I love to be in the garden, it really is my happy place, I think everyone should have a garden even if it’s a window box or a tub at your door, the joy of planting something and seeing grow cannot even be described, I’m sure it the same as having a little nugget of an idea then see it develop into a chart, it’s wonderful.
Owning a greyhound is on my bucket list, so I love your puppy videos. I do enjoy my garden and like you, at this time of year the possibilities are endless!
Beautiful new releases! I look forward to stitching parts-of if not the whole pollinator piece. Surprisingly this year, our garden still has a bit of green in it thanks to the primroses. They just won't give up and treat us to a blossom when the temperatures warm up for a few days. Love the ball of hedgehog segment and of course the pups. 🦔🌸
Yay! I love the idea of stitching pieces of the design. And isn't it amazing what stays green all winter? The strawberry plants and clover have been going strong even through the snow! ❤️
Well none of us are as young as we used to be and on cold winter days I feel my age even more,I only have a small garden but I’m dying to get back out there and fill up my pots with bulbs of tulip, crocuses, iris and all the beautiful spring flowers, such beautiful stitching and designs Jeannine, you really are a super talented lady.
Oh yes, spring flowers are so wonderful! And they bring all that lovely color and fragrance just when it's been cold and wet and you really need it. ❤️
My Nanny is 82 now so I help her to keep her garden in shape, it is not very big but I keep the grass cut and she planted up her containers, I love your latest chart with all the very important pollinators.
Working in my garden is my second favorite hobby (stitching is #1) and I'm lucky to live in North Carolina where we can work in the garden almost year round. I love all your new designs but the Pollinator design is fantastic.
That sounds wonderful! Our gardens are still zipped up but there are some signs of life. The pussy willow buds have started, so spring is on the way despite the snow. ❤️
Living in northern Maine, dreaming of the garden is what gets us through! We are very cold (negative numbers) and quite snowy right now…while it is pretty …I can hardly wait for the garden to wake up 🌱🐝
Ohhh Gosh to stitch pollinators whilst sitting in the patio garden wouldst be a dream come true! I planted nighthawks in my garden two years ago but something ate them unless i get a surprise this year. I may try planting some again.
The possible garden is always going to be quite the dream - last year I had hoped to get a little garden done, but we went from winter to summer too suddenly (plus weather change migraines), and it just didn’t happen. At least those of us who can’t pull off a real life garden can always stitch one!
I think that was my most favorite The World Around. I would have never guessed that a group was called a Roll of Hedgehogs. Your Bees in a Greenhouse piece is stunning. Simply stunning. I've never really been drawn to doing a biscornu but this attracts me immensely. It would be lovely to have an indoor garden via the Greenhouse.
When you were talking about dreaming of your garden I thought of my daughter. She has become quite the gardener the last 5 years or so. So many lovely new releases.
I'm always in awe of someone who really understands gardening. I just stick with the very easy plants but people who know what they are doing can do such amazing things! ❤️
I wish I could get all those pollinators in my garden! That design is divine. I really enjoy your world around and now your mind works. I am trying to hibernate so no thoughts of gardening yet.
thank you Jeannine for the lovely show. LOVE the new patterns...very fabulous. Yes, we too browse through the garden catalogues at this time of year and dream of summer. We often buy the seeds too but then when it comes to planting we lag behind and always vow not to buy any more seeds....but you know....time passes and we forget and go for it again probably....LOL. LOVE the designs very much, especially the little hedghog. When I was young we had a family of hedghogs in our garden at the back of the property. I lived in Germany then....always good memories. See you next time.
I love all the garden themed charts. We don't have much of a garden here - more like some space for plants, but I have an imaginary garden in my mind which maybe some day I will have - full of native plants that will bring all the wildlife to the garden, so I can have wild creature friends.
How wonderful that they visit your garden! I've heard that they need help and protection because of roads and loss of habitat. Your garden must be a good safe space for them. ❤️
Your new charts are so beautiful, but we all expected nothing less. :) I do like to think about my garden a little earlier than is really practical... it helps get through the winter to think about what the spring will bring!
I totally thought you could snuggle with one, but apparently you need heavy gloves to even handle them. I heard from a lady who does hedgehog rescue and rehab and she uses leather gardening gloves to handle them. ❤️
Just got your Hedgehog & Hyacinth pattern and CGT threads, but was wondered how to use this new thread. Lo and behold I checked your videos, and you explained it perfectly how to use this new thread! I’m so excited to try it… You were the first designer to use them! Huge thank you for posting this very helpful video and providing all the fun facts about hedgehogs!
I can't claim the credit - they're lovely threads and it's a pleasure to use them. But I'm so glad that the video was helpful! I love variegated threads because they give so many different options for different effects depending on how you stitch with them. I hope you're enjoying the stitch, and I'd love to see your hedgehogs when they're done. ❤❤
You have absolutely kicked it out of the park for new releases this market! I love all of them but the little bee conservatory is top of my list for kitting up ❤ sadly I don't have much space for a garden, just some herbs on my balcony.
Beautiful spring colors in your new releases! My garden will be filled with more flowers this year along with the usual company, tomatoes and cucumbers. I love the pollinators chart! My favorite ❤️
I’m a wildlife biologist who preaches the benefits of pollinators every day at work so I am in love with your beautiful pollinator design!! I didn’t get to have a garden last year, but I’m looking forward to one this year. I haven’t started planning yet, but I will be soon.
Hello from Tennessee! I love your patterns. ☺️☺️☺️ I have all 4 seasons of your heart patterns ready to stitch this year and I'm so very excited. 💙💙💙 Thank you for the wonderful video. 😊
I went to Australia years ago and I still remember a magical moment when we went to see glow worms in a cave and stars are so bright in the sky at nite. Would really like to stitch the different pollinators in the Garden.
