Y'all, this never happens, I'm setting up and look who came to say hi. It's Bailey!
Come on, give 'em your good side. Come here.
Hey, what's this?
Hello. Not over there. Over here.
I tried.
Hey there Flosstube, it's Jessica, the Schoolhouse Stitcher, and welcome to my channel.
First of all I wanted to say thank you so much for your very, very kind and very positive response to my last video.
It's good to be back. It's good to feel like myself again. And I really enjoyed reading through all of your comments.
If I haven't yet responded to yours, don't worry. I'm getting to them.
I've been a little busy this past week working on the
newsletter for the Sampler Guild that I'm in, so--it's my first time doing that, so I came up with--
I was doing the layout and trying to figure out how I wanted it to look and what information I needed, so that took up a
little bit of--a little bit of time that I normally use for responding to comments this past week.
First off on the agenda today, I know everyone wants to know who won Lizzie Kate's Joy to the World.
I had a lot of interest in this one.
118 people said that they were interested. I plugged that into random number generator and the winner is
comment number 9, which is Gina Strickland. So Gina, congratulations.
I will have--by the time this comes up, I will have commented on your comment to that video.
If you could send me your mailing address.
You can email me at schoolhousestitcher-- all one word--at gmail.com.
And like I said, I'll also--I'll post on
your comment, so you can get in touch with me, and I can get this out to you. And I hope you enjoy stitching it.
Lots to show you this week.
So the last couple weeks, I--
I guess with the New Year, it seemed like a good time to wrap up some projects.
So I was a finishing fool.
Not finishing the piece, but FFO--FFOing fool. So lots of things to go over.
I kind of did it in two stages. The first day I decided I was going to pull out my
sewing machine and do what I could that just involved
stuffing, like, pillow ornaments and things. So I did that,
and
the first thing I did
was I finished my niece's ornament.
This is
from the Prairie Schooler's Two by Two.
I just made it into a little pillow ornament backed with this fabric from JoAnn, and
I did a ruched ribbon
using Vonna, The Twisted Stitcher's tutorial.
This one I did a
v-shaped
ruching
and took it almost to the edge, so that's why it's a little--
if you can see,
it has these kind of tight loops going back and forth.
Yeah, I'm really happy with how this turned out. And stuffed it--I also bought some Mountain Mist
polyfill at Vonna's suggestion, and I really like that.
It's--as you can see that's a--that's a pretty firm ornament.
So I think it'll stand up to the rigors of a three-year-old pretty well. I hope so.
I haven't yet gotten this to them because,
as you saw in my last video, I didn't finish--I finished the stitching before Christmas,
but clearly I didn't put it together until after Christmas. So I don't want to trust it to the mail,
so I'm just gonna wait until I see my brother and sister-in-law again and give this to them.
And I did hand-stitch the trim down. I'm trying to remember how I did that.
Yeah, I think--I think I just picked up like a little piece of ribbon, a little piece of this, and just kind of went
back
and forth around it. There's that.
And the back again.
I hope she likes--I hope my niece likes that. She's been really into giraffes this year.
All right, and the next few things I finished were from
the Colonial Gatherings Club from Dyeing to Stitch. The first one is a piece that went with
The Scarlett House, Button Posies. I showed that piece
FFO'd in my Finish Parade. I also stitched the little scissor fob that goes with it.
And I went ahead and stuffed that.
So the rickrack came with the kit, the fabric, the button came with the kit, and
the fabric--or the backing fabric, rather.
I thought I had a piece to show you that I was gonna talk about and now I can't find it.
It's probably on my couch.
Oh well. Anyway.
This thing
caused me a lot of trouble.
So first of all I sewed it together, and I realized--I turned it wrong side out, and I'm stuffing--or I
turn it right side out, and I'm like, I get it, and it looks like this. I'm like,
Where's--where's the thing?
Yeah, I had sewed it so that the hanger
was touching the wrong sides
instead of the right sides. So the hanger was inside. So I'm like, I'm not gonna
rip all this out and sew it again, so I just opened up a couple stitches at the top,
pulled the ribbon through--
well, turned it wrong side out opened up a hole at the top, pulled the ribbon through
so it was facing the right way, and then just ran back and forth and stitched that closed and then turned it again.
