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Hello. I am Abby, I am topknot stitcher. This is Oscar Pepper, who I also mostly
referred to as Meow Meow and she's enjoying some lovely New Year's treats.
What a party. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Happy new year! I hope your
2018 is off to a great start. I have so much to tell you about. I always seem to
reach that point where I get to where I have too much to tell you and I get
a little overwhelmed with how much I want to talk through. But it still seems
easiest to just do one big update and maybe at some point we'll find a better
balance. Who knows, who knows. Let me get my notes in the right spot so we know
what we're gonna talk about. Today we're gonna talk a little bit about Christmas,
we're gonna talk about some amazing gifts that I received. We are going to
talk about pen pals; we will talk about a few things that I received for Christmas
or that I relocated from my mom's stash for Christmas, as well as a couple new
purchases from earlier in December and then we'll get into some FFOs. Well, not - I
don't have them to show you, but I'll talk about them and maybe I'll
edit in a picture if you're really lucky. We will also talk about new starts
because I have a new year new start. I have finish-- I don't think
no, no finishes. But I'll show you my other WIPs and talk about my plans for
2018. I've reached a system that I think I think is gonna work well for me. Oh!
She's left already. We had to trim some nails today so she's
not a fan of manicure day; so she's not very happy with me. We are also going
to do some shout outs and then we're gonna do something different-- we're gonna
talk about a podcast instead of a book so let's get into it. Let's back up to
Christmas; once again I had a lovely time in Kentucky with my family. I have a
really big extended family so a lot of the Christmas season just looks
like going to different people's houses and we're just all together and we eat a
whole lot and it's fantastic so that was a lot of fun, it was just very cozy. Very
cold, I was not prepared for that. Everyone just kept telling me to put on
more layers, but I didn't have any more layers! I've forgotten how to cope
with cold so that was a little rough, but I survived with lots and lots of
blankets and tea. Yeah it was just a great time and I was also really happy
because I got to come back to a couple surprises in the mail and I also
received one of them before I left. So I'm gonna just jump right into some
sprinkles. And the first one you know them, you love them, those delightful
sisters who every time I see one of them or see a picture from one of them or
watch a video, it makes me so jealous because I want my sister to be--
I want us to be on that same level and that's not gonna happen. But they said we
can all be adapted into their family so that's cool. I got the most fantastic
stitchy Christmas gift from Olivia and Elena. They know me so well, they nailed
it. If you haven't seen it, that's their holiday card because they're fantastic.
There's just no words for them. They're amazing. That's someone else's card... so they sent me...
apparently I just put all of my Christmas cards in this envelope as well.
They sent me a bookmark, which is perfect because I constantly lose all of my
bookmarks so I need more of them. And they sent me some cat treats and cat
toys for Oscar pepper, she loved them. I don't know where they are
she's not a big toy cat she really likes, she's got a laser pointer that she
loves but the other toys she just thinks they're pillows.
So she's enjoyed napping on them. They sent me the most amazing needle minder ever.
Do you see, that says Oscar peppers mom.
It's amazing. We'll put that back here with the needle minders. So cool.
And then they also sent me this chart which has the moon and I love the moon.
So I'm very excited to find a time to stitch that this year, so thank you so
much. And what a great idea, I love just sending out lots and lots of
stitchy love and surprises to everybody. That's so cool.
And I love it. Okay so I got this before Christmas and it was the best and
then when I got back to California after visiting my family for Christmas, I had
two things waiting for me. One of them I knew about and one was a delightful
surprise. In a recent video Michelle, bendystictchy was talking about how
she found all the trivets at her thrift store and I've been commenting a lot
being like I've never seen a trivet in any of my thrift stores, I think they're
adorable, I want to do that. That's the kind of creative finishing I
can handle and so she found trivet heaven and then she sent me a trivet. So
it's this really cute little teapot trivet it. Can you even, it's so cute.
It came with the tile which ended up getting broken in shipping which is fine
because I would have broken it getting it out of here. A little still-life, so
that is going to be repurposed and look! So I have to find something that can go
in this, but I also got another surprise so Thank You Michelle. I also got a
delightful present from McKenna, our very own sequin queen and it also included a
little trivet with San Francisco, a little San Francisco crab.
San Francisco crab and sourdough bread. Classic. And it's also a little teapot so
that's very cute, this is just gonna go hung up in my kitchen as is for now
and I might turn-- just use the tile as a coaster and then put some
stitching in this. We'll see who knows. But now I'm constantly on the search for
little patterns or a little- you know little designs that might be
trivet-able. So thank you so much McKenna.
She also sent me a couple other things including some some pillows for the cat,
also known as toys. And let's see, she sent me Harry Potter's stationery.
