I agree 100% on how wonderful Colour and Cotton is! They are my local cross stitch shop and I absolutely love them. They have the cutest shop, so many amazing things, and are the friendliest people. I love C&C!!
I really love your color choices for your blessing sampler!!! You totally have me on the colour and cotton bandwagon!!!! I'm the last 2 months I've ordered 70 skeins 🤭🤭. Love the feel and variegation of their floss 😊. Your color selections and patterns truly inspire me 🙂🙃
I really enjoy your floss tube. Thank you for taking the time to do them. You have such great ideas for floss changes to make your pieces expressions of you! Very well done! We now have a real cross stitch shop not too far from us, so I love to stop and shop from there. But also Michael's is within walking distance so I can always go there for a DMC if I need to. I love it when you show your Blackbird Designs, so inspirational! I also enjoy your take on this Blessing stitch. The little prayers or wishes for family and friends is what I think of as I stitch. Everyone can use a good thought!
Always enjoy what you show in your vids. Thanks too for mentioning your Blessing sampler motivation. Some people I know do get turned off by ‘religious’ comments but I am sure nobody could have been in the slightest offended by yours. You’d be surprised (or not) how many viewers feel blessed by them and honour the courage it takes at times to include such. I pray God’s blessing on you and your family as you’ve been a blessing to me. 🙏🐨👍
Wow. Just wow. Your stitching is stunning. The floss conversions make it a totally new peice. Amazing. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and a bit of your process on how you do it.
Doreen with Privies and Prims told me about your FlossTube and I am so glad she did! Now I know what a Blessing Sampler is. I have heard the term but never really knew what it meant. I love your reasoning behind stitching a Blessing Sampler and am going to do the same. Praying and stitching go together don't they! Thank you for the explanation! I have a friend in my Sit 'n Stitch who uses Colour and Cotton threads. They are beautiful. I think I need to check them out myself. I'm looking forward to watching more of your FlossTubes!
Love the idea of small gift exchange! Sounds fun! Thank you for helping us think of color changes more readily! We all decorate our homes in our own color palettes; after putting in all that work on something… it needs to blend! I do find it difficult to see a pattern in a different color way.🧐🤓
I love old buttons! I use them often in my finishing. I agree about the blessings sampler. I stitched one myself, but of course I don't put my faith in that. It's like eating pork and sauerkraut on New Years. It's a fun thing to do, but my faith is in God.
Thanks for sharing about making how you make your floss choices. It was very helpful. Even though I don’t have lots of fancy floss, sometimes it’s nice to use up what’s left of a skein on a little project. (Or go steal, I mean borrow, from a kitted up project that you have not started yet for one you are starting right now. I did that tonight, lol.) You gave some great tips. Hope you have a great week! Happy stitching! 🪡🩷
Oh you speak the truth! As I was watching your video, I was frogging the work I did the night before when I was half asleep. No more! You’re very talented at picking colors and I am so glad you are sharing this with us.
I am so fortunate to have Colour and Cotton as my local needlework shop. Their customer service is wonderful. You have encouraged change and they are so helpful to me. Hank you!
Happy New Year!!! Soooo glad it was a quiet one lol ….. those of us in healthcare say a special prayer as we head to work on holiday nights ❤️ can’t wait to stitch a small Blackbird Design for your New Year Exchange 😊
This is my first year doing a blessing sampler for much of the reason you mentioned but, as you did, I tried to just thank God for all my blessings as I stitched this one!! So glad you came on today even if it was a quick one!!! Denise
I have some shiny brights that I display on a vintage sleigh each year. It makes me so happy! I share your love for them. I’m in North Texas and we are getting a winter storm tomorrow. I think you may be in it’s path, as well. Stay safe and warm.
I love the colors you are using in your Blessing Sampler & agree totally that Blessings come from God. I started a Sampler on 1/1/25 but not sure I'll get it stitched by the end of this month! I hope your area isn't hit to hard with this storm.
I really enjoyed your comments on how you chose the colors of floss that you used in black Birds “ The Winter Past”. While I love the color blue, your color choice really made this cross stitch POP! Can’t wait until you share the floss colors you used. Going to be a copy cat. Hope you do t mind.
Happy New Year Holly! I really enjoyed hearing your process on how you convert your colors in a piece to make it your own. You do a beautiful job! Thank you for sharing!
