hello again FlossTube I'm back for another installment of me talking about
cross stitch my name is Beth Twist if you've never visited my channel before
welcome and I'm so glad to invite you into my living room I normally try to
shoot during the daytime when I have natural light but my life is full of
Nashville prep these days and it just hasn't worked out during the daytime so
I'm using my fancy photography light and does a pretty good job of mimicking
natural light so it was either that or I was like orange from we still have some
of my kitchen is in front of me this way and living room back here all of my
stuff is set up on the kitchen bar we're mostly switched over to LED lights in
the kitchen but we still have some remaining compact fluorescents and
they're very Orange so anyway I didn't mean to go off and tell you all of those
things maybe I'll start over again No no point
so this is FlossTube episode 15 and I'm gonna talk about some fun stuff today
I don't have a whole lot so this might be short or I could go off on a bunch of
rabbit trails I don't know first thing on my list which I will put
in front of me so I don't keep looking down is a gigantic thank you to anybody
who has supported me in my little charity chart venture you guys have
knocked my socks off I'm just I'm thrilled with the positive response I've
gotten from my charts if you're not familiar with what I'm talking about go
watch my previous video number 14 basically I have a series of four charts
and they're all just black lettering on linen and each one is going to benefit a
particular charity that's a favorite of mine it's hard to choose which one of
the four is my favorite but I really like what all four of them do and the
specifics are in that video and it's not a real long one so you could hop over
there and watch that now and then come back and catch up with me here one thing
I did want to mention is something that I don't normally do
I had a misspelling on one of the charts now if you know me in real life you know
that I'm a bit of a grammar nazi and I always catch misspellings in everything
and I've even been known to not go into an establishment because they have
signage out front that is misspelled and it it's I don't know why it bothers me
but it bothers me my feeling is that if you're gonna put something forth for the
public you should make sure it's spelled right right well it came back to
bite me on the love chart instead of having it say persevere it says
persevers I know right so the good thing about this is that
somebody was brave enough to say something say hey I don't think you
spelled that word right and I was like what no not me I always spell everything
right checked it out sure enough so before any charts went out in the mail
the charts were corrected the charts instead of saying I couldn't just fit an
e into this line it was gonna crowd the letters too much so instead of saying
love always perseveres it says it always perseveres love never fails
so all charts that were mailed out are corrected they are not gonna match the
cover but they will spell all the words correctly so I just wanted to let you
know if you are one of the people that decided to support the love charity and
buy the love chart you don't have to worry your chart has all the words
spelled correctly the cover I am just gonna leave it the way it is because it
kind of makes me chuckle at myself and
one of the things that draws me to needlework in the first place or drew me
in the first place were the antique schoolgirl samplers and I guarantee you
not very many of those girls stitched an entirely perfect piece of artwork
there's misspellings there's dropped letters there's wonkiness all over the
place and it's one of the things I love dearly about them and so having my model
which says persevers is only going to be a smile inducing thing for me but
your models your models your stitched pieces from the chart will have the
correct spelling another thing happened clearly I was in a hurry to release
these in my excitement because somehow in my design software I flipped the
titles for the hope and the faith charts so basically the scripture that goes
with the faith chart on the chart itself said hope words to live by hope and
vice-versa so when my helper folded and packed the charts she as she should have
went by the title and so all of the faith charts saying words to live by
faith but it was the scripture from the hope chart and vice versa and
unfortunately I sent out the first shipment of those before
the error was caught and so I reached out to each one of those people directly
through Etsy because that's where all of the orders have been placed and each one
of you if you haven't seen it yet you have a message from me with a PDF
attached to it with the correct chart so if you're one of those people from the
very first week of orders you ordered either the hope or the faith chart go
check go check your go check your chart first and see if the scripture that's in
it matches what's on the front of your cover and if it doesn't go find an etsy
conversation from me and it'll have a PDF attached to it that you can print
off if you don't have a printer if you can't print it at home just reply to the
message and say hey Beth I don't have the ability to do this could you please
mail me the correct chart and I will gladly do that so all good intentions
aside there were a few little blunders with this series coming out but it has
been nothing but a positive experience for me and I'm really encouraged by the
response and I'm excited today is the last day of January and I'm excited
probably tomorrow to tally up what the total was for each chart I know for a
