hi guys Kaitlin here from Big Apple stitching sometimes I regret that name
it's a little corny anyway welcome back to my channel if you're coming back
welcome if you're new thanks for joining me here I don't know why does anybody
else feel like it always the longest part about doing a flosstube is
always getting started it seems like you know it always takes me I don't know
15 minutes to get into it and stop feeling awkward and get used to talking
to the camera again and usually whenever I sit down to start is right when the
cat's start getting into things and doing things that they're not supposed
to be doing theres visitor here right anyway so I guess let's skip the
introduction part because I'm terrible at those and let's just get right into
it I cannot believe it's August already June flew by July flew by and here we
are with the summer being almost over the last time I saw you guys I was
dealing with the great Internet crisis of 2018 I'm back obviously so it's fixed
we have service now we ended up back with our original provider
long story short we had a line down we had spectrum a line went down spectrum
was repeatedly not fixing it it was a situation that required multiple people
to come in a truck with like a lift and a bucket to go up and fix the line that
was broken way up on a pole that was inaccessible by just one human on foot
and they repeatedly sent one person with no ladder why I don't know
we tried to switch to Verizon we couldn't get Verizon to take our money
strange thing they kept not showing up for
installations we couldn't get anyone on the phone it became another
kind of nightmare then we couldn't get any other providers in our area to give
us service because they all had non-compete agreements with spectrum
where they just agreed to divide up the territory and they wouldn't compete with
each other there so they wouldn't offer a service in territories that weren't
theirs so back to spectrum we went luckily they eventually sent a guy who
was very nice and did some really cool spider-man moves to climb up-- he
literally climbed up the side of our building jumped across the roofs spliced
us into another neighbors line and so we have service again just in time for the
governor to decide spectrum is no longer allowed in New York State so who knows
where we'll be in 90 days but in the meantime I can watch flosstube again and
record flosstube again and that's what it's all about right so
oh the mug of the day is this carrot mug I don't know why but this mug always
makes me think of dawn frosty X stitch I have no idea why
Dawn has never expressed any particular interest in carrots to my knowledge
sorry Dawn this is weird maybe kind of stalkerish but I don't know I every time
I see this mug in my cabinet I think of you in a non non stalker way I think so
I think it's because Dawn and I started flosstube started filming floss tube at
the same time and I think I bought this mug around the time which would be this
time last year actually happy flosstubeaversary to me and happy
flosstubeaversary to Jessie Marrie earlier this week five years that's
incredible and happy flosstubeaversary Dawn
and also I think Margo did you also start in August last year? and I think a
bunch other people Michelle did you also start --no you started earlier in 2017 anyway
that's a very long tangent that's not on my list so after the Internet crisis we
went to we went Ontario to visit my family which was great it was nice to
see everyone we went to Ottawa and we were on the hill for Canada Day saw the
snowbirds fly overhead you know saw some fireworks later that night we went to my
dad's lake house for a couple days which I really enjoyed
kind of like a special place for me because I spent a lot of my childhood on
that property you know every summer for most of my childhood he recently rebuilt
it used to be a little basically like a very little cabin cottage and he has
rebuilt it into what's more of a house than a cottage now you know it's
winterized so we can go there for the winter we might have Christmas dinner
there this year so that was great and while we were home I came across some
treasures that I want to share with you guys so first thing I want to share so
last spring Bryan Blitz stitch showed an old knitting magazine he had from the
80s or 90s and he showed a pattern for this from the magazine and said he
thought about he was thinking about doing it and I commented that I remember
that my grandmother my great-grandmother had made it for me and I remember
I remembered it for my childhood when we were home it turns out my mom had saved
it so this is um this is a doll that my great-grandmother knit for me
this is Cinderella before before she meets a fairy godmother and then you
take her and you turn her inside out and
she's ready for the ball with her fan she's come apart a little but um
so I thought that was interesting cuz I totally forgot about this until Brian
showed his video last year and then I was like yeah I remember I remember
loving that as a kid and I wonder what happened to it and it turns out my mom
had saved it all this time so we've come full circle I guess there's that some
