Hey Charlotte 👋🏻, you are one cool dude! You did so well with the obstacle course and congratulations on your well earned certificate ps I love Duggee too. Your Mum is one cool stitching dude too.
Thank you soo much for the mention ❤ I enjoyed seeing your beautiful stitching! Your FFOs look fantastic! Charlotte is adorable enjoyed her visit in your video ❤
Oh goodness Charlotte is such a gem….what a sense of humour she has. She really brightened my afternoon. Lovely stitches as always Sarah and thanks for the heads up on some new channels. Karen x
Hi Karen, I hope you’re doing well. Yes, Charlotte has a great sense of humour and loves to play the same jokes over and over. Whoopee cushion anyone? She can tolerate it for hours!!
Hello! Have to start with how lovely to see Miss Charlotte again. She is a ball of energy and good job on the obstacle course. I’m so glad to see you are doing a prompt I suggested! The Sunshine floss is a great choice for her dress. Thank you for sharing the photos from the castle! Have you ever seen a glimpse of the royals when they have been there? I am continuing to work on the Barn monthly calendar series by TPP but they take up a lot of my stitching time so I’m a bit frustrated that I’m not able to get a lot of work done on other projects but I have the next two weeks off work for a small surgery so I should be able to get in a lot of stitching and maybe even a couple finishes before the end of June.
Hope your surgery goes smoothly and you get a lot of stitching in as your silver lining Joanne. The Royals are here very infrequently and I think the grounds are closed then for security. Occasionally you see a royal car driving up through the village of Hillsborough but it’s hard to see who is inside. We usually find out on the evening news!
Maybe Kathy can pass on the peacock to Kathleen? 🦚 That beehive bicycle is adorable! The castle grounds were lovely! Thank you for sharing!❤❤ The counting pins are so adorable! I'd love to try my hand at! I am so pleased you like the umbrella teacup, I believe it was designed just for you❤
I sent my peacock as my kitted project but the pattern is pdf so it can’t be shared with Kathleen unfortunately. Yes, I think somebody somewhere designed that umbrella teacup just for me! Thank you again, Rebecca.
Good job Miss Charlotte. You are the best eager beaver ever. And a brilliant job dude on that obstacle course. Lol lol. We love watching mom. But we love watching you to. Come back again soon. Love you to Miss Sarah. Linda from Rhode Island
Thank you Sarah for this wonderful flosstube. I did laugh with you showing the beautiful counting pins. Congratulations to Charlotte. Well done lovely and joyfull girl.💝
Hi Sarah, thank you for another lovely video & telling us about the Barbara Ana releases. I must of missed it on IG. Hello to Charlotte , she did a great job at her club & well done for the certificate 👏
I’m so glad I remembered to share the Barbara Ana news even if it was a bit of a tangent while I was talking. There will be a lot of us hovering eagerly over her ok-fi shop now 😉 Thanks for watching!
It was such a perfect prompt to allow me to stitch Deb’s design which had been in my stash for a while and to treat myself to some Fox and Rabbit and CGT 😉Any excuse!
Oh how wonderful to see Charlotte again - I just love her enthusiasm and congratulations on her certificate. Your stitching, as always is beautiful. Well done on the fully finishes and the finish. Thank you for telling us about Nicola’s tutorials - I will be watching them. Mind you, it’s hard to keep up with all the flosstubes. Thanks for your photos of Hillsborough Castle grounds - I have been there many times and they are delightful. My aunt and uncle go walking there every Wednesday - they live in Banbridge and that’s ‘their’ day when they go out for lunch and walk the grounds. Happy stitching Sarah x
What a lovely wee morning out for your aunt and uncle, Sue. You are right about keeping up with all the flosstubes. I hardly watch any tv any more, mostly just flosstube! Nicola’s tutorial series is great. I do heartily recommend.
I am with you Sarah…I love stitching…I love beading…I love watching others do Mirabilia ladies…I won’t be stitching one myself. I do like the bee queen…your choice is up my alley.
I think the Mira ladies are fabulous. In fact my favourite is a witch looking one (can’t remember her name). She’s amazing, but I don’t like to stitch with es or Halloween 🤣 Anyway, I will just enjoy watching others do the amazing stitching that is involved in them. I did find a freebie Mira which I’m considering doing as part of my 50 starts. It’s a very small (obviously) Christmas angel. I think they call her a cherub. We’ll see.
Oh Sarah I really had to laugh with you when you tried to show the pins🤣! Charlotte (Dude) is doing so well and obviously enjoys herself. I sympathise with frogging some Rejoice. Been there, done that. I'm working another Golden Wedding Sampler (different from last year's one) but don't plan to make one for ours next year so far as there are too many WIPs I'd like to finish first!😮 Bought 3 more Caterpillar X-stitch needle minders at a small quilt show on Friday as I think they're the best. The bee one is my favourite too.
I know! What kind of daft was I being 🙄 Thought it might give some of you a smile. I think it would be such a shame for you not to stitch your own Golden Anniversary Sampler at some stage. I hope you will.
Really enjoy watching your flosstubes, whilst I stitch - glad to have found you. You have introduced me to new designers. Loved meeting Charlotte this time, she is adorable.
So many lush greens to enjoy! I wonder how many gardeners they have to maintain all of that beauty at the castle?! How wonderful to hear your giggle about displaying the pins!😅 Congrats on the framed finishes! I'm starting the Frosted Pumpkin SAL and hoping I can keep up with it. I still haven't finished the "All things grow" SAL... although I am on part 4 finally!
Today was a bonanza of goodness. Your beautiful stitching and a visit from Charlotte. Please let her know I celebrate her accomplishment as an Eager Beaver of the week. Thank you for keeping me company as I worked on Red Bird Sampler by Brenda Gervais. Take care, my friend.
I LOVE your bee queen start. She really pops on that fabric and your stitching is exquisite! She is definitely a fancy lady and I say stitch what you love! I'd like someday to do the other ladies from tiny modernist too and will have to check out Barbara Ana! Great stitching and Happy 50 starts :). Glad I got to join in a bit :)
Thanks Andrew! The Barbara Ana girls with the seasons are their skits are so beautiful. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for those! Thanks for keeping me company on the Bee Queen start.
Love your photos of the castle and grounds. So beautiful! Always love to watch your videos and see what you're stitching. And the short with the counting pins....had me laughing, only because you are truly my younger sister by another mother. Good job to Charlotte! Congrats again on your 3 year anniversary.
Oh how good to see you again and the lovely Miss Charlotte, I think Charlotte and my grandson would make a fine pair. He is non verbal but that does not mean quiet, he is a tyke and knows how to butter us up to get what he wants! A fabulous Flosstube, I love your stitching and your explanation of how and why. I loved the pictures, the kitchen garden looks amazing, we’ve had so much rain here in South Wales now we have some sun and you can hear everything growing so fast. Great to have you back, take care until next time. A cwtch for Miss C. x
Hello Sarah and Charlotte It was lovely to see you both today and have a catch up. Firstly, Congratulations Charlotte 🎉 on getting that wonderful certificate, I think you have been working very hard at school. Oh Sarah, the pins were beautiful, even more so when you showed them to us 😅, (sorry) I’m glad you kept it in it really brought a smile to my face. The stitching was beautiful as usual , and the shoutouts of new floss tubes, well I had found Jackie this week and have subscribed, love her. Take care little Family , see you soon. 👵 xx
Well done Charlotte amazing jumping at your eager beaver club such a clever girl. I love all your stitching Sarah I’m so pleased you showed so more of what makes you happy as I was struggling with the ball of wool! I unpicked it twice but having looked at yours mine was right!!! I love the Queen Bee 🐝 piece so pretty. Happy stitching Love from Lindsey xx
Oh no Lindsey I hope you didn’t have to unpick unnecessarily! Hopefully you’re all sorted for a smooth run through the remaining parts. Thanks for watching!
