Flosstube 19: October Stitching Plans, Halloween WIPs, & 2,000 of You!

Hi friends, welcome back! I have a whole bunch to share today, including an FFO, a finish, lots of WIPs, three (THREE!) new starts, and all kinds of plans for one of my absolute favorite months of stitching: October!

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Facebook group for Delphine Luthine: Les petites croix de Luthine et de Gribouille

WIPS:
The Wolf (Cottage Garden Samplings): 36ct linen – Nothing – Mystic Fabrics
Van Gogh Frog (Cherry Marry Store): 32ct mystery lugana
Reaching Skyward (Modern Folk Embroidery): 28ct lugana – Mushroom – Zweigart
Feather Fairy (Mirabilia): 32ct Belfast linen – Raw Silver – Zweigart
Projet Temperatures (Delphine Luthine): 16ct aida – Vintage Country Mocha – Zweigart
Four Season (Emma Congdon/Stitchrovia): 18 count aida
Beauty and the Beast (Lina Ova): 36ct linen – Say Cheese – Fox & Rabbit
Acorns & Friends (Lola Crow Cross Stitch): 18ct aida
Away We Ride (Blackbird Designs): 36ct linen – Ceres – Under the Sea Fabrics
Halloween Game Board (Calico Confectionary): 28ct lugana – Pistachio – Atomic Ranch
Seasonal Covered Bridges – Fall (Designs by Gloria & Pat): 18ct aida – Ledger – BeStitchMe

Hi everybody. Welcome back to Sloan Stitches. If you’re new here, my name is Jess and this is my channel all about crossstitching. If you’re a returning viewer, welcome back. How are you? There are a lot of you. We are at 2,000 and some subscribers now. So, that’s incredible. I don’t really know what to say about that. I know I kind of mentioned it in the last video and said that I would have some giveaways this week if we did hit that number. We did. I I don’t know. When I started this channel, I said, “Well, maybe like a few people will watch and be interested and stick around.” But there are over 2,000 of you now that are interested and stick around, and I really appreciate it. So later on we are going to do a couple of giveaways. So stay tuned for those. I have so much to talk about. Um I do want to say I’m going to do a fabric stash floss tube extra. So it won’t be in this video and it won’t be part of a regular update. It will be an extra just in case that kind of video is not your thing. Um, look for that hopefully sometime early next week. That’s my goal is to get everything out and film it because I need to go through my fabric stash and figure out what I’m doing and what I’m keeping and what I don’t need to keep anymore. And the Instagram poll I put up shows that quite a few of you are interested in those types of videos. So, I will film it. Very casual thing. Hopefully, I’ll have that up as an extra in the next week or so. So, this is not one of those videos where I think I don’t have a lot to share, but I really do, and it surprises me with how long it is. So, we’re going to get straight into it here. Uh, the first thing that I want to talk about is I want to give a big shout out to Steph from Lindy Stitches and everyone who helped make the Harvest Moon Hangout retreat a couple weekends ago so much fun. Um, I had a blast. I The last one of those virtual events that I attended was the Jingle Ball last year and we were so busy, but I didn’t get to do any of the stitching rooms or any of that. And this time I had the weekend blocked off and except for volleyball games, I was pretty much able to hop in and be in stitching rooms. I watched all three designer chats. Um, and I just had such a great time. I did a little shopping, did a lot of chatting. I want to give special shoutouts to the little group that we kind of formed on Friday and took into the weekend. Um, it was so nice to have a group of people that jelled the first night and then were able to kind of hop through the event and say, you know, this room’s great. We’re having a great conversation over here. Don’t forget to watch this. you know, things like that. Uh, so special shoutouts to Catherine from Accounting My Stitches, Abby from Mountain Mama Stitches, Jason from Jason Crossstitches, Andrew the Runner Stitcher, and Melanie and Michael from Uplift Stitches. What a fun group. I at one point my cheeks hurt from laughing so hard. It was fantastic. I had such a great time hanging out with them. And then there were so many other people that I met along the way and others that I didn’t quite get to connect with that I wanted to or that reached out to me and we tried to come up with a time where we’d both be online and it just didn’t work out. You know, real life stuff got in the way. Time zones got in the way. So maybe at the next one I will be buying a ticket to Jingle Ball. We’ll see. Um but I mean I’m going to forget people. I connected with Eli from Thick Threads, Sarah from Sarah Stitchy Spot, um Tori from Tori Moneyu Quilter on Instagram, uh Lisa from Paddock Lane Designs, uh Amy Lola Crow, just people and so many more. I’m going to forget people. I’m very sorry. I’m not doing it on purpose, but just so many fun people that you run across in stitching rooms. And I had such a great time. And I will tell you, if you go to these events and you don’t watch the designer chats, you’re missing out. Even if it’s not a designer that is typically your style, I learned so much about the creative process and thought it was so interesting listening to these people’s journeys and how they got to where they are as a designer, as a crossstitcher. And it’s just fascinating. I highly recommend going to any designer chats that they have, any of these meet and greets at these events, cuz they were so interesting. Um, so I did a little shopping. I bought two of the three uh designers patterns. I bought the um the stitchy pros pattern and I bought the little crow, of course. Um, the only reason I didn’t buy the stitch crypt was because it’s kind of like