Ahhhhh!!!!! Still watching and I picked Navy and Mustard for my MFE Sal, too. I had to pick a golden sort of orangy floss to creat that mustard color when stitched up because yes, it would have stitched up more yellow. I love your color choices!!! Beautiful!!
Julie, I have also been very pleased with the last few issues of Just CrossStitch magazine. I love the Mother Nature series, but I am a little hesitant to start it since it is backstitch heavy. All of the designs in the series are beautiful and knowing myself I will probably eventually start them. Hope you have a great birthday! I always enjoy the book talk. It is never too long.😊
Great video. It was fun to see you sharing the area I live in. Happy Birthday!! It is also our grandson's 2nd birthday. We were traveling the 101 at the same time. Our grandson lives in the Monterey area and we are north of Santa Barbara. We passed each other at some point.
It’s giving trans pride, right? I’m sure there will be a quote or something at the bottom and I need to think of something to replace it when the reveal comes
Love all the stitching! Ooh, I will need to check my newsagent to see if they stock that magazine still. I would definitely want to stitch those seasonal ladies. Lovelight Farms is adorable. I feel the same about Priory as you - I have been putting it off which is ridiculous as I pre ordered it and still have not read it. And I need a dragon battle in my life! And a Hamlet sampler - cannot wait for that!
Great video Julie ! I enjoyed your company this morning while stitching my oldest WIP , Halloween at HRH. I loved your idea of finishing 40 WIPS to celebrate your 40th!!! I’ll be here for the journey. Take care, -Samantha 🦋
I have the smallest start on Halloween at HRH but it often calls to me to work on it! I probably won’t do much on it this year since it’s certainly not going to be one of my 40 finishes 😆
HI, Julie!! I just started watching this video, and I realized that I too, have so many older WiPs and I am tackling some of them right now. I started making videos again a couple weeks ago and showed some of them. I have also started and finished more projects last year than I ever have. Love seeing your adventures!! Have a wonderful time in California.
Happy birthday! I stuck around to the end, I love your book content. I was excited to see you enjoyed T Kingfisher, she's one of my favourites. You should check out her books set in the world of the white rat. Same awesome world building, but with added romance.
Just wanted you to know that your intro with the beach and rugged scenery was very soothing to me. I have had very high blood pressure readings lately, so your intro was an unexpected blessing.
Fabulous works. No way you are 40 you look younger. Love the book review if you are into the Harry book you should get the story from the other side of the coin. I read Tom Bower Revenge book it is very interesting. Looking forward to your next video.
I forgot to say that I definitely took everything he said with a grain of salt 😆 there are absolutely two sides to this story! I would love to hear William’s point of view but I’m sure he will rise above the fray
Seems like I am playing catch-up lately with flosstube videos that I love to watch and stitch by. O, loved the little travel intro, Yuma is a great place and the beach in California looks relaxing. Love your plan of getting 40 WIPS finished, I don't have that many but I have about 15 in various stages of not done, lol. Oh, and about 50 I want to start..... Dark Queen is going to be a great piece when she is finished. I am not doing Fox and Rabbit this year, I am still stitching the inner border of 2022, I may be doing tht for about 3 months. My poor Outlander Chatelaine is patiently waiting in the wings for me to give her some love and attention!! Have a great tour of California, would love to see the sights through your eyes. Sending you warm hugs from sunny(not so much) Arizona! The weather is all over the place lately.
You are a fabric dyeing genius! And an incredible eye for color! That Queen of the earth is stunning! I need to start your chart and show it. I always forget about pdfs I acquire. 😕💜 Oh and if you’re ever near Portland or Seattle…let me know because we need to hang out!
Okay, I’m back now that I finally finished the video. 😄 Of course, all of your stitching is beautiful! I love your Dark Queen so much, it is looking so gorgeous on that fabric. I picked mine up this morning, inspired by you to try to get this January section done! And good for you for going back and working on older projects! I’ve been trying to do that as well, since I did my WIP parade and remembered all the good stuff I have underway, but I haven’t been as dedicated. I have no doubt you’ll achieve that 40 project goal! And I love your book talk and always listen all the way through! Lots of good stuff. I confess to having no desire at all to read Spare but it is crazy how popular it’s been! I haven’t read Ali Hazelwood but I heard her on a podcast recently and she was hilarious, so I need to read her books.
I am one of those that sticks to the end and was just telling someone else how much I love the perfect combination of books and cross stitch. Now we can add in travel! As always got inspiration in all areas.