I was trying to show you the tool that I used to--I guess I really don't have it. Boo.
I was trying to show you the tool that I use to
thread this through the the stitch, because I tried, like, just
poking it in there, and it was really annoying and fiddly. I use a tool called a bodkin.
I'll see if I can find a picture and insert that here.
But that is an
incredibly, incredibly helpful tool if you need to--
like this thin ric rac. I was able to insert it through the eye of the bodkin and then just pull it through.
So easy. The rounded part of the bodkin, you can use for turning corners.
And it's also really, really great for threading elastic. No more safety pin.
You know, a bodkin, it's like this long, so you just--
like, you can safety-pin your elastic to the eye
and then just pull it through the casing, and it's so easy.
They're not very expensive. They're maybe five bucks.
Maybe less.
I think the brand name is Dritz, but I'll put-- like I said, I'll put a picture in.
That's a very, very handy tool if you're going to be doing any kind of finishing. It will save you untold aggravation.
So yeah, this is the--this is the scissor fob.
That was FFO number two,
Sorry about the lighting. It's a--
it's kind of early in the morning here, and it's very, very bright. My windows are like right here.
I actually have my blinds closed on
two of them because the light was too bright, but whenever I move, the lighting switches from my face
to my hair.
And it gets a little--a little too bright. It's weird. I'm not sure how to fix that, so bear with me.
All right, my last--or my third FFO from pillow day was my favorite. This is
a Plum Street Samplers design. I think it's called Pennsylvania Fraktur. It was, like I said, a club kit from
Dyeing to Stitch. Their Colonial Gatherings Club.
It says "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" stitched over one.
And then the rest is stitched one over two. I think this is a
36 count.
I cannot remember the fabric name because it all came with the kit.
I backed it with this fabric that came with the kit. That's a little--there we go.
And the kit actually came with a pom-pom trim.
I could not figure out that pom-pom trim y'all. It just--it was
so tight and curly that I could not, like, I could not pin it around the thing.
And she said that she cut off part of it
and then glued it around. I couldn't figure out how to do that either. I tried cutting part of it; it just unraveled.
So after about three attempts, I gave up on the pom-pom trim and said nope, not gonna do that.
So I found this ribbon at Joann.
It's a ribbon with a little jute or burlap type
layer on it. So you can use it facing this way, or if you flip it around
it's just gonna be like a white or a cream-colored lacy ribbon.
I really liked that. I thought it went really well with this piece.
The one thing I didn't realize until I was putting it together is that this--
the burlap piece unravels on the edges, so that meant that I had to sew this on twice. Basically I went around
one time and caught
this edge, and then I went around another time and caught this edge so that both of those ends would be
really secure, and it wouldn't unravel on me later. Because
there is nothing worse than finishing a piece,
FFOing it, and
having your FFO just like,
disintegrate.
Nope, pass on that.
But I'm really happy with how this one turned out.
I usually have a lot of trouble stuffing these rectangular pieces. I don't know if--for some reason, I just can't get it right.
This one, I think looks better than my previous attempts, so--but I think next time I'm gonna try either
putting two pieces on the back and kind of having a little slit in the middle or just
cutting it. Cutting a slit in the middle and stuffing it from there. We'll see how that goes.
All right, that was the day of pillows.
Then later I decided to have another FFO day and
I did the FFO of
flat ornaments.
So the first few things I did--these are not completely finished.
I need to put hangars on them, but it will give you an idea, and I'll show them whenever I finish the hangars.
I finished these little
Janlynn kits.
Whoops. That's the back.
These nutcracker bears. Bear and Horn and Bear and Garland.
I finished these a long time ago, and I just never sewed the--the hats on.
I don't know why.
So I finished both of those.
I'm gonna put a hanger on them and because they seem--
even though they're plastic canvas, they seem
almost flimsier than the--like they don't want to hold their shape as well as my perforated paper ornaments.
