Flosstube Extra: 2021 WIP parade and 2022 plans 

I think it's funny when you refer to yourself as "future and past Helen". Lots of beautiful wips!

Always love seeing your beautiful stitching! The first time you showed Cardinal Points I stopped the video and immediately ordered it 😂 happy stitching 🧵

"This isn't a channel about ironing." 😆 You have some great wips! That Cardinal Points is such a beautiful piece. It will look stunning when it's done. That's too bad about your Zodiac piece. It looks like you're more than halfway done, but if you're not enjoying it then it will only take time away from other things you want to stitch. I hope you are able to get a few more of the reindeer done this year. They are just beautiful! I'll have to look into those berry patterns. I've never done one but I'm a sucker for a seasonal series. I always enjoy seeing your projects! Have a great week!

Just discovered your Flosstube! I love your sense of humor. “This isn’t a channel about ironing. “ Best. Line. Ever!! I literally laughed out loud! Loved seeing all of your WIPs! Look forward to seeing your progress in the coming year!

Thanks for the WIP Parade! So many fabulous projects. Autumn Rules looks especially pretty on the Legacy fabric. I love that you have a project that you only stitch on in the car!

“This is not a channel about ironing” 😂 Loved seeing your wips Helen! Ironed or not LOL

14 WIPs at year end is excellent. I finished with 26 and of course have started several more since the 1st of the year 😄. Then this morning I needed some floss so went to my LNS and somehow came home with 4 new patterns also! Apparently no floss can travel alone even if the traveling is being done in your vehicle.

Always look forward to your videos, because you stitch on Aida and you don’t do huge projects! I like that you are a seasonal stitcher also ! Thanks, Kim T

I am so jealous about the number of wips you have! lol. I have like triple the amount you do and I haven't had much success of getting that down. Love your comment about the, "this is not an ironing channel". Absolutely brilliant! All your wips are gorgeous! I especially love the Owl Forest Embroidery Cardinal and the Woodland Christmas! Look forward to seeing more of your berry finishes. They are so fun! :) Hope you had a good 2021! And hope 2022 brings lot of joy! Happy Stitching! See you next time!

Thanks Helen for a great whip parade and plans for 2022…14 whips is a manageable list…the restart on Woodland Memories is beautiful…would love to find that book too…you did a great job with medium to smalls and finished a lot last year…and I loved everyone of them…hope you have a great year with your plans…best wishes and happy stitching Helen❤️

Excellent WIP’s! I had forgotten that you are stitching Cardinal Points. Me too! Man do I need to dust mine off and give it some love in 2022. You have picked awesome projects.

I love the cardinal chart from Owl Forest Embroidery. Trying to not buy any more new charts. 2022 is my stitch from stash year...Hopefully. 🤣🤣🤣 Love your wip parade!

Lots of fun to watch. Very inspirational. Love the woodland WIP from the 2013 stitching book. I might have to try the berries and stitch along with you. I just completed 3 project bags using your tutorial. You made it clear and easy to follow along and I love my new bags. Thank you for creating the tutorial. I’ve already filled them up with future stitch projects. Looking forward to next week and your regular Floss Tube.

I love your Cardinal Points...thank you for sharing your projects....you sure have a lot done....

Great progress and plans! I will be fun to follow your progress in 2022. Thanks for sharing your stitching and be well!

Great fabric for that clock. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed

I would love to stitch those berries with you. Great projects. I love how you keep it real.

Great WIPs and plans - I am looking forward to stitching some berries with you!

Love all your wips. Happy stitching!

Love your flosstube and your tutorials. Thanks for your fun!

Loved seeing your parade. Lots of good WIPS, plenty of different projects to change things up if your get bored with a project! And I don't iron if I can help it! Judy

Love your videos. I don't understand how some one can handle having 40-50 wips.That seems like alot of pressure. Can't wait to see the berries ! Your's are always beautiful !

Love your WIP parade and plans. You are a joy to watch.

Loved your wip parade. Waiting to see your berries.

That was a fun WIP parade. I only have a couple more than you. I agree with UGO’ing I’d it doesn’t thrill you anymore. I am going to look at my stash, I might jump on the Berry bandwagon. Happy Stitching!

Excellent video as usual. I only stitch on aida so I soften it before stitching. I soak it in warm water and a capful of white vinegar. The longer you soak the softener it gets. Rinse then hang to dry or to speed up the drying iron it. Voila all done.

Thank you sharing your wips and plans.

I looove all your WIPs!

I am also working on Woodland Sampler. Haven’t picked it back up for a few years. You made me think I should go back and finish. Yours looks great!

