All of us need to flood the web with your Floss Tube site to raise it's subscribers WAY up. May not be a million but we may try! Love you floss tube. I have already gone to a couple of sites you mention. I am stitching and loving Weeks Dye Works Red Rocks red. It is my favorite now. See you next time.
A bat in the house brings back memories. I grew up in a very old house and a bat would fly around every now and then. My favorite color is Gloriana schoolhouse red.
So many lovely Spools Christina…thank you for the Be Kind Stitches…congratulations on 5 million subscribers…😅…Miss Winifred is beautiful in red silk…my favorite red floss, by Vickie Clayton, is Rusted Cherry, a variegated silk…my cataract surgery is over, but will need six weeks recovery and time to order new glasses…cannot wait to get into your lovely patterns…your bat experience…your husband said what my husband would have said to our first daughter…she even cried when daddy mowed her mature dandelions down when she was 2…thanks for the memories Christina❤️❤️
Can I admit to being excited for your son? It must have been a magic moment for him to have a bat fly in his room. ❤ red thread is fun since it's such a lovely pop of color. I love the deeper reds but a few years ago I stitched something with Threadworx bleeding hearts and it was amazing. So rich and soft.
My favorite red thread is DMC 816. I have had two bats in my house. The first incident happened when I opened my back door one evening. I thought a bird flew in. When I found it on the draperies I realized it was a bat. Eek! I called my next door neighbor and he came over to catch it and then release it back outside. The second time I had just returned from vacation and went into the bathroom. There, plastered above the waterline of the toilet bowl, was a bat. Yikes! Once again my neighbor came to the rescue. Thankfully I have my very own Bat Man.
I chuckled when I saw the back of Winifred’s spool. All I could think of is her outgrowing her corset! Thank you for the freebie charts. I have collected spools for years, so hopefully I will be able to adapt them to fit. I imagine parents for centuries have repeated your husbands words, “ You’re not keeping it!” Lol
Thank you for all your videos because I have watched every one. Full of genealogy, great historical stories & of course, all your past & present stitches. Love, love, love every maker of red … cotton or silk … your spool finishes are beyond fabulous … genius is word that comes to mind, Christina! Can hardly wait for your next video … Jan Miller
We bought an old 1800 farmhouse about 25 years ago. Bats came with the purchase of the house. We have them removed professionally every 2 years. They love this place. The best technique for catching them is to bat them down to the floor, cover them with a jar and throw them out the door. My favorite red is DMC 304.
I had a recent encounter with a bat too. I keep a butterfly net in the garage for just such occasions. Of course, my cat gets VERY excited when a bat gets in & she tries to help me. I was quite pleased as I had the bat headed for the open front door, but then it made a sharp left and went into our bedroom! I’d forgotten to close the door.! Acchh! So the bat is circling the bedroom and the cat is on the bed leaping around after it. All of a sudden the cat jumped and knocked the bat out of the air and onto the floor right in front of me! The bat was a bit dazed, so I scooped it up in the net and took it out on the porch and released it. For a chunky old cat she can sure move fast when she wants to.! She got extra treats that day!
Oh my goodness! What an experience...for you, your cat and the bat! A great idea re the butterfly net. I'll invest in one...just in case the bat comes calling again! 🦇
I love hearing your potted histories of the girls who stitched the original samplers. One of my favourite red threads is DMC 816. Thank you for your Flosstube videos, I so enjoy watching you.
I never knew there were so many red threads. I don’t have a favorite one yet. I do know that they must be a true red. Not a pink or orangish red. Thank you for your great flosstubes and history lessons on the samplers!
Love all your thread spools in this video and special thanks for sharing the Be Kind, Be Brave and Be You charts. Your archive took me back to the 1960s - I had those prints on my wall when I was small - and had a very red bedspread - my then favourite colour. Raspberry red threads are my favourites shades, no particular brand. Am now, not so patiently waiting, for spools of Sulky 12 in a few red shades to try out. I have been stitching for over 40 years and Floss Tube is such a great way to share our enjoyment - and inspire each other. THANK YOU for your videos - bat's and all!
