Sampler Style 1 My First Flosstube! "Stitching Stories"

[@wwjackie7751]

Your “coming to America”. Gorgeous! But 40 ct! Oh my! You’re terrific!

[@sonjaharley1906]

Welcome to flosstube! I enjoyed your video. Love your stitching. Thread drops and bling for our thread is brilliant. I love everything stitching. 😍🤗😁

[@teresaatkinson5610]

this was a fun first flosstube.... love the Clown Piece

[@johnlucio1749]

You are a beautiful person with alot of heart with your work

[@mswillette]

Enjoyed your crossstitch story. Will look forward to more of your flosstube presentations.

[@nannapei]

Looking forward to the next episode

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you!

[@marybonds1396]

Your FlossTube was great! Please keep making more ☺️

[@mariaschmitz4882]

Your Coming to America is beautiful .

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! I'm really enjoying the stitching. Thanks for commenting! xoxo

[@sallykunkel6183]

Great first floss tube. I’m glad that I stumbled upon you. Looking forward to many more.

[@stitchingbythemoon]

Great video!! Welcome to FlossTube. Looking forward to the next one!

[@craftylibrarian5709]

I enjoyed your first floss tube. I’m glad you are here. Please share how you chose your colors for the wedding sampler. Thank you for sharing your talent!

[@MrHollick]

I love love love Samplers and your channel!!!!

[@jnlfamily2]

I’d love your colors for the wedding pattern.

[@wwjackie7751]

Yes, please the thread drop tutorial! Thanks!

[@suvernon2313]

Have been watching you and Rich for a long time while knitting. NOW I can watch you while cross stitching. The best of both worlds. Enjoyed your new floss tube show.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! I'm really enjoying cross stitch, it was nice to talk about it!

[@bevkemp4041]

HI Sharon, just found you on you tube. Love your style & taste. What you do & how you do it. Great to see that you go off grid so to speak regarding your selection of colours, fabric & thread choices. But you are an artist so it shows in your creative work & personal style. Thank you for your videos. ❎💗❎❤️❎💗❎

[@michaelaschmid]

The Pennywise piece is so cool! She's a lucky girl :)

[@samplerstyle]

Oh thank you! I'm kind of obsessed with that piece. I may do something like it for myself!

[@OMGImIrish]

Love the color of your shawl, just beautiful. I like your stitching too.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! That green is one of my favorite colors.

[@susanstohlman5418]

A great first flosstube! And.....you wear your shawls with great style!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! I wear them every day this time of year.

[@marilynzipsie9776]

Now I am hooked on watching your channel!

[@samplerstyle]

😂 I'm glad you are enjoying it! Happy Stitching!

[@inezharrell4339]

Good Morning so nice to meet you for the time this morning ❤️ InezArnetta 🌹

[@samplerstyle]

Same to you!

[@DevonsCreativeChannel]

Oh awesome you have come over to the dark side 😁welcome love your first episode

[@samplerstyle]

Ha ha, YES. I'm very obsessed with stitching right now!

[@kerierbe3699]

Great video. Love the “it” stitch. Total YES on the floss drop tutorial

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, I'm tempted to keep that piece! Hoping to get the tutorial recored sometime in the next week. Watch for it!

[@marlenechurchill3664]

I enjoyed your first video....will look forward to seeing your next one....I also knit but have been obsessed with cross stitching for the past year and a half...

[@samplerstyle]

That is happening with a lot of knitters. Not sure why!

[@karenkorn8180]

Welcome to the Floss Tube Community, Sharon! Glad you’ve joined us! Can’t wait to follow you! Karen of Prom Queen Stitcher 🤓.

[@cherylclemen8621]

Enjoyed your channel! Look forward to your next episode. Your stitching is beautiful! My hometown is Rhinebeck, I lest when I was 11, my Dad transferred, and that is how I ended up in Florida, with short stops in Alabama and Virginia. I've been trying to teach myself to knit, although my Mom did show me basic when I was a child, its d!ow. Do far I've made a dish cloth. I spend the majority of my time stitching. I retired in 2015 after 42 years, so I am enjoying my retire moment. Will look for your next episode.

[@samplerstyle]

Oh wow, far from your Northern home! I like Florida but it would be hard for me to leave New York.

[@theresachucle5362]

Welcome to floss tube love 💗 your ffo’s and wips look 👀 great 👍 have a wonderful evening and happy stitching 🧵 😊

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! You too!

[@charj57]

🎉Happy Video #1 of FlossTube.🎉 13:24 love the colors!

