I enjoy the recorded videos. You seem more focused and calm,rather than answering live chatter. It seems more hectic. I love listening to your stories ❤
I love your stitch with me's. They are so fun. Please do not apologize for doing them. I enjoy the mix of monthly updates, stitch with me, and loves. Please do what is best for you.
That was lovely! Just like old times and you got stitches done too 💪🏻 I love the lives but often feel for you as you get so few stitches into your already precious time. Xx
Hi Teresa, I have an Ink Circles I stitch with one color silk as my travel project. It’s been all over the world for the US to Singapore as well as all over Europe. It will always remind me of the trips once I finish it and get it up on the wall. Greetings from Germany
Hi Teresa, loved the stitch with me video and enjoy the chat. You had good progress stitching Bella Filipina and you are lucky to have found your mistake, I had to frog on one of my pieces 420 stitches and start all over it's ok I am patient. I hope you will have a great vacation. Happy stitching.
This was a balm to my soul. Listening to your voice is so soothing and enjoyable. I completely understand how you feel about not getting enough stitching time. I'm going through the same thing right now, since my husband has recently changed jobs and is now remote working from home. He spends most of his time in the office, but all of my usual routines that I've created over the years with him working away from home 4/10s, now have to change. Making a hot lunch every day, breakfast with him, housework, and such, I'm not getting near as much stitching time now that he's home. I love not having him on the road, but my stitching isn't happening as much either. Thanks for helping me not feel alone in this situation! I guess on the frogging or unpicking, I usually call it frogging no matter how many stitches I have to remove...I did some frogging while stitching and listening to you.😉
I love the recorded videos. The combination of your stories and your voice being so calm and soothing (also the giggles from your stories) just make it the perfect atmosphere to stitch with! I am doing a Bella also, but it is Maria Makiling. The first fabic I ordered from one dyer was a nightmare. What I thought I ordered , and what was shipped to me looked completely different in a horrific way. 🫣I didn’t want a mustard/ Pepto Bismol pink for a background! So, I placed an order with a different dyer and received a beautiful fabric which was more in line with my vision, so we’re moving forward for the sal. Frogging/ unpicking to me means any stitch that has to be removed. Synonymous terms. Both mean ripit ribbit 🐸 😅 Plane project: I would probably take a Long Dog with the one color AND a small project in case you aren’t in the mood for one at a particular moment. I have this crazy habit of moving back n forth between projects. It’s probably because I have Shiny Bauble syndrome with the attention span of a squirrel, lol 😂
Sunday wasn't the same without Stitch-With-Me. Woke up this morning and there you are. AWESOME! Thank you so much. Will watch while I stitch. Have a great week.
Sitting here stitching as i listen to you. For your trip you should take one of the MFE pieces. Nightingale or 2023Sal. Both are alot of block stitching and very few colors. Love the video and oh so much easier for you ❤❤❤
thank you for you lovely video, I love having you natter along while I stitch with you. When I had to move home for a bit, I and mum would tag team the floors I would start the vacuuming and once I was a bit ahead of her she would follow along with the mop. I do not miss the commute and your stories make me so happy to be living in my small town and only 2 blocks away from work. I hope you have a great week this week.
I love the recorded uTubes so very much more than the live ones. Showing my age the live ones remind me of “Miss Barbara” on tv when I was a kid when she took here mirror and talked into “ I see Susie and etc. etc.” In the recorded ones it is soothing and your older ones very educational, loved seeing your purchases. Thank you for sharing your time. Enjoy your vacation.
I prefer recorded ones, there’s more to listen to, so maybe alternate them? Your life sounds hectic, I’m always saying I wish I had a busier life, I’ve all the time in the world to stitch as only work 18 hrs a week, we always want something else don’t we 😅 but I do appreciate what I have! Thanks for sharing, enjoyed listening to random chat.. have a great week ❤
I agree.. exercise is the best .. and stitching of course 😁.. Your live streams are great.. but its so relaxing to watch you stitch and chat.. very quiet and peaceful. Your holiday stitch? Keep it simple, your going on holidays 🏝🍹 Enjoy!!! Cheers Teresa.. thankyou for some quiet time 🤗
1) Your housework struggles are absolutely valid and I hear it. My clean tolerance is much lower than my husband's. While he helps where he can, he can live with tumbleweeds floating about while I see them before they start forming! Our compromise was that once we both started working out of the house again, we would get a cleaner to help with the deep cleans while we still did all the maintaining cleaning. Even if it's temporary, maybe consider a cleaner to help with the some of the cleaning like bathrooms, stairs, and dusting, while you tackle the floors and carpets upstairs on the weekend? 2) When I flew to Europe for holidays last year, I ended up taking 2 projects (and took both with me on my carryon). One project (with or without the tablet) with a single colour (like your LDS) for the long haul and a smaller project (paper chart might be more convenient with this one) that I could pick up and put down in a moment's notice while on the unpredictable downtimes whether at the airport on a "quick" layover or hotel while waiting for others to wake up and/or get ready. Hope all goes well with work and you get everything you want done before you go on holidays.
