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hi i'm bonnie log cabin stitcher welcome to my channel and welcome to my sewing room you can follow me on instagram at bonnie log cabin stitcher this will be my flosstube number 15. now i did one earlier today and that was number 14 and i did it in costume so i had a renaissance fair costume that i had made when i was a teenager my husband who then was my boyfriend and i went several times to the renaissance fair and i forgot to say that um when we went in costume to the fair it was so fun because any time you go in costume to something you just get to be more a part of it you feel more instead of just going and viewing something kind of like you go to the zoo you're part of it and then the people that worked there were interacted with us more because we were more into it so i was talking to my son after i had done the video and just telling him about it and laughing and i thought oh i forgot to say that in the video so there you go so that was flosstube number 14. um no costume today but it is funny because i had said earlier so that video i actually was wearing a necklace the same friend i have a friend linda and she has given me so many sweet wonderful things she loved to make jewelry and then she loved to purchase jewelry as well so this was one that she had purchased from me and this is nice and light so i thought i i am okay with necklaces as long as they're nice and light i just don't like heavy stuff so this earring is going to irritate me there we go it keeps turning these were my mom's and i talked about those on another video i talked about everything on these videos but this one i am going to focus more on my embroidery so the the last video i did was about my valentine's and it was already a very long video and i've had questions about my embroidery that i do so along the way i had done cross stitch years ago then got into embroidery then quilting and i've just done things all along the way now during my time that i did embroidery because when i usually do something i saturate myself into it when i get back into my bead making and not bead making jewelry making with beads um i get all that out on my table i saturate myself with that and i really do that for now i'm into cross stitch but i do want to venture back into embroidery and back into quilting and other things so we'll see what i do but i just wanted to share with you because i had some questions about how i transfer my design and then i thought well let's just talk about some of the embroidery that i do so this one not any cross stitch that i will share but embroidery so maybe if it's something that you've been thinking about this would be of interest to you and then if you just want to sit and listen to me stitch even if you don't do embroidery it may get you interested in just doing something different with the floss that you already use so let's dive in and do this oh the other things that i have to share with you here are i'm even though it's it's the end of january now i am going to be doing valentine's decorations because i just recently took out my christmas but i'll leave valentine up all february and i have a lot of cross stitch projects to fully finish so we're good with it this is just something i've had for a long time probably made with i don't know if it's handmade or not but it was very white and i t dyed it so it looks a little more primitive it's usually hanging up there with the wall hanging that i'm going to show you in a minute and then um i've talked about my mom who is the bear maker artisan bear maker and i inherited a lot of bears that she had made that one's one of them and or she gifted them to me so this is one that i have and there is no tag on the back so her business um was barbara's bears by barbara brown so this one doesn't have a tag and is it because she made it for herself and she didn't tag it or was this a friend of hers that made it it looks in the style like the bears that she would have made and i know we my mom and i did a lot of things with this particular little inexpensive locket so but a lot of other people did too so that will be something fun so whether it was something that my mom made or a dear friend of hers um that will be fun so there we go as far as that goes okay so let's dive in to the embroidery now the way i got into the embroidery um was i had done it as i when i was a kid and i shared that in my flosstube one i recently watched that to see what exactly did i share back then and i showed my embroidery that i did when i was about seven so then i got back into it again in about um 05 0405 i got back into it again inspired by my sister and so i did i've shared um i had to get my lights going these are my box lights so this set um long ago so these were of course made about 15 years ago so they are not all for sale right now some are some aren't so um i got inspired to do that but that was right before christmas so at that time we did a gift exchange and my mom was alive and so she had picked my name and i said mom and cuz she and my sister were both into embroidery i said i want to get into embroidery and she knew my style and i said just gift me stuff to get me started so i know she gave me floss which i already had a lot of dnc floss over the years anyway from my crust to cheers but she gave me probably some more floss she gave me this book um i don't even know if this i should have checked to see if this was for sale this is um powder meal powder mill by imaginating so i know i did a lot of imaginating was a company that was out in the early uh what is our early what century are we um it is getting late i tend to do these late sometimes but anyway this is one that she did and look at here was even my note from her to bonnie from mom and i just did notes in here so these were sometimes i would just see a cone flower i would just draw it out a sunflower cell um this is a book that she gave me that's how i got into it then that christmas so i had opened up the gift from my mom who had sent it from colorado my sister and her husband came over that day for christmas and so my sister while she was there she brought her embroidery stuff because i had totally forgotten how to embroidery she was showing me how to do the stitches so it's kind of funny because most of what people do for a line you know if you're doing a line on your stitching straight stitch most people would do the back stitch somehow in all the stitching that my sister showed me that day instead of doing the back stitch i did the stem stitch and i just like i've done a modified big stitch i kind of do a modified stem stitch for my straight stitching so it's all in the pile here so i'll show that to you in a minute so i do my stitching very very small so by the time my sister left she had like an hour and a half drive home when she got home she called to say that she was safe and i was like i love this i'm having fun so i stitched and stitched and stitched um so when i get into something i do it a lot and i did a lot of embroidery so that was at christmas time then i think that year my sister and i went to the road to california show so that would have been a month later right down the street from me and i found a booth and um they bare roots so bare roots was big at that time and so was bird brain designs those were the two and crab apple hill studios so those were the three that i got those designs and primarily everything i did from that era were those three designers so if you will notice i probably got this that time um i do not know if this is for sale if i was to check on all this stuff i never would have gotten this video done so um bare roots hearts