you know i i'm going to start i'm going to start one full coverage this year i'm gonna do it i'm just gonna do it and there's some places in this house that i have like i've not hung anything on this entire wall because that's going to have cross stitch on it and i wasn't sure what cross stitch get to that later but i also have a couple walls downstairs that probably will stay empty for a couple years two three years before i get the cross stitch done that i want to hang there like i want a whole uh sampler wall you know i want to sample a wall in the family room and so that was just going to stay blank till i actually stitch a sampler yeah oh yeah one has to actually stitch a sampler yeah so i said well i would like to do start a full coverage this year so i have three full coverage patterns that i downloaded and since doing um i was one of the early interviews of um flosstube interviews that sanbury stitches uh does every sunday you know i think i was i i know i was in probably the first 20 you know that she did and um when she asked one of the questions she asked is if you could go to one uh place a fictional place in in a fictional place in the world that makes absolutely no sense does it makes absolutely no sense but one fictional place where would you choose and i chose hogsmeade um i wanted to go um you know have a happy hour at hogsmeade um and so i remembered that i downloaded pdfs of these patterns countrymagicstitch.com and one of the full coverage pieces was hogsmeade they were designed in the form of those graphic posters i'm gonna start it i'm gonna start it this year yeah i think that's going to be so cool full coverage piece a little bit scary yeah i know it's a little bit scary to me but um i think it'll be a good one i think it'll be a good one yeah so i already from one morning of watching flosstube i'm gonna be starting three new projects i'm telling you the pandemic has nothing on the virus of stitching after watching flosstube yeah yeah it's actually more contagious yeah but i don't know about you but i have a hard time stitching on things when i don't know where they're gonna go i know it's a peculiar a compu peculiar malady and um but it is i accepted it as who i am and i suddenly got this thought in my head that my um renato perylene trees could go right over there right over the bed right there that that would be a perfect spot for them and all of a sudden i'm all excited about that stitch and i started stitching it in hand so there's uh and besides the fact that it is i would have to do it on a q snap to do it on my frame but i think i'm just going to continue in hand but just so you remember where i was of course it's all wrinkled and folded up so i'm going to i'm all excited now to get back to stitching this because i know exactly where it's going to go it's kind of funny how that it works in my brain if i am not sure what's going where it's going to go i have a hard time with being motivated but if i know exactly where it's going to go and there's an empty wall for it to go on yeah so and i'm just the way i do this in hand is i use these little red clips from my quilting days that have worked you know i just roll it up and then clip it there and then i'm doing in hand stitching like this so now i'm excited to get going on that so you may see some good progress on that i have not done much uh anymore since uh last time on leo but he is looking nice and this is on the scroll frame that came with my elan frame and that's that and then let me think what else oh and then on the elan frame using a um q snap brain fart q snap i am working away on my nose and i am at the bottom half of this stitch and i'm very motivated to get it done because i want to put it on the front of my red crafters yazzy bag and you will see that i'll show you how i attach that i have an idea of how i want to do it so that's going to be fun and i'm finding that i'm somewhat of a monogamous stitcher in the evening my evening stitch has turned into gnome time that's opposed to eastern time midwestern time west time gnome time in the evening because i i can taste the end you know how that is you taste the end and i so want to put it on that red um yazzy bag because i think it's gonna be absolutely adorable but the really exciting thing that happened this week is i got this package from the fat quarter shop now the fat quarter shop has asked me uh to participate in a stitch along and you know i was really hesitant to do it because and i haven't done it before because of that hesitancy of oh i've got so much to do i've got so much to do and i need to get something finished first but really why am i putting these rules on myself i have no idea so i decided this time because of the project to jump in on it and the reason the number one reason is i really wanted to try the um aura fill thread for cross stitching i i've heard different reviews on it the aura floss and i kind of wanted to just try it myself and so um this particular prim or a floss is by laurie holt be in my bonnet and we i mean you know the packaging i mean just let me say just let me digress a little bit the floss comes in this cute little box and then when you slide the box open there's two more cute little boxes and each box has the floss in this lovely little arrangement on wooden spools i can't wait i can't wait to try this floss i've been wanting to do it and so they convinced me that i needed to do it and so i'll tell you um how i like it and you know me i know i'll be telling you the truth of how i like it the pros and the cons i got to get it back in its cute little box there we go then uh the fabric that i chose for the project was um this will be interesting because i've not done this