That must have been amazing! We got to visit New Zealand years ago but didn't get to see the glow worm caves, and I've never been to Australia. So many things on the wish list, right? ❤️
With my move to southern Arizona my garden consists of a couple of raised beds at the front of the house. The main purpose is to attract local pollinators ( wonderful hummingbirds😊 ) for me to enjoy up close.
I always enjoy your floss tube videos and look forward to see what interesting tidbits you are sharing with us. Since I have been watching you, you have covered trees, flowers, insects, and various animals. Keep em coming! As for the getting ready to garden, you are not alone. We are also ready to start planting but the weather this year might be a big problem. I hope not but it has been different. Anyway we can still enjoy planing for a garden whether it is flowers or vegetables.
So happy you caught up on your sleep and are back in action. Your new designs are breathtaking - a garden of gorgeous goodness 🐝🏵🌹🌺 As a Buckeye, I have NEVER been a fan of wolverines. I can't thank you enough for giving me yet another reason to deplore the rascals! 😉 Happy stitching!!
I never stop thinking of gardening. I winter over cutting of Fushia's in my sunroom. Must stitch the greyhound. Thirty years ago, I was lucky enough to have one.
Love all your new releases they are beautiful 🤩. I’m so ready spring so I can start working in my garden. Have a wonderful weekend and happy stitching 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Thank you so much! I'm feeling the spring vibes at the moment, but we're waiting for snow tomorrow so it's not quite here yet. Sigh. But just a little longer and then we can start planting things again. ❤️
Loved seeing you again. Your new charts are so lovely! I can't wait to buy them. I love animals and colors. The hedgehog was so cute. I live in a condo, so I don't have a garden. But some fresh vegetables sound very tasty. Have a great week and see you soon.
Fresh produce is really the best, isn't it? I can't imagine what it must have been like in the days when you only got seasonal food and whatever you could preserve for winter. ❤️
Love your new releases and all the research that goes into each creature. Here in AZ, we’re just about done getting new plants into the garden so they have time to get well established before our summer heat.
It's a strange gardening season, isn't it - there's a stretch in the middle of summer here too where the sun is just too much and everything shuts down! ❤️
Hi loved your you tube. Your new releases look fabulous. After watching Brenda and Laura on Monday I absolutely had to have your Christmas Giraffe. He makes me smile every time I take a look. What I was really excited about is your Hearts for Pam release being Australian and living in Melbourne. It was so lovely to see someone take the time to see more than the kangaroos and koalas. I can hardly wait to start them both. Kudos to you
I'm so glad you like the Hearts For Pam! It was so interesting to do, and I know it only scratches the surface of wonderful Australian flora and fauna. ❤️
Good morning. The hedge hog information was so interesting! Not just cute-fascinating. I’m not much of a gardener. So my garden this year will be some zinnia seeds planted by the mailbox. I love your new releases.
Hi there love your new releases! I love spending time in the garden and it is about this time that I look at my seeds and what I am Planting in the spring. Because our growing season is short I do start seeds indoors. Good luck at Nashville!
Lovely new designs coming. A relative in central UK has been actively involved with hedgehogs in their “garden”: as they call their yard. There is a rescue group in their area that has a super angel woman that fosters hedgehogs and has done so for years. Fascinating world for sure. Love your pollinator design and the hedgehog.
Oh how wonderful! And I know that Chris (The Nimble Thimble) also does hedgehog rehab. She's even sent me some photos of her current patients! Thank goodness for all the people who are taking care of nature. ❤️
What a lovely video. Thank you. You talk about a garden and the only garden you will ever see at my house is in my Crosstitch, but I love stitching garden things.
Your new designs are great. I really like your use of color on the Pollinators. I don’t enjoy working in the garden. I spent several summers after we purchased our home putting together a hosta bed. They are so hardy that I can now just enjoy the final results.
Very interesting info on Hedgehogs, thanks for sharing. I love this part of your videos. I have a small flower garden in back with Iris, Peonies, Balloon flowers, etc. Cute puppy video, love the music! Marilyn
We live in SE Texas, and my husband plants a garden every year. I am into potting plants for my patio. I LOVE the new charts! Thanks for the inspiration!
I LOVE your new Pollinators design! and can't wait to see them in my Garden this year. I would love to stitch that this Spring. I finally finished and framed the PNW Summit - Forest Home design of yours and absolutely love it! You are my favorite designer 🥰
Hello Jeannine from Ontario, Canada. I love all the new designs...gorgeous! We are currently having a mild winter with temps way above zero. I can't help thinking of the garden but that's all I can do. We're certainly no where near done with winter in the Great White North, LOL!
Hello in the Great White North! We've had a mild winter here as well, but we're expecting snow again tomorrow. I was think it might be almost time for some early seeds in protective domes, but nature laughed at my foolishness. 🤣❤️
I completely agree with the not able to sleep and the brain just won't shut down. Over the cooler months, I've added a heating pad to my bed and found exhaustion, as of late, works like a dream. Completely relaxes my back. Can't even finish a chapter in my nightly read! I am not a gardener as I have a brown thumb, but my grandfather had a glorious garden in Waynesville, NC, where we visited 2 weeks each July to help harvest and prep for canning.
The heating pad is a great idea! I usually have a greyhound cuddling against me, but it's not always relaxing for my spine. 🤣 I love the idea of having the skilled gardener do the growing and then having everyone else come to help with the harvest. I'd be on canning duty as well. ❤️
Love these new patterns. Don’t even know which one I’d want to stitch first! I love thinking about my garden this time of year because I don’t have to deal with biting insects and heat just yet. :)
Hedgehog and Hyacinth is adorable! And as a pub it would be perfect. We used to have a huge vegetable garden but everything was ready to pick, eat and can up about the time school started up and I was a teacher for 35 years. I have not so fond memories of working well after midnight with a horrendous mess in my kitchen! When someone stole the heavy rototiller I took it as a sign and we stopped "farming.'! I had a penpal in Adelaide Australia throughout high school and had big dreams of heading that way but never made it. AND, we have a new member of our household now. A friend sadly lost her mom and had full intentions of adopting her little dog, but their older two dogs absolutely would not agree to anything they tried. So, he needed a home and I had one...he's 6, a "chiweenie" of all things, but I am finding out that a little warm lap dog feels pretty nice! It was minus 23 degrees the weekend he arrived and that was hard on us all! He couldn't put his little feet down on the sidewalk or snow, and looked at me like "You want me to what?" when I put puppy pads down! We're ok now! He looks like Rye, only 100 inches smaller!