‘We’re not keeping it”😂😂😂 I live in the country and we go out nightly to walk our inside dog and so we see bats often. We disturb them when we turn the outside lights on so we stay far away from the trees at night.
That red bag is lovely. I like many red colors, I am away from home right now and can not go threw my threads to choose but I like deep red, perhaps like a barn red. My daughter has had a problem with a bat in her house now and again. I had one years ago when I lived in the country and yes it can cause quite a stir especially if you have a cat. Love the history you give us with your samplers.
Oh Christina! Your bat story had me chuckling out loud. I’m not so sure that I would have handled it so well though had the bat been in my own house! I did stitch one Hummel back in 1993. It came as a kit and I used the provided Aida and floss. The design is of a little angel with wings. He’s wearing a gown with stars on it, and he is holding a tall red candle. I love it to this day and it still hangs in my house. Favorite red? Dear me!! There are just too many gorgeous ones to have to pick just one. Thank you for your lovely videos. Always a treat.
What a wonderful achievement....5000 subscribers! And I am happy to say that I have been with you from the very start. Just love listening to the history of all the wonderful samplers you have on offer and today's were no exception. Thank you so very much for the chance to win that stunning project bag and threads....how very generous and kind! My favourite red thread to work with is currently DMC 498 but that does change depending on the project I am working on at the time! Cheers.
Red is my favourite colour for quilting and for stitching so I have many reds that I love. Right now, I’m enjoying Gentle Art Licorice Red. Your designs are wonderful and I am head over heels for your little be kind, be brave, be you trio!
Thank you for another super flosstube and for the free tiny alphabet samplers. I find it difficult to choose just one red as my favourite, but I have some Belle Soie Sister Scarlet which is so luscious I haven't used it as I am 'saving it for best' as we used to say! I also like Weeks Baked Apple and Soie d'Alger 946. I'm in love with red!
When I was growing up finding a bat in the house was a common occurrence during the summer months. Always fun to try and get the bat out the door or window. They now make bat houses that you can put on the house or in a tree to give them shelter. Your designs are beautiful and my favorite red is CCW Licorice Red!
I really am enjoying your site as I enjoy family history and have researched a number of people from my family in past generations. I really think learning about the needle workers as you do is wonderful! Wouldn't it be fun to find them related to you and share in the same past time as they did so long ago? For them however I've learned it was a way of proving their skills as a suitable wife and well educated your woman as so few went onto formal education. You honor them well. I am not that far along in my cross stitch history but I do enjoy 498 DMC red thread so far as it is one called for in the Celtic Christmas Lady that I began working on this year and hope to continue stitching her again closer to Christmas. I'm working away on a HAED that takes most my time but I like to include seasonal stitching too as breaks along the way. Thanks so much for sharing and congratulations on your following and reaching 5,000 followers!
Thanks so much for the lovely free charts, and your time creating them! Beautiful, and so much great information included too. I also enjoy your Stitching from the Archives, and the bat story!! I chuckled out loud when you mentioned there is nothing like your own child to keep your feet on the ground. 💙 My favorite red thread right now is DMC 3777. Thanks also for your time and attention providing show notes and the on-screen information too. So helpful! Congrats on your 5,000 subscribers!
Another wonderful flosstube Christina. I could listen to you all day. Your spool finishes are beautiful…I don’t understand how you end the lacing though. My favorite red…wow…there are so many gorgeous reds. I love Color and Cotton Carmine. ~jeanne~🌻
Thank you, Jeanne! I just end with a knot! Sometimes I hide the knot away to the side. Other times, it's slap, bang in the middle of the gap! 😂 I really need to try some Colour & Cotton thread. It looks lovely. ♥️
When we were kids we had a bat get in the house but that wasn't as freaky as when a raccoon got in our attic. They are quite nasty when cornered, took my dad and uncle quite a while to catch it. They released it in a nearby woods so it wouldn't be able to come back into the house again. Right now my favorite red floss is Cherry Cobbler by Classic Colorworks, I like the darker reds.