I for one love a weather report! My mom watched and listened to continously so I come by honestly. I also love being outside except when its miserabley hot, which we've had 100 degrees all week!! And I've bought several umbrella charts thanks to your influence❤
Well now I wonder how many starts you will have by the time we get to the end of the year lol. However I was quickly distracted from that thought by the wonderful visit from the dude Miss Charlotte. I love that she likes something new! It was a joy to see her visit. Happy Stitching from your sensible, or maybe not so 🤣, stitchy pal xx
Well, I never claimed either of us were sensible through and through!! I’m hoping not too many more starts that are ‘off the record’. There were just a few of the SALs I hadn’t accounted for and now I’m having troubling dropping anything else off my master list of 50, so I’m sort of sucking it up with a few ‘extras’ so I don’t have to ditch those😉 It’s nice to finally have a Special Olympics group near enough to drive to on an evening without being out too late. She is loving it! It’s a sensory overload for me, but it’s so good to have it happening for the kids.
Lovely to spend time with you and all your lovely stitching, and to see the lovely smiling Charlotte. I’m also stitching along with Nicola. Happy Stitching ❤❤
I am directionally challenged at times myself (typically in stretch class where she says right but she moves left!) The counting pins made me laugh. When I use a hand held mirror, I often have a time locating what I want to touch (fixing my hair up!)
Oh Charlotte you are adorable! "Something new" to me is meeting you! Keep up the good work on the Olympics you did wonderful. Thanks Sarah for sharing all your Flosstubes and especially Charlotte.
Thank you for sharing a bit of Northern Ireland with us. I love your Queen Bee stitch and I agree with you, she is a Fancy Lady. My best to Miss Charlotte. It's always a delight to see her and what she's been up to. The Special Olympics are a fantastic group of people.
Hi Sarah, thanks so much for another great video! Loved the beautiful castle gardens thank you for sharing. Also had to laugh when you said you have a shelf full of finishing items you haven’t used - I can relate. I have many many pieces waiting to be FFO’d. Loved your rejoice no more, good idea to put it as day stitch. I too have to unpick right away. Mostly because it can take me a min to find the mistake and I don’t want to forget and have to hunt again later lol. Thanks for another great video!
Yes absolutely that’s another good reason for unpicking right away. Not only would I forget where to unpick but I might even forget that I need to and then start stitching and make even more stitches that need frogged!
Lovely stitching as always Sarah and I agree about Nicola's stitch videos....fantastic! Such a lovely surprise to see Miss Charlotte again and congratulations to her on her Eager Beavers award! 🎉👏🩷
Lovely to spend some time with you and Charlotte. You have awesome progress on your projects and appreciate your videos because you are always so informative of what's happening in our community. Take care and happy stitching 🌷🌷 from Judy in New Zealand FT An Aussie in a Kiwi world
Thanks Judy. I am trying to share what I can about what’s going on in the community, the things I know about. I love it when others do that too. You know, just in case I miss out on something 😉
Congratulations to Charlotte, it was lovely to meet her. I enjoyed seeing everything you've been working on and the photos of Hillsborough Castle were great
Miss Charlotte was wonderful on the obstacle course. I finished Rejoice Evermore and it's a great stitch. I stated with Nicola's academy and have been having an amazing time learning.
Thank you for your video and all the informations for the community. Love to see your progress - while I try to be on track with all of the SAL. Well done Charlotte 👍 kind regards Ute 🇩🇪
Hope great to see you both tonight Sarah & Charlotte 👏👏👏 Well done to Charlotte on her certificate, a lot of hard work clearly went into that achievement 👏👏👏 Great that you have a club locally. The photos of Hillsborough Gardens were beautiful, so nice that it is so close to you. Be nice to watch the seasons change through the gardens. Your stitching is beautiful as usual. Love Rejoice Evermore, glad that you got it on the move again. I watched Jackie & Sian during the week, absolutely loved both of them & looks forward to following them. Must look at the others you mentioned. Here's to lots of stitching in June. Best wishes to you all from 🇮🇪
Hi Anne Marie. The club just started up about a month ago and it’s about half an hour away, so it’s nice there’s finally one we can get to. So many amazing new Flosstubers at the minute. I need to give up work just so I can keep up with everybody! Hope you’re hanging in there.
Love watching your videos. I was in N. Ireland 2 yrs ago and when I heard you talking about the castle I had to go look at my pics. I was there but it was in Oct. so it wasn't open. . My cousin lives close to Belfast and he showed me around N. Ireland. I hope to visit again soon. Maybe I can time my visit with a retreat over there. Great job Charlotte.
I’m sorry you missed the Castle being opened Beth. I think the castle closes for the autumn and winter but the gardens are still open for part of the week and weekends. Maybe next time you’ll get to see it. Sadly, there are no retreats here. I do wish there were! There’s not even a needlework shop. A very few fabric stores and more yarn stores but none for stitching.
So good to catch up with you this evening! Lovely stitching and video all around. I've always wondered about why Brenda Jervais and With Thy Needle and Thread are sometimes the same, but also sometimes different. Loved seeing your pictures and sweet Charlotte ❤ oh my, she's adorable and great job for working so hard at the obstacle course- woohoo!
Thank you Amy! No one has yet enlightened me on the Brenda Gervais name thing. Guess it doesn’t matter much, she’s pretty much known by her own name universally now that she’s so hugely popular.
Yay Charlotte! Well done on the obstacle course! Such a treat to see her! Beautiful stitching and I enjoyed seeing some of the lovely countryside. Happy stitching!
Greetings from a cold and overcast day here in New Zealand, this is our third day of winter. Another fabulous floss tube. Everyone of your projects are lovely. Charlotte is gorgeous and such a character. I had to laugh out loud a few times. I can see that she keeps you on your toes. Bless her. Congratulations Charlotte on doing so well on your obstacle course
The list is at the top of my show notes just under my own flosstube and Instagram details. I hope you can see it. I know there’s a lot of info there at the minute😊
So lovely to see all your new starts and progress! Thank you so much for shouting my FT out - I am so very grateful and it is very kind of you Sarah ;) Happy stitching x
Oh you are so welcome Sian. I hear you getting plenty of shout outs on lots of other channels too. It’s great! Looking forward to watching your next video.
I have just come across you! I'm another 1974 alumn (LOL -- that is to say that I hit my 50th this year as well!) I hit 50 in April and there seem to be SO many of us hitting the 5-0 this year! Congratulations from Saskatchewan :)
Yes, there are many many stitchers born in 74! It’s been so fun to learn about everyone on their flosstubes or viewers sharing in the comments. Definitely a year to celebrate! Thank you so much for popping by the channel. I hope you’ll be back again.
Sarah it’s always lovely to spend time with you. I love seeing your projects, progress and finishes, all of them are beautiful ❤. Hurray for Charlotte for doing the obstacle course, she has such positive energy and enthusiasm! Let her know she is an “awesome dude!” I was excited to hear about Barbara Ana’s releases and hope Four Seasons becomes one of them. Happy stitching!
