I have always appreciated your constant encouragement in whatever style or process we stitchers use or apply in our stitching...no judgement, no high horse comments. You have always been careful and mindful of what you say. Makes me think twice before I speak to ensure I don't (or try not to) offend anyone. Thanks you for the lesson in humility and humanity. Stay safe Jean ❤
I took up stitching in hand because it meant that I could take my projects with me whenever I knew I would have to wait somewhere, the doctors office, the skating rink with my girls, etc. Waiting is boring and unproductive. Stitching is calming and creative and that is all the reason I need. It may be that my stitches are less perfect than if I used a hoop or a q snap, but the pursuit of perfection defeats the relief from anxiety that stitching gives me. Things don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful and sometimes done is better than perfect😊
I always enjoy learning from you Jean! Thank you for sharing your skills and passion with us! I enjoy watching many floss tube channels, but I always appreciate the intelligence and skill that your channel provides to all of us stitchers. Have a great week!
Thank you. Be safe on travels sounding lovely. The book(catalog) looked amazing. I find things like that more and more to my liking. I grew up in days of card catalog(library).
I was delighted that you lead off the FAQ’s with my comments to you. However, it also made me realize how I sounded. That I’m sometimes “intimidated” by what others are stitching wasn’t what I meant. I should have said “astounded.” There’s so much creativity and beautiful design well beyond what was available when I was learning. I had no idea there was such a robust stitching community until I found Flosstube! Lastly, I admit to being a little proud of my being self-taught, but I have learned some great tips and ideas watching you and others. Thank you!
Dear Jean, as always you provide us with a ton of information. As a retired nurse I became accustomed to both imperial and * metric ststem* At work, it was CC's or Ml, Centimeters, etc. So depending on what I'm calculating, is the system I use. Thank you again for championing switchers to stitch on what THEY love, and how they love to stitch. So many ppl seem to enjoy dragging others down. When you mentioned Perma Press, I thought, * I haven't heard that term in years, and yes I do remember it well. Happy Stitching and keep informing us!
I sent my PDF to my local Staples and had it printed on both sides and ‘bound’ with a coil binding! I could not work on this piece from the PDF file on my iPad. Thank you again for reassuring folks that doing what you find easiest or best for you is the key. Back when I first started doing counted crosscross stitch I knew a lady who only worked in hand because she took classes at “The Counting House” with Ginnie Thompson and that is how she was taught. (Yes I am dating myself.) I have tried working in hand and did not like my results. I went to hoops, scroll frames (with split rails-no basting needed) and then Q-Snaps. Now I do what ever works best for me with a particular piece. Small Christmas ornaments for my sister’s grandkids-I work in hand. Medium size pieces where I won’t have to move it around I work on a hoop. I have tried stitching in hand on ALTWL and found difficulty keeping the extra fabric away so it doesn’t get caught. Plus worrying about getting it dirty and having trouble with my tension! My stitches always seemed to be too tight. (I have tension issues with knitting and crocheting. Which is why I stick to crocheting afghans and scarves.) Right now I am using a small Q-Snap for ALTWL, moving it as I go and not leaving it on when I put my work down. I don’t have split rails long enough for the width of the piece. Not to mention that I don’t think my extra wide scroll base is wide enough. As always you give clear and precise instructions and give everyone the choice to be creative and comfortable stitching. I think that some of those who could not stitch because it made them crazy may have been too “precise” in what they wanted to achieve. Or they wanted ‘instant’ results. It does take time and patience. I have done the pre-quilted stamped cross stitch baby blankets and always run my threads through the quilting between the 2 layers of fabric so that it doesn’t show on the back. I had a co-worker (and fellow stitcher)who would ‘critique’ my stitching and encourage me to keep the back of my work as neat as the front. However, when she was pregnant and was working a piece for her baby she ran her threads all over the place on the back! If she was doing the same color on opposite ends of the piece (stamped cross stitch not counted) she simply ran the thread on the back from place to place! When I asked her about it she said that it didn’t matter because the back wouldn’t show once it was framed! 🤣 I am also self taught. Though I have taken classes for specific projects and stitches. The only needlework that I could not learn by myself is tatting! And I learned tatting from an 80+ year old lady in a class she taught! Oe of my friends counts stitches at times. She keeps a record of every knitting project she does in a notebook. When she cross stitches she has been known to keep a record of the number of stitches she does each day but only when it is a very complex full coverage piece! As usual I tend to run on with my comments. Thanks again for a great FlossTube video! Now back to stitching on my ALTWL!
