Hi friends it's Amanda Mae with Ardith Design. Welcome back to my channel this
is my fifteenth episode. happy halloween to all of those that celebrate Halloween.
I have my 8-bit pixel art Halloween sweater on it's not cross stitch, but it
is 8-bit and we all love pixels don't we? I want to thank all of you for coming
back to my channel. I'm sorry about last week I was a hot mess.
I'm still a little bit congested, but I did go to the doctor. I spent the week
Oh... I spent the week not feeling well, and I am on the mend, and I appreciate
modern medicine this week I want to show you my haul. I have some really awesome
patterns that I want to show you that I have in my "to stitch pile." I have
some Save the Sitches this week. we're gonna do mail call. I got a little bit of
mail, and I'm gonna do library books. I had really cool a couple really cool--a couple of really cool
scores on the library book department. I love reading, so I'd love to show you
those there--they are stitching related. we're gonna close up the show with the
announcement of the giveaway winner for my Banana Pants Purdy pattern, and I've
got another giveaway that I'm doing. another pattern that y'all could have a
chance to win .so let's get started. wow we're gonna do mail call first and look
at my cute little prop. it's not a bell, but I got a little mail box.
it's a little things in life. it's a piggy bank. I don't have the key for it,
but I love it. I got a really cool thing in the mail from an artist named Phoebe
Wahl.. I ordered her tea towel calendar, and I was so fortunate to get it the day
she released it. I ordered it and it came in the mail, and I wanted I'll show you
it. I-- first off, it came wrapped in the gorgeous tissue paper. hello artists
goals! I need my own tissue paper. [laughs] I need my own acid free archival designer
tissue paper. I wonder if that's a thing. anywho, I loved the the tissue paper and
I'm gonna show you the tea towel and I actually want to mount it and display it,
and I thought well how what's the best way to do it? and I thought well I'll
grab one of my canvases my blank canvases so I haven't stretched it yet
but I wanted to show you I am so excited look at my new tea towel for 2019. it's
not ironed yet. I I just I just put it against my one of my blank canvases so I
think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna stretch it I'm gonna align it and I'm
gonna have it all ready to ring in the 2019 New Year with my with my tea towel
mounted on canvas, and then once the year is over I can add this into my kitchen
rotation or maybe just use part of it in a quilt or something and Phoebe just
sure hit it out of the park this year with her art. That's my mail call. I want to
show you now uh my Hall H A U L. I I'm excited for these finds. I don't know
when I'll stitch them, but I have them you know just in case with all of my
free time. I have so many good things now to stitch. here we go. the first one is a
medieval angel stocking and I just love it. it's got a castle and the tree ,and
it's got an angel at the bottom. it calls to stitch all of that in red, the
background in red, but I think why not use just a red fabric, and then just do
the castle the courtyard and the tree, right? the next pattern
is oh my gosh this is so pretty it is huge though.
oh my gosh. okay. so it is a sampler and look at that. it is dated 1699, and it's a
Dutch sampler and it's saying it's from a province in the north of Holland, and
"It's a Friesian sampler and their broader in width than in height and the large
alphabets on these samplers typically have the letters surrounded an outline
stitch in a different color with little circles or curly stitches as most Dutch
samplers may contain a large amount of spot motifs often haphazardly placed
ours has these as well as a seen along the bottom of a typical Dutch house of
the period surrounded by trees, a man driving a cart, and horse a man on a
ladder as well as deer, storks, birds, and a windmill." I if you want to look up and
see .I really like the colors and I really like this sampler. again it's huge,
and it's gorgeous I think Kitten Stitcher, Theresa, has
really turned me on to the different types of samplers. and I have to say I
think I'm leaning more and more into the Dutch. I really really like Dutch
samplers. Who knew?! I have a really fun story about Holland. one of these days
I'll have to tell you. [laughs] nothing risque just anyway, all right. my next pattern
that I wanted to show you is actually a pattern that-- a designer--that Snug Harbor
crafts just featured in their FossTube video this week. Debbie went to Las Vegas
and she saw one of these designs, but this is by M Designs, it's the Cherish
Tree Ornament. I really liked it. I like the colors. it's a
68 stitches by 151, and it's on 30 count coconut macaroon
linen. I'm like, "coconut macaroon!?" hello? sign me up! and then the stitch is done
in Dinky Dyes silk, which I've never stitched with Dinky Dyes, but it's Mango
Tango silk, and I'm thinking hello I have now I need this in my life because it's
Mango Tango which makes me think of Odwalla, Odwalla juice, I grew up in
California in the Bay Area in the town where Odwalla was founded--before it was
bought out by Pepsi but that's a whole other thing--but I love mangos. I love
mango tango. I love Odwalla. I love this pattern. it's
really fun I have been doing instead of the seven degrees or six degrees of
