Your video was just wonderful Jackie, but I am sure your heart is broken , as all of ours are, after learning of Jean’s death. She has left a legacy that we all want to honor - by continuing to stitch what we love and to remember her kindness and grace. Looking forward to your next video as you too have a gentle spirit.
I very much enjoyed your recap of Sampler Symposium. I don't consider myself a sampler stitcher despite the two I currently have in rotation *whistles innocently.* However, I really do enjoy seeing and hearing other people share and enthuse about their sampler projects. It's a genre of the cross stitching world that I wouldn't have known about if it weren't for flosstubers and hearing about sampler-specific retreats. I enjoyed your time with Bridgette Powers and it's really awing how someone from days can by can touch our lives and those down the road. The threads that bind us all together. ❤ Lots of fun haul and swag! Thanks for sharing. I'm so happy you were able to show Jean your finished Bridgette. That was a beautiful moment to see in the photos.
Thank you for this video, as someone living on the other side of the world and unfortunately not able to go to retreats etc in the US it is great to get so much information from them. Thank you also for sharing so much of your personal experience.These events are as much about the people as they are about the subject matter (so to speak), I have worked at international quilt retreats in my country (The Netherlands) so have seen wonderful connections being made and contacts kept often very long distance. Your words about samplers at the end really say what I feel about them. I have only been stitching for a year (quilting for decades) and have found that the old samplers with their stories, their personalities are ' my thing' . The emotional connection to the stitcher that once was. 🙏
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Your sharing of the retreat made me feel as if I was there I don’t stitch samplers but that does not stop my enjoyment of hearing about the history Being with people who share your interest is such a special moment that has no words to describe that feeling of togetherness that will last for a lifetime
Hello from Tennessee! Thank you for an amazing journey. You sound like you might be an empath. My oldest child and I have the same things happen to us. Not everyone can stand still and actually feel the world around them.... Past, present and maybe future? Only another that's experienced that feeling can truly understand the depth. It's nearly overwhelming and thick and yet so sheer that others can't see it. 😊. Thank you again for sharing with us. Love you bunches.
Jackie, having watched several other FlossTube videos from various attendees of Sampler Symposium, yours is by far the best one I have watched! Just listening to you sharing your experience, the people who attended, the teachers and the projects was so inspiring! Listening to you talk about all of the special memories you have made, as well as the time spent with Jean Lea just touched me deeply. I loved hearing your thoughts about how the legacy of the girls who stitched these samplers is perhaps all we have to know about them and keep their memory alive. I can see that this is a trip and retreat of a lifetime! Someday I hope to visit The Attic. The quote you shared at the end of your video was just a perfect way to sum up your experience. Thank you so much!
About Quaker… I have meant to share with you that a few years ago Gary on Fibre Talk interviewed Jacob de Graaf about Quaker samplers. It was in depth and sent me straight to my first quaker piece….I was and remain a raving fan🙂. I am sure you can search the interview and enjoy it as part of your research. BTW, I play your meditation video often as I “sometimes “ cannot fall asleep. Please feel free to produce more! Lindy in Holland, Michigan😊❄️
What a wonderful time you all had at the sampler symposium. I wish I had been there. I loved what you said about the spirit of all the girls who had stitched the original samplers maybe being in the room with all of you
I'm so happy for you to be able to have those great memories with Jean during the Samplers Symposium and with your beautiful sampler. Cherishing memories of friends and family, even beautiful memories with strangers, are a beautiful gift! 😊
I so enjoyed listening to you and your adventure....it felt like you really brought us along for the journey. I so love hearing about the history of things. S uch a joy after hearing other flosstubers just showing what they bought.
I agree with you that Sampler Symposium is a once in a lifetime experience. I'm sorry we didn't get to spend more time chatting, but I was overwhelmed with everything (in a good way). I'm sure our paths will cross again sooner than later. Thanks again for another great video. You're helping me build my book and resource collection.
I’m sorry there wasn’t more time to chat at Sampler Symposium, too! The packed schedule and table layout made it kind of challenging to get around and have conversation very easily. I hope we cross paths again! ❤️
A great flosstube, Jackie…and the most meaningful and impactful are your thoughts and emotions of being in a room with the sisterhood of stitchers (past & present), and of course, the emotional experience of sharing Bridget Powers with Jean. I’m still wiping tears - just beautiful & so grateful you had that moment. You’ll never forget it❤️
I’m interested in learning about the quackery samplers. I really like the geometric design. I look forward to the next videos.I love your work, thank you.
I only see your flosstube now, after Jean's passing, of course now you look and listen different to your flosstube, it's sad, she is missed by lots and lots of people. A force of women like you talked about in your flosstube, all the women you 'felt' that moment in the Attic, all those women who cross stitched now and in the passed. I got moved when you shared that thought, we could need more of that forces from the past and the present, right now, with everything that is happening in the world right now. Oh well, there's only so much I can do and hope. Have a nice day Jackie and thank you for sharing. It's a pitty you only visit the UK and Ireland, I would have loved to let you see the Netherlands. -xx-
When sitting down to sew or stitch, used to invite my sewing angels, my mom, my grandmothers, my best friends mama… I don’t any more; they are there waiting for me. Sampler symposium had more than 250 in attendance. I promise you. Loved, loved, loved this flosstube!
Wonderful recap of your trip to The Attic! Thank you for the time you put into this video. I love the quote that Jeanette Douglas shared. So true. Also the comment you made about Jean Lea that you feel she is so focused on you when you are talking with her. I had the same experience when I met Jean and Carolyn. It is such a sincere characteristic that makes people you are with feel good about themselves.
I have just heard the news about Jean. I am so thankful that she was able to see your sampler at the symposium, it obviously gave her great joy. Hold onto that thought through your grief.