Thanks again Helen. I always enjoy your channel. Have a great new year. 💙❄️🧵🪡❄️💙

Always enjoy your videos and your sense of humor. Love seeing your finishes and WIPs. Happy New Year and Happy Stitching🪡

Enjoyed your WIP Parade. I especially appreciate that your goal is to finish. I have 13 WIPS and I want to get thedm finished, i too stitch seasonally; Love Cardinal Point, I m ay need that chart. Biut I put myself on a FREEZE for a short time. I'm speechless over your zodiac, its beautiful, but I understand. Will definitely purchase those berries and pins

Thanks for this special edition, I LOVE watching your flosstube I appreciate how you share your love for crossstitch!

Enjoyed seeing your recent finishes and WIPs. I won’t tell you how old my oldest WIP is…let’s just says it significantly older than yours! Lol!

As a Seinfeld fan, I got a great chuckle out of "The airing of the WIPs". I UFO'd two pieces last year and it was such a relief.. I have one more that I'm going to pitch this year. I love the idea of the piece but I was trying to stitch it with what I had, and I was using a #8 braid from Kreinik that was just too thick for the count of my fabric. I have too much in to pull it out and start over and I have way too many other things that I really want to stitch! I picked up Cardinal Points, also.. I haven't started it yet, but it's really calling me. Since Winter Rose Manor is calling just as loudly, I've avoiding deciding which one to start first by working on some existing pieces. I enjoy all of your pieces and finishing; I get so much inspiration from your videos!

Thanks for sharing all your wips and plans. I have plans but they usually go out the window when I open up the kitted up projects or after March market! I hope to get a berry done this year, my first. That is my only plan the rest is fluid. Have a great week.

Finally had time to watch your WIP parade. I find it hard to stitch on more than one project at a time so I guess I am called a monogamous stitcher, but I admire all your WIPS. Since I am mostly a sampler stitcher I haven’t been bitten by the berry craze. They are nice but I don’t think they are for me right now.

I already have the autumn berries chart! Might just need to stitch all the berries! Lol-Ed at this is not a channel about ironing! My stitching is the only thing I do iron! Your Cardinal points looks amazing. Mine is all kitted up but not yet started. It’s patiently waiting! Enjoyed the video and happy stitching!

Great WIP parade Helen! I must say, I was a little disappointed cause I was hoping to see some ironing! HAHA! You are doing much better than I am keeping track of WIPS. I started a chart inventory list in a Word document last year but never remember to update it...too busy stitching to be bothered. Can't wait to see your seasonal berries!

Once again, thank you. I don't want to sound like a stocker but I really enjoy your videos. 1. You do a quality video. 2. You have finishes and fully finished projects. 3. We both stitch in season (pretty much). 4. Not big on samplers, although I am working on G. Ledger 1868. 5. Primarily aida 14 ct. for me. I do like 25 count lugana but I have to use magnification with 28 count ( which is really 14 count so I don't get that). There are probably more but you should be getting the point. Anyway, thanks again and best wishes for 2022.

I loved seeing your wips parade. I very much love your Cardinal Points and Our Lasting Friendship, they are gorgeous. Also Prancer is so beautiful. Your new gaming piece is looking so good too. I love everything you showed. Thank you for another wonderful video and see you next time.

Helen, I'm a huge fan of your flosstubes, and I don't usually comment but I feel I have to say it's so good to see someone who doesn't keep meticulous notes! 😄 I'm right there with you- why write about stitching when you could be actually doing it?!!

Best quote ever “This isn’t a FlossTube about ironing”. Amen. Happy New Year.

Great wip parade enjoyed seeing all your beautiful projects have a wonderful week and happy stitching 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩

Beautiful wips

Thank you for your stitching company and showing your WIP parade ! You have great projects in the planning to continue on this year and will look forward to watching your progress on old and new ones ! Love the berries and the idea of seasonal ones ! Have a good week

Hi, I am also an Aquarius. 17th. I like your wips especially the cardinal points

Oh i enjoy a good parade! Thanks for taking time to organize for us. Have great week & stitch on!!

Thank you for the WIP parade. I ended with 16 but most were from 2020 when I did stitch mania. I only have 3 from 2021 which I like better. One is Cardinal Points which you inspired me to start. I love it. I have one however that must be 18 years old, Santa of the Forest by Lavender and Lace which i should finish. Started when my boys were babies but are 20 and 21 now.

Love your flosstube and your WIPS! So many of your patterns are tempting to rush out and purchase. Which would add to my own WIPS. ack. Your design, Far Away Times, is gorgeous and dreamy. Just stitch what you want when you want. Happy New Year!

