I really like how you dive right in to the stitching! 💖 So many TH-camrs ramble too long before they get to their stitching. 😂 Looking forward to your next episodes!
I hope you write down the stories you remember for your family! It would be so sad to lose all of that wonderful history. Your sampler collection is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. The metal work and those metal threads! Can you imagine stitching with those? I hope you do chart the last sampler you shared. It is absolutely gorgeous! I would love to stitch it. The colors are amazing!
Birgit, loved the video, so enjoyed hearing & learning about your German heritage …what fabulous memories & treasures you have🥰 how fortunate you are! Thank you for sharing all your beautiful stitching, Samplers are fantastic. Looking forward to seeing you again,🤗♥️🪡
I am thoroughly enjoying your videos! Ty! Love all the pieces you show, info on preservation, as well as your family history. I’m American but was born in Frankfurt, Germany when my dad was in the Army so I loved hearing you speak German. Thank you, Melissa.
I truly loved and was captured by your amazing utube! I’m going to share it with a stitching friend from Germany, who I think will really enjoy your work, but also your history and the precious heart! I can’t wait to see your future flosstubes!!
Such beautiful samplers! Loved hearing some of your family history. The big sampler you showed at the end - it’s GORGEOUS! I’d love to stitch at least some of the motifs, but I’d be tempted to stitch the entire piece. Fabulous shape to it. ❤
I thoroughly enjoyed this session. It gave me a glimpse into preservation of textiles and the destruction of the same. I would like to see a videotape of the process of unveiling the antiques and then after that the color selections and designing what I hope will be as close to the original as the linen allows. The border on the next to the last sampler does indeed remind me of a forest or trees which are a love of mine as I have a deep love of nature particularly forests and mountains. I do hope you will take the sampler that you took down from the wall and do the entire thing for those who do not mind the size or a challenge of a large piece. For me personally just having little portions would ruin the story of this sampler. A prevailing vision of the sampler is of a village showing different events happening all at the same time. A couple on the beach enjoying the sun while a soldier is at work. The little angel you mentioned looked like a Cupid to me in the quick glimpse. However, I think it would be nice to also chart for those who don’t prefer a large piece to do as you described. I enjoyed seeing the wonder of needle and thread, or metal as the case may be, in your examples. A wonderful video. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to your next display of goodness.
Thank you so much for your encouragement! It will be quite a task charting the whole thing but you make a valid point with the history & story. I mean taht is what I do all day when I stare at it...I wonder about her life 😍 Thank you.
I have been cross-stitching for several decades, but only recently discovered and appreciated the beauty of samplers. The antique samplers you displayed are marvelous. Metal-working? On fabric? I have never heard of it, but it is amazing. Please continue to share your samplers as well as your family history and language. My maternal grandfather was German, but he lived in Poland on a farm before immigrating to the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century. Your Dragon Heart deserves to be displayed so others can enjoy it. It is stunning.
So happy to see you back with Floss tube #2. Sitting here in Arizona enjoying coffee and smiling listening to you. All 4 of my grandparents were German immigrants. How I wish I had listened more as a child about my heritage. I remember my grandfather used to say repeatedly that he was full of "vim, vigor, and vitality" but as you can imagine it never sounded quite that way. It was so special to hear you speak a bit of German. At our wedding they played. Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" thanks for the fond memories. We never know how we will touch someone. Cindy
Oh how wonderful! I know that walz well - here for you memories the original th-cam.com/video/fQ9VYpxKtFk/w-d-xo.html I love it! We always did "schunkeln" to this song - not sure what that is in English, were you hook arms while seated and sway side to side. It is so true, we never know how we we touch others and they touch us. Thank you for making this a lovely morning stroll down memory lane. 🥰
Hi, so happy to have stumbled across your presentation. LOVED every moment, especially your grandmother's beautiful pieces. What a family heirloom, such workmanship. It is a crying shame needlework, or even basic sewing is no longer taught in schools at all. Thank goodness for dedicated people like you to keep it alive and make it interesting for new stitchers. Stitching is either in your soul, or not. But your presentation has been SO inspirational. I live in a remote little town in the middle if the wheatbelt in Western Australia, Perth city is a 400km round trip to get to now disappearing craft shops. Seeing museum quality pieces like the ones you have shown today was like a dream come true for me. I'm 75 and loved everything. Thank you
I can't tell you how much this means to me, this is why I so enjoy my life, by being surrounded by such kind souls. You just gave me a brilliant idea I put in my books...making a virtual museum with my samplers. I can just be a part of the website where they can be viewed regardless of what is charted already or what is not. Thank you 🥰
Birgit, your stitching is absolute perfection! I love that you share your family history along with interesting stories. I wish I would have recorded the stories from my grandparents when I was younger. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your sampler world, as you have so many fascinating pieces. Many stitchers do not have the means or opportunity to purchase the antiques, but enjoy sharing in your discoveries.