Oh that would have been so tough. Everything in the garden seems to be ready at once and you can't put off preserving it. I'm very glad it's easier for you now. And congratulations on the new addition to your family! I do completely understand the joys of a lap dog, but also that they don't love wading through the snow that's up to their poor bellies (not that I would enjoy that either). We always have to shovel an area clear for our little one and he still is disgusted with the snow. 🤣
I love all your new designs especially the pollinators which reminded me that bats are pollinators too. I love bee greenhouse what a beautiful shape and Tudor greyhound is beautiful all the lovely foliage surrounding the greyhound is so pretty. I think hedgehogs are so darling. That is quite something that they put venom on the outside of their little bodies. I learned something today. I love cottage garden threads so I would like to work the threads with your designs, Ooohhh so beautiful!
I have too much snow yet to think about garden seeds or flowers but by April I’m starting to think about them. This was very educational about hedgehogs! I didn’t know anything about them. As always, thank you for broadening our info about the world around! I love how in the video you have snow and then dry ground and green grass in the next piece of the video.
It's strange like that here - heavy snow one day, and it's gone the next. It's taken some getting used to but I like it overall (much less shoveling). 🤣❤️
I love hedgehogs and collect them. Not real ones. Lol. I stitched flower power by crossed wing collection and added a hedgehog. Your new hedgie chart is adorable! ❤️🦔 I love all of your new releases. My hubby is our gardener so I’m not thinking about gardens. Lol. I like stitching them.
I just picked up some mini daffodils today to put in my pot at the front door, I can’t wait to see some colour in the garden, yellow is my favourite colour and I love to have lots of sunflowers and then I save the seeds to feed the birds in the winter.
Let's talk about gardening. We have the tiniest little garden (The Netherlands) and I would love to turn it into something very green and flowery, but we basically cannot keep plants alive, unfortunately. That's why I appreciate all your lovely and colourful designs even more! Maybe, some day.
We have a small garden as well, mostly because I'm not very good at growing things! 🤣 But we're fortunate to have a large yard so I can have lots of pots for wildflowers. At least we can both enjoy colorful stitching even if we don't grow lots of food. ❤️
I live outside of Phoenix Arizona and I think we can garden most of the year here. I have been outside the past couple days weeding and doing general cleanup. Hope to put in a couple native shrubs. I really want an ocotillo. Your new designs are wonderful. Thanks for sharing all the information about hedgehogs. Who doesn’t love a hedgehog?
My sister was a great gardener who spent the winter months (she lived in Minnesota) with graph paper designing and redesigning the plants she would move as well as arranging where new plantings for the spring season would go. She got that gene - I did not! Garden I'm looking forward to stitching your multisided piece. It reminds me of my visits to Kew Gardens in the UK
I’m all about the animals and insects, they are so important to our environment, loved hearing about the hedgehogs I’m always saddened when I see the them killed on the roads, the same with the badgers and foxes, beautiful creatures, and even though we live in a rural area I have never see a fox in the garden, we did have a hedgehog once but he/she didn’t stay long sadly.
I enjoy your designs. The hedgehog is so cute, but I did not know about the info you shared on their quills. Cute little animal I’d love to have eat the bugs in my garden.
You have really outdone yourself worth your new releases! I not a Garden person, nor even a plant person. Once a coworker gave me a plate of cacti as a birthday gift. When they died, she asked me if I had watered them. I said, "You mean cactus need WATER?!?!?"
Hi Jeannine, I love your videos not only do I see such beautiful stitching, designs and charts but I always learn something new….hedgehogs. Who knew lol, I love my garden and like you I love to plan but I am a fair weather gardener, I don’t like cold and wet, so planning stage it is for a while yet.
Interesting fact about a hedgehog's quills being sharper than a porcupine's. We've had experience with porcupines and those are more than sharp enough for us and our dog! (He was okay.) Here in the Midwest the weather has been warmer than normal, and the snow is melting fast. I have to get started on my garden daydreaming! I usually wait until mid-March for that. haha Happy stitching everyone!
I'm glad your dog is OK! We're still in garden daydreaming for a while. I'm in some garden groups and every day someone asks if it's too early to start seeds for this or that and one of the experienced gardeners has to gently remind us that we have a ways to go yet. 🤣❤️
Love your new releases! I too am dreaming of the Garden. In my dreams my garden is much bigger than my backyard has room for. I will be planting after Mother’s Day. As I live “local” (3 hours east of you) our climate is very similar. I have my eye on Tudor Hound as my daughter has a beautiful Greyhound.
My dream garden has no relation to my actual available space (or our local climate) either! And you understand about the climate here. I'd love to see you stitch up Tudor Hound to match your daughter's dog. It must be beautiful (because all greyhounds are beautiful, right?) ❤️
Your new releases are beautiful as always! My husband does the garden in our family, and since we’re in Texas with milder weather, he’s planning to get it started this weekend!
Aren't they adorable? I'd love to see one in person someday. We do some containers as well, but I don't actually have a green thumb so I stick to things that are very easy to grow. 🤣❤️
My husband is already planning our garden. He will be starting seeds of it very soon. I only tend and plan for the ornamentals. Moving hostas is my only big plan for the upcoming year. I can’t wait to get my hands on the Tudor Hound…probably Tudor Hare as well.