It was a shock, but not unexpected. Jean’s influence was far reaching and she will be missed by many. I will treasure those few minutes with her even more, now. ❤️
Jackie, just what I’ve been waiting for; a trip to the Attic, Sampler Symposium with you as my guide. 💛. Every time I would see a post from Synposium, I would search for you. 😢I never found you, but 250 attendees, WOW, I’d have been sitting in my corner never moving or opening my mouth. Thank you for sharing your experience, I loved seeing things from your perspective, and am glad you include this in Flosstube #12. It was so cool you had a finish of Light by Barbara Anna to share with us. A perfect piece shining your light from your joy and happiness in AZ. I still have that piece in my mental list of projects. Along with Light, I am still enthralled with your Sampler Across the Sea SAL, One Stitch at a Time by La-D-Da. It is great you are relaxed about having approximately 4 wips, I am working to use better time management, and I definitely see the value of fewer wips and more time on each. I am so excited about your Quaker project, and your increased interest in all the Quakers. I know I will be on the receiving end of your research interest. I have a few Quaker charts, more on my wish list, and a few kitted, and one finished, October Quaker (tree) by Liz Matthews. I haven’t decided which is next, maybe by your next video I’ll know. Each speaker and project sounded so interesting. Thanks for taking time to give us the wonderful picture. I loved your early comment ‘don’t apologize for what you purchase.’ This should be a first rule for anyone going to a feast of this caliber. If you’re going, you hopefully brought funds for purchasing. To go to the banquet and not eat would be a travesty and disappointing to the chef (Jean)! I think you showed great discipline in not over eating😅. In my limited experience, anyone that cares about their coffee travels with the makings. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I feel the same way about what I want for snacks on trips to unfamiliar territory. Having what comforts us just makes the trip easier. Your reaction to considering the stitchers, and the generations involved in our pursuit of stitching ourselves, and how overwhelming that feeling became just fulfilled what Jeanette Douglas shared, ‘…you have touched the soul of the craft.’ And the craft has touched your soul, Jackie. And you reach out to touch me with your genuine feelings and enrich my life. And as you spoke about Jean, and how she focuses on who she is listening to, and how your emotions surfaced at that time; you do the same thing. When you are speaking to me, you are focused on me, and I am focused on listening. Your gift is so beautiful. The pins you crafted were so special, what lucky recipients your roommates and table mates and others were. You received lovely gifts also. The best gift, though, was simply being there, SHARING the EXPERIENCE. I’m glad Bridget traveled with you, and was well received. You and she both deserve recognition for your beautiful work. Thank you so much for sharing on this flosstube. Until next time, Blessing and hugs, Peg
Awesome video …always full of morsels of information:-) Sampler Symposium looked to be wonderful! ❤ on my bucket list . Your Quaker book 📕 is a jewel 💎!! There’s also a Sampler on the inside paper cover. It’s beautiful. That would be a great SAL 🤓 I have several Quakers stitched , Ackworth School was a wonderful place for the many orphans , girls & boys , to find shelter & learn skills.. George Müller did a ♥️wonderful thing for all these children…. Lovely to see you again … I’ll tag u This n instagram when I show some of my Quakers I’ve stitched.. Blessings, Jackie Xx to Archie ♥️🤗
Oh, I’m. Starting a Quaker in February to celebrate Renee’s birthday! I also have that Sampler Roll chart (for years now 🙄). It was such a treat to see you again 💕
It was wonderful to see you again, Kim! Are you doing the Rose Quaker, too? Will you do the whole thing? 🤭 It really is a gorgeous sampler and will be beautiful whether you just do part of it or all of it. ❤️
Jackie, having watched several other FlossTube videos from various attendees of Sampler Symposium, yours is by far the best one I have watched! Just listening to you sharing your experience, the people who attended, the teachers and the projects was so inspiring! Listening to you talk about all of the special memories you have made while there, as well as the time spent with Jean Lea just touched me deeply. I can see that this is a trip and retreat of a lifetime! Someday I hope to visit The Attic. The quote you shared at the end of your video was just a perfect way to sum up your experience. Thank you so much!
It was lovely to (briefly!) meet you at Symposium, and I can't thank you enough for your kind words. As a teacher, it's the most satisfying, validating, and rewarding thing to know that a student learned something, or gained useful knowledge, and can take that forward, so a very heartfelt thank you, and I look forward to seeing how you use it on your upcoming project! Your analogy to paint, brushes, etc was perfect - threads are no different in that sense.
Thank you for sharing your unique experience and thoughts from the symposium. I had already watched a couple of flosstuber's reviews of their experience there, but I was most moved by what you said of your thoughts as you stood in place during a break. Looking around the room and realizing the stitching hands, past and present, who had come together at that time and place was very impactful for me. The connections to those angles is there for us to be still and feel/notice.
What a wonderful catch up and amazing to hear all your tales of Sampler Symposium - what an experience! It was also so fantastic to see your finish of 'Light'! I am just so thrilled to have inspired you with my colours. Looking forward to seeing which Barbara Ana you will chose next (obviously after Four Seasons lol). Happy Stitching xx
Just amazing! AMAZING! The intro was so great about our stitches related to those before us. Wonderful! Beautiful stitching, your red sampler is beyond gorgeous and so nice to see your pics from the attic! Thank you! Pats to Archie❤
Thank you for a great video & recap of your weekend at The Attic. It does give me chills when I think about how stitchers are so interconnected through the generations.
My first foray into linen and samplers was a Barbara Ana kit called The Rampant Cats - it's lovely: Adam & Eve, a Mr & Mrs, a tree of life, a serpent, berry baskets and an arch (would complement Bridget) !! Another stunning design of hers is Snooty Parrots. Thanks for your video and for showing Archie. Glad you had a good time at The Attic. x
Jackie, This was a great review of SS2025. I will certainly refer to your video on my next Flosstube. I loved hearing about your experience as a first timer. It was lovely to get to meet you at the event. Our time was too short. I hope we cross paths again at another retreat. Happy stitching. Best, Karen
Hello Jackie, What a fabulous sharing of Symposium 2025! I don't think I have ever heard such a wonderful and thorough sharing by anyone else before. I especially loved it because I may never get to a Symposium due to many things. It is a bucket list item for me. And now I am afraid I may never get to meet that incredible lady whom everyone loves to pieces - Jean Lee. Thank you so much for all that you shared, for all of your enthusiasm for it, for conveying the depth of participation of soul that you had. It did come across and I have never been to a retreat! Your description of all the women and girls who were there 'in spirit" if not in person, and all of the personal ancestors of those who actually participated, and the participants themselves. It was so wonderful to hear about it all. I also didn't realize how much other shop owners contributed their time and help. What an amazing community we belong to!l. Thank you also for sharing your sticking with us. Your Antoinette Sampler is just incredible! I have a few red samplers I need to get working on, for mostly, they are large and if I want to finish them in my lifetime, I need to start them.... Also I loved the little red strawberries you made. They were just so cute. Thank you for it all. I could imagine myself there with all your wonderful descriptions and comments and joy!