I almost missed this when I opened the box because the box was full of sequins
as well and I was a little distracted. And just surprised and delighted,
that I just set this aside without unwrapping it and then I was so
glad that I did unwrap it, so I'm very excited to send some Harry Potter
letters, because how cool is that. And that kind of brings me into my next
thing to talk about... hold on, I'm trying to unpack all the things that I packed up to show
you without just making a bigger mess because
my goal for 2018 is to organize all of my stitching things because they have
expanded rapidly and they don't really fit in my life anymore. So I gotta make
that work, so let me get that out of the way. Thank you again so much to all of
you, you made me so happy. It's just such a nice treat and thank
you to those of you who've just left really nice comments and sent
messages as well, you mean the world to me and I'm so so glad that we're here
together. I'm so glad that I combined my love of
Flosstube with my desire to stay in touch with people more consistently. I've
gotten really bad about calling people; I have a lot of long-distance friends
and family and I've gotten kind of lax on staying in touch with them and
I decided that in addition to calling people more and you know checking in on
a regular basis that I would start sending more mail as well. Because I love
receiving mail and I used to send out a lot more just general notes and birthday
cards and holiday cards and I just really really enjoy that. Words of
affirmation are my, that's my love language so I wanted to be able to kind
of up that game and I realized one barrier to that was that I didn't really
have a lot of stationery so McKenna set me up well with some Harry Potter
stationery, but I also got myself to the thrift store and I bought- I didn't count
how many they were- but I bought a ton of cards and post cards and envelopes and
card stock and stickers. All the things and I discovered that they charge
by the inch so you get yourself a stack of cards however many inches high your
stack is that's how many dollars you're gonna pay so I thought that was pretty
great .I spent three dollars and then I also got these really nice sturdy
cardboard boxes that were only fifty cents each which was great. So I'm gonna
cover up the label on the top and probably change that to match and store
all my cards in there so I'm very excited about that. Then I was like, why am
i limiting myself to only my friends and family whose addresses I know? I'm gonna
see who out there in this stitchy world would care to receive a card or
something from me. So I put out a post on Instagram and got a lot of people who
were excited to send some stitchy mail. If you would like to be a stitchy pen pal,
please let me know. The best way would be to send me a message on Instagram
because that's where everybody else has has been so I'd like to keep that
together. It's topknotstitcher on Instagram. Today I had a nice little
sit-down with my with my morning coffee and
I wrote out my first batch of mail and it was a lot of fun. I'm excited to
send out a few every month. I don't want to make any promises on how
much I'm gonna do this; I will be limited somewhat by time and postage, but I'm
excited to send out at least a batch of cards every month, so if you want to add
yourself to the list please let me know. I'd be delighted to have you; it's
just really fun, it's so much fun to write these and I didn't send out
anything-- any Christmas cards of any kind so basically the only letters I sent out
for the last couple years are thank-you cards.
So it just felt really nice just to be able to just share happiness.
I'm excited to do lots more of that this year. Okay let me see, okay next up
let's walk ourselves back to Christmas for a second and because my mother for
Christmas gave my sister and I sewing machines. Amazing. So my sister has my
grandmother's machine which is an antique singer something, very basic
does one stitch and that's all she wanted, that's all she needs. She wants to
just be able to do some basic basic things. And since we couldn't both have
the antique machine, my mom ended up giving me one of her, she has her machine
at home and then she has a machine that she bought to take on quilting
retreats and things like that. But instead, she gave it to me so got
myself a nice little machine. I don't have it yet because my dad offered to
ship it to me, so I didn't have to you know fly with it. So I'm getting it
soon and I'll get myself a couple classes or something because I haven't sewn on a
machine in like 15 years and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten everything. So I'm
excited for that, I have a lot of dreams of making some reusable gifts bags-
instead of wrapping everything in paper that gets thrown out- or potentially
reused, my family is big into reusing wrapping paper which is pretty fun to
see familiar things from year-to-year.
But you know, at some point it's gotta go. So my goal is that next year in
everyone's stocking- my big extended family we have like, it's like a room for
stockings basically. There's a lot of stuff, but my goal is to give everyone
a reusable bag filled with a couple of reusable gift bags that they can use
for next Christmas hopefully. So yeah, I'm hoping to do that. Obviously I want to
make some project bags and stitchy things like that and who knows what else.
Sky's the limit. So if you have any favorite tutorials for beginners,
please let me know. My machine is technically still new and it comes with
classes through Viking so I'm gonna do a couple of those intro classes and then
I'm excited to see see what I get inspired to create. Along with the
machine, my mom included a lot of different sewing... things. I should learn
the right terms for all of these things-- in our stockings this year, which
was really fun. But I also, more importantly, just went through her
her craft room. She has accumulated a lot of duplicates or things that she
doesn't necessarily need anymore for the type of sewing that she's doing, so I
just took all of her extra things which was a delight. So I thought I might share
a couple of those with you and we could celebrate together. I also went through
all of her stitching stuff so this is all kind of mixed together. We got to go
through her whole stash, which is not massive because she is a pretty
intentional stitcher but she still had quite a few kits and charts and things that she
no longer wanted that I got to adopt or that I took knowing that I could find
another home for them. So first up I got a whole bunch of beads, there we go.
I've got a whole bunch of Mill Hill beads all in these nice little stackable
bead hive things, so I'm excited for that. I've never beaded but technically
they're called for in a couple of my pieces and this might be, this might be
the time. I also got these teeny tiny little scissors, look how cute they are!
They're so tiny, so I'm very excited because I ended up cross stitching on
the plane and I used... I had loaned- I only have two pairs of stitching scissors and
I had loaned one to Birdie and then the other one I have are the ones I've had
since I was a kid, so I didn't want to risk those. I think they should have been
allowed through but didn't want to risk it, so I checked those. So I used
a dental floss or you know the dental floss box to cut everything. I didn't have
anything else, but now I could use those and try those out. So that's
exciting. There were a couple things that my
mom didn't necessarily want to stitch herself but she also didn't want to get
rid of them. Including a couple started projects, so I
offered to just finish them for her and one of those is this little miniature
four season's ah this little teeny tiny Four Seasons by the trilogy sideways Oh
oh yeah okay yeah it goes like. And she had started this, she has not gotten
all that far as you can tell but it's stitched in weeks dye works and I'm
excited to get to practice my variegated thread stitching. Well not really
variegated, you know what I mean- over-dyed threads. So I'm gonna finish that
up for her at some point, hopefully this year. We'll see, I also got from her
another-- nope that's just fabric-- I thought this was more organized.