Enjoyed very much. Your family's history is really quite fascinating. I love the dragon piece- absolutely stunning. I'd definitely find space to hang it.
Glad you enjoyed it The Dragon Piece OMG, it is so big and looks so strange next to samplers (as do some of my other stitched pieces.) Who knows I might find a good spot for it:) Thank you for your encouragement 🥰
I’ve enjoyed seeing all the samplers and hearing all the history in both of your flosstubes. I can’t wait for number 3. Your work is just stunning, gives me something to strive for. Thank you.
Hi, Birgit! Thank you for sharing that sweet, precious little heart with the poem that you showed @ 35:34, from your mother to your grandmother…it was moving and very beautiful. What a wonderful treasure for you to have! 🥰 Meline
Oh my goodness! The specialty stitching of the pears and the kaleidoscope piece are absolutely incredible! I do enjoy these old things as well. I have the School house sampler of the seasons as well and I loved seeing your work on one of them. It has inspired me. Like you, I have not stitched for about 30 years and I am really back into it again and I love it. Loved your dragon heart as well. Don't you dare chuck it!! Do it as a give away if you truly don't want it. Just a thought. Also loved the old samplers you showed that you had added to your collection. Your stitching is just so exquisite. I with I had the patience and more, the skill to stitch as well as you. Beautiful. Thank you for your sharing!
I am so enjoying your flosstubes. I have listened to #1 and #2 now. I am anxious to move on to the next ones and also to read your Blog too. I love hearing about your family history as well. Thank you so much!! ❤
I especially like the old pieces. I am a huge Prairie Schooler fan. I have done many of them. I have stitched since 1975. The Sheepish Design alphabet was great. I have never see it before.
Yes another beautiful video❤ so many lovely sampler. My Husband and I were stationed in West Berlin Germany in the early 70s and was able to to visit East Berlin to shop. Thanks for sharing so many beautiful memories 💖 InezArnetta 🌹
I'm now a new Subscriber to your channel, as well as new to Flosstube by about 2 weeks, and WOW!!! I LOVE this! Thank YOU!!! I remember in your #1 video you said you've wanted a store for forever, I believe you were meant to have it 'now' because you have gained so much knowledge you are sharing with us! Thank you dearly!!! I am really enjoying this! You are making me feel a little guilty, though! Lol! "I need" to write down from my notes I took from my Grandmother ALL that side of the family's history! ASAP!! I recently gave my notes to my daughter in all my scrapbooking things, I passed that baton to HER! Lol! I've done so much I'm just tired of it and I want to focus on THIS, the love of my life which is cross stitch and stitching Samplers!!! My father is still alive, 77, but he's a BUGGER! He will NEVER take the time to tell me the family history, and there are so MANY SECRETS that side of the family felt/he STILL feels he has to hide things! Frustrating!!! They ALL felt they had to keep things secret! Argh!! I know that is why my father is in NO rush to tell me, but his age! He's outlived both my grandparents, his only brother who is of course my DEAR Uncle I loved to pieces who we 'just' lost due to a very tragic collision her had with a semit-tractor trailer of which he was blinded by the winter sund which made him miss a stop sign and drive out into an extremely busy road. I adjust auto bodily injury claims years ago and had to correlate the auto damage and try to recreate the accident and as SOON as I saw the photos I know he tried to avoid the collision - the poor man had to have been terrified. You can tell it still has me very upset and grieving for him, and then my father has also outlived my dear mother. I don't know how to make my father sit down to tell me or how to force him to sit DOWN and tell me!!! Lol!!! My father's side of the family is also entirely German! We do have one American Indian, the Michmac Tribe, a great grandmother of mine by about 7X who is/was from the upper peninsula here in Michigan, and she was originally from Canada I was told due to this one special "meat pie recipe" which is French Canadian! If anyone out there reads this and knows the recipe for this French Canadian Meat Pie made from ground beef, potatoes, carrots, spices such as nutmeg, allspice and ginger, I believe, PLEASE let me know here!!! I'd love to compare mine to yours to see if I "do" have the "correct and original" historical recipe!! Thank you SO much! Congratulations on your shop, finally!!! Yay!!! And for your detailed knowledge and experience you are sharing with us HERE!! YOU are a golden GEM!!!! Or platinum gem! Thank you DEARLY, again!!! I look forward to your NEXT video! Please don't ever think they are boring or do not matter because they are the BEST!!! You are sharing things we us I never knew about, and I am SO GRATEFUL to you for doing so!!! Thank YOU!!!! Keep on stitching!!!! And teaching! My next thing to do is to go to your store and your blog!!!! I cannot wait!!!