I loved your WIP parade. Such pretty pieces. I hope you enjoy Pattern Keeper as much as I do. I was really surprised at how much more stitching I can do with it. Happy stitching! ❤

Love a good wip parade😌they make me so happy and make me realize I have great taste because I have a ton of what you do☺️😉☺️ thanks for the show! Goodness love your Winter wonderland by blackbird! Oh and Prancer looks amazing! I haven’t bought them yet but I’m dying to stitch them and the sleigh! They are beautiful! Gorgeousness! Blessings to you Always Helen💖

You have some amazing charts . . . I need to re-organize myself . . . I did make a spreadsheet with specific patterns for each month, but ......................

You and your down-to-earth style always make me laugh out loud at least once a video, and I really, really needed a laugh in a bad way today! Perfect timing, I must say. Your Cardinal Points is lovely! My son, now nearly 30, was very nearly a leap baby, so thinking I may be able to justify a late entry into the SAL.!! It might even be worth the eye roll it would provoke from him - LOL!! Loving Misty's new design and am waiting for the kit to arrive. So enjoyed your WIP parade. Thanks for sharing and happy, happy stitching!

Great wips can't wait to see those finished. Happy Stitching Patty

I'm like you, I have to have a chart but I don't even venture out and change colors, so you have me beat on the color part.💜💜💜

Hello Helen, Happy New Year. I discovered your channel some weeks ago, and I subscribed...but sorry I couldn't start checking your videos until today. Hope you had a wonderfull Holiday Season. You have beautiful projects, really different than mines, which is one of the things I really like of flosstube: the variety. I have to say my preference was for the Woodland Christmas, wow it's so nice. Keep on going with your stitching. 🤩🤩

My favorite WIP parade hands down! I like your choice of projects and how concrete your plans are to work on/finish them. They are so beautiful and actually get totally finished (unlike my projects) and that effort is very inspiring. Happy New Year Helen; keep those great videos coming!

Wonderful WIP parade, it is so fun to see every ones projects and how far they have come. I loved your comment about, This isn't a channel about ironing. Thank you, see you next week.

Enjoyed all your projects. I don't iron until I am ready to finish. Love berries.. Got to get some done!

Come on Helen you can get cardinal points done! It’s one of my oldest wips too and started on leap day like yours! Shout if you fancy SALing it once a month or so to keep it moving

Leggy leprechaun as a stand up! Yes! Totally obsessed with stand ups

Glad to have a revisit with some of your old WIPs that I haven’t seen in a while. And thank you for talking about your UFO piece - it’s giving me the strength to UFO one of my WIPs that I’m really not enjoying!

Enjoyed seeing your wips. I have one piece that’s going to end up a UFO also. When I bought it & started it was great but then it quickly was replaced with other stitching I found more enjoyable and more ME. I’m a seasonal stitcher also the exception being if I really love stitching on something I get really into it and then it doesn’t matter what season. I’ll stop to get seasonal must s done & go right back to it,lol. Thank you for sharing enjoyed seeing all your stitchy goodness.

I'm so excited to see all of your projects + ideas in progress☃️ I hope your '22 is as fabulous as you are☃️ Thanks for sharing☃️

Great WIP parade Helen!! I know what you mean about......1 strand wasn't enough, but 2 was too much. My first BBD design to start was Oh Joyous Day that I started with Abi for inauguration day last year. I started it on my first ever piece of PTP fabric. A 32 count lugana....Doubloon. A beautiful piece of fabric, but 2 strands was way too much, but 1 was no where near enough, so I went ahead and started because this fabric is freaking lovely, just not lovely to stitch on. I got almost all the way across the bottom and I couldn't take it anymore and just stopped. I will finish the 3 flowers into a pin pillow or something. If I ever use the rest of the fabric, it will definitely be for smalls! Please tell you viewers to not give up hope on those hard to find Craftways books. The exact one you showed (the 2013) was on ebay for $60 and I watched it forever, fully intending to purchase it, if another one didn't show up soon after it came up. Well, perseverance pays off, because it showed up from another seller for $20 and I grabbed it and another year I was searching for. I started collecting those books last year and I have from 2005 until 2021 and I only paid full price for 3 of them that I found on the Stoney Creek website. If you would really like to stitch that peacock needle book, I have that leaflet from BBD that has the pattern in it. I don't mind loaning it to you. Message me on Instagram (same user name as on here). If I don't get back with you right away, then I'm probably at work. And I think you are an hour or two ahead of me. I'm in the central time zone. But yeah, don't mind loaning out any of my patterns to you. Just let me know! Take care, Ruth.

I love the cardinal chart. I liked them both but it’s a good idea for one that will fit a frame easier.

