Episode 43: A Finish, Wips, Haul, and Kindness 

Thanks for the video. Light warm gold in the windows is my vote.

There is not enough time in a day to do all the quilting and counted cross-stitching I would like to get done. Love all the stitching you shared with us. Thanks!

Hi Nancy great video,never enough Time,for stitching,lovely stitching projects all coming along nicely,have a good week Thankyou for sharing 🇳🇿❤️🪡

Love your flosstubes. I thought I'd have so much time when I retired to do all my crafts, but not the case. Spending time with family and friends have definitely filled up my days. Good luck!

Thank you, I always love when it is time for your floss tube. Janine

I look forward to our time spent together with your videos. Congratulations on the finish, I love it. I love your stockings. I wish I could sew, the only sewing I do is cross stitch. See you next time. Happy stitching 🪡😊☃️

Never is never enough time to stitch everything I want to stitch.

Your stockings are beautiful! I don't quilt, but I appreciate all the time and effort that goes into quilting. Yes, the groundhog did lie! I am in SE PA, so the snow came on Tuesday, but it hasn't all melted yet. That's OK - more time to stay indoors and stitch.

You are getting some great progress in on pieces. Congrats on finding a method for WIPGO, etc, that works for you. I will never understand saying something negative about someone's video. I've quit watching videos plenty of times, and the creator would never know because I just go to another one. There is no reason to say anything negative. It's time everyone learned that lesson.

Time keeps slipping away. Love all your whips and your finish.

I so enjoy spending time with you watching your creativity. Love the stockings you made for your family. Time well spent showing your love for your family. Happy Stitching!

The stockings are so sweet! You are definitely getting some stitching done - love all your pieces!

I love your finish! So cute! The Christmas in the City piece looks amazing. The idea of adding gold in the windows is brilliant. The fabric choice is perfect for that one. Your stockings are beautiful. My favorite is the one that you said she didn’t have a preference and you just pulled scraps. I am sure you will enjoy all of your extra time when you retire. I know I’m enjoying mine. Have a great rest of the month. Kara

Congratulations on your upcoming retirement. I spent 39 years in education, retired in 2017, and I love it. So much more time for quilting and cross stitching!

I don’t know how you have time to work, spend time with family and stitch, too. Love your stockings. Glad your hubby insisted you show them.

I agree that once you learn to give yourself grace, it becomes so much easier to grant grace to others! 💝

I enjoy your Flosstube. Congrats on your plans for retirement- hopefully you’ll have more TIME to stitch and sew!

What a wonderful TIME I would have stitching the shared graph ❤

I'm so sorry you lost your stockings, but your quilted ones are magnificent!! ❤ Every time I watch your videos, I think we are absolutely of similar nature.😂 I also really enjoy a Rocky beach (preferably in the woods with a cabin) over a sandy one. Catch you next time!

Thank you as always for sharing your stitching! It is beautiful. I love the stockings you made for your family. What a great idea! You are so talented, and creative. Making each stocking a different quilt block style was genius! ❤

Its always a good time to stitch.😊

The stockings are beautiful - you are the Hero!!!:). Time flies, soon you'll have tons of time for yourself and to accomplish things you love!

Time stands still the last couple of months before you retire. You will be a stitching queen soon! The countdown is on. Love your videos. ❤

I love stories about reading/spelling funnies! In the ELEVENTH grade, I had to write a sentence on the board. Don’t remember the whole thing, but it had pumpkin in it….except I spelled it PUNKIN!!! My family still gives me heck over it. But not my mom. When she was a young lady, she told her Daddy to slow down from the backseat…because the speed-o-meter said he was speeding!!! He called her Speedo for the longest time.

Your Christmas stockings are beautiful memories for your family. I thought I would be bored once I retired. Now I have too many things on my schedule and there is never a dull moment. I’m learning to schedule in my stitching time…😂.

Even when retired there is still not enough time to stitch everything. Enjoy watching your video.

Your bird and berries piece looks wonderful. I have the pattern, I think I bought it twice, and I should start it. I love the bird which is why I bought it. Your Hawk Run Hollow pieces look good and are coming along nicely. I want to stitch the Shores of Hawk Run Hollow as separate pieces but haven’t worked up the courage to commit. I keep thinking about it though. When you retire you will have so much free time to stitch and quilt as much as you want. I’m a retired teacher and came back to stitching consistently about a year after I retired. I had started stitching in the early 80’s and quit in the mid 90’s as life took a different turn. I have boxes of seasonal smalls that I have stitched since 2016. So your time is almost here. Congrats on keeping up with your three boards. I wish I was that committed. I watched a video last week where the FlossTuber was criticized in a rather nasty way which I didn’t understand. The FlossTuber is the nicest sweetest person. I commented that if she didn’t like the ads to get Premium. I had Premium for music and didn’t realize at first that because I had it I didn’t see ads that people were asking about. Anyway, thank you for reminding people to be kind. And when I see nasty comments on FB I comment back with just keep scrolling. I know you all spend a lot of time putting the videos together so thank you. Rant over. Hope you have a good two weeks.

Thank you for showing your wonderful Christmas stockings! So glad your husband urged you on. Please thank him for us. Then you made me chuckle when you said, "Objects of Which I Bestow on Others" - another alphabet soup to use? OOWIBOO?! Thanks Nancy.

Love your Christmas stockings and the fabric that you used.

The sampler using GAST schoolhouse red floss or CC Chester's Blue would be a fun time to stitch. My plans keep changing now this month for some reason as I got my WIPGO & HEIFR boards done! Frosty Tiny Town is adorable. I haven't tried Grace Notes fabrics yet. They look wonderful.

Always enjoy your videos to see what you are working on. The stockings are beautiful. Ohh the spools are super, great find. Thank you for sharing. Time

Oh! How I wish I had more stitchy time. As always, I enjoyed spending time with you. With Market, I wish I had a bigger budget. Congrats on a finish! Bummer about making up snow days. Last winter, our state legislature excused some of ours because it was so extreme. 😮

Such wise words to finish your video with. Thank you! Time to give everyone grace!

Omg! I had to order the same Sew Sampler box because I had to have the hat pattern!!! I had seen it on Tammy Ernst a while back and had to order immediately! Loved it! I use to get it every month but stopped probably a year ago. I made quilted stockings for all my kids and grandkids. Now I’d like to do the Shepherd’s Bush ones. Wish I had more time and of course money.

Truly enjoy your videos!! I love my stitching time!!

Time will fly by and once retired the days seem to fly! I’m also stitching the Village of Hawk Run Hollow and love it!

Lovely program. Thanks for taking the time to share your stitching!

I won Christmas Rules!! I am so excited! Thank you so much! Thank you for sharing your great work with us!!

I am retired, so I would have time to stitch a red sampler. The stockings are beautiful. Wishing you lots of time for stitching.

Love your stitching projects. Love your shirt. Love your sense of humor. You make me chuckle. I am also stitching Village of HRH in DMC and am very happy with the colors. Time

I won the quilty barns YIPPIE I love your berry basket. The winter tiny town is awesome thank you for sharing Hugs

Retirement is closer every day! You have some great projects. Time

I would put gold or a pale yellow in the windows. I have never outlined & filled in

I so enjoy your videos. I don't know how you have time to do all that you do. I just did a notify me on 123 stitch for the winter tiny town and a couple other patterns. Glad you have a student teacher.

Nancy…I make sure I watch you every time a new video pops up!

It made my day when I saw you had a new flosstube!

Just found you and LOVE everything you are stitching. Now that I have time, I can’t wait to stitch several of the projects you showed.

Thank you so much for today’s video! I’m super excited for your student teacher and that they are having a good experience this early in their teaching career. My hubby calls them “an-tiki” stores. 🤪

Hi Nancy. I've been so behind on floss tube because of too much "life" stuff. So glad that I caught up on all of your projects! Congratulations on your upcoming retirement. You will love it and feel like a whole new person:) Thanks for another great flosstube. Have a great week:) Inez

I’m so glad to spend Time with you ❤

Great video. Love the stockings you made. My friend and I both call them anti ques too. Lol if we drive to Maine there are so many shops , so we started calling them anti-ques! Happy stitching

Hi Nancy, I always enjoy your floss tube. I’m encouraged to see your progress on The Map of Hawk Run Hollow. I have the chart for The Shores of Hawk Run Hollow but feel a little intimidated by its size. If only we could have more time in our days to stitch 😂

Christmas In The City is BEAUTIFUL!!!And I love your Christmas stockings, I especially like yours. Red is the best color. You may not have alot of spare time, but you accomplished alot since lasty video. Congrats

Love your stitchy work. Love hands across the sea. TIME❤TIME❤TIME I actually have a plan to keep HATS going all year, working on it every weekend. This one would be perfect. And just as a by the way, I'm working on Long Dog Samplers, Pandemic every weekday after work.

First time watching you. Great video.

Congrats on your soon to be retirement. It will be wonderful to have time to do what you want

Yahoo! Email on its way! Your videos are so much fun! You're brave taking on the Hawk Run Hallows!

Time to stitch!

Love spending time watching your episodes. Keep the house windows as is, your choice of linen was perfect, just saying! PS I thoroughly enjoyed your last Zoom, inspite of all my technical difficulties, thanks for sharing your time with us. Happy stitching💚

Congrats on your retirement! I’m looking forward to retiring in April after working 43 years for the State of Iowa at the Mental Health Institute. Time for us to enjoy! Love your stockings!,

Time is very valuable.

Loved seeing your stitching! Have you started a countdown of days till your retirement? When I decided on my date of retirement, I had a countdown on my calendar at work. It was 9 months of a countdown but on the days when I thought I couldn’t get through the day I would look at that calendar and know I only had so many days left. Those spools are gorgeous! Time. That sampler is gorgeous!

