hi guys Kaitlin here welcome to my floss Tube channel this is not an ideal day to
record a floss tube the lighting is not great it's really overcast outside
upstairs neighbors are home husband is home a lot of noises going on
out there but I only have about 45 minutes this weekend to do this and
that's right now so we're just gonna push through it I got a different setup
going on today I am I'm recording this on my phone to see if the sound is any
better than with my webcam and you guys are currently in my Lowrey stand that
was a good investment I recently got one and it has made a world of difference in
terms of stitching it's really nice to have something to hold your needlework
and apparently it also doubles as a tripod so there we go so first things
first last night we saw the Broadway show Come From Away it was spectacular
it was so good if you ever get the opportunity to see it-- I know it's
going on tour to a lot of major cities in the US and Canada and I think some
major cities abroad in the next couple months so if you get the chance to see
it I highly recommend it it the show is about the days the week right after 9/11
so after so the morning of 9/11 after the attack happened American airspace
was closed but there were planes already in the sky
heading to destinations and so 38 planes were diverted and grounded an airport in
the town of gander Newfoundland which is a very small town-- or a small smallish
town I think they said their population was like 10,000
people but 38 large planes were diverted and grounded there so about 7,000 people
were suddenly stranded in Newfoundland overnight and they were stranded there
for like five days and the show is about that it's about the
people on the planes it's about the people in the community who came
together to feed and house and clothe and help these people it's about you
know something positive happening during a time of terrible loss it's hard
to describe but it was just so fantastic I'm not exaggerating when I say I cried
the whole way through from the opening number to the curtain call I just cried
like I cried because it made me feel homesick I cried because it made me feel
proud I'm I'm not from the Maritimes I'm from I'm from Ottawa but yeah I don't
know it's just like a really Canadian feeling story--- can you hear the cat
sitting on my lap he's snoring right below you you know and and of course it was
emotional for other reasons because it's about 9/11 so anyway I highly recommend
it if you get an if you get an opportunity to see a please do whether
you're Canadian or American or from somewhere else I think it was a very
powerful story based on real events and the music was fantastic and the acting
was incredible and it was just all good
okay so since you saw me last which was a while ago
life has been a little crazy and now all of a sudden it's fall
I am--- I know a lot of people love fall I don't dislike fall... I like... I like you
know pumpkin spice everything and the leaves changing and watching little kids
trick or treat and Halloween parties and there's lots of things to love about
fall Thanksgiving, pie, but I really dislike being cold and fall for me just
indicates the start of being uncomfortable and cold for the next six
months so I'm a little disappointed to see the summer go we had a really nice
end of summer I hope you guys did as well we traveled to Ottawa to visit my
family one more time my dad had a little memorial get-together my grandfather who
passed away a couple years ago not everyone was able to make it to the
funeral two years ago so we planned this far
enough in advance and everybody came and we planted some trees and sprinkled some
ashes and said some nice words and really spent time together as a family
it was nice to see my cousins whom I haven't seen since I was very small and
to meet their spouses and their their kids so that was all nice and on our way
to Ottawa we stopped at we stopped in Syracuse to visit the New York State
Fair which was a lot of fun I had never been before and it was a blast you know
they have animals and and and you know like vegetables to look at and you know
the they have rides and they have food and it was really cool and of course we
went we'd b-lined as soon as we got in beeline straight for the needlework
exhibit to see how I did and I got two fourth place ribbons so I had
submitted I think I told you guys this before but I had submitted my parlor
treats and I also submitted Beatrix the reflection is pretty crazy I don't
know if I showed this to you guys before but that's how I framed her and and yeah I
got two fourth place ribbons which I was really just expecting a participation
award so that's exciting so I'm gonna hang these up somewhere so that was
really exciting for me and it was fun to visit the fair and see everybody else's
submissions and I don't know I'm feeling pretty jazzed about it and I'm
definitely going to submit again next year I'm already kind of thinking about
what projects I should be busting through so that I can have them ready
for the 2019 fair so part of the reason it's taken me so long to come back and
record a video is that work has just been bananas it's been really nuts we've