I confess, I pretty much focus on the ornamentals (for the pollinators!) and the herbs, as well. But this year we might attempt some corn if we're feeling adventurous. ❤️
I love spending time with you Jeannine, your videos are always so interesting, how cute are hedgehogs, I love all wildlife, like you I have been “thinking” about the garden , there is no colour at this time of year, although I have a few snowdrops up and I can’t wait to see the daffodils appear.
In Praise of Pollinators is stunning! You know, I haven’t thought about the garden yet, but I think we should! I bet Mike would love to pick your brain about what works and doesn’t in this dry climate. Love your sewing box! Lovely to see your beautiful face my friend - be well !
I'd love to chat about gardening! I don't know much, but I've made some mistakes which might be helpful. And I'm trying some new varieties specifically for the high desert this year so fingers crossed. Just a few short weeks and we'll be off to market! ❤️
Your animal designs are always amazing and I particularly love the pollinator sampler. It’s a garden of possibilities! I’m still in hibernation mode so no gardening dreams here.
My, you had quite a bit of snow there at one time! My only plans for a garden are stitching beautiful charts with flowers and you have some great ones! Sadly I have 10 brown thumbs when it comes to trying to grow almost anything. I love your hedgehog and your education of all things hedgehog - thank you.
We haven't had much snow this winter, but it's come in bursts so we get buried and then everything is clear for weeks. I'm not a great gardener myself - I stick to the things that are very easy to grow. 🤣❤️
I love your new charts! The hedgehog and the hare are my favorites. Not thinking about the garden just yet. I still have some Christmas decor I need to take down.
I love to be in the garden, it really is my happy place, I think everyone should have a garden even if it’s a window box or a tub at your door, the joy of planting something and seeing grow cannot even be described, I’m sure it the same as having a little nugget of an idea then see it develop into a chart, it’s wonderful.
Exactly - even a little herb pot is such a delight. And having a bit of nature in your space is so good for mental health as well. ❤️
I think of my garden all the time. I love the planning phase now, starting seeds, and getting my hands dirty later.
I love our local botaniical gardens for walking and inspiration. So many wonderful memories.
Fabulous new releases as always. We definitely try to do what we can to encourage a variety of pollinators to visit our garden.
Owning a greyhound is on my bucket list, so I love your puppy videos. I do enjoy my garden and like you, at this time of year the possibilities are endless!
Oh I hope you get a greyhound someday - they are really wonderful dogs! ❤️
I'm always dreaming of my garden even when buried in feet of snow. Love your new designs
Thank you! ❤️
Love your progress on your wip. Love your new designs. Happy stitching and designing!
Beautiful new releases! I look forward to stitching parts-of if not the whole pollinator piece. Surprisingly this year, our garden still has a bit of green in it thanks to the primroses. They just won't give up and treat us to a blossom when the temperatures warm up for a few days. Love the ball of hedgehog segment and of course the pups. 🦔🌸
Yay! I love the idea of stitching pieces of the design. And isn't it amazing what stays green all winter? The strawberry plants and clover have been going strong even through the snow! ❤️
I do not garden but I appreciate the beauty and bounty of a garden. Love your new charts ... you excel at charting animals !!
Oh thank you so much! ❤️
Well none of us are as young as we used to be and on cold winter days I feel my age even more,I only have a small garden but I’m dying to get back out there and fill up my pots with bulbs of tulip, crocuses, iris and all the beautiful spring flowers, such beautiful stitching and designs Jeannine, you really are a super talented lady.
Oh yes, spring flowers are so wonderful! And they bring all that lovely color and fragrance just when it's been cold and wet and you really need it. ❤️
I love your new garden themed charts. They are all so beautiful..your work is just stunning. Always a joy watching you videos.
Oh thank you so much! ❤️
My Nanny is 82 now so I help her to keep her garden in shape, it is not very big but I keep the grass cut and she planted up her containers, I love your latest chart with all the very important pollinators.
I'm so glad she has you to help so she can keep enjoying the garden! ❤️
Love seeing all the beautiful new charts especially all the garden stuff happy stitching. Cheers.
Working in my garden is my second favorite hobby (stitching is #1) and I'm lucky to live in North Carolina where we can work in the garden almost year round. I love all your new designs but the Pollinator design is fantastic.
That sounds wonderful! Our gardens are still zipped up but there are some signs of life. The pussy willow buds have started, so spring is on the way despite the snow. ❤️
Living in northern Maine, dreaming of the garden is what gets us through! We are very cold (negative numbers) and quite snowy right now…while it is pretty …I can hardly wait for the garden to wake up 🌱🐝
Whew! You have a very short growing season there, so there's lots of time for dream gardening, right? 🤣❤️
Ohhh Gosh to stitch pollinators whilst sitting in the patio garden wouldst be a dream come true! I planted nighthawks in my garden two years ago but something ate them unless i get a surprise this year. I may try planting some again.
The possible garden is always going to be quite the dream - last year I had hoped to get a little garden done, but we went from winter to summer too suddenly (plus weather change migraines), and it just didn’t happen. At least those of us who can’t pull off a real life garden can always stitch one!
Thank goodness for the stitch gardens, right? All of the beauty and none of the weeds. 🤣❤️
I think that was my most favorite The World Around. I would have never guessed that a group was called a Roll of Hedgehogs. Your Bees in a Greenhouse piece is stunning. Simply stunning. I've never really been drawn to doing a biscornu but this attracts me immensely. It would be lovely to have an indoor garden via the Greenhouse.
Wouldn't that be fun? Or maybe one of those houses that has a sunroom, where you could keep plants all year around? I would love that. ❤️
Really enjoy your flosstubes. I have several of your designs! Love your beautiful GARDEN themed designs!
When you were talking about dreaming of your garden I thought of my daughter. She has become quite the gardener the last 5 years or so. So many lovely new releases.
