Quilting #16 My Kinda Quilting and More Stitching Boxes 

I happen across your video by accident, but I am so thankful I did. I’m going through troubling challenges and have been struggling on how to handle them. Your message at the end of this video will help me deal with my challenges. I love your boxes as I like to organize things. God bless you.

Love following you. I’m a quilter and a returning cross stitcher. It was a pleasure to see your quilts. The devotional is icing on the cake. Thank you

10:10 -- "I'm just going to read this. "Most of my life up 'til now I had never been fully happy, because I'd always wanted to be somewhere else...there is one thing I wish I had realized sooner. It's that too many of us are working harder than we want at things we don't like to do. Why? So as to afford the sort of exisitence we don't care to live." -- Thank you for sharing these profound words of wisdom!

Oh my word! I absolutely laughed out loud when you were talking about lead paint and said "but I won't be chewing on it"! You are such a hoot to be around. I really needed that laugh due to a storm rolling through yesterday and no power overnight and again all morning. You lifted my spirit with your off the cuff funny. All is well now and we were so blessed that the temp and humidity were both low during the outage. God is good.

Hello, my name is Diana. I ran across your RU-vid channel just searching. Your latest video is the one that I watched. I truly loved the paper that you read about working and what we wanted in ♥️ our life. That truly hit my heart. Thank you so much. I truly love listening to you and watching you and seeing your beautiful projects. Thank you again so much. I am a quilter and crafter.♥️

I love every minute of your videos. You have a wonderful gift of creativity and I’m thankful you share it with us.

The things that make you happy make me happy. I have 3 Featherweights and enjoy sewing on each one. I love your videos. I missed them while you were gone.

I’m so happy I found your channel!! I’ve got to binge watch all your others next. Everything you talk about I love and want to do. I love knitting, crochet, cross stitch and I’ve quilted some with my grandmother…now I need to get busy and make more quilts. Thank you for such wonderful content and God Bless!

Thank you for sharing all your creativity with us ! ❤

Hi Bonnie🙋‍♀️ from North Dakota. I loved every minute of this video. I can relate to so many things you struggle with as we could be twins. Sure, I wish you lived in my neighborhood. We live in a very small town, and my hubby is a farmer who will not retire,but we love it all so much. So quiet and can go outside and listen to the birds and enjoy the quietness. Love all your beautiful quilting,there again we have the same taste. My faith is a top priority in my life. Keep doing what you are doing, my sweet friend. Will be waiting for your next video. ❤🫂🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Yes I like matchy matchy, and I like everything you make to, right up my alley, I’m not a quilter but love looking at them I do cross stitch.

SO glad that you share your faith! I’m a born-again Christian and I know the importance of sharing our love for Jesus our Savior. I love all the projects that you share. Thank you.🙂

Our Faith helps us through this journey of life. Thank you for reading those verses. Just what was needed. I’ve enjoyed visiting and seeing your quilts and quilting. Some inspiration. Blessings and happy quilting.

Hi Bonnie I have been missing you on flosstube. When I saw this video on quilting I watched it and I enjoyed it very much. I like to quilt also. I love all of the little treasures you have and all the cute boxes. I love your faith and God will get you through anything. I am so glad God is in my life. He is always there for me. Love you Bonnie

Beautiful quilt with the birds, you are very creative, stunning.

I love how you combine elements from other patterns and make it your own. When you do, you always make it even more special than the original design...that the Creator in you ❤

I love your videos. Thank you for sharing ❤️

My first time watching you. Loved your show and your energy.

Thank you for all the time, energy, and enthusiasm you put into your videos. I truly appreciate the beautiful quilting, stitching, and creative endeavors you share! And, your closing thoughts and reflections are wonderful! I’m so happy that are doing your videos, once again. God’s blessings….🙂

Wonderful to see you again! Love, love your quilts! I feel the same about many things you love! I have always loved anything wood, and the darker prim colors. I recently got a featherweight to, Clara, bought on an online auction, she's a beauty and was so happy to get it, but with things I can't control at the moment I have not yet started sewing seriously with it but the opportunity is close. I have been helping a friend with dementia and I think she is finally settled in a wonderful assisted living and she tells me all the time she loves it there! So I will soon have available time to get started and it would be wonderful if you did a video on them! I like and have wooden boxes and carriers you were showing, it's so much fun to see you light up talking about how you are going to finish them! I get inspired to get up and do something just listening to you, so Thank You for doing these videos!

