Flosstube #10 - Happy 4th of July! Christmas in July, SALs, Starts, WIPS + chat with Tam Stitches!

Thank you so much for watching! Your comments mean the world to me! If I can help in any way, please reach out!!
Notes:
You can find Tam at TamStitches on IG
Books mentioned;
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Last Life Boat by Hazel Gaynor
Show I’m watching:
Passport to Freedom on Amazon Prime
Flosstubes mentioned:
​⁠‪@twotallstitchers‬
​⁠‪@niecielynn‬
​⁠‪@SarahsStitchySpot‬
​⁠‪@Stitchingbunny1127‬
​⁠‪@periwinklestitcher‬
​⁠‪@ComfortStitchingJackie‬
​⁠‪@therockingchairstitcher‬
You can find me at HobbiesOfHolly
Email: [e-mail]

[@lorettahenderson8979]

Holly...I loved your flosstube and meering Tammy..everyone needs a friend like you two...best wishes ❤

[@junewood3012]

I thoroughly enjoy your flosstube!! I love your blouse! Your friendships are so special! Until next time, happy stitching 🪡❌🪡

[@NDQuilter1]

Sounds like you had a fantastic Birthday Holly! So happy for you,and the memories you made at the getaway with your stitchy friends. 😊 Loved meeting your lovely friend Tam,you are so blessed. Hang on tight to that friendship. Loved all your stitching Holly.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! Tam is a blessing and I’m so thankful to have her!

[@kimberwatts]

Such a sweet flosstube and enjoyed getting to meet Tam! You two have a special friendship.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! We don’t take the blessing of our friendship for granted!

[@cindyrichards6019]

Such a lovely Flosstube. I love seeing your friendship with Tam. Having a close friend is so special. All your projects are beautiful. Thank you for sharing all your stitchy goodness.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! I consider Tam one of my great blessings!!

[@Heidi7828]

Happy Birthday! So glad you had a great time on your get away and that your friends made you feel special for your birthday! Your Air BnB sounds lovely! And on an unrelated note, I love your top!! So sorry to hear about your husband being sick! What a sweet gift your daughter gave you! Love seeing your conversation with Tam too! She seems very sweet!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well thank you so much! Tam is just the best! We had such fun on our trip! My top is from Amazon! Shopping clothes on line is hit or miss but I really liked that top so it was a win! Thank you for watching!!

[@kathiep.7734]

Love the picture of you all! And Tam is lovely.i have a friend for over 40 years and I’ve moved states 3 times and we are still close .call or text a lot and I’ll visit her next month.sounded like that lady who said you won’t stay friends was jealous

[@lesliesjostrom8670]

I met Tammy last year at the Huntsville retreat. I’m Miss Kay’s daughter and will be attending this year as a participant!!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well hello, Miss Kay’s daughter! She’s famous 🥰. I’m so glad you got to meet Tam!

[@pennyelkins2785]

Wow, another great video. My brother once said to me, life is what happens when your plans don’t work out. I always try to remember that, when looking up and saying REALLY. I loved your friend Tam and your sharing the friendship. I had several women in my life for 50 plus years. They have all passed but one. She is not doing well. I do keep saying, you can’t go anywhere….who is going to tell my story. You know when kids start saying something and you can say that’s not true..lol It is so hard to find those people again at my age (71). My mom told me when I was 13, you can count on one hand your true friends and the rest is just acquaintances. This has turned out so true. You ladies are so fortunate to have each other. Happy belated bday and a start of another year.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Your mom was so right! A true friend is such a gift! Tam and I fill in the memory gaps for each other! I hope your friend is with you for a good, long time!!

[@pennyelkins2785]

@@hobbiesofholly thank you. She was given 6 mos. And advised to get things in order. We are just talking and laughing about the good olds.

[@hobbiesofholly]

@@pennyelkins2785 oh I’m so sorry to hear this!! Enjoy every day given, treasure each one!

[@robinbunis6792]

Love your flosstube, found you through 2 Needles...Missy and Kathy. They were right, your flosstube has beautiful stitching and wonderful creativity. I spent this weekend binge watching all your episodes. Can't wait for the next one. On another note, very happy to hear that your precious grandson is doing well. I'm a Grammy to 3 and can't imagine. Prayers to your family.

[@hobbiesofholly]

You are so sweet for watching them! Aren’t Kathy and Missy wonderful?! They are dear to me! Grammy to 3 is so fun! Being a grandmother is such a treat!

[@kimladd3914]

Ohhhh! The best FT ever ☺️. I got to see you & Tam-two of the sweetest people I know. Beautiful inside & out ❤

[@hobbiesofholly]

You're the best!