other treasures I came across so I think I remember I told you that my
grandmother and my great-grandmother both they both knit and they both did
cross stitch I showed you the chairs I inherited from my grandmother that her
and her mother my great-grandmother recovered with that needlepoint design a
couple videos ago here's the picture of them so this is my grandma Jackie and
her mom my grandma Trefry and you can see behind them
my grandmother's home had so many cross stitch pieces on the wall there was at
least one in every room I remember that and I'm not sure which one of them made
these I think my great-grandmother did more stitching that my grandmother did
but there's this clock it's like hard to tell from this photo but it's a clock
that's a cross stitched cat and then this other cross-stitch cat
piece that says love me love my cat so I think I mentioned a few times that
they've stitched and I my grandmother passed away maybe a decade ago and that
was before I was interested in stitching and I and then my grandfather her
husband passed away last March March 2017 and I kind of always regretted not
asking him by that time I was cross stitching but I wasn't I was just
getting into it I had just found floss tube I had made a couple of small things
it was less of a passion and more of just a stress management thing for me
and something I've always regretted is that I mean I never while he was still
alive I never asked him what he did with all the cross stitches that were in my
grandmother's home because there was one in every room and I when I was younger I
didn't know she tried to teach me when I was younger she also tried to teach me
how to knit here's another picture this is me as a surly 11 year old that says
on the back aged 11 almost 12 I'm wearing a Backstreet Boys t-shirt and
this is when she the summer she tried to teach me how to knit this project was
swiftly abandoned just like the cross stitch she tried to teach me the summer
before and thrown away I'm sure but anyway I always regretted not asking my
grandfather about it before he passed away and what he had
done with her cross stitch pieces because after she passed away he moved
to a smaller home and I didn't see those anymore they weren't on his wall
so
since he passed in the past year I have been kind of asking my dad to to see if
he could find in my grandfather's belongings any of any of those and I
really truly thought they were all gone there was a couple I tried to explain to
him first of all you know anybody who doesn't cross-stitch doesn't really
understand what cross-stitch is so I remember asking him for needlework and
then he brought me some doilies one time when he visited which is needlework but
it wasn't it wasn't what I was what I was talking about and I kept trying to
explain to him that no these were all these like these framed things that she
stitched and he just he didn't remember them and didn't know what happened to
them and and so I kind of really truly thought I would never have any of those
I did find two things though when we were home home this is home but when we
were visiting Ontario I went through some of my grandfather's things and I
did find these two things I do not think my grandmother's stitched them it's
possible my great-grandmother stitched one of them I'm I'm not sure there's no
names on them they could have been stitched by other friends or family
members that they knew but in any case I'll stop rambling and I'll show them
too so this I sort of remember being on the wall in her home it's really fallen
apart over the years this is a wedding
gift that somebody must have made for her and you can see it's me it's on antique
ivory aida 18 count and it would it come like this it's meant to look like a scroll so
somebody's starched it or glued it here and here and then these flowers were
hot glued on and if you're-- my grandmother the
grandmother I knew was my grandfather's second wife so that's why if you're
wondering like my grandparents got married in 1982 that's weird
he got remarried so when my father was an adult but before I existed so she
was the only grandmother on my dad's side that I knew because my dad's mom
had passed away prior to my existence and we were quite close
so I'm rambling because I'm feeling emotional I'm trying to maintain
composure but so this is I don't know it looks like 14 count ivory Aida that's
been glued or starched here I'm going to I'd like to do something with this I'm
not sure what I'm probably gonna remove these flowers I might cut this and try
and put it into a frame I think I think is nice the stitches are beautiful and
it looks like it's just done with DMC so theres that and then this one is
really pretty you know it's funny because I I very vividly remember a
different wedding sampler that hung in her dining room that was pink and blue
and it had little doves on it and a little a little bells like wedding
bells and nobody's come across that but these two that I don't remember I came
across so they must have been somewhere in the house I'm like 15 minutes in and this
is all over the place I'm sorry it's hard to talk about things
like this without rambling by yourself in your living room and
