Thank you, Sarah and Jonathan, for all of your contributions to the stitching community! I know that you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I do - and I am happy to show my gratitude for both of you at this holiday time! ❤🦃
OMG: I was a professional seamstress (retired now at 75 yrs old) & I NEVER knew you could get to the thread on one of those spools by taking the end OFF & making a keeper for your needles. YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG A NEW TRICK>==== thank you Sarah, very much. Jeanette Sizzle
Hand tips for sure, for threading needles I have found that it works every time when put through the hole that was stamped when being made. If your not sure have a look through a magnify-glass and you notice that one side is con-cave and the other side is con-vex always use the con-cave side and it will thread every time. I learned this trick after watching a documentary on how sewing needles were made and noticed the shape after they were stamped, this lead me to opening my packet of needles and checked them after a while I automatically noticed which side was which. This works really well on the smaller needle eyes as it acts as a guide because of the con-cave shape of the needle eye.
I expect you know but just in case, when making a needle they stamp the eye from one side ,if you find threading one side is difficult,turn the needle round to the stamped side, (much easier.)
Before I begin braiding any looped thread, when I cut the loop in half I put the label on one end, take it to the middle than braid. You won't loose the label.
These tips are BRILLIANT! I've been embroidering for decades and most of this was unknown to me. Can't wait to put all this good info to use. Thanks for sharing it with us.
The shower cap was a new tip to me. Many thanks 😊. I really enjoy the voice pacing of your videos, Sarah !!! Your camera work is awesome! Thanks Jonathan!
Yesterday I started my very own small business shop on Etsy selling my embroidery! 😭 you have helped me tremendously for a while with all of your embroidery videos. I cannot thank you enough 💝
I was wondering what had become of Thing from the Addams Family tv show. Good to know of Thing's new position as thread holder. Again: Wonderful and helpful tips. Thank you and best regards.
Great video Sarah!! I’m so glad you have made these beginner helpful videos! I’m learning tons, yay! I also now realize why you are so good at smiling at the camera…because your hubby is smiling back at you…double yay and sweet too! Donna
The shower cap to protect your work is a great idea but I don't have any. What I do have is a bowl cover that fit my hoop perfectly. I made a lot of them, have them in many sizes and they are a great option for me. The fun part was embroidering my initial to personalize it. Thank you for sharing all the great ideas.
I need you to know, I didn't expect to learn anything- I have been embroidering for a while and feel like I'm pretty decent. The bit about how to get the one strand out of 6 is going to change my life!
It was nice to meet your camera technician :). Hello Jonathan! Thanks Sarah for the tips, very helpful. No one's ever explained that you need to take the needle to the thread and not the thread to the needle before. I'll try that.
I feel like I always learn something new whenever I watch one of your videos. The only tip I can think of right now is that I glued a magnet to my frame holder so that I can drop my needle on it if I have to walk away suddenly.
Yo tengo un nuevo consejo para quienes bordan consiste en colocar la tela en el aro restaurada, luego colocar este arriba de un recipiente con agua hirviendo o de una tetera (olla especial para hacer te) y permanecer ahí unos minutos para que la tela de bordar se humedezca levemente con el vapor, posteriormente se retira y se deja secar al aire y cuando esté bien seca quedará perfectamente tensada, otro consejo consiste en voltear el aro por el lado que cuelga la aguja enhebrada con la que estás bordando y soltarla (quedará colgando de la tela) lograrás así que se destuerza ( en su caso) y este pequeño detalle hace que se reduzca la fricción que el hilo enfrenta al perforar la tela con la aguja obteniendo dos beneficios lo bordado durará mas porque el hilo se frotara menos contra la tela y se agilizará el bordado porque ambas hebras quedarán una al lado de la otra .