So many beautiful red threads! Weeks Cayenne, Baked Apple, Lancaster Red, DMC 498. Too many to name them all. We will never run out of reds. Love the tiny samplers. I bet they would be beautiful as small pillows in a bowl.
I love all the history of the girls and family of the sampler stitchers. I still am in awe of how young they are! My favorite Red, is really a nice dark red. I use a lot of Cherry Cobbler by Classic Colorworks but I have many favorites.
Hello Iris , I have just completed a lovely red work mystery sampler in DMC 816 and I’m really happy with the result, however, I have now discovered DMC 3777 and have fallen love with that red, so now that’s my favourite red. I must tell you many years ago we had a farm and there were often little micro bats at night. One night as we were sleeping with our bedroom window open a couple of inches, a little bat flew in and got caught in my long hair. After much excitement and screaming on my part, I might add, it loosened itself and flew up the chimney in our bedroom. Needless to say that window was then only opened after a screen was put in. I’m loving your you tubes and your beautiful stitching. Blessings Gail
Christina.....hands down my favorite red is Schoolhouse red ( Gloriana silk) Lovely video... love hearing the history backgrounds, Miss Jupp has much to overcome , & did so. ♥️ Your Bat 🦇 story was a WOW & then to see it flying around... yikes... I had one in my fire place ! As well while visiting in Santiago, Chile I voice sited a Coral cave .... & yes there were 🦇 bats flying about swooning down around us... omg 😳 I couldn’t wait to get OUT!! 😊 Your Issac must be telling all his mates... & sharing the video of it... Blessings ~ Christina 🌹🌹 Take care Be safe
My favorite red thread is r1005 splendor by rainbow gallery. It is a joy to stitch with! Your designs are wonderful, I love the stories about the little girls and their lives, it gives so much significance to the sampler to know them. Love your work and you make me laugh every episode!!
Hi Christina! You know how much I love your spool samplers! Such a genius idea and I hope to stitch them all at some point. And I too have stitched a number of the Hummel charts! In fact I stitched the same kids under the umbrella. I loved stitching those charts. Watching the colors bring it all to life was really neat. As for my favorite red… it’s so hard to pick just one! 🥰 So I’ll tell you my favorite reds in each maker. 😉 I love DMC 3777, WDW Turkish Red, Classic Colorworks Cherry Cobbler and GAST Buckeye Scarlet. Have a wonderful week! 💕 Oh! And kiddos to you for being a super cool mom and not freaking out about the bat. I would have gone to a hotel. 😂
I think 5,000 is a great achievement Christina particularly given you are still very new on the scene!! I love the stories you attach to your samplers along with your beautiful finishes. I love many red threads but one I seem to use a lot is Classic Colorworks Cherry Cobbler - a cheery colour for Christmas and samplers alike.
Oh Christina!!! I love your son’s comment!!! I’ll be one of your millions when you get there! ❤️ My favourite red thread (currently) is DMC 321. And I love your new release. April did a stunning job of hers as well! 😍
Hello, Christina. I so enjoy your flosstube. Your new releases are so precious. I have to try the lacing with the eyelet stitches. That is so beautiful!! I cannot choose a favorite red floss. I love them all!!! Red is my favorite color. I tend to lean toward the deeper bluish ted tones.
Love watching your floss tube channel and hearing the background of the people who stitched the samplers. My favourite red right now is Victoria Clayton’s Victorian Rose.
Congratulations on your 5000 subscribers! Years ago when I was visiting my mom with my 2 year old son, we discovered a bat that had gotten into her house through the cellar. Bedlam ensued, and thankfully, we were able to secure it in a bedroom. My sister came over and was able to get it out through the window. As you were telling your bat tale, I was totally reliving mine!😊 I always love hearing the stories of your sampler girls. I love how darling your little samplers look on the spools! Red is my favorite color to stitch with, and depending on the piece, I have several favorites. I love them all from the cheery to the deep!