Love your quilt on the wall. I love making log cabin. Your center is a work of art!

(My name is Angie- my daughter changed our screen name 😁) My story is so similar. We lived in OC, CA- had a cabin in Lake Arrowhead & one day we kind of woke up and made changes (scary!!!) that turned out to be the best ever. We now live in Outer Banks, North Carolina & love it! Nature, small(er) town feel, good old Southern kindness- it’s just been amazing! I’m a quilter & it brings the peace I have always craved. Good for you guys for doing it- scary, but so worth it. Love the channel! I’ll be watching 😊❤

Glad to see you. I enjoy your videos clear to the end. Love featherweights. Have a few. Love sewing on them and maintaining them. You always inspire me. I use a Scofield Study Bible. Love it. May God bless you.

Have a lot of your same interests, Featherweights, cabins, quilting, wood boxes and my faith in God! I did have two Featherweights but lost one in my cabin fire so I am looking for another one and planning on rebuilding my cabin high in the Rocky Mountains on the dirt road far away from traffic! Your new sewing room looks nice and big! I used to enjoy hand quilting but now I am in such a hurry to start another one ! Hope you are enjoying living in Colorado, sounds nice!!

...that's the Creator in you Bonnie... He sees the beauty what could be and just like you, loves when the 'object or person' is yielded to His hands and His hearts vision for that dear one. I long for Him to do this in me so I can become what He sees.

Did the whole video in 3 sessions. Made me Happy and inspired. Thanks

I love the Walton’s too!! I have all of the seasons on DVD!! Bless you my friend!

Bonnie, I so enjoy visiting with you through your videos! Thank you for sharing your love of creating and all that makes you happy!🥰

For smalls, try rolling them up and store in a crock or basket. I lay quilts on a bed we don’t use and put a bedspread over them to cover. I also wrap quilts around a pool noodle (cut to fit) and store the noodles under the bed. I have small, antique clothes drying racks and hang smalls on them. Hope these ideas help!

So good to see you! I think it is our age where we are more mindful what we bring in. Now in my seventies I go for the easy quick quilts to make. I sew what I want to sew. I also love to cross stitch. I am working on Teresa Kogut’s Serenity chart. What was I thinking? lol. What a gorgeous quilt Blackbird design. You are so creative. Gives me so many ideas. I have thought of doing some tea dyeing but there are so many ways to do it. What method do you do? Thank you for sharing what you are getting from Louis Giglio’s book and the sermon. You do have a way with words and condensing and refining the truth of God’s word. Your light shines brightly❤️

This is one of your greatest video, every word keeps my attention. I hope you know that the God will help you through whatever you need. You do you. You are an amazing person and I wish you lived next door. Thank you for all your sharing of cross stitch, quilting and wisdom.

Hi ! I made the norma whaley quilt and I love it .when I saw the pattern I knew it would be done in all blues and browns. I added wool for the bird and made wool flowers instead of the flags in the one basket. Green was used where needed. The small rosie quilt was really pretty ❤ , 0😮

Your quilting projects are beautiful. I share a love of the muddy fabrics too although they are next to impossible for me to find in my area.

I love your cabin! I can imagine the emotions you are having.

I just found your channel and love it. I love the same fabric colors that you like..

Chuffed to see you on the tubes again. Do enjoy seeing what you've been up to. We are also currently in the process of preparing our home for sale later in the year but am finding the emotional attachment to it is going to present a challenge when the time comes. I would dearly love to see you take us through your thought process and journey of sorting through and selecting fabrics when your planning and putting together your next quilt project. It's something I struggle with.

Love this video! Thank you for sharing & your projects are just wonderful. God Bless!