fact that I'm going to be able to donate at least $200 to each of those charities
that's quite a few charts I'm if you combine all four of them
that's because I'm giving $10 from each the sale of each chart so that's at
least 80 charts that were sold over the last couple weeks so that's exciting to
me and here's the thing I didn't want everybody to buy them right up front
because what I'm hoping is that some of you are holding back and will choose to
buy them at a later date because these charts for the rest of my designing
career are going to be available and the proceeds will always benefit charity
there may be a point in time when I have to divert the funds to a different
charity I don't foresee that happening because all four of these establishments
have been around for a long time and I don't see them going away so anyway 10
years from now you could be watching this video and say oh hey that's cool
that she has that go check my shop whatever shop I have at that point in
time whether it's Etsy or my own website those charts will be there listed and
they'll still be for charity so don't feel like you have to run out and do
this now I also have ideas for three more words to add on and I'm trying to
come up with a four and it won't be for another four charities it will be for
the same four so for example you could buy the words to live by
love and one of the future ones that I come up with and they would both benefit
the same charity that makes sense I probably won't do that for a while
earliest I would say I would do that would be next January so if you like
that idea let me know always comment below my videos or reach out to me
through private convo through my email I love interacting with you guys I don't
always have time especially right now with market on the horizon to answer
each one of you individually but I read all your comments and
I will always give you a thumbs up or a heart or something like that and then if
my brain pieces together an answer right there on the spot I'll I'll answer you
but often my brain is frozen and I'm just reading the comments and smiling so
thank you for all of your interaction with me thank you for supporting my my
fun little idea moving on what have I been doing lately
well I've been drinking out of my new mug from my BFF I got this this is my
favorite color or close to my favorite color and hers is pink and she was out
somewhere and she saw this mug came in pink and in this color and so she got us
matching mugs I drink coffee she drinks tea doesn't matter
variety is the spice of life so I've been enjoying this mug and because it's
evening I can't drink caffeine or I won't sleep so I am drinking the next
best thing which is tea and its propping up my daffodils I just thought I'd share
a little bit of spring no these are not blooming at my house not even close
we are probably still two months out from daffodils
but I saw these at the market and I couldn't resist who can resist a little
tiny cute little daffodil they're brightening up my kitchen right now
Rishi is the brand and it's turmeric ginger it's warm spicy it's a little bit
sweet you don't have to add anything to it it's perfect just the way it is and
it's good for you so that's what I'm drinking right now what you still see
those yeah there they are
oh shoot I forgot to get that to show you know maybe I'll show it in the later
video so in September it will have been 20 years since my husband and I got
married and we spent all of our time dating working on this house together I
did not live out here with him until after we got married he but he was
spending so much time out here if I wanted to see him I was learning home
improvement not home improvement I was learning construction on the fly never
done anything like this before I learned how to operate a chop saw I learned how to
stain wood it was sheetrock stage when we started
dating and so I did a lot of painting and sanding and all of that fun
finishing type work because he had a contractor to do the big jobs that he
really was the general contractor and all of the finish work was done by us
anyway it's not a very big house it's almost 1,700 square feet which is good
for a family of four but when it gets challenging is when you're a family of
four who likes to entertain and you don't have a true dining room we
basically have a breakfast nook and so I can't sit people at a table and have
like a nice lovely dinner we have to eat out of our laps in the living room and
all we have room for in the living room is a sofa a loveseat and a chair and
then when we have a larger group like bringing in wooden chairs from the
dining room and people sit on the floor and we have always dreamed of having a
large gathering room where we could fit more people the other dream we've always
had is of living out the rest of our lives here and all of the bedrooms are
upstairs and we are cognizant of the fact that when we get older we may not
want to climb those stairs every day we might want to stay on one story
so the plan from day one like literally while we're building the house we're
talking about someday when we add on so fast-forward to today we have a 13 year
old and an 11 year old who are still sharing a bedroom
boy and girl by the way because the third bedroom upstairs is my office and
now my husband's new job his corporate headquarters are in Texas and we're in
Oregon and so he's able to work from home a lot my kids are home-schooled
three days a week and it gets really tough in here because I'm trying to work
let's see if you guys can you see that little little doorway right there that
is where my the designing happens my computer lives in the under the closet
Harry Potter closet I said closet twice it's okay you still