What a delight to get to meet you thru Flosstube! The glimpses of the antique samplers is absolutely fascinating! Your needlework is stellar. I have kitted up a number of your designs and love the uniqueness of what you have chosen to reproduce. Such fun..now for more hours in the day to stitch! Looking forward to your next visit!
What a treasure that photo is of your ancestor’s store! I would love to stitch the darning sampler if you can chart it. I thought Ostern was a place. I’ve seen several times on samplers. 😅 Good to know. Absolutely loved this episode. I am so glad you are taking the time to share your pieces with us. I love to look at antique samplers. I want to chart a few that I have someday before they disintegrate.
you are so gifted, loved seeing all your old samplers and specially your great grandmothers. My kids correct my English all the time, specially the word focus and snickers, 🤣
Wow! Just wow. I so admire your projects and the beautiful stitching Birgit. That dragon piece should be displayed somewhere as it is so beautiful. The bible cover piece is unbelievable. I can imagine how you would want it framed. The work in it is just unreal and I can’t imagine working with the metal too. Lucky you for having it. Looking forward to your next video production and I would love to see more of your stitching,
Thank you so much for your kind words. I hope that I will find a place for the dragons once we are moved. I was so happy at the time that I found a framed with Dragon scales 😂 That bible cover...I will have to shadow box it I'm sure.
Thank you for sharing your work, very beautiful. I especially enjoyed seeing the old samplers and hearing the history and conservation efforts. The last large sampler you showed, hanging on the wall, was gorgeous . I look forward to seeing future videos.
Love the information you are sharing. I would however appreciate it if you would show us the full piece before the close ups. And if you’d keep the piece on the screen a bit longer. I loved what you did show, such beautiful work. My mothers family immigrated from Germany and I have been looking to find a sampler to honor them. My fathers family were French and English. Likewise I’m trying to learn more about my history and would like to find samplers for each branch. I found the book you mentioned last video and ordered a copy. I don’t know if it’s hard bound or soft bound yet, but if it’s soft bound I’ll have the binding removed and spiral bind it. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.
I enjoyed the family history and seeing your amazing pieces from tge 90's. My heritage is German and especially Baden-Wurttemburg and Osnaburck. My DIL is from Trier. Lots of ties and love visiting Germany.
Thank you so much! There are lots of darning samplers out there. It was a real skil at one point. Once we no longer used hand knit socks and everything came cheaply imported there was no sense in darning. I only know how to do a basic darn 😆
Beautiful collection. The ones I liked the most were the ones you said wouldn't be charted for awhile. I loved the 1829 whit ue bird and dainty house and the large one near the end ,I would gladly do the whole thing.
Who on earth is going to want to do a darning sampler?, you say. I DO! There was one magazine darning pattern giveaway and it was so popular. I think people are interested in this and combined cross stitch and darning. Great videos. Kate ( Melbourne)
Thanks for another amazing video! I LOVE the sampler with the rose border. I would stitch up that entire thing instantly (well, not instantly....I'm a slow stitcher...lol). But I understand why you wouldn't want to chart the entire thing - it's massive.
you're work is so fabulous and you're an inspiration!. I love hearing your stories about Germany. We traveled there over the holiday and visited the town where my people came from. We visited several cities and explored the Christmas Bazaar's. I was sad I didn't have time to visit any needlework shops. but it was a trip with my siblings and very fast paced. I'm thinking about joining the guild in Ohio but we'll have to see if it all works out. Good job with your videos. Auf Wiedersehen
Wonderful episode, I loved seeing everything. I was hoping you would get that sticky tape off and show us the inside of the sampler 😂 Why do they say that they lose value once you remove from the frame? Can’t wait to learn more ❤
Thank you Chris. I have no idea why this one person thought it would devalue the piece. Maybe it was just in her head. IF the piece rotss and rusts behind the glass it's much worse i think 🥰
What specific fabric would look/work the best for the Harriet Mc Ewen sampler? Also, I loved your podcast, Thank you for giving us the pleasure of seeing your antique samplers up close 🥰
Thank you for sharing your beautiful samplers. My mother has one stitched about 100 years ago by our ancestor and I would like to chart it for preservation purposes. Do you use a computer program and if so which one? You taste in stitching and mine are very similar. I have the pears 2 pattern and have stitched the Drawn Thread wall hanging. I also have the Darlene O'Steen book you showed in a previous floss tube. Please continue with your flosstube. They are very interesting and enjoyable.