[@samplerstyle]

Thanks, I love color!

[@suebrown436]

Sharon, that was lovely. I'm a cross-stitcher too as well as a knitter. I have over the years designed my own samplers as gifts for special occasions (retirement, wedding, etc) and I have a wealth of books from which I took my inspiration. Now I mostly do kits, or I cross-stitch designs from magazines. Your work, and your fabrics, are both gorgeous.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, that is very inspiring! I have dabbled in charting, and I like it!

[@pennyschwarze6393]

Yes I would love to see how you change your colors.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, I will add that to my list!

[@greekxstitcher5379]

I worked at Vassar where my boys were born! Beautiful area but we moved to the area I was raised in outside Philly! I miss Adam’s soo much! X

[@samplerstyle]

Oh wow, cool! It's a small world, right? I would miss many things if I moved, I have no plans to!

[@lorettahenderson8979]

Awesome job Sharon...you haven’t been coming up in my feed so I thought you and Rich had stopped doing your knitting show...good to see you and hope you two are well...thanks for the great video...wishing you JOY and happy stitching ❤️

[@samplerstyle]

Ugh, hate when that happens. Go to your subscriptions, it should be there.

[@lorettahenderson8979]

I do too...great to see you❤️

[@roulatornariti9005]

After the knitting channel starting watching this. I have two unfinished projects since 1973. Running away after the Turkish Army occupied my village grab these two projects among some other things and run away to save our lives, being a refugee since then. I never finished them. Time has come I think.

[@samplerstyle]

I'm glad that you have been inspired to pick them up again! That is a very scary story, I'm glad you are ok. Would love to see your projects!

[@roulatornariti9005]

@@samplerstyle Yes, I will take some pictures first. I have also from that time an unfinished bedspread with chroset hook. I have to finish it to give it to my daughter.

[@pampearce4953]

So glad to see that you are stitching. You always make me laugh. Your stitching like your knitting is really beautiful.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Yes, we need to laugh especially right now, right?

[@MameysMedley]

Hi there! I am BRAND new to cross stitch and your channel. I am in upstate NY as well. Close to Lake George. Love your samplers, so gorgeous! I look forward to watching more of your videos, getting to know you and learn!

[@maryjoandriulli2803]

I enjoyed your video and look forward to the next one.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, more to come! Recording the next one tomorrow.

[@Sue_RedThread]

You’re fun! I look forward to seeing your progress and whatever else you are up to cross stitching-wise.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the show. 😃

[@mm-qm9zh]

Hello from Louisiana, Sharon! I was absolutely delighted with your first video, which showed up in my feed today. Your personality and spirit are so engaging and attractive. I really enjoyed all the projects you showed, especially the MFE piece where you chose your own gorgeous colors, as well as Coming to America...just stunning. And the wedding sampler! Wow, what a beautiful heirloom piece that will be for them! I am very much looking forward to your tutorials about floss drops and how to use them, and how you change colors on a pattern. You really do have a great “eye” for color. I bet your dyed yarns are spectacular. I’ve tried several times to teach myself to knit, but just can’t get beyond the first row. Same with crochet...both my mother and my sister were very skilled at crochet, especially using the very fine threads, as well as embroidery...but I am excited if I can make a chain and single crochet correctly! 😂 I do enjoy embroidery, however, and some needlepoint. Thank you for sharing your time and talent with us...I’m really looking forward to your future videos! 🧵 Meline

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much Meline! Keep trying with the knitting, are there classes in your area? It's a great stress reliever.

[@julietippie3623]

Very nice first video. You totally enabled me with your fox & hound project. I paused your video & ran right over & purchased it, my first Modern Folk pattern. I am enthralled with your color changes and look forward to seeing how you continue on and finish yours.

[@samplerstyle]

Ha! My enabling work is done! 🤣 The DMC colors that I am using are 300, 303, 680 and 730. I used Dinky dyes silk thread in the "Ironbark" color which is a good match for DMC 300 for the animal motif. I had just enough of it though! Enjoy the stitch!

[@julietippie3623]

@@samplerstyle thank you so much for your color conversion. That is so nice of you. 🤩

[@7gloryf]

Great start! Ready for more!!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, and thanks for subscribing!

[@pinkshabbyroses101]

I'm a big fan and love your new show:)

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lindamanning7348]

Delightful!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much!

[@britsluver]

Yaaaas Sharon

[@samplerstyle]

Thanks for watching!