Another one, I don't remember if she started this one or not but it's
another little kit from the trilogy with a little mitten and a cardinal and it
comes with all the fancy floss and a couple beads so I'm excited to try out
my beading skills with that. And that's something that I think she said I
could either keep this or give it to her but I was not allowed to give it to
anybody else, so we'll see what happens once I stitch it. I also got this
other kit that she was very clear she wants it--- she was either going
to stitch this for herself or she consented that I could stitch it for her.
It's this little-- it's not a great picture let me take it out so it might
be clearer. It's this really cute little bee design, you can see. This is Buzz
Buzz Bee by Shepherds Bush and it's just really cute and tiny. It's a little
little teeny tiny motif sampler-y thing. It comes with a little bee
and it also comes with this mat board that's been painted or printed rather
with the little little bees around it so you're ready to frame it. So I'm
excited to make that because I think it will stitch up really quickly and I know
she would love to have it in her house. Shepherd's Bush is in Utah or was
in Utah, I don't know if it exists anymore. So she's had these for many
many years and just you know hasn't gotten to it so I'm excited that she can
finally get one hung up. I'll put this away later. So thanks mama!
I'm trying to see what else; there are a lot of charts that I still haven't gone
through all of them yet.
There are some things that I'll be posting to give away or to sell in the
near future as well. She gave me a couple random pieces of fabric so I've got some...
mystery fabric we'll figure out what that is. And then a couple packs of 22 ct
fabric; I'll do something with that maybe and so thank you so much
mother for letting me raid all of your stitching things. I'm gonna just take all this out.
Make a big mess like I said I was not going to do. While I was home I also went to
Hobby Lobby because I don't have a Hobby Lobby extremely close to me here and I
dragged my sister and looked at every single clearance section in the entire
store. That store is massive; I forgot, I hadn't been to one in so long. So I found
myself drawn to the clearance fabric section now that I have a sewing machine
in my very near future. And everything was marked down and then
it was also on sale again so I got a couple Christmas prints, I don't really
want to unroll it because I'm lazy but that will make a great Christmas something and
this is a little.. it's got snowmen and Cardinals. Cute. A map fabric, how fun.
And a classic gray and white stripe, So I have learned that shopping for fabric is
super fun and I really enjoy it and I can already tell it's gonna be dangerous.
Because when I got home back here in California, I thought to myself oh I need
like one color floss still for that one project and so I went to a quilting
store and, you know I found the one color floss. I went to
the quilting store because in theory it was going to be closer and easier and I
knew they would have the thread I needed. But then I walked around the whole store
and looked at all the fabric. And I found the cutest little whale
fabric. Oh look at those whales, they're so cute; they're so so cute. So they only
have one yard of this left so I snatched it up and I'm really excited to figure
out what I want to make with that. Eventually I'll practice on my cheaper
fabric first but that was a delightful, delightful excursion and I can tell I
will have to be careful to not just buy all the fabric in the world. Because my
challenge with shopping is that I get really fatigued quickly and I don't want
to make decisions. But I found that with crafting things, I don't have the same
problem I can just pick up what I love and go with it.
So at some point, we'll need to control that. Let's see, I think that's almost all
of the Christmas things I need to show you. Except for one which is from my
sister because I... you know she was asking, "what do you want for Christmas?" and I was
like "I don't know, stitching stuff- but you don't want to buy that for me because you
don't know." But I told her like I'd be happy if you just went to Michael's
and grabbed some random floss-- colors that you like or
something and put that in my stocking, I'd be so happy I can always use floss.
And she really didn't say much, she was like "okay you know, we'll see."
And she totally surprised me with the I think what was probably the most
thoughtful part of Christmas this year. She remembered in my last video I
showed you that I received Good Intentions from Jenni, who won a
give away. And I mentioned I was thinking of re- not recharting, I was converting it
to jewel tones. So my sister went to the craft store
and selected what she thought I might enjoy in the jewel-tone family. Right?!
Isn't that gorgeous? There's also some extra grays, because I had to get those
for... let me take those out. Oh! How pretty is that so that's gonna be
beautiful. I'm not sure when I'm gonna stitch this
because I still have to figure out what fabric to put it on but it's absolutely
going to be stitched in those colors and I'm very excited. I would like to start
this soon because I know McKenna is working on this I think Stephanie? Steph
of Pam and Steph is, I don't know, I don't remember if she started this one but I
think she has. I'm very behind on watching floss tube.
So we'll see. But I thought that was so sweet that she had watched my
video, had retained something I mentioned kind of offhand, and then made it happen.
