Michelle Bendy: Flosstube #68 Show Notes

Happy last Tuesday in July!!

Best New Thing:

Instagram tv! It's an amazing place to upload videos between 3 minutes and 10 minutes long. It's like watching Mini Flosstubes and I'm OBSESSED.

Plus, Jan Hicks puts up videos; so you know I'm there.

FFOs:

With some (friendly) pushing from Angie (@bubmie), I FFO'd my Les Grilles de Maryse freebie piece from the Midwest Cross Stitchers' Retreat 2017:

I don't have the cording for the top because I made mine too short!! Dangit. But check the polka dots on the inside of the box--that's a bag from Stitchville USA.

Finishes:

TinyModernist's Halloween SAL this year is the Haunted Mansion SAL:

Here it was last week, I love it soooo much:

And it's all done now!! (Aside from ALL of the insides)

I cannot WAIT for the first room to come out on August 8!!

My #CountryStitchersRR piece is done!!

I'm stitching mine on 28 count Whisper lugana. The colors are various:

Mo's Sale Argentina (borders of the dividers)
Gentle Arts Soot (dark grey)
Colour & Cotton Desert Taupe (light grey in motif)
Victorian Motto Pretty Pink Petals (light pink in motif)
City Needlework #34 silk (dark pink in motif)
MadXStitcher Peppermint (white/pink in the center of motif and all letters)
Bonus: Cottage Garden Threads Fuschia

And my motif is from Blackbird Designs Quaker Garden:

WIPs (Works in Progress)

For the #JMDSturns5 SAL on Instagram, I worked on my Jeannette Douglas My Stitching Box piece that was the focus of the Acorns & Threads class in March: (maybe you've heard me mention it?)

Here is where I got to on Sunday:

This is stitched in amazing silks, Gloriana and NPI so far. I. Love. It.

Thrifting: (none this week!)

Purchases:

My newest Bitzy Bob from That's So Kelly Co! on Etsy!!
It's LITERALLY called "Bendy's Alzheimer's Bitzy Bob"!!!!! WHAT!!! And there are some available as of Tuesday the 31st so go get them!!

Starlight Stitchery Haul:

Including: Prairie Schooler Hedgehog freebie
Chessie & Me Tombstone Mansion
Nickyscreations Primitives Quilt of the Season Halloween
Nickyscreations Primitives Winter Girl

Just Cross Stitch Halloween 2018 from Julie at Gulf Coast Stitches

This year is OKAY. But it's no JCS Hallowene 2013, amirite?

My own DiddlyDaddleDesigns bag: (click on the picture to purchase from Teresa)

ALL the bags from Nani @themulticraftyhermit:

click on her name up above to check out her Instagram and shop her Buy 2 Get 1 free sale!!

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Tis the Season Pack:

These are the stunning flosses for the #TisTheSeasonSAL starting on September 1 with Lanette and Donna Rae. We're stitching this chart from Blackbird Designs:

It's from the Blackbird Designs Home for the Holidays book (click to purchase from Julie at Gulf Coast Stitches):

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe July Limited Edition flosses:

Again, FABULOUS!! Click on the picture above to visit Nancy's blog.

Happy Mail/Gifts:

I won a giveaway from Angie!!! She finished the Dimensions Mason Jar Lineup kit:

She finished hers and sent me the chart and extra flosses!! I may just stitch the last jar on the left for my mom.

Flosstube Shoutouts:

Books:

I listened to Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake on audiobook:

I read this book before, in college, so it was a SOLID 10-15 years ago. I liked it at the time but couldn't appreciate the ending. Due to life experience, I can appreciate the ending much more at 36 than I could at 21 or 22. This is a perfect example of what Ms. Atwood does best: dystopia. But in Oryx & Crake she takes it a step further and gives us an already dystopian society falling (or being pushed?) to a new level of dystopia. I give it a solid 4/5 stars, upgraded from my 3/5 stars a decade or so ago.

NOT to be read or listened to with children! I also never realized that this is the first in a series so I'm off to find the others.

Instagram Auction Items!!

Auction will take place today through Tuesday, July 24 at 0600 PST on @michellebendy on Instagram. Here's an amazing diagram describing how to bid:

Under the picture of the item that you'd like to purchase, you put your bid in $1 increments AND you tag the person who bid above you. Only the person who bid DIRECTLY above you!

Here are the winners of last week's auctions:

Mirabilia's Autumn stitched by Jamie Nelson on a custom dyed piece of 28 count fabric from Hand Dyed Fabrics by Stephanie: won by Emilee
Mirabilia's Coral Charms Mermaid stitched by Jamie Nelson on a piece of 28 count Fiberlicious fabric in Phoenix: won by Hazel
Raise the Roof March Angel ORIGINAL SHOP MODEL of an OOP chart!!! Donated by Theresa Vennett: won by Rachel
Raise the Roof April Angel ORIGINAL SHOP MODEL of an OOP chart!! Donated by Theresa Vennett: won by Rhonda

And the new auctions: These will end on Tuesday, August 7 at 0600 PST

They ALL include a one year (4 issue) subscription to PNPS magazine PLUS....

PNPS and Silk: it's a 4 issue (one year) subscription to PNPS magazine (print or digital for US subscribers; digital only for international subscribers) PLUS two skeins of Dinky Dyes and five skeins of Gloriana:
PNPS and Fabric: it's a 4 issue (one year) subscription to PNPS magazine (print or digital for US subscribers; digital only for international subscribers) PLUS a 22"x13" piece of 28 count Cashel linen in Dubloon from PTP (donated by Theresa KittenStitcher)
PNPS and Finish: it's a 4 issue (one year) subscription to PNPS magazine (print or digital for US subscribers; digital only for international subscribers) PLUS the ORIGINAL shop model of Raise the Roof November Angel donated by Theresa KittenStitcher
PNPS and Chart: it's a 4 issue (one year) subscription to PNPS magazine (print or digital for US subscribers; digital only for international subscribers) PLUS the chart Adam & Eve Revisited from Kathy Barrick