They kind of--
I don't know.
They kind of lean, like you can see that one leans forward a bit.
So I think I'm gonna look for
something I can put on the back. Maybe some adhesive felt. I normally try not to use adhesive in my pieces.
I used to work for
our
archivist at my university,
and then I work with an archivist now on my team at my current job.
So it just kind of gets drilled into you, no adhesive!
Archival measures only! And it's kind of a fun challenge to see if I can find
materials or
develop a way to finish that--that item that
does fit with mostly archival standards.
But anyway, these plastic canvas, I don't care.
I'll just--I'll see if I can find some adhesive felt and put that on, and then those will be finished.
I'm just gonna do a twisted cording, I think, with some--probably red floss.
Throw those on and they'll be good to go.
All right, next one I FF--
partially FFO'd. This needs a twisted cording as well. This is a reindeer. I think it's from Heart in Hand.
Maybe it was one of their, like, Tiny
Trimmings, something like that.
Anyway, this is the only one I ever did. I did this back in college.
Used the same fabric on the back.
And I'm just gonna make a twisted cording and put it around and make a hanger and that'll be done.
To get the round shape, I used mat board.
I was pretty low-tech. I just looked for something that was
the size I wanted this to be, which I think ended up being like,
a spool of ribbon.
Something that was round that I could trace. So I traced that onto
my mat board and
traced it onto my fabric, but traced out like half an inch around so that I would have something to
pull to the back. And just like making a fabric yo-yo, I just ran my thread around the--
around the outside of the circle. Once I'd run it through, I just pulled the thread and it gathers it super neatly
around the outside of the circle.
Gathering it around a circular shape or around anything with curved edges is so much easier
than trying to tack--than trying to like press the pieces down by hand.
So much easier. Just do a running stitch
with some strong thread. I recommend like
upholstery thread, quilting thread--something that--that's got some strength to it, that can take you like pulling it.
Not just regular sewing thread because that's a little thin, unless you're very, very careful.
But just give it a tug and it'll all gather up. I used an iron to press it down to keep it there and then,
because I'm an overachiever,
I went and like just kind of laced the piece. So I would pull up a piece of thread here,
go up here, and down, over, down,
over, down, over. Like I was doing a big--like I was kind of drawing a star.
And that keeps it down really nicely. I then sew the edges together.
And you can tell that the, you know, cutting out mat board, it's not gonna be completely straight.
It's not gonna be completely smooth, because there's only so much you can do with scissors, but once you put the trim on it,
you don't notice. It'll be fine.
You know, once I put that twisted cording on, it's gonna cover up any imperfections, so it'll smooth it out a bit.
You won't be able to tell.
So. Glad that that one will be on my tree after years and years and years in the finish pile.
The next one I partially FFO'd is
the Advent candle freebie I showed in my
finish--my last video, I think.
This is just stitched on 32-count white Belfast by Zweigart, and I backed it with
just a nice purple
fabric. And this will get a purple, I think--
I'm thinking purple. Just go all out purple. This will get a purple twisted cording and
then it'll be ready for the tree.
Maybe this weekend will be twisted cording time.
I really need to stop turning my head all the way, because man, that light when it catches my hair is just like, boom! White light.
All right, next two finishes.
This is another project I did way back in college.
I cannot--so I can't remember the name of the fabric or the name of the
thread. It is a freebie. Christmas Hearts by Janlynn.
Just Nan. Christmas Hearts by Just Nan.
All right.
and this one, I just kind of--because it's such an old
finish,
I decided to use this one as an
experiment with this
rope-like
cording that--or trim that I got at JoAnn.
So I just wanted to see
how I could get that to not unravel on me, and how I could use it in a finish.
So what I ended up doing was actually
dabbing a bit of
glue--I know, adhesive!--onto the very ends of it and letting that dry so that it would not
unravel. So the top looks a little wonky, a little--
you know, the piece is a little--the trim's a little thick, so it takes up a bit of room. But yeah, that's the back.
This is another thing I wanted to experiment with, was centering a
fabric design that fit the shape and just seeing how that would look.
