New Cross Stitch Start, Knitting WIPs, Puzzle Competition and Woodworking w/Dad!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome back to the ElizabethAnnCanStitchShow! It has been a busy, busy week! I took a frame making class at a local furniture school with my dad, started a new cross stitch project, worked on multiple knitting wips and managed to get 2nd place in my first puzzle competition! Oh yeah and my "invisible sister" Lynn came over to chat about knitting and crochet and share some of her favorite projects!
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Thank you so much for sharing your family with us. It is a joy to watch you all interact with your crafting. You are greatly blessed with a beautiful family.
I love seeing all your projects!
Hello! Love your show as always. Your family is delightful! And I love the idea of a sweater in a bowl. Genius! 😊
What a beautiful family you have! Could listen to your sister and you chat all day! You are very blessed!
Thank you!!
What a fun video. Really enjoyed listening to this while I stitched 😊
What a great framing idea.
Really enjoyed...thanks ❤
Really enjoyed...thanks ❤
Loved your video with all the crafts you do. Happy crafting!
I would still try to bind the seams on your bag. Unpick the boxed bottom seam, bind the sides, resew the boxed bottom and then bind it. Worth a try!
Have fun at Flock!
Loving your new format ❤x
That's inspiring. I think I know the basics of knitting. However, the difficulty is understanding a pattern. Safe travels.
I enjoyed the video! Love seeing all your family having fun together. It’s great having sisters! I have three sisters and a brother. I am the oldest or like I tell everyone I am #1 of five.
exactly! Same here!
I am loving your new format! I also love the clips you insert of family time. Your family is amazing! I am a cross stitcher & quilter, but when you talk about knitting it makes me want to go to my local yarn store & talk someone into teaching me to knit! I don’t have too much opportunity to wear knitted items (I live 50 miles west of Houston), but I do get cold feet. 😁. Anyway, please keep the videos coming. You are a real joy to watch!
Thank you so much!! I bet your local yarn store offers beginners classes! It’s so fun!
Fab fab video... Re the bag situation. I would unpick the box seam then bind the horizontal and vertical seams then stitch the box again and bind the little bit of edge x
I was doing a puzzle on my iPad tonight, then left to put the baby to bed. When I came back Andy had taken my iPad and finished my puzzle. He’s a puzzle fiend! (Who has since had the mop top hair removed for his back to school cut)
hehehe, he was the cutest team captain in the ROOM, who legitimately helped us do that puzzle, he's a star!
Happy anniversary to your parents! That is a milestone. You can always take your pattern book to a print shop and have them put a spiral binding on it. They way it will sit flatter for scanning. I do that with a lot of my quilt books. Loved the garden sampler for much I had to get the chart. Thanks for the enabling! 😊
Oh yay, I hope you enjoy stitching it!! On the book I was worried about losing too much of the margins and its such a pretty book that I just decided to buy the ebook version, especially since the physical book was kindly gifted, I didn't really have to buy it twice!
What a fun video! Loved all the conversation with your sister. So sweet❤. Plus you’re coming my way this weekend for the fiber festival. I live in a suburb of Seattle and hope we have great weather for you!
Now all we need is to get you to the NY Sheep & Wool festival!
oh don't worry that is ON the to do list!! (still trying to figure out if its a possibility this year but unlikely with other travel I have planned in the fall)
I love this chat with your sister ❤. If I am knitting on something (usually socks) and someone expresses interest I will ask
Wanna try? I just stick the needles in their hand. They say oh no I don’t want to mess it up. I tell them don’t worry I can fix it. And I love the look and smile on their face ❤❤
yesss! Thats how I like to teach knitting too, do NOT worry about making mistakes, learning to fix them helps you be a better knitter and everyone makes mistakes!
Gorgeous stitching! Congratulations to your parents on 45 years of marriage. Congratulations on the 2nd place for the puzzle competition.
Thank you so much for suggesting using float frames for possibly framing cross stitch! I was trying to think of a less traditional way to frame a sugar skull I stitched for a friend and I think I'm going to try this method!
Yay!! I need to try it out with my mom's cross stitch!
Great episode! I enjoyed it so much. Have fun on your trip❤❤
Thanks so much!!
