Wow! What a fun video, your magazine and pattern collection is awsome, I love everything cats ( I have two kitties ) so my favourite towel pattern was wipe your paws, absolutely adorable, thanks Sarah 💗🇬🇧
Beautiful stitching on the towels well done nice ❤😊 the project designs are stunning in the magazines the blue birds house and Cockerell caught my eye 😄
Sarah. What a great collection of “ oldie” patterns for hand towels. I Love the Zwiegart Butterflies and Berries.! I also like the Prairie Schooler patterns. ❤ I have 2 towels to stitch I got from a garage sale about 7 yrs ago. I have a few patterns in mind.🤔 I like the Dahlia pattern. My grandfather was a gardener and cross bred 2 diff dahlias to create a fushia coloured dahlia that he named after my mother at age 4. He won 1st place at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1925. I have the certificate with a picture of my mom beside the dahlia which was as big as her head. I have these taped to the back of a watercolour of that dahlia my mother had commissioned and painted for her. It hangs above my bed 🥰 Thanks for brightening my Monday morning! Your videos are always SO Enjoyable!! Cheers! 👩🏻🦰🇨🇦
Awwwwwwwwwwe, i still have my butterfly necklace that you gifted to me!!!!❤ i do have my fingertip towels from back in the day! I think I'll bring them out!! Such a fun video!! Stuart is just toooooo funny!! Have a great rest of your week ❤
Good morning, wow do you ever get overwhelmed with all your collections. They are amazing, I hope you get to stitch all that you want to. Wishing you a blessed week.
@@brendamaxwell7962 Thank you. I do get overwhelmed in thinking there’s not enough time in the day to craft/stitch everything. Life chores get in the way😏
Hi Sarah! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I saw a few towel patterns that I used to have. One year, each of my sisters got a set of finger towels that I stitched on for Xmas! This was back back in the 80s, and they still have them!
Such a great collection. Now I want to add a Christmas towel to my list. Lol. You definitely enable us. 😉 I love old Leisure Arts pamphlets. Some never go out of style.
A trip down memory lane. I remember those cheap plastic mugs. What were they thinking? Watching your videos gets me excited about things I didn’t know I was excited about. 😂 Machine sewing all by yourself. 👏🏻 As a chocoholic, do tell the story of no cake towels. I may have to break up with you.
@@CrossStitcherTX I LOVE CHOCOLATE CAKE! I cannot however have something like a neon sign burning such desires into my mind. I’d rather fantasize and then remind myself I’d be disappointed if I bought one. If I MADE one I could eat it in 3 days alone. Nope. Shouldn’t do that 😏
Thank you for showing the towels! I also did a pattern by Sam Hawkins called Pastel Rose. It was in the Cross Stitch & Country Crafts Nov/Dec 1990 issue. So glad you were able to find time to try out your sewing machine. Enjoy!
What a fantastic collection of vintage patterns. All the chicken charts were so cute. You know, the 90s still doesn't feel that long ago. I would have never guessed that bread basket charts were still being offered so frequently then. Makes me wonder what else I may have missed by not stitching in that decade. I have a whole new thing to google and research and maybe come up with as gifts. :-)
I cannot find any of the 80s fingertip towels anymore! By the way, watching your videos always cheer me up. I just wish I could go dump diving and thrift store with you. I don't have any around me.😢
@@carolpharaon5918 I haven’t seen any in retail stores but EBay still has sellers. NOT affordable! I see patterns on 123stitch but no towels😢I’m itching to stitch one now but I’m going to wait until next year with my pile😅Sure would be fun to company on a pick!😊
I want to do them all! So many to enjoy - so little umph left in the arthritic hands. I am now a one project at a time but I sure do enjoy your videos and hope you do get to many of these towels.
Hi Sarah. When I saw you last I said I'm not a commenter but I need to today. Thanks for the shout out, you made my day!! I'm hoping to be at the Grimalkin this month but not sure. Wow you have quite a collection of towels. I think I might have a few around not that I've ever done one. Thanks again Deah. Ken
Love the towel and towel pattern parade. Years ago I picked up several towels and leaflets, (some of which you shared here) and have stitched all but two that I now need to finish, thanks to you. Swedish weaving on huck towels (without the cross stitch panel) is beautiful finish that you should try.
Hi Sarah, I love all your towel designs, I ran into the kitchen the moment you said clown, I have a fear of them and if they appear on the tv, in a chart I have to hide, until they’ve gone, I bought a Stoney Creek chart booklet, and on the back cover is my worst nightmare.