I like the Waltons and Little House on The Prairie

Bonnie, I was thrilled to see you had a new video today. You are so wonderful and creative. I really do feel like we are having a visit with each other when you share these videos. You are such a sweet soul. ❤Thank you 😊

Hi Bonnie, I’ve been watching since the very beginning and I have enjoyed all your videos I always watch to the end. What you shared at the end today really spoke to me. I’ve been going through so much and your words just confirmed to me that God has everything in his hands ❤ God bless you.🙏🏼

Boy am I happy to see you!! I have thought so many times hoping you and your family are doing well. I’ve watched you from the very beginning and with the crazier times now more than ever, I feel we are more like minded. I see things now only biblically. God tells us not to worry, he is in control. Happier thoughts, love all your gorgeous quilts and of course your beautiful boxes. Being creative keeps us calmer, happier and focused. Tell us more about your featherweight!!! God bless you and your family Bonnie.

Good morning! Thank you for sharing so much! I wish you would have moved to Wisconsin- we seem to be kindred spirits!❤️

Love your cabin home. Precious

Hi Bonnie, I was so glad to see another video from you. You look really happy. So happy for you. Love seeing all your projects. You are so talented. Thank you for sharing everything with us. ❤

Hi Bonnie, I'm so glad you're back and I love seeing the quilting. After watching your video you made me realize it's ok to give yourself permission to sew and do the things you love to do. I'm also in a very chaotic point in my life, about to move to another not so perfect home, but quiet and in the country. I have also experienced South Carolina, California, Arizona and now back east again and I understand the bittersweet of missing an area that holds fond memories. Life is hard, but a storm never lasts, there's always blue skies that follow. 😊

Thank you for sharing your faith. It is who we are!! I looked at your log cabin and it is absolutely beautiful!! I see why you are emotional about selling it. But life has different stages and things changes so I understand why y’all have to move forward with what works best for you now that y’all live in a different state. So good to see you back!! Your room is so pretty with your amazing log cabin quilt!! ❤

Love seeing you again.

So glad to see you back Bonnie!! I enjoy your channel very much and have been watching for your next videos....realizing of course that life happens to us all, especially during the summertime. Glad to hear you are well. Can't wait to see what you have planned for us!!!

Bonnie, so glad you went and spent some time at your cabin before it sells and with all your friends at the guild in California. Your quilts are sooooo beautiful you are a master quilter beautiful stuff your choice of color I so good and I agree with you scrappy quilts are the best. I’m just learning to do needle turn appliqué I watch tons of videos on different techniques and finally ran across one that would be fast and easier for me. I had 12 14X14 inch square and I appliquéd those then added a small border to those squares then I added a larger border to add more appliqué but you just gave me an idea to quilt the border with a heavy thread weight and add just some appliqué on the quilting stitching. One question my friend what size needle do you use for quilting on 12 weight thread for quilting. Please talk about your favorite needles for quilting because I am clueless on quilting but I’m learning my appliqué turned out beautiful if I say so myself for my first quilt. I am learning so much from RU-vid. Love all your beautiful boxes. Oh and I purchased the New morning mercies devotional you recommended in your last video and I love it thanks for that.

Hi Bonnie, it is good to see you. You look great. I enjoy your videos. They are always so inspiring. You do beautiful work on everything you touch. God bless you and your family.

So happy to see you again! I love you sharing your love of Jesus!

Great words. I loved your little cabin. I’m looking for a featherweight. Hopefully will find one soon!

Gorgeous quilts, Bonnie! I also really enjoy seeing your boxes. ❤ Thanks for sharing!

Yay!!! So happy to see you had a new video! You always inspire me and you are perfect the way you are! I love artsy, crafting magazines too and handmade coffee mugs! It’s kind of an addiction! 😉😁 I have tried finding that Nesting pattern by Kathy Schmitz and I cannot find it anywhere. I even reached out to Kathy. I love the primitive look of it. I’m actually getting back into cross stitching after many years away from it. I stumbled onto your Flosstube video while trying to find punch needle videos. Now I’m hooked and I never thought I would cross stitch again! Gosh, has it changed! In the hunting and gathering phase (charts and fabric) and trying to educate myself with Flosstubes. Linen is terrifying but I’m trying! ❤

Hello Bonnie Thank you for sharing your life stories and your beautiful quilts❤❤❤