Wonderful! So glad we have things in common, this link is a great place to decide which works for you: lordlibidan.com/best-cross-stitch-pattern-software/ professional software is quite different from what the hobbiest might need for a one-time charting.
Hallo Birgit, I have not heard your story but I love that you did the opposite of myself. I grew up in Ohio and immigrated young to The Netherlands. Darning samplers are well loved here. I so know what you mean about certain letters. Here it is a combination of "ui" en "ei" which sound similar are not easy to pronounce . 😂 And you started saying the alphabet to yourself in German...I do that. I speak Dutch but count in English to myself. I so enjoy seeing all your old samplers. Norrköping (pronounced nore-schup-ing) is in Sweden. I am now wondering if Finland has any history of needlework samplers. I have never heard sof or seen any. Happy stitching 🧵
I so appreciated the genealogical history at the beginning! It's so important to pass this info to future generations. Your Dragon Heart is breathtaking and, when you move, needs to see the light of day. Such a beautiful piece! You're so talented! My eyes were drawn to the sweater you wore in this video. Did you knit it? Have a wonderful week!❤❤
CORRECTION: The Guild event is on July 22nd, 2023! Not April
Your knowledge of stitching is endless. How fortunate we are to have you to teach us.
Thank you so much! I adore anything needlework and I am so happy to have you join me on this journey! 🥰
I really like how you dive right in to the stitching! 💖 So many TH-camrs ramble too long before they get to their stitching. 😂 Looking forward to your next episodes!
Oh thank you!
I hope you write down the stories you remember for your family! It would be so sad to lose all of that wonderful history. Your sampler collection is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. The metal work and those metal threads! Can you imagine stitching with those? I hope you do chart the last sampler you shared. It is absolutely gorgeous! I would love to stitch it. The colors are amazing!
Birgit, loved the video, so enjoyed hearing & learning about your German heritage …what fabulous memories & treasures you have🥰 how fortunate you are! Thank you for sharing all your beautiful stitching, Samplers are fantastic. Looking forward to seeing you again,🤗♥️🪡
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much! 😍
Wonderful family stories and sampler history! I enjoy listening to you talk about each of the samplers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am thoroughly enjoying your videos! Ty! Love all the pieces you show, info on preservation, as well as your family history. I’m American but was born in Frankfurt, Germany when my dad was in the Army so I loved hearing you speak German. Thank you, Melissa.
Thank you Melissa! I lived in Frankfurt for a short period. 😍
I truly loved and was captured by your amazing utube! I’m going to share it with a stitching friend from Germany, who I think will really enjoy your work, but also your history and the precious heart! I can’t wait to see your future flosstubes!!
Thank you so much! you are too kind! 🥰
You are so sweet, petite and cute sitting at your filming spot, showing your wonderful family heirlooms. How special!
Thank you so much!
Such beautiful samplers! Loved hearing some of your family history. The big sampler you showed at the end - it’s GORGEOUS! I’d love to stitch at least some of the motifs, but I’d be tempted to stitch the entire piece. Fabulous shape to it. ❤
Thank you so much!
I thoroughly enjoyed this session. It gave me a glimpse into preservation of textiles and the destruction of the same. I would like to see a videotape of the process of unveiling the antiques and then after that the color selections and designing what I hope will be as close to the original as the linen allows. The border on the next to the last sampler does indeed remind me of a forest or trees which are a love of mine as I have a deep love of nature particularly forests and mountains. I do hope you will take the sampler that you took down from the wall and do the entire thing for those who do not mind the size or a challenge of a large piece. For me personally just having little portions would ruin the story of this sampler. A prevailing vision of the sampler is of a village showing different events happening all at the same time. A couple on the beach enjoying the sun while a soldier is at work. The little angel you mentioned looked like a Cupid to me in the quick glimpse. However, I think it would be nice to also chart for those who don’t prefer a large piece to do as you described. I enjoyed seeing the wonder of needle and thread, or metal as the case may be, in your examples. A wonderful video. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to your next display of goodness.
Thank you so much for your encouragement! It will be quite a task charting the whole thing but you make a valid point with the history & story. I mean taht is what I do all day when I stare at it...I wonder about her life 😍 Thank you.