Great episode ❤ I watch the real housewives of Dubai 😊
Omg, I was roaring as you were talking about tall girl problems 😂
I know you get it 😂😂😂
Elizabethann - why not take out the corners? Bind the bottom and the sides, then do the corners and bind them. Yes, it will be thick where the seams meet, but it is more do-able. Using another fabric, doubled, to create a drawstring that encases the top yet with room for the drawstring, is also an option. But in the meantime - have fun at FLOCK! And thanks for the fun video with your wonderful family.
I was just going to say the same. It is what I would do.
"Not for FREE" the laugh I laughed
Lollll same 😂
I thought about Liz this weekend! I was visiting my sister in Kentucky. Even though I am not a knitter yet, we went into a tiny, cute yarn shop. They had Liz' favorite brands of yarn. And the owner was so enthusiastic, encouraging me to start socks even though I haven't knitted a single stitch. 🤩
I love it!!
I absolutely love watching you and your sisters talk to each other. You guys are so funny so much fun to watch.!! I think a weekly sister chat might be an order lol
Well done. Loved seeing all the interactions as well as projects. We had our 46th anni in July so I know how special those "big" ones are commemorating so many years! Congrats!
About puzzles....ever done a "Magic Puzzle" jigsaw? I don't do lots but I do love these! I wont describe in case you have done them
hmm that doesn't sound familiar, I dont think I've done one of those!
@@elizabethanncanstitch They are very cleverly done. First you do 1000 piece puzzle which sounds crazy but almost every piece is unique or has a detail or shape so it can be placed. But it DOES take a while. Then... The tricky part... The puzzle kinda slides apart and 4 large parts are reassembled so now there's a hole. Then you open up a secret envelope with a few more pieces and complete. It's got monsters and animals and creatures etc. Anyway the kiddos in your family might like? It's hard to explain. But worth a look. The Magic Puzzle Company.
Your socks you made for your sister were beautiful. Fun times with family are always great memories.
Really enjoyed getting to know your sister, Lynn, better! She has made some beautiful items over the years! Loved watching the interactions between you two! Congratulations to your parents for 45 years of marriage! Have a fun trip!
Thanks so much
I loved the interaction between you and your family.
So much to love about this video! Family, fun, sisters, creative inspiration and never ending talents.
THIS WAS SOOOOOO MUCH FUN HANING OUT WITH THE GIRLS 💝💝💝🇺🇸😘🎉🙏 ……. GOD BLESS YOU ALL ….
That was so fun!!! I’ve never had sisters so am envious of the time you can share your interests with your mom and sisters. Have fun traveling!
Wow, you ladies are just beautiful, love how hearing about your stitching!!! Congrats to your parents on 45 years and way to go on the puzzle completion 2nd prize just fantastic!!
You and your sisters together were so sweet. I really enjoyed watching! I love that Garden Sampler so beautiful.
Thank you so much!
How fun to have a father-daughter date! I am amazed by all the tools! I love your enthusiasm and hope it is catchy!
Love the crochet project - so lacy and pretty!
Loved the puzzling competition video!
Elizabeth Ann Can. You do it all and do it all very well!
Absolutely DELIGHTFUL episode!!!!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!
Loved this video! I especially loved the chitchat with your sister all about knitting with a walk down memory lane ❤️ I have 4 sisters and we are all crafty too!
I love seeing all that you are up to Liz! Thanks for sharing your crafts. Just gotta say I love your family dynamics. Puzzle contests? Dinners out? Woodwork with Dad? Knitting with a sis? Love it. Lucky Liz! Life is good, for sure! p.s. Did you see Summer Lee's new Colorwork Cuff Club for socks on Ravelry??? Better go have a peek
It was a pretty great week!! And yes I saw her book, so many gorgeous patterns! I've done a few colorwork socks before and never actually enjoyed wearing them (i didn't like catching my toes on the floats 😂)
@@elizabethanncanstitch she did mention keeping floats short for that reason. For $12 and a surprise new cuff design each month? I took the bait! Happy Crafting. And enjoy the Flock Festival!
Gorgeous video. Loved all your vignettes with your Dad, puzzle competition and with your sister, such fun. Enjoy your time away and Happy Stitching/Knitting ❤❤
OMG your sister is adorable! You are so sweet together!!! Loved this video. Your picture frame is beautiful. A new skill for you. Have fun and look forward to seeing your next adventiues!
Loved seeing you and your sister knitting and chatting. Have fun at Flock, I'm so jealous.
