Hi Sarah. Thanks for the update. It's interesting seeing so much progress the way you've planned this year's stitching. Hope you get to stitch lots of medals! 😊 ⚘️
Victorian Sampler looks great! I’m a little sad that I don’t have anytime to work on it but I am enjoying everything I’m stitching on right now. That’s life, having to make choices! You have a good start on your Olympics Challenge. I did Brenda’s challenge the last Olympics but knew I couldn’t do it this busy summer. Can’t believe the kids go back to school the second week of August. I bet you’re getting busy already. Hugs!
I'm a bit behind on flosstubes, but always enjoy watching your videoes. I'm doing Stitching Olympics with my embroidery guild. We started when the torch was lit and everyone has a goal. Quaker Tiles is certainly a beautiful design. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week 🌷
Of course, the Olympics are in a very different timezone four you.... I hope your daughter will be able to watch some good sports. 👍🏻 I loved seeing your L&L alphabet, I think we have pretty much the same amount stitched ☺ Enjoy your Olympic rotation 🪡🧵🥰
Brenda from Handwork Maniac is doing an Olympic challenge also. Of course she retired this year and has more stitching time. Nice work on your WIPS. Looking forward to your progress through the Naptime Stitchers Olympic challenge.
You are doing a great job with the Olympic stitching! It was very clever of you to take Brenda’s idea and make it work for you with a slightly decreased stitch requirement. I didn’t think of that!
Yes! I like the idea, but need to be practical about my stitching time. I was very happy I only needed to do 23 minutes yesterday with my new minutes amounts, since I was quite busy! :D
Hi Sarah! I always enjoy watching you plan and work on challenge stitching! It will be fun to see the various projects for each day of the Olympics. Cats and Hearts for July looks great! You’re still moving along on Castle Home owing. I pretty much fizzled out on mine. It turned out to be a bit more stitching than I planned to keep up with finishing a part a month. I may yet come back to it as I know my granddaughter would love it. Have a great week!
I'm getting excited about Castle Homecoming more now that the top scene is almost done! I have it scheduled for a few regular day rotations this month, so hopefully I can make some nice progress. I'd really like to see it finished this year. I know how it can go to get behind on a SAL - definitely looses the joy of the project sometimes. :)
Hi Sarah I love the progress you are making on your family pieces. You always do beautiful stitching on your projects. In the meantime Happy Stitching and be safe and kind. God bless Pat
Good morning Sarah. Lovely to spend time with you catching up on all your progress. I signed up for the Historical Sampler company Christmas stitch along on Saturday. So I’ll be with you. Have a good week with the Olympics. Happy Stitching ❤❤
Your sampler with the beautiful words on purple is gorgeous. After seeing the finished picture and you showing the purple I didn’t know if I would like it. I like it better then the original! Lots of progress this time. Happy stitching🪡
I love it when you do the Olympics challenge. You always work on some very nice pieces. I love the Victorian Sampler! Is that pattern still available? Have a great week. I can't wait to see all of your progress next time.
The Victoria Sampler has scaled back their offerings of physical products as the designers enter into retirement, but they still have most of their patterns available as PDFs on their website. You can find the Heirloom Stitching Sampler here: victoriasampler.com/products/heirloom-stitching-sampler-embroidery-and-cross-stitch-pattern
Ohhh that is good to know about the newer version of the Quaker flag by Vivsters - I will have to take a look to see which I like better before starting (in a few years 😂😂). So glad you’re having fun with Olympic stitching. Funny you mentioned ABCINGO - we’re putting the finishing touches on it and will be posting August 1!
Lovely stitching. I really like the purple you chose for your Victorian Samplers piece. How do you handle fractional stitches when you do your tiny 1 over 1 stitching?
I can only stitch a pattern over 1 when there are no fractionals or specialty stitches. Because there really is no good solution for that. If a design calls for over 1 sections, fractional stitches, or specialty stitches, in addition to regular cross stitch, I need to stitch that design over 2. When a design has only full crosses and no blends, it's a great candidate for stitching over 1, so I often try that with those designs! That's why my Seasonal girls are stitched over 2 on 27 count - there are a few fractionals in some of the sections. :)
I have a playlist where I have all of the "stitch with me" type videos and a few tutorials: th-cam.com/play/PL54kifyea7N2G56--hvipIY--eftvdUg2.html. It looks like I'm working on full coverage projects in eight of them. I use WinStitch Premium for charting cross stitch designs.
Looks great Sarah. Really like you far quarter shop chart and those season girls on vintage country mocha . Can I ask on you tent stitch are they harder to frame . Do they finish alittle stretched on one side. Thanks
Because I stitch with a fairly loose tension and use a regular half stitch, the pieces that I've finished with all half stitches are only slightly warped at the end. To correct that before framing, I wash them, then "block" them - which means the damp finished piece is pinned down in a more squared up shape and then left to dry. Once blocked into a proper rectangle, they frame up nicely. :) You can see a few pictures of me undertaking that process when I finished and framed my Knitting Woman for my mom a little while back: th-cam.com/video/mP7-wGpz45o/w-d-xo.html I start talking about this project around the 10 minute mark.
Hi Sarah. Thanks for the update. It's interesting seeing so much progress the way you've planned this year's stitching. Hope you get to stitch lots of medals! 😊 ⚘️
Love your progress on your wips. Happy stitching!
Victorian Sampler looks great! I’m a little sad that I don’t have anytime to work on it but I am enjoying everything I’m stitching on right now. That’s life, having to make choices!
You have a good start on your Olympics Challenge. I did Brenda’s challenge the last Olympics but knew I couldn’t do it this busy summer.
Can’t believe the kids go back to school the second week of August. I bet you’re getting busy already. Hugs!
I’m doing Stitch the Olympics too. It’s been fun so far! I’m going to watch this video again and check out your projects more.
Always the highlight of my Tuesday in the UK . Thank you for sharing Sarah x
1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Mexican wedding cookies but I call them pecan puffs! Zinnia is adorable!
Happy Stitching ❤!!
I'm a bit behind on flosstubes, but always enjoy watching your videoes. I'm doing Stitching Olympics with my embroidery guild. We started when the torch was lit and everyone has a goal. Quaker Tiles is certainly a beautiful design. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week 🌷
Of course, the Olympics are in a very different timezone four you.... I hope your daughter will be able to watch some good sports. 👍🏻
I loved seeing your L&L alphabet, I think we have pretty much the same amount stitched ☺
Enjoy your Olympic rotation 🪡🧵🥰
Brenda from Handwork Maniac is doing an Olympic challenge also. Of course she retired this year and has more stitching time. Nice work on your WIPS. Looking forward to your progress through the Naptime Stitchers Olympic challenge.
She’s got quite the plan set out for herself! So organized. ❤️🇨🇦
She sure does.
She sure does.
Hi Sarah, lovely to spend some time with you today. Visit Endor is so close to finished, you’re really flying with it.
You are doing a great job with the Olympic stitching! It was very clever of you to take Brenda’s idea and make it work for you with a slightly decreased stitch requirement. I didn’t think of that!
Yes! I like the idea, but need to be practical about my stitching time. I was very happy I only needed to do 23 minutes yesterday with my new minutes amounts, since I was quite busy! :D
Hi Sarah! I always enjoy watching you plan and work on challenge stitching! It will be fun to see the various projects for each day of the Olympics. Cats and Hearts for July looks great! You’re still moving along on Castle Home owing. I pretty much fizzled out on mine. It turned out to be a bit more stitching than I planned to keep up with finishing a part a month. I may yet come back to it as I know my granddaughter would love it. Have a great week!