So thanks, thanks Ses. Okay, I think that's enough Christmas stuff for us. It's
getting shockingly dark here, faster than I thought. So I'm gonna try to fly
through some of this. Let me pack things up while I tell you a story about the
tiny Christmas stitch along. If you haven't seen it Armada Designs did the
cutest little stitch along where every day from December 1st to December 24th
you got a teeny tiny motif to stitch. And it created this beautiful little winter
holiday town kind of thing. There were carolers, there were several different
houses, there was a church, there were snowflakes and trees and presents. It was
adorable. Oh and Santa of course; and some angels
were the crowning motifs. So I had a blast stitching that; I started it a
week late or maybe 10 days late and it definitely wasn't the most responsible
choice because I'll show you my progress on my dad's gift. I definitely could
have gotten more done on that but it was just really fun. It was fun to finish it
on Christmas Eve morning and and I gave it to my mom for Christmas.
I just finished it in a hoop; we stuck it up on the mantel so I might
edit a picture in right here... but to be honest, I probably won't. So you can check
it out on my Instagram if you want. It was a blast and it made me
really excited that I enjoyed it, because then the Harry Potter stitch along
started and so I felt like I was ready for a stitch along. Not that it's
that hard to be ready, but it just it felt like great practice. Okay so that is
Christmas, that was my holiday season. It was delightful. I feel so blessed to have
you all in my life and be able to share my stitching life
with you. I feel very grateful that I have this network of crafters to now ask
all of my sewing questions, because I know I will have many and I'm excited to
delve into a new hobby. So let's talk about the old hobby first and let's
talk more about WIPs. Does that sound good? I feel like I'm talking really really
fast and I could just chill out a little bit but that's pretty on brand. And I have
one more thing to tell you about Christmas! I posted a picture on my
Instagram - topknotstitcher-- a picture of my finished tiny Christmas stitch along in a hoop
on the mantel where we had some greenery and cranberries and lights.
On it we also had-- because we didn't put up a tree this year at
home-- we had this little spiderweb ornament. I don't know how to make this
easiest to see.
A spiderweb! So this is a little folktale...
legend... it's The Legend of the Spiderweb, which is I think has been
adapted by many many cultures. In our house, it's a Ukrainian story about a
woman who is trying to feed her children and she's running out of food and it's
very very sad and she sees outside there's a beautiful tree covered in
snow and ice or something. And-- I'm telling this really badly so I'll put a
link to the real story below. But she prays for a miracle to save her
children, save her family and in the morning the ice on the tree has turned
into diamonds and she's able to feed her family. The spiderweb on the tree,
there's a spiderweb and gold... I don't know something about that, she sees
a spider web and then the spider web has turned to gold and the snow on it has
turned to diamonds or something. I should have looked this up. Sorry mom. I'm butchering
this story. But my mother has given one of these ornaments to everyone in our
family, gives them to basically everyone. If you're getting a gift from us around
Christmas it's going to include this ornament or something like it. So I
have one here that I put on our tree and a couple people commented "I love the spider"
and in case you don't know this reason for the spider, now you kind of know.
I encourage you to go read the real little story cuz it's it's a lot better than I
told it. But that's the spider.
Okay now we can talk about WIPs.
I have to do a little bit of a set change here.
I also feel like I'm used to more light, let's try this, does that help?
We'll try it. Okay out of the way, get out of the way,
get out of the way. Over here we have the basket of WIPs. First up I have to, no I
guess first up let me show you what you already know about, I'll save my new starts.
Alright, I showed you last time I started a project for my dad.
It is a beautiful patriotic piece, an eagle and an American flag on
Constitution fabric. And in my mind I was gonna be able to have at least half of
this stitched by Christmas, but as soon as I uploaded my last video I think I
stitched on this once or twice after that. I basically didn't touch it.
So I got a lot done in about two weeks and then I didn't touch it anymore.
I gave it to him as is so he could see it. yeah, so you can
see what I've done. It's starting to look like an eagle and a flag. As you can see,
there's a lot left. It doesn't, you know, it doesn't cover up the whole
piece but this general center area is supposed to be pretty filled in, so I've
stitched like maybe a fourth... that might be a little generous. But he he was very
appreciative, he was impressed with what it will look like and what it looks like
now and I know he's excited to be able to hang this up eventually. So my new
goal is that I finish this by Father's Day because if I've missed Christmas...
you know I don't feel like it there's a need for me to put myself on too big of
a deadline. So I'll finish it by Father's Day and then if he hasn't framed it yet--
because my goal you know is to give him the finished piece and go with
him to get it framed... but he can actually pay to get it framed. I think I can still
pull that off. So I'll go with him over the summer to get it framed and
I'll consider that his birthday present, even if I don't pay for it.
So, coming along nicely; I haven't stitched on it since but I'm gonna come
up with a kind of a goal amount for each month to get it done by Father's Day.
So that is-- oh I should tell you maybe some details. This is American Pride by
Cody country crafts or something like that.
