FlossTube #30 - No editing, bead rambles and a new stash addiction!
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024
- Total lack of editing this time due to laptop demise but I still have lots of lovely WIPs, a finish, two FFOs, a beady excursion and my latest new stash obsession!
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Video turned out great! No need to worry about the lack of editing. Congrats on your wedding anniversary! 23 years is to be celebrated. I hope you find some time to relax and enjoy your visit with your family. Thanks for sharing all your stitching. It’s lovely!
Thank you 😊 I'm feeling more confident to leave out a lot of the editing now! We had a delightful anniversay and family time 🩷
No editing required. It was great! I also really love seeing your WIP s as you show them as apposed to the pictures. Their colors and textures show up so much more. Just my thoughts on the difference. Your WIPs are gorgeous and it is always exciting to see your updates. Happy anniversary to you and Dr. Tim. Have a lovely time.
Thank you 😊 It's really good to hear you enjoyed the unedited video and yeah, I think I'm going back to holding up the WIPs! It just feels more natural. Thank you for the anniversary wishes; we had a fab day 😄
Wall flowers is gorgeous!! Chromatic Dragon is just stunning. The end product is going to be so crazy gorgeous!😊
25% on the dragon - woohoo!! That's definitely spurring me on! Now just need to get on and finish the backstitch on Wildflowers!
Ur stitching is just lovely. Happy Anniversary to u both. Happy stitching 🧵✂️🪡❤️
Thanks so very much 😊We had a lovely anniversary 😄🩷
Loved the video. You don't need editing. I stitched on my puffins. Happy Anniversary!
Aw, thanks so much 😊 That's so fun that you were stitching the puffins while watching; they are so cute. I've just seen the sneak peek for the next part...I think it will be my favourite!
This video was super so you can definitely save yourself a lot of editing time in future. Congrats to you both on your anniversary. Looking forward to the update with your mum 💚
Aw, thank you 😊 I am definitely going to be doing less editing in future! I had a wonderful time with my parents, a lovely meal out, and most importantly Mum and I filmed a video...coming on Thursday! 😄
Really enjoyed your unedited video😊 like it when you hold up your work, so glad to see that back. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and anniversary.
Thanks Sarah 😊I'm really happy hearing how much you enjoyed it despite the lack of editing, and I'm going to do much less editing in future! I think I'm going to keep on with the holding up pieces too as it just feels more natural. I had a delightful weekend with my Mum and Dad, a yummy meal out and Mum and I filmed so watch this space! 😄
Lovely video without editing - really enjoyed it. Happy Anniversary to both of you x
Thanks so much and I'm happy to know you enjoyed me unedited; I think I'll try to keep a much lighter touch on the editing from now on! 😄🩷
Save your editing time for stitching, this was lovely to watch. Hope you had a nice anniversary 🎉💜
That is very good advice! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and I had a delightful anniversary, thank you 😄🩷
Well done. You certainly have been busy with a nice variety of projects, and the video itself flowed very well. Thanks.
Thank you 😊 I do have a good variety that's for sure and I love being able to work on different things. I'm delighted to hear you found the video flowed well and think I'll try to keep the editing more minimal in future!
Another great video thanks for sharing all your beautiful work. I hope you are enjoying your Anniversary celebrations ☺
Thanks so much 😊 I really enjoyed some family time and had a wonderful meal out to celebrate our anniversary 😄
Happy Anniversary. I love your WIPs. Your dragon is looking amazing.
Thank you 😊 So gld you're enjoying my WIPs and the dragon is always a favourite! 🪡😄
Nice job!! You're a natural!!! Happy Anniversary!!
Thanks so much 😊
Thanks for sharing, and it was great to see the Chromatic dragon again - I didn't realise just how big it is. It is already stunning and impressive, as is the Sorceress. I also love the flower wreath - adore the colours - so looking forward to seeing that one finished when you get there.
Oh yes, the dragon is BIG! If it looks good now, I can't wait to see it finished...in another 3 years or so 😂 I am excited to finish Wildflower Wreath too, especially as it is such an old WIP now.