Y’all had me grinning from ear to ear. I love your ffo for the pride and prejudice stitch! I purchased the pattern last night and need to check my stash to see if I can start stitching it right away!
I always love your videos and sharing your daughter was wonderful. She was great on the obstacle course. I spent my career (39 years) in special education. I was clapping with everyone wen she completed the course. It was pleasure to meet Charlotte.
Great job Charlotte! Thanks for sharing the obstacle course video with us, and the pictures from the castle. Always lovely to catch up with you and your beautiful stitching. Today's project was another wip I started in 2020 that I'm 75% done with. Holly Jolly Mandala from Ink Circles. I'm trying to get it done but am feeling the need to take a break soon. I did finish 4 other older projects in May. Take care Sarah!
You had a busy stitchy May by the sound of it Mary Ann. Hope you get the balance right on your Ink Circles. Much as we want progress, a little break can help us from getting bored with something and then we can return to it again sooner.
I really enjoyed the castle tour.I wish that Ireland wasn't so far away so that I could share a tea time with you .Congratulations to Charlotte for doing so well on the obstacle course.Love your stitching also.
Lovely video. Photographs stitching and all the information. Star was the little “dude” Charlotte and her certificate. Off to find nicolaparkmen. Big thank you 🎉😊
Congratulations to Charlotte in her Olympic event; she did so well😀. Your framed finishes look fab. Sarah, I had to laugh when you said about trying not to fall asleep in Jackie’s video because of her calming voice, because at that point I had just woken up from drifting off for 10 mins due to your lovely soft NI tones!! 😂. No offence, I’d just had an exceptionally busy weekend and today was cleaning day! I’ve been back and caught up 😉. I watched Jackie’s a few days ago and as you said, it was really good. Ok, Stitch Happy.
Sweet Charlotte, good work as an Eager Beaver, “dude” (just made me smile). Lovely stitching as always. My traveling shoes are happily stowed away for a while seeing your pictures. Thank you for another chance to share your busy world🪡🕊
All your stitching is beautiful. Thanks for showing the local gardens. I absolutely love Miss Charlotte. She is fantastic and I smile the whole time she is talking to us. Hope you all have a great couple of weeks. Almost forgot. The obstacle course was very impressive. Congratulations to Charlotte for her certificate.
Thank you Sarah for taking the time to go to Hillsborough Castle and take photographs of the grounds and the rhododendrons! That brought back some great memories of our visit to that place… we were only allowed to go to the gift shop and spend a bit of time in the garden because the Queen was going to be arriving a bit later that evening. The staff was very friendly and we had a good meal at a nearby pub recommended by them before making the drive back to Donegal where we were staying. I hope you and your husband had a good time just getting away for a short time that afternoon. It is good to take time away from the everyday things. Thanks again for the photos ! Nupur
You are very welcome Nupur. I was so glad the purple rhododendrons hadn’t been destroyed like the white ones. We are very lucky to live just a six or seven minute drive from Hillsborough and there are several nice pubs serving good food!
Love all the picture of the Castle and the grounds! All your stitching is so pretty. And Miss Charlotte did an amazing job with the obstacle course! Great job Charlotte! I love seeing her on the videos! She is such a joy! Thanks for sharing.
Well...I am kind of upset with myself for not having to come to watch you sooner! A few flosstubers have mentioned your channel, like Andrew the Runner Stitcher and it has taken me far too long to get here but I am sooooo glad I finally made it 😄 You have a fabulous selection of WIPs and I so enjoyed hearing you char about them and all things stitchy 😄 Bes Queen definitely counts as a fancy lady; she's gorgeous 😍 And I say that as someone who does have a few fancy ladies but surprisingly, not any Mirabilia! I jumped back an episode to start watching you so I have another one to watch now - yay!!
Aw thank you so much for popping over to watch! I’m glad you enjoyed it and hope you’ll visit some more. I’ve heard Andrew mention your channel to and you’re on my list to get to. I’m just so far behind and there are so many great channels to watch😉 I promise I will stop by soon. Thanks for the validation of the fancy ladies too. 😉I look forward to spying some of yours on your channel.
Fab episode Sarah. I love your Enchanted Realm, which I am sure Charlotte will love too. Well done Charlotte on receiving your certificate. My Granddaughter loves receiving achievement Certificates too. Seeing Charlotte again was great, she did make me laugh. My plans for June are to keep stitching 380 stitches per day on my HAED picture, although now we have some good weather it is becoming a struggle, and to keep working on an All Our Yesterdays clock kit. This is for my almost 4 year old Granddaughter. My daughter was going to stitch it but has asked me to work on it so my other WIP's have had to go on hold. My daughter would like it finishing for when my Granddaughter starts school in September, so that's why my other stitching is on hold. Looking forward to your next episode
It’s really special that you’re stitching the clock kit for your granddaughter. What a treasure that will be! It does put a dent in our other stitching plans, but it’s always worth it to stitch something special for those we love. 380 stitches a day on your HAED is great progress. I’m in awe!
Such a lovely visit with the special spot by Charlotte. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your gal with us. She did an amazing job on the obstacle course. Great job, Charlotte. 😁👏👏
Hi Sarah! So lovely to see you again. You bring such light and joy each time you upload a floss tube. I went to see the ENT physician earlier this week. He took 1 look up my nose with the otoscope, said it looked like I am going to need sinus surgery but has 1 thing to try before we proceed to that point. He then inserted the camera up my nose, suctioned my sinuses (although I swear it just created more drainage), removed and reinserted the camera to check my vocal cords which were fine. He put me on a short course of steroids and ordered some compounded antibiotic solution combined with a nasal rinse which, of course, is not covered by my insurance so I had to pay $150 for it and am still waiting for the medicine so I can start it. In 2 weeks, I have to go for a repeat CT of the sinuses plus a CT of the chest so will hopefully either be better or scheduling sinus surgery in a couple of weeks. While I am not looking forward to the sinus surgery, if it will put an end to the illnesses since basically December, it will be worth it. It is so strange that I just found out from the first CT that I have a deviated septum (crooked nasal structure) for the first time about a month ago and now they are already talking surgery. I am wondering if it is either related to a fracture I had of my eye socket which required a plate to fix or if it might have happened when I broke my back a couple years ago since I kept passing out and did hit my head a couple of times according to my mom. Your pictures of the castle are so very lovely with the pictures of the gardens. The umbrella teacup is so very cute. Looking forward to seeing you start it next year. Such wonderful stitchy kindness. Great FFOs. Your WIPs are also stitched so beautifully, Great SALs and new starts. Thank Miss Charlotte for sharing her very wonderful special moment with us. Hope your summer is going well. Happy crafting. Dawn in Texas
Oh my Dawn! That’s a lot of info for you. Whatever the outcome, I hope it’s soon and that it makes a difference and cuts out that recurring illness you’ve been struggling with. Hope you can; find some stitching time to divert your attention for a bit.
I love watching all the variety of projects you are starting/working on. The variety is really encouraging me to try stepping outside of a box I have put myself in. I love the prompts as well. Love the idea of using prompts vs a WIPgo board. Hoping to play around with that for 2025. Do you have your list of prompts listed somewhere?