Thank you so, so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. It was such an immersive experience that words can hardly do it justice. I’m glad I was able to convey a bit of what it was like to be there. ❤️
Hi Jackie, so glad to have found you. I am also in MO, opposite corner of you though :( I also just came back to stitching after a 20ish year break, sewing, quilting, raising babies. Thank you for all you shared...now to go binge your other episodes while I sit and stitch!
Go. Jackie, what a lovely video of your trip to the Sampler Symposium. You did such a good overview of your time there. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about how you felt during the stretch break. So thought provoking. The pictures at the end were beautiful! I am so glad that you had such a wonderful time at this retreat. You are a delight to watch and listen. To, and of course seeing your gorgeous stitching. Take care and happy stitching.
Thank you for sharing your Sampler Symposium experience! As you were talking about how special and touching it was to spend that time with so many people in one place sharing a love for stitching, it reminded me of the sacred moments I have experienced in church when everyone comes together during songs of worship for example. Those moments of sacred community are when we feel most connected and feel joy and peace simultaneously. Thank you for bringing that to my recollection, especially given I haven't been to church in a long time. There are many ways in which we can feel a part of something bigger than ourselves and so special that you were able to experience that at Sampler Symposium.
Fun to hear about your experience at the Sampler Symposium. My interest in samplers has been sparked by your own discussion around Bridget Powers. Really cool that you took her to share with others. Isn't it fascinating that she is alive for so many of us now, love that!
Thank you for a wonderful video. What an amazing experience it must have been. How beautiful it was that Jean got to make an appearance. Have a wonderful few weeks of stitching and until next time…..Happy Stitching 🌸💞🌸
The communion of saintly stitchers who have come before us. It's a sacred space for sure! Thank you for sharing your experience. It's like I was there!
@@darbylogan8730Essentially, yes. The Symposium takes place every January and they open up registration for it a couple of moths before through an email registration. It fills very, very quickly, though. I’d recommend getting on The Attic’s mailing list so you get notified of their events.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us in attending the Sampler Symposium at the Attic...such a touching and memorable time! Love your Bridget Powers finish...it's absolutely beautiful. I've learned so much in watching your videos and look forward to each one. I enjoy seeing Archie as well, what a character :)
Thank you so much for such a thorough and all encompassing trip to Sampler Symposium for us. You have a wonderful way with words and thoughts. You are a true gem! This episode is one I will come back to again.
Great video review of SamplerSymposium. Love your choice of color. Barefoot Needleart in Myrtle Beach has some wonderful linen colors. I think you need to take your Quaker to the bar and match your whiskey to your floss .Lol. Love your strawberries.
Oh sigh!! That Jeannette Douglas kit is spectacular!! I hope she releases it some day. I love love all her beautiful patterns with specialty stitches! I’m current working on her Sewing Box sampler.
I absolutely enjoyed this Flosstube as there was so much I didn’t take in and you going over the presentations was so helpful. Like you said the feeling in the room was exciting, overwhelming, loving, informational, and so on. I was stitching along and listening then you said my and Liane’s names, all stitching stops, I couldn’t believe it. It was a joy to see your Brigette as it really is special and being able to talk to you for a time was great. I also have so many things I want to stitch this year. Thank you for your videos, love them.
Thank you Jackie for a wonderful floss tube today. I am so happy you all had a wonderful time and I would so love to go one day. I think I could spend a whole week just at The Attic .Although fairly new to cross stitch I am totally loving this rabbit hole, although I fear my stitching may be doomed as although working on my Blessings Sampler I am never going to get it finished by the end of January!! unless of course I dare pull a sickie from work and shut my self away with floss tube and coffee!!.... now there is a wonderful thought! Happy stitching and I really look forward to your next floss tube xxx
Hi Jackie my first time watching you. What a kind, sweet, thoughtful person you are! I enjoyed you a lot and also your stitching too! Thank you for sharing with us, everything is beautiful. Congratulations on your finished masterpiece. Just gorgeous. Well until the next time take care. 😘
Hello Jackie, another great video visit with you. I'm so impressed by you. I normally listen to your FlossTube while working because your voice is so soothing to listen to and enjoyable. I then I watch your videos while I'm stitching to make sure i didn't miss anything. Thank you for your insights and for bringing us along on your journey.
Another wonderful time together. A trip to The Attic feels like a trip to the Holy Land. Thank you for sharing so much beautiful color, learning and wisdom.
Thank you for another fabulous floss tube! I felt like I was your table mate again, this time at SS'25. Especially thank you for sharing your photos with Jean!!
Hi Jackie. Loved your "Light" finish..I am presently stitching "Dreaming Girl" by Barbara Ana as my 80th Birthday start and allowing myself 80 days to complete. I know it won't take that long but I am enjoying every stitch. I love all of your beautiful projects. And I love your soothing voice and your meditation moments. "Comfort Stitching" suits you perfectly.❤😊
Great to see you this evening Jackie. We've just come out of a 42+ power cut thanks to Storm Eowyn so it was a real treat to watch you. Loved your recall of Sampler Symposium. It looked like an amazing weekend. I recognised a few familiar faces from Flosstube. So glad you got to show Bridget to Jean, a very special moment. We celebrate her namesakes feast day here next weekend. There are a number of events happening in her honour, so I'll be thinking of your Bridget. Take care, best wishes from 🇮🇪
Thank you Jackie for sharing so much. Your words, experience and intuitive insights, plus of course your stitching, are really inspiring and appreciated by me and many others from down under. Go well, both you and Archie ♥️💙
Thank you so much for this I thoroughly enjoyed it. Here in NZ we do not have such Symposium's, so it is great to see the lovely stitching and gather. We do have the NZ Sampler Weekend in Taupo ever two years and I do really enjoy that, nowhere to the scale of this though.
