Flosstube #8 Antique Samplers, Books and Cross-stitch 

Oh my! I don't think I have ever seen anything as delightful and cute as your Mom's pin keeper. It is totally and utterly exquisite! Thank you so much for introducing her. With my thanks for your Channel and good wishes, Marion, North Somerset coast, United Kingdom.

Love the 1855 sampler. The lovely urn of flowers just lovely!!! Ohhh yes! That is the book that Molly and I talked about! Silly Molly! Lol

Love watching you unpack the old samplers and seeing what you find. I would love to stitch the Scottish Sampler some day. You always have new and interesting things to share. I enjoy your videos so much! Thank you!

The last sampler.. would be beautiful in silks! The birds around the fountain! A sweet piece!!!!

Love the unpacking of old samplers and also all the information you share with us. The latest sampler you unpacked is gorgeous, I am looking forward to the day you chart it so we can share in it too. Thank you 😊

This is the first time I saw your video. I enjoyed it very much.

Great video! What spectacular Samplers you have purchased just gorgeous….love learning about all the different threads so interesting, Thank you! I wish you much success in finding a new home that brings much happiness & joy in this next part of your life🤗♥️🪡

Always so wonderful to visit with you and see your gorgeous samplers

It has been so enjoyable to watch your channel. I've been binge watching and really appreciate all the facets you share with us. Watching you open up the antique samplers is fascinating. I can relate to your comment about "loosing your German". My father's paternal line is German. My grandfather learned English when he started school in the mid 1890's. My grandfather insisted his family speak English at family gatherings after he married his non German speaking wife in 1929. My father said his generation could understand what the uncles and aunts said in German but couldn't speak it. My generation picked up the swear words and after 50 some years, I don't even remember those.

Thankyou for another wonderful flosstube! I really enjoy watching you open those antique samplers and love the history that you are able to find on them. I hope you will chart Janet Watts. She is so beautiful and I would love to stitch her!!!

ThNk you once again for sharing your unframing and your knowledge.. Always so interesting.

Love, love the Scottish sampler you unframed today!! Hope you will be able to chart and make it available soon, I would so love to stitch her! Your flosstubes are delightful, fun and so informative.

Another wonderful video! So much great information. The Scottish sampler is beautiful!

Hello I have just discovered you today. What a treasure of antique samplers!! I love your video and will go back and watch some of your previous ones. Antique samplers, knitting, cats, oh my!!! Some of my favorite things!! :)

I love Janet Watt! I’m a sucker for bunnies. 🐇🐇🐇

Lovely flosstube Birgitte. Seeing the antiques being unframed before you reproduce them is fascinating. That Spanish sampler is a sweetie. Lo hizo Genara Gonzales Ano de 1855 is what I could make out on it - Made by Genara Gonzales in the year of 1855. Looking forward to the patterns coming out one day.

I learn so much from you! Thank you 🥰

Woooowwww Birgit, your youtube channel is a delight for soul! The last sampler is divine and I admire your braveness on opening those antique frames, I am scared about dust because of my allergy 😅 thank you also for sharing your love and search for threads, I have some metallic kreinik used in the past for L&L, but didn’t know about silk. Much love. ❤