Hi Bonnie… loved this time spent with you, you are so inspirational and uplifting, thank you for sharing the Good Stuff…I have recently returned to quilting and am making progress, although slow and small 😂😂 on my large abandoned project pile..! Thank you for replying to my interest in the goose on the loose pattern…. I hope you received my email reply… blessings to you till next time…💕oh, and I’d be very interested in how you put your quilts together for quilting by hand….🤗

Oh Bonnie….. So much to share. While you were gone, there were several times I thought of you and hoped you were happy and well. Other times I felt the need to pray for you. I lifted you and husband in prayer knowing God knew just what we need when we need it. So a year ago April , I lost my eldest daughter Jenn. She was 41 years old when she passed. It has been almost more than I could bare. If it wasn’t for Jesus, I would not have endured. Jenn had become such an important aspect of my stitching. In more ways than I even realized. I am just now being brave and re- entering my quilt room. I lost all Joy quilting and stitching brought me. I am proud of me for Making myself go in there lol. I talk to her and I talk to God all of the time. She adores your videos and your work and my attempts of working with felt. ( the felt you sent me 😊) I felt the need to tell you all this because I felt the need to reach out to you and ask you to pray with me. Know the impact And importance you bring. Needless to say I am so glad you’re back I have enjoyed your video return Lots of love and prayer Bonnie love you. Your sister in Christ. Kathy

Hi there Bonnie! Welcome back. You have been busy doing all things creative and I love it all! I finally got through my cross stitch patterns and have several more for you, a quilting book as well. I left an e-mail with the info. Let me know what you think. The quilts are awesome as well as your great antique boxes. You always make them look beautiful. Keep in touch and know you are stronger than you think... An inspiration to many!!!

Hi Bonnie. I am so happy you posted a new video. I really enjoy hearing about what you have been doing.

Hi Bonnie, I’m so glad you are back. I found you right when you had posted your last video prior to your move. I had SO hoped you would return as your love for the Lord is so refreshing and is much needed here on RU-vid. Thank you for being so willing to share your time with us.

Sooo glad to see your smile again! You absolutely have no idea how inspiring you are. ❤. I have the Blackbird designs basket quilt pattern and so ready to jump into it. How about a QAL 😅.

I sure love your work!! Your brain and my brain think just alike!!! If I did a video it would be just like this! I'm going to make your background quilt! I love that one!! You are inspiring me to do some hand quilting now. Thank you for a great video!!

Hi Bonnie, it's so good to see you again! All of your quilts are beautiful as is your sewing room. Thanks, especially, for The Good Stuff ~ you seem to be here at times when I am struggling and the anxiety sermon is just what I need today. I will be watching it as soon as I send this. Thank you for being such a light in this heavy and dark world. Looking forward to your next video!

I’m thrilled beyond thrilled to see and hear your good stuff. You have given me hope that God can take my lows in my life and make it right. You have inspired me to keep going forward .I too love Jesus and rely on prayer but life stuff gets in the way some times and I forget how muchJesus loves us. Thanks for reminding me the love and plans Jesus has for all of us.

I just love you!!

Missed seeing your videos So glad you are back. You are an inspiration

What an inspiration you are and thank you for the testimony. I want to do more hand quilting but just need to know it is ok to be mindful of the work it takes. My grandmother did hand quilting and it seems today many just machine quilt to get it done. I loved your video. I will also stitch what I feel like stitching. Thank you and God bless you and all that you are going through. He knows what you’re capable of and nothing more. Amazing.

Love your videos and your quilts

Love your quilts, love Blackbird Designs quilts and cross stitch too, very much. So cosy, so cute. Thank you for your inspirational video

I would love to see you do a featherweight video!!

Yes, just be you. Wow, I take an hour to really wake up too and during that time I just need quiet time. Love your old stuff. Thank you for sharing the magnet link. Also thank you for the flosstube. I hate the sayings, “You can do it.” “Or you’ve got this.” Why do people want to put that much pressure on me when I know I can’t do it but I do know that I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me! I’d never want it any other way.