What a beautiful intuitive awareness of how many people contributed to help make each person as a needle worker at the Symposium. Your sensitivity is inspiring. Each of us are connected to all the needleworkers who have come before us. Much to ponder and be thankful. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thank you for another great flosstube!!!! The Symposium was just so amazing!! It was so great meeting you and Anna!! You are just so lovely in person as you are in your videos!! Bev and I hearing our names is something we will never forget!!! Thank you❤
I almost cried when you talked about the people who have taught you and who’s project you are working on , I was blessed to see what you were seeing that was beautiful , my grandma inspired me to crochet would look at black and white small picture in the press { newspaper} and make that pattern to think she is with me when I work on a pattern , I just love that thought makes me want to cry too thank you, beautiful thoughts
So glad you had a Great time at the Symposium Jackie, I certainly would be overwhelmed and excited being amongst so many stitchers and to sit and listen to the talks would have been wonderful. I’ve been drawn to Quaker designs lately, I joined the Fox & Rabbit mystery monthly Sal 2025 to get me into that way of design, I’m looking forward to seeing how that turns out. Loved seeing all your goodies and haul ( never apologise) Thanks for sharing the lovely slideshow of the weekend love seeing other flosstubers as well. ❤ ps: the dinkydi thread called Cobar is named after a country town in New South Wales here in Australia 🇦🇺 Maree
What a wonderful opportunity to go . Thank you so much for sharing I am so grateful. I thought you were very restrained in your purchases I wanted to buy the store LOL. How wonderful that Jean could see your beautiful Bridget Power 1840 I am sure that would have given her a boost and made her very happy. ❤
Your insights are appreciated. I am a self taught stitcher. I think there are more self taught stitchers then people think. I do believe children in grammer school should be exposed to all fiber arts: cross stitch, quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, etc. Children need a creative outlet. 🦋
Thank you! I totally agree with you. I know I’m lucky that I grew up at a time when sewing and other needlework was way more common and that I had my Mom and Grandma to teach me. 🧵 🪡💙
Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience at the Attic with us! I love the counting pins you made for your friends - you are very talented. It sounds like 2025 will be a great year for you. Best wishes xx
Thank you for once again for such an amazing video I felt I had been on a journey with you. So happy Jean got to see your Bridget and was able to share that experience with you. It was so wonderful to look at all those women and see how the love of sharing the knowledge and skills of Needlework can bring so many Souls together. Can't wait to follow you on your 2025 journey you always make my morning when I watch your video.
It was wonderful to hear about your special weekend Jackie. I’m so glad it filled your heart. Love your finish of Light! I really hope we get to meet in October.
Thank you so much, Sarah! It was an amazing experience that I’ll not forget. And made even more special now. ❤️ I’m pretty certain we will meet in October! Either in London or in Ireland. ☺️
This was fun. I also listen to the Periwinkle stitcher. Thank you for explaining The Attic and the retreat. I have been to Wichita twice from the UK. Wish I had known about Red Barn.😊
I really enjoy doing Quaker samplers and have gravitated to them more and more as I have developed a retinal problem that can really cause havoc with my stitching. It helps not having to deal with numerous color changes and a lot of symmetry seems to be easier to follow. An added bonus for me has been in the past month while doing some geneology research up popped 4th great grandparents who were Quakers immigrating from Great Britain.
As a stitcher, vision issues would be so challenging, I’m glad you have found something that still feels comfortable for you to do. How cool that you have a Quaker connection!
What a wonderful thought of all the stitchers that were there due to past experiences with the physically present stitchers. I love this sentiment!
Your video was just wonderful Jackie, but I am sure your heart is broken , as all of ours are, after learning of Jean’s death. She has left a legacy that we all want to honor - by continuing to stitch what we love and to remember her kindness and grace. Looking forward to your next video as you too have a gentle spirit.
Jackie: Thank you for your heartwarming floss tubes . . . .blessings to you, my friend . . . . .
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoy them.
I’m watching this after Jean Lea’s passing. I’m thankful she was able to attend briefly. What a legacy she left behind. Thanks for sharing.
Jean was an amazing lady. ❤️❤️❤️
I very much enjoyed your recap of Sampler Symposium. I don't consider myself a sampler stitcher despite the two I currently have in rotation *whistles innocently.* However, I really do enjoy seeing and hearing other people share and enthuse about their sampler projects. It's a genre of the cross stitching world that I wouldn't have known about if it weren't for flosstubers and hearing about sampler-specific retreats. I enjoyed your time with Bridgette Powers and it's really awing how someone from days can by can touch our lives and those down the road. The threads that bind us all together. ❤ Lots of fun haul and swag! Thanks for sharing. I'm so happy you were able to show Jean your finished Bridgette. That was a beautiful moment to see in the photos.
Thank you for your kind words about my Sampler Symposium experience. It’s something I won’t soon forget. ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful flosstube, Jackie. Your passion for the history of samplers is refreshing. Enjoy your stitching!!
Thank you so much!
Another great Flosstube. Thank you, Miss Jackie.
Thank you for this video, as someone living on the other side of the world and unfortunately not able to go to retreats etc in the US it is great to get so much information from them. Thank you also for sharing so much of your personal experience.These events are as much about the people as they are about the subject matter (so to speak), I have worked at international quilt retreats in my country (The Netherlands) so have seen wonderful connections being made and contacts kept often very long distance. Your words about samplers at the end really say what I feel about them. I have only been stitching for a year (quilting for decades) and have found that the old samplers with their stories, their personalities are ' my thing' . The emotional connection to the stitcher that once was.
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Thank you so much for going along! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Hi dear Jackie. I get so comfort from watching you.
I got the same quaker as you and thinking of doing it the blue. ❤
Thank you for sharing your experience on the retreat. Happy stitching. ❤
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Your sharing of the retreat made me feel as if I was there I don’t stitch samplers but that does not stop my enjoyment of hearing about the history Being with people who share your interest is such a special moment that has no words to describe that feeling of togetherness that will last for a lifetime
Thank you so much! Yes, it was wonderful to be with others who share the same interests in such a deep way. It truly feels like a special bond. 🩷
Hello from Tennessee! Thank you for an amazing journey. You sound like you might be an empath. My oldest child and I have the same things happen to us. Not everyone can stand still and actually feel the world around them.... Past, present and maybe future? Only another that's experienced that feeling can truly understand the depth. It's nearly overwhelming and thick and yet so sheer that others can't see it. 😊. Thank you again for sharing with us. Love you bunches.
Yes, definitely an empath. Thanks for sharing your journey, too. I like your description of it! 🩷
Fabulous, dear friend, as always!
Jackie, having watched several other FlossTube videos from various attendees of Sampler Symposium, yours is by far the best one I have watched! Just listening to you sharing your experience, the people who attended, the teachers and the projects was so inspiring! Listening to you talk about all of the special memories you have made, as well as the time spent with Jean Lea just touched me deeply. I loved hearing your thoughts about how the legacy of the girls who stitched these samplers is perhaps all we have to know about them and keep their memory alive. I can see that this is a trip and retreat of a lifetime! Someday I hope to visit The Attic. The quote you shared at the end of your video was just a perfect way to sum up your experience. Thank you so much!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It was truly an amazing and memorable experience.