and flowers quilt you will see that so this was oh sorry riley's down there sleeping i had intended to do all the embroidery on this and i did not i ended up not doing that but i did a lot of so that i did other embroidery stitches on that so you'll see this is i think that's the feather stitch or the fly stitch um i did that around there as well as the buttonhole stitch so i just decided that i needed to do it a little bit faster and i remember talking to my sister about it she said just skip all the embroidery do something else to get it done because by then i had gotten so many buttons i had purchased so many different projects to work on so that was part of my progress that same time i bought this book and i have worn this thing out bare roots so it was a book all about borders um so these this was a stitching station it says 1005 so that was probably um inventoried at 10 of 2005. i used this a lot this was one of my favorite books and i did a lot of things with these different borders then um i can't remember if i bought this this pattern and i think these all these are still for sale i believe if you go on bare roots site this one i bought a lot of these seasonal ones because i love seasonal ones this is one of the few that i actually made up now i have a bunch of old frames and i just trade them out but i really want to get some newer frames but i'm a primitive type stitcher so um they're they're a little bit harder to find and i talked about that on my last flosstube so this is fun so this is using both embroidery fusible applique which i do a lot of or did and then i use the dmc to do more of a primitive kind of an applique right there and this is what i did for a long time i love love french knots i know a lot of people don't and i learned so this is the stem stitch that i do if you can see it's a very very small stem stitch so instead of the straight stitch i do the stem stitch for all my stitching and i do tiny stitches and i have learned when you're doing the stem stitch and you're going and it's a weird way because i'm i'm spatially challenged so if you're doing a stem stitch and you're you're going forward over a loop and you do that stem stitch the stitches kind of want to weep a little bit so i always think of going i think of flipping backwards so if i'm going to do a circle instead of doing the circle what would that be clockwise that's better i do it counterclockwise so i would start here and i would go back or and backer i would go backwards and that helps the stitches tiny little stem stitches that helps the stitches want to stay together instead of kind of spreading out like a spider web i'll try to show you close-ups as i go along so i am not like i have shared before when i showed how to make my thread charms it's like i don't i don't speak clearly enough think clearly enough to do real tutorials so these are like tutorial not tutorials demonstrations or just the way i do it so this is the way i do embroidery so we've got that one i really don't want to keep throwing stuff on the floor but there we go okay then another and this is my working pattern so i don't have the picture of this one again these were from 15 years ago so who knows i'll probably find a box with the real pattern in it because i just found a box recently with all my old old cross stitch stuff so this is bare roots number 92 three sweet purses pattern now i think this was the second time i had been to the rhodes california show but it was like the week before i went um i decided that i need to make a tote and i made a tote and it was very detailed i finished it like at one o'clock in the morning the night before the road to california because whenever you go to a very crowded fair or venue someday we will again um it's very tight and there's a million people in your tucking and so i wanted a handmade tote that i could tuck really close to me see it's even soft really close to me and kind of weave bob and weave around people so i can get in where i wanted to go so this was something that i had just made up so let's see if i can show you close so again um this goodness this is probably from that bare roots um from i don't know if i was to look at that because that's my working copy i don't know that i have the whole thing this may be in that or i may have just figured out how to make it i honestly don't know but i did both the fusible applique with the stitches that went over one one thread so i would use that fusible webbing iron it on and then stitch it so the edges don't um they don't come unraveled and i like i like that stitching because it almost looks like watercolor so i even did you know the little little buttons and i did little stuff along the way so i did this so long ago i do not know if this was part of a pattern or not so again i'm just kind of showing you some of this old stuff that i used to do now these are part of the pattern this is one of the pockets and it's a real pocket this is one of the pockets that's part of the pattern and oh that's where i must have gotten that idea okay so um in the in the wall hanging that i'm going to show you there's a heart so i must have just reduced it from here that's one of the hearts is that the same thing yep just a different color and then this was a different purse so again i change things all over the place i'll take a pattern and i'll change it up so this is just a pocket i remember the purse that you were supposed to make was like this size this tiny little thing was supposed to be one purse so i just turned it into a pocket the stars are along the edge that probably was from the pattern because it's the same gal that did the the book so here we go similar um but that's one side and then there's even these oh i know this was supposed to be like a cell phone back when cell phones were tiny this was supposed to be a little cell phone tote so i did it for a side i probably had my cell phone in there because that was back in the days i used to love the old cell phones um i loved the old ones and that was another one so this was just embroidery using floss making a tote it has a soft bottom so it folded nice against me when i was tucking and bobbing and weaving then i just did a goofy you know not really matching this was thick canvas nothing matched on the inside because this was in the days i did not have a lot of quilt fabric quilt quality fabric and so i didn't have anything that i wanted to what i would call waste to go inside there because i wanted to spend all my money at the show and buy patterns so here is one of my lights almost fell um here is the best one here is the best okay so this is my favorite so let me tell you more about it this is the pattern so obviously i did some changing so if we could look and see oh you know what actually that was in the pattern but again it's the same designer i switched out the i love you and this is something else i have this pattern i'll show you it's in a book um i was actually in a in a magazine is that envelope yep that envelope similar but this i think was from the imagination little hearts from the imagination thing this i didn't not learn how to do a snap so this does not open i i need to change that and then this heart is there but instead of leaving that top having it all one piece i did hugs and kisses that was probably from another book the center there we go the center and then these two pieces over here now my husband and i when we were dating whatever that poem is grow old along with me the best is yet to be there's more to it but we've always said that together even when we were teenagers and so um this one i see there's there's different sayings that were in those different pieces so here