like me right so I'll be right there
at my computer trying to think and design and respond to emails and answer
questions and the kids are that way in the dining room at the table dining room
breakfast nook doing their schoolwork and the Hubbs is right behind me on the
love seat conference calling it's hard to concentrate so over the Christmas
break I cleared some space on master bedroom upstairs and basically like
wiped everything off of a table and said here this is your new office and so
he'll be upstairs conference calling I can still hear every word he says
but it's muffled and not quite as distracting and the kids have learned to
put headphones on and it's all good and I'm up and down the stairs because
computers here and then there's the stairs right there
filing cabinets printer supplies everything is upstairs and so it can be
seem kind of crazy around here some days so that was a really long story
we finally are at the point where we're ready to start putting pencil to paper
and I've been having a lot of fun lately sketching out ideas for what we're gonna
do and we add on basically we're looking for more pantry space and it's gonna be
probably a large butler's pantry type of a room with floor-to-ceiling shelves but
it's not just gonna be kitchen pantry it's gonna be games it's gonna be linens
it's gonna be finally a place for the vacuum cleaner and broom to live instead
of being crammed in a corner we're gonna have a large gathering room like I
talked about master bedroom suite at the end and then with a loft above we want
vaulted ceilings and a loft for kids to hang out in I dream of having a table
with a puzzle on it that stays out all the time so anytime I want I can go put
in a couple of pieces on my puzzle and walk away currently I'm kind of all-in
if I start a puzzle I either need to finish it or it has to get crammed under
a couch because there's nowhere for it to live I know a lot of you understand
because you also live in small houses I'm just excited that our dream might
become reality we're oh we're also talking about putting in under a section
of the addition we have the perfect slope to put in a daylight basement that
would be large enough for the farm boy to have an office and then also maybe a
ping-pong table kind of a hangout room for teenage kids maybe a band room so I
can have my amp set up in my guitars out all the time and have my band friends
over and we can actually have a place to rehearse without being in the middle of
everything so anyway that's something else I've been doing lately
I am gonna pause because I have something I want to read to you okay
something else I've been doing lately since just before Christmas
I've been dream journaling I know right so I have crazy vivid dreams and I have my
whole life I don't tend to sleep very well and so I'm in and out of sleep a
lot and I think that contributes to the fact that I remember my dreams I think
we all have crazy dreams I just happen to be able to remember
them but you know what it's like when the dream is fresh and vivid first thing
in the morning and you're like oh that was you know a great dream or oh that
was creepy or you know whatever and then by the afternoon it is vanished
sometimes by 15 minutes after you woke up it's vanished
so I've often toyed with the idea of writing my dreams down and I've never
done it until now I decided now's the time so most of my dreams lately the
vast majority of them have been maybe not the vast majority of them but about
probably one in every three dreams has to do with market and here's you know
when I write some of them are just a few lines some of them are longer there's a
couple of dreams that took up two pages I had to had a dream about taking my
sister to Hobby Lobby but we couldn't we couldn't find the cross-stitch section
and they kept like telling us oh it's back that way and we ended up in this
big empty flooded warehouse that we're paddling through and they're like keep
going you're almost there and at the way back of the warehouse I finally found
the cross-stitch section you I know I know you guys get it because you're cross
stitchers but I've been having dreams a lot of dreams about market and I'm not
finding them offhand so I'm gonna quit rifling through this but Idreamed that
everybody is going to Kathy Barrick's room hi Kathy who's two doors down from
me at market which we're excited about we like interacting especially on Sunday
when it gets really slow we just go out to the railing and chat and it's it's
fun I enjoy Kathy a lot but one of my dreams everybody wanted to be in her
room and they were just walking past my door all weekend and not coming in and I
dreamed that I forgot all of my models at home and all I had to decorate my
suite with was a dead Christmas tree and so I was doing my best to try to like
make it look pretty and interesting and like kept vacuuming up and sweeping up
the dead needles that were falling out of the tree what else I dreamed I forgot
my invoices you get the drift right so far I have not been in my underwear at
market usually the underwear dreams are not market for some reason I don't know
I'm gonna I'm not gonna answer that
telemarketer sorry forgot to turn my ringer off anyway dream journaling if
you don't do it if you have dreams you should start dream journaling it's
really fun like just since in the last month I've
had some doozies and they're dreams that probably I wouldn't remember today
except I wrote them down and so it'll be good for a chuckle to pick that up from
time to time and just read back through my dreams I have been really enjoying
this essential oil blend it's in my diffuser right now I get my essential