I am a little sad that Knight in Shining Armor doesn’t hold up. I loved that book when I read it back in the day. I tore through so many of those. I feel like I’ve read The Secret, but not sure. May have to revisit that one. And as per usual I added about six things to my TBR while watching and a few things to my charts to buy list.
I really remember loving Knight in Shining Armor “back in the day.” I had vivid recollection of the church time travel scene and her giving the lady of the house some modern cold medicine 🤣 Unfortunately the heroine is such a doormat and the 80s misogyny was shining through 🥴 I’ve revisited some more of Julie Garwood’s historicals since this video and they are holding up REALLY well.
❤❤❤ I love you projects! And fall colors and that gold /yellow looks so good on the fabric, You have a very good eye with color! Your fabrics are fabulous! Dark queen of the earth 😳😳😳
So I JUST started your video, but I have to comment - I used to go to Pismo Beach all the time as a kid! We used to camp in our trailer on the beach, and then other times we stayed in a campground right at the beach, which I think is the same one you’re at! We went so many times with my grandparents. We used to ride our ATVs in the sand, and my dad would take his Jeep out there. We’d dig for clams too. Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane. Okay, now back to the video. 😄
I completely agree that JCS went meh in terms of what I liked for designs. I canceled my subscription, then found it through a library app, so I occasionally screenshot a chart (for my personal use, not distributing) I might want to do. (Screenshots get deleted after I do the chart unless I anticipate stitching it again for someone, or myself after gifting a piece.) I appreciate the digital version as I don't need to store 60 million magazines for 1 design, but I strongly prefer using paper charts too. I like those ladies, but I don't want to stitch them or have them in my home. I really need to start a new Joan Elliott though... For your hopeful 40 finishes, are there any in storage you plan to grab next time you pass through Colorado, or are they all in the camper currently?
I also use digital from the library but this chart is so confetti heavy that I wanted the paper so I can highlight and mark it up to keep my place. And yes - I figure I have enough here to keep me going until the summer when we finally get to visit storage again! I brought a ton this leg of the trip knowing we wouldn’t be back for 6 months
@Kansas City Girl in a Colorado World to mark up the digital patterns, I use the "drawing" edit tool in my camera gallery. I just put a small dot per block, then once you want to back stitch, hit the "revert image" button and blank chart again. Not the absolute best method, but you can zoom in to see symbols too which is a nice feature. I need to take photos of a few kit charts where my photocopier just refused to center properly, and I'm missing a chunk that's not worth wasting more paper to get a good copy. The photo edit idea also works on color symbol charts because you always will be able to see your dots. I wish I had the tech when I did a chart ages ago that was mostly dark grey blocks with very few symbols on the colored blocks to differentiate color shades...nobody should do plain grey blocks for 413 & 3799 next to each other. 😖
Please tell me you guys didn't breeze right past San Diego? 🙏 Literally "America's finest city" with the world's best zoo, not to mention the best weather year round. 🌊🐬🌴
@@kansascitygirlinacoloradow4285 that hurts my heart since it's my home town but promise you'll put it on your bucket list for like an anniversary get away since day. 😆
Ahhhhh!!!!! Still watching and I picked Navy and Mustard for my MFE Sal, too. I had to pick a golden sort of orangy floss to creat that mustard color when stitched up because yes, it would have stitched up more yellow. I love your color choices!!! Beautiful!!
It was so annoying how it turned yellow!
Julie, I have also been very pleased with the last few issues of Just CrossStitch magazine. I love the Mother Nature series, but I am a little hesitant to start it since it is backstitch heavy. All of the designs in the series are beautiful and knowing myself I will probably eventually start them. Hope you have a great birthday! I always enjoy the book talk. It is never too long.😊
Backstitch heavy and TONS of confetti! However, it feels like it’s stitching up pretty fast 😍
Great video. It was fun to see you sharing the area I live in. Happy Birthday!! It is also our grandson's 2nd birthday. We were traveling the 101 at the same time. Our grandson lives in the Monterey area and we are north of Santa Barbara. We passed each other
at some point.
I bet we did! We’re off the 1 right now but will be taking the 101 up to the Bay next weekend
The fussy cutting on that Fox and Rabbit SAL is OUTSTANDING 👏 you gotta keep working on it because I am INVESTED
It’s giving trans pride, right? I’m sure there will be a quote or something at the bottom and I need to think of something to replace it when the reveal comes
Love all the stitching! Ooh, I will need to check my newsagent to see if they stock that magazine still. I would definitely want to stitch those seasonal ladies. Lovelight Farms is adorable. I feel the same about Priory as you - I have been putting it off which is ridiculous as I pre ordered it and still have not read it. And I need a dragon battle in my life! And a Hamlet sampler - cannot wait for that!