it’s a bird, which is fine. Uh, one thing I did notice during the designer chat, and this is the stuff you find out in these chats, little exclusives. Um, she showed a sneak of a pattern that’s gonna come out from her. I think she said in the next month or so, maybe next, I can’t remember exactly, but it has a black cat and there’s a whole stone window sill situation. It’s my vibe and I’m very excited for that. So, I will be buying that one. Um, and then I bought the exclusive fabric. Okay. So, when Steph posted the um preview of the fabric, it’s called Sepia Sorcery, and I was like, “Ooh, love that.” Was going back and forth. Do I want the linen or do I want the ADA? Because the Lugana didn’t really take the color very well, or at least not as well as the other two did, which is typical. And I was like, well, I’m going to go with the ADA. I’m going to get the 20count ADA because it feels like those colors are richer. like it’s taking those colors really deep when I look at that. I don’t know what happened here. This is my piece of fabric. Like if I have the screenshot I took of the preview, I will show it here. This gorgeous dusty purple brown blue situation. This is my piece. You can’t even like it’s you can see a little of it. It’s there in the bottom there, but it it’s mostly just brown. It’s like a brownish purple. That this is what I’m working with. And I was like, “Okay, so my piece obviously took one of the colors a lot better than the other. Turn on a light. See if this helps.” Not really, but it’s okay. It happens. It happens. And I will find something to go on this, but it is definitely not going to be the Mirabilia that I originally put on this fabric. It’s okay. It’s fine. Something will go on this and will look. It’s just not what I originally expected. Sometimes you get the piece of fabric that took part of the dye way too well. They can’t all be winners. It’s fine. It’s fine. No complaints. Just surprise when I open the package in the b. Let’s just move straight into stitching from there cuz like I said, I have so much to talk about. So, I have both an FFO and a finish. So, an FFO, if you are new to the acronyms, is a fully finished object. And this is something that I had finished about a month ago. And I had shown this little tray I bought Michaels when I first purchased it probably a month and a half ago or so when they first were putting Halloween stuff out. So this is autumn drizzle from um Pigeon Cube Designs from the Crossstitch in the forest book. And this is a little tray that I got at Michaels and I finished it in here. Ain’t he cute? Look at this. So this is a Christmas gift for someone in my family. I think it looks great in here. Just a cutie little tray. So, I wanted to show that because I did spend about an hour yesterday getting it together and putting it in the tray and I’m proud of it. So, I can’t wait to gift it. I know they’re going to love it. So, I wanted to show that really fast. And then my finish is the StitchCon keepsakes exclusive pattern from Heart and Hand Kindered Friends. And I also stitched the StitchCon exclusive border that we got as a freebie in our agenda in our guide book for the weekends. And I made a little alteration because on it it says this fade to StitchCon in two places around the border. And as you’ll see here, I changed the one part of the border to say my table number and the weekend that I went to. So, it’s all done. I stitched this on everything called for. I bought all of the kit materials at StitchCon. So, it is um 16count ADA up in cookie dough from Needle Bling Designs and it is all of the classic color works threads. And then in the middle here, there’s a little kitty cat button because keepsakes has a shop cat and her name is 310 because she’s black. So they provided the little buttons. So like this is keepsakes like that’s Barbara and the stitchy bus and the bell you ring when you finish. All the little things that make keepsakes and StitchCon what they are. And I think this looks great. I’m really happy with the alteration that I made to the border to put the weekend and the table number in it. And I know a couple people reached out and were like, “Can I steal that idea?” And I was like, “Yes.” I don’t feel like it’s a very original idea. I think it there has to be someone out there somewhere who probably also did that. I just haven’t seen it. But I like it. So, I think my plan maybe once I get my life together with my craft room and everything is to get this sewn into a panel and make it into a project bag so that way I can take it to StitchCon next year hopefully. The invoices start going out tomorrow, so fingers crossed that I get one this week. I don’t think I’ll have a problem, but you never know. We’ll see. So, look at that. Who am I? A finished and a fully finished object all in the same week. Okay, let’s get into whips. So, we’re going to start with my carline stitch. I only work on this at the carline of my son’s school when I go pick him up cuz I have to be there stupid amounts early every day to make sure that I’m not there in a mess. So, this is the wolf from Cottage Garden Samplings. I am doing this on a piece of 36count linen in the color nothing from Mystic Fabrics. Um, and someone had asked if I could try to remember to say what threads I’m using. And I wrote back and I was like, I will try. I have no promises there. I’m usually very boring. It’s usually either just the called for or the DMC conversion, but I’ll try to point it out. Um, some of them I’ll probably forget because I do consider it basic what I do, but you never know. Sometimes sometimes things are better than than I think they are a little more interesting, I guess. So, let me move all of my stuff out of the way. And I’m going to have to put something