oils through Rocky Mountain oils I like the fact that they're not a they're not
one of those how do I say this nicely doterra and
young living you have to go through a rep to get your oils and usually your
rep reports to another rep who reports to another rep you know what I'm talking
about it's not a problem my sister-in-law actually is a rep for
Young Living I could get my oils through her but Rocky Mountain oils has been
around for a really long time they bought a company that's been making
essential oil since the 70s and you know the original hippies that were making
essential oil and you can go directly to their website and buy their oils I find
that their quality is really good I'm really pleased with all of the oils that
I've bought through them and I've bought quite a few I don't benefit from telling
you this by the way I just happen to like this company anyway energize is
what I've been diffusing lately and it's so good it's lime and cloves that's
all it is I don't know what the ratio is if your essential oil people you could
probably make your own if you have lime and cloves or you can get lime I don't know
or you could go to Rocky Mountain and then get their energize it's really lovely
something else I've been enjoying lately
this ceramic ice cream cone made my by my daughter in her art class she's
unhappy that the cone is yellow she wanted it to be like a tan color but she
did it all look at the little sprinkles on top and the chocolate I just wanna I
just want to eat it up and I'm jealous the fact that she gets to do ceramics at
school because I was that girl who wanted art classes so badly and I never
to this day have not taken one single art class in my life is that sad when my
kids are older I am going to make a point
of taking some art classes through our local community college
they'll have to be probably evening I don't know I guess I could do them
during the day why not I'm my own boss I can give myself a day
off to take an art class so my turn will come I want to learn pottery I want to
take a landscape painting class even though I'm not good at painting maybe I
can be OK at painting would be fun to take a photography class
I don't know I just want to take art classes so I enjoy this because my
daughter is having the fun of art classes and I can just vicariously
enjoy through her what else is that all oh no not all one more thing besides the
daffodils I was gonna point out but I already did
oh I don't know if you've heard of a man named David Schump he goes by tramp art
I'm probably gonna edit that out
he goes by The Art Tramp you can find him online
at The Art Tramp dot com I'll put the address down below so you can copy and
paste it into your browser he makes fantastic boxes and sewing
sewing related things and they're all inspired by Tramp art from the old days
which if you're not familiar with tramp art it was generally made by people that
they called tramps because they were homeless or on the move that people that
moved around a lot and they would get cigar boxes and they would cut them and
notch them in a particular way and they would make art out of them picture
frames and all kinds of things you should google sometime folk art tramp
art folk tramp art antique tramp art but definitely look David up so I've been
aware of him for quite some time and have looked at his pieces online and
envied the people that had them because I just like what he does but never never
made the step to get any for myself and several months ago he contacted me and
said you know I saw this paper cutting that you had done with an Adam and Eve
a tree of life and I really really liked it and I wonder if you would consider
making one for me and I don't know if you know this but before I was selling
my cross stitch patterns I dabbled in all kinds of different early
forms of art like paper cutting and needle punch and wool applique and I
would sell my finished pieces on eBay so he had seen one of the
things that I had done that was a paper cutting I was like oh I don't know if
have time for this but maybe if I wasn't doing it as like a commission but if I
was doing it as a trade I would have more motivation and he's like that's a
great idea let's do it so bless his heart he was so patient
because we started this conversation last July or August and I just this
week got my finished piece in the mail to him he sent me mine before Christmas
and now I'm gonna show you you guys are gonna die okay so this right here is the
what's reminiscent of tramp art can you see how it's stepped and it's got little
notches cut out of it so he has you know cut each of those pieces individually
put them all on there and it's the heart in hand but then he made this Emery
filled velvet pin cushion and this spectacular antique mother-of-pearl
button and then it's got the holes for threads I don't think I'm gonna be able
to bring myself to actually use it I think I'm just gonna look at it but then
he had this antique Bible that's just falling apart and he wanted to use pages
from the Bible in the project that I made for him and he suggested maybe he
could use a page from the Bible on mine and what's my favorite book of the Bible
and so I thought about it and I told him the book of Ephesians I said up because
it's the Epistle you see that focus be an epiffle of Paul the Apoffle
to the Ephesians because it's Old English so it's adhered to the back and
it's just perfect in every way some gold on the sides and it came it
came with this sheet of the Bible a page also from the Epiffle of Paul the
Apoffle to the Ephesians so I just wanted to brag about that I'm also I'm
gonna take some pictures and put it on social media and I'm sorry I can't show
you what I made for him because it's already been mailed off but I did take