I know this is an old video but I have started with #1 and am catching up - I am backstitching on my project using your #60 flosstube tutorial - I am stitching in hand (first time) who knew it would be so easy and freeing - I hope actual cross stitching will be the same - side note: it is so much easier to hold under the light and magnifier without banging the qSnap around - thank you
Jean, thanks for all the questions and answers…your sampler, Gracious Words is beautiful and the frame is perfectly matched…I wrote myself a note that glass always equals spacers…I hope you have a great week…enjoyed both sessions of America Land that I Love on Zoom…that is such an Americana pattern…love all your patterns…wishing you joy and happy stitching/designing❣️❤️
Recently been made aware that pdf’s are nice for stitchers in other countries. Gives them access where shipping cost is just to high. Great video. Thanks. Love your message !
Your teaching is very appreciated. I so enjoy your knowledge of the various aspects of needlework. Please continue to create your videos for those of us to continue to grow with the love of cross stitch.
To add to the answer of the question about how to measure your fabric to fit your project, I will always pull threads on two sides to make sure the linen is straight before I measure and cut. I have bought linen that was cut so crooked, I lost about an inch and a half when I pulled the threads. Had I just assumed they sent me right size, I would have been short. I have also noticed since I started doing this to my linen, I have no need to surge the edges….it doesn’t fray!! Thank you so much for such informative videos. 👍❤️
I’ve tried stitching with hoops, frames and Q snaps. I always come back to stitching in hand. That’s what works for ME. I like my tension and in the end my stitching is only for ME. I’m not selling them. I’m not a designer. And, secondary reason, I need and want the portability of grabbing a project from room to room or place to place.
Hi, Jean! Thank you so much for saying that stitching in hand can be done with either method...sewing, or stabbing...I was starting to have some doubts about that very point. I personally find myself unable to use the sewing method because my brain just can’t seem to grasp how to do it 😂. However, depending on the piece, I enjoy the stab-and-stick method by hand. I also enjoy using hoops, Q-snaps, and stretcher bars and frames! It’s wonderful that we have so many different ways to approach our stitching, and it’s equally wonderful the way you encourage us to do what we feel works best for us! 🤗 I’m most appreciative of all you teach us in every video. You have a very wise spirit! 🧵 Meline
Thank you for a great video. Normally I use a hoop on a stand or a frame. I do keep an easy, small project for portability and I am attempting stitching in hand with it.
I don’t think her question was how many stitches was in the design that was 100x100 but what does the stitch count mean. I would have answered her question by saying the stitch count is the count of the widest and longest portion of the design understanding that each space may not have a stitch in it and then as you went on to explain how the different counts effect the final outcome of the size of the design. I can’t imagine wanting to know how many stitches they put in a piece! Since she is a new stitcher everything is new to learn. I do enjoy your you tube and always gain a lot.
I'm working on a full-coverage CM Designs piece on white aida. I started stitching in hand to determine whether I liked it. I used both sewing and poke-and-pull, and after changing my mind many times, I'm now about 2/3 finished and still using both methods. And enjoying it. I'm enjoying it so much that even though my next project will be done on a dark fabric, I'm going to at least start it in hand. Which makes me wonder: is it inherently easier to stitch in hand on light colored fabric? I've been experimenting with 14 ct navy dmc aida and 28 count Zweigart navy lugana and am about to decide on the aida because its initial stiffness will make it easier to stitch in hand! I would have expected the much softer Lugana to be better for in hand stitching.
Forgive me if I misunderstood your answer to Lauren regarding project size. If the project says 100x100, would that not mean 100 chart squares by 100 chart squares regardless of coverage? I look forward to your videos and have learned so much.
You are right and maybe it was I who misunderstood her question. I thought she was asking me if the 100 x 100 total area indicates how many stitches were in that area. My answer was an attempt to say that unless it's a full coverage piece that the stitches (squares) across and down do not tell you how many stitches fall within that area.
@@JeanFarishNeedleworks There are so many terms used by designers and manufacturers of patterns that it can all be misleading. Project size, design size, stitch count, fabric count, etc. Thank you for trying to keep us all on track.
Several vids ago you mentioned a new needlework shop opening in the Winston-Salem area. Do you have any details about that? And thank you for your pronunciation of the word aida. That's the way I was taught to say it decades ago.