@, I love carousel horses, but I have a phobia about clowns that is so bad I have to change the tv channel if one appears on whatever I’m watching, especially if it’s a sudden appearance.
Good morning, wanted to let you know that the huck towels are made for surface darning technique called huck embroidery or Swedish weaving. My mom used to do technique. I have found some towels at thrift shops, very reasonably priced because no one seems to know what the technique is. My mom made kitchen curtains, aprons, even cuffs on a couple of shirts. There are examples of the technique on google. Prepare to go down the rabbit hole!🪡🪡
My sister and I learned Huck weaving in Home Ec. Classes in grade school. She was 1 yr behind me, so we made sure to always use the same coloured fabric and floss so our mom would have a pair! They hung in her bathroom till she passed a way.great memories! 🥰🇨🇦
Enjoyed seeing your towels & bread cloths! I love the idea of using the bread cloths as a centerpiece. I may have to do that! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! See you next week!
Debbie from Snug Harbor Crafts has her most recent video where she shared what looks like the lace type stitching on perforated paper from the 80's. She shared a website as well! I have many of the leaflets you shared today as I started stitching in 1978. Tokens and Trifles was what she was stitching on I believe. (:
Well that was quite a collection! Thanks for sharing. My favorite was the 2016 Just Cross Stitch magazine. You can get a pdf on Annies. I saw one chart that I also have. I stitched the “Give us this day our daily bread”. Dont know what happened to the cloth but I know I used it a lot. That was back when I first started stitching. How fun would your camp idea be!
I love looking through the old magazines. I have hundreds of magazines and there are multiple patterns I want to stitch in each. I recognize some of the old towel patterns. I stitched them in the past and still have a few towels I can stitch on in the future but I probably won’t. After I stitch them I hate to use them so they sit in a box. Just like my tub full of unframed pictures. Maybe they will be framed or finished someday.
loved seeing your towels and patterns. I also love the idea of stich camp at your place. Sign me up. It will be a bit of a ride for me but I will make the effort.
Loved your magazine "tour". I think I only have one of those mags in my large collection of old cross-stitch mags. I made the one that's the pretty night scene with the trees. I think it's called, "I believe in angels". I gave it away and started one for me. My niece recently offered me a tote full of towels to stitch on, from her late mother. I declined. I do have some towels to embroider though and lots of the towel-y bibs. Made plenty of those in the 80s. Have lots of leaflets of bib designs. Loved the Thanksgiving design you showed and the mantle one.
@Sarahthenorthwoodsstitcher I've earmarked so many patterns in old books and magazines with Post-It notes. I think I'll try to make one or two a month between other projects. As you remember, it was all we depended on years ago. I made many beautiful projects from mags and leaflets in the 80s and 90s.
What a fun video! My sister did a set of hand towels for my mom from Leisure Arts (I think!) that had a design for each month. They are such fun happy designs and my mom loves rotating through them. I did a set of the huck towels for myself; I think they were from Stoney Creek and there were 4 of them - fruits and vegetables. I don't put them out in my kitchen right now because I don't want them to be used; I probably should since they're not enjoyed by anyone sitting in the linen closet, right? 🪡👠
Congrats on getting on the sewing machine! You have enabled me yet agaiñ,need to see if I can find the leisure arts Feb 93 . Hope you are doing well? Much love.
@@beachgirl681 We only got a few inches on Thanksgiving, nothing interesting. It sure was pretty but roads were cleared right away and the trees are naked again.
That was fun to watch and now I want to stitch a towel! Do you have to work hard to have a neat back that people will see? I think I do a pretty neat back but I'd be paranoid that people would nitpick
Do you remember when you did a video about a Cross Stitch Gold Mag. that couldn't be sold at the store. I just came across it I think. Do you remember why they had to take it off the shelves?
@@theresaclark762 I never found out the REAL reason. One friend was told that the scanner was down and I was told there was a recall 🤷🏼♀️It was all very strange.
wow! At my age of 70, I have never seen these towels before. I love them, but I do have a question , How do you hide the stitches on the back? Do you use waste canvas to stitch on them? I would love to see this kind of stitching done.
@@theresaclark762 some folks take a band of complimenting fabric and stitch it to the back to hide their stitches. I have to admit I leave mine naked. Since they’re display pieces for me it doesn’t matter. If I’m gifting I stitch something on the back.