I'm always in awe of someone who really understands gardening. I just stick with the very easy plants but people who know what they are doing can do such amazing things! ❤️
I always had a lovely rose garden when I lived in the country! Glad you are rested!
I wish I could get all those pollinators in my garden! That design is divine. I really enjoy your world around and now your mind works. I am trying to hibernate so no thoughts of gardening yet.
Wouldn't that be great? Although I think a lemur might be unhappy here in the desert. 🤣❤️
It's exciting to see the garden designs in my community at our annual Garden Walk!
I can’t wait for spring when my flowers in the garden starts growing. Love your new designs.
Thank you so much! ❤️
thank you Jeannine for the lovely show. LOVE the new patterns...very fabulous. Yes, we too browse through the garden catalogues at this time of year and dream of summer. We often buy the seeds too but then when it comes to planting we lag behind and always vow not to buy any more seeds....but you know....time passes and we forget and go for it again probably....LOL. LOVE the designs very much, especially the little hedghog. When I was young we had a family of hedghogs in our garden at the back of the property. I lived in Germany then....always good memories. See you next time.
Buying seeds is a vice of mine as well. And then at planting time I realize that I have 15 kinds of carrots! 🤣❤️
I love all the garden themed charts. We don't have much of a garden here - more like some space for plants, but I have an imaginary garden in my mind which maybe some day I will have - full of native plants that will bring all the wildlife to the garden, so I can have wild creature friends.
My imaginary garden is FAR more impressive then my actual garden! And it's full of all the wildlife as well. 🤣❤️
I love to see hedgehogs in the garden, sadly there not as many visiting as we used to have, the roads so busy these days, love the new designs,.
How wonderful that they visit your garden! I've heard that they need help and protection because of roads and loss of habitat. Your garden must be a good safe space for them. ❤️
Your new charts are so beautiful, but we all expected nothing less. :) I do like to think about my garden a little earlier than is really practical... it helps get through the winter to think about what the spring will bring!
Exactly - it's a great time to think and enjoy the planning! ❤️
Your new charts are very nice! Can one snuggle up with a hedgehog lol. They are just so cute! The dog video is special as always. Stay warm❣️
I totally thought you could snuggle with one, but apparently you need heavy gloves to even handle them. I heard from a lady who does hedgehog rescue and rehab and she uses leather gardening gloves to handle them. ❤️
Just got your Hedgehog & Hyacinth pattern and CGT threads, but was wondered how to use this new thread. Lo and behold I checked your videos, and you explained it perfectly how to use this new thread! I’m so excited to try it… You were the first designer to use them! Huge thank you for posting this very helpful video and providing all the fun facts about hedgehogs!
I can't claim the credit - they're lovely threads and it's a pleasure to use them. But I'm so glad that the video was helpful! I love variegated threads because they give so many different options for different effects depending on how you stitch with them. I hope you're enjoying the stitch, and I'd love to see your hedgehogs when they're done. ❤❤
You have absolutely kicked it out of the park for new releases this market! I love all of them but the little bee conservatory is top of my list for kitting up ❤ sadly I don't have much space for a garden, just some herbs on my balcony.
The herbs are my favorite part of the garden - and they're easy to grow! They're my kind of plants. ❤️
Beautiful spring colors in your new releases! My garden will be filled with more flowers this year along with the usual company, tomatoes and cucumbers. I love the pollinators chart! My favorite ❤️
That's pretty much our mix as well - a few herbs, some berries, and lots of flowers! ❤️
I’m a wildlife biologist who preaches the benefits of pollinators every day at work so I am in love with your beautiful pollinator design!!
I didn’t get to have a garden last year, but I’m looking forward to one this year. I haven’t started planning yet, but I will be soon.
Oh my, that's high praise indeed! Do you have a favorite pollinator? ❤️
Hello from Tennessee! I love your patterns. ☺️☺️☺️ I have all 4 seasons of your heart patterns ready to stitch this year and I'm so very excited. 💙💙💙 Thank you for the wonderful video. 😊
Oh wonderful, I hope you enjoy them! I've been thinking of expanding that series a bit, so there may be a few more additions. ❤️
I went to Australia years ago and I still remember a magical moment when we went to see glow worms in a cave and stars are so bright in the sky at nite. Would really like to stitch the different pollinators in the Garden.
That must have been amazing! We got to visit New Zealand years ago but didn't get to see the glow worm caves, and I've never been to Australia. So many things on the wish list, right? ❤️
I am not a vegetable gardener, but plenty of perennials and annuals! I am in love with all the your new charts. Thank you.
Thank you so much! ❤️
I love gardening and especially beautiful colored flowers.
With my move to southern Arizona my garden consists of a couple of raised beds at the front of the house. The main purpose is to attract local pollinators ( wonderful hummingbirds😊 ) for me to enjoy up close.
I always enjoy your floss tube videos and look forward to see what interesting tidbits you are sharing with us. Since I have been watching you, you have covered trees, flowers, insects, and various animals. Keep em coming! As for the getting ready to garden, you are not alone. We are also ready to start planting but the weather this year might be a big problem. I hope not but it has been different. Anyway we can still enjoy planing for a garden whether it is flowers or vegetables.
Thank you! I confess, the World Around might be my favorite part of the videos, and it's been such fun to learn new things about nature. ❤️
So happy you caught up on your sleep and are back in action. Your new designs are breathtaking - a garden of gorgeous goodness 🐝🏵🌹🌺 As a Buckeye, I have NEVER been a fan of wolverines. I can't thank you enough for giving me yet another reason to deplore the rascals! 😉 Happy stitching!!
🤣🤣🤣 I have to admit, the Wolverine is on my World Around list for future. ❤️
@@theblueflower2115 Oh, dear! So glad you gave me a heads up. I can prepare myself mentally😉
I love your nature style stitches especially the new releases and their garden themes. The new pollinators pattern is a must do in my new year!