been working really long hours we often work overnight shifts on Fridays which
means that we get in in the wee hours of Saturday morning so my Saturday Sunday's
all I want to do is sleep stitch if I can you know get some laundry done and
really just sit on my couch and recover so I don't even really have a whole lot
of stitching to show you because I've just been I've just been too busy and
when I when I am home I'm just too tired the nice thing about this job though is
that Dylan's been working on the same job as me which is something
I don't think since we met we've had the opportunity to work together on the
same show so it's been really fun to ride the train to work together to have
lunch together I think we've spent more time together
in the past couple months than we normally would if we were when we're
both working the and if you'll indulge me in the little shameless plug that's
sort of cross-stitch related that show is called the show that we have been
working on since July premieres this Monday the 24th no Monday yes Monday the
24th I'm pretty sure whatever this Monday tomorrow I'm premieres tomorrow
on NBC at 10:00 p.m. it's called Manifest so if you're
interested in checking it out and seeing what we've been working on and why I
haven't been flosstubing or stitching I guess I'll link that information below
and it is sort of cross stitch related because there is a I'm not going to say
too much about it but there is a cross stitch item super heavily featured in
the pilot episode in the first episode it's not my work but there is a piece of
there's some cross stitch you'll see some cross stitch in the first episode
okay so we're like 10 minutes in and I don't think I've talked about stitching
at all so let's talk about stitching so the last-- so I have 1-- 1 finish to share
with you the last time I saw you guys I had just started this kit by design
works singing cat I paid a buck 50 for this kit at Joanns I think with the
coupon you know I finished him so I swapped out the kit fabric with this
Lugana it's picture this plus in the colorway dwarf and it's the opalescent
version it's super sparkly I don't know if you can sort
of see the sparkle there but I used the threads that came in the kit they were
definitely not DMC they were super thin and tangly and weird to work with but I
think the overall the overall look is great I love the colors of this of this
I wish my lighting was better so you could really see just how how fun these
oranges are but I I don't know I really I'm really happy with my fabric choice
I'm really happy with how he turned out
I'm gonna keep holding it up so that YouTube picks this as my as my image
yeah so something I love I mean I love this because this is like a perfect cat
moment of like a cat in his operatic moment this something I
love about this design is it really reminds me of when I first moved to New
York almost eight years ago now I was living in a crappy little apartment in
White Plains New York which is outside of the city in Westchester and I had I
was like I was interning I was working for free I was working for $10 a day
like my first paid movie I worked on I was paid $10 a day I was I was doing the
artists struggle and I lived in this crappy apartment and I had no furniture
besides a bed and a table but that wasn't even a table it was like table
legs that I put a door that I found across
and one chair and that was it and and there was this really fat orange alley
cat that lived outside the building at night and at night he would howl like
just really really cry and howl and meow and like so this this guy kind of
reminds me of him of that cat and it kind of reminds me of a of a different
time in my life you know
does anyone else ever feel that way where you look back on where you were
like five six seven eight years ago and think like about things that really
changed since then so I'm gonna frame him and hang him somewhere where I can
see him every day think about think about how far I've
come from those days with that apartment with that fat orange alley cat
okay so WIPS first up Kathy Barricks cat and mouse this is what it will look
like this has been my travel project for most of this year so I'll insert a picture of what it looked like
where you saw it last his is where it's at now
so I got his tail done and down to his butt
this-- the house is in I got a lot of blue put in this has been my travel project for a
lot of this year and
I realized I realized last week that the blue stitches were starting to get a
little dingy probably from having it out like on the train and at work and stuff
like that so I gave it a wash but there's still you can't see it on the
video I can see it in person though there's still some spots in here where
they're still not super clean so they must have been gotten a little stained
so I'm gonna have to rip out some stitches up here and we put them in so
after that I decided that I'm not gonna travel with this piece anymore
which is unfortunate because this is one of this is a favorite and it's it's nice
to work on at work and stuff because there's not this enough color or changes