@@catkinandlillie I look forward to seeing your progress then for the next few years :-) I'd love to stitch something like that myself one day - and a fancy lady maybe! 😀
I thought you did great with no editing! I love the metallic thread instead of beads! ❤ The Mermaid Realm would look amazing in the variegated floss; probably with a subtly colored fabric. Happy Anniversary 🥂😊
Thank you 😊 So good to know I can ease off on the editing! I totally agree with you about choosing a subtler fabric if I go for the variegated thread, to avoid the fabric and thread 'competing' with each other.
@@catkinandlillie Exactly! 😊
Lovely video! I think I prefer the less-edited format, but you do whatever works for you 😊. Fab progress on your lovely projects 👏. I also got a good bit of stitching done while watching so yay! X
Thanks so much for your comment and your thoughts; it's so helpful to know you prefer the unedited style. I can see myself only doing very minimal editing in future, mainly just to add in the pictures 😄 So happy you got some stitching done as well!🩷
You so don't need to edit your videos Kat, this was fabulous as always. Think how much more stitching you can get done in all the time you can save by not editing! Though I suspect the perfectionist in you will be back to editing the minute that laptop is back!
I got a chart this week for my first ever "big" project that needs to be kitted up with all the bells and whistles and I'm finding it a bit daunting so I'm just admiring the chart for now. I deliberated over it for ages before I bought it. It's The Snow Queen by Mirabilia. It's stunning but I fear I won't do it justice 😅 We shall see! Xx
Yup, I am learning from all the lovely comments like yours that I do not need to spend so much time editing 😂🩷 You are not wrong about me though...it would be so easy to slip back into doing it, because yes, I am definitely a perfectionist! I am going to try for very light editing, and I do want to pop in the pictures. Let's see how well I do! 🤞
I LOVE the Snow Queen...I have yet to do a Mirabilia and this is on my short list for sure. It's gorgeous. I was definitely daunted by my first large fancy lady but the best plan is just to get started...it's essentially like any other design but bigger! And you don't need to worry about beads etc. for a while, so go for it and I hope you love it 😄🪡🩷
You did a beautiful job without any need to edit😊. So enjoy seeing all your WIPs, all are gorgeous, very envious of all the stitching you get done. I have started my first SAL which is a Halloween from love poppet. Still only working on one project at a time though! Happy Anniversary and enjoy the weekend with your parents🍾
Thank you, that's lovely of you 😊 I know I am very lucky to get lots of time to stitch 🪡😄 That SAL sounds lovely; I do like the Love Poppet designs and in fact have just bought my first one...the Wren with Snowdrops!
the mermaid? you love pink, so choose a variegated pink you love and put on medium to dark gray. BTW, loved the no-edit video. Your regular vidoes are terrific, very polished and professional, but a bit more of real Kat (who is fabulous) comes through on the no edit method. Maybe continue to do tutorials with the editing, but your flosstubes be au naturel? LOL. Love your videos any way you make them. thanks and best wishes. xoxo
Ooooh, that's definitely got me thinking now about getting some pink in for the mermaid! Pink and grey is such a gorgeous combo. Thanks for the suggestion!