Hello Traci! I like stitching a variety of things. It keeps me motivated and allows me not to miss out on any of the goodness 😉 The prompts we received from viewers for our year of 50 starts is available on a Google docs link. If you look about halfway down my show notes in the description box under the video, you’ll find a section about #funfor50sal2024. There’s a link there to the prompts list. I could also suggest that you do Laura at Stitching by the Shore’s Eye Spy challenge. Every month she puts out 10 prompts for her viewers to “spy”. The idea is just to pick a project that meets the prompt and work on it. Again, Laura does it to help you touch a variety of things each month. The list is published to her Facebook group but she does also share it on her flosstube videos for those not on Facebook. The Facebook group provides a way to share the stitching you “spy” but there’s no obligation. Hope that makes sense.
Hi Sarah loved the photos of the gardens,lovely stitching projects,I to have joined Nicolas stitching sampler,very enjoyable,say Hi to Charlotte for me,have a good week Thankyou for sharing 🇳🇿❤️🪡
Hi Sarah, I just read an interview with you on the site of Meloca designs, how fun! Thank you for this video, I laughed out loud when you showed those pins behind your hand.... 🤣 You mentioned that the strawberry containes less than 500 stitches and you counted for such a piece. I am wondering, how much stitches it has.... XXXXX😊
Thanks for reading the interview. It was fun to do. I'm sorry i didn't record the stitch count for the strawberry, but i think it was around 380 stitches, maybe?
Don’t worry about being behind. That’s one of the nice things about Nicola having made these freely available on her flosstube - we can stitch at our own pace. Her instructions are great!
Loved Charlotte’s visit. Great job on the obstacle course. Special Olympics is a great program. Wes did Special Olympics bowling for many years. Your finishes are wonderful. The Positivity Rules house is a prefect teacher gift. Love the North American tour stitch you started from Caterpillar. Here is a fun little “Southern” lesson. Your French is amazing by the way. Around here beignet is pronounced -binyay. Here is a funny on Nancy who never took French. She came home from the grocery with some new yogurt she said I brought some “oo-ee” yogurt. I said what and she showed it to me. The label said Oui- I said it says ‘we’ it’s French. She still calls it ‘oo-ee” yogurt. Have a great week. We loved the picture tour as well. P.s. I took French in high school, we had to sing the French National Anthem aloud in class. Thankfully we sang in groups,of 3 or 4. Western Kentucky pronounced French is something to hear. In western Kentucky the name Howard is pronounced Hired.
Oo-ee yoghurt is great! I love it! I think some of our Northern Irish pronunciations would rival the western Kentucky ones. Emma was home from her teaching practice last week and was telling me her next class novel is called Our Tower. She was laughing at how her Liverpudlian English students are going to understand her saying ‘Ar Tar’. In Northern Ireland we take the path of least resistance with words so hour, power, tower, flower all get reduced to an ar sound. So Howard definitely becomes Hard. 😉🤣
Congratulations Charlotte! You did a great job on the obstacle course. I could fall! Love your stitching and the addition of the tour of the castle. You live in a beautiful place!
GREAT JOB CHARLOTTE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you Ellen.
Loved seeing all your stitching!
Thanks for stopping by Joy.
Hey Charlotte 👋🏻, you are one cool dude! You did so well with the obstacle course and congratulations on your well earned certificate ps I love Duggee too. Your Mum is one cool stitching dude too.
Duggee is one of her favourites and mum and dad quite like it too. Very cool music in it! Thanks for watching and taking time to comment Stephanie.
Thank you soo much for the mention ❤ I enjoyed seeing your beautiful stitching! Your FFOs look fantastic! Charlotte is adorable enjoyed her visit in your video ❤
You’re welcome Tanya! Thanks for stopping by here.
Fabulous job Charlotte ..well
done on the Eager Beavers ..great stitching Sarah..❤the one special thing
Thank you. Nicola’s videos are great!
It was so great to see Charlotte, and congratulations on her eager beaver certificate 🎉
Thank you Margaret.
Oh goodness Charlotte is such a gem….what a sense of humour she has. She really brightened my afternoon. Lovely stitches as always Sarah and thanks for the heads up on some new channels. Karen x
Hi Karen, I hope you’re doing well. Yes, Charlotte has a great sense of humour and loves to play the same jokes over and over. Whoopee cushion anyone? She can tolerate it for hours!!
Had to laugh out loud with you when you did the gifted pins with your hand in front. So glad you left it in. You are a real gem.
I laughed out loud too!
Yes, I thought my blooper might give you all a chuckle. 😜
Hello! Have to start with how lovely to see Miss Charlotte again. She is a ball of energy and good job on the obstacle course. I’m so glad to see you are doing a prompt I suggested! The Sunshine floss is a great choice for her dress. Thank you for sharing the photos from the castle! Have you ever seen a glimpse of the royals when they have been there? I am continuing to work on the Barn monthly calendar series by TPP but they take up a lot of my stitching time so I’m a bit frustrated that I’m not able to get a lot of work done on other projects but I have the next two weeks off work for a small surgery so I should be able to get in a lot of stitching and maybe even a couple finishes before the end of June.
Hope your surgery goes smoothly and you get a lot of stitching in as your silver lining Joanne. The Royals are here very infrequently and I think the grounds are closed then for security. Occasionally you see a royal car driving up through the village of Hillsborough but it’s hard to see who is inside. We usually find out on the evening news!
Lovely to meet you Miss Charlotte, and excellent work at eager beavers, your certificate and Dougie book are very well deserved.
Thank you so much!
Maybe Kathy can pass on the peacock to Kathleen? 🦚
That beehive bicycle is adorable!
The castle grounds were lovely! Thank you for sharing!❤❤
The counting pins are so adorable! I'd love to try my hand at! I am so pleased you like the umbrella teacup, I believe it was designed just for you❤
I sent my peacock as my kitted project but the pattern is pdf so it can’t be shared with Kathleen unfortunately. Yes, I think somebody somewhere designed that umbrella teacup just for me! Thank you again, Rebecca.
Good job Miss Charlotte. You are the best eager beaver ever. And a brilliant job dude on that obstacle course. Lol lol. We love watching mom. But we love watching you to. Come back again soon. Love you to Miss Sarah. Linda from Rhode Island
Thank you so much Linda. Charlotte has been having fun spotting her name in all the comments.
Thank you Sarah for this wonderful flosstube. I did laugh with you showing the beautiful counting pins. Congratulations to Charlotte. Well done lovely and joyfull girl.💝
I know Thea, such a disconnect between my brain and hands! 😁
So regonizable 😂 I've this with left or right too. And I would have laughed also about my self😂
Love all your beautiful starts. Charlotte is such a joy. Happy stitching!😊
Thank you so much Kris.
So nice to see Charlotte! ❤️ She’s a sweet dude! Enjoyed all your stitching! Thanks for the info on the salendar, that’s new to me!
The salendar is a super idea, although I fear it will make me want to join even more SALs!
Hi Sarah, thank you for another lovely video & telling us about the Barbara Ana releases. I must of missed it on IG. Hello to Charlotte , she did a great job at her club & well done for the certificate 👏
I’m so glad I remembered to share the Barbara Ana news even if it was a bit of a tangent while I was talking. There will be a lot of us hovering eagerly over her ok-fi shop now 😉 Thanks for watching!
So happy to find your flosstube! Thank you for sharing your stitches. Lovely meeting Charlotte and seeing how proud she is to get her certificate!
Welcome to the channel. I’m so glad you enjoyed and even came back for another episode! Thank you so much!