to keep it interesting but not not too many color changes to make it
complicated you know it's kind of like it's kind of like a prairie schooler in
that way so after I realized that I shouldn't travel with that one anymore I
dug through my wip pile and pulled out this one which I hadn't-- you guys
probably haven't seen in like a year this is a freebie from broderie dot net
she has a whole website full of free red work designs I will link it below I
don't remember I think it's it's just numbered it doesn't have a name so I
refer to it as my oh dear if I have a picture of where it was last time I'll
insert it but I'm not sure I do so I think I mostly just worked down on these
deer legs and down here this one is I stopped working on this last year
because I even though I really love the color combinations the color combination
I chose the design was feeling really clunky to me like it just wasn't
looking the way I thought it was gonna look and I got disappointed and so I'm
just I'm not in love with this project but because I'm not in love with it
that's kind of what makes it a good travel piece because I don't care as
much if it gets dirty it's only one color and I'm not super emotionally
attached to it I know maybe for some of you might be like a waste of time to
work on something you're not in love with but it's touching for me is I mean
it's about I love a lot of things about stitching you know I love a good
finish I love shopping but also the reason I started stitching in the first
place was for stress relief so sometimes I just want to work on something just
just to make the X's and I don't really care what the final product is and so
it's more about the process and this for me is a good process stitch it it might
not I probably won't frame it when it's done I might stick it you want to say
hello I might I might stick it like on a box or I don't know see about getting it
made into a pillow I'm I'm not really sure how I'll finish it but but it
doesn't really matter because it's just really about something for me to do on
my lunch break and on my way to work that's relaxing and that isn't staring
at my phone so there's that one
next thing I've been working on kind of new start since I last saw you
so Angela and I are SALing this Mira Deco Spirits if you have it you're
welcome to stitch a long with us she's
already much farther and she's already like way ahead of me um this is my
first mira and you know I um I love watching other people's stitching area
Mira's I think all their designs are beautiful but this is the one that has
really called me the most because I think it reminds me of you know the art
deco art on some of the older buildings in New York like there's all sorts of
beautiful art around the Rockefeller Center like if you ever visit the city
and visit the Rockefeller Center you can get a really fantastic walking tour of
all the free art that's on the outside and inside of the building because mrs.
rockefeller was really really into public art and these these images really
remind me of a lot of those pieces they remind me of New York City architecture
and they're also I mean it's a beautiful design and it's it's just different for
a Mira I don't know this is this is the only Mira that has ever really grabbed
me and then I really desperately wanted to stitch so I thought it was a good one
for my first one it might be my only one I don't know we'll see
there's no beads just some kinda and some metallic threads so I've made I
made a start on that and I started it on 28 count
White Lugana and that I just was not looks okay in the video but in person it
really doesn't I was I was just not loving the coverage like of these dark
colors so I stopped and then I restarted on 36 count linen and that's as far as I
got and the coverage is a lot better
I think -- I think the coverage is a lot better let
me let me turn on this light and see if you can see not really anyway I mean
it's so hard to see you in person but maybe I'll insert a photo maybe to show
you that might be better so the coverage on the 36 count is is great but I'm
worried it's gonna be too it's gonna eventually be too thick to push the
needle through and I'm worried about the Kreinick fitting on 36 count I kind of
feel like the critic is gonna be too tight I've never tried Kreinick on 36
count I guess I hadn't hadn't bought it for this project yet because I just
figured it's gonna be a while before I get there so I would just you the
Cotton's first and then go back and do the Kreinick but maybe I should buy some
and test it I don't know let me know what you think like is 36 count for a
full coverage I mean these are all like this is blank but these are all full
coverage in there so it's 36 count 2 over 2 gonna be too tight because it
looks like it's already too tight alright
I ordered a piece of 32 count Jobelan that arrived yesterday so I might restart
this a third time tomorrow on the 32 count because that is the called for
fabric anyway and I should have just bought the called for fabric in the first
place and maybe I wouldn't be having this mental gymnastics session but I
might try the 32 count and see how that feels
I don't know so basically I've got nothing done on it but we're SALing it