I am SO HAPPY you started a RU-vid channel AND that I found you!!! YOU are a veryyyyy special person who TRULY CARES about other people the way you share designs, your own designs, and history with us, I want to thank YOU from the bottom of my heart! I SO enjoy every video you put out! You have taught me so much! When every video ends, I've learned that much MORE about cross stitch! Wow! I just have to reach out to thank you DEARLY!!! I want to brag about you to anyone who reads these comments! And to thank you yet again for not only all that but the fact you have a STORE on your website, but 2 stores! Your website which I absolutely LOVE!!! And your Etsy store, which I have not YET been to, I've spent so much time on your website reading, in AWE of "your" patterns YOU have designed such amazingly beautiful ones, as well as others you have chosen to list on it! Everyone should take the time to visit your website, for sure! It is filled with so much more than just things for sale, but information about so many things! I still have the window open and I go back whenever I get the chance to to read more, browse more patterns, and take in the beauty of them all! Everyone should take the time to do! I cannot emphasize this enough! I "had to" purchase one very special pattern of yours you designed I came across, and I need to tell everyone the story behind it! I bought, "To the Moon and Back, Remember?" Yes! Ohhhh my!!!! SO beautiful and detailed! I also emailed you directly from your website fangirling you, and telling you the story of my parents with that saying, how they both told each other that ALL the time! When I think of when my late mother was still alive (we lost her to pancreatic cancer in 2010, which still feels like yesterday) as I was growing up and even into and in my adulthood to this very day, there are MANY instances they would say that to each other! YOUR pattern of that, OH MY! Gorgeous!!! So very fitting for my memories! My father is still alive and well, and I expect him to be for quite some time yet, he's only 77, bless him!!! He's still pretty active, for which I am very thankful! He SO misses my mother . . . still! When I saw that pattern, I HAD TO purchase it! Now I am working on getting the called-for linen! I'll have to see what floss I have, as well! My goal is to stitch it and have it ready either for his birthday this November 4th OR for Christmas 2023! I'd like to make a special trip to his house about 45 minutes away just to give it to him, just he and I together! I know in a way it will make him sad, but it will also be extremely heart-touching for him to know "that saying" is what I remember the 'most' about the true deep love the tow of them had/still have for each other, and 'that' is THE phrase I remember them telling each other the most! I was stunned to see your design of that, it's so original and again, just gorgeous! I love ALL your videos! I really find the most fascinating ones are when you take old samplers apart and out of their original frames and all you teach us as you go along! ALL your videos are fascinating and so educational! Yes! I want many more of your patterns, as well! You have a beautiful gift of creating stunning designs! Thank YOU for sharing them with us and giving us the opportunity to purchase them! Had you 'not' made a Flosstube channel, I fear I may never have seen you or learned you are a designer! Nor be able to learn ALL I have from you so far! I am anxious to get to see more and more! I have signed up for your monthly newsletter and I WILL be watching for those emails, in particular, and actually clicking on the link to drink up everything that will be in them! Now, back to watching the video! Yes, I had to write this comment first as I saw you showing us the rolls you are making! More gorgeous patterns! Sincerely, thank you so very much! Who knows? I may need to edit this to add more! Lol! You are very blessed and you share that blessing with us for which I am so very grateful! Thank you, yet again!

Both samplers are beautiful but I particularly like the last one

Wow, wow, wow! Your thread collections are delish! What beautiful samplers you unframed….I can not imagine holding such an aged piece in my hands!Kind of gives me goosebumps to think about that! So glad you are giving it a new home and a new future life!

I can’t wait to stitch Miss Watt!

I’m stitching trees on the Janet Barr Slater 1853 (Scarlett House) sampler that are a taller version of the ones on your Janet Watt. They just happened to catch my eye. Thanks for sharing your beautiful samplers! ❤

So sorry Jeanette sending you and Tim hugs and dear Zac peacexx

OMG! I loved seeing the color linen thread! So much so, I had to purchase some from an etsy shop to try! I also discovered that they have line thread in the 100.3 thickness like the french silk for higher counts of linen. That will be my next thread to try. I am also interested in the Kerinick silks (probably misspelled) to try. Such an enabler you are!! I truly like it!!!! The pin roll you showed, I did one years ago and truly loved stitching it. I purchased it in a shop back in the 80ś etc and glad to know that Shepherd´s Bush has the others. I plan to pick one to purchase as they are so much fun! Love, love, love your videos!! So much wonderful content!!! Look forward to each one with excitement for what you will show or talk about next. Keep up the great work and very interested in the last sampler you took out of the frame. I could see myself stitching it on 40 or 46 ct with silks!!! Can´t wait!!

Janet is and will be a stunner once charted and reproduced. Thank you for another wonderful show-and-tell. It made me go into my library, and I found some of the books you shared today. One easily forgets what one already has on shelves or in stashes...

Another fascinating video, Birgit, thank you so much! I LOVE your book segment! That sampler at the end sure is a stunner, so impressive to think it has survived for over two hundred years! Take good care of your dear self!