Enjoying your channel and I plan on focusing on smalls this year. I have 2 large full coverage pieces and it’s been a slow start! My focus is crochet, so this is a side for me. Just getting into cross stitch in the last 6 months.

I love the zodiac, but I'd just stitch your star sign, maybe you could salvage the others for birthday cards for friends. I like the berries idea, you've inspired me to try one, yours have all turned out beautiful. I'm a bit wary of evenweave I've tried before but was no good a counting spaces.

You need to have one of those twig trees and make it a berry tree 🌳

Just an idea with the book you are working the Woodlands piece from, take the book to an office store and have them to spiral bind it. I do this with all my hard copy cross stitch books. I have them make a color copy of the front and back to add them they give me the hard cover back and these are great to cover and use for a “flat-fold” type finish.

Love it, I need to try a berry! Lol and love your paper notes…me too! And ironing lol that was funny! Love Mistys new chart! Cya

Great wip parade. I love the Cardinal Points chart and want to start that one this year along with joining you on the berries.

Beautiful WIPS! Thank you so much for sharing ♥️♥️♥️

Thanks to you and Gary I've put berries on my list this year also. Thanks for sharing. 🪡🪡🪡

Hi Helen! I really enjoyed your WIP parade! I'm excited to see what you get up to this year and am curious to see if you change your mind about the birthday start. :) I had totally forgotten about the map and Cardinal Points. Definitely understand why the map wasn't working out and why you might want to stop on the zodiac. Have a great week!

Love seeing all your WIPs. I never thought the zodiac piece looked like one you’d do. It’s nice but if you don’t know where you’d put it, I’d do what you said and just do your sign into a pillow. Seeing Cardinal Points makes me want to get mine started!!💕

Love your lineup for 2022. Great plans.

Love the Long Dog pattern.

Great video!!! Can’t wait for the berries. I already am planning on a Berry per month so I will be jumping on your SAL

I love a good wip parade. I wish I only had 14 wips!!!

Thank you for the chart, hope to start it next week, and also the charms:)

Enjoyed your video very much. I listen to Carla at Cob Corners and she said that you and Carla are working on a project of berries and you will show how to make berries. I like Chrismoose. Walk in Peace.

Great WIP parade for 2022! It's a hard decision to UFO a piece, especially one like your zodiac where you've already completed a lot of stitching. However, there are so many things to stitch, you shouldn't spend time stitching something you don't enjoy.

My TM Zodiac is done but for 1/3 of the frame. No clue what I am going to do with it. I need to finish it for no other reason that I need the scroll rods and floor stand. Ah, well. Shiny isn't always better. And appreciate someone else isn't terribly fancy on the paperwork.

🤗 Hi Helen! You need one of those calendar books or print calendar pages from internet, and just jot down everyday what you work on. I put down when I start something and when I finish it and how many days it took to finish. Keep a running total on the side of page of how many starts and how many finishes. Doesn’t take but few minutes every day. Just an idea. Take care.

I *ALMOST* wish I hadn’t watched this, because now I NEED that Cross Stitch Christmas book. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

#otherpeoplehaveprettyjournals #Ihaveapieceofpaper 😂😂 Let’s give Cardinal Points all the love in 2022!!!

I love a parade!😂❤️

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I love Woodland Christmas! Every time I see Cardinal Points, I wish I'd started that one for #longdogleapdaysal instead of Game of Swannes.

Oh I have Snow Queen almost ready! Would love to have a partner to stitch her with……doesn’t matter to me when start……and I’m not a high pressure stitcher……

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I love your valentine pieces! Can you share the name of the one by luminous fiber arts? I’m going to join you on your seasonal berry SAL. Where do you buy the wool for the toppers? I wish these were full kits!

Love seeing all your projects. I am stitching on Cardinal Points also. I love this pattern. Also wanted to ask if you ever received the diagram for the Gamer Cross Stitch marking the section & saying what game is in each section. I wrote & ask about it but he has not answered back.

I love your owl forest embroidery cardinals. I googled it and it comes from Russia. Did you order it from Russia?

I really don't understand how you can do stitching, sitting in the dark, waiting until your son's tennis practice is over. Do you have a portable light or do you just keep the engine running?

I have a question…… do you display your berries? If so, where/how? I have been thinking of stitching some up but I am terrible with the final display part (interior decorator I am NOT). Lol. I love your videos and absolutely love your nerd wall!

Ironing is over rated You have twice my wip count I'm stitching on my afghan right now, but I feel like it will get put away again soon Isn't there cat hair on everyrhing? 😄 And what is the piece by the stairs? 💙🖖