your neighbors are walking by looking at you through the window... anyway I also
found this so this is really beautiful this looks like it was stitched on this
looks like 28 count even weave it feels kind of cottony like an ivory color this
feels kind of like it doesn't feel like the DMSC Satin it feels softer than the DMC
satin but it doesn't doesn't feel like actual real silk it's probably like a
rayon like maybe um like a synthetic silk maybe it's an old DMC satin I don't
know this is definitely a wool and then the the darker color feels like a cotton
so I just thought this is really beautifully done and this I think I'm
gonna try they might try to clean it but I'm probably just gonna hang it as is
it's in really pretty condition you know is that weird to have my
grandparents wedding gifts hanging in my home? I don't think so and then the last
thing I came across or that rather than my dad gave to me that he had set aside
was this quilt that I think was also a gift either a retirement gift or a
wedding gift or something so my my grandparents met
they're both teachers and they they worked at a school for the deaf blind
and they were both they like wrote books about educating deaf blind kids they
were just kind of like on the forefront of some of that research you know in the
80s and they ran a school for deaf blind children so this quilt was stitch for
them possibly as a retirement gift possibly
as a wedding gift I'm not sure my dad doesn't know again things things you
wish--- things you think you have time
things you think you have time to ask that you don't anyway so somebody made
them this beautiful quilts and it has the names of either other teachers or
students written with some sort of fabric marker on squares in the middle
it says them there's the middle block
well somewhere it says thank you from one of these blocks is says thank you
but I thought I would share that for my quilting friends I don't know the name
of this quilting pattern but it's pretty and I'm happy to have it in my life
she obviously she or he or both of them obviously treasured it enough to keep it
over the years okay so after 20 minutes of rambling about things other people
have stitched I guess I could now talk to you about some things I have stitched
so I haven't done a whole lot since I saw you last June and July were very
busy with traveling after we went to Ontario we went to Pennsylvania for four
or five days to spend fourth of July and a few days after that at a lake house
with our friends Dylan's close group of friends he's very fortunate in that
he's remained close friends with some of the guys he went to elementary school
with and they do an annual fourth of July Lake House trip so we went to
participate in that for a few days which was nice and then after that we got home
we basically got home unpacked our suitcase
washed our clothes were here for a couple days and then we drove to
Virginia for a couple days Dylan's grandfather passed away earlier
this year and so Dylan's grandfather and grandmother have a cabin in the
mountains of Virginia that they that they built in probably probably the 70s
they got all their kids together they got one of those cabin kits that Sears
used to sell where it was like literally a mail order kit that was a cabin and
they they built it as a family and that spot was very near and dear to his heart
so Dylan's family wanted to have a little memorial for him this summer at
the cabin was lovely it was nice to be with their with family the weather was
great we were there were there only for well we got in Friday night and we're
gone Sunday morning it was a quick trip and then as soon as we got back from
that both him and I went back to work which has been bananas I started a new
show-- new show first season first seasons are usually chaos because nobody
has hit their stride yet you know like the show hasn't hit its stride the crew
hasn't hit its stride it's they're always kind of chaotic but this show... I
have never come home so physically tired day in day out and after every work day
like I have from this show you know like it's just been so physically demanding
that when I get home I might I might put a stitch or two in but that's all it is
you know maybe five stitches because I just can't keep my eyes open
and totally exhausted so I haven't done a whole lot but I'll but I'll show you
what I have so I do have a couple finishes so first of all I finished the
second part of Cape Cod peeps this is a plum Street simpler design I have since
passed along the pattern so I can't show it to you I stitched this as charted
except for I made a change to the flowers and I can't remember off the top
of my head what that change is I think I used the color that you're supposed to
use for the mermaid's tail and the flowers and then I gave them a yellow
Center instead of a black Center and I think I might have also put some pink
DMC in there if you're interested let me know and I'll I'll look at my notes
because I wrote it down but so that is that I love this little fish when I beat
Margo shes not done yet and I also I have a page finish on my HEAD so this