You are such a sincere and heartfelt person - I very much like what you said about your blessing sampler. You have to be really good at your work - I imagine you are a caring, comforting and skilled 1st responder.
I really like your color conversions! They are beautiful and you're right, sometimes what you thought would work does not. There are always options! Have a great weekend!
I couldn’t agree more with your definition of a blessing sampler and from whom all blessing flow. Thank you for being so honest and true to who you are. I love your videos and have copied some of your stitchy and decor ideas 😮 that’s a compliment to your style, hope you don’t mind;). I have a small amount of t of vintage buttons and just love them if just for displaying.
I have some vintage shiny brite ornaments, but I have boxes of the reproductions of shiny brite by Christopher Radko, too. I just love the colors of the ornaments. I love glass blown ornaments by Radko as well. I may have to do that cross stitch as well. Have a great week.
You don’t need a lot of stitching to show in order to make an interesting and informative video. Thank you for taking the time to share what you have come to know.
Yes! It's so much more cost-effective. that’s actually how and why I started doing my own color conversions. I didn’t have the called for and I didn’t want to have to buy more.
I am looking forward to participating in another swap. Did I tell you that I met the person who stitched for me in the Brenda Gervais swap at the Barefoot Retreat? She recognized my name when I introduced myself. It was so sweet to get to thank her in person! ❤
I’m new to your channel, so happy I found you! Will the info for your shorts be on Instagram or here on RUclips? Going to give it a shot and hope for the best! Love your videos!
@ good ideas! I’ve only stitched one other sampler so this is still new to me. My only other sampler was Every Opening Flower. I gave it to a friend. It’s such a beautiful sampler.
I usually cross stitch in hand doing the sewing method. For my new stitch I am having to use a hoop. I am concerned about leaving hoop marks on my fabric a stitches. I take it out of the hoop each time I'm done stitching. Do you iron your piece every time you take it out of the hoop. I'm really worried about putting all this time on my stitching and havin hoop marks I can't get out. Thanks for any advice.
I agree 100% on how wonderful Colour and Cotton is! They are my local cross stitch shop and I absolutely love them. They have the cutest shop, so many amazing things, and are the friendliest people. I love C&C!!
I really love your color choices for your blessing sampler!!! You totally have me on the colour and cotton bandwagon!!!! I'm the last 2 months I've ordered 70 skeins 🤭🤭. Love the feel and variegation of their floss 😊. Your color selections and patterns truly inspire me 🙂🙃
I really enjoy your floss tube. Thank you for taking the time to do them. You have such great ideas for floss changes to make your pieces expressions of you! Very well done! We now have a real cross stitch shop not too far from us, so I love to stop and shop from there. But also Michael's is within walking distance so I can always go there for a DMC if I need to.
I love it when you show your Blackbird Designs, so inspirational!
I also enjoy your take on this Blessing stitch. The little prayers or wishes for family and friends is what I think of as I stitch. Everyone can use a good thought!
It's funny but after this season of LONG flosstubes (WIP parades), it was nice for a short one! Always enjoy seeing what you are working on!
Always enjoy what you show in your vids. Thanks too for mentioning your Blessing sampler motivation. Some people I know do get turned off by ‘religious’ comments but I am sure nobody could have been in the slightest offended by yours. You’d be surprised (or not) how many viewers feel blessed by them and honour the courage it takes at times to include such. I pray God’s blessing on you and your family as you’ve been a blessing to me. 🙏🐨👍
Holly, love your colors on Everything ! Thank you for showing and sharing on what’s going on. Take care, 🤗💌
I love your flosstube! I also love learning about how you do your color coversions. Have a great week!
Wow. Just wow. Your stitching is stunning. The floss conversions make it a totally new peice. Amazing. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and a bit of your process on how you do it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I love to share my stitching and process!
Doreen with Privies and Prims told me about your FlossTube and I am so glad she did! Now I know what a Blessing Sampler is. I have heard the term but never really knew what it meant. I love your reasoning behind stitching a Blessing Sampler and am going to do the same. Praying and stitching go together don't they! Thank you for the explanation! I have a friend in my Sit 'n Stitch who uses Colour and Cotton threads. They are beautiful. I think I need to check them out myself. I'm looking forward to watching more of your FlossTubes!