So overall I'm really happy with how this turned out. I also--once I finished it,
I felt it needed a little something, so I just went looking through my stash and found these random beads
that I've had for years. I think they were actually my aunt's when she was a kid,
so they're old.
No offense to my aunt.
For beads that have been hanging out my stash. They've been there a while, basically.
These I just used a straight pin
and
pinned it down.
So I put the pin through the two layers of mat board
to hold it in, and I think that will be fine for my purposes.
Hair, y'all. Hair.
All right, the last one I'm super happy with.
This is by--I believe Needle Bling Designs. It's in a
Just CrossStitch ornament issue, it's on the front cover, but it's done in like
bright red and
just really, really
bright, bright fabric. And I kind of
lightened it a lot. This looks nothing like the original.
But the last time I showed you this, I had sewn it onto the back
and
I finally decided to just use--this is just some like, jute,
some just twine
that I had in my stash. I don't know where it came from. I just had a length of it.
I went through and sewed it around
the end, and then when I got to the bottom, I decided I wanted a little something here.
So I just went to--I think I got this at Michael's.
Just looked for a bead
that I could fit the the twine through, looped it through to hold it on there, and
tied the edges.
And I'm really happy with how that one looks. I wanted it to look a little more rustic
to contrast a little bit with the silver and just the very neat,
kind of classic look of
this blue gray.
I love the fabric. I think that's perfect for
the snow.
Love it. I got this at JoAnn as well.
All right, those are all of the FFOs.
I told you it was a busy couple of weeks. I was--I was a finishing fool.
I did finish one stitched project.
I showed this as a WIP last time. This is
Wooly's Pinkeep by Station--Stacy Nash Primitives. I can't say her name. I couldn't say it last time either.
But this uses the--
that's a truer color. There we go.
This uses the called-for floss and fabric.
It is a 32-count
Belfast in Charcoal by Weeks--
by Zweigart.
I don't use Weeks.
32-count Belfast in Charcoal by Zweigart.
And then the
threads are Chamomile--I think they're all Gentle Arts--Chamomile,
Old Red Paint, and I think it's like Straw Bonnet.
Something like that.
I love it.
I did this pattern for an exchange
last year, I think, and now I finally did one for me. Oh, and I personalized this.
The only thing I don't like about this chart? It comes with the--whatever year, it's like
1828 or something.
It comes with a random year on here, and then it comes with
SN for Stacy Nash, but there's no alphabet to personalize it yourself.
So I just kind of looked--I looked online at other Stations--Stacy Nash.
What is it about her name? I looked online at other Stacy Nash designs to see if I could find a
sampler that she had designed or an alphabet, something that would
be in keeping with the style of this, but that I could kind of use as inspiration for creating my own letters.
I think I used--
I may have used one of the Hollyberry Farms.
I can't remember.
But I just looked around until I finally found one and I was like, yep, that C looks good.
So I personalized this for my great-grandmother.
Her name was Cleo.
Her real name was Cleopatra, which is awesome.
Because I thought that these flowers,
they reminded me a lot of cotton plants, and where my family lived
there were a lot of cotton fields. My mom tells stories about
her and my grandparents and her, you know, her siblings going out to the cotton fields with their
cotton sack and walking up and down the rows and picking cotton.
My grandma worked--or lived in a--
the mill village for
their town's
cotton mill.
So. And I remember--vaguely remember, because I was very, very young--I vaguely remember visiting my great-grandma in the mill village.
So.
Yeah, I just--I was looking for something to personalize it, and I was looking at the piece,
I was like, what does this remind me of?
Who in my family would it remind me of, or what situation in life would it remind me of?
And I landed on cotton because of the
white plant. So.
I really like that.
WIP progress.
I made some decent progress in the past couple weeks.
The first thing that I worked on was part of my Year of OOPs, or Year of Out-of-Prints.
I picked up
Faces of Eve by Prairie Moon, because I had already started it and I thought, well I'll go ahead and work on that some.