pictures so if I ever get back around to blogging again or perhaps aftermarket
when I have time to go through my pictures I may put it on Instagram
maybe my blog I've been I don't think I've posted any new content other than
new releases on my blog since last March maybe into the summer I can't remember
but it's just for some reason has fallen to the wayside I think Instagram I think
it's instagrams fault it's really easy to just snap a picture and put a little
caption on it and off I go and with my blog I have to you know go sort through
my pictures choose them edit them upload them and it's not just a single picture
and caption typically it's you know a couple paragraphs I don't know I would
like to get back to it mostly for my daughter to be honest she loves reading
it it's like the family photo album for her so anyway at some point you'll get
to see pictures of what I made for him it's completely unique nothing I've ever
made before and who knows maybe at some point in the future if I'm in a spot
where I need a design to release because there's a portion of what I did for him
is cross stitched I might try to persuade him to let me
release it but I don't know I might just keep it as a one-time unique item that
nobody else ever has we'll see I don't know I don't like to
make those decisions right now I'll think about it
um okay now this video is getting longer than I expected
yay aren't we happy more time together I'm gonna move these daffodils out of
the way hope you enjoyed them while they were there hear those lovelies they're
still just in their little pot on a saucer but I am thoroughly enjoying them
on my kitchen windowsill I want to show you a WIP I know right well sadly for
you it's not one of my designs because I'm not ready to give sneak peeks of my
Nashville releases yet and that's all I'm working on right now but I have a
little design that is my car my car project that I primarily work on when my
kids are in their piano lessons they have back-to-back half-hour lessons and
so once a week I sit in the car for an hour and stitch and I saw this is a free
chart by Barbara Ana and it's a biscornu pin cushion and it's called Friscornu
yeah I know so I love her colors I love the whimsy of her designs and
I've never stitched one of her designs because I'm always stitching my own so I
decided you know what it's time so I grabbed a piece of linen from my stash
which is no longer available this is an R&R Reproductions classic homespun
but it's 35 count which they no longer have manufacturers made it difficult to
get or maybe not available at all
I think this color is still available just not in 35 count so that's all I
have done is a little bit of the vines oh my battery light is flashing
and I don't have a large collection of DMC's and I want to stitch it with DMC
so I chose DMC colors that honor the overall look of Barbara Ana's design but
are not the called for colors now I'm feeling rushed as my camera are you just
gonna die on I need to just go plug it in for a minute and then come back and
do more recording make pancakes for my kids and then come back after I eat
dinner I think I'm gonna do that so here's a little cut and then see you
again on the other side Oh juice my battery up part way
hopefully enough my tea is now cold but this tea still taste good when it's
cold so it's okay I think the last thing I told you about was my WIP which is
this Frida Kahlo tribute by Barbara Ana and it's going to become a biscornu
pin cushion which I'm excited about making and I'm having fun with the
colors so that is that um I want to show you an FFO this is one of my very
first FFOs and I'm showing it to you because I have kept all of the patterns
over the years of all of the cross-stitch pieces I've done except two
of them there are two patterns I can't find and I can't find this one and I
don't know what it's called or who it's by and you might just be the
source for me to figure it out so this was stitched in 1993 try to eliminate
the glare as much as I can this was my first foray into designing
no the overall design was not mine this was all charted it's a little sleeping
boy with his teddy bear under a quilt with hearts but I remember that these
corner medallions were different and there was another section down below
that was charted and the saying was different
and I on my own decided that I wanted to make some changes
now 1993 that was a long time ago I hadn't cross stitched in quite a few
years I had done a couple of projects as a young girl and I was how this is gonna
now you're gonna know how old I am this was my senior year in high school
and I our school was in competition with local schools and we competed in things
like dramatic monologues and vocal singing we would do solos duets trios
ensembles choirs they had athletics and they had all kinds of art categories and
I there was if you were a senior and you competed in I think it was at least
three out of the however many categories there were and if you got a ribbon in
each you had to get a ribbon and like I don't know three categories and if you
did that then you got a special award and I wanted to try for it and so I
added cross stitch too because I knew how to do it I did cross stitch for the
sewing category I did a sketch for the art category I should find that
and show it to you I sketched a teddy bear took me forever because I'm not
good at it I especially can't draw straight from my brain very well but if
I have something right in front of me I can do okay just takes a really long
time and I did what else should I do
I did a recitation dramatic monologue is what we called it and I sang in a couple