[@rhondawise1897]

Glad to see you cross stitch now, me to

[@samplerstyle]

It's very fun!

[@pennyschwarze6393]

Your stitching is beautiful. I’ve been stitching off and on for years and I’ve never done 40 count. Your doing great. I’ve watched you for years about knitting so good to see you do floss tube. Your coming to America is wow.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Try a small project on 40 count, I really like the hand of the fabric.

[@barbarajackson5350]

I was very happy to see the announcement about your flosstube!!! It is great. I am a very new cross stitcher...only on my second project!!! I started with Jean Farish and her Christmas SAL which only made me want to do another. I look forward to this new channel of yours. Yes, I am very interested in the tutorial on the thread drops. Thank you Sharon for all the hard work you do for us!!!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the show. Cross stitch is SO addicting!

[@francohen9685]

I loved your video. it was so interesting right from the very beginning. Loved the Hound and the Hare. Coming to America is beautiful. I would love to see a video making the floss holders. The wedding Sampler is gorgeous. They are going to love it. You are certainly great with colors. I so appreciate people like you. I love to knit so am going to be looking at your other video on knitting. You did a great job.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much Fran! Knitting is my first love, but stitching is becoming a close second. Glad you found the video interesting, I want to keep them fast and fun!

[@joanna9620]

Enjoyed your video and look forward to more!

[@samplerstyle]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you. I'll be recording episode 2 tomorrow.

[@terzalowdermilk7268]

Love your video! Yes, please on the thread drop tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[@samplerstyle]

Tutorial is up!

[@deannamodzelewski1611]

Great first floss tube! I also cross stitch as well as knit. Been following you on knit style for awhile now and happy to see you started floss tube. The piece your daughter did was absolutely beautiful and unreal how it looks almost exactly like Jamie. Great choice for the wedding gift as well. I think it will be stunning!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! I marvel at how that Yorkie piece looks like Jamie. It even has a mischievous glint in the eye!

[@lynnmccartney1702]

Good job!! I love cross stitch, and I’m also a beginning knitter!

[@jud2171]

I have been watching you on your knitting channel for a long time. I've bought your yarn before and love it. I'm new to knitting and old to cross stitch. Welcome to floss tube you did a great job.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun recording it.

[@danielleboots7032]

Very nice! 🥂 cheers

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@sandykoch5396]

I am also from the Hudson Valley in the northern part of the county. I loved your video. I also knit and quilt. Looking forward to more videos.🙂

[@samplerstyle]

Nice! Maybe we will meet one day after all of this has ended. Thanks for watching!

[@craftylibrarian5709]

I really enjoyed your first floss tube. I would be grateful if you would share how you changed the colors of the wedding sampler. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

[@samplerstyle]

That will be my next tutorial! Thanks glad you enjoyed it.

[@merylehawkins5177]

Loved the show, I cross stitch as well as knit, quilt and needlepoint. Never enough time. I love your stitching

[@samplerstyle]

That is SO the truth! I have a strict crafting schedule or I would get nothing done. XOXO

[@Candlesflame]

I just discovered your first floss tube. Nice beginning, and I’ll be looking for your future videos. Welcome!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! I'm enjoying recording them!

[@debbiewigen805]

Oh Sharon! You enabler you! First knitting and now stitching.....if you are willing to teach (give tips,etc) I’m willing and excited to learn! Can’t wait for episode #2! Just FYI...if you enjoy knitting and stitching from your phone or iPad look at the app knitCompanion. It just might be a life changer! (Works for both knitting and stitching)

[@samplerstyle]

Ha ha, I may do some tutorials for beginning stitchers if there is interest!

[@JulieRStitches]

Hello 👋🏻 what a wonderful episode. I’m so glad I found you. I’m a knitter as well but it has taken a huge hiatus. My favorite things to knit 🧶 are socks cowls and shawls. I would love 💕 to see a tutorial on you floss drops.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Tutorial on thread drops coming soon. I still knit a lot! It's my first love....💕

[@bettyazbill7093]

Sharon, I love the fact that you have gotten into cross stitch! I have watched you and Rich for a while with your knitting. My first love is cross stitch. You have really gotten a lot done with all that you do and it is very inspiring! Betty Ann, Albany, GA

[@samplerstyle]

Oh thank you! It helps to be retired, I am always busy with something!

[@betsykleger4808]

Great to see a fellow Knitter fall down the cross stitch/Flosstube rabbit hole! I’ve enjoyed watching you and Rich for years and am excited to subscribe to your new Flosstube channel!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you for subscribing! Yeah, I didn't think I would fall this hard but I'm loving it!