I live in Ontario…the board of education has changed a professional development day to the day of the eclipse so kids are not at school in the dark. Never mind the educational opportunity here. Flat folds are straight forward…I am sure you can do it. I movies is a free app…I use it to edit my flosstubes and find it fairly easy once my kid explains it.

Wow you made a lot of progress this time.

Your quilted Christmas stockings are just beautiful!!! I have to make the time to learn how to quilt. Happy Stitching and thanks for your Flosstubes.

I enjoy spending time with you and your flosstube! Thank you for sharing a reminder that we all need to practice kindness and grace, the world needs more of that.

Always enjoy your videos and projects. Love your sense of humor…I chuckled several times today…especially about the misplaced sticker books. Your family stockings are beautiful. I need more TIME in the day to stitch all the things! Those spools are awesome. Stand firm on your soap box Nancy…completely agree!!! ❤️

Enjoyed seeing your projects and especially the stockings. I find my favorite time to stitch is during the day while the house is quiet.

Love your cherry bowl finish!!! Your family stockings are amazing. The time you spend with us is very enjoyable ❤❤

Love your flosstubes. I am looking forward to watching the snow fall and stitching as the time goes by this holiday weekend. Beautiful projects as always..Happy Stitching 🙋‍♀️

Time is all i have to stitch it.

I love spending time with you on each of your floss tubes. The stitch is so beautiful. ❤Thank you.

I’m going to SCS retreat also. My first cross stitching retreat. Hope I get to meet you in person.

yes it will look good.

You will have so much more time to stitch and quilt when you retire. How are your knees doing? I think about you and all the walking you need to do at school.

Thanks for another great flosstube. Your projects looked wonderful.

Loved your stockings. Have you ever had thought about making lap quilts with your fabric scraps Keeps on stitching. ann

There never seems to be enough time to do all the things I want. Wish I could retire but I have 10 more years to work

I love the red sampler from Australia. I would love to stitch it! Will we ever have time to stitch all the things?

Id fill in the windows if it’s going to bother you. Go with your gut ❤❤

I agree with your soapbox! If you don’t like it move on, no need to comment. Still thinking about Stitch New England… maybe we could spend some time together.

I absolutely loved your Christmas stockings. Is the time going slowly with your retirement coming?

Time sure gets away from us all

Would very much like to stitch the time.

Yes, fill the windows in. 😊

Grace

When you do whip go boss me for a heifer board do you have to join and pay for it or is it free?

You’re retiring at the end of this school year, so you’ll have all the time in the world. 😂😂. So then you can buy more projects

Hi Nancy, congratulations on your Bowl of Cherries finish. 👏🍒👏🍒👏 I love your stockings. I should do the same for our family. Once you retire, you'll wonder how you ever had time to work. 😊 I so love watching your flosstube. Happy Stitching and Quilting. ❤❤❤

You're one of my favourite floss-tubers...I just love your approach to projects. Glad to hear you have a bit of a respite at work with the help of that student teacher...though if her learning curve is steep enough, it's probably a mixed blessing! 😉 And yes, you are so right about giving grace. It takes no time at all to be kind -- and not much effort either. That red sampler is lovely. I've done one HATS red sampler (Ruth Gibb 1882 -- my maternal grandmother's maiden name was Gibb) and would love to find the time to do another (hint, hint!) Blessings to you for the rest of February...from western Canada. ❤

The stockings are wonderful, i love the Star Wars one in blue. I have pondering A Stitch in Time. Truely words to live by a a sewer - stitcher. Retirement sounds FABULOUS, i am not quite there but I'm so happy you are.😊

Thanks for speaking your time showing us all your stitching

We've had situations in our kids schools where they increased the school day by about 5 or 10 minutes per class everyday until the time was made up so school finished on time. I've been off kilter since last Nov. Still trying to find my groove. Your successes are encouraging. Your stockings are beautiful! OMG that red "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine" sampler is on my wish list. Thank you Nancy for a lovely Flosstube!

Your Christmas stitch looks so good on the fabric you chose. In regards to the windows, if it were me, I would wait until I had more stitched, and make a decision when I see more of the picture emerge. Those stockings are amazing and I love the progress on your Summer Quaker!

As always, loved your flosstube. Hope your school year goes fast so you can enjoy your retirement. Have fun stitching!

I always enjoy your flosstube and you will love retirement I’m sure as I have. Time really flies though but it’s fun stitching and sewing.

Time is a great thing to have a lot of. Love, love your stockings. The hat quilt pattern is really cool. I enjoy your video always. Congratulations on your retirement!

Grace….not an “aunti-q” thing to believe in or practice. Just had to smile at it all. Peace and happy stitching. Oh…and I would fill in just one window on that house, one little light to shine😊

Red is my favorite color of all time! Sweet stockings. You will be busy when you retire.

Look at you go!!! So happy for your upcoming retirement!