It was so lovely to hear you enjoyed the no editing and yes, I think I did feel it was a bit more natural. I do want to keep the tutorials more edited and polished but I will try my best to keep my hands off the editing for the flosstubes...let's see how well I can do because it's just so tempting 😂
Dear Kat, Your puffins are super cute!! There has been a report on the news, I think it was, recently about the puffins on the Farne Islands making a recovery after bird flu which is great to hear. They're such delightful little birds and one of my favourite birds, another one being owls! I didn't stitch while watching your video - I can't count and watch at the same time else the stitching goes wrong - but I put a few more stitches into my little mouse for the autumn design from Jess and The Geeky Stitching Co that I'm currently doing (that's the one I kept getting wonky stitches on!). I think I'll be able to post a photo of it onto Instagram at some point soon as I was getting told I'd run out of storage on my iPad and couldn't upload photos once I'd taken them but I've figured out a workaround so hopefully people can see my WIPs again on there! Know it's a couple of days late, but happy anniversary to you and Dr Tim, and I hope you had a nice time with your parents. Also hope your meeting at work wasn't as stressful/difficult as you were anticipating it might be. I have a monochromatic pattern from Long Dog Samplers that needs quite a few (!) skeins of floss to complete it but I am wondering whether I could use a variegated thread for some of it instead of using all one floss colour. Maybe you could use a neutral fabric for your mermaid and then do the mermaid in the grey and everything else in a variegated so the mermaid stands out. Or ask your mum! OK enough of my rambles and thank you so much for your video. Your Historical Sampler Company's SALs are both looking great! Take care and hope you're having a better week and that your laptop has recovered! Love Caron 🧡
Hi Caron! I love owls too! Both owls and puffins just seem to have so much character. Your little mouse stitch is looking so cute on IG and I definitely don't think using 2 instead of 3 strands is an issue; it looks fab 😄 Tim and I had a delightful anniversary with my parents and a lovely meal out. Work meeting was a bit stressful but it did achieve something so it was totally worth it. I always have my stitching in work with me if I need to calm my brain down a bit! I am really wanting to do a Long Dog pattern one day and think variegated thread would be gorgeous for them but it could get expensive so the idea of mix and match with a plain and a variegated could work really well. Hugs, Kat 🩷
Thank you very much for another great flosstube. I really enjoy watching them. I have also bought the sal Christmas pattern from the historical sampler society and am really looking forward to it. It will be my first ever sal.
Thanks so much for your lovely comment 😊 Oooh, how lovely you have the Christmas SAL from HSC too...I am super excited for it and expect LOTS of cuteness! I do hope you'll enjoy your first SAL 😄
I would much rather have a video from you with no editing than no video at all, so thank you for going ahead despite the extra stress. It was Stoo and I's 26th wedding anniversary yesterday (5th), so we're close to yours! Hope you have a lovely weekend with lots of time to stitch and destress.
Aw, thank you 😊 I'm so glad I went ahead too espeically as it's given me the confidence to stop editing so much in future! Happy 26th wedding anniversary 🎉🩷 Had a fabulous weekend of stitching, family catch up and lovely food 😄
Don’t know why you give yourself more work by editing This one is great! Look forward to see what you decide to do with the Jan Hicks mermaid I’m not experienced enough to give my opinion but I know I wouldn’t do all black! Definitely a multi coloured thread I’m more a purple than a blue person Although that blue is gorgeous! It will be nice to have a visit with your Mum & you Enjoy your anniversary meal!
Nope, I can see now that the editing was a wee bit necessary! I think the forced 'no edit' showed me that I absoutely can do without, apart from to add in the pictures 😄 Mum and I have been consulting on the mermaid and I have a few great options of thread/fabric on my 'short list' now!
Was nice to see your fancy lady in the flesh, and definitely many more stitchy days I’m organising one in Hereford next 😁 great video Kat even without the editing
WIPs are always soooooo much better in the flesh! Looking forward to more stitchy days and birthday celebrations 😄 And yeah...editing will be a lot less in future 😂
Omg, I love the Christmas FFO!! It looks so great with the metallic threads. Great choice!! ( I’m watching during my lunch so I will have to comment as I watch) 😂
I am so delighted with the metallic thread, and I think I'm getting a little more confident swapping things in patterns now!
@@catkinandlillie definitely go with your gut, that turned out I think better than it would have with beads. 😄
Great video! Congratulations!!! ❤
Thank you ☺️
Congrats on your progress! Seeing that colorful dragon up close was a treat. It’s strikingly beautiful.
Thank you ☺️ I am constantly in awe of how beautiful the dragon is looking!
Love all your WIPs.. And the Mermaids Realm in the hand dyed Blue thread would be amazing...
Thank you 😄 I am really liking the idea of the blue for the mermaid piece...it's kind of stuck in my head now!
Mermaids realm is going to be gorgeous in the dyed blue thread. What about an opalescent grey. It will look like sparkles in the water. I’m not into samplers but I love this stitch. I could replace the alphabet and numbers with sea related items. Ty. Rabbit hole. Lol
Oooh, opalescent would be very pretty and grey is a good option. Trouble is...I have quite a few good options 😂 I have really not been into samplers but I loved everything else about this design that I just had to do it, and I guess the alphabet and numbers are such a small part of the whole piece. I did wonder about swapping them for something else but I'll just faff about an doverthink it so will stitch it as is! Sorry, not sorry, for sending you down a rabbit hole 😜
Editing is over-rated I think. Your pieces are so beautiful. Happy Anniversary!