Kevin Bacon, which is still valid in 2018 I say it is still a valid. [laughs0 Oh how Kevin
Bacon has impacted my life... okay [laughs] the stitching world how everything is
interconnected how we're all connected is really exciting. I I'm gonna digress
here for a second from my haul because this I have to say this. I got these two
magazines, and they're from 1996 1997, and then thumbing through them .okay so the
cat I'm like first of all I'm like Pam and Steph hello duh right? but I'm
thumbing through these patterns and I'm thinking of all the stitchers that I see
on Instagram, all the stitchers on Flosstube, all my commenters, all--everyone. I
just I'm literally going through the magazine going, "I know who would stitch
that. I know who would stitch that." oh so I wanted to show you, I I don't know if I
told you all that I like angels. but so I saw this angel I'm like, "yes that's gonna
be on my list to stitch." okay but this magazine from - 1996 and they say you
know have it up until 1997. I literally went through this and took notes of
every single pattern and who it reminded me of. so
this is like shout out time right now and then a like quasi flip through shout
out time right now. mm-hmm [clears throat] all right so I think pretty much every...
oh I don't want to show anything-- pretty much the Santa hello everyone stitching
Santa's. then there was another angel in here. I really like this Christmas angel.
it's by Joan Elliot. this is my huge shout out. Pam and Steph from Just Keep
Stitchin' thank you so much for acknowledging me in your latest Flosstube
video. I watched it in its entirety, and um an hour and 53 minutes into your
video you shouted me out .thank you so much. thank you for your support of
Banana Pants Purdy. you all inspire me daily, and yes I think about you guys I
think think about you and go, "wow who would stitch that? who would like that?"
can't you just see stuff stitching that? I mean come on duh right and then in the
back they have a game word thing and I'm like of course
Pam wouldn't Pam stitch that. this one I thought Amy Loves Toads. Amy just she had
finished that one the moth and butterfly sampler. Literally I'm going through this
magazine every single pattern makes me think of somebody. the wreath I love
wreaths, and the bird I mean "put a bird on it." who doesn't want to put a bird on
it? oh here it is. these I thought of Pam. it's the the
coasters, but it you don't have to make them into coasters if you don't want to.
and oh okay so I thought of Keph from Snug Harbor Crafts. I know she's a
beginning stitcher I'm--I consider myself a beginning stitcher, and I saw this and
thought of her. it has a harp on it and she plays the harp, and it has the
mandolin it has everything. and then I started thinking about XPressLifeTifa--
Tifa, who is fantastic, and she is a firm believer of "make all of the things." [Laughs]
Misty Purcell you make all the things as well, and I admire everything that you do
with weaving and quilting and oh my goodness
make all the things. so I saw this wreath and I thought of all of the tremendous
people who are so musical, and so it's so much fun. as a stitcher as a designer to
look back through these patterns and think about the connection that we have
as stitchers with other people and all these patterns might not be your cup of
tea but you might know somebody in the community who does like them and it's so
much fun I feel I feel more connected and these older magazines have meaning
like I see that person stitching that. anywho thank you for for letting me go
on. anyway look at what I have in my stash, a a used magazine. it's awesome.
all right back to my haul, and look I get so excited I just start oh I start gushing.
excuse me. It's so cold outside. they said it was going to be "warmer." [laughs] no.
all right the next one is this magazine here and it's a high marked I actually
marked one of the pages I really liked the Santa it is the "Antique Santa." I like
the snow in the trees and I just really like his garment. I wouldn't I probably
wouldn't stitch the font or the the background I just him but I really liked
him. the next one the next magazine that I have the pleasure of owning is the
Just Cross Stitch magazine. I could literally every single page in here I
could show you and say how much I love it.
seriously. this one has the all the cute stuff. I this I marked this sampler. this
was actually a sampler stitched by a little boy
which are pretty uncommon and rare and so I really liked and appreciated this
sampler, so I think that would be really fun to stitch. this one has a Priscilla
Blaine hands-on design Kathy Haberman it's got the Stars and Stripes love it.
patriotic stitching and it's got flamingos it's got it has all of the
things and the camping oh my goodness it I could just sit here and do flip throughs
of magazines. oh my goodness. alright, last week I showed you that I had finished
one of the Carriage House Samplings series, and I stitched "love." well I have
"honor" also in the collection and I really like the little bowl of fruit, and
then so I that's on my list of stitch what I really like about Carriage House
Sampling is these little ones and I believe Theresa kitten stitcher she did
hers on silk gauze and it's like
adorable. I did mine on a 28 count R & R Reproductions linen, and I think I'll
stitch mine another one maybe on 32 count. maybe I'll gradually get
some smaller and smaller counts and it'll look like the nesting dolls. anywho.