I’m so glad you started doing flosstube. I get so much out of watching them.❤
thank you so much!! I really appreciate it 🥰
I have been cross-stitching for several decades, but only recently discovered and appreciated the beauty of samplers. The antique samplers you displayed are marvelous. Metal-working? On fabric? I have never heard of it, but it is amazing. Please continue to share your samplers as well as your family history and language. My maternal grandfather was German, but he lived in Poland on a farm before immigrating to the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century.
Your Dragon Heart deserves to be displayed so others can enjoy it. It is stunning.
Thank you for sharing your history! 😍
I love love, love your videos! You are so much fun and you show so much eye candy!
Glad you like them!🥰
So happy to see you back with Floss tube #2. Sitting here in Arizona enjoying coffee and smiling listening to you. All 4 of my grandparents were German immigrants. How I wish I had listened more as a child about my heritage. I remember my grandfather used to say repeatedly that he was full of "vim, vigor, and vitality" but as you can imagine it never sounded quite that way. It was so special to hear you speak a bit of German. At our wedding they played. Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" thanks for the fond memories. We never know how we will touch someone. Cindy
Oh how wonderful! I know that walz well - here for you memories the original th-cam.com/video/fQ9VYpxKtFk/w-d-xo.html I love it! We always did "schunkeln" to this song - not sure what that is in English, were you hook arms while seated and sway side to side. It is so true, we never know how we we touch others and they touch us. Thank you for making this a lovely morning stroll down memory lane. 🥰
Hi, so happy to have stumbled across your presentation. LOVED every moment, especially your grandmother's beautiful pieces. What a family heirloom, such workmanship. It is a crying shame needlework, or even basic sewing is no longer taught in schools at all. Thank goodness for dedicated people like you to keep it alive and make it interesting for new stitchers. Stitching is either in your soul, or not. But your presentation has been SO inspirational. I live in a remote little town in the middle if the wheatbelt in Western Australia, Perth city is a 400km round trip to get to now disappearing craft shops. Seeing museum quality pieces like the ones you have shown today was like a dream come true for me. I'm 75 and loved everything. Thank you
I can't tell you how much this means to me, this is why I so enjoy my life, by being surrounded by such kind souls. You just gave me a brilliant idea I put in my books...making a virtual museum with my samplers. I can just be a part of the website where they can be viewed regardless of what is charted already or what is not. Thank you 🥰
Wonderful!
Loved the history and you speaking the old language.
Thank you
Lonnie in Texas
Glad you enjoyed it🥰
I love your family picture. The frame is beautiful! The Needlepoint pears are beautiful!! Needlepoint is my first love in needlework.
I also love needlepoint because of the variety of skills & materials that I am able to use.
Birgit, your stitching is absolute perfection! I love that you share your family history along with interesting stories. I wish I would have recorded the stories from my grandparents when I was younger. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your sampler world, as you have so many fascinating pieces. Many stitchers do not have the means or opportunity to purchase the antiques, but enjoy sharing in your discoveries.
Thank you so much!🥰
Enjoyed very much. Your family's history is really quite fascinating. I love the dragon piece- absolutely stunning. I'd definitely find space to hang it.
Glad you enjoyed it The Dragon Piece OMG, it is so big and looks so strange next to samplers (as do some of my other stitched pieces.) Who knows I might find a good spot for it:) Thank you for your encouragement 🥰
I’ve enjoyed seeing all the samplers and hearing all the history in both of your flosstubes. I can’t wait for number 3. Your work is just stunning, gives me something to strive for. Thank you.
Thank you so much!🥰
Absolutely love your channel. Thank you for sharing your passion for antique samplers.❤❤❤
Thank you so much Christine! 🥰
Hi, Birgit! Thank you for sharing that sweet, precious little heart with the poem that you showed @ 35:34, from your mother to your grandmother…it was moving and very beautiful. What a wonderful treasure for you to have! 🥰
Meline
Thank you so much! I made me swallow a bit...I almost cried 🥰 They are treasures for sure.
Love your stories! There are many new darning samplers! Love your new old samplers! So enjoy your floss tubes!
Awe thank you Kathy, I adore watching Linen & Scraps 😍
I so enjoy watching and listening to your flosstube. Your family history is fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
thank you!
I loved getting to see your pieces and hearing the history. Thank you for sharing your own stitching and your collection.