También quiero compartirles la idea de improvisar una caja de luz, bastará con colocar un soporte que podría ser cuatro pilas de libros separadas y sobre ellas colocar una pieza cuadrada o rectangular de metacrilato transparente o translúcido (este último es mejor protegerá tus ojos) sobre ese material aseguramos con trocitos de cinta el diseño que tenemos en una hoja de papel y al último encima colocarás la tela que vas a bordar, solo falta colocar debajo del metacrilato una fuente de luz encendida que puede ser un celular, una pequeña lámpara y podremos facilitar el calcado. También funciona como soporte para improvisar nuestra caja de luz como se explicó anterior un cajón de madera (puede reciclar) sin respaldo o un marco de madera ancho. Otro tip pero para organizar agujas, consiste en utilizar las cajas de cerillos vacías forrarlas con algún papel que nos guste o una cinta washi tape (adhesiva) o plástico adherible y luego pegarle por un lado una etiqueta que indiqué el número o clase de aguja. En la escuela primaria la maestra nos puso a pegar tres cajas de cerillos juntas , luego otras tres y luego las pegamos debajo de un cartón resistente rectangular para hacer un “mini escritorio” que enseguida pintamos con pintura acrílica obtuvimos zun artículo decorativo y organizador. De hecho en pinterest hicieron algo similar a las cajitas de cerillos las pintaron con pintura de tiza negra y con un lápiz pastel color blanco indicaban el contenido de cada caja de cerillos se veía lindo
Otros tres tips: para mantener lubricadas tus agujas : puedes usar un jabón de tocador como alfiletero al encajar en el tus agujas se mantendrán lubricadas, debido a los componentes grasos como la glicerina que contienen, también puedes frotar tus agujas más utilizadas con un trapo suave de algodón impregnado en silicona líquida contenida en una botella que contenga válvula para rociar ( ese producto se consigue en ferreterías, en México le llaman aflojatodo, evita la oxidación) finalmente si no puedes adquirir cera de abejas para lubricar tus hilos puedes usar la pomada para labios resecos que venden en las farmacias en presentación tipo lápiz labial o en última instancia frotar el hilo sobre una vela de cera.
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I have just started a week ago and I find it so encouraging that people like you are so warm and happy to share the craft with us who don’t have a convenient grandma or other relative to do so. ❤
I’ve been embroidering for more than 50 years and I’ve learnt things watching this video that I never knew! Thanks so much for the hints and tips, they are so helpful and I will use them all. 🥰
I've just start embroidery cross stitch this week and I'm kicking myself, I should've seen your videos before beginning. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge ! Many tips I saw first time. I have a lot of skiens of twisted threads and now know how to pull threads out of them without messing out rest.
So enjoy your work Sarah here on South Puget Sound in Washington State… British Captain George Vancouver along with his First Lt. Peter Puget charted and named just about all of this area geographically in 1792…. While looking for a northwest passage….I tend to lean more toward cross stitch and knitting….but so much of your content is appropriate for all fiber work…. It is very cold this morning 29 degrees….but cozy and warm with a cup of coffee…. 😂Beginning to prepare for Thanksgiving next week
I am just venturing into the world of embroidery as a complete novice and am thrilled to come across this video. Such wonderful tips to make the experience so much more manageable and enjoyable. Thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
thank you Sarah! I have been watching you now for about 2 years, i have watched all of your past videos and never miss a new one, in doing do my embroidery work has really improved, sometimes i look at a finished piece and say "WOW, i made that? " because my work looks amazing. thank you again. happy holidays
I’ve seen someone using masking tape (or washi-tape) to bind the hoop, and I have used them for binding my own hoops. I find that using paper tape can minimise the hoop’s tightness (compared to fabric bias tape), and if you get your hands on any pretty tapes you’d feel like dressing them up!
As an alternative to a clamp I use a 1kg Diver's weight covered with a few layers of pellon and an outer covering of thick corduroy. There's a depression in the centre of the weight which I can stick "waiting" needles into which is handy. I like using the weight as it is easily moved to the side (when the frame has to be turned over to finish off threads e.g.). I obviously don't take it when travelling (!), but it's wonderful at home🙂
Hi bumped in to you earlier on the crossing in Harrogate I know that I said I watched your you tube videos but should have said that I watch them all because I find them so informative and inspirational. Thank you sarah
When the end is longer than the strand, I have stuck the needle into the area it needs then insert a needle threader through the eye, then the thread through the eye of the needle and pull it through. Comes in handy to help hide the end or you can also weave the needle but leave the eye out then thread through the needle threader. I have had one inch of thread and used this method.
Yes my mum taught that too. When the thread that is sticking out of the work is shorter than the needle, you stick the needle through where you want to make the stitch go, and then thread it. Works for mending too.
Sarah, I so much enjoyed this video. I have used these methods before but it was nice being reminded of them. I have been sewing, etc. for many years (78 years old). On another note, I received my order from you a few days ago and am delighted with everything I bought. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Hugs to you, Jonathan and Ginger Cat.