Teresa I have hard floors and have just swapped over to a machine that washes and vacuums at the same time - it’s a bisser machine - is brillaient and has halved the time it takes to clean the floors. I was dubious as we have a dog but it is brilliant!
I am happy you did a stitch with me!!! 👍. One of my afternoon thing to do. Had several good laughs. Enjoyed the time with you and have a safe and excellent week.
Hi Teresa, keep stitching on the airplane simple. One color. That's what I do when I travel. It's just a headache for me yo change colors when in flight ✈️ Have a wonderful time!
Always love watching your videos, live or recorded!! Personally, frogging is frogging no matter what! I always try to pull the stitches out so I can save and reuse as much thread as possible. I hope your week goes better this week. Train/transportation issues be gone!!!!
Love this video, we need more, you are definitely a good teacher. Also love the tools you buy, I have purchased many things you talk about, this really helps my stitching 😊
When I travel I tend to take projects with few colours and a paper chart as they're easier to pack and switching colours on the plane is a bit of a pain. So I think I would opt for a Long Dog and a paper print out in my case. But I also always struggle to pick one project to take with me so I usually have two options to choose from in case if I get bored with one. Thank you for the chat, I was stitching on my Bella Filipina too! ❤
Getting Sunday dinner ready while listening to you. Like yourself, it seems that there are so many things beside work that need to be done before stitching. In regards to your questions, I don't call it frogging unless I have to remove the section with a scissors. On the plane, I would probably go with a WIP that has one color. Easier to keep track. Have a wonderful day!!
Hi Teresa, I always look forward to any of your RU-vid videos. As far as a project to take I think you should new one that will always remind you of your trip.
I really enjoyed your SWM recording Teresa...call me selfish, but it feels like it's just you and me chatting and stitching. I enjoy the lives,but with the comments exploding etc,there's very little time for you to stitch and we seem to get stuck on one topic. With your recordings we get to hear about life. Like a friend visiting. I dont do well when people are silent either...call me a chatty Cathy, lol. I did get a giggle out of that story. But im sure your new boss or supervisor adores you as we do ....whats not to love ❤. Whatever chart you take with you I think, you better take 2 and make one your Magwayen, because im afraid if you dont,you will be saying to yourself that you knew you should have brought her with you, and you will miss her. Your vacation sounds heavenly....hope you have a Great week and thank you so much for this SWM 🥰
Hi Teresa, I did'nt think you would be oan .I was stitching oan Kringles when you popped up. My hubby does the cooking and I have started doing some more moving o the dust and fur (we have two Ragdoll brothers). Hubby was holding his duster up for his trains when you said Darren would'nt ken whit a duster was.. :) I call it frogging too... I was stitching oan paper today for 3D Christmas cards, I pierced six of them yesterday... Happy stitching.
So glad to see you and hear about what's going on. Frogging or unpicking it's still taking stitches out. It's a hard choice but for me, I would take tap dancer and my device but that's me you do you.
Love listening to recorded video. You still make me laugh!! I know what you mean about busy year end. It will relax, we need to remember the end is in site. Take care! Loved listening!!
Lovely Stitch with me..... I have to say, I don't miss the commute into London, but I also do miss it. I only ever travelled on the Tube, growing up and living in Leyton/Leytonstone/Walthamstow, but I used to read so many books that I now don't have time to! Housework.... can't you schedule your routine so that you do a bit less and rotate it? What happens on the weekends you're away for a retreat? The house won't implode if you schedule yourself one weekend a month where you go "nope, it's a ME weekend, and the housework will keep a week". I know it's tough with the dogs - muddy paws, shedding.... totally feel that situation - but you need some self care too and one weekend in 4 is good and the house won't care. ETA - Frogging - for me it's all unpicking whether you carefully unpick or use a stitch ripper. Although the new phrase I've seen, where you only have a very few stitches to frog, it's tadpoling!