of different formations I was in an ensemble and I think I did a quartet and
a duet that year and I ended up getting ribbons in three of the categories and
so I I got the special award this I got a third place in and here's what they
made us do they didn't just look at the front you had to frame it so that the
back was revealed and they also judged you on your backside and if you look at
this right here was it that one yeah that's where I started and they had
certain rules about how many threads you could cross over and they wanted all of
your threads to go up and down and not across and this was the one I started on
or maybe this one I don't remember and it was messy and then once I read the
rules and realized oh it needs to be more tidy and then the rest of it was
tidy and I never I didn't pick it out and redo it and that was the main thing
they marked it down for there's my old handwriting in the name of my school the
old address but what I don't know is what this original pattern was called
and who it was by so if any of you in your vast knowledge of cross stitch have
ever come across this or have it in your stash would you figure out what it is
for me I'd like to locate a copy of the pattern
to put it with my other stash of patterns that I've stitched and I'm
going to pull out some of those and show them to you because you know this is how
I got my origin as a designer is I started the stitching
when I was young and it wasn't something that I did you know for long periods but
I would pick up a project and I would work on it and I enjoyed it and I would
put it down and usually I was making these projects for other people because
I had a hard time finding designs that I wanted to keep and decorate with I
remember anyway that's another topic for another day but I thought you might
enjoy seeing yes I did used to do back stitching never have liked it still
don't like back stitching and let's see on to one more FFO this one is my design
and it's my new release for February yes yay there's a new release in February
you don't have to wait until March for all of my releases I typically try to
release something new every month it might be something small it might be
something larger but I like to have a steady stream of new things for you
because I know you like new things I have a lot of designs oh my goodness I
have a lot of designs I'm on track to hit number 200 at the next Nashville
market I'm dropping a major hit right here but I did something pretty big for
my 100th design and if you go do some searching on my blog you may be able to
figure out what that was that I did for my 100th design and you may be able to
extrapolate there might be something else coming for my 200th design that's
all I'm saying about that anyway I have a lot of designs and it's because I've
consistently put one out new every month sometimes - usually for market I've got
four to six but I have one more for you and this will be distributed so last
month I had the four charts they're never gonna be distributed through needle
workshops you can only buy them through my Etsy and that's because they're for
charity but this one is going to be just a standard old
that will make its way to the distributor and your needlework shops
either exactly from me or because they buy from the distributor so you're gonna
be able to get your hot little hands on this one like right now you don't have
to wait until March to get something new from me are you excited so I'm gonna
first do a little bit of setup this is a
sort of a rerelease but it's also a reboot so if you're part of the Silver
Needle's a little help from our friends stitching circle last year I'm trying to
remember how long ago it was I had a design that I released through
that club they there in fact I believe it's an 18-month rotation and they have
several designers each designer just releases one and then the next rotation
they have a brand new set of designers so this is just my one offering to that
club and I released this chart it goes along with my alphabet series F is for
Friend they asked me to make it completely exclusive to the club and
honestly that's not something I will ever do
completely exclusively but what I told them is that I would be happy when I
rereleased it to change it so that this iteration of this design was only ever
available through their club okay many of you are in that club and may have
already stitched this many of you have asked me when can I get my hands on that
design well the answer is you can go to my Etsy go to your needlework shop you
can get it right now it's available so this is the new version of F is for
Friend and what I did is I change the colors a little bit and so the color
palette is different that's how I just totally compare these
this one is smaller this one was made into a thread ring and this one is
framed so the instructions for making this with into the thread ring you're
only ever gonna get if you were in the club or if you can find somebody who's
willing to part with their club piece that they haven't made it yet that this
F is for Friends I made it's the same it's the same ladies it's me and my BFF
is who it is and but our outfits are oh we swapped sides our outfits are similar
a hair is similar but I enlarged the bouquet I took out the surrounding blue
border it was a lot of fun there's a lot of fun here's the actual model it's in a
frame from the same company signed and numbered you can find them on Etsy and I
have used their frames from my entire alphabet series so far and just love
these frames they're made really well they come in all kinds of great colors
and finishes and they're perfect for a series that's all going to be circular
what else can I say about it oh I could tell you linen is weeks dye works 32
