Michelle Bendy: Flosstube #103 Show Notes

Happy Saturday again!! It's the STRUGGLE BUS episode!!

Best New Thing:

Threads Entwined. The store is open, the website is up and running. Go make your wishlist to be eligible for giveaways from Trish every month AND send me an email with a link to your wishlist and I'll send one viewer a surprise gift every month too!!

Make sure you choose to make your wishlist PUBLIC, or else neither Trish nor I will be able to send you the things.

FFO (SO MANY!!)

This one is FINALLY an FFO! It's Fraktur Bird by Shakespeare's Peddler and it's now fully in its trivet and I love it.

I love to keep my finishes simple, so I just went with a paper flower on the side of the frame. Someone will LOVE her at Stitchnanigans. I hope.

Next I finished my Friends Gather piece from Acorn Gathering this year. I've had this thrift store frame hanging around FOREVER because I could NOT leave it behind when I saw it and I finally found a piece that fit in it:

How PERFECT is that frame?!?! I had to add some ribbon at the bottom to finish it off, but I love it.

Last but not least I finally laced Argyria!!

She's in another thrift store frame, and I'm obsessed. I painted it three or four times but it came out JUST right!!

Finishes:

None this week. But I'm hoping for two next week!

WIPs (Works in Progress):

First up, of course, my evening project, Contessa with Squid from Heaven and Earth Designs:

Or, as I affectionately call them, Josephine and Humphrey. Here is where I was last week:

And this week, I managed a LOT of stitching!!

You can tell from the feathering which diagonal rows I managed to finish this week. Page finish this month? Not likely. But DEFINITELY in early April!

Next, I worked on Alice in Wonderland from XStitchEu on Etsy:

Here is where she was last time:

And here is where she is now:

I put in a TON more work on her because I'm still able to use her for most of the School of Magical Stitches and Literature homework assignments. This week I used her for 500 stitches on the "something Scary" assignment.

My travel project this week has been Fate, by Colour & Cotton, which came in Angela's Halloween Box:

Here is where she was last time, barely started in Startpocalypse 2018:

And here she is now:

Of course I made a few changes. For some reason, this chart had me REALLY thinking about New Orleans and Voodoo, so I made the witch into Marie Laveau. Kinda. I didn't do her hair wrap, just changed her color. I used this for the Magical Stitches Extra Credit: stitch on something that makes you think of a crystal ball AND for some of the extra credit: stitch on borders. I'll have to use another project to finish the borders.

Then School of Magical Stitches threw a bonus assignment at us and I pulled out Deer Joy, aka Deer Roy, by Barbara Ana Designs:

Here is where he was last time:

And here he is now:

I put in about 450 stitches out of the 600 that are asked for in the Christmas Break challenge for Magical Stitches. I'm using him for Christmas Break because he's very "wintered up" (I said that in my video.... those exact words....) I'm going to finish those 600 stitches and then use him to finish the frame assignment.

Thrifting:

Just a couple of goodies, a pretty trivet and a great simple frame:

Purchases: Just a few....

Threads Entwined Haul, SO MANY overdyed flosses!!

They're all GORGEOUS and I cannot wait to start The Peacock Keeper next year. The other two are current WIPs that needed more floss, so EXCELLENT!!

I also got my Wooly Wonka Celtic Year Club goodies for Imbolc:

Those yarns are fantastically beautiful and I can't wait to find someone who can knit me that shawl, lolol.

I'd like to talk about:

Megan, Wide Eyed Stitcher:

You may already know her as @wideeyedstitchingchild on Instagram. Megan is AWESOME. She's stitching on a beautiful Goode Huswife chart along with a bunch of other creepy old prim charts. and she LIVES BY A GRAVEYARD!!!

Trish G, Windy Hill Urban Cottage:

Trish is so much fun, so low key and relaxing. How did I not know about her? She talks about her trip to France and having some of her cousin's artwork charted. She also *gasp* expresses OPINIONS!! I love it.

Bex, BexBox Stitcher:

She's in the UK and she's a GENIUS. Bex stitched Prairie Schooler Hocus Pocus and incorporated her Wifi password and hangs it over her modem at home. GENIUS!!!!

Books:

I finished listening to My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent. Wow.

This book is a LOT. Lots of triggers, lots of feelings, lots of reading with your hand over your mouth in disbelief and disgust. But I loved this book, absolutely loved it. Five big, BRIGHT stars!

Instagram Auction Items!!

Auction will take place soon through Saturday, March 9 at 6am 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!

There are more detailed pictures on my Instagram, but for now, here's a peek at this week's items:

That's right! Another Monopoly chart!! They're out there people!!

Then we have three AMAZING needleminders by Ava of TrulyWickedCrafts. They're beaded, Peyote? and they're AWESOME.
You might recognize this fabulous WIP of Mirabilia's Stargazer from a previous auction. Dorie won it and decided that the beading is not for her, so she donated it back!!