I have 38 total WIPS. I found a few stragglers I hadn't noted in my organization. Tiger Wildlife - Janlynn kit Oranges by DMC Flag Girl (Liberty Angel) - Leisure Arts Rabbits in Cabbages - Leisure Arts Patriotic Angel - Joan Elliott Mama Christmas - Joan Elliott Train Ornament - Dimensions kit Life - Design Works kit Folk Art Angel - Lesley Teare Black Capped Chickadee - from Just Cross Stitch Magazine Give Thanks - Deign Works kit  Ann Topley 1802 Sampler - The Scarlett House Bubbles - Ursula Michael/Imaginating Arc of White - Tempting Tangles House in the Woods Sampler - Riverdrift Designs kit Yuletide Garden Labyrinth Carolyn Manning Designs Church Street Doorway - Ursula Michael Twelve of the Clock - Kathy Barrick Seasons in Chalk Fall - Hands on Design Shades of Canada - Northern Expressions Needlework Apple Basket Chickadee Diane Arthurs / Imaginating Saint Nicholas - Tralala 22 Normal WIPs FULL COVERAGE PIECES Morning ...

I am nearly finished with this project. It is a kit by JanLynn called ON THE BEACH. This particular project has sat in my work tote and it never called to me asking me to stitch it. Now with my new focus on completion, it is wanting to be done. All I have left now is the back stitching for the girl's head and three back-stitched birds flying in the sky. Last week I finished REINDEER PINCUSHION by Modern Folk Embroidery. I think COMPLETION is a great and motivating word for me.

Last year my word of the year was FOCUS.  I am afraid I was anything but focused last year. I did get 20 cross stitch finishes and read 431 books (okay, listened to 431 books, same thing) in 2019. In some ways I was very focused. I have never read that many books in a year in my life. But in May I lost my stitchy bug and had a stitching drought that lasted until sometime in September. I keep looking at all the shiny and new patterns and wanted to keep starting things and it is mighty hard to just keep working on my current WIP pile. They seem old and dusty and well… old. I wanted something new.  Some projects are so close to a finish I can taste it but there is this little part of me that doesn’t want to finish them. I am going to get over that this year. That is why my word of the year is COMPLETION.  To me completion means to finish things. Not just stitching them in the normal sense but going that extra mile to fully finish them. Frame them or make t...

I have never been the greatest at posting WIP updates. This week I am working on two projects. • Quaker d'Halloween by Jardin Prive • Yuletide Garden Labyrinth by Carolyn Manning Designs I am using these projects to complete my "Homework" for Magical Stitches. This week is about Apparition. And we have to do a 1,000 stitches on two different projects of our choice. And these are mine. I am stitching 500 stitches on each this time. Sometimes I struggle with the stitching challenges in FB groups. I finally have my mind around the homework in MS group and am thinking of skipping the homework in the other one. I already had the intensity of these groups burn me out for five months. I don't want that to happen again. So I am going at my own pace. I almost think I should just step aside from the group and just go it on my own. There is a lot of freedom in that. I don't pick up things I want to stitch because of these groups. I am perplexed by in all...

FLOSS ORGANIZATION 101 I have been cross stitching since the mid-80's and have never organized my thread stash. It always has been a trial looking for specific numbers but I was just too lazy, and as my stash grew, intimidated to conquer even the thought of it. On Sunday afternoon I had enough of the searching! I decided then and there to organize the heck out of my floss! Next time I will set-up a large table with a chair to make this easier. Trying to put all the little bobbins in the correct order was a challenge.  First, I had to empty my eleven floss boxes and dump them on my bed. Then I tediously put them into piles: 100s, 200s, 300s, etc. The 700 series, the 900 series and the 3700 & 3800 series had the most bobbins. I had to sit on the floor to stretch out and organize it all. I ended up with a crick in my back and a notion that I really need to stretch more. I am happy with the result. I do kit up my projects wi...

STITCH 9 CHALLENGE At the beginning of 2019 there was a challenge issued to all of us stitchers who post on Instagram. They asked, "What are the top nine projects you want to get done this year?" If you are anything like me, the second I succumbed to the challenge,none of those projects ever called to me. Did I want to get them done? Certainly. But I wasn't longing for a finish. I wasn't motivated to pick any of those nine projects up to try and finish them. Then along came the School of Magical Stitches and Literature. Due to them, I got to work on a few of these projects. As of now, I have finished three of them: Sweet Spring by Satsuma Street, London Lady by Joan Elliott and Amsterdam by Awesome Pattern Studio. I am currently working on Black Capped Chickadee. Cross your fingers for me that it continues to call me. MY FINISHES THUS FAR... I do have a number of finishes so far in 2019. Eleven in total. I haven't been as motivated t...

Hey there, Stitchy Friend!  I am not new around these parts of the  Flosstube/Cross-Stitching Community but I feel like  I would be a much better blogger than I ever was a Flosstuber. I started my YouTube Channel back in the early months of 2014 when Whimsical Stitches from Cross Stitch It's Fun Facebook Group (now defunct) put out a call for all stitchers to make videos. And thus Flosstube was born. This is where I will talk all things stitchy, show you my stash and present my WIPs, UFOs, FOs and FFOs for viewing. In episode one I will start out with... MAIL CALL! I picked up a few items of haul today. They are from Etsy from Cherry Hill Stitchery. Don't they just look so fun and awesome? I can't wait to get started on them! The patterns are: I Love Fall, Pumpkin Spice and Willow House Alphabet. These are cute and simple patterns that I think will just fly off the needles! Check out the photos below to check them out ...