I'm getting excited about Castle Homecoming more now that the top scene is almost done! I have it scheduled for a few regular day rotations this month, so hopefully I can make some nice progress. I'd really like to see it finished this year. I know how it can go to get behind on a SAL - definitely looses the joy of the project sometimes. :)
Hi Sarah I love the progress you are making on your family pieces. You always do beautiful stitching on your projects. In the meantime Happy Stitching and be safe and kind. God bless
Pat
Good morning Sarah. Lovely to spend time with you catching up on all your progress. I signed up for the Historical Sampler company Christmas stitch along on Saturday. So I’ll be with you. Have a good week with the Olympics. Happy Stitching ❤❤
Wonderful! I'm excited to enjoy their mystery SAL and advent box - hopefully I can keep up on the stitching. :)
Your sampler with the beautiful words on purple is gorgeous. After seeing the finished picture and you showing the purple I didn’t know if I would like it. I like it better then the original! Lots of progress this time. Happy stitching🪡
Thanks!
Hi Sarah
Love all of your WIPS - they are pretty.
Take Care & Happy Stitching
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The Christmas stitching box looks like fun! I am enjoying watching and stitching the olympics with #thenaptimestitcher also!
Fun! I always like to stitch along with the Olympics - it feels like such a momentous event that's fun to support in my own way. :)
I noticed on the description that the designer of the Quaker Flag will send you the new version if you notify her that you would like it.
Good to know!
I love it when you do the Olympics challenge. You always work on some very nice pieces. I love the Victorian Sampler! Is that pattern still available? Have a great week. I can't wait to see all of your progress next time.
The Victoria Sampler has scaled back their offerings of physical products as the designers enter into retirement, but they still have most of their patterns available as PDFs on their website. You can find the Heirloom Stitching Sampler here: victoriasampler.com/products/heirloom-stitching-sampler-embroidery-and-cross-stitch-pattern
Ohhh that is good to know about the newer version of the Quaker flag by Vivsters - I will have to take a look to see which I like better before starting (in a few years 😂😂). So glad you’re having fun with Olympic stitching. Funny you mentioned ABCINGO - we’re putting the finishing touches on it and will be posting August 1!
Oh fun! I'll be sure to go take a look!
Great progress! ❤️🌺🌷💕
Lovely stitching. I really like the purple you chose for your Victorian Samplers piece. How do you handle fractional stitches when you do your tiny 1 over 1 stitching?
I can only stitch a pattern over 1 when there are no fractionals or specialty stitches. Because there really is no good solution for that. If a design calls for over 1 sections, fractional stitches, or specialty stitches, in addition to regular cross stitch, I need to stitch that design over 2. When a design has only full crosses and no blends, it's a great candidate for stitching over 1, so I often try that with those designs! That's why my Seasonal girls are stitched over 2 on 27 count - there are a few fractionals in some of the sections. :)
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Hi Sarah. Love your FT’s! Which one shows how you do full coveragecpieces in hand. Also, which software, if any, do you use? Thanks! 😊🌺
I have a playlist where I have all of the "stitch with me" type videos and a few tutorials: th-cam.com/play/PL54kifyea7N2G56--hvipIY--eftvdUg2.html. It looks like I'm working on full coverage projects in eight of them.
I use WinStitch Premium for charting cross stitch designs.
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Looks great Sarah. Really like you far quarter shop chart and those season girls on vintage country mocha . Can I ask on you tent stitch are they harder to frame . Do they finish alittle stretched on one side. Thanks
Because I stitch with a fairly loose tension and use a regular half stitch, the pieces that I've finished with all half stitches are only slightly warped at the end. To correct that before framing, I wash them, then "block" them - which means the damp finished piece is pinned down in a more squared up shape and then left to dry. Once blocked into a proper rectangle, they frame up nicely. :) You can see a few pictures of me undertaking that process when I finished and framed my Knitting Woman for my mom a little while back: th-cam.com/video/mP7-wGpz45o/w-d-xo.html I start talking about this project around the 10 minute mark.