OMG! I'm blown away by your designer showcase!!!! Just beautiful. I just LOVE Laura's Duet sampler!!!!! Red is my favorite color, but I can imagine it in a beautiful blue!!!! You both hre the BEST BFF's ever!!!!! Laura, I almost died laughing when you pulled out the yard of fabric with you tiny start.
Thank you G!!!!!!! and thank you again for the amazing birthday presents!!!!! Love everything! Love you for your kindness, generosity and great wit! and mad curling skillz!!!!
Laura Duet 1962 - LOVE LOVE LOVE! Karen of Fox & Rabbit is AMAZING! HATS needs to slow her roll.... I cannot keep up with all of her AMAZING releases. I want to stitch Mary Snow and Rose and giant pear. You all are giving me an H&H today. Happy Birthday again Laura and happy early Birthday Brenda - and most of all - Happy birthday Month to both of you. Celebrate all month long.
Ladies Ladies Ladies🤦🏼♀️ I think I could probably count on one hand how many times I have NOT made a purchase after watching an episode. You two are diabolical 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi gals. Love all your stitching and goodies! Love your attitudes toward stitching and life too. So glad you doing better Brenda - Praise God. Thanks for all you do!
Wow! Never have I ever seen so many beautiful charts and stash! Happy Birthday Brenda! I’m amazed each time I watch at all of the beautiful samplers on your walls, and at the number of more you want to stitch! Where on Earth will they go?
Thank you so much for staring Hands across the Seanad enabling me to stitch my first sampler. Lots of terrific starts among them all, keep stitching ladies. Happy birthday to you both. Love and blessings xx
Started my Jane Bannister as I was watching you two this afternoon. Now have twenty more “must buy” HATS on my list. Honestly, you’d think being surrounded by stitching patterns and threads every day would get me about as inspired as I can be (it does), but somehow watching you two just always ramps that up another notch! - Sheri
Buy all the HATS?! You're killing me, Smalls. I just ordered Ann Roberts. It's stunning. Brenda your birthday is the same day as Josh's, so I'll remember to send a special thought your way on Sunday. Thanks for sharing all your treasures, ladies!
Happy Birthday to Josh!!!!! We will be sending all kinds of love his way!!!!!! I need to start Ann Roberts. I have about 25 samplers that I am about to start!
You guys are DA BOMB!! Not only do I love to watch your FTs, but whenever you mention my bags or cards, I get a flurry of activity at my Etsy shop and more sales!!! You are the Royal Enablers!! But I really do appreciate you ladies and wanted to thank you again for jump-starting my shop! Bless you both! Great video today! Happy Belated Birthday to Laura! And Happy Future Birthday to Brenda! Laura, what a wonderful gift of that personal chart!! 💖
OK! Let’s start out with the fact that everybody needs a Brenda/Laura stitching friend!! Your friendship is a gift! Love the designer spotlight! I started Jane Hopkins on Christmas Day in DMC and I am loving it! Of course, after today’s episode I see more HATS in my future😂
I am now even more HATS crazy after yesterday!!!!!! Can't wait to get home from work and see what else I can start. I need to make a special basket of HATS starts!!!
Hi birthday girls! So great to see you again. Yall both look wonderful. Laura, how special is the chart that Brenda had Karen to do for you! That Brenda is the best of friends. I think that should be your first start. I enjoyed your video-so many laughs and beautiful charts to see! Wow! Brenda, have a super birthday this upcoming weekend. I know Laura enjoyed hers. Love you girls! Pam Miller
I'm a January baby, too (1/14/??). My LNS offers a discount on a full project plus was given a gift certificate (where I spent way more) plus gift certificates to 123Stitch (where I spent waaaay more) so I feel I did my part to keep the cross-stitch economy moving along! Thanks for all the HATS enabling!
Ladies JOB WELL DONE AGAIN!!! The sampler made one of a kind for Laura makes STITCHING what it is all about!! I will have to just CONGRATULATE YOU MS. DUET!! ,What a BEAUTIFUL stitchy life you both live...wish mine was as exciting!! Do you know you have over 19,000 views on this episode!!! HAPPY STITCHING TODAY AND EVERYDAY IN 2022!!
I needed a cold shower after this episode! I would love to stitch the Laura Duet circa 1962 sampler. It is so beautiful. I always counted your early designer parade episodes among my favorites.
The BEST Sunday afternoons are Brenda and Laura afternoons!!! Happy birthday to both of you! I love seeing your HATS charts! I love so many of those!!! My wish list is growing!!!
