Best New Thing: there are THREE!
- Hanane (@hanane68), Angi (@crafty_angi), and Michelle (@adkstitcher) are putting together a cookbook called Cooking with Flosstube:
To get in on this, send an email to stitchinmisfits@gmail.com with your name, your recipe, a pic if you have it, and a little story about yourself and your recipe. Don't forget to include your Flosstube/Instagram handle! Here's an example:
- Alzehimer's Needleminders from Heather, TheIPSNeedleminders on Etsy. Since Gary and Christine talked about Heather's needleminders on FiberTalk, they're FLYING out of her Etsy shop!! (click on the picture to purchase one!)
- SAL ALERT!!! Stephanie of LindyStitches just released the MOST amazing sampler, Birds to the Boughs: (click on the picture to purchase)
Heather, The Imperfectly Perfect Stitcher, and I are hosting a SAL on Facebook. We don't start till June 24, so don't worry, you have time. Join us on the Facebook group here:
My mug:
- I didn't even mention it! But it's my FANTASTIC "Eat More Hole Foods" donut mug from Danielle Stitcherista: (click on the picture to buy from my Amazon Associates)
FFOs:
- Michael Powell's Garden Shed, which is found in his book Twenty to Stitch, transformed into a fancy outhouse for the #FancyOuthouseSAL on Instagram, finished on December 14, 2017 and FFO'd on May 31.... -_- Anyway, it's CUTE!
- Next up is my BeInkspired piece by Stitchrovia, I framed it in an IKEA frame that I already had around the house and it came out GREAT:
The chart is available from the Stitchrovia Etsy Store
- Sally Spencer is not only done but it's FRAMED:
That's a $2.99 thrift store frame!! YES! I stitched it with none of the called for colors on a random piece of 25 count greenish linen. The full conversion is on my Stitch With Me #22 Show Notes post.
- Last FFO for the week is one I finished last week but couldn't show. It's the Friday Night Stitch In Biscornu from GingerGeraldDesigns:
I sittched this with the called for colors on 14 count Aida in Mushroom and also in Brown.
Finishes:
- Old Fashioned Windmill from GingerGeraldDesigns on Etsy:
I stitched this on 30 ct Weeks Dye Works linen in Putty with a skein of Mo's Sale cotton floss in the colorway Saints. I'm going to stitch it again in the called for colors. And then I'm going to stitch the Old Fashioned Water Tower: (click on the picture to purchase)
WIPs (Works in Progress)
- Stars & Stripes by Brenda Gervais:
I'm stitching mine on a random linen from my stash with (again) none of the called for flosses. Here is my progress:
My conversion is as follows:
- GA Adobe = DMC 945
- WDW Schneckley = WDW Chestnut
- WDW Sage = WDW Wood Smoke
- WDW Caper = WDW Juniper
- GA Harvest Basket = C&C Golden Mum
- GA Woodrose = DMC 3722
- GA Roasted Marshmallow = GA Fudge Ripple
- GA Heirloom Gold = GA Walnut
- GA Endive = DMC 3012
- CC Blue Corn = GA Midnight
- CC Ye Old Gold = VMSS Americana Bronze
GA = Gentle Arts
WDW = Weeks Dye Works
CC = Classic Colorworks
C&C = Colour & Cotton
VMSS = Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe
- Eliza Bell Cox 1832 from Hands across the Sea! (click on the picture to purchase from Julie at Gulf Coast Stitches):
I got the WORKS for this sampler: fabric and floss from Nancy at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe, grime guard from Vikki at Stitch N Button, project bag from Made by Mama Joan, and needleminder from Heather at TheIPSNeedleminders. It's a fully curated experience.
Here is my progress after a few days of stitching 1/1 on 46 count linen (my first time!!)
And, because we're all human.....
I will NOT be fudging that. Eliza wouldn't have "fixed" it and neither will I. Plus, what would Theresa say?
Purchases:
- Ladies' Prim Society from Dyeing to Stitch, the First Winds of Autumn by Blackbird Designs:
I cannot WAIT to start this. But, let's be honest, I REALLY need to finish something first!!
- From Julie at Gulf Coast Stitches: June floss club:
Also picked up the Blackbird Designs Home for the Holidays book: (click on the picture to purchase)
And Basket of Red, White, and Blue from Shakespeare's Peddler, Theresa, Kitten Stitcher: (click on picture to purchase from Jen's Stitching Niche on Etsy)
- Project bags from @themulticraftyhermit on Instagram:
- Needleminders from @HouseOfMeng on Instagram:
You can also purchase these directly from Devi on Instagram by commenting on HER photos
Thrift Store Finds: (none this week)
Happy Mail/Gifts
- Postcard art from Beth:
- FB ATC and Card SAL ATC from Heather, @linkismyhomeboy:
- Lila's Studio Bee Sampler courtesy of my home girl Lollypop Stitches: (click on picture to purchase from 123stitch)
- And then Lila threw in Dinah's Garden Strawberries: (click to purchase from 123stitch)
- Every project bag known to man from Diana, @itiskismet_stitches:
- Three donated charts to destash for Alzheimer's:
- And a BOATLOAD of donated charts from Juile Gulf Coast Stitcher to sell for my Alzheimer's Walk (I may have to do another Flosstube live to sell these!!)
Plus I kept a few for myself. =D
Flosstube Shoutouts: (none this week)
Outside Links:
- Acorns & Threads
- Gulf Coast Stitches
- @themulticraftyhermit on Instagram for bags
- The IPS Needleminders on Etsy for Alzheimer's Needleminders
- StitchNButton on Etsy for Eliza Bell Cox SAL grime guards
- Our Sampler Years on Facebook, Nicola Parkman's group
Flosstubers Mentioned
- Gary & Christine, Fiber Talk
- Heather, The Imperfectly Perfect Stitcher
- Hanane & Annie, Stitchin Misfits
- Vonna, The Twisted Stitcher
- McKenna, Stitching in Sequins
- Yany, YanyStitcher
- Gerald, Ginger Gerald Stitcher
- Caroline, Off the Grid Needlearts
- Latisha, the Crafty Curator
- Donna Rae Barrow, Flannel Jammies Farm
- Diana, itiskismet stitches
- Lolly, Lollypop Stitches
- Julie, Gulf Coast Stitcher
- Priscilla & Chelsea, The Real Housewives of Cross Stitch
- Drew, Weasley Studios
- Theresa, KittenStitcher
- Michelle, Mich Stitch