Oh my, I'm so glad you like them! ❤️
In my front garden I have three different bird feeders. Every day that I get to sit and stitch, I can look out the window and watch the birds.
It is so much fun to watch them, isn't it? Feeding them is one of my favorite parts of every day. ❤️
I never stop thinking of gardening. I winter over cutting of Fushia's in my sunroom. Must stitch the greyhound. Thirty years ago, I was lucky enough to have one.
Oh how wonderful that you had a greyhound! And a sunroom sounds wonderful. That's on my wish list for a future house, for sure. ❤️
What a beautiful garden of new designs! I especially love Bees in the Greenhouse.
I'm so glad! It was fun to work that out and do the finishing. ❤️
I love all your garden designs. And your doggies are so cute and lucky to be loved by you. ❤
Thank you! We're pretty lucky to have them as well. ❤️
Love all your new releases they are beautiful 🤩. I’m so ready spring so I can start working in my garden. Have a wonderful weekend and happy stitching 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Thank you so much! I'm feeling the spring vibes at the moment, but we're waiting for snow tomorrow so it's not quite here yet. Sigh. But just a little longer and then we can start planting things again. ❤️
Love In Praise of Pollinators! I don’t garden but my husband does so he looks forward to this time of year.
Thank you so much! And he must have a stack of planning catalogs as well! 🤣❤️
Garden frolicking is my jam - love the charts.
Loved seeing you again. Your new charts are so lovely! I can't wait to buy them. I love animals and colors. The hedgehog was so cute. I live in a condo, so I don't have a garden. But some fresh vegetables sound very tasty. Have a great week and see you soon.
Fresh produce is really the best, isn't it? I can't imagine what it must have been like in the days when you only got seasonal food and whatever you could preserve for winter. ❤️
Love your new releases and all the research that goes into each creature. Here in AZ, we’re just about done getting new plants into the garden so they have time to get well established before our summer heat.
It's a strange gardening season, isn't it - there's a stretch in the middle of summer here too where the sun is just too much and everything shuts down! ❤️
Hi loved your you tube. Your new releases look fabulous. After watching Brenda and Laura on Monday I absolutely had to have your Christmas Giraffe. He makes me smile every time I take a look. What I was really excited about is your Hearts for Pam release being Australian and living in Melbourne. It was so lovely to see someone take the time to see more than the kangaroos and koalas. I can hardly wait to start them both. Kudos to you
I'm so glad you like the Hearts For Pam! It was so interesting to do, and I know it only scratches the surface of wonderful Australian flora and fauna. ❤️
Love the new designs, especially the pollinators! Enjoy planning your imaginary garden. 😊
Thank you so much! And my imaginary garden is spectacular. 🤣🤣❤️
Love your new designs, so pretty. I really enjoy watching the birds in my garden.
Thank you! And I agree - we feed the birds every morning and it's a highlight of my day. ❤️
So excited about the Biscorn-Roo. Sending you a message!
Good morning. The hedge hog information was so interesting! Not just cute-fascinating. I’m not much of a gardener. So my garden this year will be some zinnia seeds planted by the mailbox. I love your new releases.
I'm a huge fan of zinnias as well - easy to grow, and beloved by pollinators (and our greyhound!). My favorite type of plant. 🤣❤️
My first time coming across your channel-will be binge watching tonight. My favourite way to garden is in containers.
Oh thank you so much for joining me! ❤️
Wow I just love the pollinators they are the best reason for a garden
Hi there love your new releases! I love spending time in the garden and it is about this time that I look at my seeds and what I am Planting in the spring. Because our growing season is short I do start seeds indoors. Good luck at Nashville!
I'm debating whether to start seeds inside this year as well. But even then we're a few weeks out, so I can just keep planning a while longer. 🤣❤️
Lovely new designs coming. A relative in central UK has been actively involved with hedgehogs in their “garden”: as they call their yard. There is a rescue group in their area that has a super angel woman that fosters hedgehogs and has done so for years. Fascinating world for sure. Love your pollinator design and the hedgehog.
Oh how wonderful! And I know that Chris (The Nimble Thimble) also does hedgehog rehab. She's even sent me some photos of her current patients! Thank goodness for all the people who are taking care of nature. ❤️
What a lovely video. Thank you. You talk about a garden and the only garden you will ever see at my house is in my Crosstitch, but I love stitching garden things.
Your new designs are great. I really like your use of color on the Pollinators. I don’t enjoy working in the garden. I spent several summers after we purchased our home putting together a hosta bed. They are so hardy that I can now just enjoy the final results.
Hostas are so lovely! They did well where we lived in Oregon, but sadly they don't really like it here. So please enjoy yours for me. ❤️
I'm so thrilled to see your new releases!! Nothing I plant lives, but my daughter loves to Garden & does very well every year!
I'm more like you - I have to stick to things that are very easy to grow or I have no chance at keeping them alive. 🤣❤️
Very interesting info on Hedgehogs, thanks for sharing.
I love this part of your videos.
I have a small flower garden in back with Iris, Peonies, Balloon flowers, etc.
Cute puppy video, love the music!
Marilyn
Thank you so much Marilyn! And your flower garden sounds lovely. ❤️
We live in SE Texas, and my husband plants a garden every year. I am into potting plants for my patio. I LOVE the new charts! Thanks for the inspiration!
I actually tried to grow a few things when we lived in Texas and I think we only managed to feed the squirrels! 🤣❤️
Such lovely designs! Love your detail shared on using Cottage Threads - thank you❤. May your garden flourish!
Thank you! ❤️
Your new releases are so good! Love working in my garden and am always thinking about those home grown tomatoes this time of year.