[@carolandjennifertwotallsti8700]

Hi ladies! It was great to see both of you together. Belated Happy Birthday Holly!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much!

[@DeeAZstitcher]

What a Fun Birthday!!! Cute pretty gifts & charts, the Violets & Verses looks like a fun one. Holly Manor is so pretty. Nice WIPS. Enjoyed the conversation on the swing, so fun!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! Weren’t my friends so sweet to me?!

[@SarahsStitchySpot]

You are so lovely, Holly. Thank you for sharing your beautiful projects. ❤❤

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh Sarah, thank you! I continue to lift Eva and the baby in prayer!

[@arleneg1271]

Enjoyed seeing all your stitching Holly. Like you I do think counting is hard sometimes. I honestly do not think I have ever had a truly perfect stitch in all my 40something years of stitching. Hope you and your husband can celebrate your birthdays soon. I met Tammiie last summer at the Huntsville AL retreat and yes, I got some ZOTS...One of my favorite candies as a teenager and I had forgotten all about them. Tammie is a delight. Happy Stitching.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh that’s good to know because I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a perfect one either! I’m so glad you got to meet Tam, isn’t she the best?

[@Griffinand3]

So happy you had a great trip and got to celebrate at Chantelle’s! Stitchy friends are the best. So sorry your husband ended up with Covid! Happy you did not! Praying Graham stays healthy. Enjoyed your video so much! Thanks for sharing all your goodies! Enjoyed sharing your time with Tam!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you, we really did have such a fun time on our trip! Believe it or not, husband has rebound covid and is feeling icky again! I’ve managed to stay covid free and we are trying to keep it that way!

[@Griffinand3]

@@hobbiesofholly Will be praying for all of you, especially him!

[@hobbiesofholly]

@@Griffinand3 thank you!

[@goldenstitcher]

You and Tam, such a long and wonderful friendship!

[@hobbiesofholly]

She’s a treasure!!

[@hucl_berrystitcher]

I love your friend! What a wonderful bond you two have. I love the crunchy on the outside, sift on the inside!!😂

[@hobbiesofholly]

Isn’t she the best? She’s always there for me and I consider her a treasure!!

[@lanelles242]

Hi Holly, Fabulous video…Thank you for introducing us to your best friend Tam..so blessed are you both ❣️ Take good care 🤗♥️

[@hobbiesofholly]

Isn’t she the best? Thank you for watching along

[@jackiecate]

Such a fun flosstube! Glad you’re feeling better! I was stitching on Holly Manor while I watch and I hadn’t even planned it that way! ❤

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh how fun! Isn’t it a wonderful stitch?!!

[@marthaabstein6046]

Glad that you had a great retreat with your friends. It is so nice to have a stitching friends group. I am with you in the mistake week. I have had to frog a cross stitch piece each day for the past three days. I hope that my luck will change tomorrow. I have already had the boo boo for today. Love watching your floss tube. You are so comfortable in from of the camera and so what if you forget to say something. You come right back in a insert what you missed. Hope that you and you husband are feeling better and able to do your fun Birthday celebration.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh I’m sorry the frog has been visiting you too! Why is counting so hard for us? 🥰. Thank you for your kind words about the video, it means a lot! Husband is still sick he we sure hope to get to that Pompeii exhibit before it’s over!

[@user-tj2sk8ky4w]

good to see you back again. Happy Birthday to you and your husband. What a wonderful thing to have a close friend thru all these years... and even better that you have cross-stitching in common... and Tammy has a sister Andrea and my name is Andrea too :)))

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh hi Andrea! Isn’t it fun? We’ve had so many common interests over the years. It’s fun to be at the stage of coming back to one of them!

[@marybd123]

I am also a girl from the 70s and loved Holly Hobby. Those project bags are so cute. Thanks for sharing your WIPs, etc. I lived in Dayton, OH (now in NC) and remember a wonderful cross stitch/fabric shop in Fairborn…Daisy Barrel.

[@joantully9936]

That was a fabulous shop

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh I wish I had gone to that shop! How long ago did you live in Dayton?

[@marybd123]

I lived in Dayton 1992-2002 (moved to NC). I stopped stitching in 1996 when my daughter was born. Recently came back to it a year and a half ago. How things have changed.

[@hobbiesofholly]

@@marybd123 ever changing!!

[@periwinklestitcher]

Wow - what fabulous birthday gifts and stitching! I love the piece from your daughter so much :) precious! Thank you so much for shouting me out - it is so very kind of you and I'm so grateful for you watching! Happy stitching Holly PS. I am on the hunt now for Holly Hobby fabric as used to have all her stationary when I was small!!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh I’m sorry I couldn’t think of your exact ft name while talking! Knew it started with a P but Paisley was all that came to mind and knew that was Grace - 60yr old brain 🥰. I’m already excited for your next ft! Let me know if you add any fun Holly Hobbies in your life!