Great video Julie ! I enjoyed your company this morning while stitching my oldest WIP , Halloween at HRH. I loved your idea of finishing 40 WIPS to celebrate your 40th!!! I’ll be here for the journey. Take care, -Samantha 🦋
I have the smallest start on Halloween at HRH but it often calls to me to work on it! I probably won’t do much on it this year since it’s certainly not going to be one of my 40 finishes 😆
What a great challenge for a big year! You're already off to a great start and it's fun seeing those older wips again. Happy birthday!!
Thank you, Helen!
HI, Julie!! I just started watching this video, and I realized that I too, have so many older WiPs and I am tackling some of them right now. I started making videos again a couple weeks ago and showed some of them. I have also started and finished more projects last year than I ever have. Love seeing your adventures!! Have a wonderful time in California.
I love your ambition. Can’t wait to follow you on this journey.
That necklace 😍
That Peace on Earth is popping off that fabric!
Love your finishes and your progress on your wips. Happy stitching!
Happy birthday! I stuck around to the end, I love your book content. I was excited to see you enjoyed T Kingfisher, she's one of my favourites. You should check out her books set in the world of the white rat. Same awesome world building, but with added romance.
I will definitely be reading more from her!
Just wanted you to know that your intro with the beach and rugged scenery was very soothing to me. I have had very high blood pressure readings lately, so your intro was an unexpected blessing.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I might try doing more short clips like that at the beginning of my Flosstubes
So glad to see you! Love all your projects, and ideas, and books as always.
I learn more about what charts are out in the design world from you then any other flosstube.
Thank you! I think my purchasing has slowed wayyyyyy down but I’m glad it’s still interesting!
Fabulous works. No way you are 40 you look younger. Love the book review if you are into the Harry book you should get the story from the other side of the coin. I read Tom Bower Revenge book it is very interesting. Looking forward to your next video.
I forgot to say that I definitely took everything he said with a grain of salt 😆 there are absolutely two sides to this story! I would love to hear William’s point of view but I’m sure he will rise above the fray
Seems like I am playing catch-up lately with flosstube videos that I love to watch and stitch by. O, loved the little travel intro, Yuma is a great place and the beach in California looks relaxing. Love your plan of getting 40 WIPS finished, I don't have that many but I have about 15 in various stages of not done, lol. Oh, and about 50 I want to start..... Dark Queen is going to be a great piece when she is finished. I am not doing Fox and Rabbit this year, I am still stitching the inner border of 2022, I may be doing tht for about 3 months. My poor Outlander Chatelaine is patiently waiting in the wings for me to give her some love and attention!! Have a great tour of California, would love to see the sights through your eyes. Sending you warm hugs from sunny(not so much) Arizona! The weather is all over the place lately.
The weather has been terrible lately, even in Arizona!!! 😩
A lot of us do stick around! 😁
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So great to catch your video Julie. I completely missed it. Your start on our mystery SAL is fabulous and Dark Queen is gorgeous!!!
You are a fabric dyeing genius! And an incredible eye for color! That Queen of the earth is stunning! I need to start your chart and show it. I always forget about pdfs I acquire. 😕💜 Oh and if you’re ever near Portland or Seattle…let me know because we need to hang out!
❤️❤️❤️ I’m dying to get to the Pacific Northwest!!!! 🤞🤞🤞 maybe this May?! I’ll let you know!
@@kansascitygirlinacoloradow4285 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Okay, I’m back now that I finally finished the video. 😄 Of course, all of your stitching is beautiful! I love your Dark Queen so much, it is looking so gorgeous on that fabric. I picked mine up this morning, inspired by you to try to get this January section done! And good for you for going back and working on older projects! I’ve been trying to do that as well, since I did my WIP parade and remembered all the good stuff I have underway, but I haven’t been as dedicated. I have no doubt you’ll achieve that 40 project goal! And I love your book talk and always listen all the way through! Lots of good stuff. I confess to having no desire at all to read Spare but it is crazy how popular it’s been! I haven’t read Ali Hazelwood but I heard her on a podcast recently and she was hilarious, so I need to read her books.
Spate was entertaining but all the juicy bits have leaked so there’s really no reason to read it now 😆
I am one of those that sticks to the end and was just telling someone else how much I love the perfect combination of books and cross stitch. Now we can add in travel! As always got inspiration in all areas.