If you want to know I'll tell you in a comment. And it's stitched on the
Constitution, We the People fabric that I got from stitchery x-press. I highly
recommend them. I'm just gonna make a bigger mess. Okay, my other WIP-
sorry looking at my notes.. I guess I don't--
Well there are a few things I'm not really working on that much,
but there is one other that I was working on in December and that was my
chalkboard mandala. Which I showed last time, I took it on my retreat
over Thanksgiving. This is Ink Circles, it will look like that and I'm stitching it
as charted. I took this on the plane and it was my first time stitching
on the plane and it was so nice. Because when I fly I have to, I usually have to
connect and so my flight time is about six hours and I don't mind it because
usually I read and I'll download a movie or a TV show and catch up on my
iPhone games or whatever. But this was fantastic because I got to just sit and
stitch for like six hours and it was made even better because I discovered
that Monk is now on Amazon Prime and I love myself a good murder mystery. But
I like the cheesy kind-- not the gritty... whatever. I don't like the,
well I don't like 2018- well yeah 2018- kind of murder-mystery shows. I want the
90s and early 2000s shows; so I've been enjoying Monk tremendously. And I
downloaded several episodes to watch on the plane and I just stitched my little
heart out. And this is what I have done, it was definitely slow going because I
forgot about the fact that this is dark fabric and I didn't have the greatest
light so there were a couple times that it didn't really work
as well. And this is not six hours of stitching because I ended up taking a nap on both
flights as well, so I stitched a little bit more than I would have otherwise. And
it was great and I'm excited to fly again and do some more stitching on the
plane because what a blast. And I thought it was interesting that
out of flying home and back I had four flights total and on
three of those flights the people next to me did not say a thing; did not look--
maybe they looked at me and looked at it and we're trying to figure out like what
I was doing. But I didn't talk to any of them, which is my preference and then
on one flight the woman next to me was like "what are- what is that? What are you
doing?" and she asked me a bunch of questions and was really fun to get to talk
stitching even though I don't like to talk to strangers on planes. That was
fun; so I'm very pleased with how that's coming along. This is my moon needle
minder from Jen of delicious threads; it's maybe my favorite needle minder
because if you haven't heard the moon is my favorite. So my goal is to finish that
piece this year I hope and then that's it for the the WIPs that I actually worked
on anytime recently. But I have two new starts as well; actually, I don't remember
if I started this one last time- maybe I did. But I have started the class
schedule stitch along from Armada Designs. This is a new SAL that started this
month. I bought the fabric kit for it, so this is picture this plus Dusk 16 count aida.
This is what I have so far that's the back of it I think, no that's the
front. Okay I just can't think.
This is what I have so far for January.
So i recharted this a little bit. This is the transfiguration class and I was a
little underwhelmed by the cat in the original chart because it didn't have a
ton of definition on it and I just don't think it looked that much like
McGonagall, so I recharted it to look as much like Oscar Pepper as I could and
then I saw on the Facebook group for the SAL that there was a girl who did
something similar with outlines. So I was like 'I love that'. I didn't love all
the empty space that was in the chart and I didn't love the text in the chart
because I'm not a huge fan of text in my.. like I want the text to be necessary
basically. And I didn't really think it was necessary to tell you what class
that was; so I decided if I made McGonagall take up the full height, this
empty space doesn't bother me. And I just, I like that look a lot more. So I
think I'm gonna continue that for the whole-- well I know I will
continue this for the whole design. The whole chart, even though that
probably is gonna mean a lot of creative thinking for how to fill the
space of the text. Because think about it, defense against the dark arts--
if the whole name of that class is spelled out, that's the whole square.
So we'll seem I'm not sure how else I'm going to, you know what else I'll change. I
thought this was a pretty natural adjustment to make, but we'll see. I also
had an idea from Heather the imperfectly perfect stitcher to use a variegated
gold. So I don't know how well you can tell but McGonagall goes from like dark
brownish through the gold and same with the rat and that's DMC 111 I think.
It's kind of a brown and gold. I think Heather is stitching her titles and I
forget what the number is but it's more yellow. And I might, I don't know about
this because it's a bigger commitment, but I might redo my borders to have that
same variegated thread instead. So stay tuned; it's been fun to
see how else people are kind of adjusting this pattern to work for
them. Similar to the class name, I'm leaving out the class schedule title at
the top because again, I think it's a little unnecessary. But I've been
thinking about how I might design a different border for this or maybe
incorporate... make a border out of all the class names or other Harry
Potter things or spells or something like that. So that will be in the works
eventually. I'm excited for this project; it's not what I expected it to look like
but I'm still really excited to get to do a stitchalong first of all. I do like
that it was a really quick pattern so I think it will be easy to keep up with it,
hopefully easy to modify as needed. Plus I have it in my Daily Prophet bag so
I love when I have a bag to match my project. I also have
another new start because I decided to do And a Forest Grew as my new year new
start piece. And it has been so much fun so far. I've heard from many of you who
are also either starting it this year starting it as their New Year's piece or
who have it in their stash and are pulling it out again to work on. So I'm really
excited to get to stitch along with all of you. I am stitching mine on 25
count stormy clouds Lugana, which I think is by Zweigart. I can double check that.
I'm stitching this one over one and I love stitching one over one. Look how
tiny those trees are. I need a different hoop or Q snap because I need one that fits
how tiny they are. There so little, I love it so much. I love the look of this
gray. I love this needle minder for it because it seems very appropriate that
it's a tiny leaf for my tiny forest. This is also by delicious threads. I just
love this so much, I'm having a blast with it and if you have ever considered
stitching this piece I'm here to encourage you to start because it's so nice.
I haven't stitched anything like this
that's like little little motifs. And it is really satisfying to get a tiny
little finish, especially because you know some of these are really tiny and
you can just bust one out. Even if you don't have a lot of time to stitch, you
can really see your progress which I think is really fun. So I'm excited for
this project I'm hoping this year to do one page a month and then I will finish
it at the end of 2018, but I don't know if that is realistic so we'll see.