How wonderful you got a trifecta on my prompt to stitch on something Australian, love it, it’s a beautiful piece too
It was such a perfect prompt to allow me to stitch Deb’s design which had been in my stash for a while and to treat myself to some Fox and Rabbit and CGT 😉Any excuse!
Thank You!! Loved seeing Charolette share ❤
Thanks for watching Debbie.
Oh how wonderful to see Charlotte again - I just love her enthusiasm and congratulations on her certificate.
Your stitching, as always is beautiful. Well done on the fully finishes and the finish. Thank you for telling us about Nicola’s tutorials - I will be watching them. Mind you, it’s hard to keep up with all the flosstubes.
Thanks for your photos of Hillsborough Castle grounds - I have been there many times and they are delightful. My aunt and uncle go walking there every Wednesday - they live in Banbridge and that’s ‘their’ day when they go out for lunch and walk the grounds.
Happy stitching Sarah x
What a lovely wee morning out for your aunt and uncle, Sue. You are right about keeping up with all the flosstubes. I hardly watch any tv any more, mostly just flosstube! Nicola’s tutorial series is great. I do heartily recommend.
I am with you Sarah…I love stitching…I love beading…I love watching others do Mirabilia ladies…I won’t be stitching one myself. I do like the bee queen…your choice is up my alley.
I think the Mira ladies are fabulous. In fact my favourite is a witch looking one (can’t remember her name). She’s amazing, but I don’t like to stitch with es or Halloween 🤣 Anyway, I will just enjoy watching others do the amazing stitching that is involved in them. I did find a freebie Mira which I’m considering doing as part of my 50 starts. It’s a very small (obviously) Christmas angel. I think they call her a cherub. We’ll see.
Hi Charlotte! 👋 congratulations on your certificate. Great job!👏 I love it when you come visit on Flosstube 😀
Loving your WIPS, Sarah ❤
Thanks you so much. Charlotte has been having fun reading all the comments about her.
Oh Sarah I really had to laugh with you when you tried to show the pins🤣! Charlotte (Dude) is doing so well and obviously enjoys herself. I sympathise with frogging some Rejoice. Been there, done that. I'm working another Golden Wedding Sampler (different from last year's one) but don't plan to make one for ours next year so far as there are too many WIPs I'd like to finish first!😮 Bought 3 more Caterpillar X-stitch needle minders at a small quilt show on Friday as I think they're the best. The bee one is my favourite too.
I know! What kind of daft was I being 🙄 Thought it might give some of you a smile. I think it would be such a shame for you not to stitch your own Golden Anniversary Sampler at some stage. I hope you will.
Really enjoy watching your flosstubes, whilst I stitch - glad to have found you. You have introduced me to new designers. Loved meeting Charlotte this time, she is adorable.
Thank you for watching Sarah. I hope the introduction to new designers is a good thing 😉. I love finding new designers through other flosstubes too.
Well done Charlotte, I always love seeing you and your Mummy x
Thank you Cathie!
So many lush greens to enjoy! I wonder how many gardeners they have to maintain all of that beauty at the castle?!
How wonderful to hear your giggle about displaying the pins!😅 Congrats on the framed finishes!
I'm starting the Frosted Pumpkin SAL and hoping I can keep up with it. I still haven't finished the "All things grow" SAL... although I am on part 4 finally!
Have fun with the frosted pumpkin Sal, they’re always cute! You’ll be finished with All Things Grow any day now. It’s a beauty!
Today was a bonanza of goodness. Your beautiful stitching and a visit from Charlotte. Please let her know I celebrate her accomplishment as an Eager Beaver of the week. Thank you for keeping me company as I worked on Red Bird Sampler by Brenda Gervais. Take care, my friend.
Thank you Sarah. I showed Charlotte some of the comments last week and now she keeps asking me if she can read about Charlotte on my messages😉
I LOVE your bee queen start. She really pops on that fabric and your stitching is exquisite! She is definitely a fancy lady and I say stitch what you love! I'd like someday to do the other ladies from tiny modernist too and will have to check out Barbara Ana! Great stitching and Happy 50 starts :). Glad I got to join in a bit :)
Thanks Andrew! The Barbara Ana girls with the seasons are their skits are so beautiful. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for those! Thanks for keeping me company on the Bee Queen start.
Love your photos of the castle and grounds. So beautiful! Always love to watch your videos and see what you're stitching. And the short with the counting pins....had me laughing, only because you are truly my younger sister by another mother. Good job to Charlotte! Congrats again on your 3 year anniversary.
I know!😉 My brain and body were just not in synch at all 🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations Charlotte. Great job on the obstacle course. Hang in there Sarah. Lol Always enjoy your videos. 😊
Thank you Deanna!
Miss Charlotte is adorable. Happy stitching.
Thank you Donna!
Oh how good to see you again and the lovely Miss Charlotte, I think Charlotte and my grandson would make a fine pair. He is non verbal but that does not mean quiet, he is a tyke and knows how to butter us up to get what he wants!
A fabulous Flosstube, I love your stitching and your explanation of how and why.
I loved the pictures, the kitchen garden looks amazing, we’ve had so much rain here in South Wales now we have some sun and you can hear everything growing so fast.
Great to have you back, take care until next time. A cwtch for Miss C. x
Oh can you imagine the pair of them together? She never shuts up and he’ll be communicating in his noisy way, probably begging her to be quiet🤣🤣🤣
Starting my day with you, my friend, makes me so happy. I am trying hard to resist, so much gorgeous stitching! 🥰😘
Glad you were able to catch up with us and our chaos!
Hello Sarah and Charlotte
It was lovely to see you both today and have a catch up. Firstly, Congratulations Charlotte 🎉 on getting that wonderful certificate, I think you have been working very hard at school. Oh Sarah, the pins were beautiful, even more so when you showed them to us 😅, (sorry) I’m glad you kept it in it really brought a smile to my face. The stitching was beautiful as usual , and the shoutouts of new floss tubes, well I had found Jackie this week and have subscribed, love her. Take care little Family , see you soon. 👵 xx
Thank you Molly. I thought some of you would get a giggle at my mishap with the pins.🙄🤣🤣🤣
Well done Charlotte amazing jumping at your eager beaver club such a clever girl.
I love all your stitching Sarah I’m so pleased you showed so more of what makes you happy as I was struggling with the ball of wool! I unpicked it twice but having looked at yours mine was right!!!
I love the Queen Bee 🐝 piece so pretty. Happy stitching
Love from Lindsey xx
Oh no Lindsey I hope you didn’t have to unpick unnecessarily! Hopefully you’re all sorted for a smooth run through the remaining parts. Thanks for watching!
Lovely new starts! It will be fun to see your progress when you get back to them.
half way to 50 starts is an amazing job.
Thanks Leigh! As you know, 50 is a lot! But it’s also fun😜
@@sewmesarah It is that. :)
I for one love a weather report! My mom watched and listened to continously so I come by honestly. I also love being outside except when its miserabley hot, which we've had 100 degrees all week!!
And I've bought several umbrella charts thanks to your influence❤
Well done on getting to the half way point of your starts 🥳
Happy stitching 🪡🧵🥰
Thank you Dawn. Nice to see you on last night’s zoom!
I always like seeing you there too (you know my middle name is Sarah 😂Just to add to all the other ones on the call yesterday).