Hey Jean! I don’t count my stitches but I can see the appeal if it would help you know how many stitches you can typically complete in a day or a week. Like if you were model stitching.
I had been going to an office supply store to get working copies of my charts printed, but discovered that the library was more convenient. HOWEVER, the library machine scanned the piece first, and the photocopy ended up looking pixilated and much harder to read. My suggestion is to have a sample printed first before paying to have the whole chart copied.
I’m always hysterical when I hear people count stitches. I honestly think that’s another “social media” thing. I also am self taught (1976) and still often learn something. In the beginning I was stitching with 3 strands on Aida. I still like that look even if I don’t stitch on that too often anymore. Not that I don’t like Aida but because I like the look of 28/32 evenweave a bit more.
I wouldn’t let the woman’s comment bother you it’s just means that’s what she thinks of stitching in hand. Maybe she tried it and it didn’t work for her and she then talked to another person that had the same experience. So with a poll of this one other person it is decided that everybody does sloppy work.
Thank you for all you Wonderful Encouragement. Now that pandamic is over and I see all the stuff I ordered and have to fix storage room overwhelmed by it. And Encouragement is quite valuable. Thank you again. See next week.
I have always appreciated your constant encouragement in whatever style or process we stitchers use or apply in our stitching...no judgement, no high horse comments. You have always been careful and mindful of what you say. Makes me think twice before I speak to ensure I don't (or try not to) offend anyone. Thanks you for the lesson in humility and humanity. Stay safe Jean ❤
I took up stitching in hand because it meant that I could take my projects with me whenever I knew I would have to wait somewhere, the doctors office, the skating rink with my girls, etc. Waiting is boring and unproductive. Stitching is calming and creative and that is all the reason I need. It may be that my stitches are less perfect than if I used a hoop or a q snap, but the pursuit of perfection defeats the relief from anxiety that stitching gives me. Things don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful and sometimes done is better than perfect😊
You are so diplomatic handling the inappropriate and sometimes inaccurate comments that are made. Thank you!!!
I always enjoy learning from you Jean! Thank you for sharing your skills and passion with us! I enjoy watching many floss tube channels, but I always appreciate the intelligence and skill that your channel provides to all of us stitchers. Have a great week!
Don't ever stop please!
Thank you. Be safe on travels sounding lovely. The book(catalog) looked amazing. I find things like that more and more to my liking. I grew up in days of card catalog(library).
I was delighted that you lead off the FAQ’s with my comments to you. However, it also made me realize how I sounded. That I’m sometimes “intimidated”
by what others are stitching wasn’t what I meant. I should have said “astounded.” There’s so much creativity and beautiful design well beyond what was available when I was learning. I had no idea there was such a robust stitching community until I found Flosstube! Lastly, I admit to being a little proud of my being self-taught, but I have learned some great tips and ideas watching you and others. Thank you!
Love your videos Jean,you enable me always,you make me feel like I can stitch anything,love your stitching Thankyou for sharing 👍🇳🇿
Thank you!😊
Dear Jean, as always you provide us with a ton of information. As a retired nurse I became accustomed to both imperial and * metric ststem* At work, it was CC's or Ml, Centimeters, etc. So depending on what I'm calculating, is the system I use. Thank you again for championing switchers to stitch on what THEY love, and how they love to stitch. So many ppl seem to enjoy dragging others down. When you mentioned Perma Press, I thought, * I haven't heard that term in years, and yes I do remember it well. Happy Stitching and keep informing us!
🎉 I’m a self-taught cross stitcher (1976) and recently machine sewing, lots of other crafts, it’s my Me Time!!!!