I do use most of the tips and tricks, and mostly learned from my mother. But the shower cap idea is superb to protect our art work. Never thought of it. Thanks so much 🙏
Nice compilation. Had already picked up most of them from you. I learned to thread the needle by folding the end over the needle pinching that fold between my thumb and finger and then thread like you showed. Know you show this method in the dedicated video. Have never seen it anywhere else. Learned it from my grandmother, who was a seamstress. She also taught me to make a knot by winding the thread tail around the needle and then pulling that little “coil” down along the thread to the end. 💕
Make it even easier - the eye of the needle has two sides. One where the hole is bent inward and the other where the hole is bent outward. Dont need to struggle trying to force the thread through the eye, just roll the needle around in your fingertips and find which side the thread goes in easier. (Works every time. ) i fold my thread this way too. Super easy no matter how many strands you are working with.
I'm loving your channel! Enjoying getting back into embroidery and I appreciate all your tips and techniques as they do make it easier! Sending your links to a friend in Hawaii who is making the transition from crossstitch to embroidery.
Your wonderful. Very understandable and very easy to understand. I've been doing sewing since I've been 9 and I'm 71. You showed me interesting new stuff. Thank you.
Thank you!! I've been sorta self-taught and I just learned so much from you. Will follow your channel now. You have a wonderful "teaching style," very precise and slow. But not too slow, which can be difficult.
Wonderful video! I'm a long time embroiderer but you have hit some problems right on the head. They will definitely lessen my aggravations! Now to check out your other videos!
You always seem to know just what we need! I refer you to all the other flosstubers I watch!! You are never too old to learn something new! Loved the separating the floss trick and the length of thread that is correct to not knot!! And cutting at an angle! You are indispensable to the needleworkers of the world Sarah💗 Oh, and the loop method for the short end of length floss was brilliant! Being raised by a Depression Era mom, this was invaluable. I'm always using every last bit❣
Brilliant tips. Thank you. As a complete beginner I am very glad I found your channel. Will look forward to going through and watching all the other videos you have done.
Thanks Sarah, all is perfect. I've found a clean way to keep my skeens: I use empty plastic boxes of Rocher chocolates. The length is the same. I have 6-7 of them in one draw ( I have 5 draws...) with sorted colours.
Hi Sarah. Once again thank you. Your podcasts are very professional and worth watching. On a previous episode you mentioned that you want information regarding different bookmaking ways with material. If you watch Ann Wood’s podcast. I’ve tried her way and it is versatile and worth looking at. I’ve linked separate pages and only when they are interlaced, link 2 pages using buttonhole stitch. Make it very sturdy as the 2 different cuts support each other. Please keep doing your podcasts. With
Thank you Sarah for all your interesting, helpful videos. Most of these 10 tips I didn't know. A couple of them I had stumbled across through trial and error ....and there was I, thinking I was the only person in the world who had devised them !!!!
Thank you for all the wonderful tips! The last two are ones that I needed. I have 2 tips! One is I lay down a white pillowcase on the table when I set up everything to stitch. I can always find my needle and I know the surface is clean. My other tip is if I am stitching somewhere that I don’t have a place to get rid of the thread bits I put a piece of tape on my hoop stand.
I also lay a pillow case down. I also use a dollar tree magnet underneath my embroidery fabric and a flat metalic necklace charm on top as a little diy needle minder. I would love a tutorial on painting fabrics for embroidery and also can a pre-mounted canvas be embroidered on?
Thank you, Sarah and Jonathan, for all of your contributions to the stitching community! I know that you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I do - and I am happy to show my gratitude for both of you at this holiday time! ❤🦃
Thank you so much Linda for your support! I hope you had a lovely Thanks giving x
nice comment dude!
Thanks! Can you believe that it almost Thanksgiving time again? If you celebrate, I hope it is a nice one! @@abocado121
OMG: I was a professional seamstress (retired now at 75 yrs old) & I NEVER knew you could get to the thread on one of those spools by taking the end OFF & making a keeper for your needles. YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG A NEW TRICK>==== thank you Sarah, very much. Jeanette Sizzle
Haha - this brightened my day! ❤ Have a great day! 😊
I to am a sewer, aged 77 been sewing since I was 10, and I never new this 😊
Hand tips for sure, for threading needles I have found that it works every time when put through the hole that was stamped when being made. If your not sure have a look through a magnify-glass and you notice that one side is con-cave and the other side is con-vex always use the con-cave side and it will thread every time. I learned this trick after watching a documentary on how sewing needles were made and noticed the shape after they were stamped, this lead me to opening my packet of needles and checked them after a while I automatically noticed which side was which. This works really well on the smaller needle eyes as it acts as a guide because of the con-cave shape of the needle eye.