is what it is Steven Carl- Paulson-- Steven Paul Carlson every video I
flub that up anyway this horse I've totally given up on
pronouncing the title of this piece I just call it my horse I'm not gonna take
it off the frame but I will put something behind it so you can see so
so I finished I finished that page with his nose cool right
it's like I can finally I can finally see a horse I did there are some
mistakes in the side in here so it doesn't really so that is you see this
like Celtic frame that goes around him in here there are some mistakes in there
so that it doesn't it doesn't look exactly like it's supposed to
I'm hoping that when the rest of the frame comes down around here it won't
matter you know like these shapes aren't I got off and it's somewhere in there
and I thought oh it's close enough and then I after I was
done and I stepped back it doesn't it doesn't really look right but I'm not
gonna rip it out I'm just gonna hope that as the band continues down there
that it'll look fine
I actually had this with me when we were on vacation at the lake house with our
friends and it's the so somebody there asked me how my cross-stitch was going
because they all know that I stitch and they asked if they could see what I
brought with me and I don't know what prompted me to say yes but I brought
this out to show them and later Dylan told me that he was so
shocked that I let-- that I brought it out because you know it was a it was
a party type atmosphere there was there was Cheetos everywhere there was red
wine in in cups hanging out you know people have been eating burgers and hot
dogs so he was really shocked that I brought it out to show them and then he
was also shocked that I let other people hold it! looking back I don't know that
was like that was silly nothing happened not a single person's spilled anything on
it but I would not do that again because that could have been disastrous but it
was I don't know I guess I just got caught up and everybody like oooohig
and awwwing over it and being all impressed so you know it is pretty impressive to make
something like that work on it for a long time I've been working on that for
like it'll be two years in January ok so that is all that I have finished that
page finish and then Cape Cod keeps and then I only really worked on to other
things since I've seen you last so I've been working on my Cat and Mouse and I will
insert a picture of where you saw it last and this is where I don't have
the chart with me but this is Kathy barracks cat and mouse I'll insert a
picture of it and this is where I'm at I think I think I've just done this and
maybe brought down some of the sky since you last saw me and then I did
this this guy up here I really what I really should do is make
this a focus piece for August just to get it done because I'm more than
halfway now the only other thing I've worked on is a new start when we were on
our way to Ontario we-- I'm the driver Dylan doesn't have a driver's license so
when we go to Canada we drive because it's cheaper and it allows us to I don't
know make our own schedule you know rather than sitting in the airport and
inevitably missing a connection and then getting stuck in Toronto which always
happens every time I fly home fly from New York
to Ottawa I inevitably miss a connection
because I get stuck in customs and then I'm stuck in either Montreal or Toronto
for eight hours doing nothing so we like to drive when we go and my rule is as
long as he doesn't have a license and I'm the driver
I get to pick the podcasts and I get to pick where we stop for bathroom breaks
and we needed a bathroom break so we stopped at Joannes! I mean and while we
were there I I picked up this little kit this design works kit
it was 399 and with a coupon I think it was like a dollar fifty
it's called singing cat so I don't know I just think he's so cheerful so
charming you know and this is this is how I feel our cats see themselves when
they are having their middle of the night opera moments I guess you could
call them if you're a cat owner you know what I'm talking about so um I don't
know I knew I'm really behind on year of wips and I'm really behind on
the full coverage fanatics number challenge and I have a gazillion other
projects and I have no business starting something new but I just felt like it I
don't know so I started it this kit came with 14
count aida which I swapped out for this scrap of this is picture this Plus Dwarf
and it's like crystal sparkly version so that's what I have this is his arm there
and the side over here and I started think this is gonna be one of those
projects with a backstitch really makes it
I'm just loving the colors on this one and the sparkle and enjoying enjoying I
don't know the fact that it's a kit so all the floss was there didn't have to
kit it up so that's what I've been working on which is kind of a
pitiful amount for two months I know right and just life life life gets in
the way sometimes so I slacked a little on my retirement
planning in July but I did do a little bit of stashing just a little on our way
from Ontario to Pennsylvania I chose a bathroom stop at the stitchers garden
which is a LNS in the Syracuse area of upstate New York did you ever get a