count angel hair the whole series is stitched on 32 count it's a very
approachable size for most people my personal favorite is 36 count but I
think 32 is a more universal size and so this series will all be done on 32 but
this is week's dye works angel hair the threads are combination of classic color
works gentle art and week's dye works because I don't know they were the right
colors for the design
there's the chart does come with a DMC conversion if you want to stitch it in
DMC as well and you're always welcome to just say you know what I don't want my
urn to be gray I want it to be something else and make it purple and
give the ladies different skin tone give them flaming rainbow hair I don't care
what you do with it make it your own make it match you and your BFF and I
hope you enjoy it it's called F for Friend it's number
nine in my alphabet series and available now links below that's all I have to
show you today I'm gonna talk just briefly about what's coming up in 2019
obviously we've got Nashville market coming up it's the first weekend in
March I have three weeks left to have everything done and ready to mail
because I live too far away I can't drive so I can't just like be working on
things up to the last minute and then throw them in the back of my car and
drive like some people have the ability to do everything has to be shipped so
the models have to be shipped I try to ship them a full week plus a couple
extra days before my arrival in Nashville so I'll arrive on Thursday
which is February 28th and then Friday is setup day and then the market opens
on Saturday and Sunday and then Monday is my travel home day so I want
everything to be there when I get there and the hotel received for a couple days
ahead and so I start shipping everything out about a week and a half before
market so that just gives me much time to finish I'm doing okay but I have sick
design that I'm releasing this year think I did six last year maybe five the
year before the first couple years I only did three and that was a lot of
work so I have six new designs two of them are the sampler and the pin cushion
from the Dyeing to Stitch retreat in April of was that 2016 it was a while ago 2017
I don't remember what year it was so the 65 to 70 however many attendees
were at that retreat are the only people that have had this all this time and I'm
finally releasing those to the public so that'll be fine
I have another sampler so that's number four and then five and six are both
gonna be exclusives that you can only get through a needle workshop that
attends market do I want to drop any hints no you'll have to wait till my
next video so my next video the next time you see
me here I will be revealing my releases I'll actually show you the models I'll
talk about them more extensively and my two exclusives you are gonna love one of
them one of the two is gonna hit every one of you in the right place well most
of you I I can't say every one of you not all of you are going to love them
but I'm excited about them and I think you will be too so and then I'm working
on a couple of little extras little fun you know like finished items for needle
workshops to put on their counter and sell and one of them is pendants which
I've done before but I'm doing them differently they're gonna have different
designs in them and they may or may not be double-sided so you can flip them and
then I'm working on something else but I don't want to talk about it yet in case
it doesn't pan out I'm I'm not positive how it's gonna work out so that's it my
days are full of market strategy planning talking back and forth with my
good friend Donna who lives just south of Nashville and she has been so kind
all of these years to store my props she receives all of the charts as I get them
shipped out and on probably usually Thursday she loads up her van and it's
full and I used I used props from her house she gave me pictures of her house
she's like alright what you want and I'm like I'll use that bench and how about
those little steps and can I use that that that and so I used I shop her house
because the first couple years I didn't use
props I just had cloths on tables and it just needed something to jazz it up some
of these rooms that I would go into it market are amazing because these are
designers that live closer and they will literally fill a u-haul and drive it to
Nashville and they have everything under the Sun and there it's like walking into
a boutique and I will never achieve that with my room Oregon and Nashville are
too far apart but Donna has made it possible for my room to be much more
welcoming and inviting and she doesn't charge me rent I don't know where she
stashes all of my stuff but I try to keep it condensed into like one or two
totes worth but she keeps an inventory and then now is the time that we're
emailing back and forth and trying to remember what did we say last year we
wanted to remember this year when we want to change what I want to do
different so that's Donna Gabbard and then Ann Wise is gonna come help me
again this year Thank You Ann she jumped on board last year her family used to
live in the area and so they drove and got a room in the hotel and her husband
and kids visited friends and she helped me out and it was fantastic and let me
tell you I needed two helpers last year so I'm excited to spend time with those
lovely ladies again and hang out with my designer friends and my shop owner
friends and vendor friends and I wish we actually had time to spend together
other than quick hugs in the hallway but market is a really fun fun time and I'm
can you tell I'm looking forward to it even though sometimes my dreams are