I really liked this Bent Creek pattern this one is a little sampler of Luck, and
I liked the font. I loved fonts. Oh out of order this is my other carriage house
samplings the "hope" to stitch. I don't know if I'll do "hope" or "honor" first. this
one is Sisters and Best Friends Summer Joy, and I think of all the bee skeps,
and all of you wonderful stitchers who raise bees: Beth Twist, Flannel Jammies
Farm, Jen's Stitching Niche all of whose stitch bees. if not own have bees and
apiaries. I have a newfound appreciation for the cross stitch bees, and
this cute little sampler. summer JOY, and it's 59 stitches wide by 115
stitches high, and it was stitched on cafe Kona linen by R&R reproductions, and
I just reading the fabrics I'm going, "I need to get me some of that. I need all." [laughs]
Alright, and then my last--oh my gosh I still have more! [laughs] oh. okay. here's the "Faith" by
Carriage House. The Sampler of Briar Rabbit. look at that cute little rabbit!
and I love the border with the flowers. ah! and then my last one is very
quintessential Thanksgiving if you celebrate Thanksgiving. I love it, and
it's got the pumpkin and it's not a cornucopia of fruit but it's a you know
nice cluster of fruit. Feast of Friendship. I mean it doesn't have to be
Thanksgiving to enjoy friends and a feast. I love food. all right that's those
are some of my goodies that I have in my to-stitch pile. oh I got a book and I was
laughing not laughing I was just tickled pink. I really enjoy
the Night Owl Stitcher and her dough bowl, and I really got turned on to dough
bowls, and I got this book for a friend because knitting is something that is
completely magical to me. I--it's so magical. anywho I got this as a Christmas
present for a friend [shhh] right? and it's Swedish Knits and I was looking through
it because, hello gorgeous! I might not know how to do it, but I know how to
appreciate i. right? and I was cracking up. this isn't a dough
bowl, it's a porridge bowl. hashtag "show me
your porridge bowl." oh wait that's way too long that's like
a sentence not a hashtag. never mind. anyhoo, look at this. This Porridge Bowl is
amazing. I mean, [singing the nursery rhyme] "peas in the pot peas in the bowl
bowl... peas in the porridge pot nine days old..." and made me think of all the the
folklore around porridge bowls, and porridge, and the history of food in
America. anyway but I just I'm starting to appreciate containers and receptacles,
and how we hold things, how we store things. watching the Midwest-ern cross stitch
retreat recap of Farm Girls' retreat. everyone showing the beautiful shaker
baskets, and the farmhouse baskets, and boxes, and oh just all these gorgeous
containers, and I started thinking about some of the stuff that I have around the
house. I think I showed you my fake banana aluminum dough Bowl, and then I
thought about this other fun little container that I had. I'm gonna grab it.
here. I got this container four or five years ago, and I really liked it for its
folk art quality. and that's why I purchased it. and I got it in an antique
store, and I thought it was really I thought it was really fun. as a naive
20-something, I did not realize that this was a tobacco holder. tobacco
paraphernalia. all of the things, right? so it immediately once I learned that it
gave me that like negative connotation of, "well I can't endorse smoking. I can't
have this in my house." so I had put it away, but I still liked it right, so I'm
reading this book from the library and it is, "Women
and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles" and it's an anthology in
from 1750 to 195.0 and it's one of the library books I checked out and I it
covers a lot of different needle art not just cross stitch, and I was reading the
essay on bobbin lace in Puerto Rico excuse me I didn't if I didn't say that
port Puerto Rico. I'm reading this essay and it talked about how bobbin
lace was made using kind of recycled scraps and different things.