Loved the video. Very relaxing! Take Tap Dancer on the plane. What a brutal schedule you've had. I'm thinking burn out. Oh, and Oh my . . . your nails are beautiful!
I always enjoy watching your videos. My husband sounds like he is a lot like yours, on the phone, when he cleans I can't watch. I would bring a long dog and maybe a small just incase I wasn't in the mood for one color.
I’m right there with you about me time. I have 6 kids including 2 babies 20 month and 2 month, and hubby also loves spending time with his little wife 🥰 (I’m lucky after 23 years together). Me time is about non existent anymore. I feel like I can’t complain, because I have all this love around me, but I still miss my stitching time.
Hey Teresa! Hope life is settling down a bit. I need the comfortable silence. I get antsy when people just keep going and going and going. Don't get me wrong, I love a good chat, I love listening to stories etc, however, I still need that peace. It counts as frogging - trust me - it's frogging.... I take my ipad on the flight with me. I have got ALL of my stitching on Markup RXP. Scanned to a pdf and on the ipad. My consideration is normally - what is the count like? Can I see if the lights not great? Lovely to catch up with you!
Hope you’re enjoying your trip. You’re not the only one that feels that way about hubby’s help at house cleaning. Expect my hubby wants to vacuum and wants you to do the moving and picking up for him. Other words he ends up making more work for me and instead of one doing the vacuuming it’s taking 2 with his help.
I just discovered a way to organise my full supply of DMC threads that is so much cheaper than buying the plastic thread falls like Annie's Keepers and that is plastic key tags.. they cost me less than $100.00 Canadian for 600 key tags and another $15.00 for 10 three inch hinged metal rings. The key tags have a clear slot with a plastic window with a piece of paper inside so that you can write the DMC number on it. They also have a split ring to hang them by and a hole at the base big enough to thread the floss through like the thread falls. I really love the Annie's Keepers but really couldn't afford them so I found this alternative excellent. I was using the plastic sheets with the holes in them but if you wanted to separate the threads for a project it made it a pain, this way it's like the Annie's Keepers and you can separate the threads on the tags you need and once your project is done you can return them to the other threads. I had remembered you had come up with an alternative Teresa but couldn't remember what you had said a while back.
It was so nice to sit and stitch with you today thank you! Regards to the plane project, what if you took one of your Xmas strawberry patterns? They’re small and you’ll be way ahead of you get them done before December!
Wow trying to do housework while being so sick is difficult. My husband doesn’t even know how to use a vacuum cleaner or a dust rag. He has no idea where things belong in the kitchen. He can barely get the laundry started and we have been married for 24 years now. He is great at watching me work my butt off and always getting in my way. He is great at pointing out what I missed to clean up and when I am so sick he is the first to ask what is for dinner but he has never cooked dinner. I do love my babies which is a tabby cat and a dachshund dog that I absolutely love. I don’t find much time to stitch unless it is late in the evening.
Love your recorded videos, I agree with the others you seem calmer (but I love your live videos also). Love your stories, I too talk on and on when I am nervous. Can you take more than one project?
I love your videos, live or recorded. My suggestion for the project to take... just take one page on whatever one you choose and only take the thread colors on that page.
Lol! You crack me up! You could have been me talking about my husband 🤣 I would take something with just 1 colour on the travels - and take a device ;) - much easier to manage than multiple skeins of thread. How do you get a needle on the plane, do they not take sharps off you? Thanks for a fab hour! K
Teresa, a delight as always. I like your stitch with me videos because it is easier to hear you :) and you feel more successful. I love the stories for sure. Don't worry about the need to be comfortable with silence. Your boss will adjust :) I love that you are chatty. I consider any taking out of stitches frogging . I would hate to discover after I finished a thread I had to go back :) as far as the plane trip, I think taking a Long Dog is a great idea, but would tuck another small project in with colors just for variety in case you tire of the one color. It could easily be something small so it wouldn't take up much extra room :) I would love to go to retreats but am seriously disabled so not possible. But I think spending time with other stitches would be great fun. Enjoy your week.
Hope Darren's ears weren't burning today! I also had to frog today while watching you! I like the term reverse stitching instead of unpicking, but I normally just call it frogging! I'd take one of your Bella pieces as you could get loads done on the flight.