behind him because this fabric There we go. So, here’s where the wolf is now. So, this last couple weeks, I finished flushing out a bunch of his face. And if you missed my last update, I did that because somewhere in there, I counted one off on the outline of him. So, he’s a little more chunky over here, which means one of his eyebrows that I counted in based off of that outline is off by one. So, I wanted to make sure his face looked okay with the wonky eyebrow, and it does. And then I also found out this carline stitching might not be for me. I something over here is one too wide as well. He’s just gonna be a chunky boy. And I’m okay with that. Wolves come in all shapes and sizes just like people. So I flushed out his face. Got the whole tail finished. So the whole tail is in. That looks really cool. And then I flushed out this leg. Got all of that stitched in, filled in. So all of his little paws are in. We’ve got a string of 40 weeks here this next month or so, including this week. Uh, we did not have school yesterday, so I haven’t stitched on that this yet this week. Um, so we’ll see. And plus, my son has joined Dungeons and Dragons Club, which meets one day a week after school every week. So, you know, the Caroline stitching is going to go down a little bit. That’s okay. It’ll get done. It’s really just a bunch of fill in. And then I am going to chart the logo for his school and put it up here instead of the trees and things that are there in the original pattern. So, it’ll really be a little insert school district name here, Wolf. I love him. He’s super cute. He’s fun. I just wish this fabric wasn’t quite so reflective. I I still don’t understand what it is about this fabric that almost makes it look shiny in the car in sunlight. It rained almost every day last week and that was fantastic because that meant there was no sun and I could see it really well. I have so much stuff around me I don’t know where to put anything. Okay, next I want to show my Van Go frog. This is from Terry Mary’s store on Etsy. Doing this on a 32count mystery Lugana with called for DMC. A warning about this pattern if you decide to do one. I don’t know if they are all like this from her store, but there is a whole line of these Kermits. So, just in case you decided to do one and you just blindly put it in pattern keeper the way I did, the symbols are not unique, at least one of them. There’s a plus sign in this specific pattern that is um used for two different colors. Now, on the pattern itself, if you’re doing it on paper, they are two different colors. So, it’s a black plus sign, but one of them is like a brownish red and one of them is blue. Pattern keeper just picked up a blue. I made all of the stitches that color. And I was just going along like I think I think I have a picture of it from before. This is where it was. And I was just going along, put in some blue. It wasn’t blue. And I actually forgot my tablet last night when I went to volleyball practice with my son. And I sit there and I stitch. And so I used my phone. I pulled up the the PDF and I was looking at it and I said, “Why is this blue where I stitched it, but it’s brownish red on this?” It’s because the symbol is duplicated. So check that. Like pay attention. Unlike me. So I picked that out, put it back in. And now we’re here. Oh, the sun is going to be a problem today, isn’t it? I’m going to It’s okay. You get the idea, right? Not everything’s perfect. So, like there’s a couple different shades of like a brownish red in the sunflowers. I know there’s sunflowers on this piece and I didn’t even think about it. I was just blindly stitching following, you know, I mean, I have to do it in secret cuz it’s a gift for my husband. So, I wasn’t, you know, just wasn’t in the right headsp space to catch a mistake like that. And I was forced to catch the mistake yesterday, which is great. Picked it out, put it back in, and now our sunflowers are all stitched in on this side. I’m not intentionally leaving Kermit until the end. This is just kind of how it worked with following a color until I ran out of thread or until it didn’t make sense cuz I really obviously was not in the head space to count anything. So, this is just kind of a loop. It’s looking good. This is the full width and height of it. So, like this is the corner, the top corner. Go down to here. And this is so not bad. It’s like 40% done already. And I’ve not put that much work into it, honestly. So, I shouldn’t have a problem getting this done for Christmas. Wait until you see what I’m doing in October. We’ll get to that. Let’s see. So next I want to show reaching skyward. This was my stitch go call for both numbers in September. Um so whip go is Jesse Marie does stuff’s stitching challenge and she pulls numbers every month. I have a whip go board. I also have a stitch go board. Stitch go. I stitch 100 stitches per number. So like number 14 that’s 1,400 stitches. 