my last wip in m yElaineproject bag is the tree of stitches this is a Bees needlework
design it's also it's a PDF so and there's no picture of what it looks like
finished iIngborg finished this earlier this year and if you like look on
Instagram if you look up the hashtag tree of stitches you'll see lots of
other people finished it but I'll show you I'll insert a picture of what where
you saw it last and this is where I'm at now I'm not going to take it off the
Q snap
so I am very close to finishing this I have I think five sections left well six
sections left but they're all small sections so I'd like to three more
sections of leaves here there's an owl that goes there and then like a rabbit
and a flower down here and so I'm I'm pretty close and then there are some
beads that need to go on but this is I'm stitching this on 32 count Lugana from
picture this plus in the colorway chrysalis which is basically just a
super pale green it's almost white the trunk of the tree is stitched in
Gloriana Ironwood the leaves are stitched in autumn Arbor except for
these French knots down here and there are some places where these French knots
down here are stitched in Olive Grove from Dinky Dyes
so stitch wise we have symyrna stitches ,French knots
these are eyelets, rice stitches, cushion stitch, Jerusalem stitch, the floral
stitch, norwich stitch which I guess is also called the interlaced cross stitch,
star eyelets ,and then rhodes squares and then I have just started the fancy
crosses down here so if I might also insert a better picture here of what
this looks like under some good lighting you guys I love these flosses they're
beautiful this is my favorite floss color by far Gloriana's autumn arbor is
Janet Douglas uses this color a lot in any like fall themes or in some
of her Canadian themed designs for like leaves it's really beautiful
so that is a year of wips project and I think I will actually finish it this
year I don't think I'm gonna I don't think your blips is gonna happen I'm I'm
trying but I'm just not getting enough time every day or week or month to
stitch so I think I don't think I'm gonna be able to pass the halfway mark
which kind of bums me out
and I'm Way behind on the whole coverage challenge so I don't think that's gonna
happen either which also bums me out and I am super failing at stitch from stash
so I don't know if I'm gonna achieve any of my goals this year but I but I am
having a lot of fun so that's what counts right that's all I've
worked on... retirement planning I got a-- I did a little because when you
don't have time to stitch you stash- so first up I have to color and cotton
fabrics of the month to show you I have I think it's July and August I have
since change my subscription to be every other month because I have too much
fabric and trying to cut back on what I'm buying so the first one is Salem
this is gorgeous 32 count Belfast this looks black but
it's actually a very dark gray there it's beautiful
got like a little bit of a brown undertone and then August was also this
is 36 count this is peach flush it is a lot more pink in person than it's
showing up here this is it it is very similar to my skin tone in person it's
like a pink very very pale pink color
this one is not my favorite that she's ever done but I'm sure I'm sure I can
find a use for it
okay also I ordered some flosses from her from her and every month I think oh
maybe I should restart my floss club I don't know maybe I'll maybe know that
the fabric club is once every other month I'll see you about doing the floss
club again I just get really bad FOMO when I see everybody else's flosses but
I also but-- so I just ordered a few that she had in stock to make myself feel
better so this is weathered bronze, this is hazel brown i
this is battleship it's like a very blue grey this is winter garden just like a gray
green and Turkish stone no real plans for those but they were pretty
so I bought them also i ordered bee-utiful from the nebby needle this is
it's only 79 by 49 and it only uses three colors one of which is Khole
from weeks dye works which is this is like the most beautiful black
it's got like a purple undertone it's gorgeous I also got Michelle did a flip
through of a continental style book with like birds and butterflies by Veronique
EngingerI think is her name and so I've been looking for some of her books
on Amazon on the french amazon-- amazon.fr in France and I ordered this I
just but I just realized this is actually a book by Helen Le Bar not
Veronique but it's a very similar style this this is all like pastries and
cookies it's a paperback not a hardcover
it's got some really cute look at these backgrounds it's got some really cute
little designs in here and there's some that are teeny tiny like these teeny
tiny icecream cones that I think would just like I had this
idea to to make some earrings like covered button style earrings and has
studs with some of these like teeny tiny popsicles and stuff because they're just
really most of this book is charts so I can't I can't do a whole flip through
but I just see yeah the rest is charts so I can't show you the rest but I know