About Quaker… I have meant to share with you that a few years ago Gary on Fibre Talk interviewed Jacob de Graaf about Quaker samplers. It was in depth and sent me straight to my first quaker piece….I was and remain a raving fan🙂. I am sure you can search the interview and enjoy it as part of your research. BTW, I play your meditation video often as I “sometimes “ cannot fall asleep. Please feel free to produce more!
Lindy in Holland, Michigan😊❄️
Thank you for that Quaker reference. I’ll look for it. I’m glad you are finding the meditation beneficial.
What a wonderful time you all had at the sampler symposium. I wish I had been there. I loved what you said about the spirit of all the girls who had stitched the original samplers maybe being in the room with all of you
Thank you! It was a truly memorable experience.
I'm so happy for you to be able to have those great memories with Jean during the Samplers Symposium and with your beautiful sampler. Cherishing memories of friends and family, even beautiful memories with strangers, are a beautiful gift! 😊
Thank you so much! 🩷
I so enjoyed listening to you and your adventure....it felt like you really brought us along for the journey. I so love hearing about the history of things. S uch a joy after hearing other flosstubers just showing what they bought.
I'm so glad you enjoyed going along! It was a truly memorable experience.
So glad you had such a rich time. I made some strawberries too, as they were featured on a TV show I watch. They are so sweet. hugs
I agree with you that Sampler Symposium is a once in a lifetime experience. I'm sorry we didn't get to spend more time chatting, but I was overwhelmed with everything (in a good way). I'm sure our paths will cross again sooner than later. Thanks again for another great video. You're helping me build my book and resource collection.
I’m sorry there wasn’t more time to chat at Sampler Symposium, too! The packed schedule and table layout made it kind of challenging to get around and have conversation very easily. I hope we cross paths again! ❤️
Awesome video Jackie, loved hearing of the symposium and seeing your haul! Loved the Barbara Anna too!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🦊
Your strawberry gift you made are amazing. You are so talented!
Thank you so much! 🍓 😊
A great flosstube, Jackie…and the most meaningful and impactful are your thoughts and emotions of being in a room with the sisterhood of stitchers (past & present), and of course, the emotional experience of sharing Bridget Powers with Jean. I’m still wiping tears - just beautiful & so grateful you had that moment. You’ll never forget it❤️
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. And you’re correct, spending those minutes sharing Bridget’s sampler with Jean are something I will never forget. ❤️
Thank you for sharing all about the symposium. Your photos at the end were terrific.
Thank you! I’m glad you liked them!
I’m interested in learning about the quackery samplers. I really like the geometric design. I look forward to the next videos.I love your work, thank you.
Great flosstube!
Thanks for sharing The Attic.
Marilyn
Thanks for watching!
I'm so happy you had a great time at the attic.
thank you!
I only see your flosstube now, after Jean's passing, of course now you look and listen different to your flosstube, it's sad, she is missed by lots and lots of people. A force of women like you talked about in your flosstube, all the women you 'felt' that moment in the Attic, all those women who cross stitched now and in the passed. I got moved when you shared that thought, we could need more of that forces from the past and the present, right now, with everything that is happening in the world right now. Oh well, there's only so much I can do and hope.
Have a nice day Jackie and thank you for sharing. It's a pitty you only visit the UK and Ireland, I would have loved to let you see the Netherlands. -xx-
Thanks so much for your kind comments. ❤️
When sitting down to sew or stitch, used to invite my sewing angels, my mom, my grandmothers, my best friends mama…
I don’t any more; they are there waiting for me.
Sampler symposium had more than 250 in attendance. I promise you.
Loved, loved, loved this flosstube!
Oh yes, the room was filled with legions of sewing and stitching angels! 😇🩷
Wonderful recap of your trip to The Attic! Thank you for the time you put into this video. I love the quote that Jeanette Douglas shared. So true. Also the comment you made about Jean Lea that you feel she is so focused on you when you are talking with her. I had the same experience when I met Jean and Carolyn. It is such a sincere characteristic that makes people you are with feel good about themselves.
Thank you! ❤️
I have just heard the news about Jean. I am so thankful that she was able to see your sampler at the symposium, it obviously gave her great joy. Hold onto that thought through your grief.
It was a shock, but not unexpected. Jean’s influence was far reaching and she will be missed by many. I will treasure those few minutes with her even more, now. ❤️
oh my gosh, I can totally see the cabins in the row of houses! the right-hand house is Cabin #1, with the trees right next to it!!! :)
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am so happy that Jean got to see Bridget Power.
You’re welcome. I’m happy she got to see Bridget, too. It was very bittersweet. ❤️
I so enjoyed your complete reliving of Sampler Symposium…it allowed me relive the moments❤️
❤️❤️❤️ it was a truly memorable weekend made all the more so by sharing it with you and Sarah.
Jackie, just what I’ve been waiting for; a trip to the Attic, Sampler Symposium with you as my guide. 💛. Every time I would see a post from Synposium, I would search for you. 😢I never found you, but 250 attendees, WOW, I’d have been sitting in my corner never moving or opening my mouth. Thank you for sharing your experience, I loved seeing things from your perspective, and am glad you include this in Flosstube #12.
It was so cool you had a finish of Light by Barbara Anna to share with us. A perfect piece shining your light from your joy and happiness in AZ. I still have that piece in my mental list of projects. Along with Light, I am still enthralled with your Sampler Across the Sea SAL, One Stitch at a Time by La-D-Da. It is great you are relaxed about having approximately 4 wips, I am working to use better time management, and I definitely see the value of fewer wips and more time on each.
I am so excited about your Quaker project, and your increased interest in all the Quakers. I know I will be on the receiving end of your research interest. I have a few Quaker charts, more on my wish list, and a few kitted, and one finished, October Quaker (tree) by Liz Matthews. I haven’t decided which is next, maybe by your next video I’ll know.
Each speaker and project sounded so interesting. Thanks for taking time to give us the wonderful picture. I loved your early comment ‘don’t apologize for what you purchase.’ This should be a first rule for anyone going to a feast of this caliber. If you’re going, you hopefully brought funds for purchasing. To go to the banquet and not eat would be a travesty and
disappointing to the chef (Jean)! I think you showed great discipline in not over eating😅.
In my limited experience, anyone that cares about their coffee travels with the makings. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I feel the same way about what I want for snacks on trips to unfamiliar territory. Having what comforts us just makes the trip easier.