18 was 1,800 stitches. Reaching Skyward was in both of those boxes this month. So, it needed a total of 3,200 stitches. This is where it was when you last saw it. And I’m really happy with it. And I finally forced myself to cut the fabric down to a more manageable piece. I have a thing about that. I don’t know why I’m so scared to cut fabric down before I finish a piece, but I finally did it cuz it was getting a little ridiculous. So, here’s where reaching skyward is. Oh, I’m loving it. So, I worked both of the columns down there on the sides, but the main structure I did a little bit in the border, lots of fill in. Um, I can’t remember If in my last update I had done the cats or not. So just in case I’m going to show you in the middle here the two little kitty cats. I think I had shown you cuz these are dogs in the original pattern and I’ve turned them into cats. I think they’re very cute. And then I also did all of this work here which is very complicated but very fun. Stitches on this go so fast. So I think I think it looks great. So this is a piece of 28count mushroom lugana. I am stitching this one over one with three different colors of DMC. The pattern is charted with two colors, but I wanted to throw in that blue just to make the snowflakes stand out and I think it accomplishes that goal very well. So I’m very happy with that. So that’s where Reaching Skyward is at this moment. and it’s called again. I’ll go over in plans what my whip go and stitch go pieces are. But spoiler alert, this is coming up again in October, which is exciting. Okay, so speaking of whipgo, my number 14 for September was a feather fairy from Mirabilia. And I worked on her a little bit at Harvest Moon, which maybe wasn’t the smartest decision in the world just because of how complicated it can be. I mean, it’s blocks of stitching, but pattern’s kind of hard to readish. And I did it. So, I got my four days in cuz that’s what I do with Whoop. I give each project that’s called four days of work or four sessions, whatever my board, my rules. This is where it was last time you saw it. I mean, we’re getting close. We’ve still got some feathers to put in. We’ve still got legs, but then we just have back stitching beads. And she is done. You pick the cat hair off. Nobody wants to see that. My needle minder picked up my pin. There she is. Oh, I love her. She’s so pretty. This is a piece of 32count linen. Um, it’s just a raw silver from Ziger and it’s opolescent. So, everything’s sparkly. The fabric is sparkly. Her wings have all that kryic in it. And then these deep rich colors of her feathers. I just love them. And I I say it every time, the pictures that are on the covers of these patterns just don’t do them justice. They are so rich. The blends really add so much to it. They’re so fun. Oh, I can’t wait to get this finished and start another one. To be quite honest with you, I was going to do the snow queen next on that sepia fabric from Harvest Moon, but that’s not going to happen. That’s going to have to go on something different. That’s okay. We’ll see what happens. So, love her. I don’t know if she’ll come out again this year, but I am definitely going to put her on my whip go board next year, probably twice because I feel like I’m could probably push for a finish on this next year, which would be super exciting. and then I can start another one because I know my whole I’m only going to stitch one project per designer thing went out the window very fast, but with a mirror that’s a lot of work and it’s a lot of materials and I do think I’m going to keep that to one at a time. That feels like the safest option. Next up, I worked on my pro tempora tours. This is from Delphine Luine. This is um a free pattern in a French Facebook group. The link never works. I will paste it in down below. Let me make myself a little note to do that. And I am doing this not for this year, but for 1934, which is the year that my grandmother was born. So this is a memorial piece to her. This is on a piece of 16count ADA vintage country mocha from Ziggart. I’m using all DMC everything that was suggested for the base pattern and for the temperature ranges. Um two over one. And I started this on my grandma’s birthday this year and I have three months in now. So March had a bird, which I mean they’re bird houses. Fair. Um I took it out, stitched in this little rainbow for St. Patrick’s Day. That’s where we are. So I put March in. Each one of these takes me a day basically. I mean, it’s a like I usually pick it on a Sunday and just work. So, watching football, sitting around the house after a volleyball game. Put in the whole darn thing. Let me bring it in so you can see where we’re at here. It makes me happy to know that even in 1934, they were having some some mood swings with the temperatures here. But there at the end it started warming up. So we’ll see. April is next. We’ll see what happens there. And on the original pattern it has like Paris what 2025. And I think I’m going to put her name and her birth year. So it’ll say, you know, Naomi Fay 1934. So this is fun. It’s just super easy. You know, the flowers are super repetitive, but you know, checking the temperatures and changing the colors makes it, you know, a little more engaging than it could be otherwise. And I really enjoy working on it and I enjoy the fact that it’s a little different than your normal temperature chart. you know, I’m doing it for a purpose beyond just the current year, which I know that is a purpose, but like, you know, a deeper a deeper meaning to the project, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. So, it’s a lot of fun. I love it. Next, we had the first day of fall between last filming and this filming. So, I had to bring out my four seasons from Emma Congden, who is also Stitcheria. And this is a project I started on the first day of spring this year. I started with the spring part. Then on the first day of summer, I put in some of the summer part. And now I’ve started fall. So my goal is to start on the first of each season, work it over so that it’s ready for the next season, and then once all four are started, I can go back each season as it comes up in the rotation and just work more on it. So this is just on a random piece of 18count ADA. I’m doing it one over one. It is also another piece that I could do with count cutting the fabric down. Don’t mind my hanging thread that is from a tree that I am going to need to stitch when it gets back around to spring. So I didn’t want to get rid of it. And there we are. Oh, that sun. It’s going to be a problem. There we go. So, you can see I’ll fold it up