chance or are up there you should totally check it out it's in an old barn it's
adorable she has a ton of stuff a ton of charts people who are still stashing
Lizzie Kate she's got a ton of Lizzie Kates she had some prairie moons she had um
you know she just had a lot I was in there for a long time we we would have
gotten to our destination much faster if we had have had a bathroom break
somewhere else but I'm driving I get to choose okay so during that that break I
picked up a couple things I picked up it just occurred to me I might already have
this one but I picked up this preschooler santa the Cardinal snow shoes
and this bag full of either snowballs or bubbles anyway I picked up my first
by the bay pattern funky flowers this is Hannah I think this is an iris right
that's what it looks like to me and I love irises I was in a sorority in
college and our sorority flower was the lovely purple iris so I don't know I
always since then I guess I've always been attracted to them plus
they're pretty and they only bloom during a specific time of year right and
around Easter the irises and the daffodils are all out and those
gorgeous purples and blues so I picked up summer house stitch works their
fragments in time number 8 it's a deer that's kind of this flower over here
it's a little more um
a little more prim-- its not really prim I don't know this wouldn't
be something I normally gravitate towards but it's pretty so I just wanted
it it's pretty so I grabbed it and then I got my first prairie moon and this is
also I'm taking out the plastic this is also my first Americana cross stitch
pattern home with the free land of the brave this is pretty
these ships over here this is charted entirely in NPI and
calls for about 30 colors I don't know if I'll do it in NPI I have to think
about it they don't look particularly variegated but silk gotta love silk I don't
know um anyway so I'm excited this is my first prairie moon and my first americana
you guys know how many Canadian cross stitches I have this is my first
American themed cross stitch so pick that up on time for the fourth of July and then
I got my July color and cotton this is 36 count Carrara marble
it looks a little more purple in person it's like really pretty gray
color gotta love gray fabric it's got like a
slight purple tone to it gorgeous I also bought it's obviously not here yet but I
did buy Angela's Halloween mystery box which I'm really excited about
I don't normally stitch Halloween but I don't know her she's so great with color
and her stuff I love her floss I love her fabric she's fantastic with color
and she is really great with color palettes
so I figured just because it's a Halloween themed box doesn't mean I have
to stitch a Halloween pattern with it it's gonna be everything that she sends
it's gonna go together beautifully so I don't know maybe like maybe that's where
the solution to my coffee Quaker problem is that I've been stitching that I
haven't worked on in a year because I hate the colors I chose and I feel
overwhelmed with how to fix that I'm not confident with colors like some people
are and Angela has just she just has a great eye for color so I'm I'm confident
that that box is gonna be worth every penny so I put a deposit on it
I think the full balance is due in September I don't know anyway so yeah
that's everything I bought do I have anything else to talk about?
Oh plan wise
I'm really behind in by the numbers and I'm really behind in year of wips
looking at the goals I set for 2018 for myself I wanted to complete the
by-the-numbers challenge I wanted to complete the year of wips challenge I
don't know at this point if I can complete both challenges I think I need
to pick one to focus on I feel that I should focus on year of wips because it
makes more sense to try and finish more projects than to put more stitches into
my HEAD at the same time doing the by-the-numbers challenge will get that
thing closer to being done I mean I've done two pages out of 22 pages out of 26
so in two years it's like I do need to pick up the pace I don't know I but then
maybe it makes more sense just to pick I have three at least three year of wips
projects that are more than halfway complete that if I just buckle down and
focused on them I might get finished I don't know so my
plans are I have no plans and I don't know what I'm doing with my life and
really quick I don't usually do a I'm all into segment I love I love it when
you guys do those I love hearing about everything you're buying stitching and
not not stitching related everything or watching everything you're reading I
love it when people do books I don't do books because I don't read
them enough but I every time michelle recommends a book I put it on my Amazon
wishlist every time Jesse recommends a book I put on Amazon wishlist I just
have this I have this like whole save for later section in Amazon of books
people recommend anyway something that I'm all into that I think something you
guys would love is Dylan and I just sat down and watched like in one weekend the
entire series of Glow I'm not gonna tell you anything about it because I think