Thanks for watching and putting up with me 😍
Oh my goodness! The specialty stitching of the pears and the kaleidoscope piece are absolutely incredible! I do enjoy these old things as well. I have the School house sampler of the seasons as well and I loved seeing your work on one of them. It has inspired me. Like you, I have not stitched for about 30 years and I am really back into it again and I love it. Loved your dragon heart as well. Don't you dare chuck it!! Do it as a give away if you truly don't want it. Just a thought. Also loved the old samplers you showed that you had added to your collection.
Your stitching is just so exquisite. I with I had the patience and more, the skill to stitch as well as you. Beautiful. Thank you for your sharing!
So glad you enjoyed yourself...I won't chuck the dragon hahaha
Very interesting, history, stitching, and all. Looking forward to your next flosstube!
Thank you! 😊
I am so enjoying your flosstubes. I have listened to #1 and #2 now. I am anxious to move on to the next ones and also to read your Blog too. I love hearing about your family history as well. Thank you so much!! ❤
thank you Laurel, that is so nice of you to say!
I especially like the old pieces. I am a huge Prairie Schooler fan. I have done many of them. I have stitched since 1975. The Sheepish Design alphabet was great. I have never see it before.
That is awesome! I want to finish the Sheepish Design one...but first I have to find all the things again in my stash 😍
Loved seeing the family photo and hearing the bits of history! Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it🥰
Yes another beautiful video❤ so many lovely sampler. My Husband and I were stationed in West Berlin Germany in the early 70s and was able to to visit East Berlin to shop. Thanks for sharing so many beautiful memories 💖 InezArnetta 🌹
Ohh what fun! My little sister still lives in Berlin and loves it!
Oh PLEASE chart the 1856 sampler!!!!!!! I want to stitch it all!!! Another great Flosstube! XOXO Heidi
I'm now a new Subscriber to your channel, as well as new to Flosstube by about 2 weeks, and WOW!!! I LOVE this! Thank YOU!!!
I remember in your #1 video you said you've wanted a store for forever, I believe you were meant to have it 'now' because you have gained so much knowledge you are sharing with us! Thank you dearly!!! I am really enjoying this! You are making me feel a little guilty, though! Lol! "I need" to write down from my notes I took from my Grandmother ALL that side of the family's history! ASAP!! I recently gave my notes to my daughter in all my scrapbooking things, I passed that baton to HER! Lol! I've done so much I'm just tired of it and I want to focus on THIS, the love of my life which is cross stitch and stitching Samplers!!! My father is still alive, 77, but he's a BUGGER! He will NEVER take the time to tell me the family history, and there are so MANY SECRETS that side of the family felt/he STILL feels he has to hide things! Frustrating!!! They ALL felt they had to keep things secret! Argh!! I know that is why my father is in NO rush to tell me, but his age! He's outlived both my grandparents, his only brother who is of course my DEAR Uncle I loved to pieces who we 'just' lost due to a very tragic collision her had with a semit-tractor trailer of which he was blinded by the winter sund which made him miss a stop sign and drive out into an extremely busy road. I adjust auto bodily injury claims years ago and had to correlate the auto damage and try to recreate the accident and as SOON as I saw the photos I know he tried to avoid the collision - the poor man had to have been terrified. You can tell it still has me very upset and grieving for him, and then my father has also outlived my dear mother. I don't know how to make my father sit down to tell me or how to force him to sit DOWN and tell me!!! Lol!!! My father's side of the family is also entirely German! We do have one American Indian, the Michmac Tribe, a great grandmother of mine by about 7X who is/was from the upper peninsula here in Michigan, and she was originally from Canada I was told due to this one special "meat pie recipe" which is French Canadian!
If anyone out there reads this and knows the recipe for this French Canadian Meat Pie made from ground beef, potatoes, carrots, spices such as nutmeg, allspice and ginger, I believe, PLEASE let me know here!!! I'd love to compare mine to yours to see if I "do" have the "correct and original" historical recipe!! Thank you SO much!
Congratulations on your shop, finally!!! Yay!!! And for your detailed knowledge and experience you are sharing with us HERE!! YOU are a golden GEM!!!! Or platinum gem! Thank you DEARLY, again!!!
I look forward to your NEXT video! Please don't ever think they are boring or do not matter because they are the BEST!!! You are sharing things we us I never knew about, and I am SO GRATEFUL to you for doing so!!! Thank YOU!!!!
Keep on stitching!!!! And teaching!
My next thing to do is to go to your store and your blog!!!! I cannot wait!!!
Thank you Laurie! It was great hearing from you via email! I fixed the freebies for you and added a couple more!