[@CreatewithTess]

Happy 4th to you too🇺🇸 So many great gifts Happy birthday 🥳

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much, especially for my sweet card!

[@mariannecowley]

I always love to see what you are working on and that you aren’t deterred from showing the real side of stitching. Your time away with your friends looked so fun! I hope you had a happy birthday!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you for your sweet words! Mistakes are my MO, it seems 🥰 Time away was so needed and wonderful!

[@BrendaHapps]

Enjoyable!! You never disappoint!! I would love to see what you do to your Longenberger retreat basket!! I love my Longenberger baskets for storage. We have so much in common. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!! ❤

[@hobbiesofholly]

Hi Brenda! I love Longabergers too. A while back, I got rid of a bunch and now I find I’m rebuying on marketplace 🫣. I need to find pics and inspiration for the retreat basket and get it going!

[@stampincass]

Oh, what a sweet time with your friends and especially Tam! I am ripping out an entire piece as I watched...I am not sure how I got extra stitches in these rows. .. but, 🤷‍♀️ counting is hard!!😂😂 I saw a pattern with that exact phrase yesterday! How you stay well and hubby continues to improve.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh no! Ripping out is the worst! I got mine frogged last night but she’s still in time out 🤪

[@apunujjin1590]

Hi Holly, love watching your floss tube!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well, hello friend! Thank you so much for watching!

[@wendyfulbright3156]

I love holly hobby too! Our family moved into a new house when I was 8 or 9 years old & my mom sewed holly hobby bedspreads for my bedroom I shared with my sister.

[@hobbiesofholly]

What a fun memory! I love that your mom made those for you!! Doesn’t HH being back fun memories?

[@staciefallon5347]

So excited when I see your flosstubes! Thank you. Here’s a great read (ahm Listen) for us 70’s girls. The Women by Kristin Hannah. It’s a good one. Suggested it to my bff and she called me and said “that was a great book!”

[@hobbiesofholly]

Hi Stacie! Thank for for the recommendation! I love everything Kristin Hannah writes! The Women was such a good book, it gave me such insight to my uncle who was a Vietnam vet.

[@suesew2909]

Hi Holly! I enjoy your floss tube and seeing what you are up to. I have been married to my husband for fifty one years. I have two boys first then my daughter was born and she is 43 years old now. He brought me up a holly hobby doll because he knew I loved her and I still have that doll. I am going to try and send a picture. I also love longberger baskets your room looks amazing. I love sharing any information. Sue Chavanne, Buffalo ny

[@betsywise4948]

Frozen River is wonderful

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you, I’ll check it out!

[@karathompson5568]

Tam is the best! I met her at Dyeing to Stitch retreat. Your birthday sounded amazing….you are well-loved! I’m in the Indy area and have stitched with Carol. She’s great! I’ve caught up on your videos the last few days. Thanks for mentioning Pompeii exhibit. My husband and I saw Pompeii a few years ago, and I know my history grad student at UC would love it (but was too frugal to go). Mama $ on the way! Thanks for sharing!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Isn’t she the best? She had such fun at that retreat! Pompeii is just incredible, isn’t it? I hope your son loves the exhibit!

[@melaniew4354]

Hi Holly! This is my first time watching your videos, and I wanted to make a couple of comments because we have a few things in common😊. I'm 61, married for 42 years, and have 3 grandchildren that also call me GiGi! I was big into stitching in the 80s and 90s. In the 90s I stitched a bunch of samplers and many of them had hardanger elements. Then, around 1999-2000 I put all my cross stitch away and got into other crafts like knitting and painting. I started stitching again in 2019 and now am back at it hard again, but it's funny I have no real interest in samplers anymore, I think I burnt myself out on those 30 years ago. I have a 1994 edition of The Proper Stitch, and it does have a spiral binding, but there's no blue on the cover at all. The spine of it is burgundy and the face of the cover is taken up by the Proper Stitch Sampler, of which the chart for this sampler is in the back of the book. I completed about half that sampler back then, and I have all the floss and perle cotton in the bag with it and everything. I do plan to get it out and finish it relatively soon, maybe it will draw me back into loving samplers again. Anyway, I just wanted to say that yes, the spiral bound edition is the way to go, but that's not the original edition. I think they stopped publishing it for awhile and when it came back had that blue cover. Heck, mine was expensive even in 1994, it was $39.95 at my local needle shop, back when we rarely paid more than $6-7 dollars for a pattern, and it was one of those purchases that got hidden away from the husband!😂 I got mine out this morning and showed him and we had a good laugh about it. I enjoy your flosstube, thank you for the effort and time it takes to put them out for our entertainment!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh goodness, we do have many things in common! It’s so interesting that the cover color changed with the Proper Stitch. Once you mentioned it, it seems like I’ve seen someone show a burgundy version! Thank you for watching, it means the world to me!