that's the best way to go into watching a show is to not really know anything
about it or that's how I went into it
and maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much because I had no expectations but
it's fantastic it's on Netflix it's a Netflix original there's two
seasons so like 20 episodes this is the first show in a long time that I
didn't stitch while watching because I was just so into the story the
characters are fantastic they're great characters the storylines are not
predictable at all it's kind of based on like a true story that you probably
never heard of even if you were alive in the 70s and 80s it's just great
I highly recommend it if you're looking for something to watch or binge
watch the art the set design and the makeup and the costumes are amazing
I hope they won an Emmy I don't know if Netflix can get Emmys I don't pay
attention to who wins Emmys but I hope they did it was it's great so I highly
recommend I highly recommend checking that out okay so if you've made it this
far you're awesome thank you if you've been joining me for
the year that I've been doing this if you just joined me if you have ever
clicked that subscribe button I just want to say thank you
so I've hit 500 over 500 subscribers and it's surreal that that's even a thing
that could happen to me in my life I never would have guessed it I think that
a year ago when I started to do these I assumed literally no one would watch and
look where it's taken me you know I went to a retreat I've met some some amazing
people I've made friends you know I've made friends in other states in other
parts of the world so I want to share a little love in celebration of a year and
of you know the number 500 and just a in celebration of all things flosstube I
want to do a little giveaway and I think the best thing to do since I have like a
really strong shopping bug right now is whoever the winner is I'll just shop
something for you you'll tell me what kind of designers
you like and what kind of fabric and colors you like and I'll put together a
little surprise mystery package and ship it to you
usual rules apply don't mention giveaway be over 18 or have your parents
permission
be a subscriber that's it right the usual stuff so to enter to enter I want
you okay so bear with me here so I read in the news a couple days ago that these
researchers in Japan and I will link the video below have created a robotic arm
that you can control with your mind so they've literally created a third arm
for humans and obviously you'll see if you watch the video it's still in its
very basic basic form where it just basic you can with your mind control it
to do basic tasks like hold things but that's still incredible the whole
concept of of being able to give human beings a third arm so my question to you
is if you want into the giveaway answer this question is what
would you do with a third arm if you had one would you I don't know what I would
do I want to say I would use it to stitch faster in that it could totally
hold my pattern like here and then I could stitch down here and I mean there
are things that you can buy that do that but maybe it could mark my pattern
that's what I would use it for so I could stitch and it wouldn't mark my pattern
as I go because then I wouldn't have the like the thing I have when I'm doing
full-coverage where I do stitches and then I have to go to my I my iPad and
like Mark it what I've done so that's definitely what I would use it for and I
would also use it so that I could eat candy while I stitched without having to
get my other hands dirty and what else can I use a third arm for
I would make the third arm do it could change the channel or like change the
volume while I'm stitching it can comment on your videos while I'm stitching so I
wouldn't have to pause there's probably other uses for a third arm that don't
involve stitching I can't think of any but if you can let me know it doesn't
have to be stitching related but yeah so tell me what you would do with the third
arm and and that'll be the giveaway question and we'll make the deadline for
that we'll go ahead and make that deadline I don't know what I'm looking
around for I don't have a clock or calendar in this room we'll make that
deadline let's make it September 18th that gives you over a month so September
18th enter by then I'll make a video after that announce the winner I'll buy
you some cool things I'll send you some cool things yeah
anyway thank you so much guys for watching thank you for your comments
thanks you for your likes and your subscriptions and you know just for
being there thank you for being a friend
it's been um it's been so great getting to know you guys through it through the
interwebs and I think I guess that's everything I guess that's it
my brain is empty so so that must be it so I'm gonna say goodbye thank you so
much and I'll talk to you guys soon right
have a great rest of the rest of the summer
and I will see you guys hopefully before September or if not the next time I'll
see you will be after September 18th and we'll do that giveaway winner so um okay
time to stop bye!
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