we have this i changed the design on the pocket so grow old along with me the best is yet to be this actually is a real pocket and there is a b on there for a best is yet to be and then this is a separate piece so if we look at this um i found i still found the charm pack um that i had so this was a nancy halverson charm pack that i used and then just bits and pieces of other fabrics but um i did that was that in there as well no so i chose to do this so i chose to do these stitches i'm going to share with you where you can learn these stitches in a moment but i just i liked it because all these colors matched they are all if i can look at these they're all from the same designer they're all from nancy halverson um who i loved when i started collecting my fabrics and now they're a little bit more bright than i would generally do but this right now hangs right where that is i put that there because and i'll talk about that on another video that one some other time but i didn't want that just naked up there but this one sometimes i will leave this up all year because i love it and it makes me very happy so again i'll do a close-up for you so you can see all the fun things on there i love details and so if i go close to and you can see the stitching so you can see this is there we go this is the stem stitch and i have to use i'll tell you about my needles in a moment but i have to use extremely fine needles and then one strand of floss and this was when i was doing over dyed as well as dmc but you can see when i do these circles so that's where i would go counterclockwise to go around that circle because that would be going backwards so they stay tighter and they don't like if i was to go clockwise and i was to pull this down it could like pull forward so that's where i go counterclockwise when i stitch tiny tiny stitches because i have a very very thin fine needle to do all those stitches these are just lazy daisies and um just fun so that's that's the kind of embroidery that i do so i had a huge compliment from my sister because my sister is an amazing artist and very talented and she's done almost she knits as well i never learned how to knit she's very talented um see needle needle worker and um after i had been doing embroidery for about a year and i did it a lot she said you are better than i am it's like whoa um that that was high compliments um and i loved it the other things i wanted to share because i really like to share with you you don't have to buy all this stuff i just i have had this forever so i found an old notebook with all my old embroidery stuff and it's bits and pieces of things ideas that i saw um i even had a catalog in there that was a stamp catalog and like an old stamping up catalog and i could see designs so you can get designs that's a neat thing about embroidery i called it like cross-stitching off-road cross stitching because cross stitching you you have specialty stitches but you're staying within a linen and you're generally doing a cross to make the full design when you do embroidery you do the outside so you're doing the outline and you use a lot less floss that's where i was shocked when i did um kind of a not a full coverage um but i did a cross stitch project and i was like oh my gosh i went through almost the whole skein of floss on that one project and i realized wow of course because i'm doing a lot more i'm doing a lot more full coverage stitching so if you think of it you can look at color books you can look at invitations christmas cards a lot of things that you can get designs from so this is something i had from a long time it was just a napkin and i thought oh gosh that would be darling i could stitch that up you know so i just save things and i'll show you how to transfer things then this is an old newsletter um so i'm just going to show it to you quick because um i don't know i don't know what copyrights they would have but it was from a quilt store the country loft so i just saved um drawings and i thought maybe i could stitch those up so i just save things or they inspire me but there's a lot of places that you will find designs that you can change and stitch and just have fun with here is something else that i stitched this is my working pattern um so somewhere i've got a box of all my real patterns but it's bare roots number 103 it's little things pillow so this took me a whole summer to do and i remember stitching this and um i have used it so it's it's looks kind of primitive because it has gotten dirty because it has been used in my sewing room or in my office and this is very fun but obviously i like the lettering so um i like the lettering and this was this this i believe was i don't think i veered from the pattern so just all the details of this i loved it and i remember one time i went to my brother's house and he and his wife went on a trip so i went to visit my parents in colorado my brother lives just on the other side of the rockies from them and i went there with my kids and i stayed and babysat his kids babysat i i hung out with my nieces did i have two nieces at the time no i don't think the no there was only one niece and one nephew and i hung out with them um for a couple days while my brother and his wife went on a trip and i remember sitting oh their house is amazing just truly amazing they live up in a mountain area i remember sitting in a window seat watching the birds and just stitching away stitching away on this project so what i had done is i put this pillow together first and then i stitched it because that was that was the only way that i could do it and make sure everything was centered so again i did it a long long time ago but the funny thing is too so um my niece my niece was the oldest one and at that time she was probably about eight she was younger than my boys um and so my brother and his wife were going to be coming home and i said oh let's clean the house let's get it all nice and clean so when mom and dad get home the house is clean and they're looking at me like what are we what are we talking about that's not fun and i said okay so um i don't want to say names but okay so you get the broom and start sweeping and you get this and start doing this and you get this and so i had everybody working and my niece is sweeping she goes this is just like cinderella but instead of the what it was it it was so funny so dramatic instead of the wicked stepmother not doing anything you're working too so that was the same trip as this so i remind her of that that i was the wicked stepmother um but i was cleaning too so fun trips fun memories um what else can we share we're just dumping everything on the ground okay so i had shared in my last flosstube that i found a box found some of my old cross stitch stuff in that i also found this is the working copy but this is a bird brain design i just know from looking at it um i purchased a lot of bird brain because she i can't remember her name the designer was always at the road california show so this is where i want to introduce you to how i transfer stuff i use the i used i used to use and again this has been folded up probably for about 12 years this is in progress so i found a whip i left the needle in there which is not good that's been staying there forever um but this is um this is a work in progress and um something that i was just gonna get rid of it you know i i get like ah i wouldn't do that design anymore it's more cutesy than i would do now it is sweet but it it's just not as primitive as i always do it but i thought i could finish it because it's almost done and i can make a project bag out of it and then i'll know my embroidery is in there but if you will notice this is blue on here so this is where i want to kind of introduce you do i no i got one more thing to show you first before i i get i before i move into that um mode um the other thing i want to show you is this is a project so this is what i do with my magazines i go through my magazines because i you know i have a lot i had a lot of magazines and i thought i just cut out the project that i want and get rid of the rest of the magazine because i really need more storage space so this was from american patchwork and quilting october 2004 so if you have a lot of old magazines like i used to um this is meg from uh crabapple hill studios which i have a lot i have a huge collection i'll share with you if you hang with me so i have this that i want to work on now look at that fabric um my mom had given me some and i showed how i t dyed it so i i don't do so much of the pristine white i like more of the primitive so i had tea dyed this and i thought oh how fun i'm going to make a project bag so i will do this for the top of the project bag i've got rick rack and then i will do this as the bottom and then this part will be the zipper so that's that's what i have in progress and when i do the transferring i have a light that i will share with you and now i am going to use something different than the blue pen so keep sticking with me there's a lot to go over on where i have been and where i'm going to and now i realize i did an hour and a half on video earlier today then i was on the phone with my son for about 45 minutes and then i had dinner with my husband talking with him and now i'm worn out but i'm a half hour into this i'm gonna keep going so let me have a drink wet my whistle and we're just going to keep working through this where i'm just sharing a lot of my tips tips tips and techniques with you so um oh and you know what else my eyes are hurting because i don't wear my glasses when i do these videos but generally the minute i wake up in the morning i put my glasses on and i leave them on all day until i go to bed at night and so because i did the video earlier now i've got these box lights my eyes are my eyes are fading but we're gonna stick with this um so the blue pen now the blue pen was one i used to use there's a clover one do i have the clover one on my table i don't see it there is a clover blue pen um and then there was this fine point um a very fine point mark be gone um and i used to use these and i knew i know they always came out i didn't iron them that's the one thing sometimes if you iron the blue markers they can stay on there i would get the project wet so this is what i want to explain to you why why i don't do this anymore so i would do this design and pretty much it goes away but sometimes you go off and then that blue is still there so i would have done this whole project then i would have gotten a spray bottle i would have gotten it flat on a towel this is what i did i would spread it on a towel i would spray it with the water and i remember i used overdyed floss and i would get it wet that would make the the blue pen disappear and i do that a lot in quilting it would make it disappear then i would get a towel and i would dry it off as quick i would press it and want to dry it i don't know that i ironed it because that might have shrunk it i would probably have said it maybe in the sunshine now the first time i did that my overdiets bled and i called my sister and is like what the heck do i do so she told me about a product that i used at that time it was called retain ret i don't know i can't even think how to spell it it was called retain and that helped um the the fabric or the floss retain that ink but you had to get it in water so i would get a bowl of water i would put the retain in there that i would put that over dyed floss in the water and it would bleed some but that retain kind of helped it stay as a fixative but i would still lose some color but that was because that's how i did it but i had a lot of floss i had a lot of floss and a lot of it i use that retain width so now fast forward to where i am cross stitching not using the blue pen not getting it wet yet um this is what i have found and i i think i found something that can kind of show i may need to get my glasses on no i can see it okay so what i had was i would have like say there would be a called for color like this is noel um there would be a call for color and mine is not as dark as it was originally and i know there's dye lot changes but i kept everything out of the sun so it wouldn't have faded there's just dye lot changes and there's different dye changes along the way but i also know i lost some of the vibrancy of those overdieds because of the process that i did but it was worth it to me at that time and i never expected to get back into cross stitching but this is where you can kind of see i don't know if you can really see a little bit of the difference and i was just guessing is this one um so this to me looks a little bit more vibrant this is noelle and i used this a lot back then and then this to me looks a little bit more faded but that's what would happen i would have one that was more vibrant when i bought it then i would do that retain to it and it would lose some of its vibrancy because some of that dye would come out because of the overdie so i i don't do that anymore not going to do that anymore and so when i do press my cross stitch if i need to get it at all wet i have it upside down on a pressing cloth like vanna has shown and i spray mostly around the edge because i use a hoop and i try not to get any of that water on the floss if i do i work to get it as dry as quickly as i can because i don't want a project to bleed so how am i going to avoid bleeding now yet still transfer that pattern that's the trick so i needed to figure that out along the way so i got into as i'm looking at what embroidery like who whose new embroidery out there now um oh it's a quilt a quilt pattern that i got for wool um it's hatched in patch it's annie downs so it's this designer annie downs hatched and patched i have a couple of her quilts and it's um fabric applique wool applique but she talked about using a transfer pen and i believe this is what it was the friction i would have to get that out and i forgot to do that but i also know that now kathy schmitz is a designer that i've been talking about and she on instagram had a tutorial um because she has if you go on her website she has a yearly club and you get a different pattern every month and then she has a video and she shows you how she stitches it and she shows different variations so i've subscribed to her youtube channel because i want to see her stitching now i have not gotten those garden club books or i mean those those club pieces because i have both of these and i really like them and so some of the stitching transfers back and forth but i liked how she showed how she transferred so um i keep thinking i didn't tell you something but it's okay just stick with me and then we're gonna we're gonna do this stuff i purchased this i was asking on one of my very first floss tubes to give me ideas because there was way i had an old light box from long ago and it it was not very good so i got rid of those and i was just using my window but it was hard on my it was because you could tape something to the window use the sun and that's your light box there's other different ways to rig one up with a plastic box with the light underneath it i just wanted a light box but i didn't want to spend a lot of money so i got this one on amazon i have not used it yet i don't think it was it was about twenty dollars so it was tick tick tech was the company but look at this is how thin it is so it's a nice thin one and i think it's usb there's a plug and my ot light is it uh yeah it is an alt light um it has a usb so i could use it right here at the table so think of a light box so this is a light i can put something on it i can put an outline put my fabric on top of it and it will shine through so that i will be able to trace something so as i was watching kathy schmitz she was using this friction pen so i have heard different things about different marking different marking devices and as a quilter if i am going to be marking on a quilt because i i machine piece but i hand applique and a hand quilt i don't want any marking not coming off and messing up my quilt so i was really leery because i've used the clover blue pens or that other one that i just showed you and then recently i went to a quilt guild meeting and jen i think it's jenny lyons had these and she said these these were very good so she's a professional quilter so i thought if she's if she's selling them so i bought some and they were nice and fine so i bought some of these but again you have to use water to get those off so i am very conservative when it comes to i guess cautious would be the best word very cautious with marking pens so um i hadn't really wanted to use that friction one but i thought kathy schmitz is a professional too so i'm i'm just taking advice and i think annie downes recommended that that as well so it is it's weird it's like uh so you do it like that it's like a gel ballpoint pen and i've tried it so i've marked with it and you iron heat makes it go away so all the things that i've heard about sometimes the ink can come back if it gets cold i don't know if it was these pens or not so i'm going to use this on my embroidery but i am not going to use these on my quilts until this is totally tried and true so this will be on my embroidery i'm going to try this next so i will use that light box and i will use this and i know other designers use that as well so let me keep talking to you about marking because i want to show you how i transfer on thicker stuff so this would be the osnaberg um so just you can you can the other neat thing about embroidery is you can use anything you can embroidery on anything you can do it on denim you can do it on anything which is very cool whereas cross stitch is different unless you do the uncounted cross stitch and um lori um from not forgotten farm on her blog spot farmhouse notforgotten.blogspot.com um has uncounted cross stitch super cool primitive and i like that and then you don't have to use linen but this is something this is this is this so i've got two i had made this um and i did this for my mom and i even did a letter to her um and then when she passed away i got this back but at that time i had intended to do one for myself i remember the camping trip that i did this on and so it's neat having fun memories come back but this is what i do with my embroidery so it's funny because with cross stitch many people stitch in hand i use a hoop with embroidery most people use a hoop i stitch in hand i'm just kind of backwards and i do that a lot but this is another thing that i do i use batting on the back so that when i stitch it gives it gives that stitch something to sink into and i have tried to stitch i've tried to do embroidery without the batting and it there's something about when you use a batting it helps the fabric so it doesn't pull and distort it helps it keep its shape and i really like it there's pros and cons and depending on how long this this video goes i'll tell you some of the cons if i'm trying to make a quilt out of something like this um so this is what i did but of course this was one from long ago but this was back when i did warm and natural now i have found a thinner batting that i will be using on future embroidery projects and so the thinner the batting it's still going to do the same thing but you have less of a poof that you have to deal with when you put it in a project um so quilter select quilt no quilter's dream all right i'll put it in there now i can't remember is it quilter's dream request or select anyway it's a it's a thinner batting cotton and i'll put that in the the drop down notes so um now this is this this is the thing that that the per that i had someone asked how do i transfer onto a fabric you cannot see through that was what my sister taught me how to do it has to do with this this is tool i believe it's called really cheap you can get it anywhere so this is very thin you can see right through it it is like a netting now this when i first got into embroidery at the time my sister had this cool fabric but it was being discontinued at the time this one so it was being discontinued at that time but then there was another one that came about and it looked very similar okay here's where you can see the difference okay so this this was the one that was out at the time this was the one that i was able to get and i bought a lot of it i bought yards of it my sister-in-law actually found it for me in colorado and i said buy everything they got so very similar different maker different fabric but it's a quilted background so if you can see it's thicker you can't see through it and it has kind of a backing on there so i would not very easily be able to use it on a light box even though it's not super thick it's just a little bit more awkward so the way that i transferred is with using that tool so you would have to make a working copy of a pattern so you get that working copy of a pattern you put that on the light box then and you take that down then you get a piece of this and tape that down on top of it so let's see if i can i didn't even think about how i was going to show you but you'll probably be able to figure that out from the words um where's a piece of paper paper paper paper okay so let's say this is my working copy um so i'm going to get my working copy that i've made a copy of of the piece of paper tape that on my light box then i'm going to tape this on and i don't want any wrinkles so i'm going to pull it and tape it so this is straight taped on there then i get a sharpie not this sharpie because this would get stuck in all those little holes so you get that regular old sharpie and i use brand new ones like my husband has a lot of them he uses for construction mark and stuff i have my own so i would use a brand new very sharp one this is called fine point but then what i would do is i would trace that pattern with a sharpie so of course it's messing up your working copy but i would trace that whole pattern so then the pattern transfers onto this so let me show you because i keep all of my old ones so what you end up with are these so this is one of my projects and this is there's a let's see i saved them all okay so here's one here is there you can see it oh there you go so here's can you see that yep it's backwards oh no it's right ways okay so here's one of the patterns so that's what i did so then i take this so it is time consuming so i transfer it onto here then i take this and then i put this down on something i don't even think no i don't need the light box because then now you're taking this and you're just you want it actually i would probably tape it on the light box just because i could tape it then i take this and i get my marking utensil and then i would trace it on there usually i would use this or the thicker one and i would trace that on and then it would be blue so now i am going to have to try this friction now is that going to get stuck in all the little all the little squares of that i don't know i haven't tried it yet so um let me just try it right now and see oh nope just fine because look at what i did and there's that mark right there so it transfers it transfers just fine there you go um so friction um it's friction clicker 07 erasable is what this says so i saw kathy schmitz was talking about it and i just got it on amazon so let's see there you go so that's how you transfer that way you can do it on anything even something as thick as denim so that is the transfer method what else can i share with you i would wish this was interactive where people could ask me questions um i wanted to share with you a couple things um i i've shared this before on my flosstube but this is a really cool book so this is available now um stitchers stitches from the harvest by kathy schmitz so check out her youtube check out her instagram she does a lot of tutorials a lot of teaching but you can see see how it's kind of puffy um that's sometimes where that batting behind there i'm just guessing that's what mine would do if the batting was thick behind there that's what it can kind of get a little bit of puffiness to it but there's here's even so what's this one that i've got going so i've got this piece of fabric that i found a scrap of fabric and i'm going to do this so i'm probably going to reduce that pattern because i want it smaller i don't want it so big and that will be my embroidery project looks like she does the stem stitch yeah if you look at that close um she is doing the stem stitch as well whereas most people do the back stitch but the coverage of that stem stitch makes it um i just love it that's that's just the way i do it um oh here's a nice a really super close up so that's what the stitching looks like now if you're wondering how to learn how to do stitches um in the back she has and most books that you would buy would also have something like this i have never done this the couch stitch i've never done that and there's something that i want to do that actually uses that so i'll be using a new stitch i've done most stitches but not that so this is oh it's the feather stitch so i do this a lot that's the fly stitch i've never done this and i've done a lot of the other stitches but this is a very good just showing you how to do the different stitches this is one that i've picked out that i want to make because i love needle books so that's a needle book that that i want to make but that is stitches from the heart then recently i picked this one up stitches from the yuletide and i shared in the last floss tube there was something that i want to make and i decided the project that i did i'm not i wasn't gonna i was gonna just do a different design i don't particularly care for this design but i like the project bag and then she explains very well how to make that how to make that project bag but this is what you end up with so these are pockets that you can use so it's kind of like a needle book with um with a handle so that one is a really nice book as well and then because so many of these patterns i don't know if they're still available and i thought oh i want to share with you things that you can purchase now fat quarter shop beginning of december i think i got this on sale so it's annie downs and i had shared this on one of my other floss tubes but um see there's embroidery stuff in there this is a needle book um i really want to do this one funny whimsical kind of goofy it is a very long it's the 12 days of christmas but just fun and goofy this is okay this is the difference so this lettering is the back stitch so you can see it's just a little different um either way but you can see right there instead of a solid line it's kind of a dot it's a line space line space line space so different either way try them both um oh here's even more close up of what so all this i would do the stem stitch and this looks like it's all um the back stitch so just different you try it see what you like and again i'm going to share about this just continues it on i just thought it was just fun and goofy and i loved it um what else was in here um oh that was a quilt but there are several projects in here that are embroidery so those are available now which i love that i can share with you things that are available now okay i'm just going to work through the stuff that i have stacked here now um when i do embroidery i use these so these you can you can get most places i just happen to get them on amazon they probably have matt fat quarter shop too thimble pads so they are little sticky things that fit on your finger i have them everywhere i use these when i hand quilt and i use these these are my thimbles so i reuse them all the time so i stick them all over the place but i stick them and it goes on my fingertip and um and i love it because when i do embroidery i use very fine needles and i have had them if it's slipped off here or i don't use them it it goes through my finger and it feels like it hits my bone so i love using them and i i bought a three pack i go through them a lot so let's take that off now so i don't lose it but i just stick them just stick it back on there and then eventually they don't stick because they get all greasy and i just throw them away and start over okay so when i went to the road to california show i wanted i knew there was going to be a lot of vendors and i wanted to find the the perfect needle for me so every vendor that i went to that had needles i was looking and either i talked to them or i just looked on my own and i bought a variety of needles i probably bought six or seven different packs of needles this is what i found and i wrote on there because otherwise i wouldn't remember so this is this was my number one you can see i wrote on there so john james size size 10 embroidery i wrote good fine thinnest so it is the thinnest embroidery needle so um of course they are very fine and they will bend and i you know i don't mind using a bent needle until it gets so bent it it's just not working so um that that was my favorite so these are my embroidery needles this was the second finest so bowen embroider cruel number nine so this was another very good quality one then this one is a size 11 i like that it was in this little case but it's in here but i don't have any marking i'm assuming that was my number three choice um i don't even i don't know if they've seen this company since then gina kimball's fox glove cottage love the packaging embroidery redwork size 11 16 in the case so those those are my tools and then of course because i'm just stitching in hand um because it has that batting on the back and i use my fingers and because i'm doing such a fine stitch i couldn't do that fine of a stitch if it was in a hoop i needed my fingers i haven't done embroidery for a bit i recently got into it and did it but when i do that very fine fine stitching it takes a long time because i i do a lot of stitches in like a quarter inch and it looks like i'm painting with thread or drawing with thread so it just depends so you do what works with you hang on a second let me show you something of my mom's so this is how my mom did her stitching so this is hand i've shared about this so i did a whole quilting video one of my very first ones and it was only a half hour because by i was just so tired and it was really hot and i couldn't get the video to work but um it was quilting maybe number three but it was about my mom's quilts and why i love them so i shared about this one but it was hand quilted but look at her embroidery larger stitches so it is the stem stitch but larger much larger stitches compared to mine so here's something of mine to compare it to where you can't really even see my stitch very well you can see it there but hers is larger that's the way she did it she liked it and i love it um because it's my mom's everybody has their own style you just do what you like now um what else can i share with you let's look at okay so we talked about and i you just buy a big chunk it's almost nothing for that that's the tool thinner batting so i have i just save scraps of my batting i even like these are i just picked out this is the whole box so you know i've got big chunks of this wonderful stuff but look at this no scrap left behind this was the original stuff little tiny scraps i can i can do stuff with it so i just have i just have a box and i save all of that i can use osnaburg this was my ozenberg linen and i t dyed that i can use that and you know it's amazing you can use wovens i have a lot of wovens um that i can pull out and use too because i like primitive um and then fabric as well so here are here's some here's just some other stuff just so i can show you and inspire you i think this is still available um crab apple hill again um this is ginormous i did not realize i need to reduce it because i would like this to end up being much smaller this is a very large um what is this one number 111 heart of the home it ends up being 26 and a half by 19 and a half that was it's large um so i want to make it i would just want to reduce it and make it smaller but um that's another pattern and i love i love all those flowers so i would not do it i would do it in a lot of different colors i wouldn't do it all black because i want colorful now um when i um i had shared this and this this is still you know it's been sitting here for like a month it's a project bag that i want to finish i had an extra project and i want to get rid of my whips so i stitched this so this is just stitched on here blind stitched on but i don't know if you can kind of see so you can see there's a little bit because of the batting is behind here when i went to put this on i just i got my scissors and i have um where i have this i've had these forever probably since i was a team these are my gingers because my first job was at a fabric store um so i really like this this set of gingers for this so when i went to put this on there i wanted to get rid of the batting that's i wanted to get rid of the batting so what i did was i got these scissors and i went along see this is what the back looks like if you have this is the front and this is the back so you can see it it goes in and it kind of bites into the batting but i don't want all that extra batting so i i just did this so i got i went like this i was doing it much more careful with my glasses on and i went in and i i'm not going to do it close because i don't have my glasses on and i just stitched but i used this was on the bottom so it wasn't going to get into my embroidery and i just went in carefully and i trimmed it as close to that stitching as i could so that way i could i did a quarter inch seam or yeah i did a quarter inch edge is what i did on that one and so i just folded it over but that is the trick when i do embroidery i wish i liked doing it without the batting because if i made it into a wall hanging i don't think i would ever do an embroidery on a quilt that actually got used i would do it for a wall hanging um and crab apple hill if you watch um olivia pumpkin hollow quilts has done many crabapple hills with the coloring there's either colored pencils or colors there's there's a lot of them out there i just haven't done that um because all the ones that i have were from decades ago and this is this was the style at the time um i wish i wish i liked doing it without the batting because it it just creates that thickness that i have to figure out how to deal with and then if i do in a if i do it in a wall hanging in a quilt i have to figure out how to deal with that batting there when i also may put another layer of batting so it just creates a little bit of an issue but i want to show you a project and it is not for sale currently um so in this project bag that was what i had shown before this was just an extra one that i had made that i was going to give away and decided not to um but that way i would know this project which i still have to finish i think i've shared this before on a flosstube but since we're talking embroidery we're going to share it now again i can't get enough of those uh french knots but that's one of them tool shed this is where i was showing my friend i was showing off oh this is how i trimmed it so you can kind of see how carefully i trimmed that edges around there look at lipstick mark um i was showing my friend how i could get rid of that blue marker and i went with my tongue to touch it to get it wet to get it off and i left lipstick mark but whatever it's probably never gonna get finished anyway um so this one this okay so here's the other thing about the blue marker this had been all blue marked i had the design on here but if you have weather that is moist so i've had it where i have the windows open sometimes when it's raining that moisture comes in and it disappeared because i have the batting on there already so that tells me i have the design on there so i just have to redo it um let's see so this is berry patch this is watering can some of these i changed a little bit i think here's the garden gate and i used all the same whatever that same thread was around the edge so that kind of unified it that i think is my favorite one is this one done no here's another one that needs to get done um flowers this is in progress and look at everything has disappeared so i'm going to have to remark it again now this one rose arbor now on the pattern for the the big main piece on the pattern there was no rose in the middle on the fence the whole fence was just plain and so all i did was i just kind of took that design and i just drew it on there and then i stitched it so this is the centerpiece and i remember at the time so when i first got into embroidery this pattern was going out of stock then so this was like 15 years ago at least it was going out of stock i wanted it so i remember i called my sister was at my mom's in colorado and i called and i said i know it's not it was like my birthday or christmas i know it's not there yet but i want these patterns and i would really love it if you guys bought them for me and saved them for me for a gift because i probably didn't have any money and so they did so i got them so they were out of stock long ago but they're they're beautiful so crab apple hill so hopefully i explained well enough how you use this to transfer on and then once you have this you're good to go so ask me any questions if i need to clarify something but hopefully that's understandable um wow i think i got everything let me look at my notes did i show you everything pretty good oh uh this pillow was one that was on my mom's bed she had made that and it was hand applique um so hand up okay and it was it was one that i inherited from my mom but i remember when i saw that i didn't do applique at the time and i thought oh my gosh i love it i really want to learn um how to applique so that one inspired me since we're talking about embroidery here's another one this one i just did um you know i just probably took this design from one of the things i just showed you and put it on there and just put it in a frame good to go so you can just take elements and do things where you want it to go and just have fun and just enjoy wow i think i did everything yep yep let me look at my notes again okay floss um lots of color blue pen the tools sandcastle embroidery background so if you want to learn embroidery stitches i know i was watching um oh that's another good place i can't think of where i have that pattern though um i was watching i can see her face stitching in the light cynthia i'm sorry stitching in light she was showing how she did embroidery and the pattern that she bought i went and bought was it calico junction i think and it was a it was a saint nick in a wreath i bought it and she was saying she needed to learn how to do a stitch she didn't know how to do it she just youtubed it learned the stitch so that's the thing is there's so there's so many awesome tutorials out there if you can't find anything in the pattern there will be a tutorial out there so um just get a needle and so the thing is when we're doing cross stitch i think most of us use a tapestry needle so these are just embroidery needles um just different needles same thread everything so oh gosh um any of you that are still here um i had done i did a cabochon or thread charm tutorial nut tutorial and showed how to do that and that was when i got 4 000 subscribers so i showed my giveaways that i was doing at the time so that was a couple floss tubes ago and um i was just going to do four because i had four um i had 4 000 subscribers and as i was thinking about it i thought this this has become so important to me i have so many people that are following me regularly and just supporting me with beautiful comments and praying for me and just being a part of my life that i thought i can't just do four so i i made eight so i did eight giveaways and i commented on that comment because i i give you a week um because that's i'll forget and i just like to reward the people that watch the videos right away so i gave people a week they had until the 24th to comment on that video and there are two winners that have not responded um so i need patricia dodd and denise hall to um i commented on your comment um send me an email with your address and um and i will get those charms to you and i i need to do it soon otherwise i'll go on to someone else but i would love for you guys to get that and my you guys mean so much to me especially right now there's just a lot going on in the world and um and a lot of concern and worry going on so that's why i just wanted to thank people so much um and rocio if you're watching i still have yours to send to you um that one just didn't get sent off in the batch so it will come to you um i had so so now this is where i call this is my good stuff so this is my faith journey and this is where i just share about the things that i have been learning so again i just did a video a couple hours ago so i shared a lot in that one um where is my book okay so here my sweet um lori from one one of the gals in stitching in the valley had given me this beautiful um gratitude journal handmade journal and i really shared it in in another video but there was one day that i was just really concerned um just about with canceled culture and with everything that may be going on how it could affect me and and how how choices that are being made could affect me and my family and the nation and everything so just just times of concern my heart was very heavy and i remember i woke up one morning and um i was just i couldn't sleep the night before just worrying and i just was talking to my husband and it's like what's going to happen about this what's going to happen what's going to happen what's going to happen and he had been up early and he's going through the bible he's listening to audio and he's reading but he was going through the bible he said oh i gotta share this with you so um he he had said oh i just read psalm 27 or 28 i can't remember which one it was so i said oh let me get my coffee and i'll sit down and stitch and can you read it to me and that's where when i have times of deep distress i just love when people read to me didn't even want to read um so he did that for me and that's what i wrote um i wrote that down in my gratitude journal for that day but the other thing was um this was one of the add-ons and i had mentioned this in my last video but it was celebrate who you are and who i am is a christ follower and i know that's not um not going to be popular and um repercussions may come because of that and things that i believe in and i just thought i was just worrying isn't this gorgeous so i just had different comments that people made i wrote things down and um so i just love this that i can just write more and more and more stuff in here so that was just very special to me so i just appreciate so much um the people that support me and love me and stay with me to the very end so where is my bible here we go ah this is a pink bible too um so i wanted to read to you so psalm 27 was awesome psalm 28 is awesome but i'm just going to choose to read now psalm 28 and this is this was one i had this was when i was going through my nervous breakdown time uh december 2001 um yeah that was my breakdown time um so this was the bible i had at that time and i could write in it and um all that kind of stuff so it was just a nice a nice bible for that so here we go psalm 28 so this again was my husband reading it to me as i was drinking my coffee and stitching to you i call oh lord my rock do not turn a deaf ear to me for if you remain silent i will be like those who have gone down to the pit hear my cry for mercy as i cry to you for help as i lift up lift up my hands towards your most holy place do not drag me away with the wicked with those who do evil who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts repay them for their deeds and for their evil work repay them for what their hands have done and bring back upon them what they deserve since they show no regard for the works of the lord and what his hands have done he will tear them down and never build them up again praise be to the lord for he has heard my cry for mercy the lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusts in him and i am helped my heart leaps for joy and i will give thanks to him in song the lord is the strength of his people a fortress of salvation for his anointed one save your people and bless your inheritance be their shepherd and carry them forever so that's just the kind of thing i needed when i feel helpless because we may be affected by decisions that other people are making for us and um i don't like that i feel helpless i don't like to feel helpless um i don't think anybody does but i've had things in the past where i have felt helpless and i don't like it as an adult i fight against it so that's i think why i'm having a little more turmoil right now um not that i have more turmoil than anyone else it's like why i'm really struggling right now so that just helps me god you will take care of the things that are done wrong i don't need to get in and mess around with it unless he shows me something that i need to do to take care of myself um and he will help me he will be my defense he will be my rock and my stronghold so those are the things that that i just wanted to share so i just loved that he read to me i also have the whole bible on tape and i'm just letting that be read to me and sometimes as i stitch i'll just stitch and just listen to the bible so there you go that was something that i wanted to share with you because that was such a help for me and i appreciate you guys so much especially those of you who stay till the end and are in this with me and i value that so much so thank you guys so much pray that you would choose joy nevertheless and this is how we can because god will be our defense god knows all he sees all what is done in the darkness he will bring it to light in his time and he will deal with it so we can rest in that and we could know that we are his so there you go god bless you