What a delight to get to meet you thru Flosstube! The glimpses of the antique samplers is absolutely fascinating! Your needlework is stellar. I have kitted up a number of your designs and love the uniqueness of what you have chosen to reproduce. Such fun..now for more hours in the day to stitch! Looking forward to your next visit!
Oh thank you! I really appreciate it!
Hi Birgit another lovely video beautiful family stories and Sampler History,Thankyou for sharing 👍🪡🇳🇿❤️
Our pleasure! Thank you!! *hugs*
What a treasure that photo is of your ancestor’s store! I would love to stitch the darning sampler if you can chart it.
I thought Ostern was a place. I’ve seen several times on samplers. 😅 Good to know.
Absolutely loved this episode. I am so glad you are taking the time to share your pieces with us. I love to look at antique samplers. I want to chart a few that I have someday before they disintegrate.
I'll have to check to see what type of darning she did :) OMG I'll have to learn hahahaha. And yes "Ostern" is Easter. 😍
Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed your video! I appreciated the family history, too!
Glad you enjoyed it
you are so gifted, loved seeing all your old samplers and specially your great grandmothers. My kids correct my English all the time, specially the word focus and snickers, 🤣
Wonderful, thank you! I'm so glad I'm not the only one 😂
Wow! Just wow. I so admire your projects and the beautiful stitching Birgit. That dragon piece should be displayed somewhere as it is so beautiful. The bible cover piece is unbelievable. I can imagine how you would want it framed. The work in it is just unreal and I can’t imagine working with the metal too. Lucky you for having it. Looking forward to your next video production and I would love to see more of your stitching,
Thank you so much for your kind words. I hope that I will find a place for the dragons once we are moved. I was so happy at the time that I found a framed with Dragon scales 😂 That bible cover...I will have to shadow box it I'm sure.
Thank you for sharing your work, very beautiful. I especially enjoyed seeing the old samplers and hearing the history and
conservation efforts. The last large sampler you showed, hanging on the wall, was gorgeous . I look forward to seeing future videos.
Glad you enjoyed it! That lst sampler will be quite lengthy to chart - I dread charting the over one sections 🤣
Your sampler Mary Saunders, her border reminds me of the oak leaf and reel quilt block. 😍 Thank you for a wonderful Flosstube.
Oh thank you! That is a great insight, I'll have to go check that. I never have done' enough quilting to know those things.
Enjoyed seeing the old samplers and hearing a bit about your heritage. Have a great week
Thank you! You too! 🥰
Love the information you are sharing. I would however appreciate it if you would show us the full piece before the close ups. And if you’d keep the piece on the screen a bit longer. I loved what you did show, such beautiful work. My mothers family immigrated from Germany and I have been looking to find a sampler to honor them. My fathers family were French and English. Likewise I’m trying to learn more about my history and would like to find samplers for each branch. I found the book you mentioned last video and ordered a copy. I don’t know if it’s hard bound or soft bound yet, but if it’s soft bound I’ll have the binding removed and spiral bind it. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.
Thank you for the tip, I'll try and remember it for next time!
I enjoyed the family history and seeing your amazing pieces from tge 90's. My heritage is German and especially Baden-Wurttemburg and Osnaburck. My DIL is from Trier. Lots of ties and love visiting Germany.
Very cool! I am from Rheinland Pfalz and very familiar with Trier (been there countless times) such a beautiful place. So glad to have you here! 🥰
Your stitching is beautiful and love all of your projects. I was born in Northern Germany and at one time I had owned some German Deli's in NY.
Oh wow! Ist ja toll Gisela! I have many relatives in the north. 😍
Loved it. Fascinating. 🇦🇺
Awesome, thank you! 🥰
Thanks for showing Sheepish Designs - I found the series of 5 in my stash 😊. Love how you show finishes from some older designers!
You are so welcome! I thank you!
Absolutely love your content. And your family photo is such a treasure. I never heard of a darning sampler.
Thank you so much! There are lots of darning samplers out there. It was a real skil at one point. Once we no longer used hand knit socks and everything came cheaply imported there was no sense in darning. I only know how to do a basic darn 😆
I remember watching my grandmother darn my brother's socks.
My second floss tube....I'm out of order. Lovely pieces! Thanks for sharing.
Have fun!
lol V und W bereiten mir auch noch probleme nach all den Jahren. Lovely stitching and enjoyed your stories.
hahaha ich glaub das werde ich nie lernen 🤣 Danke!
Beautiful collection. The ones I liked the most were the ones you said wouldn't be charted for awhile. I loved the 1829 whit ue bird and dainty house and the large one near the end ,I would gladly do the whole thing.