I have my Grandmother’s pin keep of the same. If I remember the family story accurately. They were made from kits.

I love Art Deco and Art Nouveau ❤

Always a special day when I see you have posted a new episode.

I never knew Kreinik made silks, I only knew about the metallic ones!

Genara is a Spanish name that originates from the word January…very pretty name. I love this and look forward to sei g it charted. Colours are wonderful and such an unusual name not usually seen on a sampler. Beautiful ! Also, I am curious why it is so imperative that you give the Watts Scottish sampler museum glass . It seemed to be in amazing condition for a 200 year old sampler and it didn’t have museum glass or a spacer. Its quite incredible to see how well these samplers lasted, despite the housing conditions, dampness, poor glass, and heaven only knows what else it was subjected too!

I love watching your videos, even though there is a lot of ads. You are such an enabler, a.k.a. an influencer. I see something you show, and I have to have it. Case in point, today I had two samplers in my cart. There was something you had said in your video, and I finally completed my order. I just love love love your samplers, and what you do. I hope someday I get to meet you as I feel you are a sampler sister.

Enjoy floss tubes, please keep them coming! 😊. I’m very intrigued by samplers, history, stitching etc.

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos. I love the Scottish sampler. Wasn’t she married in 1794, not born in 1794? Which if we say she was around 20 when she got married then she could have been born I. 1774, stitching the sampler around 1784 ish?

Very informative video!

I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for taking those two samplers out of the frames on video. They are both beautiful. Will you be making more of the sold out kits?

Janet Watt is exquisite

Beautiful large alphabet on the lovely Janet Watts sampler. I've never seen that style before. I enjoy the history you share with us.

Wow! Your new samplers are so sweet & beautiful!!💖 I love the bunnies!!Thank you for showing them on your video. It was so interesting to learn about Linen & Kreinik threads. Also, I appreciate the book recommendations. I enjoyed your video so much. Oh yes, the absolutely adorable Needle rolls too!! Great video!!💖💝🩷🌸

Hello Birgit, just a note to let you know that I received my Eliza Jane Smyth Sampler kit but I do not have enough of the SDF 3723.

Love the small Spanish sampler. Look forward to seeing how it turns out when you chart it. Lovely

I am so happy I found you! I am new to cross stitching but absolutely love it and the history behind every piece. I am hoping to find a way to stitch something to represent my ancestors from Germany and from Switzerland. I have the ship names, where they came from, where they went in America, more than enough to add all their names. Can you recommend where I can find designs from those countries in the 1700's? I can't do anything buy X's right now, but I'll try anything. :)

Pins in her petticotes.

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The samplers are lovely, especially the ornately letter Scottish one. What will you use the linen threads for? Is it to replicate them when they're used in old samplers? I had DMC linen threads years back, to add a different texture to a stitched piece, but I mostly prefer the sheen of floss or silk. I'm also about the flower threads you mentioned. I have some DMC flower threads; they remind me of a perle cotton. Is this the same type of flower thread you're talking about, and how will you use those? Take care, and happy stitching.

2nd comment, sorry! Question for you, please? What is your opinion of using 'thread conditioner?' Beeswax, in particular? I ask 'you' because you are a Historian with Samplers! Your knowledge is extremely wonderful, and I thought it best to ask YOU! Would you use beeswax on heirloom pieces, or pieces we 'hope' become heirloom pieces? Will it adversely affect the finished art after 100 or 200 years? There may be no true answer to that as we don't know if it was used in the past, maybe! I've been using the general store-bought beeswax in the sewing section, the one that comes in a plastic container and has slots to run the thread through. I am finding it is helping the thread not fray like it does when you are stitching without it, but I also find it causes more knots in the threads the shorter they get or the closer a longer thread/threads get closer to completing a stitch. I worry about the long-term effects of the beeswax? Can it be detrimental over time? IF, IF you know? Maybe even address this subject in a future video as a suggestion? I can't wait to learn about that - your opinion about it! Thank you, dearly!!!

Have you always stitched with scroll rods? I stitch in hand & was considering scroll rods but wouldn’t know where to start as far as which ones.

Love your videos. Can we have more volume? Very hard to hear! Thank you!