Love the idea of small gift exchange! Sounds fun! Thank you for helping us think of color changes more readily! We all decorate our homes in our own color palettes; after putting in all that work on something… it needs to blend! I do find it difficult to see a pattern in a different color way.🧐🤓
I love old buttons! I use them often in my finishing. I agree about the blessings sampler. I stitched one myself, but of course I don't put my faith in that. It's like eating pork and sauerkraut on New Years. It's a fun thing to do, but my faith is in God.
Thanks for sharing about making how you make your floss choices. It was very helpful. Even though I don’t have lots of fancy floss, sometimes it’s nice to use up what’s left of a skein on a little project. (Or go steal, I mean borrow, from a kitted up project that you have not started yet for one you are starting right now. I did that tonight, lol.) You gave some great tips. Hope you have a great week! Happy stitching! 🪡🩷
Love the colors used in your Blackbird blessing sampler. Just gorgeous!
Thanks so much for sharing. Love the changes you made to the Christmas tree stitch.
Oh you speak the truth! As I was watching your video, I was frogging the work I did the night before when I was half asleep. No more! You’re very talented at picking colors and I am so glad you are sharing this with us.
It happens to the best of us! Glad you enjoyed the color choices.
Love your shiny vintage adaptation of the christmas tree stitch!!
I always enjoy your videos and I love your color conversions.
I so agree with your thoughts on the blessing sampler! You are so real. Thanks for sharing.
Your color conversions are amazing. Thanks for sharing your technique. I look forward to learning more. 🩷
I am so fortunate to have Colour and Cotton as my local needlework shop. Their customer service is wonderful. You have encouraged change and they are so helpful to me. Hank you!
Your January blessings sampler color choices are so pretty!
Happy New Year!!! Soooo glad it was a quiet one lol ….. those of us in healthcare say a special prayer as we head to work on holiday nights ❤️ can’t wait to stitch a small Blackbird Design for your New Year Exchange 😊
Love your idea of using shiny bright colors on Oh Christmas Tree!
Your blessing sampler is so beautiful!! Happy stitching!!
This is my first year doing a blessing sampler for much of the reason you mentioned but, as you did, I tried to just thank God for all my blessings as I stitched this one!! So glad you came on today even if it was a quick one!!!
Denise
It's always nice to take a moment to be grateful, Denise!
You have such great taste in colors! I appreciated your comments about the "blessing" sampler as I felt the same.
I have some shiny brights that I display on a vintage sleigh each year. It makes me so happy! I share your love for them. I’m in North Texas and we are getting a winter storm tomorrow. I think you may be in it’s path, as well. Stay safe and warm.
I love shiny brights too! I hope you stay safe and warm as well.
I love the colors you are using in your Blessing Sampler & agree totally that Blessings come from God. I started a Sampler on 1/1/25 but not sure I'll get it stitched by the end of this month! I hope your area isn't hit to hard with this storm.
I love your blessing sampler… the colors are amazing!
Your Winter is Past color changes look beautiful. I have this chart and may change it up. Thanks for another great Floss Tube.
Your Winters Past is beautiful! I am working on that right now with the called for colors and fabric.
I really enjoyed your comments on how you chose the colors of floss that you used in black Birds “ The Winter Past”. While I love the color blue, your color choice really made this cross stitch POP! Can’t wait until you share the floss colors you used. Going to be a copy cat. Hope you do t mind.
Happy New Year Holly! I really enjoyed hearing your process on how you convert your colors in a piece to make it your own. You do a beautiful job! Thank you for sharing!
I just found your channel, I had heard many people referring to you. I am so very glad I found your channel.
Leo & Roxy is now Roxy Floss Co and sold exclusively at Evertote in Canada. Great info about doing a floss conversion.
You are new to me and I am hooked! I love your color conversions. Your take on the Blessing Sampler was perfect! Thank you!
I'm so happy to have you join me!
Love what you said about a blessing sampler. I do one and always think about my son who passed away in January 2022. I know he is with our Lord!
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I’m so sorry for your loss, but I can’t think of a better thing to think about while you stitch! ❤️
Thanks for sharing! Love your floss color palettes!
I’m looking forward to seeing your pieces that you stitch for your Year of Blackbird!
Thanks so much for being so willing to share your color changes and your knowledge about color. Janine
You're welcome, Janine! I'm glad you found it helpful!
I appreciate all that you share with us!
You are so talented in color choices. I enjoy watching your Floss Tubes and how different a piece looks with different colors ❤❤
Your sampler is beautiful!!!!❤
I’m excited about the smalls exchange and hope I get in!! By the way, I recently found a stash of my grandmother’s buttons…treasure!! 🥰
You are such a sincere and heartfelt person - I very much like what you said about your blessing sampler. You have to be really good at your work - I imagine you are a caring, comforting and skilled 1st responder.
Thank you so much, your kind words mean a lot
Another great floss tube! Happy New Year!
I am so enjoying your videos and love how you are so down to earth ❤
Thank you so much!
Always fun to see your stitching and hear you talking about converting colors. I rarely use the called for, just pick from stash.
It's so much easier to just grab what you have on hand!
Happiest of New Years! It’s going to be a great one… I just know it!! 😊
I really like your color conversions! They are beautiful and you're right, sometimes what you thought would work does not. There are always options! Have a great weekend!
I couldn’t agree more with your definition of a blessing sampler and from whom all blessing flow. Thank you for being so honest and true to who you are. I love your videos and have copied some of your stitchy and decor ideas 😮 that’s a compliment to your style, hope you don’t mind;). I have a small amount of t of vintage buttons and just love them if just for displaying.
It's always nice to be able to share what I love and have others inspired by it!
I can’t wait for your upcoming videos on color conversions!
Hello, I enjoyed your flosstube.
You do a great job picking out colors! I’m looking forward to your future video….
I have some vintage shiny brite ornaments, but I have boxes of the reproductions of shiny brite by Christopher Radko, too. I just love the colors of the ornaments. I love glass blown ornaments by Radko as well. I may have to do that cross stitch as well. Have a great week.
I love vintage ornaments too!
Always enjoy your flosstubes!
Thanks for watching!
You don’t need a lot of stitching to show in order to make an interesting and informative video. Thank you for taking the time to share what you have come to know.
You’re so right, it’s about sharing!
Love your videos! So informative!
Love your conversion on Winter is Past. So pretty!
Look forward to your color picking video as I have have no experience with this. Thanks.
Good to see you again!
Enjoyed your short video, especially after all the long WIP videos (which I enjoyed also)!
I’m for sure ordering Winter is Past after seeing your start! Thank you for offering color conversions that’s so helpful🥰
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
Great thread conversion tips. I often substitute for my own colors or a close enough so I don’t have to go out & buy more
Yes! It's so much more cost-effective. that’s actually how and why I started doing my own color conversions. I didn’t have the called for and I didn’t want to have to buy more.
Loved the video. Thanks for sharing 😊
We will take a long one or a short one! Always love your videos!
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them!
Thanks for sharing ❤
Love your buttons
Great info.
Happy New Year Holly!!!
Same to you! can’t wait to see all the beautiful things you work on this year Sian!
Love your videos and looking forward to trying to enter your smalls exchange! Happy new year!!
I am looking forward to participating in another swap. Did I tell you that I met the person who stitched for me in the Brenda Gervais swap at the Barefoot Retreat? She recognized my name when I introduced myself. It was so sweet to get to thank her in person! ❤
That’s incredible!
I’m new to your channel, so happy I found you! Will the info for your shorts be on Instagram or here on RUclips? Going to give it a shot and hope for the best! Love your videos!
I love that snow garden chart but not fond of the peacock in the design. Do you have some ideas of what I could stitch in its place?
Could you add your initials and birth year? Or a different motif?
@ good ideas! I’ve only stitched one other sampler so this is still new to me. My only other sampler was Every Opening Flower. I gave it to a friend. It’s such a beautiful sampler.
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I usually cross stitch in hand doing the sewing method. For my new stitch I am having to use a hoop. I am concerned about leaving hoop marks on my fabric a stitches. I take it out of the hoop each time I'm done stitching. Do you iron your piece every time you take it out of the hoop. I'm really worried about putting all this time on my stitching and havin hoop marks I can't get out. Thanks for any advice.
Yes, I iron every time I move the hoop. That way I don’t have hoop marks