I expect you know but just in case, when making a needle they stamp the eye from one side ,if you find threading one side is difficult,turn the needle round to the stamped side, (much easier.)
!!!! I have been sewing for 40 years... and never new the end came of the tread tubes!
Great video with hints and tips. I especially like the lasso for short or broken ends.
Me too. Genius! 🤓
Working on one now and cant tell you how annoying it is weaving ends that are too short. This tip was super genius!!!!
OMG I'm only 2 minutes in and my world is rocked. I've been sewing for 60 years and never knew what the deal was with the Gutterman spools!
The pack I have don't do that, I'm sat here with them in front of me now.
Before I begin braiding any looped thread, when I cut the loop in half I put the label on one end, take it to the middle than braid. You won't loose the label.
Someone showed me that trick a couple of years ago, and I love it!
These tips are BRILLIANT! I've been embroidering for decades and most of this was unknown to me. Can't wait to put all this good info to use. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Me too!
Thank you, that was some brilliant advice! The shower cap and the lasso ones are totally new to me and so inventive!!
The shower cap was a new tip to me. Many thanks 😊. I really enjoy the voice pacing of your videos, Sarah !!! Your camera work is awesome!
Thanks Jonathan!
I liked the lasso trick too!😊
Yesterday I started my very own small business shop on Etsy selling my embroidery! 😭 you have helped me tremendously for a while with all of your embroidery videos. I cannot thank you enough 💝
What’s your Etsy shop name?
@@dancinginthedark88 Tsuki Embroidery Shop!! 💖💖
I was wondering what had become of Thing from the Addams Family tv show. Good to know of Thing's new position as thread holder. Again: Wonderful and helpful tips. Thank you and best regards.
Great video Sarah!! I’m so glad you have made these beginner helpful videos! I’m learning tons, yay! I also now realize why you are so good at smiling at the camera…because your hubby is smiling back at you…double yay and sweet too! Donna
Sarah is my go-to for all hand stitching, I am so glad I found her channel!
The shower cap to protect your work is a great idea but I don't have any. What I do have is a bowl cover that fit my hoop perfectly. I made a lot of them, have them in many sizes and they are a great option for me. The fun part was embroidering my initial to personalize it. Thank you for sharing all the great ideas.
I need you to know, I didn't expect to learn anything- I have been embroidering for a while and feel like I'm pretty decent. The bit about how to get the one strand out of 6 is going to change my life!
It was nice to meet your camera technician :). Hello Jonathan! Thanks Sarah for the tips, very helpful. No one's ever explained that you need to take the needle to the thread and not the thread to the needle before. I'll try that.
This was the must useful video I have watched for the longest time. ! Thank you , Thank you , Thank you !
Thank you Sarah! Sharing best practices from a professional is difficult to overestimate. 🇺🇦🇬🇧
Awesome tips. Ive been embroidering most of my 65 yrs and learned great tips tonight. Thank you
I am a beginner (5 days ago ) I am really enjoying your videos, thank you, I am leaning a lot 💕 I subscribed
Welcome onboard!
Always a delight to see your smiling face Sarah
I feel like I always learn something new whenever I watch one of your videos.
The only tip I can think of right now is that I glued a magnet to my frame holder so that I can drop my needle on it if I have to walk away suddenly.
Yo tengo un nuevo consejo para quienes bordan consiste en colocar la tela en el aro restaurada, luego colocar este arriba de un recipiente con agua hirviendo o de una tetera (olla especial para hacer te) y permanecer ahí unos minutos para que la tela de bordar se humedezca levemente con el vapor, posteriormente se retira y se deja secar al aire y cuando esté bien seca quedará perfectamente tensada, otro consejo consiste en voltear el aro por el lado que cuelga la aguja enhebrada con la que estás bordando y soltarla (quedará colgando de la tela) lograrás así que se destuerza ( en su caso) y este pequeño detalle hace que se reduzca la fricción que el hilo enfrenta al perforar la tela con la aguja obteniendo dos beneficios lo bordado durará mas porque el hilo se frotara menos contra la tela y se agilizará el bordado porque ambas hebras quedarán una al lado de la otra .
