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good morning stitch rubies thank you for stopping by it is a cold misty morning out in happy valley land i can't even see scouters mountain the fog is so rolled in i guess but um here i am uh sitting cozy in the beehive and i am stitching here uh because the light is better on this side of the house in the morning and then i have this great lighting here in the beehive and my table my girlfriend table yep you see it i put it together last night i am the elan frame uh was interesting to put together um you know i'm a cross stitcher so i should be able to figure out how to put together a cross-stitch frame but it did take me a little bit of time and i figured it out and i did realize that the reason i was buying this frame this was actually an anniversary gift from g back in september it took until december to get it and we were moving so it like went in to a box not with the floss um and uh so well yesterday was the first day that i decided i was brave enough to put it together lots and lots of knobs but my intention for buying this frame was because i stitch in hand but i thought it might be beneficial to have a frame that's held on its own that stands on its own for big projects and let me just uh i love this part of it is that you can flip it over to see the back side but i'm gonna flip it down just so you can see my face but i love being able to see the back side of this okay back to the frame what i realized was although i bought two stretcher bars uh that you have to order separately of two different sizes neither of them was the size that would um one of my big like the land that i love uh big um samplers would fit on and that's the main reason for buying this so i am going to have to either one check if i have a q snap that will fit it which i don't think i do or order the next largest uh um stretcher bar the thing about it is that this these are handmade here in america and by a family and their orders you know there as the orders come in they're making them so it takes a while so i don't know if i want to wait as long as it takes for these stretcher bars or not but let me just tell you although i just started i kind of like it i don't know i don't think i will use this for the tiny cross stitches but i can kind of tell that one of the big issues that i've been dealing with is with this move my hands hurt whatever i did with lifting shoving pulling ripping boxes open all of my hand my finger joints hurt and i'm not sure how that stitching in hand and having to hold everything or i don't like holding a frame is going to work and i think this might be the solution to that with that said the easiest part of this was putting it together the instructions are very clear but the learning curve comes in trying to teach yourself to stitch two-handed that means you keep one hand underneath and one hand on top and i keep finding myself putting both hands underneath and going oh this doesn't work well no duh it doesn't it's a two-handed stitch system so you keep one hand on the back side and pull and once you get that rhythm going i notice that it seems to me like it's going to make stitching a little faster i could be wrong but um yeah so what i decided to do to to challenge myself and to help with my learning curve is i am working on actually a project that fits the frame that i bought and it was that satsuma this is for my youngest grandchild his name is leo i did not buy this for his zodiac um his zodiac sign i bought it because it said his name but i decided since that fit this frame and i did change the fabric to this um uh let me think uh i'm not sure what kind of i'm not sure what kind of uh fat i know this is an even weave i told janine when i went to acorns and threads that i um i'm done with the black for now i mean i might try it again but no i'm done with the black and i appreciate all your suggestions on how to do stitch with black but i am done with the black and for now and i went to an even weave and so i i said well for this first project on this frame i'm going to try this smaller project because it's only going to be like seven inches round so i should be able to get it done and i like that my you know because my flosser is it's all dmc and it's all in these bags on this ring is it just hangs on the edge of uh on one of the knobs of this frame so that's that's really great that's really great it's i'm ready to try it and i did stitch a little bit last night with this frame sitting on my lap while i was watching tv and this thing is well well balanced i i like it so i will put the link of what type of frame this is in the description box because it's very very well made and it came with these little um additional bars that you put in here if you're going to use a cue snap or to hold it steadier so so that's uh we'll do a little bit of stitching um once i get done with the rest of what i'm sharing so i did have i did finish something yes it's small and but i got it done in the month and here's the reason is i i tried to do my hashtag monthly orni sal ornament which is an ornament of the month start it with halloween and for whatever reason in that first couple weeks of january i was not i couldn't concentrate enough and i kept getting the count off and i finally just gave up i realized that my mind at that time was barely hanging on by a thread a floss thread because i can't find my floss thread and um so rather than throw in the towel and say okay i just give up and be real dramatic i can't do it anymore i decided why don't you pick something simple and just get your get your mojo going get your mojo going so i picked out um the easiest ornament i could find in this issue which i got at acorns and threads and it was um i mean it was it was the easiest easiest one let me see if i can find what i really wanted to do the gnome in here and i will i will be doing the gnome but um in the meantime i said i need to do that one merry christmas and that little holly is actually just a button so i don't have a button and i