Hope you had a great Valentine's dinner. A man who cooks! My fantasy! Enjoy your time with your sis. Your project looks like it could be really adorable and a satisfying "road stitch". Who knows...the reno may be complete by your return.
Thanks for sharing your projects with us. Anna don't beat yourself up so, you are amazing giving up your precious time to post for us. I can relate to your search, I was the same this week looking for some woven lables that I'd put in a safe place when we moved and after spending the day unpacking every box and draw still no sign of of them. after a good nights sleep I woke up and a light bulb came on in my brain 😄and lo and behold I remembered where they were 😄I'm a happy bunny now.
After a wonderful summer of travel and family, I am ready to settle down again in my sewing room to create something! I so enjoy you, Anna, as my brain functions similarly to yours, and this is such a validation for me! It makes me laugh out loud when you explain your thought process, and it makes complete sense to me. Your smile is always a welcome sight, thank you!!
Loved your needle book. What a cute and simple project. As you were talking about it looking like a bomb had gone off in the Beehive, I looked around me in my sewing room. Same thing. I will be keeping my door closed until I get a chance to undo the tornado that I have been. Have a wonderful time with your sister 🥰
I loved your needle book too. I think as a take along sewing kit, I would leave mine flat, as the square you started with and add a back. Then it would lie flat on my lap in the vehicle. I would add some of my tiny applique pins in a page as well, and pages for some floss. 🧵💕 I also have to tell you about my extra lucky find at my swap meet at our area's community center. I found a set of patterns with fabrics from a quilt hop that some person decided not to do. In her stash of untouched kits were a number of Silvia Pippen applique and sashiko block kits! I was so excited to find these! They are kits from the book of hers that I already have that is my main inspiration to learn Sashiko stitching! The Pandemic has changed the lives of all of us and so many survivors are selling secondhand craft supplies from their loved ones for pennies on the dollar. She was so happy to have found someone that truly wanted them. Happy Sewing and Aloha
I can totally relate to the journal keeping. For the past several years I have started a day planner with the best intentions only to end up with blank weeks and months. The only saving me this year is that I am keeping track of daily temperatures for a cross stitch temperature chart. Maybe this year I can actually keep up with it 🤞🤞😁
I understand what you mean about the great tutorials on line. But, I reference your wool tutorial on a regular basis. I'm like you in that I need a visual to make the words work. Thanks so much for sharing your journey 😉
I love the needlebook idea! Thanks for sharing. I have friends who don't quilt or embroider, but everyone I know needs to sew on a button or fix a hem once in awhile.
Also, Anna - don’t carry any threads across that basted seam. I carry threads (maybe a bit too far) so I’d get myself in trouble at that basted seam. 😅. Love that you’re using your sewn hexies. It was because of you that my SIL and I joined that hexie project during Covid, loved the weekly challenges. I’m trying to plan projects to take to a retreat next month. I get home from our RV trip less than a week before I leave, so I need to do some thinking! I just finished embroidery on a Crabapple Hill pattern. Not finished finished, but all that I’m doing. It’s The Mystery of The Salem Witches’ Quilt Guild. Love it but I’ll never do all of Panel #1, let along the other three (?or more) panels. I cut it off after the 4th witch, finished the embroidery on the witches, will make a pillow, and call it done! That’s one retreat project. 😊
You could always sew a button and use a ponytail sewed on the other side to hook it or stitch tiny pieces of Velcro Happy Valentine's Day from Arkansas 💘
My crackle fabric arrived yesterday! My forest animal patterns should arrive today! I’m so excited….. Thanks so much for the inspiration. I’m very anxious to see your progress. Thanks for such a fun channel. I’m a relatively new subscriber, but we are kindred spirits, for sure! So enjoy your show….. K from Iowa
Love those little animals and your hexy needle minder. I need to make those for Christmas this year for quilt club. You will have so much fun with sister for a break. Waiting to see your bunnies! Happy stitching….
I always want to keep a book of what stitch projects that I have started or finished. I tried but like you I would start and them I would forget. I like what you are going to do.
My Forest Friends patterns arrived yesterday - and they are so cute! I may trace or photocopy a couple of the patterns so I can make doubles of certain ones. Before I left home, I finished my last hexie of the weekly Sal. I only did one per week, and will piece them all together when I get back from our winter house in June. I want to see what you do with yours! Hope you had a fun weekend!
I am packing a few stitching projects this evening as I watch your video. My sister and I are going to an overnight retreat at a local quilt shop. Picking just the right project is challenging! Happy stitching to everyone!
Anna - I can so relate to you in so many ways. Your videos are so fun and inspirational. My blessings to you always. I will keep watching and learning. xo Marilyn
Your tutorial on making a hexy needle book was simple to follow. I might make one for myself. Also, I enjoyed your detailed demonstration on prepping your fabric for embroidering Kathy Schmitz's forest animals. Have fun with your sister.
Your take on a journal is what I had decided to do this year, but try to find a journal that doesn't have dates and calendars and expected to-do spaces in it was like trying to find hen's teeth. I finally settled on a blank journal made of recycled paper that will also tolerate watercolor. So my journal can have writing in it and painting in it and whatever I choose...........AND in my time frame........because, yes, life happens and before I know it too much time has gone by and I haven't kept it up and there are way too many blank DATED pages staring me in the face!!!!!!! It's not that I don't have anything planned in my life, it's just that I might not have the time to record everything that I've accomplished. Kathy Schmitz forest animals are absolutely the cutest things. Enjoy the time with your sister. Blessings to you and G.
Thank you for the enjoyable video :) i was roaring lol when you shared about looking for fabrics and when you rolled your eyes about reading the pattern instructions lol .... I too am a visual person. and don't enjoy reading the instructions lol i think that's why i like appliqueing , or embrodery .. i can do it without reading what to do ? ( Maybe?) i also use SF 101 on all my embrodery's I enjoy my time with you Anna.. you are a real hoot and i think like you too. :) Happy stitching and tk you for sharing your do and don'ts with us all... well done on all your Hexi's too.. toodles for now :) Patti :)
Love the forest animals..and Kathy Schmitz. Have done several pieces of hers. I got a journal that my mom had written years after she had passed…It was like a visit from her. And it had answered a couple of questions I had that never was about to find out. She went so suddenly that felt like so many things were unanswered. Now I know and feel at peace. So a journal is awesome. Thanks for the visit enjoy your day❤
I am so glad you reminded me of the hexies. Got to remind myself what my collected fabrics look like. After 13 (so far) Prairie Schooler projects I’m ready for a change. Good thinking Anna! ❤
Hi Anna, I can’t manage instructions either, but, I think for me, it’s an age thing😏! I was encouraged by your videos (I’m glad to say) to participate in the hexie challenge, and am only now in the process of trying to quilt it. It was a lovely challenge. Once again, thank you for the company and chat with my morning cuppa😃. X
You make the cutest stuff! And I am glad to hear the plug for Patreon! I belong to 3 groups for the grand total of $25 a month. I totally think it’s worth it for the ideas I get but even more important, to support fellow women makers who share themselves, their time and their talents. I just include it in my monthly hobby budget- which isn’t much!
Love your hexie needle book idea, thank you for sharing it with us ❤️ Hope you have a fun sister weekend, such a fun embroidery project you are taking along.
Lov your little needle book, thanks for sharing it! Also can't wait to see the finished Ruth! I may just want to make one too! Loved your little tutorial on getting it started! Hope you have a wonderful time with your sister! Can't wait to hear all about it!
Ahhh… i too am a visual and audio listener… reading becomes more difficult… but i pound thru👍… nursing studies in the eighties was alot of thick and heavy books… i would tape my lectures and re-listen on my way to work… then read after work… great night caps… oh… had a thought re button for your pin cushion; use a small clear button… i enjoyed listening to your ‘fond’ memories and ideas of preserving. And i like Kathy Schmitz… she is sooo creative… have a great time with your sister!
Love your top, Anna! So pretty and becoming! I have the same problem with journals, but you do a journal. What about your blog? Have a good time with your sister! Love what your are taking to stitch.
Very enjoyable video! I love your tutorials, even when they are small and just instructional! Have a wonderful time with your sister! Hoping one day we will get to see your kitchen and bathroom redos! I’m off to visit Kathy Schmidt’s site.😄
I am watching your RU-vid after our strawberry zoom today. You gave me the idea to use the Hexes as a notebook cover. Your package will be mailed Friday (purse handles).
Such a fun video today! So many great ideas- I think I need to make hexie needle books for gifts. I’m so tempted to get the Kathy Schmitz forest friends. I do a lot of Sue Spargo and sometimes it’s so fun to just do simple embroidery.
I like adding a cotton pocket on the inside front and back of the actual book when I make a needle book that’s where I put my scissors, threader and even and extra package of needles. I’d almost be tempted next time to sew your hexie onto a rectangular piece of fabric rather than a square one. But I know you were working with what you had already prepped. Have a good sister weekend. Make sure that there isn’t a Brutus at the Pioneer Quilts stitch along…it’s the Ides of March🤣🧐😂
So thrilled to see you today..HAPPY Valentine's day. The hexie needlework will be fine w/a small snap. I always use snaps. Old photos make me smile. So many lovely memories. YOU r not a loser😂😂😂. You just try to accomplish so much each day..Remember to pause and breathe! Enjoy your sister time. Love our time together💖
Journals.. i buy one a year and then remember to write in it... in September or something... lol taking a pic. of my finished little projects seems to work for me.. thier all dated in my phone. :-)♡♡♡ Happy Valentines Day!
Anna please watch Elizabeth Ann Can Stitch as she has great tutorials making a project bag front from a Hexie panel that she sewed together. You could sew several hexie flowers together. I think they are adorable.
Thanks for the information about the embroidery. Good ideas for all embroideries. I love your Yazzie bag. How did you put the wool on the front? Glued or sewn? Or a combination of both. I’m sure it’s in a previous flosstube but I don’t remember how you did it.
That Zoo picture of your father does look like the old polar bear exhibit at the Buffalo Zoo, but then again, NY City might have looked the same back then.
I was waiting for the next Stitch Roadies video to ask if you've done any work on your Hexies lately so this has answered my question. I'm just waiting for some paper pieces to arrive as I want to EPP some House (Prism) shapes. I know I can cut them out of vinyl and cards but want to save my hands and spend the time on other things! I saw a photo of the shapes put together and liked how simple it looked yet had a job tracking down template suppliers! Now find another special birthday of a friend's in May so another card/gift to make! Like the Hexies needlecraft and pincushion. It's time I put some of mine together.🙂
do those scissors have a pointy end or not so you can take on the plane? Yours turned out so cute! I like the pin cushion too. I have a bunch of Hexies too. So thank-you for showing these! I like to make them also.
Hi Anna I am watching your video Valentines video today and I have a question. The quilt behind in you red and white colors can you share the name of the pattern? Thank you in advance. Your quilt is beautiful.
So did you decide against going forward to the other quilt you were working on? I remember you were frustrated before with it - but this time you were going to go ahead and just get it done?