Wow! What a fun video, your magazine and pattern collection is awsome, I love everything cats ( I have two kitties ) so my favourite towel pattern was wipe your paws, absolutely adorable, thanks Sarah 💗🇬🇧
@@kaysavidge I can’t wait to start a towel this year! It was such motivation to browse through them❤️
Thank you for sharing your towels. Congratulations on using your sewing machine, keep it up. Stuart has gotten big. Happy crafting. ❤
Thank you. Our little one is no longer little! Our nicknames are Noodle, Monkey, Loki and Stop That!!😅
Beautiful stitching on the towels well done nice ❤😊 the project designs are stunning in the magazines the blue birds house and Cockerell caught my eye 😄
I'm convinced there's nothing you don't know about in the world of cross stitch!! I loved this walk down memory lane!
@@stampincass 🥹Awww
Sarah. What a great collection of “ oldie” patterns for hand towels. I Love the Zwiegart Butterflies and Berries.! I also like the Prairie Schooler patterns. ❤ I have 2 towels to stitch I got from a garage sale about 7 yrs ago. I have a few patterns in mind.🤔 I like the Dahlia pattern. My grandfather was a gardener and cross bred 2 diff dahlias to create a fushia coloured dahlia that he named after my mother at age 4. He won 1st place at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1925. I have the certificate with a picture of my mom beside the dahlia which was as big as her head. I have these taped to the back of a watercolour of that dahlia my mother had commissioned and painted for her. It hangs above my bed 🥰
Thanks for brightening my Monday morning! Your videos are always SO Enjoyable!! Cheers! 👩🏻🦰🇨🇦
@@marilynmckenzie2111 What a treasure to have! 🥰❤️
Love spending time with you 🥰🇬🇧, seeing all your goodies and catching the excitement 😊
@@helio-trope 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤗❤️
Awwwwwwwwwwe, i still have my butterfly necklace that you gifted to me!!!!❤ i do have my fingertip towels from back in the day! I think I'll bring them out!! Such a fun video!! Stuart is just toooooo funny!! Have a great rest of your week ❤
I need to wear my butterfly again 😊I have plans to stitch towels in the new year 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Good morning, wow do you ever get overwhelmed with all your collections. They are amazing, I hope you get to stitch all that you want to. Wishing you a blessed week.
@@brendamaxwell7962 Thank you. I do get overwhelmed in thinking there’s not enough time in the day to craft/stitch everything. Life chores get in the way😏
Hi Sarah! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I saw a few towel patterns that I used to have. One year, each of my sisters got a set of finger towels that I stitched on for Xmas! This was back back in the 80s, and they still have them!
@@anitaphelps8663 ☺️That video made me so itchy to stitch one but I’ve got so much on my plate that I’ll wait till next year 😏
Such a great collection. Now I want to add a Christmas towel to my list. Lol. You definitely enable us. 😉
I love old Leisure Arts pamphlets. Some never go out of style.
A trip down memory lane. I remember those cheap plastic mugs. What were they thinking? Watching your videos gets me excited about things I didn’t know I was excited about. 😂 Machine sewing all by yourself. 👏🏻 As a chocoholic, do tell the story of no cake towels. I may have to break up with you.
@@CrossStitcherTX I LOVE CHOCOLATE CAKE! I cannot however have something like a neon sign burning such desires into my mind. I’d rather fantasize and then remind myself I’d be disappointed if I bought one. If I MADE one I could eat it in 3 days alone. Nope. Shouldn’t do that 😏
My favorite was the Tulip towels ❤❤❤❤❤ TFS
So many projects!!! Love it - now I need to go find my towels 😂😂
I neeeed to kit some up soon😊
@ maybe we can start a sal 😁
Wow what a trip down memory lane. Thank you for sharing your vast collections. I look forward to hanging with you every week ❤
@@AllyBelser13 🤗Thank you
We use those finger towels as burp cloths
Definitely a trip down memory lane!
@@joyd5000 From the wayyyyy back 😅
You have so many beautiful items to stitch! Have a wonderful week!
@@Griffinand3 Thank you! Hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving 🤗
Dewey decimal system 😂🤗💕excellent for organizing large collections
Thank you for showing the towels! I also did a pattern by Sam Hawkins called Pastel Rose. It was in the Cross Stitch & Country Crafts Nov/Dec 1990 issue. So glad you were able to find time to try out your sewing machine. Enjoy!
