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FLOSSTUBE

One of the most frequently asked questions in the needlework community…

What’s FlossTube?

Head on over to YouTube & type in floss tube in the search function – a catalog of hundreds (are we thousands yet?)  of stitchers have created channels where we talk, show, share, explain, laugh & support one another in our stitching adventures!

Here are quick links to my FlossTube videos.  I enjoy filming one about once or twice a month to show you vintage stitches, current projects, New Releases & to introduce you to a special guest every once in awhile!

Floss Tube videos that include a tutorial are marked with an asterisk (*).

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Enjoy!

*FlossTube #68 – Triple Play Tutorial:  A step by step tutorial to finish your Triple Play Pillows the same way that I did.

FlossTube #67 – New Releases and Happy Hour with Mr. HOD:  Life Is Just…., Triple Play Pillow Series….The Summer Basket and Home Of The Brave.

*FlossTube #66 – FlossTube Classroom:  Learn to Finish Season 2 Monthly Markers.

FlossTube #65 – Nashville Market 2022 Releases:  Season 2, 4th (Block Party Series), Red, She Said (banner series) & Resting Stitch Face

FlossTube #64 – New Releases:  A Waffle Lot & Let’s Talk Quilting(next in the ChalkTalk series)

FlossTube #63 – Catch up and Mr. HOD: A quick catch up and talk about everything going on.

FlossTube #62 – Holiday releases and a special guest: Bottle & Brush Tree Farm and Coastal Holiday.

FlossTube #61 – Special guests Tracy Horner & Beth Seal:  They share their ‘haul’ & discuss all the fun they had while teaching together at the Pacific Northwest Stitch Summit.

FlossTube #60 – The Philanthropic Pumpkin announcement: Information and details regarding this very special kit!  This charity kit will raise money for Special Olympics IA and the Sioux City Knights Special Olympics Delegation.  This chartpack is limited – when it is sold out, it will not re-release.

*FlossTube #59 – Tutorial:  A FlossTube Classroom – learn to finish your hoop pincushion from Let’s Talk Stitching!

FlossTube #58 – Fall Needlework Expo releases, Happy Hour & in the kitchen with Mr. HOD: Let’s Talk Stitching in the #chalktalk series, Rhyme Time & Witches Pantry from Fright This Way, and Take Whisks the final piece in The Kitchen Counter mini series.

*FlossTube #57 –  Tutorial:  Shaped ornaments starring Frankie from If Pumpkins Could Fly.

FlossTube #56 –  New Releases & Happy Hour with Mr. HOD: Signs Of The Season(first in the Fright This Way Halloween series), If Pumpkins Could Fly, and It Came With The House (2nd in the KitchenCounter Series).

FlossTube #55 –  What’s New & in the kitchen with Mr. HOD: Let’s talk Summer, The Kitchen Counter mini-series kicks off with Lick The Bowl, Resting Beach Face and an exclusive – Tomayto, Tomahto.

FlossTube #54 – May Releases: Language of Liberty from A Banner year series and Turnip the Beet.

*FlossTube #53 –  Special guest, sister Karen and tutorial on hoop wrapping: Sneak peek of Let’s Talk Summer hello hoop.

FlossTube #52- Needlework Expo releases & in the kitchen with Mr. HOD: Let’s Talk Spring, The French Kitchen & 2 new Block Parties – 25th & 31st.  Also some additional finishing ideas for the Block Party designs.

*FlossTube #51 – Tutorial: Finishing Tutorial for First Frost.

*FlossTube #50 – Tutorial: Finishing Tutorial for With This Needle plus a few extras.

FlossTube #49 – New Releases and Club News: First Frost, With This Needle and Hop On Inn are the new releases for January.  Thanks to The Black Needle Society and Me & My Stitches for the opportunity to participate in their Club Kits.

FlossTube #48 – 2020 Recap with Billy: quick recap of the 2020 designs & a quick sneaky peek of something fun coming up in January!

*FlossTube #47 – Tutorial:  A Banner Year Tutorial with Lorna

FlossTube #46– October releases in the kitchen with Mr. HOD: Let’s Talk Winter – 2nd in the ChalkTalk series and Snow Much Fun – 2nd in A Banner Year series.

FlossTube #45– September releases in the kitchen with Mr. HOD: Fa-La-La-Mingo, Flamingle Bells, Flamingo All The Way and the Secret Santa series wraps up and Secret Santa is revealed.

FlossTube #44– Releases: Present Blessings, Grace of a Flower and introducing a new series, A Banner Year-Ghosties & Gourds.

FlossTube #43 – June Releases with Mr. HOD – Releases: 2 New Secret Santa (5 & 6) and New Series #ChalkTalk Let’s Talk Autumn.