También quiero compartirles la idea de improvisar una caja de luz, bastará con colocar un soporte que podría ser cuatro pilas de libros separadas y sobre ellas colocar una pieza cuadrada o rectangular de metacrilato transparente o translúcido (este último es mejor protegerá tus ojos) sobre ese material aseguramos con trocitos de cinta el diseño que tenemos en una hoja de papel y al último encima colocarás la tela que vas a bordar, solo falta colocar debajo del metacrilato una fuente de luz encendida que puede ser un celular, una pequeña lámpara y podremos facilitar el calcado. También funciona como soporte para improvisar nuestra caja de luz como se explicó anterior un cajón de madera (puede reciclar) sin respaldo o un marco de madera ancho.
Otro tip pero para organizar agujas, consiste en utilizar las cajas de cerillos vacías forrarlas con algún papel que nos guste o una cinta washi tape (adhesiva) o plástico adherible y luego pegarle por un lado una etiqueta que indiqué el número o clase de aguja. En la escuela primaria la maestra nos puso a pegar tres cajas de cerillos juntas , luego otras tres y luego las pegamos debajo de un cartón resistente rectangular para hacer un “mini escritorio” que enseguida pintamos con pintura acrílica obtuvimos zun artículo decorativo y organizador. De hecho en pinterest hicieron algo similar a las cajitas de cerillos las pintaron con pintura de tiza negra y con un lápiz pastel color blanco indicaban el contenido de cada caja de cerillos se veía lindo
Otros tres tips: para mantener lubricadas tus agujas : puedes usar un jabón de tocador como alfiletero al encajar en el tus agujas se mantendrán lubricadas, debido a los componentes grasos como la glicerina que contienen, también puedes frotar tus agujas más utilizadas con un trapo suave de algodón impregnado en silicona líquida contenida en una botella que contenga válvula para rociar ( ese producto se consigue en ferreterías, en México le llaman aflojatodo, evita la oxidación) finalmente si no puedes adquirir cera de abejas para lubricar tus hilos puedes usar la pomada para labios resecos que venden en las farmacias en presentación tipo lápiz labial o en última instancia frotar el hilo sobre una vela de cera.
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I have just started a week ago and I find it so encouraging that people like you are so warm and happy to share the craft with us who don’t have a convenient grandma or other relative to do so. ❤
I’ve been embroidering for more than 50 years and I’ve learnt things watching this video that I never knew! Thanks so much for the hints and tips, they are so helpful and I will use them all. 🥰
How useful! I did not know you could pull out the inside of the reel. And to be able to keeo a needle inside. Genius!!!
I can't believe the trick with the thread on a wheel. Never knew the end was removable to be able to unknot thread and store needle!! Thank you!!
You could stick a command hook on your desk and use the hook as your ‘extra’ finger while you braid the thread.
Great idea❤😂
I feel so famous! You said my name!! ❤❤ happy to support your work Sarah. You put so much out there for us - thank you!!!!
Your support is very much appreciated!
I've just start embroidery cross stitch this week and I'm kicking myself, I should've seen your videos before beginning. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge
! Many tips I saw first time. I have a lot of skiens of twisted threads and now know how to pull threads out of them without messing out rest.
So enjoy your work Sarah here on South Puget Sound in Washington State… British Captain George Vancouver along with his First Lt. Peter Puget charted and named just about all of this area geographically in 1792…. While looking for a northwest passage….I tend to lean more toward cross stitch and knitting….but so much of your content is appropriate for all fiber work…. It is very cold this morning 29 degrees….but cozy and warm with a cup of coffee…. 😂Beginning to prepare for Thanksgiving next week
I am just venturing into the world of embroidery as a complete novice and am thrilled to come across this video. Such wonderful tips to make the experience so much more manageable and enjoyable. Thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
thank you Sarah! I have been watching you now for about 2 years, i have watched all of your past videos and never miss a new one, in doing do my embroidery work has really improved, sometimes i look at a finished piece and say "WOW, i made that? " because my work looks amazing. thank you again. happy holidays
Thank you for watching Lisa and supporting our channel for so long too! x
just found your channel. Your voice is very easy on the ears! I will "like' & "follow"
Kat in Texas
13:50 tip… just brilliant
I’ve seen someone using masking tape (or washi-tape) to bind the hoop, and I have used them for binding my own hoops. I find that using paper tape can minimise the hoop’s tightness (compared to fabric bias tape), and if you get your hands on any pretty tapes you’d feel like dressing them up!