And I also, I'm going to be changing the text in the middle and this is-- if you
don't know, if I didn't say so--- I don't remember, this is And a Forest Grew by
Rosewood Manor and it has a verse in the large tree in the center which says and
I out of the Lord... and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight of good-- pleasant to the sight and good food.
I can't even read it. Whatever. It's the- you know- the tree of knowledge
and good and evil. Whatever. So great verse but it
doesn't do it for me. And there's a little verse down here
that says he that plants trees loves others who besides himself and I do like
that so I might be okay with that. so I've been trying to decide what I want
to change this one to; I have been considering the rechart that Lindy
Stitches did, which is with a great verse but I've also been thinking about like
what poetry could I put in there? Or is there a quote- I don't really like quotes.
I don't like text in my decorating so this is my problem. But something in here
I was trying to see if... I just don't know. I don't know what I want to put so I
have some time to decide. Luckily there's a lot of trees to keep me busy.
But I'm always on the hunt for people who are recharting it so if you
are recharting it and I haven't exclaimed over it, please let me know so I can come
admire your work and steal your ideas. Okay so those are my two new
starts, my two other WIPs. I don't have, I don't think I have anything else to go
over right now. I'm very disorganized because nothing fits anymore and I need to get
some other storage something. We'll see. But next, I wanted to talk a little
bit more about my 2018 plans. I've mentioned a few ideas and goals; I'm
trying to not get too attached to those goals because I have a feeling that once
I get my sewing machine and learn how to use it I might be spending a little bit
less time stitching for a while, at least on weekends. I would kind of expect
that on the weekends I would do sit down and do more projects so I'm kind of,
you know, I don't want to get too attached to a specific plan or routine
because I know that will just change. But I have a few ideas because I
basically have like three big projects and then a lot of little things that are
either started or could be started really easily. So my goal right now is to-
every month stitch on my Eagle American piece, my forest, and the class schedule.
And I want to try to stick to those monthly benchmarks that I'm setting for
myself as much as possible. I'm planning to start with the class schedule
every month and then probably the Eagle because I want to, I really want to get
that done by Father's Day if I can. And then the forest because that one's more
flexible. But then every month I also want to choose a little project to work
on especially one that I may be able to take with me more. I'm trying to
just have cross-stitching more accessible; I'm gonna go get my car
service-- oil change whatever that is-- and my take stitching and just sit there and
stitch because why not? I'm trying to just like remember that I like
stitching not just at home. so I plan to just every month kind of pick up a
piece that I can focus on. So like the chalkboard mandala will be one month.
Maybe one of those kits from my mom. Pulling back out, I've got - that's
probably in here. I've got my, yep, my moon ladies to finish up. Carrie, the house of
floss and fluff Carrie, who was also stitching this, she finished hers and I'm
like I'm very happy for you. But I'm so jealous because they look so good.
And I have so much left to do because I keep forgetting about them, so I want to
finish those. I want to finish all these things. We'll see. I also have three
Harry Potter WIPS. Three other? No, two others. I've got my giant castle which I
don't feel inspired to work on so I'm not gonna force that, and then like a
Harry Potter sampler as well. And I feel like maybe some other things. I've got
plans to make some Harry Potter ornaments for next Christmas but I
haven't quite figured out what those will be. I still have a sweatshirt to
stitch. I've got, how do you do it, how do you do it all? So all that to say, I'm
trying to keep my plans a little bit loose, but I still have a lot that I
want to stitch on, so we'll see what happens, stay tuned. Other goals for next year
include sending out lots of stitchy mail, be it letters and postcards or some
charts and other you know giveaways and surprises and sprinkles and all that.
I want to just continue finding what works for me routine wise. I
really like routine but in the winter I'm really bad at following routines
because I just want to like sit in bed and read and that's okay and I do that.
But I'm trying to just find how does stitching incorporate into my daily
routine right now, because it seems to have changed a little bit. And so I'm, you
know, just trying to pay attention to that. I feel like I'm discovering my
stitching style quite well, that was one of my intentions last year. So I'm
continuing to just try out different materials and designs and styles. I'll be
adding sewing and maybe I'll add another craft or something; yeah I think 2018
is gonna be good. Oh one of my other my other goals for next year is that I
stitch mostly for myself. because I'm so quick to fall into "I
want to stitch all the things for other people and I love making things for
other people" but I'm-- you know in my living room right now we have one
stitched piece framed on the walls and that's it. And I need more stitching
completed in my house. So I'm finishing the piece for my dad obviously
and I'm finishing those pieces for my mom so I'm already off to a terrible
start. But at least the ones for my mom are very little so that's fine and I get
to also enjoy them until I give them to her at Christmas next year so there's
that. I don't know, I'm gonna try to stitch mostly for myself and just finish
things. I haven't really finished a lot; I'm going to sew; I'm also trying to change up
my bullet journal system. I don't know if you remember-- oh and Jamie, I told you I
was gonna maybe talk about this in a video. I don't know where my bullet
You can't see, but everything not in the frame right now is
a disaster so I don't know where my bullet journal is. Maybe I'll make a flip
through, talking through it in a separate video. How about that. But I did show you
in a few videos ago my cross stitch bullet journal. I made a cross stitch
bullet journal. I've been really bad at using this and so I am going to I think
experiment with adding cross stitch into my regular bullet journal because I
started a new one because it's 2018 and I like starting a fresh journal for the
new year. And my hesitation with adding cross-stitch to my last one was that
it was already like September before I felt like I needed it and I didn't like
that so much would have to get recopied. But I feel like I could safely do that
right now so I'm gonna try that out because I
definitely have space for some stitchy stuff in there, but this has become
just a notebook which is fine it's not a bullet journal so I don't want to
call it that. Recently there's been a few people posting really helpful videos
on how they use their bullet journal for cross-stitching and crafting and sewing and
all that so I'll link a couple of those down below. That segues us very nicely
into shoutouts. So let's do shoutouts. I have two people I want to talk about
today; there are several more who I've been loving lately and obsessed
with, but I only wrote down notes for two of them and I honestly can't
remember the names of the other ones I'm sorry. I love you but like I can see your
face and I can't remember your- either your user name or your real name - and I
want to do you justice, so stay tuned if you're not mentioned right now it could
be you. But I have two amazing new people who I want to tell you about. The
first one is Silent Stitcher, whose name is Corey. Her name is Corey; she
is a deaf stitcher so she does her videos in American Sign Language and
then she puts captions below so that you can follow along and know what she's
talking about and I thought that-- I'm so proud of her for making a video.