FlossTube #42 – May Releases with Mr. HOD – Releases: Chalk Full Liberty (final in series) & Be A Pineapple

FlossTube #41 – Releases: Secret Santa – chart 3 & 4, Chalk Full Bloom

*FlossTube #40 – Tutorial: Attaching a ruched-like ribbon to your finishes as shown on my Farmhouse chalk finishes

FlossTube #39 – Mr. HOD – Q&A happy hour – Secret Santa sneak peek

FlossTube #38 – Market recap – Thank You Design

FlossTube #37 – Market Releases: First 2 Secret Santa, Well-Rounded, Stitch in the Garden, My Stitcher’s Heart, Needle’s Dance & Memorial Day

FlossTube #36 – Anniversary gift – Releases: Came the Spring (final in series) & Chalk Full Hip Hop

*FlossTube #35 – Tutorial: Secret Santa fabric saving technique

FlossTube #34 – Releases: Chalk Full Snowy and exclusive to shop Salty Yarns, A Fish Tale

FlossTube #33 – Cathy & Billy – Releases: Flower of Winter, Holly Jolly Farm, Cool Yule

FlossTube #32 – Cathy & Janis – Class update – Releases: Chalk Full Merry

*FlossTube #31 –Tutorial: pillow back finishing – Releases: Jack-O-Lantern Junction Farm, Cranberry Christmas

*FlossTube #30 – Tutorial: Making a small pillow

FlossTube #29 – Cathy & Cindy – Releases: Chalk Full Boo, Autumn Skies, A Harmony in Autumn

*FlossTube #28 – Tutorial: How to attach clipboard clip – Class Projects

FlossTube #27 – Releases: final Scary Apothecary – Class updates – French Kitchen

*FlossTube #26 – Tutorial: Give With My Heart wool felt – Releases: Chalk Full Harvest, Safe Harbour

*FlossTube #25 – Tutorial: Cutting foam core – Releases: Star Spangled Swine Farm, 2nd set Scary Apothecary

FlossTube #24 – Releases: Chalk Full series starts with Harvest

*FlossTube #23 – Tutorial: Covering foam core with fabric

FlossTube #22 – Market Wrap up – Releases: More Chocolate Bunnies, Meow, Woof, Summer Night, You Had Me At Flamingo

FlossTube #21 – Releases: Scary Apothecary, Anniversary Complimentary Design, Carrots & Cottontail Farm

*FlossTube #20 – Tutorial: Cut a Snowman nose – Releases: Ready, Set, Snow

FlossTube #19 – 2018 Wrap up – Stitching In The Garden class

FlossTube #18 – Releases: Winter Wonderland Farm

*FlossTube #17 – Tutorial: A Year of Celebrations Clipboard – Releases: I Hear the Bells

FlossTube #16 – Releases: Put On The Hat, Autumn Acres Farm, Live Within Your Harvest

FlossTube #15 – Releases: New White Christmas, Where Liberty Dwells – Silver Needle Summer Event.

FlossTube #14 – Holland Workshop – Releases: Knee High, Queen Bee Flower Farm

FlossTube #13 – Releases: White Christmas ornaments, The Laundry Company

FlossTube #12 – Market wrap-up – Releases: Stitch Over Two

FlossTube #11 – Mr. HOD – Releases: White Christmas

FlossTube #10 – Releases: Chalk On The Farm

FlossTube #9 – Releases: Let it Snow Bungalow, Final Chalk For The Home

FlossTube #8 – Cathy & Beth – I’m in PA for this one!

FlossTube #7 – Releases: Sunshine On a Stem, Stitching is my Heart’s Desire, Wreath House

FlossTube #6 – Releases: Pumpkin Spice Farm

FlossTube #5 – Meet Billy – 12 Days wrap up – Releases: The Smallest Seed

FlossTube #4 – Beach club kit from Down Sunshine Lane

FlossTube #3 – Cathy with special guest – my sister Cindy – check out our projects & haul!

FlossTube #2 – Back story behind chalk designs.

FlossTube #1 – My Stitchers Heart – my 1st FlossTube – my 1st shop club kit!!

 

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Chris came to support Billy at his tennis match for Special Olympics Summer Games but earlier that morning he shot an interview with a teammate for his news station. 

Did I mention it was hot?! Billy persevered (all of his teammates did) and came home with a silver and a gold! 

Taylor volunteered her time at the carnival booths- manicures for athletes! Lots of happy smiles at that tent!

I promise back to cross stitch tomorrow, for now Bill and I are thinking about the last few days❤️

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It’s been a ‘fill my cup’ kind of day❤️ It’s been a ‘fill my cup’ kind of day❤️

I had a lovely visit this morning with Kimberly of @fqsxstitch - we talked about our stitching for 2 hours!! 😁 - if you didn’t get to catch the livestream, you can catch it on her FlossTube channel. 

Now we are off the Special Olympics of Iowa Summer games - the last time these games were held in person was 2019. This is a warm-up competition for National games next month!

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Home of the Brave CORRECTION: The DMC colors lis Home of the Brave CORRECTION: 

The DMC colors listed on the back, informational side of the chart are correct!

4 of the numbers in the color key do not match. 

I have published an updated color key on the Oopsie page of my website. 

My apologies for the error. The colors are in the same family, just not the colors that I used for the model. 

The 2nd printing has been corrected. 

(It has been brought to my attention that 2 little blue dots on the Life is Just are on the model but not the chart. I distinctly remember stitching that model, adding the 2 blue dots and saying to myself…I’ll remember to add those…your call if you want to add them)🤦🏻‍♀️ 

Signed, the extremely human Cathy of Hands On Design, LLC

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