Your reaction to considering the stitchers, and the generations involved in our pursuit of stitching ourselves, and how overwhelming that feeling became just fulfilled what Jeanette Douglas shared, ‘…you have touched the soul of the craft.’ And the craft has touched your soul, Jackie. And you reach out to touch me with your genuine feelings and enrich my life. And as you spoke about Jean, and how she focuses on who she is listening to, and how your emotions surfaced at that time; you do the same thing. When you are speaking to me, you are focused on me, and I am focused on listening. Your gift is so beautiful.
The pins you crafted were so special, what lucky recipients your roommates and table mates and others were. You received lovely gifts also. The best gift, though, was simply being there, SHARING the EXPERIENCE.
I’m glad Bridget traveled with you, and was well received. You and she both deserve recognition for your beautiful work.
Thank you so much for sharing on this flosstube. Until next time,
Blessing and hugs,
Peg
Oh, Peg….thank you so much for your attention to everything I share. You’re truly special. 🩷🩷🩷
Awesome video …always full of morsels of information:-)
Sampler Symposium looked to be wonderful! ❤ on my bucket list .
Your Quaker book 📕 is a jewel 💎!! There’s also a Sampler on the inside paper cover. It’s beautiful. That would be a great SAL 🤓
I have several Quakers stitched , Ackworth School was a wonderful place for the many orphans , girls & boys , to find shelter & learn skills..
George Müller did a ♥️wonderful thing for all these children….
Lovely to see you again …
I’ll tag u This n instagram when I show some of my Quakers I’ve stitched..
Blessings, Jackie
Xx to Archie ♥️🤗
Thank you, Sharon! I’m looking forward to seeing your Quaker samplers. ☺️❤️
Oh, I’m. Starting a Quaker in February to celebrate Renee’s birthday! I also have that Sampler Roll chart (for years now 🙄). It was such a treat to see you again 💕
It was wonderful to see you again, Kim! Are you doing the Rose Quaker, too? Will you do the whole thing? 🤭 It really is a gorgeous sampler and will be beautiful whether you just do part of it or all of it. ❤️
@ I’m doing a Quaker by Rosewood Manor in all one color 🥳
Jackie, having watched several other FlossTube videos from various attendees of Sampler Symposium, yours is by far the best one I have watched! Just listening to you sharing your experience, the people who attended, the teachers and the projects was so inspiring! Listening to you talk about all of the special memories you have made while there, as well as the time spent with Jean Lea just touched me deeply. I can see that this is a trip and retreat of a lifetime! Someday I hope to visit The Attic. The quote you shared at the end of your video was just a perfect way to sum up your experience. Thank you so much!
It was lovely to (briefly!) meet you at Symposium, and I can't thank you enough for your kind words. As a teacher, it's the most satisfying, validating, and rewarding thing to know that a student learned something, or gained useful knowledge, and can take that forward, so a very heartfelt thank you, and I look forward to seeing how you use it on your upcoming project! Your analogy to paint, brushes, etc was perfect - threads are no different in that sense.
Thank you and thanks again for the class. I’m looking forward to putting some things I learned into practice.
Thank you, Ms Jackie ❤
You are so welcome. 🩷
Sounds like you had a blast at the retreat. Thank you for sharing
I did! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your unique experience and thoughts from the symposium. I had already watched a couple of flosstuber's reviews of their experience there, but I was most moved by what you said of your thoughts as you stood in place during a break. Looking around the room and realizing the stitching hands, past and present, who had come together at that time and place was very impactful for me. The connections to those angles is there for us to be still and feel/notice.
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What a wonderful catch up and amazing to hear all your tales of Sampler Symposium - what an experience! It was also so fantastic to see your finish of 'Light'! I am just so thrilled to have inspired you with my colours. Looking forward to seeing which Barbara Ana you will chose next (obviously after Four Seasons lol). Happy Stitching xx
Thank you so much, Sally! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I have my eye on several Barbara Ana charts. ☺️
@@ComfortStitchingJackie me too 🤣🤣🤣
Just amazing! AMAZING! The intro was so great about our stitches related to those before us. Wonderful! Beautiful stitching, your red sampler is beyond gorgeous and so nice to see your pics from the attic! Thank you! Pats to Archie❤
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very interesting. Looking forward to learning about Quaker samplers. Thanks from sharing your symposium experience.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for a great video & recap of your weekend at The Attic. It does give me chills when I think about how stitchers are so interconnected through the generations.
You are so welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
My first foray into linen and samplers was a Barbara Ana kit called The Rampant Cats - it's lovely: Adam & Eve, a Mr & Mrs, a tree of life, a serpent, berry baskets and an arch (would complement Bridget) !!
Another stunning design of hers is Snooty Parrots.
Thanks for your video and for showing Archie. Glad you had a good time at The Attic. x
There are a lot of Barbara Ana charts that interest me! ☺️
Jackie, This was a great review of SS2025. I will certainly refer to your video on my next Flosstube. I loved hearing about your experience as a first timer. It was lovely to get to meet you at the event. Our time was too short. I hope we cross paths again at another retreat. Happy stitching. Best, Karen
Oh thank you, Karen! I’m so pleased we got to spend a little bit of time together. And may our paths cross again!
I do love your views on stitching we need to connect to what we are stitching. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Hello Jackie, What a fabulous sharing of Symposium 2025! I don't think I have ever heard such a wonderful and thorough sharing by anyone else before. I especially loved it because I may never get to a Symposium due to many things. It is a bucket list item for me. And now I am afraid I may never get to meet that incredible lady whom everyone loves to pieces - Jean Lee. Thank you so much for all that you shared, for all of your enthusiasm for it, for conveying the depth of participation of soul that you had. It did come across and I have never been to a retreat! Your description of all the women and girls who were there 'in spirit" if not in person, and all of the personal ancestors of those who actually participated, and the participants themselves. It was so wonderful to hear about it all. I also didn't realize how much other shop owners contributed their time and help. What an amazing community we belong to!l. Thank you also for sharing your sticking with us. Your Antoinette Sampler is just incredible! I have a few red samplers I need to get working on, for mostly, they are large and if I want to finish them in my lifetime, I need to start them.... Also I loved the little red strawberries you made. They were just so cute. Thank you for it all. I could imagine myself there with all your wonderful descriptions and comments and joy!