Thanks for the recommendation.
I love the idea of shower caps to protect my work thanks for the tip!
This is wonderful. I learned A LOT of new tricks!!!
My goodness, 15 minutes and i was using tips before the video was over! Thank you Sarah for sharing!
Alecia in Texas 😊
As an alternative to a clamp I use a 1kg Diver's weight covered with a few layers of pellon and an outer covering of thick corduroy. There's a depression in the centre of the weight which I can stick "waiting" needles into which is handy. I like using the weight as it is easily moved to the side (when the frame has to be turned over to finish off threads e.g.). I obviously don't take it when travelling (!), but it's wonderful at home🙂
Hi bumped in to you earlier on the crossing in Harrogate I know that I said I watched your you tube videos but should have said that I watch them all because I find them so informative and inspirational. Thank you sarah
Thank you Diane for watching and supporting our channel; it was nice to meet you briefly in Harrogate, I hope you enjoyed the show! x
When the end is longer than the strand, I have stuck the needle into the area it needs then insert a needle threader through the eye, then the thread through the eye of the needle and pull it through. Comes in handy to help hide the end or you can also weave the needle but leave the eye out then thread through the needle threader. I have had one inch of thread and used this method.
Yes my mum taught that too. When the thread that is sticking out of the work is shorter than the needle, you stick the needle through where you want to make the stitch go, and then thread it. Works for mending too.
yes, that's the way I've always done it too
Good morning Sarah 💚☘️from Canberra Australia 😊 . Hope you’re having no trouble keeping warm.❤
Hi Sarah, thank you, for the very informative video, with lots of useful tips, it is a good Idea putting them all together in one video.
Sarah, I so much enjoyed this video. I have used these methods before but it was nice being reminded of them. I have been sewing, etc. for many years (78 years old). On another note, I received my order from you a few days ago and am delighted with everything I bought. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Hugs to you, Jonathan and Ginger Cat.
Thank you Dana, glad your order arrived safe and sound! If you have any other tips, do let me know!
What a helpful video. Many, many thanks to you both.
This was delightful, i love the showercap
I do use most of the tips and tricks, and mostly learned from my mother. But the shower cap idea is superb to protect our art work. Never thought of it. Thanks so much 🙏
Super Helpful. I have a tendency to jury-rig a solution when I get into a fix. THANK You soooo Much!
Nice compilation. Had already picked up most of them from you. I learned to thread the needle by folding the end over the needle pinching that fold between my thumb and finger and then thread like you showed. Know you show this method in the dedicated video. Have never seen it anywhere else. Learned it from my grandmother, who was a seamstress. She also taught me to make a knot by winding the thread tail around the needle and then pulling that little “coil” down along the thread to the end. 💕
Make it even easier - the eye of the needle has two sides. One where the hole is bent inward and the other where the hole is bent outward. Dont need to struggle trying to force the thread through the eye, just roll the needle around in your fingertips and find which side the thread goes in easier. (Works every time. ) i fold my thread this way too. Super easy no matter how many strands you are working with.
I'm loving your channel! Enjoying getting back into embroidery and I appreciate all your tips and techniques as they do make it easier! Sending your links to a friend in Hawaii who is making the transition from crossstitch to embroidery.
Your wonderful. Very understandable and very easy to understand. I've been doing sewing since I've been 9 and I'm 71. You showed me interesting new stuff. Thank you.
Thank you!! I've been sorta self-taught and I just learned so much from you. Will follow your channel now. You have a wonderful "teaching style," very precise and slow. But not too slow, which can be difficult.
What fabulous tips, they have made my embroidery time so more enjoyable thank you xxxxx
Wow, every tip is so useful to me as a new learner. Thank you thank you!
Sarah you are BRILLIANT
As always, your videos are so helpful & instructive, Thank you so much my dear beautiful lady 🌷🌷🙏
I love your shower cap idea and I am going to use it. I have been storing my projects in a gallon zip lock bag .
Thank you so much! I am a beginner on the embroidery! Love your tutorials!
Wonderful video! I'm a long time embroiderer but you have hit some problems right on the head. They will definitely lessen my aggravations! Now to check out your other videos!
Such great tips - especially the last two: piece of looped thread to pull through a short bit and the shower cap idea. Thank you.
This is brilliant. I love the loop for saving the broken or short threads, and keeping a needle inside the cotton spool is genius!