Your videos are delightful. Thank you for the sampler freebies on spools. I appreciate the info on sourcing some. I laughed at your bat encounter. When my children were very young, my husband was away in Russia. A bat came every day to hang outside our window. He left each evening, but returned every morning. Seeing it up close was eventful for all. Of course, he left when my husband returned. My favorite red thread is Classic Colorworks Belle Soie Cranberry. Congrats on 5000 subscribers!
Thank you for sharing your bat story, Tam! I told my son all about your visitor! 🦇 I do believe he was looking out for you while your husband was overseas!
Wow, over 5K subscribers! Congratulations! So enjoy your visit. So enjoy your designs and all the history you share with us. Whilst on vacation years ago, I as bitten by a bat and had to go through the series of shots since the bat could not be tested for rabies. That said, bats are so important to our ecosystem that I was happy you were able to coax it outside. Since red is my favorite color, it would be so difficult to single out my favorite red thread…maybe DMC 815. Thank you for your generosity.
Oh Maria, that sounds awful. My husband put on his gardening gloves when coaxing the bat out - just in case. DMC 815 is a lovely, rich red. I use it a lot. ❤️
Hi Christina love all your stitching,loved the story about the Bat,your projects are just Beautiful as always,All Red threads are my favourites, Thankyou for sharing 👍🇳🇿
My favorite red is cranberry by Gentle Arts. The bat story was funny. A cute memory. My sister had a bat visit and we talk about it when ever someone stays in a cabin.
My favorite red thread is Soie d’alger 2645. Congratulations on 5000 subscribers and thank you so much for the freebies you have been so generous to share.
Christina, I love your flosstube channel! Your attention to detail is so inspiring! And, I agree with Issac, you should have millions of subscribers. My favorite red stitching thread is Classic Colorworks CAYENNE!
I so enjoy your videos! You are so lovely to listen to, and all you share both new and older is so interesting, beautiful designs you are creating with such rich histories. My favorite red thread is also Weeks Cayenne! My favorite DMC red is 3777. Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity, and I hope no more bats come into your home!
Hi Christina! Love seeing your work and hearing about these young stitchers stories! School house Red floss has been a favorite but after watching Brenda and Laura and seeing the multitude if red floss options Brenda brought back, I was wowed! I'm excited to see your options too!
I like many different red colors, some more vibrant and others more faded and primitive, like Old Red Paint. I'm currently stitching Ann Grant 1829 with a Gloriana Schoolhouse red, so that's my favorite right now. We have had a few bats in the house in 25 years and when it happens there is a lot of screaming from me. My husband manages to capture them but it's not easy. One time my cat Midnight jumped off the middle of our tall staircase and caught one in mid-air. Unfortunately she bit it and we couldn't save it.
When I was 8, I was in my bed, rolled over and heard “squeak”! I rolled onto a bat. We lived in an old home and my room was under an attic, but that was the first time a bat went into our house. Scared me to death. Lol. I wasn’t bitten. My favorite red thread is any red in silks. Right now I’m stitching with OMG red by Vikki Clayton silks.
Oh my goodness, Teal! 😱 I just read your comment out to my family! We're all in shock! Except for Isaac...he said 'poor bat'! 😂 I'm so pleased you weren't bitten. I'm going to look up the OMG red by Vikki Clayton. It sounds like a fabulous thread! ♥️
Loved the bat story and video! The Hummel stitch is precious! My mother and aunt both collect the figurines. You are the queen of spool finishing! Your beautiful little samplers look pretty no matter how they are finished! So nice that you are having a giveaway! My favorite red lately is Gentle Art Currant, a very deep and dark red. Thanks for sharing, xx, Tricia
I love hearing the stories behind the samplers and always look forward to your flosstubes. What a shock having a bat in the house (my 8 year old and I would think that was super fun)! My favourite red thread is WDW Louisiana Hot Sauce.