She mentioned she was really really nervous, but she did a great job. She's in
school so she was talking about how stitching is her main stress
reliever and I can totally relate to that; I think all of us can. And she
walked us through her projects including, she's doing a bunch of new starts for
2018. And one of them is this fairy coffee mother and it's the cutest thing
I've ever seen. So that's going on my list. And she's
just so cute and so fun. And it's exciting to see like she's very much
discovering her stitching style and it's fun to get to see what she's drawn to
work on so go check her out give her some stitchy love. The other new
floss tuber, who has already made many videos so she's on a roll, the other
person I want to talk about is Crafting Between Stitches.
Samantha. She, as her channel name implies, doe like all the things. So she
talks a lot about stitching obviously, but she also sews and she knits and she
quilts and she does English paper piecing and maybe she has other things
that I don't remember. But she does all the things, so it's really fun to get to hear
her current obsession. She did a video recently on English paper piecing, just
kind of like a walkthrough not really a tutorial but just kind of telling
us what she does and what she uses and it was just so much fun that made me
really want to do some English paper piecing, so I might add that to my 2018
goals, we'll see. She's also just super nice,
we've been chatting a lot on Instagram and it's really fun to you know just
find like another kindred stitcher, it's great. She also has two really cute dogs.
Go go check her out. I've already learned so much from her and she's
only put up, I think she's put up like four or five videos by this point. She
has a bullet journal video.
It's very helpful and it made me feel like oh there's so much I could have
been tracking so easily but that's okay.
Last up we are going to talk about, where we would normally talk about
books, we're gonna talk about podcasts instead. I'm gonna make a little
transition, because I love talking about books and I will talk about books in the
future but very often I I just have a habit of forgetting the books I read. I
don't know, it just happens. Right now I don't have.. they're right here. I'm
starting Goblet of Fire because I'm reading Harry Potter backwards, but I don't know...
I don't have my other books next to me right now and I can't remember what
they are I can't remember what I recently read. That's typical for me but
because of that I was like you know, I know we all love books but do you know
what I also love? Podcasts. And so instead of always talking about a book, I
thought I would start sharing some of my favorite podcasts, especially ones that I
think are slightly less well known. I always hate when the topic of podcasts
comes up and just everyone recommends the same five podcast that everyone
listens to and everyone already knows about and that's great, I love those
podcasts too. You know all your your great NPR things, Serial, and whatever
those are. But there's so many great, there's so much great content
out there that I wanted to shed a light on some smaller areas of the internet.
The podcast I'm going to talk about today-- Oh also this year, well last year I
read an absurd number of books. Like, a lot of books. And it was great and a lot
of them were audiobooks, a lot of them were like children's novels or
rereads, or really short books. I read a couple of books of poetry; I read
a couple plays. I definitely read comic books. It wasn't like a million
hard literary fiction books but I decided that I can maybe scale back a
little bit this year. So I lowered my book goal dramatically and I'm actually
considering lowering it again because I know that I'm just gonna want to spend
more and more time crafting and I don't want to feel like guilty about that in
any way. Like this is the year for me to get really creative and make things. Last
year was a year to read a lot. So I feel fine with that and it also means that
I'll have a bit more freedom to listen to podcasts because I've had a lot
piling up and I don't know if I mentioned this before, but if you're
familiar with the strengths finder inventory my top strength is Input so I
crave information on anything. Like anything in the world-- not anything that's
like too technical or too complicated-- but I find a lot of things
really really fascinating and I want to read about them and learn about them.
Which is part of why I read so much, but podcasts have made that even easier
to just get lots of interesting information, so I want to make some more
space for that. And I feel really good about that decision.