didn't want to she painted a hoop and uh when i did mine it just seemed too big i really wanted something that could be an ornament so i'm going to finish it in like a flat fold type of um you know just cut barely cut out a piece of cardboard to where it'll fit on and then put a candy stripe type twine around but i did get it done so look at that my first my first monthly horny sal that i'm doing with becca from zambry stitches and audrey from stitchy witch 42. so now that uh january is coming to a close i can maybe pick another one out and do that one but um i'm not sure when i'm gonna well g is developing an area in the garage where i can do my finishing have all my glue all my hammers all my stuff down there so i'll actually have a little workbench in the garage and he is puttering down there as we speak because it has been i realized that it really has been gosh almost 15 or 20 years since he had a real workshop a a wood working workshop and this house is providing that space in the garage for us both to have a little work table out there which is awesome i don't know if i've ever shared this with you but he when i met him he was uh well he comes from a family history of artists of different genre and but one of the things he did when i he was doing at the time i met him was not only did he play music and he can play by ear but he was a fine woodworker and so he had built a couple of dulcimers he had those fine woodworking carving tools you know i was so sad when he kind of gave those all away because we ended up as we moved you know he got into other things black and white photography you know and um so he's i i i'm kind of tickled when i see that he's excited about this whole woodworking um area in the garage and maybe he'll start doing some woodworking again which would be really awesome he needs all of that creative outlet not just the music but things with his hands because don't you find that things with your hands uh really there's something kinetically going on that that makes you feel like yeah the finger bones connected to the arm bone the arm bones connect to the shoulder bone you know it just kind of makes your whole body wiggle yeah so i am glad that he's down there been organizing and puttering and yeah and because this area in the wintertime has a lot of rain we figured out that we can have our exercise in the garage and we can open the garage door and get that brisk fresh air and not get wet and face our exercise outside the garage so people will wonder what's going on in this house let me tell you um oh i i'm digressing aren't i i'm digressing but i do have a fully finished yes it's another simple fully fish but it's finished in time for valentine's day and i don't know if you remember that um beth twists i i'm pretty sure this is beth twist yes look at that i did this remember i stitched this last year valentine's start in tucson arizona this was so fun and then i wanted this frame which is a oh i don't have the name of it but i will put it in the description box it was actually created this is what she used for her tea is for turkey i need to do that one but it's i think it's called signed and framed but i'll put the link in the description box but it can either hang or it has this little peg where it can sit on a shelf and that's what i'm going to do but i have my first valentine finish for this year fully finished i was so excited about that we are still working and i i love i loved watching scott my boy and who just moved he just moved i'll put his link on instagram too um scott hanson he's a a quilter extraordinaire but he just moved to whidbey island which is one of my favorites favorite places i mean you talk about artistic community there's a lot of artists on whidbey island but he today was complaining about not wanting to go in the house and hang pictures up and i get it because when you move to a new place just trying to figure out where things go when they were so amazingly displayed in your last home otherwise you wouldn't have saved it and brought it and they don't fit in your new home it it's a little bit of a challenge and so listening to him i had to laugh because i felt his pain but i wanted to show you that uh this is one of my throwback throwback cross stitch look at this one i haven't found a spot isn't that gorgeous i don't even know who this is by i know that i finished it in 1990 um and i did cross stitch all my initials across the bottom and this is when robin was teaching me to cross stitch but i love her i love her and so i have to find a spot it's just it's just a challenge it's just a challenge gee got all our family pictures i had this whole family picture wall and he got it all hung in this upstairs hallway and that makes me so happy and i always had this little plaque that was in the center of all my family pictures that said believe in something greater than yourself and that's how family generations go they build on the the previous or the next or we learn from the previous or our kids learn from us on what to do and what not to do so believe in something greater than yourself so i'm going to just give this a little bit of a stitch what do you think huh so this is it it comes with three holes so you can move this up or down and this actually fits very well on your lap but um let's see one two three four five one two three four five so you keep one hand back here and one hand up here and you know you this hand just wants to go under there but it's it it works more efficiently if you keep doing this but i'm telling you it's like this learning curve of um you know it's a learning curve that's all i can say and i think once you get the rhythm down you can okay i gotta relax my shoulders because i can tell i'm just like so tense so you see how that goes now um it um it works really nicely with this tray sitting on your lap too oh gosh i know i'm gonna get it i know it's gonna be it's gonna work i know it's gonna work it's just and it's probably good for your brain to teach yourself it's kind of like tick-tock dancing making your