Thank you, Linette! I haven’t been filming lots of travel footage lately so I thought I would put a little slice in the regular video!
My little brother was born in Yuma AZ many years ago :D
I am a little sad that Knight in Shining Armor doesn’t hold up. I loved that book when I read it back in the day. I tore through so many of those. I feel like I’ve read The Secret, but not sure. May have to revisit that one. And as per usual I added about six things to my TBR while watching and a few things to my charts to buy list.
I really remember loving Knight in Shining Armor “back in the day.” I had vivid recollection of the church time travel scene and her giving the lady of the house some modern cold medicine 🤣 Unfortunately the heroine is such a doormat and the 80s misogyny was shining through 🥴 I’ve revisited some more of Julie Garwood’s historicals since this video and they are holding up REALLY well.
I'm so in love with your fabric for Dark Queen and your thread colors for the MFE SAL. Thanks for sharing your adventures as well, always enjoy them.
I was born in Orange CA.
Happy Birthday!!!
when are you coming to CO????
Probably May/June - we don’t want to come back and get snowed on 😬
I enjoyed your wip parade so much, Julie! Happy 40th birthday! xx
I love backstitch lol.
It’s killing me! 😆
@@kansascitygirlinacoloradow4285 😆
❤❤❤ I love you projects! And fall colors and that gold /yellow looks so good on the fabric, You have a very good eye with color! Your fabrics are fabulous! Dark queen of the earth 😳😳😳
So I guess you are not doing any of your snow day stitching....lol...
Unfortunately! We are actively trying to avoid any areas with snow for now! 😆
So I JUST started your video, but I have to comment - I used to go to Pismo Beach all the time as a kid! We used to camp in our trailer on the beach, and then other times we stayed in a campground right at the beach, which I think is the same one you’re at! We went so many times with my grandparents. We used to ride our ATVs in the sand, and my dad would take his Jeep out there. We’d dig for clams too. Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane. Okay, now back to the video. 😄
I bet it was! I think this is one of two that are on the beach here! And clam shells are everywhere!
Always happy to see you have a new flosstube!
Thank you! I didn’t mean to be gone an entire month!
Love the colors you chose for the fox and rabbit SAL. And your necklace is absolutely gorgeous. Happy birthday and enjoy Northern California!
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I completely agree that JCS went meh in terms of what I liked for designs. I canceled my subscription, then found it through a library app, so I occasionally screenshot a chart (for my personal use, not distributing) I might want to do. (Screenshots get deleted after I do the chart unless I anticipate stitching it again for someone, or myself after gifting a piece.)
I appreciate the digital version as I don't need to store 60 million magazines for 1 design, but I strongly prefer using paper charts too.
I like those ladies, but I don't want to stitch them or have them in my home. I really need to start a new Joan Elliott though...
For your hopeful 40 finishes, are there any in storage you plan to grab next time you pass through Colorado, or are they all in the camper currently?
I also use digital from the library but this chart is so confetti heavy that I wanted the paper so I can highlight and mark it up to keep my place. And yes - I figure I have enough here to keep me going until the summer when we finally get to visit storage again! I brought a ton this leg of the trip knowing we wouldn’t be back for 6 months
@Kansas City Girl in a Colorado World to mark up the digital patterns, I use the "drawing" edit tool in my camera gallery. I just put a small dot per block, then once you want to back stitch, hit the "revert image" button and blank chart again.
Not the absolute best method, but you can zoom in to see symbols too which is a nice feature.
I need to take photos of a few kit charts where my photocopier just refused to center properly, and I'm missing a chunk that's not worth wasting more paper to get a good copy.
The photo edit idea also works on color symbol charts because you always will be able to see your dots. I wish I had the tech when I did a chart ages ago that was mostly dark grey blocks with very few symbols on the colored blocks to differentiate color shades...nobody should do plain grey blocks for 413 & 3799 next to each other. 😖
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Love all your finishes and the 40 for 40 idea.
Love to catch up with you. I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
So great to see you and now I have Spare on wait list🌻🌻🌻
Good luck! 😆 seems a looooooong wait at the library!
I came for the cross stitch and stayed for the book talk! Such a good video!!
Beautiful WIPs!!!
Please tell me you guys didn't breeze right past San Diego? 🙏 Literally "America's finest city" with the world's best zoo, not to mention the best weather year round. 🌊🐬🌴
We were about two hours from San Diego but did not visit due to our trajectory!
@@kansascitygirlinacoloradow4285 that hurts my heart since it's my home town but promise you'll put it on your bucket list for like an anniversary get away since day. 😆