@@DLNYTube I want to start some more towels in the new year ❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a fantastic collection of vintage patterns. All the chicken charts were so cute. You know, the 90s still doesn't feel that long ago. I would have never guessed that bread basket charts were still being offered so frequently then. Makes me wonder what else I may have missed by not stitching in that decade. I have a whole new thing to google and research and maybe come up with as gifts. :-)
@@AmniconStudio Ahhh, a new rabbit hole! 🤗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
@@Sarahthenorthwoodsstitcher There can never be too many rabbit holes. 😅
Now I am required to dig out my towel collection & start stitching! I haven't stitched towels or bread cloths in quite a while. I love using them!
@@paulagolden4731 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😊
Love ❤ my Monday mornings with Sarah the Northwoods Stitcher. Thank you for giving me motivation to start or finish my PHD or PIGs (I’m a Quiltah).
I cannot find any of the 80s fingertip towels anymore!
By the way, watching your videos always cheer me up. I just wish I could go dump diving and thrift store with you. I don't have any
around me.😢
@@carolpharaon5918 I haven’t seen any in retail stores but EBay still has sellers. NOT affordable! I see patterns on 123stitch but no towels😢I’m itching to stitch one now but I’m going to wait until next year with my pile😅Sure would be fun to company on a pick!😊
I want to do them all! So many to enjoy - so little umph left in the arthritic hands. I am now a one project at a time but I sure do enjoy your videos and hope you do get to many of these towels.
I’m definitely going to make plans for towels in 2025👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Good video, made me think of the towels I’ve made and should get back too. Great idea! Thanks , Sarah
@@janehouston6822 👋🏼Hi Jane! I’m itching to kit some up after that video but maybe in January 😬my list doth grow
Hi Sarah. When I saw you last I said I'm not a commenter but I need to today. Thanks for the shout out, you made my day!! I'm hoping to be at the Grimalkin this month but not sure. Wow you have quite a collection of towels. I think I might have a few around not that I've ever done one. Thanks again Deah. Ken
@@maineiacstitcher2207 🤗Fingers crossed for The Grimalkin! With this early snowy weather who knows🤷🏼♀️Save me a spot and I’ll do same for you
Love the towel and towel pattern parade. Years ago I picked up several towels and leaflets, (some of which you shared here) and have stitched all but two that I now need to finish, thanks to you. Swedish weaving on huck towels (without the cross stitch panel) is beautiful finish that you should try.
@@karenhall4404 Ha! How’s you know that is something I’d like to try?! Git outta my head 😏😅
Hi Sarah, I love all your towel designs, I ran into the kitchen the moment you said clown, I have a fear of them and if they appear on the tv, in a chart I have to hide, until they’ve gone, I bought a Stoney Creek chart booklet, and on the back cover is my worst nightmare.
@@emmaswartz6653 I didn’t like the clown and carousel horse era 🫣
@, I love carousel horses, but I have a phobia about clowns that is so bad I have to change the tv channel if one appears on whatever I’m watching, especially if it’s a sudden appearance.
Good morning, wanted to let you know that the huck towels are made for surface darning technique called huck embroidery or Swedish weaving. My mom used to do technique. I have found some towels at thrift shops, very reasonably priced because no one seems to know what the technique is. My mom made kitchen curtains, aprons, even cuffs on a couple of shirts. There are examples of the technique on google. Prepare to go down the rabbit hole!🪡🪡
My sister and I learned Huck weaving in Home Ec. Classes in grade school. She was 1 yr behind me, so we made sure to always use the same coloured fabric and floss so our mom would have a pair! They hung in her bathroom till she passed a way.great memories! 🥰🇨🇦
How sweet!! Such a shame home ec went away.... @@marilynmckenzie2111
I have that 1985 bread cloth booklet! Now you know I'm old....😄😮💨
Enjoyed seeing your towels & bread cloths! I love the idea of using the bread cloths as a centerpiece. I may have to do that! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! See you next week!
@@deehansen5490 Thank you! Happy holidays to you too❤️🤗
I have tons of those fingertip towels -- they are great in the bathrooms, and kitchen ones too from the 80's & 90's. Bookmark & Bread Cloths too.