Happy stitching xx
Well now I wonder how many starts you will have by the time we get to the end of the year lol. However I was quickly distracted from that thought by the wonderful visit from the dude Miss Charlotte. I love that she likes something new! It was a joy to see her visit. Happy Stitching from your sensible, or maybe not so 🤣, stitchy pal xx
Well, I never claimed either of us were sensible through and through!! I’m hoping not too many more starts that are ‘off the record’. There were just a few of the SALs I hadn’t accounted for and now I’m having troubling dropping anything else off my master list of 50, so I’m sort of sucking it up with a few ‘extras’ so I don’t have to ditch those😉 It’s nice to finally have a Special Olympics group near enough to drive to on an evening without being out too late. She is loving it! It’s a sensory overload for me, but it’s so good to have it happening for the kids.
Lovely to spend time with you and all your lovely stitching, and to see the lovely smiling Charlotte. I’m also stitching along with Nicola. Happy Stitching ❤❤
Nice to hear that you’re stitching along with Nicola too. It’s a treat to see her at ‘work’ as it were. Thanks for watching.
You are further along than I am. Yet to start the running stitch section. Have watched her last video twice already. She is amazing. Happy Stitching x
I am directionally challenged at times myself (typically in stretch class where she says right but she moves left!) The counting pins made me laugh. When I use a hand held mirror, I often have a time locating what I want to touch (fixing my hair up!)
No idea what kind of disconnect between brain and hand was going on, but I thought it would give some of you a giggle at me being daft.
Oh Charlotte you are adorable! "Something new" to me is meeting you! Keep up the good work on the Olympics you did wonderful. Thanks Sarah for sharing all your Flosstubes and especially Charlotte.
Thank you so much for watching and taking time to comment Sylvia.
Thank you for sharing a bit of Northern Ireland with us. I love your Queen Bee stitch and I agree with you, she is a Fancy Lady. My best to Miss Charlotte. It's always a delight to see her and what she's been up to. The Special Olympics are a fantastic group of people.
Thank you Theresa. Maybe one day I’ll have a fancy lady wall (of my style) for Charlotte and I to enjoy!
So lovely to see all your beautiful stitching.
Lovely to see Charlotte too
Happy stitching 😊❤
Thank you Elizabeth.
I'm several weeks behind on my Flosstube watching. I love visits with Charlotte- Congrats on the obstacle course. Love your stitching as always.
Thanks Jodi. It can sometimes be hard to keep up with flosstube!
Hi Sarah, thanks so much for another great video! Loved the beautiful castle gardens thank you for sharing. Also had to laugh when you said you have a shelf full of finishing items you haven’t used - I can relate. I have many many pieces waiting to be FFO’d. Loved your rejoice no more, good idea to put it as day stitch. I too have to unpick right away. Mostly because it can take me a min to find the mistake and I don’t want to forget and have to hunt again later lol. Thanks for another great video!
Yes absolutely that’s another good reason for unpicking right away. Not only would I forget where to unpick but I might even forget that I need to and then start stitching and make even more stitches that need frogged!
Lovely stitching as always Sarah and I agree about Nicola's stitch videos....fantastic! Such a lovely surprise to see Miss Charlotte again and congratulations to her on her Eager Beavers award! 🎉👏🩷
Thanks Sharon. Nicola’s videos are wonderful and I love learning little things I thought I knew but didn’t!
Lovely to spend some time with you and Charlotte. You have awesome progress on your projects and appreciate your videos because you are always so informative of what's happening in our community.
Take care and happy stitching 🌷🌷 from Judy in New Zealand FT An Aussie in a Kiwi world
Thanks Judy. I am trying to share what I can about what’s going on in the community, the things I know about. I love it when others do that too. You know, just in case I miss out on something 😉
Congratulations to Charlotte, it was lovely to meet her. I enjoyed seeing everything you've been working on and the photos of Hillsborough Castle were great
Thank you Amy, I’m glad you enjoyed watching.
Miss Charlotte is so sweet...thanks for the travel slide show...thanks for sharing your joy in stitching...Sarah, best wishes❤❤
Thank you so much for watching and taking time to comment Loretta.
Miss Charlotte was wonderful on the obstacle course. I finished Rejoice Evermore and it's a great stitch. I stated with Nicola's academy and have been having an amazing time learning.
Thank you Ava. Nicola is so clear in her explanations and the video footage of the stitches is excellent. Hope you continue to enjoy it.
Lovely to see Charlotte. Thank you for sharing the tutorials from Nicola, I hadn’t come across this 😊
I’m so glad that you now know about Nicola’s tutorials, they’re great. I hope you enjoy them Sally Anne.
Congratulations, Charlotte! I can tell your mom is very proud of you. Eager Beaver of the Week 🎉❤🎉! You go, dude!
Thank you so much!
My first time to watch and enjoyed every minute including your visitor. What a joy to see her. You seem to stitch more along my line.
Thank you so much for stopping by the channel Faith. I’m glad you enjoyed it and got to see my little wild one😉
Thank you for your video and all the informations for the community. Love to see your progress - while I try to be on track with all of the SAL. Well done Charlotte 👍 kind regards Ute 🇩🇪
Thank you so much Ute. I appreciate you taking time to leave a sweet comment.
Hope great to see you both tonight Sarah & Charlotte 👏👏👏
Well done to Charlotte on her certificate, a lot of hard work clearly went into that achievement 👏👏👏 Great that you have a club locally.
The photos of Hillsborough Gardens were beautiful, so nice that it is so close to you. Be nice to watch the seasons change through the gardens.
Your stitching is beautiful as usual. Love Rejoice Evermore, glad that you got it on the move again.
I watched Jackie & Sian during the week, absolutely loved both of them & looks forward to following them. Must look at the others you mentioned.
Here's to lots of stitching in June. Best wishes to you all from 🇮🇪
Hi Anne Marie. The club just started up about a month ago and it’s about half an hour away, so it’s nice there’s finally one we can get to. So many amazing new Flosstubers at the minute. I need to give up work just so I can keep up with everybody! Hope you’re hanging in there.
Love watching your videos. I was in N. Ireland 2 yrs ago and when I heard you talking about the castle I had to go look at my pics. I was there but it was in Oct. so it wasn't open. . My cousin lives close to Belfast and he showed me around N. Ireland. I hope to visit again soon. Maybe I can time my visit with a retreat over there. Great job Charlotte.
I’m sorry you missed the Castle being opened Beth. I think the castle closes for the autumn and winter but the gardens are still open for part of the week and weekends. Maybe next time you’ll get to see it. Sadly, there are no retreats here. I do wish there were! There’s not even a needlework shop. A very few fabric stores and more yarn stores but none for stitching.
So good to catch up with you this evening! Lovely stitching and video all around. I've always wondered about why Brenda Jervais and With Thy Needle and Thread are sometimes the same, but also sometimes different. Loved seeing your pictures and sweet Charlotte ❤ oh my, she's adorable and great job for working so hard at the obstacle course- woohoo!
Thank you Amy! No one has yet enlightened me on the Brenda Gervais name thing. Guess it doesn’t matter much, she’s pretty much known by her own name universally now that she’s so hugely popular.
Yay Charlotte! Well done on the obstacle course! Such a treat to see her! Beautiful stitching and I enjoyed seeing some of the lovely countryside. Happy stitching!
Thank you Deborah, I’m glad you enjoyed the photos of Hillsborough Castle.