Oh Christina, I loved the Bat story! I really like Bats and we have a few flying in our garden in the evenings. I just love the colours in Catherine Annie Jupp, so of course I had to have her! I have stitched a few Hummels in my day and I did one with an umbrella girl, though different to yours. Congratulations on 5000 subscribers, though I'm not a bit surprised! My favourite red thread at the moment is Cosmo 1241...a lovely rich bright red cotton that feels and stitches like silk ♥️
You are so much braver than me. I would have been hiding until my husband got the bat out of the house. My favorite red is Gentle Art Buckeye Scarlet. Congratulations on 5k!
My daughter had a bat in her house last week, too! However, she grabbed their cat and ran upstairs and shut herself in while her husband dealt with the bat. LOL! She thought it was funny you both sat and watched it! One of my favorite reds is Schoolhouse Red.
Lol. The bat didn’t seem to be in a panic, so nor were we! It was lovely to watch it fly! But I did leave it to my husband to get it out of the house! 😉😂
Love hearing your sampler histories. Absolutely love your spool finishes. I am just getting back into stitching after many years, but I love Schoolhouse Red. Maybe because I taught middle school 32 years. Thanks for your great videos and patterns.
I really love your designs and the fact you give the history behind them. I am fairly new back into cross stitching after about a 35 year break. I am so amazed at all the new floss, fabric and designs that are available today that were not available 35 years ago. I don't have very many different brands of floss and have only just started buying overdyed flosses. I mainly have DMC and most of it is very old floss. Of the floss that I do have, I would say that DMC 321 is probably my favorite red floss.
My favorite Red thread is Cranberry by Glorianna. Your videos are delightful. My S-L had a bat land in her hair and it got all twisted up. Needles to say she is frightful of bats. We live in the country and have bat houses. They keep the bugs, mosquitoes and what not at bay. Thank you. See you next time.
Oh my goodness. I think I would have panicked if it had got caught in my hair! My husband is very laid back when dealing with these sort of issues - luckily! 😂😉
My favorite red thread is DMC 815 medium garnet. Thank you for telling the back stories on the sampler stitchers. We had a bat come into the house when I was young due to a gap at the base of the attic door. They would terrorize us if we had to go into the attic at night. Eventually, they were exterminated. Creatures that can carry rabies are not good housemates.
Oh my, Dana! I can’t imagine having several of them in the house! We have closed the vent in our log burner, so hopefully we will have no more winged visitors! 🦇🦇🦇
Love this latest video, I love the information you give about samplers, it brings them alive. Thank you for the freebies, which I will be stitching, hopefully soon. Loved your bat story and you were all so calm whilst it was flying around your home. I love the colour Red and have just finished a small sampler with a variegated Red from DMC, this is the first time I have used this thread and love the outcome. Congratulations on your 5K subscribers, happy stitching 🧵
I have been hearing about your designs but didn't know you had a channel until you showed up on my recommended feed tonight. The fact that you didn't scream loud enough to shatter windows when a bat flew by your face was enough to get me to subscribe.🦇 Your designs and ideas are inspiring, thank you. The red I am most drawn to is Candy Apple like Week's Dye Works by the same name.
I love red samplers! Almost any red will work as long as it is not too pink or too orange. Some colors I like are DMC 304, 321, 498, and 3777, or any overdyeds in those color ranges. We never had a bat in the house, but we did have a snake. My husband was able to dispose of it, otherwise (he jokes) we would have had to burn the house down. I look forward to your videos and your new releases.
Love your videos Christine! The bat in the house was hysterical, especially your husband “we can’t keep the bat”!!! My favorite red thread at the moment is Gloriana Crimson which I’m using for the large Bristol Squirrel. Thank you!
I too have a bat story. We had just purchased our 1st home and I was sweeping the front porch when I looked up and saw a bat. I immediately screamed and ran off the porch to put up the for sale sign again! But to answer the question, my favorite red thus far is schoolhouse red by Gentle Arts. Oh and congrats on achieving 5k subscribers!
Huge congratulations on all your subscribers Christina! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for another fascinating flosstube. I rather like Classic Colorworks Ruby Slippers for a red sampler. I have red accents in my sitting room and it is about time I stitched a red sampler.