So fun seeing so much of your family in today's video. Your projects are amazing, as always too! Have so much fun at Flock!
The bowl tip is FANTASTIC!
Right?? It was a total game changer for me on knitting sleeves! And since I love to do magic loop for small circumference knitting its nice to just have to turn the bowl, knit across, turn the bowl, knit across, repeat til sleeve is done! And I usually just store my project in the bowl in my wip basket like that until the sleeves are done!
Love the video! It was nice to see your sister and your family. I was hoping that she would have said why she lives in Dubai. Take care!
Her husband works for his dad's company there!
This is an example of my grammar OCD-ness…oh goodness! 😂. I always hear you say “I knit” something where I would have said “I knitted” something. So I looked up the conjugation of the word. 😂😂. Both ways are considered to be correct, but I had never heard it used that way until I started watching your videos.
haha same here! 😂
@@marciakain1740
Oh interesting! I've never even thought about it, "i knit" just sounds better in my brain!
Thank you for a wonderful video and catch up on your week. The puzzle competition looked like so much fun, I love that your family could come together and do that. It was lovely seeing your sister and hearing her take on all the crafty things. It’s incredible how much she sounds like you with your laugh! I’m so pleased you got to spend some lovely time with her. Have a good week . I can’t wait to see what you buy from all the gorgeous wool you are going to have to choose from. Love and blessings x
Loved your video! Congrats to your Mom and Dad! Love how you laugh and enjoy the interaction with your sisters!
Thank you so much!
I absolutely love this video!!!! Love the Dad time, the Puzzle competition (I love puzzles) and knitting with your sister. And of course, you finishes of stitching and knitting progress. Can't wait for the next video!!!
Thank you so much!
Such fun listening to you and your sister!
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for sharing your sister. What awesome video. ❤
Thank you!! 💗
It’s always a pleasure seeing you but having your sister on was great! You both are VERY talented! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
Loved your video! I enjoy seeing all of the crafts you are working on. What was the name of the puzzle you were doing, I loved it? Your family is so much fun to watch. Wasn't the old fabric store you were thinking of, years ago, Mae's Fabrics? They had lots of craft items and cloth. I loved Hancock Fabrics, I hated that they closed. Have a great week and see you soon.
the store we were thinking of was Cloth World! That was the one near us that got bought up by Joanns!
That's awesome that you won 2nd place in the puzzle competition. I was just asking my daughter about those last week. It was great seeing all of your sister's stitchy progress too. Have a fun and safe trip!
Great video Liz. It was so lovely to listen to you and your sister chat about knitting & crochet. My 11 year old daughter taught herself to crochet by watching TH-cam tutorials - so clever! Loved the puzzle comp too 😊
I love it!! I have a couple of nieces who taught themselves to crochet from youtube, its so great!
This was so much fun watching you two!
You both laugh exactly the same! Love hearing about your background of learning to knit and crochet! You both are so talented!!
What a gorgeous video! You have such a lovely family. I enjoyed every minute x
The puzzle competition was awesome. Way to go!!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful frame and knitting and crocheting with your sister.
Great video! I LOVE puzzles! When my daughter comes from California (I live in Connecticut), I stock up on 500 and 1000 piece puzzles for us to do! Congrats to your parents! We will be 49 years in a week.
Oh amazing!! Congrats on 49!
Made me wish I had a sister to share all kinds of stuff with.
Your puzzle competition looks like so much fun! We had a puzzle going at the lake and my mom and son stayed up until midnight one night working on it! Have the best time at Flock!!
yes! We always have puzzles going at any type of family vacation or family event! I just couldn't believe how intense we got with it, we were all sweating by the end 😂
Thank you for the invite, fun.
My mom is traditional (Navajo)weaver, one of my older sisters weave, crochet, knit, xstitch, she is all around, my oldest is a quilter, & photographer, then my younger sister weave, bead and dabbles in crocheting. Always fun to talk about what we are doing.
Enjoy your trip.
Thats amazing! I bought a loom once, still have it I think.. a small wooden cricket loom, but not all the hobbies I try stick, but it was so fun to try out!
I’m loving the all-in-one videos!