[@jeanieclor9072]

Nice job on your first Flosstube video. I have started the Coming To America Sampler, but I have too many squirrels....I can't stay focused on just one thing. I agree with you on using a hoop. I do have a q-snap, I like the tension it holds, but it's heavy and bulky, so I prefer my hoop. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Yes, there are so many distractions in stitching! I have been wrapping my hoops in cotton strips that I got from Hoop and Frame and that really helps with the tension. I'll show it on my next episode!

[@dottierobbins6507]

What a great video. I love your knitting show also. Glad to see you doing what you love.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun filming it.

[@nancysneedlework9199]

I am a knitter too and have been watching Knit Style for a long time. It was such a nice surprise to get a notification for your Flosstube channel. I would love the colors you will use in the wedding sampler. I look forward to more videos from you!

[@samplerstyle]

Hi Nancy, thanks for being a long time viewer! I just posted my conversion for "My Love Divine" below in the show notes. I am missing one color number, but I'll find it soon. Take care!

[@kimellefson8348]

Loved your video and I subscribed. Kim

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! This was really fun to record.

[@HilltopStitching]

Oh I would love to see a tutorial for thread drops. I’ve been wanting to make some but don’t where to start... I just ran across your video and I’m hooked. You are awesome.

[@samplerstyle]

Hi Crystal! Thank you! 'm glad you enjoyed the show. Hoping to get the tutorial recored sometime in the next week. Watch this space! 💕

[@AStateofDeNile]

Your stitching is beautiful. It will be exciting to see your work as your progress and complete projects. You totally have given me the stitching itch again. Plus I purchased Christmas Town and a small sampler for an ornament. Did you know they carry different charts in their Etsy store from their main website? I have finished a canvas needlework that has 3 hearts on it. It was a class from a stitching retreat in the 90s. I made modifications to complete it. Thinking about turning it into a panel on a project bag. Now my concentration is on a chess board that is about 3/4s complete. It will be hard to focus on stitching now that I have received my order from you - the Tiki Room is begging to be knit into a tshirt. xx

[@samplerstyle]

OOh, thanks for the tip about the different charts! I want to see that t-shirt from "Enchanted Tiki Room!" it's going to be gorgeous! What pattern are you using?

[@AStateofDeNile]

@@samplerstyle I have it narrowed down to 4 - Monica Geller Tee, Minimalist Tee, Ringer Tee, or Noni. So many choices. xx

[@AStateofDeNile]

@@samplerstyle Ok I have done more looking at the sweaters that have been knit and how they look and I have decided on ... Mount Pleasant however I am going to lengthen it a bit. Not even in the original choices. I hope that will show off the yarn well. xx

[@lynnrebman8337]

Great job! I’m not a knitter, but I’m a two handed stitcher. I use a Morgan hoop. Very easy to maneuver. You might want to check that out as an option some time. The owner at our local shop got me hooked on it. The wedding sampler colors you chose are beautiful. Love upstate New York area. I’m not a NYC fan either. Your fall season is my favorite. Lynn in Indiana

[@samplerstyle]

Thanks for sharing!! I will check out those hoops. I'm always looking for great tools.

[@ijeomaiheke6451]

Sharon I really enjoyed this episode, you did a great job👍, and I love all you’ll beautiful makes. The how to tutorials that you mentioned will be helpful to some people, so I think you should do them. I’m working on a big piece right now, “Alphabet cafe,” and this has made me want to work on it more. Look forward to your next video, say hello to Rich. Have a great weekend 😊

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun talking about stitching.

[@ijeomaiheke6451]

You’re welcome 😊

[@lucysyarnpocketpodcast5821]

I so enjoyed your first needlework podcast! Your stitching is lovely and I’m thrilled you are now working on linen exclusively-there’s nothing like it! The wedding sampler will be an heirloom for them. Do you have a Total Crafts near you? I’ve heard they do fabulous needlework framing.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much! Sadly no we don't have that store here. I might check Michaels and see if they have someone who knows how to frame stitching.

[@deborahcrottylikerottie7684]

Hi - new subscriber. Love that shawl - it is gorgeous as is the stitching. Good luck with your channel.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you so much for subscribing! Yes, I love that shawl. Perfect for spring!

