Dear Shanda, sure have missed seeing you. I know you are busy. Hope you are well. Happy Thanksgiving. Dona in Oregon…🦃🦃🦃🤗🧵🪡

Also left-handed and very detail oriented.

Shanda, Thanks so much for showing us the Lori Rippey designs. I ordered three of them and am working on The Holy Child. I had been searching for a Christmas sampler and this one is just what I was looking for. I really enjoy your videos!!

Just had a moment to watch your last video, thank you for sharing your feelings on being kind, I think we need to be reminded of that daily. I’m hoping I can finish And Heaven and Nature Sing today and that deer is intense!!!!!! Have fun with it ❤️

Thank you, Shanda. That was so inspiring! I loved all of the cross stitching and quilts so much. I used to make primitive quilts like the ones that you do, and so you got my heart longing to quilt again. Maybe I will get back to it one of these days, I just have so much cross stitching and knitting and crochet piled up all around me to do.🤣 Oh, and we live a few miles south of the huge Line fire in Southern California and we had the orange smoky sun and wearing a wet kitchen towel tied around my head to be able to breathe better. The fire is pretty much put out now. Thank you for your well wishes and yes, it is getting so calamitous everywhere. I hope that the skies have cleared up around for you too.

Thanks so much for your video. Your stitching and your quilting are so beautiful and such an inspiration. Your studio is so comforting and makes me not feel so bad about my sewing space even tho mine does become a little tight for movement at times Lol !! Waiting for your next video and all the surprises.

I love the Q & A time and extra information earlier than others. The format is great! ❤

Thanks for sharing all of your beautiful needlework and quilting today. Your Noel Sampler is just lovely! Hope for everyone's sake that the wildfires ease up. We never deal with those big fires here on the east coast like you have to contend with where you are, but last summer, all the smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada made its way down here and it was rough. I can't imagine how much worse it is for everyone who lives out where you do. Safe travels on your trip, and I'm looking forward to seeing your stitching again next month😊

Enjoy watching your videos. The pineapple squares are beautiful! I’m a big pineapple lover!

Hey! So my husband always picks a new flosstuber for me to watch and since your “stitchinginidaho” and he loves Idaho, he picked you tonight. As I watched I was blown away since I sit here, in DeKalb and have many, many items from Poppy Seed Primitives surrounding me! Small world! Where will you be coming to in IL with your mom? You are invited to stop by my place if you are in the area! I also have been a longarm quilter for almost 20 years and was an APQS rep until last October! I got the Cheddar and Coal FQ bundle as well! Love Pam Buddha! I gravitate toward her more now that Jo is retired. I mentioned her in one of my last videos too! Lovely lady for sure! Beautiful projects, right up my lane! Thanks for sharing!😊

Shanda I enjoyed your video. Such fun finishes. I also got a lot of stitching done during General Conference. I'm working on a couple of Halloween pieces and am so enjoying seeing fall and Halloween finishes on you tube. Stay safe on your travels.

Thank you for sharing another lovey video. I love your quilting space, so cozy, warm and wonderful! Reverend Gordon Squash Bottom is so handsome! It’s fun to see FFOs & WIPs, so many great charts. Pam Buda and Jo Morton are two of my absolute favorite fabric designers. Wishing you and your Mom safe travels. 🌻

MY Friend!!!!! Helllllooooooo, you need to come down the mountain once in a while so I can see you! It's good to see you, hugs, Di

Thank you Shanda for showing us your projects. Do you have an email address so I can contact you? Thanks

Having a great day watching your videos, even the old ones. I just started making my own project bags and I like the zippers at the top too. I'm using up my extra quilt blocks where I tried a block but never made the quilt, or never finished the quilt!

I love the salt box quilt sampler and am going to try this one...maybe not 1x1, I don't think my eyes can take that. I believe the letters missing is because they weren't included "back in the day" and the I and V were used for the J and U. I'm just learning about samplers (I was taught about all other forms of stitching but samplers). I'm also wanting to chart a sampler for my area with the mansion/farm that was a key element in our small community. Love your work!

I love everything you do and say!!! Praying you have some relief from the current conditions. I'm going to IL next month and must get a project together for my granddaughter and I to work on. I love to stitch and quilt (mostly quilt), but I love the history behind all that I work on. Your videos are streaming for the rest of the day as I work.