Greetings from a cold and overcast day here in New Zealand, this is our third day of winter. Another fabulous floss tube. Everyone of your projects are lovely. Charlotte is gorgeous and such a character. I had to laugh out loud a few times. I can see that she keeps you on your toes. Bless her. Congratulations Charlotte on doing so well on your obstacle course
Thank you so much Elizabeth. Yes, Charlotte is definitely a character! 🤣
Charlotte did an amazing job on the obstacle course! Such a happy child!
She’s a real character, fully expressing all of the emotions LARGE! 🤣
Sarah, did you give your list of Flosstubers, or did I miss that?
The list is at the top of my show notes just under my own flosstube and Instagram details. I hope you can see it. I know there’s a lot of info there at the minute😊
Yay, Charlotte. Great job! ♥️♥️♥️ Thank you for all you share, Sarah. You are such an inspiration. Have a great week and stitch your joy. 🥰
Thank you Sara!
So lovely to see all your new starts and progress! Thank you so much for shouting my FT out - I am so very grateful and it is very kind of you Sarah ;) Happy stitching x
Oh you are so welcome Sian. I hear you getting plenty of shout outs on lots of other channels too. It’s great! Looking forward to watching your next video.
I have just come across you! I'm another 1974 alumn (LOL -- that is to say that I hit my 50th this year as well!) I hit 50 in April and there seem to be SO many of us hitting the 5-0 this year!
Congratulations from Saskatchewan :)
Yes, there are many many stitchers born in 74! It’s been so fun to learn about everyone on their flosstubes or viewers sharing in the comments. Definitely a year to celebrate! Thank you so much for popping by the channel. I hope you’ll be back again.
Sarah it’s always lovely to spend time with you. I love seeing your projects, progress and finishes, all of them are beautiful ❤. Hurray for Charlotte for doing the obstacle course, she has such positive energy and enthusiasm! Let her know she is an “awesome dude!” I was excited to hear about Barbara Ana’s releases and hope Four Seasons becomes one of them. Happy stitching!
Thanks Linda. I think a lot of us are keeping our fingers crossed for a release of Four Seasons 😉
Oh my goodness, Charlotte is a doll and job well done on the obstacle course 🎉 Thanks for sharing the local views, so beautiful. Happy Stitching!
Thank you Erica.
Thank you for sharing the pictures. Lovely place.
Y’all had me grinning from ear to ear. I love your ffo for the pride and prejudice stitch! I purchased the pattern last night and need to check my stash to see if I can start stitching it right away!
Pride and Prejudice is an easy one to switch colours to what you do have in stash. Enjoy it and I’m glad we made you smile😉
Wonder job Miss Charolette on the obstacle course! Love seeing your co host! 💕
Thank you Cheryl’s, she’s a show stealer!
Charlotte is a doll! I just love her.
Thanks Jackie.
The OT in me loved seeing her outstanding job on the obstacle course. She is a joy!!!
She really practiced hard and had a great sense of achievement a5 the end of the session. She loves being active!
I always love your videos and sharing your daughter was wonderful. She was great on the obstacle course. I spent my career (39 years) in special education. I was clapping with everyone wen she completed the course. It was pleasure to meet Charlotte.
Thank you so much. You’ll understand the effort that kind of coordination takes for her. She’s so active and just loves it.
Great job Charlotte! Thanks for sharing the obstacle course video with us, and the pictures from the castle. Always lovely to catch up with you and your beautiful stitching. Today's project was another wip I started in 2020 that I'm 75% done with. Holly Jolly Mandala from Ink Circles. I'm trying to get it done but am feeling the need to take a break soon. I did finish 4 other older projects in May. Take care Sarah!
You had a busy stitchy May by the sound of it Mary Ann. Hope you get the balance right on your Ink Circles. Much as we want progress, a little break can help us from getting bored with something and then we can return to it again sooner.
Loved our visit with you and CHARLOTTE!
Thank you Jeanette.
Lovely update Sarah, you got so much done 😊 And congratulations to Charlotte for her award 👏👏
Thanks Alli.
Love your RUclips, just found you this last month.Charlotte is a great wee girl
Thank you so much. I’m glad you stopped by and thank you for taking time to leave a comment.
I really enjoyed the castle tour.I wish that Ireland wasn't so far away so that I could share a tea time with you .Congratulations to Charlotte for doing so well on the obstacle course.Love your stitching also.
Thanks Fay. It’s a long way to come for tea but you’d be welcome if you could put up with the crazy😜
I'm used to crazy!! Thanks for the invite.@@sewmesarah
Lovely video. Photographs stitching and all the information. Star was the little “dude” Charlotte and her certificate. Off to find nicolaparkmen. Big thank you 🎉😊
I hope you found Nicola Parkman’s channel ok. Really worth watching the tutorials, but her regular videos are lovely too.
I really enjoy your videos and look forward to each one! I will be stitching "Light" with you and Sally. Can't wait to start my first Barbara Ana!
Thanks Terri. That’s fantastic that you are joining us to stitch Light. It will be my first Barbara Ana too!
Lovely stitching as always! Happy Charlotte stopped in for a fun visit.
Thanks Deb.
Congratulations to Charlotte in her Olympic event; she did so well😀.
Your framed finishes look fab. Sarah, I had to laugh when you said about trying not to fall asleep in Jackie’s video because of her calming voice, because at that point I had just woken up from drifting off for 10 mins due to your lovely soft NI tones!! 😂. No offence, I’d just had an exceptionally busy weekend and today was cleaning day! I’ve been back and caught up 😉. I watched Jackie’s a few days ago and as you said, it was really good.
Ok, Stitch Happy.
No offence taken, Jean 😉 Glad you enjoyed Jackie’s channel.
Sweet Charlotte, good work as an Eager Beaver, “dude” (just made me smile). Lovely stitching as always. My traveling shoes are happily stowed away for a while seeing your pictures. Thank you for another chance to share your busy world🪡🕊
Thank you so much Trudy!
All your stitching is beautiful. Thanks for showing the local gardens. I absolutely love Miss Charlotte. She is fantastic and I smile the whole time she is talking to us. Hope you all have a great couple of weeks. Almost forgot. The obstacle course was very impressive. Congratulations to Charlotte for her certificate.
Thanks so much Susan. Glad you enjoyed the Castle Gardens.
Thank you Sarah for taking the time to go to Hillsborough Castle and take photographs of the grounds and the rhododendrons! That brought back some great memories of our visit to that place… we were only allowed to go to the gift shop and spend a bit of time in the garden because the Queen was going to be arriving a bit later that evening. The staff was very friendly and we had a good meal at a nearby pub recommended by them before making the drive back to Donegal where we were staying.
I hope you and your husband had a good time just getting away for a short time that afternoon. It is good to take time away from the everyday things.
Thanks again for the photos !
Nupur
You are very welcome Nupur. I was so glad the purple rhododendrons hadn’t been destroyed like the white ones. We are very lucky to live just a six or seven minute drive from Hillsborough and there are several nice pubs serving good food!
Great job, Charlotte! Congratulations!
Thank you Trudabeth!
Love all the picture of the Castle and the grounds! All your stitching is so pretty. And Miss Charlotte did an amazing job with the obstacle course! Great job Charlotte! I love seeing her on the videos! She is such a joy! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Linda. Charlotte loves being active so it’s great that the club can put a little bit of structure to that for her.
Lovely video. Thank you.😊
Thanks for watching!