Thank you for a most enjoyable natter! For me, frogging is any type of 're-doing' or removing of stitches so I guess that includes 'unpicking- great observation though x take care x
What a lovely treat, thank you. I have a useless (from a housework point of view) as well. So, I gave him a choice; do his fair share or pay for a cleaning lady. Our lovely team come in one morning a week and do all the basic stuff and it is a Godsend. I hope things get easier for you. Cathy.
You need to get a robot floor cleaner they vacuum and wash the floor really well you can set the area that you need it to clean my son has a very large house and they all work so he has two one to vacuum the carpets upstairs and one downstairs to vacuum and wash the floors downstairs saves so much time they are amazing they should have them in UK I am in Australia and they are readily available here and you have a cleaner without having all the associated problems hope this helps love your videos 💜💜💜
Hhmmm why not doing your Christmas presents…. Those are not big and not many colours… have a great holidays my little T…. Love you… see you soon…. 🥰👋❤️😘
As a male who loves doing cross stitch, i want to thank you for your videos, i have learnt alot and started doing full cover projects after watching your videos. Currently working on a HEAD project called Voodoo in violet.
Oh no..I love your stitch along..catching up with you and a bit of your life..102 videos..Congrats to you indeed..Seen you since the beginning..❤ lovely stitching..haha..oh I had to laugh aloud..Husband's...the distubers of the peace!!..I have a retired Husband ..home all the time..so yes..I know exactly!..Housework is always there..as soon as you can..get a Lady in..not for any reason..just so you don't have to do it..We have wooden floors..no you can't leave them..they seem to get dustier!!..You are right..A women's work is never done!!..
Recorded videos are much easier to follow when I am stitching and listening, as I don’t have to try and follow the chat (even after its over its hard to follow hahah) I have a theory on the husbands being “a distraction” when you are home together because my husband is the same, if he’s sitting and enjoying a tv show or a nice pie, then why do I want to be the one running around like a blue arsed fly cleaning and doing all the grunt work. When mine was away just before Christmas I got absolute heaps done, no distractions!! Also don’t feel bad if you dont get to the gym - if you are doing two hours of housework and walking the doggos then you are getting some exercise in even if its not toning the abs for the bikini. I used to find walking my dog so good for my mental health, miss that mental pooch - take care, Nic x
Thanks for the video! I react the same way with "comfortable silence" so I get it! If I catch a mistake right away before ending a thread, I like the term "unpick" haha.
I watch every video you record... wouldn't miss a moment... I have this thing where I do what I want, when I want, if I wait for the perfect time to do anything, I will never get anything done!❤️❤️❤️ The word unpick makes no sense to me... to remove your stitches would be to pick out your stitches... unless, of course, you call what you are doing picking, but we don't, were stitching... one of those annoyances for me to hear someone say unpicking stitches.
I know what you mean about being obliged to hubby!! You wait until you are both retired!! Took me 2 years to get used to it…..we are in a routine now and I get on with my stitching!!! So enjoy it when he goes fishing!! Xx
I feel like anytime I have to take out a stitch its frogging. Even if I just put it in the wrong place and remove it immediately. Also, I feel the same way when my husband is home. He likes for me to enjoy my time but I feel guilty. Even when he is up doing different things and working on his projects. He said he cant imagine why I feel that way and that I really shouldnt. He says enjoy yourself! He's not noisy at all but I have a hard time relaxing unless he is watching tv in his recliner and takes a nap. Then I dont feel guilty. My husband is retiring this week so he will be home. Now I want to work from home so I can be here too but I dont know if thats gonna happen. I would love it!
I will never go back to carpet. Carpets get so nasty and disgusting after a while and they might look clean but if you were to pull up the carpet and look underneath they are nasty. Hardwood floors are way more sanitary. Also lovely stitching! And that walk sounded horrible
No!! I think he should help. Your work is 24 hours. Do not feel guilty for having expectations that your partner show up and partner up! I have one just like yours. 20 years and he is still a child and needs his bottom powdered. ,😅 Ask for help! And don't feel bad if you cannot service his needs when he cannot support your needs for him to do everything correctly so you do not have to go behind him and do it right. A real man is a warrior, a partner, protector, and a leader to his family. He should not get to stop his daily grind until you do. IMHO. I guess your stitching is therapeutic.
I get you when you say men are noisy. I thought it was just me. My husband had to be making noises even when he’s sitting and watching TV. I always comment about how he’s constantly thinking out loud. Is it a guy thing? I could entertain myself all day and not say a word😂😂😂.