Absolutely love the last pineapple you shared! And all the other work you shared with us. Very encouraging to know there’s hope for someone like me who has so many WIP’s! Someone recently told me there are no UFO’s. They are all WIP’s! That was encouraging too! I have family in NC and Florida who have been displaced from both hurricanes but are managing. Not hearing much about the fires but am reminding others to pray for everyone in those areas too. ❤🙏 For all! Thank you for sharing your work!

Love all your quilts and quilting. Beautiful finishes. I can remember all those fires when I was a kid. Prayers for our World

How lucky you were to meet up with Bonnie. I started following her when Covid broke out, and having lived in Southern California for 10 years (now back in my home state of Idaho), I was very familiar with the area where Bonnie had her cabin. I missed her when she took her break from KZbin to relocate and was elated when she recently reappeared. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work. You are a woman of many talents. ❤

Have a fabulous safe road trip! Beautiful projects!

Hi lovely, im a new subscriber from Stratford-upon-Avon Uk....love your videos xxx

Just found your channel and love listening to your soft mellow voice. You have so many gorgeous projects you are working on or finishing. I am going back to listen or watch your other videos. Thank you so much for caring for everyone

Oh Shanda we’d be in so much trouble if we were neighbors. Why? Cross stitch, quilting, stash, cats, fabric designers, even your couch or settle. I’m thinking that we have so many things we love to make we don’t have the hours! I think we’d feed off of each other in the whelm of trying to do all the things. I’m so thankful to the Lord He’s given me so many “things” that I can “shop” from my stash and I have enough stuff to last me the rest of my life. Sometimes I can’t even decide which project I will work on as I want to do them all. Yes, life is short and each day is special. We have no idea just how many days we have and need to take joy in the one we’re in! So happy you got to meet Bonnie. Both of you bring joy so thank you. I’m trying to get my old shoppe samples machine quilted because though I’m a hand quilter I did the math and to my shock I’d be at best in my mid 90’s before I’d get them all done if my hands, eyes, mind and life lasted that long, we have a young man in town who opened a quilt shop even though he knows nothing about piecing or what is expected in a quilt shop. He did get a long arm and does wonderful work on there and willing to learn and please his customers. He found out I was the owner of the previous quilt shop in town and knows he’s quilting my old shop tops. I drive him a bit nuts as my shop specialized in 19th century and older fabric and I have a quilt look I want to achieve with the quilting. Bless his heart, like we love to say here, he’s a trooper and has begun to figure out the look I desire. I do love the work you do, the quilts are eye candy. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Shanda; just meeting you and your flosstube/quilting… i feel like the timing and your words was a gift from above… and also when you mentioned Poppyseed Primitives from Genoa… i say ‘ i knew that place and shopped there as well’… sadly they are closed…love all your prim quilty projects… safe travels back to Illinois… it is very very dry here; drought deficit… but cooler temps and sunny.

Lovely stitching❤❤❤ Love Fall and Winter also.

I just found you, Shanda, and feel like I have received a lovely gift. I have loved Bonnie for years and it's perfect that you shared her in this video as you are both both beautiful souls and your light is so needed in this world. I look forward to watching your past videos and to what you continue to share. Thank you!

I am an 81 yr old grandmother I do all the crafts you have shown plus watercolor painting and dollhouses . I am also very moved by all that is going on around us . We need to be aware but also go inward , practice our faith etc we were put here for a purpose exactly where we are - to serve the ones placed in our lives . Thank you for you video , your sharing of yourself .

This video showed up in my feed tonight and I am so glad it did. Thank you for a lovely time. I loved your sharing of projects and your gentle words of wisdom. I think your fixes for the miscut piece are pure genius! Love your pineapple blocks. And I would love to see your dough bowl filled with all of your beautiful fall stitching.

Two years ago today my sister passed away. She was a great maker of all things and especially quilting - something that seemed far to overwhelming to me. I am a totally sold out, hooked stitcher. However, a few years ago I began to learn to sew and as the months passed became more and more interested in fabrics. Today as I watch you, I think of my dear Kate and how much I wish I could sit at her machine as she teaches me to quilt. I am working up to doing one in her honor, and if it goes well, would like to make "mini" quilts to give to hospitals for children. Anyway, sitting with you today brought comfort and such a precious sense of her. Thank you.