um it's a 25 count lugana vintage cloth by being my bonnet so i got that that sure feels like a big piece of cloth and then the package not the package the patterns the patterns i mean the floss the aura floss because i want to try it and then the pattern because i really wanted it for embellishing the front of my yazzie bag was this one isn't that cute i mean it's so cute so it looks like i mean when i look at the vintage cloth they and you can choose different cloths when you go online and if you wanted to stitch along with us you can choose different cloths they do ada you know different colors and all of that but um it's gonna be fun to uh see it doesn't look like a like a um what is it a like when you go to a thai restaurant they ask you your level of hotness one through five five being it's going to burn the inside of your brain out well this doesn't look like a five cross stitch you know like it's going to be so hard it looks like a very doable cute you know laurie holt bmi bonnet design that's going to be fabulous on the front of my yazzie bag and since this all couldn't travel alone so i was looking in at the rest of the cross stitch danger danger and the fact that i'm doing the hashtag monthly horny cell i bought two more patterns this one because i just really you know i'm surprised i don't have this if i have this oh i'm going to be so embarrassed but love is in the air and it's just little ornament stockings that you hang and you know i i need some more ornament patterns so i thought this would be a fun thing to add to my um monthly orange cell and then i even got another one this one's plum street samplers noah's christmas are two and they were just some cute little ornaments and one of them has a beehive i mean really i had to get it i had to get it i mean sometimes you have no control over that finger that says choose choose press press pay pay you know i mean you have no control over it i know i said i wasn't gonna buy i lied i lied my sister and i used to say to each other when we were kids you lie like a skunk i don't even know what that means but we used to say it to each other you lie like a skunk you know and and so i did i did to all of the people who are counting on me in flosstube land to hold the line i lied like a skunk yeah and i shopped but see the problem is i'm being enabled by other people yeah it's not my fault and even so much so that i was listening to a podcast i love podcasts you know i love to read i love audiobooks i love podcasts and one of the podcasts i follow and i have the app on my phone one of the podcasts i follow is the ted talks you know you know that so i am the last week's ted talk let me just say this this is how a ted talk connects to cross stitch so i'm putting this out as a public service announcement that you can be infected by a large a big swath of things in this world and ted talks is one of them because i'm just minding my own business in the beehive someone away listening to uh the ted talk from last week which caught which was called it takes time it takes time so if you go you have to you just have to go listen to that episode it was chalked full of wonderfulness wonderfulness uh on so many different levels you know so the ted talk it takes time um was addressing the fact that you know we're a a culture of immediate gratification and and this whole kobe thing has proved how little we can handle it when we can't have it you know but it wasn't just about that uh this is the fun thing about ted talks so there's different segments to it i know hang in there hang in there i'm getting to it uh there's different segments in each talk and in one of the segments she was talking to a zoologist who had fallen in love with sloths you know the animal sloths they are the slowest animal on the planet and her whole conversation about the sloths i mean i literally just about peed my pants because it was so funny it was so funny but in learning about sloths on the ted talk their metabolism is so slow that that's why they survive you know where other animals would eat a poisonous leaf and die a sloth eats a poisonous leaf and lives because it takes him all day to eat one leaf sloths have been electrocuted and survived run over survived lost limbs survived because their metabolism is so slow and um i was thinking well holy moly i've been working my whole adult life to make my metabolism faster because i thought that was healthier hence i ran marathon i you know any kind of running race in my sc my world i was running it and um trying to get my metabolism faster so i could lose some weight and here i find out that the reason a sloth has lived so long has evolved is because their metabolism is slow right okay so what does this have to do with cross stitch i immediately called up acorns and threads and said i need the plum street sampler pattern for sloths i did i did i need sloths in my life i get them but you have to listen to the ted talk because i'm telling you there was one point in that ted talk i nearly peed my pants i laughed so hard and hence something that has absolutely zero to do with cross stitch made me buy a cross stitch pattern yeah may you culpa okay we'll hang in there we'll see you the next time around and know that um anything i promised i take back i take back i take back i don't know i don't know i just love it all and i hope you do too i hope you find some fun things to do with crosstag and stop making rules for yourself every time i make a rule for myself i think i do it so i can break it i was always that kind of child yeah so hang in there we'll see you we'll see the next time and enjoy your stitching you

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Published: Fri Feb 12 2021