I was going to comment and ask if you've ever made anything by Norma Whaley, and then you showed the one you're working on! I love her designs and I typically purchase her kits because I have a hard time putting the fabrics together. Love your videos and feel like I'm visiting an old friend. Thank you for sharing with us.

Love you girl, one of the gals in my Bible Study was in the Walton cast and they regularly get together, and have a non profit they support. Just have fun and say hello to Colorado for me. hugs

Thank you so much for all you share .you have allowed me to be who I am . it is ok for me to like what I do even if it different from what everyone else is doing .please keep doing your videos . I love your sharing at the end .

I'm so happy you're back doing videos. Love the way you talk and share your life and are so honest about your struggles. I also deal with anxiety and change. I went through a very long, sad and nasty divorce after 24 years of marriage and sometimes still think about how I thought my life wouId be in my 60's. But God has been so good and i have a lot of peace now. God is everything to me and love to hear about your faith. I love antiques and the whole process of crafting too. I get very emotional about things I've collected with my Dad when he was alive. He loved to go junkin' before it was popular. There are so many memories attached to everything i have that remind me of great adventures with my Mom , Dad and best friend that are no longer with me. I also love everything to do with whatever craft I'm immersed in too. Needless to say I have a lot of "everything". Because i like a lot of different crafts. I used to paint on wood and fabric, embroidery, cross stitch, jewelry making, stamping cards, knitting, but it all started with sewing clothes and quilting. My earliest memories are of standing by my Grandmother at her sewing machine while she made my skipper doll some clothes. But i was absolutely fascinated by her quilting and couldn't wait till i.could one day make quilts. All of the thinds that go with each craft ad to the experience and enjoyment of the process for me. I also have fabric and projects from 20 years ago or more that i still love. I don't care if its old. If i loved it then i love it still. And i like to change some things to make it more me. Dont change. We love you just the way you are

Hi Bonnie. I am so very happy to see you again. I love your videos and all your projects are so beautiful! We have some things in common like boxes, wood and our creativity. You are so cute and a little squirrely like ne too! I want to make some sweet sewing boxes like you have after I get settled. I'm in the process of packing up my house to sell and downsize. Sound familiar? 😅

So glad you are back showing all your pretty projects. I have a couple of the wooden trays with handles I want to do something with but not sure what. Thanks for sharing.

Enjoyed your video ! Also love the Waltons ! Blessings to you 🪡🙏🏻

I’ve been wondering how you were doing. Glad to see your newest podcast. Thanks for sharing all.

Love the chicken needle book! Do you have a video on how to make it? Thank you for another inspiring video 😊🪡

I hang my mini quilts and runners in the closet with pant hangers (the kind that pinch the fabric) that have felt to protect the fabric and don't pinch the mini quilts too tightly. You can fold them with a looser fold (with the fold out to the side not in the pinched hanger part) so they don't crease. Not sure if that makes sense or not, but works for me!! Totally hear you on wanting them to not get a hard fold crease down the middle! ❤

Again, I was thrilled to get your notification ❤️❤️❤️I’ve been wondering about the Aurifil on wooden spools. I’ll have to try some out. I’m finally starting to like hand Applique.

Have you ever used paprika to dye with? We tried to dye some wool yarn. I need to figure out how to make it deeper and darker. It turned out to pale. Do you have any ideas? I thought it would look good on your bags. I bought a 100g csemege faszerpaprika orlemeny at a thrift store with the intent of dying with it. Your show and tell appeared in my view this am. I loved it. I think I'll take my log cabin off the hassock and add applique to it. Oh just another project one step closer to being completed. I enjoyed seeing all the boxes. I have a few from mom and grandma. Mom stored her odds and sods of notions in them. I really like the old tray. The worn spots add such character. Great inspiration, thank you. From AB CA

Good to see you again! Your log cabin quilt is beautiful, but what is that quilt I see to the right?! Can we see a close up of that one too?

I get so excited each time I see you have posted a video as I love absolutely everything you share with us. Wanted to let you know that there is a shop called The Old Tattered Flag that has introduced a line of threads that may be right up your alley as far as colors are concerned. Her style is very prim and I think you will really like her shop although it’s mostly wool related. Hope you post more videos.