using the French technique and the French and Portuguese influence of lace
making, but incorporating found objects using coffee sticks and bamboo to create
the bobbins. using orange thorns in place of straight pins if they didn't have
straight pins to do the bobbin lace, and using making the patterns using the
tobacco advertising cardboard or the tobacco boxes, and it got me thinking
about two pieces of artwork that I got that they came out of Wisconsin. I
inherited these pieces, and I'm gonna show you because I love nautical stuff. I
have this print here and on the back of it is an advertisement for tobacco, so
this old print mounted with the tobacco. and I have a second print and it also
has the advertisement for the the cutting of tobacco.
so in Puerto Rico many of these crafts these artists were using that exact type
of advertisement cardboard for the pattern making for their lace. I mean the
history. we're all connected. so I pulled this out, I'm like really sick like I
really don't feel well and I had pulled this out, and I started putting my ORTS
in here, I had like little pieces of thread like dangling here, I had my
scissors in here, and it it turned out to be the perfect little tray. and then I
started going on eBay which... sorry not sorry.. and I started looking up "tobacco
trays" in tobacco paraphernalia, and they have these amazing mid-century modern
like floor stands that had all the tobacco and the smoking stuff and I'm
literally looking at it going okay I don't smoke but look oh we could put
your ORTs here, your scissors to go there, you're and incorporating kind of a the
negative connotation tobacco into something positive and current and
incorporating our history not only in our physical stitches but in the tools
that we utilize to stitch. right? anywho I hope that makes sense.
sometimes I feel like I I go off on these tangents [laughs] anywho, thank you for
listening. the history the again this book one of the library books "women of
the material culture of needlework and textiles," and it's again a collection of
essays and all I'll say the book down below. well since we're on library books
maybe I should tell you my other one. I picked up the "Historical Needlework of
Pennsylvania." and this is I haven't I haven't gone through a whole lot of it
but the stitching it's all in black and white which is great I'm not complaining
this is an 1802 sampler marked dolly and it was made the lady of Lancaster
embroidered in silk on linen using buttonhole, petit
point, and flat stitches. so it's not a cross stitch book but it needlework book
nonetheless. and then oh we should go in to save the stitches right I know a lot
of y'all like my save the stitches. I got this piece and I was cracking up about
it it is made actually it's a fabric panel by Hallmark. Hallmark! and I didn't
even know they made fabric panels, but look at this witch! and it's it's one of
those panels you cut out and it makes the like [wind] though you like attach it
around like a hoop and it's like a wind a wind thing in the fire cauldron. and I
hello?! I love it! witchy stitching. as you can see I haven't made it yet, but it's
got its got the directions in the fabric panel so I was really excited to get
that piece. I got I feel like I'm like the lady that loves doilies. I like feel
like I'd like have this magnet we're like doilies like like come to me. anyway [laughs]
I got some really awesome doilies. I love them. look at that stitching. I love
them. so I got two of the exact theme one, and then I got this really fun one. I
think it's a pot holder, and I love the violet yellow color scheme. hello.
adorbs! so I'm at the checkout about to buy my doilies and in the free bin for
kids, yeah there's free bins for kids, I'm like oh
my inner child was like "yeah!" and I made a donation and they and I got these
bookmarks. I got happy birthday, and I got this is on perforated paper bless you.
with the quintessential 1990 teddy bear but they had to come home with me. I
didn't want them to get ruined, and then when I went to the used bookstore last
month, the really cool thing about the used bookstore that I like to go to is
that they actually you can buy bookmarks. so at the used bookstore people bring in
their books to sell, or to donate, or what have you, and many of the books actually
have the owner the previous owners like they have the bookmarks in them. so they
have this amazing collection of ephemera of old postcards, pictures, hand drawings,
just really awesome things. and they have this literally like tub or porridge bowl [laughs]
hashtag "show me your porridge bowl" of bookmarks that you can sift through, and
like the doilies where they're like, "come to me!" and they're like attached you know
all I like from across the way I'm like, "that's cross stitch! I see cross stitch!"