Also because podcasts are great too stitch to. And audiobooks are too but
I've just lately not been feeling as many audiobooks so I think this is a
good transition. So all that to say I'm gonna listen to my podcasts and
I'm gonna tell you about them. This month I want to tell you about
what is maybe my favorite podcast. This is a podcast called Wonderful! hosted
by Griffin and Rachel McElroy who you might know from the McElroy brothers. They do
a million podcast, so they have My brother, my brother, and me. They have this
one that's like a Dungeons & Dragons podcast where they play Dungeons &
Dragons and it's fantastic, that one's called The Adventure Zone. I don't care
about D&D at all but it was so much fun to listen to, they're very funny and
they're very creative with some of their characters,
Anyway, Wonderful! They're great hosts; Wonderful! is a podcast that started out
where they would review -- not review they would talk about all the
episodes of The Bachelor and the Bachelorette, so I didn't care about them
at that point. But after the most recent season of Bachelorette, they switched and
they are now talking about things they love. So every week they each - it's a
husband and wife -- and every week they each share two things that they think
are wonderful and they just talk about how much they love them. And it's the
cutest thing ever. It puts me in such a great mood every
time because-- their tagline is "an enthusiast's podcast" and it's just so
cute and so happy. And they do some research, so you know like one week they
were talking about napping, because who doesn't love a great nap? And they
brought in, they did some homework and they told us interesting things
about you know different sleep studies and sleep cycles and all those good
things. They talked about Hanukkah, I learned a lot about Hanukkah, They talk
about really silly things; it's just really cute and it puts me in such a
good mood. So I usually save it to listen to on Fridays on my way to work so that
I end up being in a great mood on Fridays. Because for me they're my
hardest workday. As I've been talking about this, I feel like I've already told you
about this, have I? I hope not, but if not then I meant tell you again-- Fridays
are my hardest day at work because they're the day that I'm doing
I'm usually in meetings or I'm facilitating so it's a pretty
intense day and I have a pretty bad attitude about it in most times, but I
listen to Wonderful! on my drive and it just puts me in the best mood and it's
just so cute and so happy. So I highly recommend that you check it out, it'd be
really fun to stitch to. It's a great commuting one because they do, you
know, four little segments so it goes goes pretty quick and it's easy to
kind of break off and come back to later. It's just really cute so
please go check it out and with that I think that we are done rambling. I hope
that you enjoyed this I feel like because my room is so messy right now I
just feel like really out of sorts and I'm so excited to get this place
organized and come back at you later with my full brain ready so stay tuned.
I'm gonna post a couple -- oh I left out a whole bag of things to show you! I won't
go through all of it but I totally forgot, oh my goodness.
Oh here's one of my cat toys well not my cat toys. I totally forgot to show you
that, I'm gonna do this really quickly because I'm gonna do a couple flip
through videos of these, but I wanted to just show you really quickly. I saw
Drew Weasley had gotten this book which is from the Herrschner's website
A cross-stitch christmas and he was talking about how great some of the
designs were; he showed a few. It was only five dollars online and I was like
I can justify that, so I went online to buy it and I saw they had another book.
This one is oh so this one is called a heartwarming holiday and this one is
called handcrafted moments and they were both five dollars on the Herrschner's
website and I think with shipping I paid like $8 each. They were sold out for a
while but I think I saw that they're back now, no guarantees on that, but I'll
put the link below and they're a great deal. You get a lot of really really
cute patterns so I'm gonna pick out a lot of things that I want to stitch for
Christmas next year. Homesteading on the Homefront... I'm so bad at
remembering names, I'm so sorry. Homesteading on the homefront, who's fantastic if you
haven't watched her, go check her out. She did a flip through of this one a few
videos ago and then Drew showed some of this one. But if that's not enough for
you, I'm gonna do a flip through video sometime this month.
Hopefully while these are still available. So that was a lot of fun to
look through and add to my collection and I also picked up a couple cross
stitcher magazines because I went to Joann to get a hoop and they didn't
have a hoop but they did have these which we're hiding behind all the sewing
magazines, which is so rude. But I happened to look through them because I have problems
browsing now. These are.. this is November and December
no- November and September which I think they had a few other months but I ended
up putting them back because both of these had things on the cover that I
liked and wanted to stitch or things on the back oh this is what I... this is why I
bought this. Do you see this Bethlehem scene? It's gorgeous and I want
to stitch it. Let me show you, hold on I actually think that pattern I like most
in both of these is the one that's like the stitch around the world or was it
called cross-stitcher marketplace. No that's the ad thing. Well whatever, it's
in the same section in both of them. To create a classic? I don't know.
Well look how beautiful that is; so this is Star of Wonder in the November 2017
issue and I am desperate to stitch that because I think it's beautiful.
Christmassy but biblical and not ugly- that's my criteria. If you look really
closely in the pattern you can see this I think is this the stable so
there's a little Mary and Joseph and the shepherds and then here come the wise
men, so cool. So I bought that and then in this one I
liked the similar pattern that had it's what I'm calling cross stitch around the
world because they're both... I don't know whatever.
Look at those elephants! Well it's just one elephant but they stitched it.. they
made a pillow with both of them how cute is that?
So lately I'm very into these jewel tones and I think that's why this caught
my eye so much. I don't know if all stitch that anytime soon but I thought
it was really pretty. These have a lot of really great ornaments and small pieces
which I'm trying to experiment with more because I think that would be fun to get
more finished things up and about. But I'm hoping I'm gonna look back through
these and look for something that might fit in a trivet so I'm excited for that.
They also both came with free kits that I don't know what I did with them but
there's a little ornament and a little needle book so I'm excited to make those.
And with that I've now talked about everything. So thank you for joining me.
Be on the lookout, there might be a flip through video of some kind coming at you
later this month, who knows. And if not, I'll see you in February. I hope you have
a wonderful month and that you get to stitch all of the things and I'll see
you next time. Bye!
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