Hi! I was so happy to see your video pop up. Your your 'good stuff' really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing, it helped me. Like you, I love the Waltons! I have been watching them for years. You wooden box's are beautiful. Love how you restore them, very creative. I have a question...for your hand applique do do raw edge with the cotton fabrics also? May you be blessed with peace and gasp stitching.

Bonnie, so good to see you. Questions....do you wash fabrics before cutting? So you starch before cutting? I have tried both washing and not. My cuts need to be more accurate. I often find when I square u[ the block that it is off by 1/8 or MORE! I have only made a few quilts. Most are given away. I regret not taking photos. Happy you are back.

I just ordered the We Like it Wild book. In 2015, my husband and I moved from the Twin Cities to northern MN. We live in a 100 sq ft home on a lake surrounded by old growth pine and cedar trees. We have the quiet, except for loons and other waterfowl. On an almost daily basis we see otters, eagles, etc. I could never go back to the rat race of city life. We live about 90 miles from the Canadian border truly in Gods Country. I love your videos since you shave the same aesthetic including a passion for estate sales, thrift stores and repurposing old things. I have a featherweight and a Singer 301 which is the big sister to a featherweight. My aunt taught me how to quilt when I was 15. She was my aunt by marriage, but I was closer to them then my own parents. She came from a family of 18 children but never wanted any of her own. But, I ended up being their surrogate daughter. My aunt started decking with Alzheimer’s in 2016. By 2019 I had to move her to memory care and she died in 2022. I inherited a house in Oregon full of antiques. So I had to hold an estate sale and sell the house. It was bittersweet, but her quilting group helped me out. They meet in a one room schoolhouse in Hugo, OR. I too inherited all her quilting stencils so you mention of your moms stencils brought back memories. She always wrote her name, June, on them so every time I use them it’s like she is talking to me. Sorry for the long comment, but you really touched my heart today and I so appreciate your videos. I know if we lived close by, we would have a lot of fun together. Take care!

Hi! Have missed you!

Hi Bonnie! I loved the video and seeing all your quilting. I love that you hand quilt, my grandmother did. Have you seen Colorado Cross Stitcher's sewing boxes? Thank you for sharing.

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Can you not do a variation of trapunto fill in for the pumpkin. Do the quilting and then put in the trupunto. You will gind a way. It would look raised and vome to life. Love from Canada in AB.

Hi Bonnie, I recently moved from Baton Rouge (quiet town) to be near my daughter and granddaughters in a suburb of Atlanta. I miss my Quiet friendly town. Bless you to have it now. I am making a quilt my 8yr old designed ❤️❤️. I tried batting from Hobby Lobby but it makes the quilt so heavy. What do you think of not using batting at all? Will it just be a blanket and not a quilt anymore? I do intend on hand running stitch. I wanted to suggest you watch the series ‘The Chosen’. A wonderful production of Jesus’ life on earth.

Thank you for sharing the information about quilting. Your quilts are beautiful. Thank you also for the devotional. I’m reading the Old Testament this year, two chapters a day. “There is none like the God of Israel, who rides the heavens to your help, and through the skies in His majesty. The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33:26-27. Blessings to you, dear sister as you learn to trust Him more. He loves us more than we realize.

Love all your projects and tips on hand quilting. I'm planning on giving hand quilting a go. Did you mention what weight Aurifil is recommended for hand quilting? I tried 50 weight on a hexagon project but the thread kept breaking. Also, is it only the stencils that show on the back and not the applique? Just making sure. Thank you! Karin

Just curious, do you hand quilt all your quilts? I used to, until I could afford to send them out and then I got a machine that I could freehand quilt. I love the feel of the hand quilted quilts. The machine quilts are so stiff. But I don't have the patience to hand quilt, although I love to hand stitch epp, embroidery. I don't x-stitch. I can't afford that rabbit hole.

Loved all ur beautiful quilts an boxes! What is the name of the quilting thread u had in the long narrow wood box? An u gave the numbers for each color...thx u ..joy

What size needle do you use for your hand quilting?

Since you quilt without a hoop, how do you baste your projects?