I call this digging fir lost treasure. 😂
@@aimeezellers814 Yer never know what treasures may be found in Sarah’s Treasure Craft room😂 🗺️ 🏴☠️
Debbie from Snug Harbor Crafts has her most recent video where she shared what looks like the lace type stitching on perforated paper from the 80's. She shared a website as well! I have many of the leaflets you shared today as I started stitching in 1978. Tokens and Trifles was what she was stitching on I believe. (:
Found it! She ordered a Lawn Fawn die to make a round perforated paper to stitch on.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼I’ve ordered one❤
📍I so enjoy watching you . Great video as always !! 🥇
Well that was quite a collection! Thanks for sharing. My favorite was the 2016 Just Cross Stitch magazine. You can get a pdf on Annies. I saw one chart that I also have. I stitched the “Give us this day our daily bread”. Dont know what happened to the cloth but I know I used it a lot. That was back when I first started stitching. How fun would your camp idea be!
That was fun!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Now I have to hunt down Winter Warming bread cloths because of the moose on them 🫎
@@moosemom2010 I knoooow riiight?! I can’t start anything new until the holiday madness is done😒
I love looking through the old magazines. I have hundreds of magazines and there are multiple patterns I want to stitch in each. I recognize some of the old towel patterns. I stitched them in the past and still have a few towels I can stitch on in the future but I probably won’t. After I stitch them I hate to use them so they sit in a box. Just like my tub full of unframed pictures. Maybe they will be framed or finished someday.
@@SoggyDoggyStitcher I’m not a fan of using them but do enjoy having them to admire on my oven door and bathrooms
loved seeing your towels and patterns. I also love the idea of stich camp at your place. Sign me up. It will be a bit of a ride for me but I will make the effort.
It’s a great dream❤The Northwoods Stitch Camp😊
Loved your magazine "tour". I think I only have one of those mags in my large collection of old cross-stitch mags. I made the one that's the pretty night scene with the trees. I think it's called, "I believe in angels". I gave it away and started one for me. My niece recently offered me a tote full of towels to stitch on, from her late mother. I declined. I do have some towels to embroider though and lots of the towel-y bibs. Made plenty of those in the 80s. Have lots of leaflets of bib designs. Loved the Thanksgiving design you showed and the mantle one.
@@SessionMom Definitely a trip down memory lane but I did find some wannados come the new year ❤️
@Sarahthenorthwoodsstitcher I've earmarked so many patterns in old books and magazines with Post-It notes. I think I'll try to make one or two a month between other projects. As you remember, it was all we depended on years ago. I made many beautiful projects from mags and leaflets in the 80s and 90s.
What a fun video! My sister did a set of hand towels for my mom from Leisure Arts (I think!) that had a design for each month. They are such fun happy designs and my mom loves rotating through them. I did a set of the huck towels for myself; I think they were from Stoney Creek and there were 4 of them - fruits and vegetables. I don't put them out in my kitchen right now because I don't want them to be used; I probably should since they're not enjoyed by anyone sitting in the linen closet, right? 🪡👠
@@stitchinginhighheels9529 Let them into the light!🤣🤗I rotate but not as often as I should
Congrats on getting on the sewing machine! You have enabled me yet agaiñ,need to see if I can find the leisure arts Feb 93 . Hope you are doing well? Much love.
I hope you are not snowed in and have power. When you get your stitching lodge ready, I'm coming.
@@beachgirl681 We only got a few inches on Thanksgiving, nothing interesting. It sure was pretty but roads were cleared right away and the trees are naked again.
That was fun to watch and now I want to stitch a towel! Do you have to work hard to have a neat back that people will see? I think I do a pretty neat back but I'd be paranoid that people would nitpick
@@dianemcclure6884 most folks cover the back with a bit of fabric ❤️
Do you remember when you did a video about a Cross Stitch Gold Mag. that couldn't be sold at the store. I just came across it I think. Do you remember why they had to take it off the shelves?
@@theresaclark762 I never found out the REAL reason. One friend was told that the scanner was down and I was told there was a recall 🤷🏼♀️It was all very strange.
wow! At my age of 70, I have never seen these towels before. I love them, but I do have a question , How do you hide the stitches on the back? Do you use waste canvas to stitch on them? I would love to see this kind of stitching done.
@@theresaclark762 some folks take a band of complimenting fabric and stitch it to the back to hide their stitches. I have to admit I leave mine naked. Since they’re display pieces for me it doesn’t matter. If I’m gifting I stitch something on the back.
I have some towels. How do you finish them on back
@@susanhoyle4637 Sometimes I add a decorating fabric just stitched to the back. Often I leave it necked!
Sarah, I lost sound rather quickly. Did this happen to anyone else??
@@lindadulin174 watched this morning and sound was even for me. Anyone?
I've not had any issues tonight.