I sent my PDF to my local Staples and had it printed on both sides and ‘bound’ with a coil binding! I could not work on this piece from the PDF file on my iPad. Thank you again for reassuring folks that doing what you find easiest or best for you is the key. Back when I first started doing counted crosscross stitch I knew a lady who only worked in hand because she took classes at “The Counting House” with Ginnie Thompson and that is how she was taught. (Yes I am dating myself.) I have tried working in hand and did not like my results. I went to hoops, scroll frames (with split rails-no basting needed) and then Q-Snaps. Now I do what ever works best for me with a particular piece. Small Christmas ornaments for my sister’s grandkids-I work in hand. Medium size pieces where I won’t have to move it around I work on a hoop. I have tried stitching in hand on ALTWL and found difficulty keeping the extra fabric away so it doesn’t get caught. Plus worrying about getting it dirty and having trouble with my tension! My stitches always seemed to be too tight. (I have tension issues with knitting and crocheting. Which is why I stick to crocheting afghans and scarves.) Right now I am using a small Q-Snap for ALTWL, moving it as I go and not leaving it on when I put my work down. I don’t have split rails long enough for the width of the piece. Not to mention that I don’t think my extra wide scroll base is wide enough. As always you give clear and precise instructions and give everyone the choice to be creative and comfortable stitching. I think that some of those who could not stitch because it made them crazy may have been too “precise” in what they wanted to achieve. Or they wanted ‘instant’ results. It does take time and patience. I have done the pre-quilted stamped cross stitch baby blankets and always run my threads through the quilting between the 2 layers of fabric so that it doesn’t show on the back. I had a co-worker (and fellow stitcher)who would ‘critique’ my stitching and encourage me to keep the back of my work as neat as the front. However, when she was pregnant and was working a piece for her baby she ran her threads all over the place on the back! If she was doing the same color on opposite ends of the piece (stamped cross stitch not counted) she simply ran the thread on the back from place to place! When I asked her about it she said that it didn’t matter because the back wouldn’t show once it was framed! 🤣 I am also self taught. Though I have taken classes for specific projects and stitches. The only needlework that I could not learn by myself is tatting! And I learned tatting from an 80+ year old lady in a class she taught! Oe of my friends counts stitches at times. She keeps a record of every knitting project she does in a notebook. When she cross stitches she has been known to keep a record of the number of stitches she does each day but only when it is a very complex full coverage piece! As usual I tend to run on with my comments. Thanks again for a great FlossTube video! Now back to stitching on my ALTWL!
I know this is an old video but I have started with #1 and am catching up - I am backstitching on my project using your #60 flosstube tutorial - I am stitching in hand (first time) who knew it would be so easy and freeing - I hope actual cross stitching will be the same - side note: it is so much easier to hold under the light and magnifier without banging the qSnap around
- thank you
Stitch happy to Jean, stay safe and until next week🌷 love watching and listening to you
Jean, thanks for all the questions and answers…your sampler, Gracious Words is beautiful and the frame is perfectly matched…I wrote myself a note that glass always equals spacers…I hope you have a great week…enjoyed both sessions of America Land that I Love on Zoom…that is such an Americana pattern…love all your patterns…wishing you joy and happy stitching/designing❣️❤️
Recently been made aware that pdf’s are nice for stitchers in other countries. Gives them access where shipping cost is just to high. Great video. Thanks. Love your message !
Thanks for your videos. Your teaching has always been very helpful over all these years. Have a good week.
Your teaching is very appreciated. I so enjoy your knowledge of the various aspects of needlework. Please continue to create your videos for those of us to continue to grow with the love of cross stitch.
To add to the answer of the question about how to measure your fabric to fit your project, I will always pull threads on two sides to make sure the linen is straight before I measure and cut. I have bought linen that was cut so crooked, I lost about an inch and a half when I pulled the threads. Had I just assumed they sent me right size, I would have been short. I have also noticed since I started doing this to my linen, I have no need to surge the edges….it doesn’t fray!! Thank you so much for such informative videos. 👍❤️
I’ve tried stitching with hoops, frames and Q snaps. I always come back to stitching in hand. That’s what works for ME. I like my tension and in the end my stitching is only for ME. I’m not selling them. I’m not a designer. And, secondary reason, I need and want the portability of grabbing a project from room to room or place to place.
Hi Jean, thanks for another great video. Always learn something new from you.
Thank you very much for the great teaching!!!
Thank you for your videos, Jean, I love your voice and that there isn't a lot of extraneous content. I stitch in hand and dont even try any other way.
Thank you for another informative episode. 🪡🪡🪡
Hi, Jean! Thank you so much for saying that stitching in hand can be done with either method...sewing, or stabbing...I was starting to have some doubts about that very point. I personally find myself unable to use the sewing method because my brain just can’t seem to grasp how to do it 😂. However, depending on the piece, I enjoy the stab-and-stick method by hand. I also enjoy using hoops, Q-snaps, and stretcher bars and frames! It’s wonderful that we have so many different ways to approach our stitching, and it’s equally wonderful the way you encourage us to do what we feel works best for us! 🤗 I’m most appreciative of all you teach us in every video. You have a very wise spirit! 🧵
Meline
Thanks for answering so many questions!