Thank you so, so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. It was such an immersive experience that words can hardly do it justice. I’m glad I was able to convey a bit of what it was like to be there. ❤️
Hi Jackie, so glad to have found you. I am also in MO, opposite corner of you though :( I also just came back to stitching after a 20ish year break, sewing, quilting, raising babies. Thank you for all you shared...now to go binge your other episodes while I sit and stitch!
Welcome! Thanks for watching and for your kind words!
Thank you for letting me ride along with you on this magical stitching journey. ❤❤
You are so welcome, Sarah. Thanks for joining me! 🩷
Go. Jackie, what a lovely video of your trip to the Sampler Symposium. You did such a good overview of your time there. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about how you felt during the stretch break. So thought provoking. The pictures at the end were beautiful! I am so glad that you had such a wonderful time at this retreat. You are a delight to watch and listen. To, and of course seeing your gorgeous stitching. Take care and happy stitching.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. ❤️
Thank you for sharing your Sampler Symposium experience! As you were talking about how special and touching it was to spend that time with so many people in one place sharing a love for stitching, it reminded me of the sacred moments I have experienced in church when everyone comes together during songs of worship for example. Those moments of sacred community are when we feel most connected and feel joy and peace simultaneously. Thank you for bringing that to my recollection, especially given I haven't been to church in a long time. There are many ways in which we can feel a part of something bigger than ourselves and so special that you were able to experience that at Sampler Symposium.
Thank you so much for sharing, that’s a beautiful analogy. 🩷
Jackie you are a gem. Love the counting pins☀️☀️☀️
Thank you! 🍓🍓🍓
Fun to hear about your experience at the Sampler Symposium. My interest in samplers has been sparked by your own discussion around Bridget Powers. Really cool that you took her to share with others. Isn't it fascinating that she is alive for so many of us now, love that!
Thank you! I think Bridget is very pleased that so many people have learned about her and have seen her amazing work. ☺️❤️
Thank you for a wonderful video. What an amazing experience it must have been. How beautiful it was that Jean got to make an appearance. Have a wonderful few weeks of stitching and until next time…..Happy Stitching 🌸💞🌸
Thank you so much!
The communion of saintly stitchers who have come before us. It's a sacred space for sure! Thank you for sharing your experience. It's like I was there!
You are so welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it. It was a truly memorable experience.
@@ComfortStitchingJackie Jackie, can anyone go to the symposium?
@@darbylogan8730Essentially, yes. The Symposium takes place every January and they open up registration for it a couple of moths before through an email registration. It fills very, very quickly, though. I’d recommend getting on The Attic’s mailing list so you get notified of their events.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us in attending the Sampler Symposium at the Attic...such a touching and memorable time! Love your Bridget Powers finish...it's absolutely beautiful. I've learned so much in watching your videos and look forward to each one. I enjoy seeing Archie as well, what a character :)
Thank you so much! Yes, Archie is indeed a character. 🤭❤️
Thank you so much for such a thorough and all encompassing trip to Sampler Symposium for us. You have a wonderful way with words and thoughts. You are a true gem! This episode is one I will come back to again.
☺️ You are so welcome! Thank you!
Bridget Power will definitely be in my stitching future. Thank you for sharing.
She’s a beauty! ❤️
Great video review of SamplerSymposium. Love your choice of color. Barefoot Needleart in Myrtle Beach has some wonderful linen colors. I think you need to take your Quaker to the bar and match your whiskey to your floss .Lol. Love your strawberries.
🥃 Cheers! 🤭☺️
You never disappoint. Love your flosstube ❤
Thank you so much!
Oh sigh!! That Jeannette Douglas kit is spectacular!! I hope she releases it some day. I love love all her beautiful patterns with specialty stitches! I’m current working on her Sewing Box sampler.
Jeanette was a hoot! She has a great sense of humor and is a font of knowledge!
I absolutely enjoyed this Flosstube as there was so much I didn’t take in and you going over the presentations was so helpful. Like you said the feeling in the room was exciting, overwhelming, loving, informational, and so on. I was stitching along and listening then you said my and Liane’s names, all stitching stops, I couldn’t believe it. It was a joy to see your Brigette as it really is special and being able to talk to you for a time was great. I also have so many things I want to stitch this year. Thank you for your videos, love them.
Thank you so much, Beverly! I’m so glad I got to meet you and Liane. I really enjoyed chatting with you. Hopefully our paths will cross again. ❤️
@ I hope so as well
Thank you Jackie for a wonderful floss tube today. I am so happy you all had a wonderful time and I would so love to go one day. I think I could spend a whole week just at The Attic .Although fairly new to cross stitch I am totally loving this rabbit hole, although I fear my stitching may be doomed as although working on my Blessings Sampler I am never going to get it finished by the end of January!! unless of course I dare pull a sickie from work and shut my self away with floss tube and coffee!!.... now there is a wonderful thought! Happy stitching and I really look forward to your next floss tube xxx
Thank so much for watching and taking the Symposium journey with me. Happy Stitching and many Blessings for your 2025 stitching year. ☺️
Hi Jackie my first time watching you. What a kind, sweet, thoughtful person you are! I enjoyed you a lot and also your stitching too! Thank you for sharing with us, everything is beautiful. Congratulations on your finished masterpiece. Just gorgeous. Well until the next time take care. 😘
You are so welcome! Thanks for your kind words!
Fabulous symposium coverage and film show at the end! Thank you Jackie :)
Thank you, Sian! It was wonderful to meet you and share such a memorable weekend. ❤️
Your telling of your visit to the Sampler Symposium made me feel as if I were there with you! Thank you for taking me there!
You are so welcome!
Hello Jackie, another great video visit with you. I'm so impressed by you. I normally listen to your FlossTube while working because your voice is so soothing to listen to and enjoyable. I then I watch your videos while I'm stitching to make sure i didn't miss anything. Thank you for your insights and for bringing us along on your journey.
You are so welcome! Thank you!! 🩷
Another wonderful time together. A trip to The Attic feels like a trip to the Holy Land. Thank you for sharing so much beautiful color, learning and wisdom.
You are so welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🩷
Thank you for another fabulous floss tube! I felt like I was your table mate again, this time at SS'25. Especially thank you for sharing your photos with Jean!!