would make you think that I had anxiety about it I really don't it's more just
you know crossing things off the list and so you know things like I hadn't
ordered my invoices yet and so I had the dream that I forgot my invoices and so
the next morning what did I do first thing I ordered
my invoices so they're now upstairs in the office waiting to be mailed to
Nashville so I think that's all the rambling for now let me check my list Oh
what else is coming so Nashville obviously is the next thing and then in
May I will be at the Tudor Rose sampler guild and I have two projects that I am
taking I'm gonna do I think it's gonna look like a morning class in an
afternoon class and they want to do the pins and orts project that I took to
salty yarns so I'm gonna teach that class and then I have a sampler that
I've charted and that I'm in the process of reproducing for my local Historical
Society I think I've talked about it on here maybe I'm not going to show it yet
but at some point I will so that'll be the other class is and it's not really
gonna be a class it's gonna be me talking about what it was like for me to
reproduce it and I'm hoping that the museum comes together with some
information on the girl that stitched it originally they currently are trying and
are having a hard time taking up information on her in June I will have a
design Oh also in May my first design should be coming out for the kindred
spirits club through Dyeing to Stitch I saw the first design for that it's
Paulette plum street samplers has given out some peeks of her first design for
the club and it's pretty great and so in May you will see my design and
then you will realize what the common thread is
our designs for the year and then in June I will have a piece out for the
club that the Tomorrow's Heirlooms shop in Chicago area puts on and then in July
I have just said yes to something Christmasy Christmas in July for crazy
Annie's she always does something fun in the middle of summer
that's Christmasy and so when I get back from Nashville that'll be one of the
first things that I designed because I already have my designs for the other
two clubs charted they just have to be stitched and the charting is I mean the
stitching takes longer but sometimes the charting is more tricky especially if
you have a specific theme or request that's been given you then you're not
working strictly from inspiration you're working off of a request and it can be
challenging so that's what I have coming up for the first part of 2019 I've got
some designs I'm very excited about releasing this year that will be just
direct releases that I'll do through my regular channels it's all great I don't
sometimes I feel silly then I keep designing so many designs
there's no way any of you can keep up with me but that's I also try to keep my
designs different there they're my designs but I like to you know try
different things and experiment and you know this one might not appeal to you
but then the next one might or maybe one a year appeals to you because I have so
many every year so I guess I shouldn't feel silly about it because I I love
that I get to do this and I'm so thankful to you all for watching my
ramblings on this video I'm thankful to those of you who have supported me by
buying my patterns and those of you who have actually stitched them
cuz I know how you are you collect and then the random the random the chosen
few are the ones that you actually work on and the ones that you actually finish
and some of them happen to be my designs and I just thrilled tickled pink so you
keep buying my designs and I will keep trying to put out a new one every month
and I think it's a good deal we should shake on it shake we need
smellivision so you can smell my tea that's what we need okay
now I'm gonna go make pancakes for dinner yes we do that farm boy is coming
home tonight he's been on a week-long business trip and we're excited to see
him although his flight got delayed so he will come sneaking in the door after
we're asleep but it's just good to know that he's gonna be back home and life
can return to our normal so I hope that you're all doing well and enjoying your
stitching I've been seeing all kinds of fun challenges out there and you guys
inspire me so much you make me sometimes wish that I wasn't designing and
stitching my own designs just so I could stitch what all of you all are stitching
but I'll save that for 20 years down the road when I decided to retire I think I
can design that long I'm gonna try alright that's it see you all soon bye
bye I don't think I've ever seen a morning
rainbow before it's like really foggy and overcast and the Sun is just coming
out and there's a complete well it's broken in places but it goes on both
sides of the house
sorry if I just made you dizzy that my friends is the neighbor's cat it sits
and watches our house for hours on end
creepy or friendly you decide
whatcha working on? what, are you recording a video? hi. just show me what pattern you're working what is that
character called Kirby from what videogames from Kirby
I know but most of the people watching this video don't know so "What, is this going on FlossTube?" Yes, it's going
on FlossTube because we're at Acorns and Threads for the Pacific Northwest
Meetup okay and for the first time we are here and I brought my kids
so what are you stitching on Little Miss Twist we're not supposed to show charts
on on here I know but this is a freebie so it's okay so who what cats are these? "These are the cats that I've ever had in my life, Freaky
Strange and Socks" is this your first real cross stitch project "Yep" are you enjoying it? "Yep" the
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