Joke's on me. I had started this on a 40-count Pearled Barley
by Lakeside Linens. That was like the third fabric I had tried. I had already tried--
maybe Legacy? Something like that, by Picture This Plus, in both a
40-count and a 32-count.
And I didn't like that, so this was like the third fabric. Well, I
pull it out and I look at
the parts of her dress that are--they're actually black on the chart. I'm stitching them in 3799, so dark, dark brown.
I just didn't like the coverage on 40-count. And it was on Lakeside, so it's actually more like 42-count.
So I restarted it.
This is a 32-count
Vintage Examplar
by Lakeside Linens, and I'm much happier with this. And as you can see, I got some more done.
So this brown part up here,
this like diamond shape, I've stitched that four times.
This is the fourth time. It's staying.
So,
the reason I stopped on this is because I ran out of 3799.
So I gotta go to JoAnn today and pick up some more.
I am using my own DMC color conversion on this. The called-for colors
for the DMC conversion are not good.
This is--
I used like a deep burgundy red, and
actually, it's more of a
pinky purple
in the
DMC conversion. So I
am basing mine on the picture and
also a stitcher on Instagram,
Aimee Baruch--
I'm sorry, I can't pronounce your last name.
She stitched this in the silks and posted pictures on Instagram, so I also used her pictures as kind of a color inspiration.
Color checking if I couldn't really see
what the color was in the photo. But mostly I'm going off of this, because I figured I fell in love with the chart photo
and I should make it look as much like the chart photo as possible with DMC.
Because that's the thread list, and I'm not buying that many Needlepoint Silks.
No.
How many charts could I buy with that?
Anyway.
So like I said, this is where I've gotten to so far. I'm actually thinking I'm gonna rip out the color in
her neck and stitch it with something that has a bit more brown in it, because I think it's a little too grey.
But
I'll hold on and see.
I'm trying to stitch the colors I'm sure of
first, and then I'll go and fill in the greens and the browns, because there are so many greens in this, y'all. So many greens.
It's insane.
All right.
The next two.
So I was working on that and I ran out of 3799, so I decided I was gonna pick up
Village of Hawk Run Hollow, because my goal is to finish six blocks by October for my Guild's
Journey piece.
And I have made really good progress on the church.
I need to do--to finish the tree, put a bird on top of it, do the other hill and tree and bird,
the reverend's name, and the church name.
But I'm hoping I can finish that before the end of January. I would be happy with that.
This tree. In looking at the pictures on the chart, it's like, it's just back stitch, it's not gonna be that bad.
It's that bad.
So these lines for the branches are really difficult to follow, because they all overlap up here, and
then these are--these are not evenly spaced, the leaves.
So you constantly--you have to pay really close attention to the chart.
And because again, I'm an overachiever and I cannot stand--I don't like to
move--to carry threads,
and I don't like to have long lengths of threads
loose on the back of my piece because I'm worried I'm going to catch them on something, because I'm kind of clumsy.
I wove the threads for the back stitching.
Yeah.
So it's taking a little bit longer.
Because it basically means that I do a stitch down here,
and then I like weave my thread in and out of a couple of the limb back stitches, and
then do the next leaf, and then weave it in,
do the next leaf, weave it in, do the next leaf.
So it takes a little bit longer than just doing the leaf,
carrying your thread, doing the leaf, carrying your thread.
But it looks nice on the back, and there's nothing that--there's nothing I'm gonna catch on anything, so that's good.
Also, I
got over here to like
this one right there. Not the one over here, the one there, like, second one. And I'm like,
this doesn't look right.
I had made this second limb as long as the first limb.
Now I do my back stitch out and back running stitch, so that means I start up here, I do stitch number one,
then stitch number three, then stitch number five, and just go out, and then I come back and do the even stitches.
That basically meant that
there was no tail down here for me to unweave,
shorten it three stitches, and then weave it back in.
I would have to either cut down here and weave in an unholy mess of ends, or I
would have to try to figure out where in the mess of this trunk I had buried that thread,
unpick it, and
unpick all of my even stitches until I got down here, shorten it, and then redo all my even stitches. Well, I
decided to go with option number two. I was feeling bold.