[@joannmckendry3796]

Happy 4th to you! and thanks for introducing your friend, Tammy. Hope you and your hub are feeling much better.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! He’s finally testing neg and thankfully feels great!

[@SallyStitchesAnd]

Happy birthday, Holly! I’m glad you had a fun stitchy trip with your friends. Was so nice to catch up!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you for watching! It was such a fun trip!

[@lisamunchausen7158]

It was so fun to watch you. I love Tammy too. Your friendship is so endearing. ❤️ Happy belated Birthday!!🎉

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you so much! Tam is just the best!

[@joyceclowser3371]

Great meeting your friend. You complement each other. Sorry you have to frog. Not fun on higher counts of fabric. Take care and happy stitching!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Thank you, Tam is just the best!

[@ContentedNeedleworkerKim]

I hope to meet you both at a retreat one day! 💕

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well hello, friend! I think you and Tam met at a QS retreat a year or two ago? I was supposed to be there but injured my knee and had to cancel! But I hope our paths cross SOON!!

[@christinadanko6288]

❤❤❤

[@needleworkfromthebeehive7520]

Lovely video Holly! You’ve done so much on Holly Manor. I’ve yet to start mine but I’m so excited about it. My granddaughter’s name is Holly so I love anything with holly. Going to watch some Christmas movies while I stitch!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Your grandmother’s name was Holly? I assumed I was the oldest Holly but now that I think about it, my mom said she named me after a Holly she knew so it makes sense there are older ones! I love that you’re stitching Holly Manor in her honor!

[@needleworkfromthebeehive7520]

@@hobbiesofholly No, my granddaughter is called Holly. I don’t know any older Hollys. It’s a beautiful name.

[@hobbiesofholly]

@@needleworkfromthebeehive7520 oh goodness, how did I read that so wrong 🤪. Granddaughter makes much more sense!

[@needleworkfromthebeehive7520]

@@hobbiesofholly Easily done! Hopefully my Holly will have Holly Manor when I finish it

[@elizabethkrafnick5466]

My everything bag is my best friend! But I bought one already made.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Isn’t it great?! What configuration are your pockets? I’m thinking about making some pages

[@patchy_pony_stitcher]

🐴🐴🐴

[@AllisonNorris13]

Hello beautiful! 💟☮️

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well hello, my sweet friend!

[@MichiganStitcher-1944]

Hi Holly and happy belated birthday! I am so glad your stitchy friends were able to make it such a special day for you! One of the things you showed that you got as a gift was a folio that I just love and I think you said it was made by como. I have searched high and low for that label and cannot find it. Could you possibly share the information with me as I would love to purchase one. Thanks. Rene

[@hobbiesofholly]

Hi Rene! The bag is by Como Stitches and she’s on Etsy and IG. Here is her IG link instagram.com/comostitches?igsh=Y2M2MzRkang4eWJ1

[@MichiganStitcher-1944]

@@hobbiesofholly thank you holly!

[@carolmcqueen3497]

Tammy will you be at Stitch Florida this month? It’s my first retreat. I live south of Atlanta.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Oh how fun! We will both be there, God willing!

[@seasonalstitcher9775]

I just started watching you and I love your channel! Can I ask about the stitching above the fireplace? It’s so beautiful!

[@hobbiesofholly]

Well thank you for watching, it means so much! The piece above fireplace is a Modern Folk Embroidery chart, Engeltje Tjakkes 1835. It was a mystery Sal from a few years ago!

[@seasonalstitcher9775]

@@hobbiesofholly thank you so much! I’ll have to try to track it down! It speaks to me lol

[@hobbiesofholly]

@@seasonalstitcher9775 www.modernfolkembroidery.com/product/engeltje-tjakkes-1835-mfe-sal-2022-1-booklet-pdf/

[@seasonalstitcher9775]

@@hobbiesofholly thanks!!

[@sharonwhelanCALI]

Happy Birthday, Holly! I am grateful to Holly of Mrs. Jones Stitches for her referral to your Flosstube channel. I'm subscribed now.🌷🌷

[@clarec6659]

Lovely visit especially seeing your friendship with Tammy. I’m stitching along with BBD Holly Manor. Love the stitching too,so blessings and happy stitching.

[@hobbiesofholly]

Hi there! Isn’t Tam the best!! I love that you’re stitching Holly Manor!! I’m working on the house now!