a little bit. Bring it in for the fall section. I got a lot in really for just a day working on it. So, this is going to be a pine cone. And then there’s like a like a plant flower type situation here. This is part of a duck wing. I know it looks weird. It’s going to be a duck down here. Cute little acorn. So, yeah, I’ve got it over to the edge of where winter starts. So, in December, we can get that going. There we go. Love it. Love it. Love it. Maybe after December when I get it over to the edge, I’ll feel comfortable. I know it’s going to end like right here, but my brain will not let me cut this apart. Isn’t that funny how that works out? Um, and this is just with DMC with the call for colors. No changes. I find that Emma is a master at colors that work together and color theory and I am not messing with that. There are some that I will mess with. Hers are typically not one of them. Okay, we are getting to the end of the regular whips. Next up, I went straight into rotation. Um, trying to knock some rotation pieces down uh in September and November when I’m not necessarily just doing seasonal stitching like I do in October and December. So, this is Beauty and the Beast from Lena Ova on Etsy. This is on a 36count linen in the color Stay Cheese from Fox and Rabbit. Someone put this on the freebie table at StitchCon a couple years ago. Um, I mean, yellow fabric isn’t really for everybody, right? So, I snagged it and I’m doing this piece one over two on this fabric. I have no margin whatsoever, but that’s okay. I just wanted it to fit cuz it’s the perfect color for a Beauty and the Beast piece. This is where it was when you last saw it at what parade time I believe. Although I said that for a couple pieces last time and that was incorrect. So just a little bit of work on it this time. I think it’s looking good. Let’s see. It’s a bright yellow. It’s really not coming out kind of. I love it. So I did a red was in the corner there. a red flower. They really don’t look like roses. It’s a red flower. Um, and I’ll do one in the other corner as well. And all the rest of it is going to be in this classic blue that goes with the yellow. Like those are the Beauty and the Beast colors or the royal blue and the yellow. So, not really a very exciting update on this one, but it’s an update. I touched it. I made progress on it, and that’s all I wanted to do. And if you’re curious, the colors that I’m using for this, I picked 816 for the red. And then the blue is DMC 3842. So just a brightish, but still royal blue. So it pops off of this fabric. I tested probably like 10 different colors of blue on this fabric because some of them look perfect when they weren’t on the fabric. You can see some of them right here. And then when you put them on the fabric, they were too light or they were too dark or they were too purpley or something like that. So there were some trial and error and I figured it out. Now I really like it. So I’m happy for that. Last regular whip is Acorns and Friends from Lola Crow. Speaking of Amy, love, love, love this. grabbed it from Acorns and Threads. It was an exclusive for one of their retreats earlier this year and I was obsessed. Ordered it as soon as they released it to their website. I think it is still an exclusive to them. Um, probably until sometime next year. I’m not positive on that. Don’t quote me. But last I checked, you could still order this online or call Acorns and Threads and they can get it for you. So, this is on a piece of 18count blue ADA. I’m doing this one over one with the DMC. Here we go. So, I finished I I either put in a picture of where it was before or I didn’t. I’m off my game today for some reason. It’s cuz I I feel like I have too much to talk about. But I finished filling in the tree and I put in the crow and the little hanging projects which are so cute and this little cutie squirrel and I started on the skunktail. So bring this in a little bit. Essentially the squirrel. He’s so cute. These little projects of their little acorns. I can’t handle them. They’re so cute. And then I, you know, started the little skunk and he’s going to be a cutie. I just love this. They’re so adorable. I can’t wait till I get to the possum. He’s stitching upside down. Oh, that’s really true. The color of the fabric looks nice. I love her patterns so much. She’s one of those that I broke my one pattern per designer at a time rule. Love some Lola. I can’t wait to see what next year’s stitch along is. I was one of the people in her designer chat at Harvest Moon that were like, “Please do something like Broadway musical theater.” That would be so fun. Animals doing theater. Amy, right there. Animals doing theater. It’s so cute. I love a good anthropomorphic animal. It might be one of my favorite genres to stitch now that I’m thinking about it. The little things. I need to switch this out and put this in that one project bag I have of the little animals doing art. I might do that today cuz right now it’s just Christmas tree bag cuz it’s what I had. Okay, I have three new starts. Fine. First, A Way We Ride from Blackbird Designs. I’ve been talking about how I’m going to start this for the longest time. Uh, kitted it up with um, well, kitted up the threads, honestly, at StitchCon. Had them grabbed me some and bring it to the whole room at the convention center. Um, I have this on a piece of 36count linen in series from Under the Sea Fabrics. It’s the same piece that I bought at Stitchway this year that I’m doing my bat on. And I had keepsakes get me all of the general arts threads. So, we’ve got our color palette here. I am not doing the outside border, this piece, just the inside. So, my friends Michelle and Holla and I started this at our stitching group meeting this past two weeks ago, I