Yup, you may well be right about the editing! 😂Thanks for your lovely comment 😊
Lovely FFO's. I was stitching on 'Strawberry Bird' by The Blue Flower while watching/listening to your video.
Thank you 😊 It was lovely to get those 2 FFOs and frog has made it on to the office wall! I'm glad you got some stitching done and that's a really lovely delicate design 😄🪡
I actually pulled out some pre-Pandemic yarn stash that was originally going to be an elaborate granny square blanket. Now it's going to be a diagonally striped knitted blanket with an interesting (but very repetitive) knit stitch. I think the stitch is called Chinese waves. Tonight I'll get back to a cross stitch piece that will be a birthday surprise for a friend.
And I didn't mind the lack of editing, either!
Oooh, you have been busy! I wouold imagine the repetitive knit pattern is very good for mindfulness, in the same way as cross stitch 😄 It's lovely you are making a surprise gift for a friend and I hope she loves it!
I LOVED this video! You are great with or without editing. 🩷
Aw, that's so lovely, thank you 😊
Ok, so I’m a broken record m. I love all your stitches. Thank you so much for sharing! 😊
Aw, so lovely of you, thank you 😊🩷
Loved the video, the Arctic animals SAL is so cute, and congrats on 25% on chromatic dragon! I was working on an Into the Woods themed Etsy pattern, just got to 50% on that this week!
Yay! 50% on your Into the Woods piece is a fabulous milestone 😄 It's fun to have little wins like finishing a part of the Arctic Animals SAL to mix in with larger projects like the dragon!
I actually enjoyed the no editing! You were very natural and there was a nice flow :)
Thank you, that's so lovely to hear 😊
I’m trying to get the last two Christmas stockings out of four for my grandchildren 😂x
That's a lot of stockings! Good luck and having handmade stockings will be so lovely for your grandchildren 😄
Wonderful video and you ended it just fine! You don’t have any reason that you need to edit unless you want to stick info in.
Happy 23rd Anniversary Kat & Dr. Tim! Wishing you many more happy healthy years with enough of everything!
Love all of the Wips! Looks like you have several fancy lady designers you might start collecting 😂 Let’s see Bella Filipina, Joan Elliot, Nora Corbett, you might want to look at her mom’s designs too! (Shh don’t tell anyone I collect those too). 😂 you’re also making me want to start another designer. I can’t decide if I want another Nora or her mom or a cutesy Halloween or what?
What I was working on while watching today is The Magic Lamp! Which is my wipgo call for fancy lady for 4 days. I’m now at 49.65% so Yay half way! I also have 11 finishes for the year and 16 starts.
Have a great day Kat!
Thank you, you are so lovely 😊🩷 Yes, I am realising that I probably do not need to spend so much time editing 😂 I do want to put the pictures in, tweak the colours a little and trim the start and end...but maybe I can convice myself to stop there?!
Collecting charts is all part of the fun, right?! Sometimes it's just nice to have them even if I might never stitch them. You are so right though...it;s hard to pick when there are so many gorgeous options! The Magic Lamp is one I would definitely stitch but probably won't ever get to...but I love seeing others stitch it like yourself! So fun that we can share our stitching so we all enjoy it! And very nearly 50% is awesome 😄
Thank you for the anniversary wishes and I'm looking forward to celebrating. I prefer celebrating this than my birthday to be honest 😂
@@catkinandlillie You’re quite welcome sweet lady. I love seeing the art work on my collection… it’s just beautiful. I am always wonder which one I want to start first. 😂 I have enough to keep me busy for at least the next 20 years unless I get a lot faster than I am.
This year I am working on FFO things. So far I have a Santa Diamond painting that I had framed 18x24inches. No time like the present is in the frame shop and hopefully I will enter it into the fair. I am using it to get an idea of what I have to do to compete or if I even want to…
I wanted to enter my Santa’s Secret (it was lost) it’s too old of a finish. I can only enter things that was finished after the fair last September deadline.