❤️❤️❤️
Great job on video and chat👍 😀
Poke and stab and in hand since I've been watching you and not only is my stitching more enjoyable and I have less arm pain.
Great video Jean thanks
Thank you for a great video. Normally I use a hoop on a stand or a frame. I do keep an easy, small project for portability and I am attempting stitching in hand with it.
Thanks for another very informative video !
Thanks for another video! One question I have is who are some of your favorite designers (besides yourself) and what flosstubes do you enjoy watching?
I don’t think her question was how many stitches was in the design that was 100x100 but what does the stitch count mean. I would have answered her question by saying the stitch count is the count of the widest and longest portion of the design understanding that each space may not have a stitch in it and then as you went on to explain how the different counts effect the final outcome of the size of the design. I can’t imagine wanting to know how many stitches they put in a piece! Since she is a new stitcher everything is new to learn. I do enjoy your you tube and always gain a lot.
I'm working on a full-coverage CM Designs piece on white aida. I started stitching in hand to determine whether I liked it. I used both sewing and poke-and-pull, and after changing my mind many times, I'm now about 2/3 finished and still using both methods. And enjoying it. I'm enjoying it so much that even though my next project will be done on a dark fabric, I'm going to at least start it in hand.
Which makes me wonder: is it inherently easier to stitch in hand on light colored fabric? I've been experimenting with 14 ct navy dmc aida and 28 count Zweigart navy lugana and am about to decide on the aida because its initial stiffness will make it easier to stitch in hand! I would have expected the much softer Lugana to be better for in hand stitching.
Hey Jean! 👋🏻
Forgive me if I misunderstood your answer to Lauren regarding project size. If the project says 100x100, would that not mean 100 chart squares by 100 chart squares regardless of coverage? I look forward to your videos and have learned so much.
You are right and maybe it was I who misunderstood her question. I thought she was asking me if the 100 x 100 total area indicates how many stitches were in that area. My answer was an attempt to say that unless it's a full coverage piece that the stitches (squares) across and down do not tell you how many stitches fall within that area.
@@JeanFarishNeedleworks There are so many terms used by designers and manufacturers of patterns that it can all be misleading. Project size, design size, stitch count, fabric count, etc. Thank you for trying to keep us all on track.
Hi Jean, what is the best way to go from Aida to Linen? Now I am doing 18 count Aida but I love the look of linen, my eyes are old too!
Several vids ago you mentioned a new needlework shop opening in the Winston-Salem area. Do you have any details about that? And thank you for your pronunciation of the word aida. That's the way I was taught to say it decades ago.
Hey Jean! I don’t count my stitches but I can see the appeal if it would help you know how many stitches you can typically complete in a day or a week. Like if you were model stitching.
I could not find the pattern for “Gracious Words Sampler”. Where can I find it?
It's a class project, not a publication.
@@JeanFarishNeedleworks I just found you on RUclips. Live in South Carolina and hoping you do another class with this pattern.
What is a ladder stitch or ladder stitching ?
Thanx love your show !
I had been going to an office supply store to get working copies of my charts printed, but discovered that the library was more convenient. HOWEVER, the library machine scanned the piece first, and the photocopy ended up looking pixilated and much harder to read. My suggestion is to have a sample printed first before paying to have the whole chart copied.
I’m always hysterical when I hear people count stitches. I honestly think that’s another “social media” thing. I also am self taught (1976) and still often learn something. In the beginning I was stitching with 3 strands on Aida. I still like that look even if I don’t stitch on that too often anymore. Not that I don’t like Aida but because I like the look of 28/32 evenweave a bit more.
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Hello, What is the difference between Belfast, Cashel, Edinburgh and Newcastle linen?
These are the names zweigart gives to their different count linens. Cashew is 28ct, Belfast is 32count and Edinburg is 36 ct.
Forgot to say. Newcastle is 40count
@@carmeng6177 Thank you so much. I thought it was different types of linen. Thank you so much for your help!
Can you tell us where you found your floss drops
I wouldn’t let the woman’s comment bother you it’s just means that’s what she thinks of stitching in hand. Maybe she tried it and it didn’t work for her and she then talked to another person that had the same experience. So with a poll of this one other person it is decided that everybody does sloppy work.
Thank you for all you Wonderful Encouragement. Now that pandamic is over and I see all the stuff I ordered and have to fix storage room overwhelmed by it. And Encouragement is quite valuable. Thank you again. See next week.