guess, almost two weeks ago. I’m going to have to put something behind this because this fabric is a little see-through. I started in the middle, which is not typically something that I would do, but I did um just because I don’t have very much margins on the sides for this and with this not being the full piece. I was doing math and measuring some things, not with my heart, but the tape measurer. So, I think we’re going to be okay. But here’s where it ends. It looks really good on this dirty looking fabric. And I’m getting a lot of flack from all the birds and stitching. For someone who doesn’t like birds, it doesn’t count if they’re spooky or if they’re not easily replaceable, but not the focal points. It’s just a little start, but it’s a couple days worth of work. And this house is no joke. But I think it’s looking really good. And I love the variegation. This is a couple different colors of floss, but it looks like it’s like three or four. I like it. So, here in a minute, I’m going to show you a rapid fire of my October plans. And this is obviously one of them because this might be my new favorite Halloween piece. Next new start I started at the Harvest Moon hangout and I tried to start it at night which was stupid because I am doing this on a piece of 28count one over one so it’ll be little. This is Halloween game board by Calico Confectionary. This is a piece of 28count Lugana in pistachio from Atomic Ranch. I’m doing all DMC’s um all the called for except I might have to sub in a slightly darker green um for any standalone stitches that are in green because the called for is going to be really close to this fabric as you’ll see in a second. So I tried to start it at night was kind of a false start but I did put a little bit in but then the next day with natural light no problem whatsoever. I can see 28 count easy one of one. So look how little. But what a cute little witch. And then all the cute little details, little magic mirror ball, whatever it’s called. It’s really cute. It’s fun. I like one over one stitching on 28 count. I prefer 25 count, I think, which is why I’ve switched my Vist Stitch Me fabric of the month to 25 count because I do like the little stitches. 28 count I can see, but certain dyers the weave is either too loose or too tight and it’s just not as conducive as some um this Atomic Ranch is good. If you stitch me is good. Swiggard is usually good, especially the mushroom. Yeah. So, when I pull it back, you I mean, you can’t really see how this is, but like the color of green that is in this little detail here, that’s pretty much the same color as the fabric. And there are a few little spots where it would be standalone. So, I have a darker green that I pulled and have in the project bag just in case I need to swap it out. Love that. Very fun. Again, something that I probably should cut the fabric down on, but I’m scared, so we’re not going to do that. And then my last new start is the seasonal covered bridge pamphlet from Designs by Gloria and Pat. This is straight out of the 80s. So this is the pamphlet. I started the fall bridge. So this guy right here, I’m doing this on a piece of 18 count and ledger from B stitch me using all of the called for DMC except for a couple of substitutions that I made because Michaelels was out of the color and I was impatient and there was a clips enough substitute in the DMC line. Who cares? I’m going to start out here so you can kind of get the full vision. This is the top left corner of the piece. So, it’s just trees, but you can see like this is this going to be the sky in the background now. And you know, the bridge will be in this white splotch. So, it’s just going to be surrounded by that gorgeous blue and cream. I’m so excited about it. I made a working copy. I’m highlighting and I did it from the start. So, I did I did not allow myself to get frustrated, which has been my mistake with other older patterns that are harder to read because it is handwritten. Look at that. They even have the back stitching in. Like, that’s all the backstitching that’s in the corner. Now, the bridge itself has a ton of backstitching, but I figure I’ll keep up with the back stitching as I go. I’m so happy with it. Like, it’s just going to look so good. I think it’s the perfect fabric choice. Sometimes I question my fabric choices just a little bit. Even though I think I’m kind of starting to get known for my fabric, which is why I think the idea of a fabric stash video is so popular. But I love this. I’m super happy with this. This is one of those like I can tell it’s going to be like a comfort stitch. Can’t she get the pattern back in the project bag. We did not make patterns 8 by 10 in the 80s. I’m telling you, this this sucker is in here in here. Okay. Oh, also I’ll show you this. Look at this cute little project bag. And you I’m absolutely not taking this pattern out again, but it’s like pumpkin spice latte. Like um Michelle brought a bunch of project bags that she didn’t want anymore. So a stitching group, so I grabbed this one. It’s very cute. I love it. Let’s see. That’s all the projects. want to do a couple of giveaways. Let’s do it. I have two two for 2K and I have two vibes because I think it’s pretty obvious by now. I stitch whatever I want. If I like it, if it’s my vibe, I’m going to stitch it. I I don’t care. It can be anything. So, I have two vibes here for giveaways. I’m going to show you this first one. Um my friend Kathy sent me this. She had reached out to me and she said, you know, have you seen this pattern? Do you want it? I accidentally bought a couple and I I would send it to you. And I said, I’ve already stitched it. And she’s like, well, I’m going to send it to you anyway and you can give it away on your channel. I said, perfect. So, this