body do something entirely different than it's used to is good for your aging brain oh this is so funny see don't do don't do what i'm doing are you laughing at me are you laughing at me those of you who already know how to do this are probably going oh man it probably would be better on my lap than on this table huh you can see what's going on under here i'm trying to find the hole you know and i think eventually it'll be like automatic your needle will will find the hole much easier it maybe it's like learning a foreign language too where you um once you get it going yeah relax deep breathe it doesn't help it actually is detrimental for you to when you're cross stitching like this to hold your breath because i i can attest to the fact that you do get a little bit light headed when you do that so with every time that the needle goes in the right spot oh you take a deep breath in and you blow it out yeah that's what you're supposed to do you're not supposed to hold your breath yeah i'm finding my hands um are really sore i i remember a friend of mine had the joints replaced in her thumbs from years of hand quilting ugh i said oh i i kind of feel a little bit of what she was talking about the pain today is my oldest grandson's ninth birthday oh i'm hoping to see him uh you know at least do a drive-by and uh to his house but um right now he's not at home so um but nine years it's so hard to believe it's been that long since he was born yeah it was so funny because um he's he stayed overnight at a friend's house who's uh in their little bubble in and his mom told him this is the first time you haven't woken up in your bed on your birthday and he said mom i'm nine you'll be okay he's growing up i can't stand it that he's growing up he's telling his mom you'll be okay so i know it seems like it's rocking but i think it's because it's on there there now it's not rocking um yeah so uh there you go well the other thing that has happened in my life is i had all my needle minders remember they were all displayed behind me on that metal grid i put them all in a plastic bag and now i can't find that plastic bag i saw it i know i unpacked it it's not like the floss i unpacked it somewhere but here's the thing i have so much little stuff around here that when i was looking for the a button to go on that um merry christmas stitch i couldn't find my button box and gee walked in he goes what are you doing i said i can't buy my button box i unpacked it i remember unpacking it i remember seeing it and i can't find it in this room and so i had to kind of like walk around this room and look in every corner and sure enough it was sitting right there on the on the bookshelf it's just that there's everything i love in here and so it took me a while to find it so now i have to find my needle minders i gotta find them because i need a needle needleliner for this yeah g told me just order the floss again and i said it's forty dollars worth of floss and he said really you know and i was really tempted but i think i just want to wait till every box is unpacked and we're getting close we are getting close but you know we make daily trips not daily at least twice weekly trips to goodwill and it was so interesting because yesterday we went to goodwill and there's just things they won't even take and i was shocked because they've been they have so many people bringing stuff that they now are getting quite discerning um luckily for me there was a um place right down the street that was another donation place um for um you know that donation place helps uh people with job uh job hunting skills and uh what goodwill wouldn't take they took which i was shocked at the stuff that goodwill wouldn't take i mean all kinds of craft stuff i had when i was scrapbooking you know it was like what why won't you take that but um yeah so i keep thinking that i'll find that floss one day but i've given myself a deadline if i don't find that floss by i'm going to give myself another seven days i think in seven days we'll have unpacked every box did i ever tell you about the garbage that i hauled around yeah i did huh see this is why i want to unpack every box i mean we hauled around kitchen garbage for five years and that is not happening to me this time but i really really want to start that long dog pandemic and that's why i bought this frame anyway i bought it for the long dog sampler the quaker christmas two the um land that i love and then when i was watching uh sambri stitch's latest video and she was sitting in front of that wall of stitchery there's a wall down in our family room that's blank and she was saying what do you think and there's a quilt hanging on one side it's a big big long wall i said i really want to leave this wall empty because i would like to fill it with samplers cross stitch samplers because there's really not a whole lot of place to hang my cross stitch and i said the cross stitch samplers that'd be neat to have a wall of those and um so we're leaving it blank and which means i need to you know get it done get it done so i'm going to give myself another week and if i can't find that floss in another week i guess i'll buy it again i just know as soon as i buy it it's gonna show up but you know how long do you wait for love i only waited two weeks before i said yes so i think i'm doing pretty good waiting this long to find that floss yeah i've been rambling i know i've been rambling oh well yes i i'm kind of bummed that i missed out on signing up i totally did a brain fart and missed out on signing up for the acorns and threads stitch stitch along um i mean stitch workshop on the 31st i'm just like oh such a bummer but you know you win some you lose some in the meantime i guess i will keep working away at this and try to get more proficient yes more proficient and i'll keep you updated okay and we'll see you next time thank you thank you so much for stopping by it means a lot and i love ollie for your comments uh i love the the back and forth enabling that goes on yeah i am all about that thank you you