I get into that tree trunk, and I'm looking, I'm like--
Y'all, I felt like a bomb squad technician. I'm like, could be A or B.
Uhhh....B!
It was B. I was so happy when I like, teased this little bit of thread--like okay, moment of truth.
Yes!
So I fixed my mistake and everything was right with the world.
Until
I go to pick this up one evening--
sorry, low battery. I go to pick this up one evening and
my Ott Lite won't turn on.
Now this is 42--basically 42-count. I need my Ott Lite for this. I hold it--I keep it in my
frame,
my Needlework System 4 frame, which is fixed,
so that I can stitch two-handed.
But I need my light and my light wouldn't turn on.
So I bought a bulb.
Bulb didn't work.
Apparently it's something with the--I'm guessing the wiring or the power supply.
I don't have time for that.
I'm buying a new Ott Lite today, y'all.
But in the meantime,
since I couldn't use my stand because I didn't have a light, I
pulled out a little freebie that I had started a long time ago, or last year. This is Lizzie Kate's All Hallows Eve.
It'll say All Hallows, clearly, then Eve. Has a little motif up here.
The last--or when I picked this up, the only thing I had was this E.
Yep.
It was started for Freebie February last year.
This is stitched using Anchor black on
what I thought was a 32-count
Vintage Country Mocha by Zweigart.
But then I started--I was--
I have to stitch this in hand because it's small, so I was using it to practice the sewing method.
I was like, okay, 32-count,
that'll be--that'll be a good test for the sewing method with two strands, because I know I can do it with one strand.
We'll try two.
Dang these stitches are--it's hard to get in like some of these little areas.
And then I'm thinking about it,
like, when did I ever buy a 32-count Vintage Country Mocha?
I've never bought 32-count. I bought 36-count
for Labor for Learning by Plum Street Samplers.
That's why the coverage is so good. Not just because it's Anchor black,
but because it's on 36-count two over two.
So I really--I really like this though.
I am kind of just saving my sewing method for long pieces like this.
And like the cauldron? No. Stick and stab. Stick and stab all the way.
But I've made it my goal to pick this up before I do any other stitching
every day and do like, at least one length of thread.
That usually translates to like--like one length of thread was like the broom or the bird.
The word "All." The line.
So just pick it up and do one length of thread each day, and
then when I'm done, I'll pick up another tiny freebie or tiny design that,
you know, won't take very much as a whole, and I'll do one thread a day and
that way I should have some little finishes
scattered among the big ones. But it won't take too much time away from my
Year of OOPs and my Village of Hawk Run Hollow.
That's the plan. We'll see how it goes.
But so far--so far I'm really enjoying it, and I think it's going really well.
All right, we have a tiny bit of haul today. Tiny for me.
I looked back at one of my last videos and I'm like, "I don't normally have this much haul."
Yeah, that's what everyone says before they start watching Flosstube videos and making Flosstube videos,
and then everyone enables them and suddenly they have tons of haul every video.
Go figure.
And the first things I got, I got two more Christmas presents.
Whoo, that was a bright flash of light, and I'm really sorry about that. I got to Christmas presents from my in-laws.
The first one is
Little House Needleworks' Hometown Holiday Grandma's House.
I have the whole series. I think I need to get the last one that came out, whatever that was.
Needlework Shop? I can't remember. Whatever came out after Grandma's House.
And I also got--
I'm really excited about this one. I got Heartstring Samplery's Schoolhouse Coverlet Drum.
Perfect, right?
And they gave me
the skein of Weeks Dye Works to go with it.
This is Fathom.
It's this really nice, very dark
blue with all these variegated tones.
You're not gonna be able to see it very well because light, but
just trust me, it's very pretty. It's very, very dark.
So I'm looking forward to stitching that one.
I think it'll be a pretty quick stitch. It's one thread over two on 36-count Wren by Picture This Plus, and
it's only
181 by 76 stitches.
I don't think--you know, I mean, it's all one color. That's a lot of solid stitching. I think it'll go pretty quickly.
Cross fingers.
