FlossTube Extra - Tips for Neater Stitches 

This was amazing. Thank you!! This is my favorite cross stitch tutorial on RU-vid right now. I hope to see so many more tutorials from you! 🩷

I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this video. You have helped me sooooooooo much,THANK YOU

Thank you for the lesson! It made perfect sense and helped me figure out why my stitches weren’t playing nicely with their neighbors!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Now I understand why my stitches are not even, your explanation was very clear, please do another teaching video!

Good explanations. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Happy stitching.

Omg slap me silly, I have stitched over 30 yrs all types. And this drove me nuts how messy my stitches laid. Your explanation and example well big light bulb moment. I am going practice & watch a few dozen times. I just start (1st time) huge project with printed cross stitch but fabric is stiffer. I got few rows and they looked a hot mess. Tore them out & your video popped up. First one out of many that solved this issue. Thank you so much. I'm sure going watch more

Very very helpful Shirl. Yes, you WERE making sense. Very clear. Thx so much. 🌷🌺💕

I have been stitching for 30 years and this video made a light bulb go off in me. While intuitively I figured a lot of this out, you put it in words that helped me understand and improve my stitching. I practiced this week with your video and I can already see improvement to my stitching. Thank you! --Debbie

I love primitive stitching with 28count Cashel linen as my preferred fabric. So THIS HAS HELPED ME A LOT, thank you!! Both tips are so useful to me and you are such a wonderful person to make this video. 😊💖🌸🌷👍🏼

Wonderful video, Shirl! For some reason, I have more issues with splitting my threads on Aida, even though I carry out my stitching like you showed. Practice, practice, practice. 💜🌸💜

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this to us. It was so helpful! I love the analogy of “staying out of your neighbor’s yard”! Makes it easy to remember while you are stitching. 🧵 ☺️ Have a blessed week, Shirl! Meline

Wow! I've stitched for decades and have never heard about the "neighbors yard"! Love it! I will definitely be aware from now on. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩 Have a wonderful weekend and happy stitching 🧵

Awesome tips. Thank you so much!

Thank you for sharing 🌸🐝🌸

Very good information Shirl!!

I’ll be. Learn something new everyday. Been stitching on and off since I was 19. Never been truly happy with my fancy floss stitches. Tried your method- and BOOM. Perfect. Thanks so much!! What great tips!! 💙

Well, I can see that I have some "trespassing neighbors" sometimes!! Never saw what I was doing!! Thanks!!!

Thank you. So helpful

Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing! Felicia =)

Thank you so much for this video, it is really helpful! I look forward to the next learning video as I am a novice stitcher.

Thanks so much for this video!! I am a very new stitcher and this totally makes sense to me!

Thank you so much for the tips! Always something to learn!

Thanks

Thanks so much for posting this video! I really needed to this info!

Thank you for the tip. I did not no this, but I will definitely change how I do that from now on.

Thank you for this helpful floss tube. You and I may be kindred spirits because I am a floss licker too! 😊 When you said your DNA is all over your stitching, I almost fell on the floor laughing. It is the gospel truth. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thank you, I will have to keep this in mind because I do every once in a while split my thread.🙄

Thank you for this video, it helps me a lot!😄😍

Thank you for the tips!

Thank you for the very good advise, I loved it and look forward to seeing more tips. I am also a licker of my thread.

Thank you for sharing your tips. Very helpful.

Thanks, Shirl.❤️🧵🪡❤️

🤗 Thank you Shirl! Take care. ❤️

Thank you for this video. I found it very helpful!

So helpful. I’ll keep practicing thinking ahead. Thank you.

Good video

Hi Shirl! Thanks for sharing! I need to tell my stitches that they need to stay in their own yard...lol. Thanks for the tip about going on a diagonal instead of straight up. I will need to start using that now as my current project (Stars and Stripe Forever) is on a light fabric and three of the colors are dark.

That’s very helpful, thanks for sharing!

Thank You, that was very helpful!

Thanks, very helpful. 🪡

I can use I the tips I can get. Thank you!

I had to laugh when you were talking about cloning yourself. Years ago I told my husband that if he ever needed my DNA, just grab one of the Afghans that I crocheted. Lol

This is a great video. Thanks for doing it. Just curious do you always use a Q snap? Do you use a floor stand? You get so much done.

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Thank you, I learned some new things! I knew some of those things, but I didn’t know about splitting the threads. So interesting. What about when you have to skip three stitches? Let it lay across the back, or go up or down to hold threads in behind? Thanks!

After I watched this yesterday, I paid very close attention to what I was stitching. I wanted to do some outlining for a big section of single color and wonder if there's a trick for moving vertically or horizontally because I can see my threads pull into the wrong yard!! Can you make that a video, too????

Oh I need to practice this. I just completed a huge full coverage and I'm almost ashamed to enter it in our county faur.

I just discovered your channel this morning. I can't wait to watch more of your videos. I haven't done cross stitch in over 30 years. This vide gave me some great suggestions as I start again. Can you please tell me what kind/brand are they four white pieces that hold your material (not sure if that design is called a hoop?) I really like it. Thank you so much.

Oh Shirl, thank you, that's going to help my stitching look so much better. It makes complete sense.❤️

Thanks Shirl! I didn't know about letting the single threads spin individually! Would you be able to show how you do full stitches like with fancy floss? I'm always wondering how others do it. When you finish your cross do you come back up in the bottom right corner to start the next stitch? How do you go back from the right to the left with your stitches? Just curious. Thanks so much.

Why did u skip the first hole and use the next hole was it just to make the stitches bigger so we could see it better