I thoroughly enjoyed your video❤ Thank you for sharing your day and lovely projects with us. Good to hear someone else stitched during General Conference! So peaceful. I am an introvert also and like to read and create with my hands. I hope the ash eases up soon. Have never thought of that being an issue. Should have though. I live in North West Alabama and we have been through one of our worst droughts this summer. I am 70 and live on our old family farm and this is the first time corn crops have been left in the fields because they are too poor to harvest. Problems everywhere. But the chickens will be happy after l sift through for ears left❤. Have to look for those silver linings ❤❤

Oh love the way you fixed your finish that you miscut with the cute prairie points and big rick rack. Sometimes our mistakes can actually turn out cuter and more unique than the original. : )

Hi Shanda. I know exactly what you are talking about. I moved not to long ago from KS to Wyoming and we are having the worst fire than they have had in a century. I can even see the flames from my home. The ash is unreal and I sit here with my car packed with evacuation things. Has been an interesting week. I am so grateful for our firefighters and men that are fighting this mess to help keep us safe and try to save our homes.

All of your work is beautiful, thanks for sharing. Love your log cabin and pineapple blocks!

Orange and black were my high school colors, as well. Great video!

what brand is your quilting frames in the back ground

Looking forward to your finished pineapple quilt. Pretty colors!

Great to visit with you today! Beautiful stitching and quilting!❤❤❤ Take care.

Hello from Pa. I just was scrolling around and your video caught my eye I love the look of cross stitch but never tried it…I am a beginner quilter,spin my sheep s wool into yarn and am a retired elementary art teacher,loved your video and I will definitely try to catch your new videos 👩🏻‍🎨🐑🐑🐑

Shanda! Greetings from Dallas! I just found your channel through KZbin promoting it. I enjoyed it! I’m so sorry to hear that you’re being inundated with ash from the forest fires. I’m praying that they will be over very soon and you’ll get some relief. I enjoyed seeing your fall finishes and your WIPs and look forward to your next video! ❤

Jo Morton is my very favorite fabric designer also! Love, love her fabrics. Beautiful pineapple blocks as well as the rest of your projects.

Don’t know how I have missed your floss tube. You just came up on my feed. I am feeling so inspired! Thank you for sharing your beautiful needlework and quilting. BTW my school colors were also orange and black.😊

Hi I am in Australia we are in spring weather cold nights @ pleasant days ,today was 7deg to 17 very nice n

We just came from Iowa and drove I90 back to Washington state. The ash in the air was bad in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. The air was great in Washington state. Safe travels for you and your mom.

Hello Shanda! I just happened across your channel this evening and I have to say I enjoyed every moment. You are such a kind soul. Your makes are beautiful!! I’ve been a knitter and crocheter for about a decade now. I came across a cross stitch pattern in late May which lead me to English Paper Piecing and Foundation Paper Piecing which took me setting up my old sewing/embroidery machine and now I’m learning to quilt. I’m a Pisces so creativity is destined 🤣 I just love to learn new hobbies. I’m an introverted empath myself…watching you touched my soul. I had to pause and lucked out and grabbed all 3 of Jo’s books from a thrift book store online. Looking forward to flipping through for projects. Will definitely be doing that Pineapple block table runner. Just wanted to take a moment and say hello and “thank you” for sharing your talent with us.

Hi I Theresa from Bpise

I just found your channel and enjoyed it very much!! I am also a huge fan of both Pam and Jo in the quilt world! I live near Gettysburg and love the Civil War reproduction fabrics too. You do beautiful work!

Love your foundation pieced blocks and cross sritch

Loved your video and seeing all the finishes you have done,especially the one you had to add the fabric pieces to. It looks awesome ! Thanks for sharing,hope to see you again soon !

Hello from NC Shanda! Thank you for sharing all your beautiful pieces. We have the same taste..I love Jo Morton, Pam Buda, and Kim Diehl. Those pineapple blocks for the Jo Morton table runner are gorgeous! Thank you for giving us a respite where we can, for a little while, forget when the world makes no sense. Hope the smoke and soot are soon gone. So sorry to all affected by the hurricanes. Prayers for all. God bless America.