I can understand not really wanting to celebrate birthdays and prefer anniversary instead.
I love the cute arctic animals! Sorry about the laptop, but I did love this format
Thank you and it's great to know you enjoyed this...I think it will stay much more like this in future! 😊
Girl u done some incredible progress! And i absolutely love the frog xD
Bout the mermaids realm well with that thread? Damn yeah i can imagine the colorchanges giving of some underwater/wave-like optic! Looking forward what ur choicd will be!
Yay for progress! I am so lucky to get lots of stitching time and then I get lots to share with you which makes me happy 😄 I can't get that variegated thread out on my head now...it is really seeming like a good option but I will need to buy a LOT of skeins of it 😂
I have some Lima in my stash as well. I think it would be gorgeous for the mermaid piece.
It's such a pretty thread! My Mum was quite keen on it for the mermaid too!
Love it edit free - makes it more real!
Thank you! I'm staying mostly edit free from now on 😂😄
I think you should do variegated thread for the mermaid chart. And the Lima is a beautiful choice!
I am really leaning towards a variegated thread but am slightly worried about how much thread it would take! That Lima is so pretty...although I *might* have ordered some other options too 😂
However you do videos it does not matter Cat. Chatty and visiting is just fine. I put my beads into the watchmakers cases from Lee Valley Tools. Each little round "jar" inside the case has a nice tight screw on lid.
Aw, thanks so much ☺️ It went a lot better than I thought it might do I suspect I can save myself a lot of editing time in future 😂 That sounds like a really cute bead storage solution 😄
Great video. I’m not doing the word bubbles on the Frosted Pumpkin Arctic Animals SAL either. Once the SAL is over, are you going to do anything with the spaces that are left blank where the words were supposed to be? I want to do something with mine, but I haven ’t thought of anything yet
Thank you 😊 I am not sure what to do instead of the word bubbles. There's an outside chance I'll still do them as charted, but maybe I'll just stitch the words without the coloured boxes. I am starting to wonder if it will look ok without anything to replace them at all, as it's not looking crazy empty right now. If I think of anything I'll be sure to chat about it in a video! 😂
@@catkinandlillie Thanks!
With or without editing, your videos are great! Where did you get the bead storage boxes?
Thanks so much. Good reminder for me about the bead drawers because I did say I was going to link them and forgot... amzn.to/3yZegno
I personally prefer this version without all the editing, it’s great 😊 don’t know why you were so worried x
Thank you...I suspected I was worrying for no real reason 😂 Great to know you preferred it! 🩷
I would be very happy to just see your unedited videos with you putting in the pattern and your last progress.
Aw, thank you 😊 I think that's pretty much what I'll do for future videos...so the silver lining to a dead laptop is finding out that I can save a bit of editing time!
I have a question about your football stitching. Do you just do it when Liverpool are on the telly, or generally from 3 ish to 5 ish on a Saturday? I'm thinking of having a footy project (I normally crochet through football) but seeing as my team (lower end of the championship) are rarely actually on telly, I'm wondering if it's enough time to make rational progress
My football project is just when Liverpool play so at the moment it's about 1 game per week unless there's an international break, but there will be other matches later in the year so it's often 2 games per week at that point. And at the moment, my football project is also getting worked on another day of the week as well. But in the past it has been a project that does only get touched during the football matches. I think only you can know if there will be enough games to make good progress, but if not, having a 2 hour slot each weekend is a good option. I also think that if you pick the right project you'll still see some good progress. If it's a small and fairly 'easy' stitch without lots of complicated counting or colour changes then I reckon it would work well. Let me know how you get on! 🪡🩷
@@catkinandlillie epic thanks
Great video - you really don’t need to do any editing on your videos! I also don’t mind not seeing progress pictures from the last videos either!
Thanks so much 😊 I am going to doing much less editing, at least for the flosstubes, in future!
I actually enjoyed your video more without the editing 😊 beautiful projects xx
Thank you Angela 😊 You'll see from my later videos that I have kept them virtually edit free now 😄