You are so welcome, Carrie! I’m glad we got to connect again no matter how briefly. I’m excited to see where your new venture takes you! 🧵 🪡
Hi Jackie. Loved your "Light" finish..I am presently stitching "Dreaming Girl" by Barbara Ana as my 80th Birthday start and allowing myself 80 days to complete. I know it won't take that long but I am enjoying every stitch. I love all of your beautiful projects. And I love your soothing voice and your meditation moments. "Comfort Stitching" suits you perfectly.❤😊
Thank you so much and Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎈🎂
Great to see you this evening Jackie. We've just come out of a 42+ power cut thanks to Storm Eowyn so it was a real treat to watch you. Loved your recall of Sampler Symposium. It looked like an amazing weekend. I recognised a few familiar faces from Flosstube. So glad you got to show Bridget to Jean, a very special moment. We celebrate her namesakes feast day here next weekend. There are a number of events happening in her honour, so I'll be thinking of your Bridget.
Take care, best wishes from 🇮🇪
Thank you Jackie for sharing so much. Your words, experience and intuitive insights, plus of course your stitching, are really inspiring and appreciated by me and many others from down under. Go well, both you and Archie ♥️💙
You are so welcome! Thank you! 🩷🩷🩷
It was so kind of you to share your Attic and Sampler Symposium experience with us. ❤
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this I thoroughly enjoyed it. Here in NZ we do not have such Symposium's, so it is great to see the lovely stitching and gather. We do have the NZ Sampler Weekend in Taupo ever two years and I do really enjoy that, nowhere to the scale of this though.
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it! Thank you!
So glad you had a wonderful time. It's always good to learn more and do what we love. Hugs to you and Archie ❤
Thanks so much!
What a beautiful intuitive awareness of how many people contributed to help make each person as a needle worker at the Symposium. Your sensitivity is inspiring. Each of us are connected to all the needleworkers who have come before us. Much to ponder and be thankful. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thank you so much! 🩷
Thank you for another great flosstube!!!! The Symposium was just so amazing!! It was so great meeting you and Anna!! You are just so lovely in person as you are in your videos!! Bev and I hearing our names is something we will never forget!!! Thank you❤
You are so welcome, Liane! I enjoyed meeting both you and Beverly! 🩷
Hi Jackie, enjoy your flosstube, you connect with the camera so we'll. Love your project.❤
Thank you!
I almost cried when you talked about the people who have taught you and who’s project you are working on , I was blessed to see what you were seeing that was beautiful , my grandma inspired me to crochet would look at black and white small picture in the press { newspaper} and make that pattern to think she is with me when I work on a pattern , I just love that thought makes me want to cry too thank you, beautiful thoughts
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Lovely video, made even more poignant now with the loss of Jean Lea. Thank you for sharing your experience. ❤
Thank you. 🙏🏻 ❤️
Jackie...thank you for sharing your memories of the Attic...your pictures at the end showed everyone with joyous smiles...best wishes ❤
You are so welcome! There were so many joyous smiles that I think everyone’s cheeks probably hurt by the end of the symposium! 😉☺️
I’m also in MO!! Just outside Ft. Leonard Wood!!
So glad you had a Great time at the Symposium Jackie, I certainly would be overwhelmed and excited being amongst so many stitchers and to sit and listen to the talks would have been wonderful. I’ve been drawn to Quaker designs lately, I joined the Fox & Rabbit mystery monthly Sal 2025 to get me into that way of design, I’m looking forward to seeing how that turns out. Loved seeing all your goodies and haul ( never apologise) Thanks for sharing the lovely slideshow of the weekend love seeing other flosstubers as well. ❤ ps: the dinkydi thread called Cobar is named after a country town in New South Wales here in Australia 🇦🇺 Maree
Thank you! I’m really enjoying the Quaker sampler and thanks for sharing about Cobar. The silk floss is a really lovely color.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I feel like I was there with your stories I’m glad you had a great time.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
What a wonderful opportunity to go . Thank you so much for sharing I am so grateful. I thought you were very restrained in your purchases I wanted to buy the store LOL. How wonderful that Jean could see your beautiful Bridget Power 1840 I am sure that would have given her a boost and made her very happy. ❤
It was a truly memorable event. Thank you for watching!
Your insights are appreciated. I am a self taught stitcher. I think there are more self taught stitchers then people think. I do believe children in grammer school should be exposed to all fiber arts: cross stitch, quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, etc. Children need a creative outlet. 🦋
Thank you! I totally agree with you. I know I’m lucky that I grew up at a time when sewing and other needlework was way more common and that I had my Mom and Grandma to teach me. 🧵 🪡💙
A beautiful video. The photographs at the end were lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks!
I was honored to meet you at Symposium, Jackie! Wish we had more time to chat. Hi Archie!!
Me too, you, Karen! I hope our paths cross again soon! ❤️
Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience at the Attic with us! I love the counting pins you made for your friends - you are very talented. It sounds like 2025 will be a great year for you. Best wishes xx
You are so welcome! Thank you!
Great video! I believe you captured the essence of Sampler Symposium as well as words could do. Your stitching is beautiful!❤
Oh, thank you! ❤️
Double thumbs up ,very eloquent the way you explained the symposium many thank yous fur your great videos
You are very welcome! Thank you!
Thank you for once again for such an amazing video I felt I had been on a journey with you. So happy Jean got to see your Bridget and was able to share that experience with you. It was so wonderful to look at all those women and see how the love of sharing the knowledge and skills of Needlework can bring so many Souls together. Can't wait to follow you on your 2025 journey you always make my morning when I watch your video.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
It was wonderful to hear about your special weekend Jackie. I’m so glad it filled your heart. Love your finish of Light! I really hope we get to meet in October.
Thank you so much, Sarah! It was an amazing experience that I’ll not forget. And made even more special now. ❤️ I’m pretty certain we will meet in October! Either in London or in Ireland. ☺️
Thank you for this fabulous video! What an amazing experience! 🪡♥️🪡
It definitely was an amazing experience. One I’ll never forget!
It was lovely meeting you at Sampler Symposium, although so briefly. Thank you for sharing all your lovely stitching.
Thank you so much!
This was fun. I also listen to the Periwinkle stitcher. Thank you for explaining The Attic and the retreat. I have been to Wichita twice from the UK. Wish I had known about Red Barn.😊
Thank you so much!
I really enjoy doing Quaker samplers and have gravitated to them more and more as I have developed a retinal problem that can really cause havoc with my stitching. It helps not having to deal with numerous color changes and a lot of symmetry seems to be easier to follow. An added bonus for me has been in the past month while doing some geneology research up popped 4th great grandparents who were Quakers immigrating from Great Britain.
As a stitcher, vision issues would be so challenging, I’m glad you have found something that still feels comfortable for you to do. How cool that you have a Quaker connection!