Well...I am kind of upset with myself for not having to come to watch you sooner! A few flosstubers have mentioned your channel, like Andrew the Runner Stitcher and it has taken me far too long to get here but I am sooooo glad I finally made it 😄 You have a fabulous selection of WIPs and I so enjoyed hearing you char about them and all things stitchy 😄 Bes Queen definitely counts as a fancy lady; she's gorgeous 😍 And I say that as someone who does have a few fancy ladies but surprisingly, not any Mirabilia! I jumped back an episode to start watching you so I have another one to watch now - yay!!
Aw thank you so much for popping over to watch! I’m glad you enjoyed it and hope you’ll visit some more. I’ve heard Andrew mention your channel to and you’re on my list to get to. I’m just so far behind and there are so many great channels to watch😉 I promise I will stop by soon. Thanks for the validation of the fancy ladies too. 😉I look forward to spying some of yours on your channel.
Fab episode Sarah. I love your Enchanted Realm, which I am sure Charlotte will love too. Well done Charlotte on receiving your certificate. My Granddaughter loves receiving achievement Certificates too. Seeing Charlotte again was great, she did make me laugh. My plans for June are to keep stitching 380 stitches per day on my HAED picture, although now we have some good weather it is becoming a struggle, and to keep working on an All Our Yesterdays clock kit. This is for my almost 4 year old Granddaughter. My daughter was going to stitch it but has asked me to work on it so my other WIP's have had to go on hold. My daughter would like it finishing for when my Granddaughter starts school in September, so that's why my other stitching is on hold. Looking forward to your next episode
It’s really special that you’re stitching the clock kit for your granddaughter. What a treasure that will be! It does put a dent in our other stitching plans, but it’s always worth it to stitch something special for those we love. 380 stitches a day on your HAED is great progress. I’m in awe!
Such a lovely visit with the special spot by Charlotte. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your gal with us. She did an amazing job on the obstacle course. Great job, Charlotte. 😁👏👏
Thank you Patti. I know how everybody loves to see her. Better be careful or she’ll take over though 😉
Hi charlotte! Always great to see you.
Thank you Michele.
Hi Sarah! So lovely to see you again. You bring such light and joy each time you upload a floss tube. I went to see the ENT physician earlier this week. He took 1 look up my nose with the otoscope, said it looked like I am going to need sinus surgery but has 1 thing to try before we proceed to that point. He then inserted the camera up my nose, suctioned my sinuses (although I swear it just created more drainage), removed and reinserted the camera to check my vocal cords which were fine. He put me on a short course of steroids and ordered some compounded antibiotic solution combined with a nasal rinse which, of course, is not covered by my insurance so I had to pay $150 for it and am still waiting for the medicine so I can start it. In 2 weeks, I have to go for a repeat CT of the sinuses plus a CT of the chest so will hopefully either be better or scheduling sinus surgery in a couple of weeks. While I am not looking forward to the sinus surgery, if it will put an end to the illnesses since basically December, it will be worth it. It is so strange that I just found out from the first CT that I have a deviated septum (crooked nasal structure) for the first time about a month ago and now they are already talking surgery. I am wondering if it is either related to a fracture I had of my eye socket which required a plate to fix or if it might have happened when I broke my back a couple years ago since I kept passing out and did hit my head a couple of times according to my mom. Your pictures of the castle are so very lovely with the pictures of the gardens. The umbrella teacup is so very cute. Looking forward to seeing you start it next year. Such wonderful stitchy kindness. Great FFOs. Your WIPs are also stitched so beautifully, Great SALs and new starts. Thank Miss Charlotte for sharing her very wonderful special moment with us. Hope your summer is going well. Happy crafting. Dawn in Texas
Oh my Dawn! That’s a lot of info for you. Whatever the outcome, I hope it’s soon and that it makes a difference and cuts out that recurring illness you’ve been struggling with. Hope you can; find some stitching time to divert your attention for a bit.
I love watching all the variety of projects you are starting/working on. The variety is really encouraging me to try stepping outside of a box I have put myself in. I love the prompts as well. Love the idea of using prompts vs a WIPgo board. Hoping to play around with that for 2025. Do you have your list of prompts listed somewhere?
Hello Traci! I like stitching a variety of things. It keeps me motivated and allows me not to miss out on any of the goodness 😉 The prompts we received from viewers for our year of 50 starts is available on a Google docs link. If you look about halfway down my show notes in the description box under the video, you’ll find a section about #funfor50sal2024. There’s a link there to the prompts list. I could also suggest that you do Laura at Stitching by the Shore’s Eye Spy challenge. Every month she puts out 10 prompts for her viewers to “spy”. The idea is just to pick a project that meets the prompt and work on it. Again, Laura does it to help you touch a variety of things each month. The list is published to her Facebook group but she does also share it on her flosstube videos for those not on Facebook. The Facebook group provides a way to share the stitching you “spy” but there’s no obligation. Hope that makes sense.
I liked seeing your Ireland pics. I hope to visit there one day. I also hope to get the Bee Queen. It’s on my favorites list.
I’m glad you enjoyed the photos. Hope you pick up bee queen too.
Hi Sarah loved the photos of the gardens,lovely stitching projects,I to have joined Nicolas stitching sampler,very enjoyable,say Hi to Charlotte for me,have a good week Thankyou for sharing 🇳🇿❤️🪡
I like hearing that others are stitching the sampler for Nicola’s workshop too. Her videos are wonderful!
Hi Sarah, I just read an interview with you on the site of Meloca designs, how fun!
Thank you for this video, I laughed out loud when you showed those pins behind your hand.... 🤣
You mentioned that the strawberry containes less than 500 stitches and you counted for such a piece. I am wondering, how much stitches it has.... XXXXX😊
Thanks for reading the interview. It was fun to do. I'm sorry i didn't record the stitch count for the strawberry, but i think it was around 380 stitches, maybe?
Way to go Charlotte! I’ve been following Mrs. Parkman’s academy as well, I’m way behind,but that’s normal for me. 😉
Don’t worry about being behind. That’s one of the nice things about Nicola having made these freely available on her flosstube - we can stitch at our own pace. Her instructions are great!
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching Susan.
Loved Charlotte’s visit. Great job on the obstacle course. Special Olympics is a great program. Wes did Special Olympics bowling for many years. Your finishes are wonderful. The Positivity Rules house is a prefect teacher gift. Love the North American tour stitch you started from Caterpillar. Here is a fun little “Southern” lesson. Your French is amazing by the way. Around here beignet is pronounced -binyay. Here is a funny on Nancy who never took French. She came home from the grocery with some new yogurt she said I brought some “oo-ee” yogurt. I said what and she showed it to me. The label said Oui- I said it says ‘we’ it’s French. She still calls it ‘oo-ee” yogurt. Have a great week. We loved the picture tour as well. P.s. I took French in high school, we had to sing the French National Anthem aloud in class. Thankfully we sang in groups,of 3 or 4. Western Kentucky pronounced French is something to hear. In western Kentucky the name Howard is pronounced Hired.
Oo-ee yoghurt is great! I love it! I think some of our Northern Irish pronunciations would rival the western Kentucky ones. Emma was home from her teaching practice last week and was telling me her next class novel is called Our Tower. She was laughing at how her Liverpudlian English students are going to understand her saying ‘Ar Tar’. In Northern Ireland we take the path of least resistance with words so hour, power, tower, flower all get reduced to an ar sound. So Howard definitely becomes Hard. 😉🤣
Congratulations Charlotte! You did a great job on the obstacle course. I could fall! Love your stitching and the addition of the tour of the castle. You live in a beautiful place!