sure enough there is a bookmark. it's dirty. that's cool. it's fine. a bookmark
that I got. I paid ninety five cents for that bookmark well worth it. I'm very
excited about it. show me your bookmarks! alright my next
save the stitches is the quintessential 1970s Hummel under the rain. I actually
had this music box when I was little and it's at and they rotated with the
umbrella. I got this piece. I'm happy about this piece. it's cute. I mean it had
to come home with me it's not really my style anymore, but I just cannot let this
stuff get thrown away. and that's-- I'm presumptuous to assume that nobody else
would have purchased this, but it came home with me nonetheless. and i got this
piece last week before getting sick. i got this piece, and I'm not sure the
building. it's not dated. where who created this or where it was made, but
it's got the horse and buggy the, so I assumed this might be in
Pennsylvania, but you can totally correct me if you know the designer. I love it
though. and then this last piece I got last month, and again it's one of those [pieces], I
saw the frame and I said, "I love the frame. I want the frame. give me the frame!" and
then I see, you know, this. I'm like, "oh it looks like it's stitching." and it is! Ta-Da! now
you can still see the where the hoop was it's not stretched as you can see it's
got like it's like wonky whew, and it's on sticky board it's mounted on sticky
board and it pops right out and again love the frame. I feel like this needs to
be converted into a pillow or something else. tell me below what we should do
with this. anywho. that's my save the stitches this week. so we talked about
library books, tobacco, I never thought I'd be talking about tobacco, Oh
they also said with the the bobbin lacing in Puerto Rico they stuffed that
they used old drawers or old like fruit bins and stuff and they stuffed it with
wood shavings hello Theresa and stuffing stuff with
wood shavings ,right? and banana leaves! I think that's so awesome.
now I'm not advocating that we stuff our stuff with banana leaves, but I really
like the idea of using the resources available and sustainable stuff. [Laughs] Anywho,
banana leaves, banana pants [singing] "bop bop bop bop bop ahhhh!." Oh speaking of banana
pants... Giveaway!. Alright congratulations [Monique Wilkes] you win the Banana Pants Yellow and the
Purdy Orange. so exciting. and the little embellishment. now add this on like a
scissor fob or add it to your finishing you don't have to put it directly on the
pattern. okay and here is Banana Pants Purdy. love
it. and I'm working... I'm working on the next in this Small and Sweet Sampler
Series, and I cannot wait to show you I'm so excited.
okay for our next giveaway is, Let's do Coffee. now I know a lot of you don't
drink coffee or overseas to drink tea. I love tea. I'm an equal-opportunity hot
beverage enthusiast. love me some hot beverages. now that it's getting cold up
here in North America in my neck of the woods on the mid-atlantic
I love decaf coffee, I love caffeinated coffee, I pretty much haven't met a
coffee that I didn't like except sugar free stuff I can't have
aspartame but that's a whole nother thing anywho uh I love coffee tell me
below something dealing with coffee. don't say giveaway, you know, you know, you
know how it goes. tell me your favorite hot beverage if
you don't like coffee if you'd like to win this.
please don't say giveaway you know you know the deal. alright my last little bit
of business before we wrap up is just to say thank all of you for being so
patient with me. my notebook that you've all asked me
about the stitching notebook where you can track your inventory in your
stitching. it's on its way. my proof copy. but I wanted to show you like a little
sneak peek of it. okay what held me up last month September not
October but held me up September was the cover art, and what I wanted to do
for my cover. well I got over myself, I got the cover art done. i I drew it. it's
done. it's out in the universe ,and I love it. I hope you all love the cover of it
too, but I couldn't just have an inventory notebook. I had to have more
than that. I wanted to show you how to use the inventory notebook. well how do I
do that? well I have to include a pattern don't I? yeah.
I do I need to include a pattern to show you how to use all of the facets of the
notebook and how to organize it. so what did I do?
I made a sampler out of fonts, out of fancy fonts because I love fonts. I feel
like I'm yelling at you. I'm sorry. I'm so excited! I-- what a great time to be alive!
I mean, make all the things. so here we go. I changed the name it's no longer
Ardith's Sampler it's Fancy Font Sampler, but... is that exciting?! this pattern is
going to be in a notebook along with another pattern so there you're gonna
get two patterns and 100 pages. 100 pages to write about your projects. 100 pages.
the total book count it's like 113 pages plus extra so it
comes out to like 115 pages. and I am thrilled. and I'm excited, and I'm hoping
that if not next Flosstube like two Flosstubes from now I can debut it, but
again if you like fonts as much as me... there we go! there's a look a little peek
I'm so excited and yes the notebook will be in a
giveaway in a couple weeks so just you know stay tuned. I suck at surprises! I
just had to show you. all right thank you all so much for tuning in this week.
congratulations to my giveaway winner [Monique Wilkes]. please just know how much I appreciate
you, and that you matter, the stitching that you do is awesome, and you matter.
and hey I love you. thanks for tuning in, have a great week, and I'll see you next
Wednesday.
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