My favourite red thread is one I bought in France from a brocante. Great floss tube thank you. I enjoyed a slice of Bettys Fruit cake with cheese whilst watching xx
DMC 349 is my go to Red for mainly Christmas pieces but Classic color works has some really pretty reds I love too! It’s always hard to choose normally it depends on the chart and the fabric I’m using and of course what the designer recommendation is! I adore all of your designs and they are a pleasure to stitch! Congratulations on hitting 5000 subbies🌟💕🌟💕🌟
You've inspired me to look for spools, I've purchased Winifred M Webb. My favourite red floss is both Canna Lilly and Hugs n Kisses, they are both from Cottage Garden Threads which are available through Poppy Patch here in the UK, they also have a monthly club for Cottage Garden Threads. Thank you for your amazing freebies they are a dream.
I love the color red so they are all my favorite, lol. It is like choosing which is your favorite child, I just can not choose. lol. Love your designs and just found your RU-vid channel so I will be going back and watching them all. Happy Stitching
I love bats and often sit in my garden at dusk just to catch a glimpse of them flying in out of the trees. I have just started using Sulky and love the deep red shade 0035,
I loved seeing the bat flying around your son's bedroom 😂 I adore bats 💕 loving all you ffo's on your spools, your new release is adorable and I just love Red 0035 from Sulky Threads I just love Red samplers and what a great idea to put them on spools 💗💗💗💗
I really enjoy the little histories of the girls who stitched your samplers. Well done on reaching 5000 subscribers. My favourite red thread is Classic Colorworks Campfire. We had a bat in our house once, which involved a lot of laughing, squealing and general chaos as my Mum, sister and I tried to get it out. (My Dad slept through the whole thing 😄)
What a find you are I watch cross stitch video all the time did not see yours till today. My favourite RED thread is DMC 321 which I have been using a lot lately. Your samplers are beautiful and the history of them is great. Loved everything on your Video. Oh my goodness a bat in the house how cool is that.
Loved the Bat story! I am sure your son will never forget it. I love the little samplers on the spools. My favorite red is Gentle Arts, Schoolhouse Red❤️😍
Love the way you display those small samplers on spools. I liked the Halloween version of Winifred too, a nice pun on her surname! My favourite red thread is DMC 115, the dark variegated red.
I really enjoy your flosstubes. The back stories about the stitchers are really interesting. Thank you for your latest freebies, I’ll be stitching them for my granddaughters. My favourite red thread is Ruby Slippers by Classic Colorworks.
My favorite red thread is Buckeye Scarlett by GAST. Thanks so much for the opportunity. Your bat story was so funny, especially when your husband told your son that he couldn't keep it. Looking forward to your next video. Best, K
Christina, your red samplers are charming. As for thread, I have never seen a red thread that I disliked. My favorite is the one with which I am stitching at any moment, currently GAST Buckeye scarlet.
Congratulations on 5K subscribers! Thank you for sharing your sources for the vintage spools. I've been wanting to get some but didn't know where to find them. Your bat story reminded me of the time when I was a kid and there was a bat that got into our basement. My father got his rifle and shot it while it was sitting on top of the heating oil tank. Luckily he didn't miss the bat, but needless to say, my mother was not very happy. My favorite red floss colors are the Prairie Schooler DMC reds...3777, 221 and 815. I admire your dedication to find out as much as you can about the history of your samplers and love hearing their stories.
Christina, your spool finishes are absolutely precious!! And CONGRATULATIONS on 5,000 subscribers!!! My very first red sampler was your precious Miss Piggin, and I stitched her in DMC 816 thread. I love how deep and rich it is. I have many more red samplers to finish, including at least one of your other reproduction samplers. I plan to use a different red for each one. This red bag and thread would be a fantastic addition to my red collection!!
Lol. My piggy earrings! My late uncle kept pigs on an allotment in his youth and earned the nickname 'Peter Piglet'. My cousin and I now exchange pig related gifts in his memory. 🐖