was in a um Halloween edition of Just CrossStitch probably three or four years ago, maybe even longer. I can’t quite remember. Um, maybe it was two. I don’t know. It says copyright 2023, but I feel like it was more than that. It doesn’t matter. This is counting puddles. Perfect pirate. Look at him. Look at his hat. First of all, look at his hat. Look at the skull and crossbones, but it’s a fish on the flag. Look at that awesome spider web. So, like I said, I had stitched this from the magazine and I have it with me. My hope is to show you all of my finished, like fully finished Halloween and fall things that I have out in my next video cuz we’ll be fully into October. But here’s my finish of the little pirate guy. I can’t tell you what fabric that is. I think it was a like from a bistitch me grab bag. So I don’t know the color, but it’s no pun intended perfect for this piece. He looks like he’s sailing away on like the murkiest sea. Ain’t he cute? And this is from Let’s see. I think this is from the Target like cheapy area. I bought it like two or three years ago. So, if you would like to stitch Perfect Pirate, I will pick a winner right before I film my next video. My next video will be filmed on I think the 14th of October. Yes, October 14th. So, I will not pick winners and announce anything in the fabric stash video. That is separate. But I will draw a winner for this on the 13th, so the night before I film. And if you reach out to me very quickly, I will very quickly stick this in the mail and get it to you so you can get it started before Halloween. And he’s little, you know, he is 54 by 60. You could get this done by Halloween. So, rules. You have to be over 18 cuz I’m going to ask you for your address. If you win, you should theoretically be a subscriber. That would be nice because this is a sub subscriber celebration. Say that five times fast. And don’t say any of the keywords that I’ll get bots and scammers and spammers and all that into the comment section. I want this to go to a real stitcher. So nothing like winner, giveaway, win, entry, all that type of stuff. You know the rules. So the keyword for this, and you don’t have to use it in a sentence, unless you just want to make me laugh, pirate. Use pirate in your comment if you would like to win this little guy. And then for my second giveaway and my second vibe, I have this cutie little kit from Summerhouse Summerhouse Stitch Works. This is Prim 9 patch. And when I say kit, I mean this has the pattern, the fabric to stitch it on, the threads to stitch it with, the backing material for the pillow, and the little tiny quilt square. Everything you need to get this little guy stitched up is in this package. So, if you would like to win the little pri n patch, then you’re going to use the word patch in your comment. And good luck to everybody. I hope you’re a winner. Okay, let’s really quick I want to show something. Someone asked how I make my Q snaps and then I’m going to show you my crazy Halloween. So, very, very fast. I’m not going to do a tutorial cuz you don’t I’m not a professional. But this is one of my homemade Q snaps. This is like a 9 by 12ish. I use this for feather fairy reaching skyward. Fits a lot in here. You can see. So this is/2 in PVC pipe just from Lowe’s. You get it’s like a 5 foot long PVC pipe. You you cut it. These are elbows. You can get big packs of those. right where the PVC pipe is in Lowe’s. These are lamps that my specific Lowe’s does not have in stock. I ordered these online. They came in like packs of 10, so I got two box. They weren’t very expensive, but they work just like a regular Q snap clamp on and off. They are a little tighter than regular Q Snap clamps, which is great. But if you’re worried about it damaging your fabric or leaving marks or whatever, put felt in between. It’s what I do. You can see on my Kermit, it protects the fabric, keeps everything much tighter, honestly, cuz it gives it more to grip onto. It’s a thicker fabric. And then do not get hacksaw the way I did. That is dumb. You don’t want to do that. See, here’s that. that this is the edge that you can cut if you use one of these. This is a PVC cutter. Did I know this existed? No. You undo the little thing and this is going to not that power tool. It’s a tool. And you just you put the pipe in here. And I’m going to I’m going to cut it. Let’s Let’s cut it. And you literally just start ratcheting. And like you can see, I’m not putting any effort into this whatsoever. And there it went. If you’re going to make your own Q snaps, get the PVC cutter. This thing’s fantastic. It’s very sharp. Keep it away from small children. And always use your safety. Okay. Okay. I look like some bizarre version of the Toolman Taylor or spare. Okay. Moving on. Plants. Let’s do some plants. I have two starts coming up for Halloween. And you’re going to think I’m lying, but I got out my two starts. I pulled out all the project bags of my Halloween and fall projects. With the two new startups, I have 13 13 Halloween and fall projects. I can’t start anything else. This is my plan. This is October. My 13 projects for Halloween. It’s too perfect. So, rapid fire. The two starts are from the witchy stitcher book tomorrow, October 1st. I’m not the only one starting it. There are going to be several of us starting this guy, the vintage Halloween ferris wheel. That’s project number one. That’s a start tomorrow. I will show all kinds of things about that, I am sure, in my next video. My other new start, I am starting with Catherine accounting my stitches on October 13th, which is not a Friday, but it’s still a spooky date. The apprentice from Autumn Lane. Very excited about that. Beyond the two starts, rapid succession projects you just saw, seasonal cover bridges. I’m going to put pictures up here as I go through them. This is Halloween game board. A way we ride which is hollow from Autumn Lane. The haunted library from Lola Crow. The Christmas Stitch Witch from Kathy Bareric. Oh, there’s a teeter and totter here. It’s going to fall and I’m going to be okay with it. The woodcut stitch witch from Raven Cumin. Percible from Mama Wood Exit. Rest a while from Oh, she got caught. Clum Street. See, and now I don’t even remember what’s in this one cuz it’s newer, I think. Oh, no. Ah. Oh, yeah. Medicine and Poison from the Witchy Stitcher. And something Wicked This Way Comes from Autumn Lane. 13 projects for Halloween. I’m going to rotate through them one or two days each as we go depending on my mood and I have to sprinkle whip go in there. But all kinds of spooky stitching and I’m so excited. My whip go and stitch go calls for October. The numbers are six and 17. So for stitch go, number six is reaching skyward. So it’ll get 600 stitches and number 17 is the triumphant return of bath time. Bath time, I think, is all but one of the remaining numbers for the year. So, you’re gonna see this cat a lot. Uh 1,700 stitches for the little kitty cat here. Then in whip go number six is Music Amongst the Trees, which I’m very excited about because that’s my memorial piece for my mom. And other than this, it was only going to come out for its anniversary, which is the day that she got sick and went in the hospital in November. So much brighter times for stitching on that. this coming month. And number 17 is Murok. So, which kind of feels spooky, but not really Halloween because you know, Norsey, but still very excited to get a few more days in on. Okay, I have the tiniest little bit of haul. Um, and part of it is a PSA. So, we have a couple of creative reuse stores here in Cincinnati where I live. And I went to one a couple weeks ago called Scrap It Up, which is about 25ish minutes from my house, and has very random hours, very short hours, but has so much good stuff. And I spent $11. And I’m not going to show you everything. I But I got a bag full of stuff. There’s a I almost said a bad word. There’s a crap ton of plots. There’s all kinds of fabric. I mean, for 50 cents a piece fabric just and I didn’t get near all of it cuz I didn’t need all of it, but just And these fold out. These are decent cuts. Um, a whole floss. Um, and then I got three kits also for 50 cents a piece. Bambi. This really cute twisted threads itty bitty Santa. This came with the floss. And then this is the big guy because this can go for some decent money on eBay. This is brand new with all the materials. So it’s just this is a bag full of goodies that I got for $11. They are completely donation based. The workers are volunteers. So the cashier is a volunteer, the sorders are volunteers. Everybody is just working to keep the planet a little greener than it could be and help these products find their way into hands that can work with them. And I love it there and I kind of want to go every week, but I know that’s ridiculous, so I won’t. But a big plug for if you have a creative reuse, please go check them out. Chances are they’re pretty awesome. And then the last two little pieces of haul I have um if you have Libby like through your library and they have crossstitch magazine subscriptions on there. That’s where I get all of them now cuz my library gives me access to like everything. Um the new crossstitcher for winter Christmas like winter it’s Christmy um came out. It’s a UK magazine and it always has Crovia and Mongogden designs in it no matter what. This one is called Tinsel Town and I was awake at 5:30 this morning before I got the kid up for school and I saw this and about lost my ever loving mind. So, I already have like four or five things kitted up just to Christmas, but I’m going to have to do that one, too. I love that. It gives me New York vibes, Home Alone vibes, like that brownstone rowhouse type situation. It’s I love it. I have to start that. That’s a definite plan. And then the last thing, if you have not opened your Me fabric of the month for September, look away. I do the mix club, so I get color one month and neutral the next month. Although I might be switching that because I’m starting to get quite a stash of neutral and I kind of just want the fun colors, but we’ll see. Um, so this is neutral this month for the mix club. This is a piece of 25count Lugana in antique market. It’s a great neutral. It’s I have no no complaints. I might do tinsel town on it. So, I mean, it’s just it’s tan and not a ton of modeling, so I don’t feel bad about using it for something that is full coverage. Cuz sometimes a piece of fabric, they’re like, “That deserves to be seen once it’s finished. This is a great color, but I don’t have any huge qualms about doing something full coverage on it because it is just pretty basic. So, we’ll see. Maybe not. I might do like a monochrome on it because you could put some pretty funky colors on this. So, we’ll see. And that’s it. That’s all I have. That’s enough. I told you it was going to be a lot. I knew this was going to be and I probably bl through a good chunk of it. That’s okay. Uh, I’m going to go. Thank you again so much to all 200 and whatever of you. I can’t believe you’re here. I still can’t believe I’m here doing this. I had to be talked into it and now I just love it and I love this community and I’m really grateful for everything that taking this chance has given me. So, thank you. Um, my email is in the description below. My Instagram details are in the description below. So, please reach out uh enter the giveaways if you want your chance to win. And watch out for that fabric video hopefully sometime early next week. So until then, I will see you guys in October. Bye y’all.