I LOVE your new Pollinators design! and can't wait to see them in my Garden this year. I would love to stitch that this Spring. I finally finished and framed the PNW Summit - Forest Home design of yours and absolutely love it! You are my favorite designer 🥰
Oh my, thank you so much! And I'm so glad that you like Forest Home. ❤️
Hello Jeannine from Ontario, Canada. I love all the new designs...gorgeous! We are currently having a mild winter with temps way above zero. I can't help thinking of the garden but that's all I can do. We're certainly no where near done with winter in the Great White North, LOL!
Hello in the Great White North! We've had a mild winter here as well, but we're expecting snow again tomorrow. I was think it might be almost time for some early seeds in protective domes, but nature laughed at my foolishness. 🤣❤️
I completely agree with the not able to sleep and the brain just won't shut down. Over the cooler months, I've added a heating pad to my bed and found exhaustion, as of late, works like a dream. Completely relaxes my back. Can't even finish a chapter in my nightly read!
I am not a gardener as I have a brown thumb, but my grandfather had a glorious garden in Waynesville, NC, where we visited 2 weeks each July to help harvest and prep for canning.
The heating pad is a great idea! I usually have a greyhound cuddling against me, but it's not always relaxing for my spine. 🤣 I love the idea of having the skilled gardener do the growing and then having everyone else come to help with the harvest. I'd be on canning duty as well. ❤️
Love these new patterns. Don’t even know which one I’d want to stitch first! I love thinking about my garden this time of year because I don’t have to deal with biting insects and heat just yet. :)
Exactly - it's the best time to garden! I have a whole stack of seed catalogs and absolutely no digging yet. 🤣❤️
Hedgehog and Hyacinth is adorable! And as a pub it would be perfect. We used to have a huge vegetable garden but everything was ready to pick, eat and can up about the time school started up and I was a teacher for 35 years. I have not so fond memories of working well after midnight with a horrendous mess in my kitchen! When someone stole the heavy rototiller I took it as a sign and we stopped "farming.'! I had a penpal in Adelaide Australia throughout high school and had big dreams of heading that way but never made it. AND, we have a new member of our household now. A friend sadly lost her mom and had full intentions of adopting her little dog, but their older two dogs absolutely would not agree to anything they tried. So, he needed a home and I had one...he's 6, a "chiweenie" of all things, but I am finding out that a little warm lap dog feels pretty nice! It was minus 23 degrees the weekend he arrived and that was hard on us all! He couldn't put his little feet down on the sidewalk or snow, and looked at me like "You want me to what?" when I put puppy pads down! We're ok now! He looks like Rye, only 100 inches smaller!
Oh that would have been so tough. Everything in the garden seems to be ready at once and you can't put off preserving it. I'm very glad it's easier for you now. And congratulations on the new addition to your family! I do completely understand the joys of a lap dog, but also that they don't love wading through the snow that's up to their poor bellies (not that I would enjoy that either). We always have to shovel an area clear for our little one and he still is disgusted with the snow. 🤣
I don't think about gardening this time of year, but we had an unexpected visit from a hedgehog last weekend in our garden 😊. Love your new designs!
How wonderful that you got to see a hedgehog! ❤️
I love all your new designs especially the pollinators which reminded me that bats are pollinators too. I love bee greenhouse what a beautiful shape and Tudor greyhound is beautiful all the lovely foliage surrounding the greyhound is so pretty. I think hedgehogs are so darling. That is quite something that they put venom on the outside of their little bodies. I learned something today. I love cottage garden threads so I would like to work the threads with your designs, Ooohhh so beautiful!
They are wonderful pollinators! (Of course, I think bats are pretty wonderful anyway.) And I'm so glad you like the other new releases as well. ❤️
Love your designs 💕🤗Night walked down to her lovely garden is my fav right now 😊🤗
Oh I'm so glad you like it! ❤️
I have too much snow yet to think about garden seeds or flowers but by April I’m starting to think about them. This was very educational about hedgehogs! I didn’t know anything about them. As always, thank you for broadening our info about the world around! I love how in the video you have snow and then dry ground and green grass in the next piece of the video.
It's strange like that here - heavy snow one day, and it's gone the next. It's taken some getting used to but I like it overall (much less shoveling). 🤣❤️
I love hedgehogs and collect them. Not real ones. Lol. I stitched flower power by crossed wing collection and added a hedgehog. Your new hedgie chart is adorable! ❤️🦔 I love all of your new releases. My hubby is our gardener so I’m not thinking about gardens. Lol. I like stitching them.
I love that you collect hedgehogs, and put them in your stitching! ❤️
I have been thinking about what I want to put in my garden this year. It looks like spring here.
I just picked up some mini daffodils today to put in my pot at the front door, I can’t wait to see some colour in the garden, yellow is my favourite colour and I love to have lots of sunflowers and then I save the seeds to feed the birds in the winter.
Oh those mini daffodils are such a delight at the beginning of spring! Just like a little bit of sunshine.😍❤️
I'm so excited your new chart for Pam will be a hard copy. I love Australian anything. And I love planning a garden at this time
I loved hearing about your garden plans, I dream big with mine too! Love love love your new designs
Thank you! We'll both enjoy the "dreaming big" season together. ❤️
Let's talk about gardening. We have the tiniest little garden (The Netherlands) and I would love to turn it into something very green and flowery, but we basically cannot keep plants alive, unfortunately. That's why I appreciate all your lovely and colourful designs even more! Maybe, some day.
We have a small garden as well, mostly because I'm not very good at growing things! 🤣 But we're fortunate to have a large yard so I can have lots of pots for wildflowers. At least we can both enjoy colorful stitching even if we don't grow lots of food. ❤️
I live outside of Phoenix Arizona and I think we can garden most of the year here. I have been outside the past couple days weeding and doing general cleanup. Hope to put in a couple native shrubs. I really want an ocotillo. Your new designs are wonderful. Thanks for sharing all the information about hedgehogs. Who doesn’t love a hedgehog?
