Michelle Bendy: martha ages

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Flosstube #67 Show Notes

Happy Tuesday, July 17! I'm full on now. Whew!

Best New Thing:

Jessie Marie Does Stuff's Flosstube Anniversary SAL: #JMDSTurns5 on Instagram

July 29: Something that starts with J. I'll be working on my Jeannette Douglas 'My Stitching Box' project; either the box top or the sampler:
July 30: Something that starts with M. I'll be working on the Master and the Macabre from the Cricket Collection:
July 31: Something that starts with D. I'll be working on Dona Stitch's Alice in Wonderland:

August 1: Something that starts with S. I'll be working on Skeleton Crew by the Cricket Collection:
August 2: Happy Flosstubiversary Jessie Marie Does Stuff!! Stitch on anything you want! 0_0

My mug:

FFOs: (nothing YET!)

Finishes:

Stacey Nash Primitives, Martha Agnes Sampler Roll Pocket: (click the pic to purchase from StacyNash on Etsy):

I finished the sampler portion this week!! With a little help from my friends:

It's stitched on 18 count Long Coffee Aida by xJuDesign on Etsy.

And the pocket is the winged chicken. Here's mine:

This is headed to Acorns & Threads next week for soft finishing!

WIPs (Works in Progress)

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

I'm stitching mine with all of the called for DMC on a piece of fabric dyed for me (like a YEAR ago!) by the lovely Andrea Stitches in CO. And here is my progress as of last week:

And here it is now:

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE THIS?!?! I'm obsessed with it. OBSESSED. I'm stitching it on a 30 count linen that's hand dyed by Andrea Stitches in CO with all of the called for DMC colors.

Thrifting:

Heirloom Santa kits: Solar Santa and Baker Santa

Vintage Tiara Indiana Glass Honey Bee Skep Candy/Soap dish:

Crazy estate sale haul from Christina's Estate Sales. This haul has its own video. But here is my highlight piece: It's an FFO of Judith Kirby's Victorian's House Number 9:

Purchases:

Scarf and bag from Vikki, StitchNButton on Etsy:
TWO shop models, personal shopped for me by Amber.

It's Witches Stitch Too by Homespun Elegance:
And this one is All is Calm by Little House Needleworks:

July's Colour & Cotton:

I love them all, but I will trade anyone any floss for Fall Spice!

Julie McConnell's own conversion of Fraktur Flowers by La Di Da:

I saw her conversion on her Flosstube and absolutely fell in love with it. So I asked her to kit it up for me and she did and it's FANTASTIC:

Happy Mail/Gifts:

From Lisa: Colour & Cotton Kalamata to finish Martha Agnes AND Chessie & Me's Mighty Oak Sampler:
From Tina, @emilyannskloset on Instagram, Jardin Prive Halloween Quaker and Brenda Gervais Needleworker's Sampler:

And items for the Alzheimer's sale!!

Flosstube Shoutouts:

Books: (no finishes this week)

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:

Mama Joan bag, the Purple Flower Esprit Maison: (click on the pic to purchase from Mama Joan) won by Trish!

That's So Kelly Co, the Purple Flower Esprit Maison Bitzy Bob: won by Holly @stitchyprose

DiddlyDaddleDesigns Project bag SET with needleminder: won by Jan Hicks of Jan Hicks Creates!!

BONUS!!! Clay by Kim "Fruitfly" needleminders, set of 4: won by Julie from Gulf Coast Stitches!

New items this week!

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

Outside Links:

Flosstubers Mentioned

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Flosstube #66 Show Notes

Happy Tuesday, July 17! I'm full on now. Whew!

Best New Thing:

They're not new at all, but they're my grandma's crewel embroidery:

My mug:

Michigan (it was the first grabbable one on the shelf this morning) click on the pic if you need one (it's my Amazon Associates link, full disclosure)

FFOs: (nothing YET!)

Finishes (none this week)

Bent Creek, Starry Starry Night. I purchased this on eBay already partially stitched:

And I finished it this week:

I'll be taking it to Acorns & Threads for the August Meetup so that JoLyn can soft finish everything for me, yay! Here's a link to the video where I introduce JoLyn:

Maryse de Grilles Haunted House Freebie: (click on the pic for a link to the freebie)

Here's my finish:

I'll finish this on a little box that was given to us at the Midwest Retreat in 2017 expressly to finish this piece. <3

Stacey Nash Primitives, Martha Agnes Sampler Roll Pocket: (click the pic to purchase from StacyNash on Etsy):

The pocket is the winged chicken. Here's mine:

This will also go to Acorns & Threads for soft finishing once I finish the sampler portion.

WIPs (Works in Progress)

Martha Agnes Sampler Roll from Stacey Nash Primitives:

Here is what mine looked like last time:

And here is what it looks like now:

I'm stitching mine on 18 count Long Coffee from xJuDesign on Etsy with some of the called for colors.

I'm SOCLOSE to being done!! Just waiting on a bit more Kalamata and the Sampler Roll will be done!

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

I'm stitching mine with all of the called for DMC on a piece of fabric dyed for me (like a YEAR ago!) by the lovely Andrea Stitches in CO. And here is my progress:

I'm stitching this with my Ball Point Needles from Polka Dot Stitchery on eBay and I'm obsessed with them and I'll never buy anything else ever again. (except when I'm beading) Click on the pictures to go to her Facebook group:

And here is the one I stitched last year:

I Priscilla'd it to finish. It's still available to click on the picture to purchase!

Thrifting:

At Garage sale #1 I found a creepy cool metal flower frog, an old seive, and an antique wooden spool!

And at an Estate Sale: I picked up a cool old iron (HEAVY!!) and a save the stitches from 1980:

Purchases:

Dyeing 2 Stitch Colonial Gathering's Club, it's Bringing Home the Tree from The Scarlett House:

Click on the picture for al link directly to the Dyeing2Stitch clubs page. and Click HERE to see the club kits that are available to purchase.

Happy Mail/Gifts:

Border chart for my Country Stitchers' Round Robin!!

As you can see, I'm NOT going with icy blues and greys, lol. The greys and taupes and pinks just called to me!

Happy mail from Leann:
Eeyore needleminder from Melanie:

Because sad is happy for deep people:

Donations for the Alzheimer's Live Sale from Carrie! GET EXCITED

That's right. It's ALL of the WORDPLAY months!!!!

Donations from Pat for the Alzheimer's Sale:

And another bauble!

Flosstube Shoutouts: (none this time)

Books:

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson: (click on the picture for a link to the Goodreads page)

I give this book 394 stars out of 5. Go buy it. Now. And watch out for Drop Bears, amirite Michelle?

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: