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hi everyone my name is michelle and i'm mama loves ugb here on flosstube but also on instagram and it is the 30th of december today so welcome to the morning briefing if you've watched me at all before you'll notice that this is not my normal background this is not either of the backgrounds i've ever filmed one before um this is because i'm somewhere different today so today's going to be a little bit possibly of a hot mess just because um i had to stuff all my burst stuff in a bag and bring it with me i'm actually at my mum's so we are in lockdown at the moment but um mum needed a bit of support and um we checked thoroughly both english guidelines and welsh guidelines and because she is of 70 she lives on her own i was allowed to come and form a support bubble with her for a few days just to help out with a few things um so that's where i am as i said i put a load of stuff in a bag and brought it here so i've got some whips i've got some plans i've got some haul i've managed to grab some um ffos actually some stuff i had framed before christmas that was here which i've now managed to get my hands on so i can show you that so um i've got stuff to show you today so hopefully it will be sort of a normal show but it's um just somewhere different this is my mum's dining room it's not normally this plane but she had pictures on the wall which obviously glazed and because i've only got the overhead light there was just a massive glare coming back off them so i've taken them down so it just kind of looks like i'm in a bit of a i don't know i don't know where it looks like a cell maybe maybe i should be in the cell you wait until you see my hall i should be in a cell the other thing that mum's got is a cockapoo who is um a bit of a random barker to be honest he's a bit of a dick when it comes to that sort of thing so you might hear him him random barking um this week has been it's been an okay week actually for the first time in a while i've kind of felt that homeschooling has been going okay for the teaching side and the schooling side um i've been able to meet up with my year 12 and 13 students on google classroom and actually see them i wouldn't say necessarily talk with them because they all go online and just turn the cameras and their mics off but i think they're there those of them have still got their cameras on look like they're nodding and look like they're they're interested um the biggest conversation that i've had this week was uh on the phone with a lady from octopus energy we had to fix our our electricity prices we don't have gas um from them because we have to have um cala gas in a big tank because we're so rural but we have electricity from them so i took the opportunity when i was on the phone to her fixing our prices just have a bit of a chat really um i absolutely love octopus energy if you're looking to change your energy supply i can really recommend octopus energy and if you want to join on with them then you get 50 cashback i'll put my code below but we're not here to talk about that but is there if you want it so i'm going to start off by showing you my ffos i've got back my framed pieces that i've got back i had i put these in two cotswold art supplies oh it might even be the end of november the beginning of december it might have even been way before that actually no i think i posted them yeah i had to post them so i posted the the needlework to my mum's and then she dropped it off with cotswold framing because i had already decided what i want they knew what i wanted already and then it came back before christmas so it's been sat at my mum's house since before christmas and i finally get to get my hands on it so i've got two to show you one is probably the favorite my favorite thing that i stitched last year which is by barbara anna and it's called santa's trips and i stitched mine on a piece of 32 count i think it could have even been a 28 count i'll have to check and put it on the bottom but it doesn't really matter whether it was 32 or 28 counts i don't know what the fabric is couldn't tell you it was a random piece in my stash so this is my framed piece using all called for dmc and i so enjoyed this so enjoyed this so much so that i'm starting another barbara anna sal in the first of february which i'll tell you about in a in a wee while so you can see those nine blocks there and then at the bottom instead of having just this other kind of leaf there i just put 20 there so i know i stitched it in in 2020 who could forget 2020. so that's my my finish in my frame for that one i can't wait to have that one out at christmas downstairs i will put it up in my um in the room i normally film in all year round but i will bring it downstairs just for um for christmas time and i just had this kind of brown frame with a bit of a lighter um inside and outside to it just a bit of contrast so pleased to have that back and the other one i am very pleased to have back is mary clayton so this is mary clayton by hands across the sea she stitched on a piece of 36 count fabric that i hand dyed myself so it's kind of it is a brown a neutral but it's a warmer neutral so it's got a little bit of a pinky tone to it and then i chose to have this slightly more ornate frame put on it just because lots of my frames in my house look like this and i'm thinking ahead to a sampler wall and i think when it comes to sampler wall i want a bit of interest both in my samplers and both in my frames as well so i picked this one out as something just slightly different which i thought suited the um the piece really really well and then i'm looking forward to having this one up on my wall so it's stitched with the cooled four oh was it dmc or did i use no it's stitch with a cool four dmc i think yeah it must be um and i the only thing i did was i changed the little dog from a brown dog a little brown dog to a spotty dog i'm really really pleased with the way it turns out it's funny this kink up in the corner when it came back from the framers i actually had to go back and check the pattern i'm like if they pulled that in a funny shape and no that is right it does that on the pattern but i had not noticed that when i stitched it i would have said that it kind of just carried on round i didn't notice that at all so that is my mary clayton so i am very very pleased to be taking those two back to wales with me so i have got one other finish one thing i finished this week and because we're at mums i managed to pull off another fully finished object that i gave her a couple of years ago um to show you so i'll show you that now because it's framed and it's then it's in the way it's actually quite nice to be sat a table because usually i'm sat in a chair with the bed next to me and i've got everything lined up on the bed and i've got to keep sort of leaning forward and getting stuff off the bed but i've got it all kind of in front of me so i have to see if i can do that at home so this is my previous finish from a very long time ago and this is sorry for the glare merry christmas by the drawn thread which i stitched oh it's got to be two if not three years ago i know that the red that i use for the merry christmas is the dmc is it one one five and then rest is probably just similar similar threads if you look in the in the reflection you can probably see the setup for my my camera today the setup for my camera today is a parcel box with a can of tomatoes on the top of my phone is on the can of tomatoes so there we are so that was a christmas present that i did for my mum or two or three years ago now but because i'm here and it's here i thought i'd take the opportunity to show it to you my finish which i managed to get done is by sorry threadwork primitives and it's called beggars valentine and this isn't just my my lighting this is a very dark picture and the um the stitch looks really really dark as well but when i stitched it using the called four colors and there are only four colorful colors i stitch it on vellum picture this plus vellum using on 36 count using the called four threads and that is what it comes out like so i'm really pleased with how it's finished i am going to make it into a pillow i'm going to try my hand at doing a sort of a dangling button border which um somebody actually made and i will find the name of the lady if i can and put it along the bottom somebody actually made up one of my stay classy pillows with this gorgeous button border and again if i can find a picture of what she sent me i'll put it on the bottom because that's what i'd really like to do with that just a simple pillow finish with the button bottom to it so i'm really pleased with how that turned out i had ended up frogging this section here after i'd finished it because i realized it was slightly wrong and normally i probably would have left it but i have got the christmas version of this one um which is it called beggar's christmas is it just simply that one and it also has the same cartouche at the top there so because i wanted them to be the same i did frog that one out but because i stitch full crosses frogging is so much easier when you do full crosses because if you imagine when you're doing one leg of the cross and then going all the way back again if you realize you've made a mistake back at the beginning and you've done all your crosses you've got to go all the way along and all the way back again whereas if when i make a mistake and realize i need to frog it and i don't almost frog if i've made a mistake here i can snip my threads here and do it a little away and do it a little way until i've got enough to sort of tuck back on the back and then re-stitch re-stitch what i need to so um frogging i think when you're doing full crosses is much much easier than it is when you do the two legs of the cross separately right that's where i am for the first time in ages i actually made some some proper notes but things are kind of so piled up that it might just kind of happen as it happens um i have got some let's do some happy mail first actually do some happy meal before i go through and show you my my whips um i had a lovely lady called vanessa contact me when i did my sleigh my foxwood crossings slay and she said to me that she had some other charts for the foxwood crossing slates and would i like to borrow them um i said there's no rush to get them back to me i've stitched them all but would you like to borrow them and so thank you very much actually did and she sent them over to me she actually sent them from america i didn't realize because of her screen name her instagram name and her youtube name that she she wasn't living in the uk um so uh so yeah she sent them all away from america to me and she's actually said when i finish them i can return them to her mum who does it with uk which is lovely thank you um so this is a card from a sassy jack stitchery and it does have a little chart on the back that you can stitch up a bit like the ones from hands across the sea and she wrote me a lovely note inside and she also included a little piece of the white perforated paper for stitching one of the charts that she sent me and then these are the ones that she sent through now i haven't taken these out of the packets so i hope you won't get too much glam so this one is called snowy barns oh i think probably at home it would be okay but i'm gonna have to take these out so snowy barns for the little small sleighs i really really like that i really like those little slaves and i think those are going to be the ones that i that i start with then this one is called snow grateful so again three charts for the smaller sleds with little snowmen on this one is one of the bigger ones it says rfd sledding which i don't know if i understand the rfd bit but there we go but that is the size slay that i've already done and i really really like it so i'd like to get hold of another one of those at least and this one is very similar to the one that i've already done this one's called twilight sled santa and i think the one that i did was called morning star santa so this is almost like a paired piece to that one so weird to see such a stark background behind me right this one is called river road church how lovely is that this one you can accommodate to make a small a medium warp no sorry that's a medium a medium or a large sled which i think with most of the ones that are the large slayers you can do because they show you how to do either of the two and then lastly she sent me this one which is called north pole sled and this is for either big small or you can do a um just a frame finish so thank you so much for sending me those nests i cannot wait to get some of those knocked out and no doubt some of them will be part of my monthly orni sal as well and my other piece of happy mail was a real surprise to me um i had this this letter came through and i knew it was a chart and i knew by her handwriting that was from chris at the nimble thimble i haven't ordered anything from the nimble thimble which is unusual for me but at that time i hadn't ordered anything from the nimble thimble so i opened it and inside was this chart by pantini pantini coolest man in town which is one i've not got overstitched and it comes with that lovely little snowman there and with it with a little card and it's from a lady called leslie who watches along and she had got in cut touch with the nimble thimble and she'd asked them to send that to me because obviously she knew they'd have my address um just to say thank you for the the floss tubes and particularly the ones in december which really um helped her up to along so i was over the moon that was such a such a kind thing um to do right whips let's go on to whips then i'm conscious i've got kind of piles everywhere and nobody wants to have piles right quick wetter the whistle and then we'll go just quickly talking about flosstube 5.84 i'm on at the moment so 5840 subscribers which to me is just just mind-boggling so i think when we get to 6 000 we might have to do a little a little giveaway so if you do know other stitches and you don't think they watch me do please give them a little prod um tag them on instagram and and try and get them over and then we'll see if we can get to those six thousand now i have had three new starts this week which partly explains my plans for february my plans for february are gonna become finish it february i have got three starts planned in february but that's it so that's considerably better so three starts in a month is considerably better than three in the last week which is what i've actually done so let me try and show you what i have started the first thing i started was one of the celtic santas the welsh one and this one i bought from create nostalgia marriott create nostalgia and so i bought that as a kit um the reason i started this again was because i'd filmed my flosstube last weekend and i tend to do it on a saturday early evening and then i put my daughter to bed and then all my stuff fisted up in the spare room well last saturday she did not want to go to sleep so there was no way i was going back up there to try and retrieve something to stitch on so um i just had a quick delve in my box it was downstairs and the santa was there so i decided to start that one and i have got sorry it's all the threads sticking to it i've got a little start on that let me see if i can just put something behind it that's not helpful it needs to be something a bit bit thicker there we go so what a rat's nest to look at so i've just started on his feet and one of his legs and i am doing the beading as i go now i know the instructions say to deal with the cross stitch first and then do the beading but my brain can't work like that so i just use the beading needle for everything and then i just stitch it beads and all as they crop up because yeah my brain can't work in leaving gaps for things i don't know why but it just can't and the other thing i started was winter abcs now i've had the winter abcs in fact i've got all four of them and they've been twinkling around in my brain for a little while now that i'd like to get them started and then last sunday we woke up to loads and loads of snow even in wales so where i am in wales in pembrokeshire we're just in pembrokeshire just right on the board of caridigan and premature we normally have something a weather system which stops us getting lots of snow and that weather system is called the pembrokeshire dangler and basically it's a weather system sorry my hair will not say where it's supposed to be it's a weather system that kind of dangles down from the irish sea and it basically it protects us from getting lots and lots of snow but this time we did we had snow so we went out sledging we did snowmen we did snowballs all the sort of you know good stuff that you want to do and so i was determined not that i needed one i was determined that i wanted to have a new start to um to commemorate this i don't know if that's quite the right word it wasn't that momentous occasion but it was a pretty pretty momentous occasion so i decided to start the winter abcs and this chart sorry now that's the other thing that i can do while i'm here at my mum's i can get her to do a little bit of surging for me um this chart i think this chart has got three days in it and by days i mean sort of probably a couple of hours each day so it really has stitched up so so quickly so i'm down to k and then it goes l and then mittens and i think that is exactly halfway so this has been stitched on a piece of 28 count feyens gray by zweigart it's an even weave and it's probably going to be i don't know if i can get that far back sort of about down to there when it's finished now i really didn't know what fabric to stitch this on but then what i came to decide it was the thing that i really like about these charts is that they're long they're really long and i was worried that if i stitched on a 40 count or a 36 count i would lose that effect of them being really really long when they were finished and so this is going to be a really long narrow finish which i can't wait i've got an idea about how i'm going to finish it already i i think i showed you oh i don't know a few videos ago that i bought a pair of um old doorknobs and they would join together like that and i wanted to do a hanging finish for these so i think that is what i'm gonna do um in terms of the other two three because there was four seasons all together yeah in terms of the other stitches the spring one i think we'll sit nicely on this fan spray as well and then for the autumn and the winter summer and the autumn ones brain not working i think i'm going to find something more brownie maybe just like a mushroom or something like that to stitch on because i don't think they'll suit that kind of gray with a bit of green in it so that was two of my starts my other start i actually started yesterday and i bought this to mums for a specific reason because she has got something that i have not got yet although i will be ordering something ah there's one thing i've forgotten to bring through just hold please so i hadn't forgotten to bring them through they were just buried the thing that i've started was what i showed you was it last week is a bit of haul and it's from hands across the sea sarah spencer and i had found on hoop and frame which i was um directed to by hedgerow stitcher that they did packs of the 103 threads for the various different hands across the sea little gems that you can download um and i really really wanted to try them so i picked this one because this one's got eight colors i already had the chart and i thought brilliant way of trying it and the reason i bought this one to to start with at mums is because she's got some of these now i have used these in the past look i'll even put them on for you how amazing are those it's got a little light on as well but i won't blind you with the light um she's got some of these now she's not a stitcher so i'm not entirely sure why she's got these but anyway she obviously needs to look at something very small and they've got interchangeable lenses you just snap them off i'm sure you've all seen these i'm sure that i am the one that's linked to the party that's the box for them now the reason i've used these at mum before is because her living room hasn't got much it's not got brilliant lighting in it so i've used these before because i want to use the light on them but i wanted to stitch the sarah spencer on a piece of picture this plus 40 count form now i've got this as part of my patchwork rabbit fabric of the month club that's not hard to say um and i ordered 40 count to begin with and then within a couple of months i'd switched to 36 counts so this was one of the first ones that i got and this is where i am on it that gorgeous um border honeysuckle border now the 40 count normal 40 counts i got i can see without any magnification at all fine no problem 40 count pitch this plus i can't see it's too dense a fabric for me but i knew i wanted to try 103 on this 40 count fabric so i've been sat or sat last night because this is one night with these on stitching away on this and it was amazing i absolutely loved using those silk threads and i would definitely definitely do another project on them if you have never used them before and pick this one no let's pick them right because actually this red is a glorious color so if you've never used them before when you first get them obviously the end is tucked in what you need to know is that if you pull on the end of the cotton bud cotton bud cotton reel the end pops up a little bit so i've actually got a little bit of silk there that i was using to reuse on when i get to the next motif because uh yeah this is 103 thread i'm not wasting any of it but what you can do is obviously when you've when you want to um finish your thread just tuck it push it back down and it stops it all unraveling and both ends do it depending on she says it's not going to win there we go excellent floss tubing there michelle um both ends do it so you can tuck your ends away wherever you want to so those are definitely a good hit so that was my three new starts in terms of other things that i've worked on this week i have done a little bit more on this one which is by pantini pantini which is when i think of january i was planning to try and get this finished off um ready for this floss tube but the one thing i forgot to bring with the actual thread i bought everything else in my project bag i've just got it in one of those plastic project bags i bought everything else that i wanted to do with it but i just didn't bring the threads mainly because these threads i've been doing from my fancy thread kind of random selection and also um off my cone of dmc blanc that i've got so i think i've done a bit more on him since i last showed you but maybe not a massive amount so as i said i know how i'm going to finish that off spoken to the person who's making the thing that i need to finish it off and hopefully it will be ready soon so i worked on that and i think actually yeah i think that's it i think that's all i've worked on three new starts and a little bit on um january the other thing that i've got here to show you i don't think i've worked on it since last week but because i had such uh an amazing response to this pattern i thought i'd just show it to you again so it was this one mary katherine harris which is um charted by erna hiscock and i think last week i mistakenly called her a hiscock shepard but his shepard is the name of her business um she's obviously just earner his and i'll put in the description box below again how to get this chart because you have to email her to get this chat and this is where this is where i am on it this is a piece of 32 count ren so i don't think i've actually worked on it since last week but because so many people mentioned it in their comments um i thought i'd just get it out again and it's all about that zebra i absolutely love that zebra so i'd really like to get that finished actually and that i think is going to be part of my finish in february right let's talk freebies shall we talk freebies i've got two today only because i couldn't choose between them so i just bought them both the first one is by lila studio and i'll put a picture of it up here it's the valentine's day one and some of the other little um some of the freebies i sort of picked out for this this episode were also valentine's freebies and they were small ones and then i saw this one and i thought well that's brilliant because you could either stitch it as a big or you could pull out individual motifs for it as a small so i will show you i'll show you the colored one because it's a little bit easier to see now the way mine's printed it's printed on the back and then the front so you have to imagine this is a big long piece so it's a quaker one to do with love so you've got some fantastic motifs which you could do just on their own i really like that one i really really like that one that would be lovely just on its own or you can kind of stitch them stitch them all together so i will put the link for that one down below this was a chart that was in a magazine back in i want to say 2015 2016. um i can't remember which magazine it was in but she's now got it on her um website blogspot for you to just download as a freebie and then the second one is this beautiful sampler and it was actually shared on stacy 911 stitcher's facebook group and it's been reproduced by amanda rowe who is the solitary stitcher and this is mary jane frye 1861 and i just thought that was absolutely gorgeous absolutely gorgeous to the point that i really want to keep it up and get it started but not until after february so how amazing is that with that center with the the berries on two black birds of crows and then there's those funny little creatures either side now in the picture they're not too clear and actually on the chart they're not massively clear as as to what they are so answers on a postcard please if you know what they are i'm going to show you this little bit because i don't think you can really um it's a free chart anyway but i'm i don't think you can really stitch anything from it but it'll show you let's just do that there what is that otter doesn't look a rat it doesn't really look cat either i think it's a lot i'm going to go for otter we've had zebras today why not so yeah if anybody knows what that actually is please pop your answer in the comment box below there we go so it's called mary jane fry 1861 and it is my amanda rowe solitary switcher and i will put the link for it down below so that you can go and download it right i do haul and then i'll do plans yeah i do hauling the naughty plans now um my friend jenny um my friend jenny was doing a bit of a d stash and she messaged me and said she had some charts that she was going to put on to ebay did did i want to buy any of them before she put them on ebay so um yes please so i bought from her mary hawley from the scarlet house i'm actually going to put her instagram name um down below so you can go and have a look at some of these because i'm pretty sure she's put most of these on her instagram so mary hawley by the scarlet house this one by abby rose designs do more do more of what makes you happy and brenda gervais quaker handiwork there we go and she also included a tart pan because she'd been doing some finishes on tarte pants and i said how brilliant they looked and so she said i've got one left i'll send it to you so bless her she sent me that so that's a 12 centimeter tart pan so i'm gonna find something to to put in that she's been on a brilliant um journey actually i don't think she'll mind me saying that she wasn't the most confident finisher in the world but she's been doing loads of brilliant brilliant finishes recently so definitely check out her instagram um and see see the sort of things that she's been doing so those were from jenny then i picked up the october wordplay from ebay or facebook stash one of the two i think it's probably a facebook stash so i picked up that one i'm not necessarily interested in doing all of them in the whole series but i do i do like the october one um this one by artful offerings is called honey hill hamlet sorry for the glass i really like that one that's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks so it is 211 by 149 which isn't massive but it's probably bigger than it than it looks and then i got this one from ebay as well a haunting we will go now i can't remember i put this down in a search a haunting we will go i put it down in a search and i can't remember why i saw i knew it was to do with that chart and i saw a finish on that chart that i really really liked so i'm going to have to go back and see if i can find the finish that i saw of that because it was enough for me to start up an ebay search works i must have really liked it and um the chart was only about three pounds in the end so it's uh it's not exactly going to break the bank but it was to do with that chart and somebody had done something with that chart i really really liked it and then again my friend jenny the first thing i woke up to this morning was a message from her saying do you see kathy barracks having a sale on her on her etsy shop and i very nearly bought a cathy barrack chart actually the day before and i didn't i stopped short of actually buying it so yeah she's got 20 off in her um etsy shop where she's got loads of pdf downloads so i picked out three that i've had my eye on for a long time i picked out the christmas witch which i love i also picked out bird study which i know alba stitcher has just started and i've had my eye on that one for a while and the other one i picked out i thought i'd better get around to buying because i actually asked kathy if she would put it onto her etsy shop because she'd started to upload her pdf charts and i said oh you don't suppose you've still got this one have you would you mind putting it on and this was probably more weeks than i care to remember now and i've been meaning to get it every time and it's this one it's called a multiplying bird and i really want to do this one with the multiplication chart on them because i find the samplers with multiplication charts on them really really interesting more so probably than the ones that i've got all of the alphabets on the multiple and they're much rarer than the ones with the alphabets on so if anybody knows any more charts reproduction charts have been done with the multiplication table on them um whether it be something like this which is more in the spirit of a sample or whether it be an actual reproduction sampler then drop me a note in the comments below because i'd love to see some more so i can't wait to start that one i say that about all these i can't wait to start i totally can't wait to start um and then i bought this one as well um this is ink circles and it is called reflections of canada and i bought this to stitch for my partner for his birthday which is the end of april and it's no problem me telling him they're telling you this because he doesn't watch these videos i could be planning global domination on these videos and it would still be a shock to him when i became president of the world he'd be like what mind you we've had quite a few conversations when i've been stitching and he's probably told me something really important i've been like yeah that's nice because the number of conversations that we're now having which start with uh or somewhere in the middle of the conversation go i told you that did you yeah we've had this conversation and nine times out of ten is because i've been busy stitching and nodding and shaking my head in all the right places but so ink circles reflection of canada i bought that from the ink circles website and she included a little freebie chart as well this one i really like now it says on it if you look at what you have in life you'll always have more if you look at what you don't have in life you'll never have enough which i really like and i love these um i never know how to say it whether they're facalised or fiscalists anything other than syphilis which is generally what i want to say in my head when i see those and i've got a real thing about magpies as well now this bit here says parvo este it means obviously something about being content i will probably try and change that into english or recharge that bit into english but i love this i'm going to put a picture of it up in the corner because that isn't the best reproduction of it now i will put the information about how to get hold of this chart below because it's a lady on instagram um who is in in fact i don't know exactly where she is russia ukraine somewhere um somewhere like that and basically you just message her she will send you a link for paypal and then she will email you the chart back absolutely brilliant i think i bought it in about five minutes it was very very easy and obviously because you're using paypal although you end up paying in rubles um paypal tell you exactly how much it's costing so very very easy and the other thing i've pulled out is because i keep thinking about this now this is in cross-stitcher magazine so i've downloaded mine from or i've printed mine from my weedly account and i just keep thinking about this colours of winter and i might even use that faints grey to do it i'm not going to start it anytime soon because plans i'll tell you about that in plans but um but yeah i just keep coming back to this one and it's got things like pine cones knitted blankets slushy pavements snowflakes marshmallows wellies crackling fire quilted jacket um so yeah i really really like it but i'm still not sure about the fabric or whether to go for like a parchment-y kind of color we shall see right i've got a couple of things to show you in plans and then that'll be me done for today sorry about that so plans i have got a plan that i am gonna do finish it february other than three things that i have already worked out which i know is more starts than most people would even plan in a month let alone you know let alone anything but very much to have three starts last week i think that's a good a good sort of place for me um is i'm going to try and finish off lots of things i've already got started so my things that i have already got in place the first one i've actually already shown you oh there's the dog is that one his birthday is at the end of april so i think realistically if i want to get it make sure it's done by then i could probably do with at least starting it next month so that will be a start my other start is going to be this one and i've only got my printed coffee with me because i didn't know whether i was actually going to have to start it here or whether i'll be back home by then this is plum street sampler the gentleman's daughter i'll put a proper picture up um up there so you can see i am going to stitch it on that um access commodities that i bought from hoop and frame you can see that a better color on the back there so that's a 38 count and i have got my new little pockets these called for threads now i know i don't think i've got every single one there because certainly i haven't got the one for the house there but i've got the majority of them so that one will be a start on the fourth of february which will be the anniversary of my dad's death so um yeah gentleman's daughter and if you haven't seen it before it says he is a gentleman and i am his gentle and i am a gentleman's daughter so far we are equal so i can't wait to start that one and the other thing that i will be starting i mentioned earlier was the barbara anna sal now creative poppy have done another barbara anna sal i will put a picture of it up here and these are the called four threads the majority of them i think so you've got lots of skin tones the yellow which i think are going to be the houses the kind of browns which are going to be the hair and some few other ones there and i'm going to stitch it on this now this is a bit of a mystery fabric other than the fact that i think it's next to you designs i bought it in a d stash and when it came i loved it so much i asked her if she remembered where she got it from and i'm sure she said it was next to you design so this is a piece of 32 count and it's this glorious i don't know if you'll still see it with red i think i'm going to try and avoid those big black splotches but that color i absolutely love now i can see what you're thinking you're looking at the picture that i put up and you're looking at this fabric and going you won't see her hair on that you crazy woman well i am going to change her hair color a little bit of inclusion i am going to make her gray so i wanted to choose a sort of a dark fabric and i am going to make her long gray head so i will need to swap out the browns and make sure i've got kind of like the mid and the dark tones of the lights and yeah i'm gonna try that because you don't see apart from kind of older women you don't see a lot of younger grey-haired people in cross-stitch so i'm going to give it a go and that is me done for today so i hope you've enjoyed this morning's briefing and i hope that you have a very very happy stitchy week ahead of you i cannot believe that this is the end of january and put it this way if all the months go as fast as this it will be christmas again before we even know it now most people at that point have just gone shut up michelle we don't want to talk about christmas now but uh it's gone so fast it really has gone so fast so anyway i wish you all the love and all the best for the next stitchy week and i will see you next week stay classy stitches