Oh, those ocotillo are beautiful (although slightly terrifying). Do they take a long time to grow? ❤️
My sister was a great gardener who spent the winter months (she lived in Minnesota) with graph paper designing and redesigning the plants she would move as well as arranging where new plantings for the spring season would go. She got that gene - I did not! Garden I'm looking forward to stitching your multisided piece. It reminds me of my visits to Kew Gardens in the UK
Oh I love the idea of planning like that! That it what I should be doing, instead of just buying lots of seeds that I think I can grow. 🤣❤️
Love the new releases! Can’t wait to get my hands on them. Love the garden theme as well.
I’m all about the animals and insects, they are so important to our environment, loved hearing about the hedgehogs I’m always saddened when I see the them killed on the roads, the same with the badgers and foxes, beautiful creatures, and even though we live in a rural area I have never see a fox in the garden, we did have a hedgehog once but he/she didn’t stay long sadly.
I enjoy your designs.
The hedgehog is so cute, but I did not know about the info you shared on their quills. Cute little animal I’d love to have eat the bugs in my garden.
I wish they lived here - I would build one a little garden castle so it could stay and munch our bugs!🤣❤️
You have really outdone yourself worth your new releases! I not a Garden person, nor even a plant person. Once a coworker gave me a plate of cacti as a birthday gift. When they died, she asked me if I had watered them. I said, "You mean cactus need WATER?!?!?"
That would be me as well! I am an accomplished houseplant killer. 🤣❤️
Such beautiful new charts! I already preordered Pollinators from Steph. I love the hedgies in the garden, too. It is soooo pretty.
Oh wonderful - I'm so glad you like it! ❤️
Hi Jeannine, I love your videos not only do I see such beautiful stitching, designs and charts but I always learn something new….hedgehogs. Who knew lol, I love my garden and like you I love to plan but I am a fair weather gardener, I don’t like cold and wet, so planning stage it is for a while yet.
The planning stage is such a great part, though! Looking at seeds, and making lists...is there anything better? 🤣❤️
I love a garden. Love all your garden and nature themed charts
Thank you! ❤️
Interesting fact about a hedgehog's quills being sharper than a porcupine's. We've had experience with porcupines and those are more than sharp enough for us and our dog! (He was okay.) Here in the Midwest the weather has been warmer than normal, and the snow is melting fast. I have to get started on my garden daydreaming! I usually wait until mid-March for that. haha Happy stitching everyone!
I'm glad your dog is OK! We're still in garden daydreaming for a while. I'm in some garden groups and every day someone asks if it's too early to start seeds for this or that and one of the experienced gardeners has to gently remind us that we have a ways to go yet. 🤣❤️
Love your new releases! I too am dreaming of the Garden. In my dreams my garden is much bigger than my backyard has room for. I will be planting after Mother’s Day. As I live “local” (3 hours east of you) our climate is very similar. I have my eye on Tudor Hound as my daughter has a beautiful Greyhound.
My dream garden has no relation to my actual available space (or our local climate) either! And you understand about the climate here. I'd love to see you stitch up Tudor Hound to match your daughter's dog. It must be beautiful (because all greyhounds are beautiful, right?) ❤️
Your new releases are beautiful as always! My husband does the garden in our family, and since we’re in Texas with milder weather, he’s planning to get it started this weekend!
Oh how exciting! We tried to grow a few things when we lived in Texas, but I think we mostly just fed the squirrels. 🤣❤️
Hedgehog’s are so stinking cute! My next door neighbor does a container garden and has the greenest thumb I know. I mostly keep succulents.
Aren't they adorable? I'd love to see one in person someday. We do some containers as well, but I don't actually have a green thumb so I stick to things that are very easy to grow. 🤣❤️
My husband is already planning our garden. He will be starting seeds of it very soon. I only tend and plan for the ornamentals. Moving hostas is my only big plan for the upcoming year. I can’t wait to get my hands on the Tudor Hound…probably Tudor Hare as well.
I confess, I pretty much focus on the ornamentals (for the pollinators!) and the herbs, as well. But this year we might attempt some corn if we're feeling adventurous. ❤️
I love spending time with you Jeannine, your videos are always so interesting, how cute are hedgehogs, I love all wildlife, like you I have been “thinking” about the garden , there is no colour at this time of year, although I have a few snowdrops up and I can’t wait to see the daffodils appear.
Same - the only color is the peeking of new buds on the pussy willows and the new growth on the trees. But soon it will be spring in earnest! ❤️
In Praise of Pollinators is stunning! You know, I haven’t thought about the garden yet, but I think we should! I bet Mike would love to pick your brain about what works and doesn’t in this dry climate. Love your sewing box! Lovely to see your beautiful face my friend - be well !
I'd love to chat about gardening! I don't know much, but I've made some mistakes which might be helpful. And I'm trying some new varieties specifically for the high desert this year so fingers crossed. Just a few short weeks and we'll be off to market! ❤️
Your animal designs are always amazing and I particularly love the pollinator sampler. It’s a garden of possibilities! I’m still in hibernation mode so no gardening dreams here.
I feel the hibernation mode as well - today especially I want a cuddly blanket and a cup of tea! ❤️
My, you had quite a bit of snow there at one time! My only plans for a garden are stitching beautiful charts with flowers and you have some great ones! Sadly I have 10 brown thumbs when it comes to trying to grow almost anything. I love your hedgehog and your education of all things hedgehog - thank you.
We haven't had much snow this winter, but it's come in bursts so we get buried and then everything is clear for weeks. I'm not a great gardener myself - I stick to the things that are very easy to grow. 🤣❤️
I love your new charts! The hedgehog and the hare are my favorites. Not thinking about the garden just yet. I still have some Christmas decor I need to take down.
I hear you. I was all ready for spring and then we had a huge snowstorm last weekend so we're re-setting expectations just a bit. 🤣❤️