[@H537ilda]

Sharon, I loved your Flosstube, it was great! I usually watch your knitting show. The interesting thing is I used to cross stitch years ago and sometimes did a few pieces here and there but not regularly. Anyway, today coincidentally I opened up a box I had brought from NY with my supplies, flosses, graph paper, etc. so I am really looking forward to watching this channel as well as continuing to watch your knitting channel.

[@samplerstyle]

It's so fun when we find treasures like that! Thanks for watching.

[@shereewaddell3417]

You are so talented. I dont do stitching. But love watching. Have a great stitch day. Omg wedding sampler is going to be so beautiful. Pic of jamie amazing!!

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the show. I am talented in some things, but don't ask me to sew or do paper crafts! 🤣

[@debbiefrenia9045]

This was so awesome! I use to cross stitch but my knitting took over. But I’m thinking of doing it again! See what you did?? LOL great first episode! ❤️

[@samplerstyle]

Glad you enjoyed it! (I have been known to enable....) 😇

[@janinebell763]

Have you watched Brenda and the serial starter. Brenda does lots of samplers.

[@samplerstyle]

Oh yes. I really love their show!

[@jlfpurhays]

Loved it. Your projects are beautiful! I definitely want to get back into cross stitch and embroidery. Idk how long it has been since I did anything like that.

[@samplerstyle]

You should! I did embroidery when I was younger. Sadly I don't have any of it to show. I gifted them all. I think my dad has some in Florida.

[@MokkiLifewithLaura]

Knitter here, too...been watching you since lockdown last year...I started stitching again about 2 months ago and watching Floss Tubes, too! I am doing an embroidery piece right now The Temperature Library #stitchthetempsal This has also prompted me to dig in the closets (one of my retirement goals anyway) and unearth a huge cross stitch project that will probably get some love later this summer when I want an alternative to sock knitting 🤷🏻‍♀️ The library thing doesn’t take up very much time and of course is a yearlong project anyway. Great Floss Tube 🙌🏼 I’ll be back when you post.

[@samplerstyle]

Thank you! Yes, we definitely needed to start new hobbies during lockdown!

[@martacook1349]

👍🏻

[@samplerstyle]

Thanks for watching!

[@StoutsGMa]

Congratulations on your first flosstube! Your Happy Halloween came out great! I saw it in progress in the knit style podcast. ~ Great job!

[@samplerstyle]

Oh thank you! I love that piece.

[@lindabrick2812]

I enjoyed your video! I’m going to check out your knitting video too! I’d love to learn how you decide what colors to use when you change a pattern. And I also just discovered thread drops and if I can make my own that would be great to learn too. Also how do you store your thread that’s on thread drops? Thanks for sharing your stitching journey.

[@samplerstyle]

Oh thank you! Those videos are coming soon. I have my thread on thread drops stored with projects at the moment. I don't have much of a thread stash (yet).

[@ragazza2586]

Beautiful work. Do you use special lights/magnifier to work on 36 count!?

[@trievajames2261]

I am also nearsighted and can see the small count linen if I take my glasses off, but I find if i do it too long everything is blurry for a while when I put my glasses back on. Do you have this problem? So I usually just use magnifier. Enjoyed your video😊

[@marilynzipsie9776]

I just found your channel. I love your house...from what I can see of it! Is it an older home?

[@samplerstyle]

Hi Marilyn! Yes, our house is 94 years old! It was built in 1928. She's in pretty good shape still. We've lived here for 31 years. I'm having some cosmetic work done this fall and when it is complete I'll do a tour. Hopefully I'll have some samplers for the walls! Thanks for watching. 💕

[@freemak1]

What is a thread drop?

[@samplerstyle]

A thread drop is a cardboard shape with a hole that you can put your thread through to organize it. If it is cut correctly you can pull your thread right from the thread drop. I'll show it on my next episode.

[@vickiegillett7059]

Hi I have a friend that raises Yaks and has tubs of yak hair/fur. Would you have a use for it?

[@debzamot5291]

Hi Sharon, what do you mean one over two?

[@samplerstyle]

Hi Deb! It means that I am using one floss thread to stitch over 2 linen threads. (Which is typical for linen).

[@raeannoneill8392]

Enjoyed your first floss tube. Floss tubers stress that you should not show actual charts in videos. I would suggest asking a Floss tuber about the rules. I am not an expert-just repeating what I have heard them say. I look forward to your future shows!

[@samplerstyle]

Just like in the knitting world, there are no "rules" about showing charts. But it is considered bad form to show an image of a charted pattern. So, out of respect for designers I am careful not to flash charts! Thanks for watching!

[@suzyqrunswithneedles]

Enjoyed your video!