Those tips were really interesting. I learned a lot. Thank you
Wow! I love these tips. Especially the one about finishing out with a short thread.
Your tips are awesome. I just become interested in embroidery and am addicted to your channel. Thank you!!!
Great hacks to know. I have just started embroidery and these will definitely make everything easier 😊
Brilliant - thank you. Love the shower cap for keeping my cross stitching clean.
Lots of things here that I didn't know, thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
Soooo much useful information - thank you! With greetings from Cape Town!
Thanks so much..learned a lot though been hand sewing for many decades!!wow!!
You always seem to know just what we need! I refer you to all the other flosstubers I watch!!
You are never too old to learn something new! Loved the separating the floss trick and the length of thread that is correct to not knot!! And cutting at an angle! You are indispensable to the needleworkers of the world Sarah💗
Oh, and the loop method for the short end of length floss was brilliant! Being raised by a Depression Era mom, this was invaluable. I'm always using every last bit❣
I’m always learning from you Sarah! Thank you so much❣️🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽Mia
Mannnnnn the thing that takes me the longest so far is separating the threads!!!!! Can’t wait to pull it straight up 😍thank you!!
This video was so helpful. Thank you.
Such a talented woman. I love these tips. No knots for me Sarah.
You can use a clipboard and clip your threads at the top and then braid them! So you don’t need a finger or a doorknob 🎉
Brilliant tips. Thank you. As a complete beginner I am very glad I found your channel. Will look forward to going through and watching all the other videos you have done.
Thanks Sarah, all is perfect. I've found a clean way to keep my skeens: I use empty plastic boxes of Rocher chocolates. The length is the same. I have 6-7 of them in one draw ( I have 5 draws...) with sorted colours.
Brilliant tips and tricks, thank you so much. 😊
This is wonderful, Sarah! I’m just getting started and I’m confident I would struggle with the naughty knotties. Thank you!
Very useful tips thank You Sarah.
Shower cap to protect work on a hoop! Thanks for such an easy tip. ❤
A big Thank you both....greatly helpful hacks....❤
Hi Sarah. Once again thank you. Your podcasts are very professional and worth watching. On a previous episode you mentioned that you want information regarding different bookmaking ways with material. If you watch Ann Wood’s podcast. I’ve tried her way and it is versatile and worth looking at. I’ve linked separate pages and only when they are interlaced, link 2 pages using buttonhole stitch. Make it very sturdy as the 2 different cuts support each other. Please keep doing your podcasts.
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I slip my roller bar mounted projects into an old pillowcase when not working on it.
Update: it's not an effective technique if there's pet hair inside the pillowcase.
Ha! Did you find that out the hard way?! x
Three of those tips were genius. Thank you!!!
I learned a lot from your tips. Thank you ❤
I feel exciting to found your tricks and tips! Thank you, Sarah and Johnathan- you have best i've heard about threads and needlesThank you!!❤❤
I always learn great tips from your videos😊
GREAT THAT THE THREAD SPOOL CAME APART NEVER KNEW THANK YOU
Thank you so very much for sharing your great tips and ideas.
Thank you Sarah for all your interesting, helpful videos. Most of these 10 tips I didn't know. A couple of them I had stumbled across through trial and error ....and there was I, thinking I was the only person in the world who had devised them !!!!
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That was a very relaxing, informative video Sarah. Thank you. Looking forward to the next one 😁
Great tips - thank you! Cheers, Christine
Thank you for all the wonderful tips! The last two are ones that I needed. I have 2 tips! One is I lay down a white pillowcase on the table when I set up everything to stitch. I can always find my needle and I know the surface is clean. My other tip is if I am stitching somewhere that I don’t have a place to get rid of the thread bits I put a piece of tape on my hoop stand.
I use an empty epipen tube case to collect the cut ends of my threads. 😂
I also lay a pillow case down. I also use a dollar tree magnet underneath my embroidery fabric and a flat metalic necklace charm on top as a little diy needle minder. I would love a tutorial on painting fabrics for embroidery and also can a pre-mounted canvas be embroidered on?
I use a pillowcase as well. Then I store my project in the pillowcase, replacing it with a clean pillowcase the next time I embroider.
Thank you
Those tips were amazing thank you so much!
I've been doing hand embroidery for a long time and and did learn new things 🥰
Such great tips. So helpful thank you!!
Thanks Sarah! I really enjoy your videos and have learn a lot.