I also got my fabric of the month from Colour and Cotton. This is Love Letter in 40-count.
And I get the 13 by 17 inch size, at least for now--I think I changed it online so I'll get the fat quarter.
Here is this.
It's just a very, very nice
kind of creamy color, and
dog hair all over the bottom.
Australian shepherds, what are you gonna do?
I really, really love the two colors of fabric I've received from her so far. Love it.
I got another piece of fabric from Stitches N Things.
I ordered this way back in--at the beginning of December,
and it just came in. I have a fat half of 32-count Natural by Zweigart.
Because
I ordered the Farmhouse Christmas series by Little House Needleworks. From Trisha, Three Owl Threads.
I would like to say that it was an accident.
But clearly I had pre-planned for it since I bought this back in December, so I can't really use that excuse.
But yeah, I'm gonna stitch them on this.
We'll see what I have left over and I might start Hometown--some Hometown Holidays pieces on this, because I really want to start those.
I like 32-count Natural a lot. It's a very nice--
I just, I like the weight. I like the feel of it. It's soft, but not too soft.
And the final thing I got.
I was so excited to find this, y'all. Blackbird Designs' Peppermint & Holly. This is out of print. It goes for
really expensive prices I found one for 30 bucks on Stash Unload so I snatched that thing up.
Because this is a--you know these actual booklet styles,
they do go for--they can go for like $27 regular price, so I thought--I felt that 30 was a good deal.
Especially since the last one that sold on eBay was like a
lot more than that--twice that. But I mostly got it for
this,
this,
this. This is a punchneedle design.
Here are the other
patterns that are in here. This is also punchneedle.
I like that one and that one and the flowers. I'm not too keen on that one, but
that's not why I bought it.
It's in really good shape. Here's a closer look at the Greetings, which I think is so pretty.
So I'm super happy to have this. Here's a closer look at the sampler.
This drastically--I have drastically reduced my Blackbird Designs' out-of-print wish list
this year with purchases,
so not too much more to go now. There may be
six, seven
designs that I'm still looking for.
But I think I have enough to keep me busy for right now. Plenty to keep me busy.
Let's see. Anything else
before I get to news.
Think that's everything. All the--
seriously y'all, I just need like a brace where I can keep my head facing this way,
so I'll stop blinding you with the weird light issues. Anyway. I think that's all the
FFOs and WIPs and things I've been working on.
I do have a bit of news that I forgot to put in my last video. I can't believe I forgot.
In addition to going to the Prim Stitchers Society Retreat
this end of May, early June, in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
I also signed up for the
October Minnesota retreat, Midwest Stitchers, so I will be there! I will be able to meet
the two Michelles, Farm Girl and Bendy Stitchy.
McKenna.
I'm so excited.
I'm incredibly excited.
That's the one retreat from last year that I was like oh, I really want to go to that, and I see all the pictures and
I'm so jealous.
And a spot became available, and
me. I want it. Thank you.
So I'm really, really looking forward to that. I can't wait to meet all of you. I can't wait to see you.
I really wanted to go to Stitch Con too, but
yeah, my husband I
really--I think he would also like to take a vacation this year, so I think we're gonna take something, you
know, just the two of us. Maybe go
to Chicago or somewhere.
Somewhere that I've never been but that he has, to make planning a little bit easier.
So yeah, I just couldn't--I couldn't justify going to another,
like, long retreat,
out of state, when we should really take a vacation with the two of us together.
But I hope everyone has a really good time at Stitch Con. I was--I was disappointed I couldn't make it, especially now
I've heard some of the people who are coming--like, oh, I wanted to meet you! I wanna meet you, too!
But maybe next time.
We'll see.
Have to make sure I don't overextend myself.
Because I do want to--I also want to keep a couple weekends free for
like Katrina--Katrina Boyd's retreats, just the little weekend, two-day things, so not very expensive.
Those are--those are good to sprinkle in there
here and there, I think. But.
All right, that's everything I have for you today.
I hope all of you have a wonderful couple of stitching weeks, and I'll catch you next time. Bye.
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