Ok, two things (or more, if I think of them!😂):
1. I love your family and the fun you have! Can I just be an honorary sister?🤣🤞🏻
2. I loveddd the knit chat with your sister! Maybe a zoom inserted session in future videos?
3. Flock! So excited for you. Lemme know if you ever want a fiber festival partner!❤️❤️❤️🤣
Another fabulous video. Congratulations to your Mum and Dad on their anniversary. Thank you for sharing everything - you and Lynn chatting was brilliant. So much fun. Enjoy flock and happy crafting.
I really enjoyed your video this week, you and your sister were so entertaining and it was so much fun to watch.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
"a raglan sweater, I just made the problem as I went...." Absolutley amazed by Lynn's ability to do that. I am a rule follower and would have no clue how to 'make it up as i go'.
I also feel you both with 'tall girl problems'. What I wouldn't give to be able to buy a shirt and know it will actually be long enough in my torso....
right? And now everything is cropped!! 😂
Loved your video Liz!! There are so many things that I could comment on that I enjoyed that I would be here forever.❤
Thanks for the bowl trick. Leaned something new. 😊
Yay! Its been a real game changer for me!
What an array of family crafters! I feel like you guys might be one project away from a TLC reality show and I’m here for it! 😂 Have a great time at Flock 🧶
hehehe, I love it! Thank you!
❤️ your video. Your videos always make my day. Was great to hear all yours and your sister for the 🌸 of knitting and crocheting 🧶
Pausing to comment on the challenge with photographing the book. I’ve taken other books to Kinkos/similar to have them basically cut off the spine and three hole punch the pages.
Love this video! You’re so casual and at ease on camera that it really seems you are talking to me. Love that you are so close to your family. Your frame is beautiful. Congrats to your parents on their anniversary. Your projects are all lovely. I wish you could teach me to knit. I crochet, cross stitch, and do some sewing. I also make cards and paper crafts. I also want to learn how to do Tunisian crochet. Hope you have a wonderful safe trip and enjoy shopping!
Oh thank you!! So glad you enjoyed it, it was a very fun week!
Congratulations to your parents. I know they loved having all of you guys together for a celebratory dinner. In October, we will celebrate our 41st anniversary. A miracle we have made it so long because I graduated from the University of Alabama🐘🏈 and he is for Auburn 🐅. I just finished a cross stitch pattern for my husband’s birthday from Liz Mathews: “Old Friends.” I used a light gray fabric with a purplish thread.
I love, love, love your new format. I am sure that it is because I am interested in all of the things that you are doing, with the exception of making my own frames; But I do like to work puzzles. Keep up the new format. Have a great time on your trip.
Omgosh that video was so fun! I love your sister, she’s just like you!🫶🏻. I was sad when the video was over. Congrats on your puzzle win also. The sweating cracked me up! Stress will do that. Lol. Have a fun time at retreat and happy crafting on your work trip too.
I love hearing your crafting histories. Interesting. Great video. The puzzles look like fun
Thank you 🤗
Great video. Loved the puzzle challenge, what a fantastic idea! Your "interview" with your sister was fun. Such a talented family. Safe travels.
Love the new format. I loved the section with you and your sister. Sister time is the best. I also love the puzzle contest idea, and might add that to our Christmas party as we love puzzles.
Glad you enjoyed!
Love your intro! That is so sweet to take a class with your dad. Interesting. I look forward to a future show and tell. What team work on the puzzle war. So enjoyed watching you and your sister chatting and knitting.
I lived in Ft Worth and shopped the original Michaels store in Hurst Texas. It was great! But I loved coming home to Tulsa and shopping the enormous Hobby Lobby store we had. Then I lived in OKC and shopped the massive store at the headquarters. Never realized how good I had it! 😂😂😂
Loved all your family time this week. The frame looks fantastic, by the way. Noy sure your nephew was happy with 2nd place by the look on his face 😂 But 2nd was great. Loved seeing the progress on your knitting and crocheting, wich I don't do but wish I did. So enjoyed your knitting time with your sister,you are so blessed Liz. Enjoy your trip to California.
actually I think the look on his face was because I put in the last piece of the puzzle instead of handing it to him... but he has to learn that he's part of a competitive family and that the desire to win outweighs my desire to let him put in the last piece and waste precious seconds 😂 (I know, I know, I'm a monster)
@@elizabethanncanstitch absolutely right.
Fun video, cool puzzle event, nice work working, and so fun to hang out with You & Your Invisible Sister, I kept saying my head they are so much alike :)
oh yes, when we were teenagers nobody could tell our voices apart and we definitely have so many of the same mannerisms!
