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So, I discovered that these lovely little woodland ants have multiple queens, so in theory I should be able to take a bit of their nest for my terrarium, without the rest of the colony being too disturbed about it. Wish me luck, 'cos I'm going in as soon as the glue's dry on my DIY terrarium!

i can't wait to have a go but I'm flat out at work till Wednesday. Thank you for posting.

Btw. I looooove your tutorials. Thanks from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

Could you use a different colour thread for the couching stitches.? Would it get csught up and show at the end?

Found these while cutting the grass ❤

Thanks so much for this. It is very timely and meaningful to me. I’m going to try again!

I watched all the chapters, so interesting and so skillful, thank you.

It's slightly experimental this, but I'm hoping she likes the terrarium. This is my first sighting of her since popping her in a couple of days ago.

looking forward to this, thank you x

I'm so excited to get started! You do such a good job of explaining everything

The next video in this project will be up shortly, because it shouldn't take you too long to get the buttercup drawn onto the fabric. Next up is making the cordon, and it's a trickier one than we did on the sampler, so I thought I'd do a full video on that one. Don't worry if you didn't do the sampler project that you'll get lost; you won't, because the playlist of vids that enable you to work through all the stitches we put into the sampler is available in the Description Area below today's video.

It's a very pretty and colourful moth, this one, and they all seem to be coming out on the same day.

Another Nuptial Flight Day here in Ireland (30th July, '24), and I noticed some smallish, more orange queens returning from their day out. They might be Flavus, but I have only seen Flavus workers before, and they are very orange, and rather shy, so I'm not positive. What do you reckon? By the way, the one on the bottom, with the eggs, is a Lasius Niger queen. My first Lasius Niger queen (Queenie) now has four little workers! Obviously, it would be super exciting to have a Flavus colony as well, because they are hard to watch in the wild, being so keen on undergroundishness.

It's just beautiful ❤

i'm still loving this. I love the sweet sampler pieces.

Thankyou. I’ve always wanted to create my own lace. Finally you have gotten me started. Your laces are beautiful.

I've added Chapters in the Description Area under the video, for your convenience. There's also a link to the whole playlist of 6 videos, in case you need to review any stitches or techniques. I hope you enjoyed the project, and there's another one coming, if you fancy doing a new lace design project after completing the lace sampler.

wonderful. i love it, xx

Wow! Looking forward to the tutorial

I hope you like this little buttercup design I came up with, because I intend to show you how to do it in the upcoming project. I bet after this project there'll be no stopping you, and you'll be thinking up designs of your own, because you'll have the skills you need to be able to do so.

One of the glorious programmes Open University showed on TV in the 70's. There aren't many recordings saved, sadly, so I couldn't find my favourites. This was before the internet was a thing in our lives, but they were great shows. th-cam.com/video/mdKPyttdMNI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LO4mCUKHqKTwQ9dN

I highly recommend this channel. the tutorials are so clear and interesting. I have finished a fish today using the techniques I have learned and I'm totally hooked.

the pop went well. the edging I found more difficult to judge the size and my loops were too big. i will try again. look forward to the buttercup project too. x

thank you so much, i'm loving this!

I've added Chapters in the Description Area under the video, for your convenience.

Great instructions and demonstration. Looking forward to doing this series. 🌟

Thank you for share ❤

Thursday's child has far to go in the helping mum out department, but this little lasius niger worker is only one day old, so she deserves a nap. You can see the other one, a few days ahead of her, helping mum move eggs.

I have a new queen, with lots out there, returning from their flights, about an hour after my ones from the wild colony by my side door ("Antville") took off, and the returning queens were looking about for somewhere to set up new colonies. I have two queens already from last year, so I just collected one that I noticed had broken off her wings, ready to set up camp somewhere.

Thank you so much for these videos, they're so beautiful and I can't wait to make some lace!

Congratulations

Queenie and I have been waiting such a long time for this cute little worker to arrive. She's Queenie's little helper, too, and is the first worker to emerge from a pupa. You can see her moving pupae about with Queenie here. Awwww.

So beautiful!!! Such an Art!!! Such a patience!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤❤

i do love the fancy edging. i look forward to learning that. x

oh what a delight to go to you tube and see part 4 :) thank you.

I love this. Next time I go to the fabric store I will get that thread and give this a go. You make it look so do able

Thank you for sharing its very neat 🧵⚘🦘

So awesome. I’ve not heard of this bit before and it’s beautiful

Beautiful Irish lace you made. So very interesting. Thank you for sharing

This is so cool. I’m so going to make some of these. Thanks. I hope you continue for many mote samples.

That is amazing! And…your accent is absolutely lovely.

Looks like it’s going to be fun. I’ll have to wait till the 15th to go to the store to buy some fabric. I think I’m going to get a piece of felt too. I have been crocheting little tiny granny squares to practice getting smaller and smaller hooks so this is very fun project. I’ve always wanted to do a slow stitching. I have not done one since I was in high school and we did them as a sampler of our work.

I am absolutely in ❤

This looks very similar to stumpwork. Very interesting.

oh my goodness, i have never seen this sort of stitching before. it's fantastic! now i have to see part one -- LOL 😻😻😻😻😻 5/5

yippee...I'm all ready!!!

Ooo a new book and some book binding!! Sounds fabulous!!

This series has been fabulous and I’ll be trying it soon!!!!

I've added Chapters under the video for your convenience, and there's a link back to part 2 near the beginning at the top right of screen, if you need a fairly in-depth refresher on the Brussels Point section, or haven't tried it out on the left panel yet.

My second piece is indeed better than my first. So enjoying this! I have shared the link to a slow stitch group that allows shared links and hope others will be interested to have a go. I have also shared it on a larger slow stitch group but just my finished result on that one as links are not allowed but people might contact me to ask. waiting with joyful anticipation for part 3. thank you so much.