there's there's a lot of tiny cute things in here that I'm excited to
stitch so I think this was only like with the with the conversion with the
dollar conversions was like less than ten dollars and shipping was very
reasonable for coming from France that was all shipping was also less than ten
dollars so I know that a lot that like Veronique's books are very popular and
they're hard to find and they go for like hundreds of dollars on Amazon and
eBay but if you're looking for books of that style on a lower cost check out the
Amazon France website because even even with the shipping factored in
the prices are usually substantially lower than the prices on the American
Amazon or on eBay or anything like that so take a look at the french amazon
and if you don't I I can read French fairly decently if you
can't I think that you're most web browsers will translate a web
page for you it that's something you need so and then of course Michelle had
a live sale it's why I think I actually ordered way less than I thought I was
gonna order that was so fun I love competitive shopping and it was super
competitive and I there's a lot of things I tried to get that somebody else
was just too fast but I did manage to get a couple things like this chessy and
me pin cushion look at this fat cat he's got like a serious butt he's
so wide and I got a little homespun collectibles sunflowers
that's what cute it's not that big six colors and then I also got birds of a
feather kindness which has been on my wish list for a long time this is this
isn't that big either 104 by 104 uses weeks die works but there's a DMC
conversion that's really pretty this is kindness begets kindness because
kindness because kindness all the way around
and then just just a little eBay I got garden Verses by prairie schooler
which I've been I feel like I have watched this item so many times on eBay
and the price has always gotten too high for it for me
you know usually over twenty dollars and I got this for four so this was a deal
obviously I love the bee one but they're all pretty there looks like they are they're
long 179 by 76
and when I bought that the lady sent a freebie she sent this cricket collection
super cute Thanksgiving Circle it's really a square
it's called Thanksgiving circle but it's a square I like this um I like this fat
turkey you know everyone's stitching turkeys in October I think they're
stitching the Lindy's sitches turkeys but maybe I'll I'll cheat and
stitch this turkey Angela in one of her videos showed some it felt with adhesive
backing that she had bought with with like prints on it she she bought it at a
Korean stationery store but I did a look online on Amazon and I found I found
some I will link I'll link the Amazon link below but so this is this is felt
that you can just like that's sticky on the back I thought this would be good
for like Mill Hill ornaments or for backing small ornaments so I got this
one and then there was um there's a seller that had like they sent you a
pack of 10 or something but you didn't get to pick your colors and so I got
some of that the disappointing thing with it though is that all the it's all
pink like I was hoping for a little more variety but it's all all pink and I like
pink but I might kind of hope with this was for Christmas ornaments and I mean
like this is sweet but my friend who just had a baby had a baby boy so I
don't think she would be
so that was a little disappointing there really isn't anything suitable in here
for Christmas I mean I guess you can have pink Christmas ornaments I just the
ornaments I have stitched that I was hoping to back are not pink anyway that's
everything I bought that's everything I've stitched on that's all my life
rambling I think this is a relatively short video which is good because I am out
of time so I will oh that's not everything
I had a giveaway last last video and
there were some great responses I we talked about what you guys would do with
the third arm and a lot of people said a lot of people said they would use it to
holdtheir stitching they would use it to stitch faster
some people said they'd use to help them with household chores so I got
a lot of really great fun responses and it was fun hearing from all of you guys
and I did a select a winner I drew a name on September 18th which was the day
the giveaway closed and the name I pulled was Leah Noel
so congratulations Leah I've already contacted you and I have already stalked
your wish list and I am super excited to buy some things for you and I'm gonna
try and get a package out to you next week
so maybe the week after we'll see cuz they're a little crazy here but thank
you so much to everyone who entered and who commented and who wished me a happy flosstube-aversary so that was fun and and now I have to let
i have to go I have to throw this video together and put all my stuff away
and conquer my list of errands so I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your
September and I hope you get a lot more stitching done than I'm getting done and
thank you for spending some time with me and I hope I'll see you again soon so
bye for now
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