@@elizabethanncanstitch Agree, voice, mannerisms, and even a few words / phrases ... it was fun, I enjoyed the conversation :) I only have brothers ...
Very fun video. TFS.
Congratulations to your parents., also how cool form you to hang out with your sisters. Have fun at flock
Happy anniversary to your parents! What a fun event that puzzle contest must have been. My son and I love to do jigsaw puzzles too. Such a crafty family, Liz. The old craft store that popped into my head was Ben Franklin’s but we also had a combo type store called The Fair that had craft supplies too. Have a good week.
It was so fun! Clearly we're all highly competitive and love puzzles, so it was right up our alley 😂 the store we were trying to remember was called Cloth World!
I have a show name suggestion for you (just catching up on my feed)…Elizabeth Ann Can Stitch (or Craft) It All! No matter the needle type, they’re still stitches. And the “(or Craft)” takes care of the random non-needlework craft. As for puzzling, friends & I attended a puzzle competition at the Georgetown Library. It was fun! There was enough interest that I think they’ll do it again. In Texas, if we’re less than an hour apart, we’re practically neighbors, right? 😂
It was nice to see such a long interaction with you and Lynn. I feel like we see so much of you with the other girls, but rarely her (nevermind that she’s all the way across the world from you 90% of the time 😅)!
Congratulations to your parents and on the puzzle competition!
Have so much fun at Flock! I’m super jealous! 💕💕💕
Thank you!! Yes, I'm still mad at her for moving that far away!!
Check out The Fiber Hustle booth at Flock. Aaron and Chip host the awesome podcast of the same name. Aaron dyes yarn and Chip makes Chip bags.
oooh ok! I'm honestly hoping I can visit every single booth there! I got the 2 day pass so fingers crossed!
My first knitting project was a cardigan. I didn’t know what I didn’t know! It had a placket, buttonholes, and raglan sleeves. But it came out pretty good and I wore it for years. That was a long time ago when I was in college.
oh my gosh thats amazing! I'm totally that way too, I always jump in feet first and try the hard things first before I know any better 😂
Loved hearing about your sisters crafting!!
It definitely depends on the look you want - but for your bag, if you pick out/cut the 2 shorter seams of the bottom out & do a binding on the 3 longer seams, then re-sew & put binding on the 2 shorter seams, that will give you a cleaner look. At some point I made a pattern that actually called for that construction, though I can't recall the name of it right now.
For the top, you can iron 1/4" folds on the drawstring casing and sandwich the bag between the sides. I did that once after a mishap with some scissors 😄
ahhh yes ok that would work at the bottom! I think i'll just do a separate lining for this project only because I really want to follow the pattern for the handle and drawstring topper as I really like the look on the other Kato bag i made!
On the binding in your bag, if you
ripped out a few stitches where the sides meet the bottom, you could make a long strip with the edges folded in on each of the long sides and stitch it over the open side seams and the bottom seam. You would stitch the strip on both edges…it’s like the casings that are stitched on corsets where the stays are inserted. Then just re-stitch the short seams to make the box. Then you could just put binding on the short seams that create the boxed bottom. Or just zig zag them cause they are at the bottom and won’t show.
ahhh ok, yeah that could be an option, I see what you're saying. I think i'll probably just use a different fabric for lining in this case just so i can skip that and also be able to follow the pattern for the handle and drawstring top as I really like how it turned out on the halloween version I made last year!
Absolutamente hermoso todo lo que muestras.Bendiciones familia ❤❤❤❤❤
Always love your longer videos :) Do you have FOUR sisters??? Wow!
Yes! There are 4 of us! 2 of my sisters live nearby and Lynn lives in Dubai! It was so awesome that she was in town and able to join us for the puzzle competition as she is our head puzzler!
I have been procrastinating sleeves on the marled mania cardigan, so thanks for the tip! Flopping a project around can really put some wear and tear on it and it looks old before it is even finished.
Yes! Try out the bowl and see what you think, it was a total game changer for me and knitting sleeves!
Hi Liz! Had to pause the video and share that I too have the Estonian knitting book Lynn mentioned receiving as a gift!! 😂. Such a fun video ❤
Oh thats amazing! Lace knitting is so complicated and fun!
@@elizabethanncanstitch I knit a lace shawl and an FO I am most proud of. Almost as great as puzzle champs🥰