Thanks so much! There are so many beauties ahead of them, I will bring them to future shows. This is only a tiny glimpse. 😍
Fascinating!
Thank you!
Who on earth is going to want to do a darning sampler?, you say. I DO! There was one magazine darning pattern giveaway and it was so popular. I think people are interested in this and combined cross stitch and darning. Great videos. Kate ( Melbourne)
Well that is good to know as the comments are mounting for the darning sampler 😍 Who knew??!!! Thank you so much for watching!
Loved your video. Such wonderful info. Thank you
Thank you!
Thanks for another amazing video! I LOVE the sampler with the rose border. I would stitch up that entire thing instantly (well, not instantly....I'm a slow stitcher...lol). But I understand why you wouldn't want to chart the entire thing - it's massive.
She is done charting , now I just have to finish putting the pattern together and her listing.
you're work is so fabulous and you're an inspiration!. I love hearing your stories about Germany. We traveled there over the holiday and visited the town where my people came from. We visited several cities and explored the Christmas Bazaar's. I was sad I didn't have time to visit any needlework shops. but it was a trip with my siblings and very fast paced. I'm thinking about joining the guild in Ohio but we'll have to see if it all works out. Good job with your videos. Auf Wiedersehen
So wonderful! So glad you had a good time on your trip!
I was so glad your channel came up to view and enjoy. Your antique samplers are awesome. Thank you for sharing with us
Thank you so much! I am so happy you enjoyed yourself 😍
If you ever rechart Mary Saunders, I would stitch her for sure. That one calls to me.
OOOO thank you, Alison! you can always email me if you want to be her Model stitcher!
I made the blue needlepoint too, the one from ega and made it into a pillow that came apart, so now have to figure out what to do with it
So awesome! We all have so many pieces trying to figure out what to do with 😍
Wonderful episode, I loved seeing everything. I was hoping you would get that sticky tape off and show us the inside of the sampler 😂
Why do they say that they lose value once you remove from the frame?
Can’t wait to learn more ❤
Thank you Chris. I have no idea why this one person thought it would devalue the piece. Maybe it was just in her head. IF the piece rotss and rusts behind the glass it's much worse i think 🥰
What specific fabric would look/work the best for the Harriet Mc Ewen sampler?
Also, I loved your podcast, Thank you for giving us the pleasure of seeing your antique samplers up close 🥰
Dunes or French Vanilla by WHIM would look lovely.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful samplers. My mother has one stitched about 100 years ago by our ancestor and I would like to chart it for preservation purposes. Do you use a computer program and if so which one?
You taste in stitching and mine are very similar. I have the pears 2 pattern and have stitched the Drawn Thread wall hanging. I also have the Darlene O'Steen book you showed in a previous floss tube. Please continue with your flosstube. They are very interesting and enjoyable.
Wonderful! So glad we have things in common, this link is a great place to decide which works for you: lordlibidan.com/best-cross-stitch-pattern-software/ professional software is quite different from what the hobbiest might need for a one-time charting.
Hallo Birgit,
I have not heard your story but I love that you did the opposite of myself. I grew up in Ohio and immigrated young to The Netherlands. Darning samplers are well loved here. I so know what you mean about certain letters. Here it is a combination of "ui" en "ei" which sound similar are not easy to pronounce . 😂 And you started saying the alphabet to yourself in German...I do that. I speak Dutch but count in English to myself.
I so enjoy seeing all your old samplers. Norrköping (pronounced nore-schup-ing) is in Sweden. I am now wondering if Finland has any history of needlework samplers. I have never heard sof or seen any.
Happy stitching 🧵
Thank you for you wonderful story and with pronouncing Norrköping! I still count in German to this day 🤣
I so appreciated the genealogical history at the beginning! It's so important to pass this info to future generations. Your Dragon Heart is breathtaking and, when you move, needs to see the light of day. Such a beautiful piece! You're so talented! My eyes were drawn to the sweater you wore in this video. Did you knit it? Have a wonderful week!❤❤
I'm glad you liked the video! I have knitted many sweaters and still am - that was not one of them 😍
@@thewishingthorn I've also knitted many sweaters and have one on needles I need to finish. Cross stitching calls, however!
Me! I’d love to do a darning sampler!!❤
ha, that means I would have to learn more than my basic darning technique 😁
@@thewishingthorn 😀😇 so would I. 💕
I have just finished Jane Parsons. Have you reproduced the Victorian piece in the interesting frame? Thank you for your videos.
Which one? hehehe :) *hugs*
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