Wow! That was some treat seeing all those HATS patterns!! They are all so beautiful! I hope you get to stitch them all one day! I have yet to add any to my stash, so I will try to do so in January (and somewhere a cuckoo sounds off) 😆 Happy Birthday Brenda!
Happy Birthday Brenda! Ubba Dubba but you are both going to be busy. It would be so nice to have a stitching buddy to share the joy and excitement of projects with.
No way next Sunday is your birthday Brenda, it is also my husband's bday. Have a great day. Love all that you show I have most as wips Sophia Dogget was a must stitch as is Mary Snow, which is my cousins name. Laura love your customized sampler have a blast stitching it
Thanks for showing your beautiful wips and your stach. Love all that you showed. Would love to have and stitch all of them. Love watching your video's they are never to long. You both make me laugh.
You ladies sure are bad for the pocketbook! Just ordered my first HATS...Mary Snow...doubt I will get around to stitching her this year since I already have my long list of charts I already have kitted to start this year. It is so hard to decide what to stitch first...I get something kitted up, and then I change my mind! Work sure gets in the way of our stitching time. I turned 65 last year...so in Oct. I semi-retired so I hope to get a few extra hours of stitching in this year. Happy Early Birthday Brenda!
That Laura Duet sampler abides by ALL the rules and laws of cross stitch and it is gorgeous and perfection!! You two wonderful ladies always brighten my day. ❤️❤️🥰🥰🪡🪡🪡. Have a wonderful Birthday Brenda 🎂🎉❤️
Wishing you a happy birthday Brenda!! Laura, your personal chart from Karen is to die for - I was drooling!! Enjoy. Brenda’s strawberry gift from Laura made me tear up, even though my mom of 95 is still living; such gorgeous gifts. I was just thinking before the video how much I loved your old format with the special sections, so I was thrilled when you said you were going to showcase the HATS charts and projects. I just love it when the two of you do the special sections, so fun. Enjoy all your projects, and happy stitching to you both.
Ooh boy that was fun! I don’t have any HATS charts (yet) but I hope to change that very soon - thanks for the enabling! Laura - you need to stock up on ALL the DMC! I got “lucky” a few years ago when a local craft store was going out of business and all their DMC was 10 cents a skein! The hubs authorized a purchase of every single color!!! When I got back into cross stitch two years ago I only needed to stock up on the newer colors. So now I’m a bit OCD, but I have all the colors listed in a spreadsheet and I note which I’ve pulled for a project- then I know right where to go if I need that color for a different project (and I put them back with the original project when I’m done). It might seem like a lot of work, but pulling colors for a new project is my very favorite thing to do! If I’m getting low on a color, I make a note in my phone and next time I’m at Hobby Lobby or Joann’s I restock. Have a wonderful couple of weeks!
Hi ladies 🙂 Happy Birthday Brenda for the weekend 🎉🎉🎉 OMG what a wonderful video loved seeing all HATS charts and like you Brenda just could not resist Sophia Doggett 1804 as soon as I saw it on Nicolas floss tube I had to have her 🤗 also had to have Ruth Gibb , Wow ladies what a video even I'm tuckered out just watching all those chart perades between you both 🤣 it made me smile 😁 xxx looking forward to seeing what you decided to stitch till the next Video !!! Happy stitching ladies and keep safe and healthy 💛💛
Wow!! So many beautiful things!!! So much stitching to do and so little time🤣🤣🥺as always just adore you two! Happy Birthday Laura and to you on your upcoming birthday Brenda🎊🎉🎊🎉
First of all you two are my all time favorite. I just love both of you. Now Brenda how wonderful for you to be able to give Laura the special sampler that Karen had made brought tears to my eyes. The Laura Duet Chart is beautiful and I hope Karen sells it if only for a day because I would love to stitch it. Happy Birthday Laura. Next holy cow on Hands Across the Sea Samplers ladies. I love them all and I need to go shopping and spend lots of money. My husband will not be happy but what the hell I will be. I glad you did a designer parade, I have missed that. I loved, loved, loved this video. It was so much fun. And Brenda early Happy Birthday!
Thanks Deb!!!! and did you see??? Karen from Fox and Rabbit put the sampler up for free with a donation to charity!!! Go to their website if you have not already. Glad you are going to get some HATS!!!!
In the 1960's I bought a beaded strawberry coin purse that looks exactly like the one you showed today. It was new at the time. I used it as a coin purse in my evening bag. I was taught to carry a dime for a phone call, a tissue and a lipstick in a small evening purse when I went to dances or parties.
WOW, I was a little sweaty after that impressive video!!! Brenda what an amazing gift you gave Laura, her own personal Sampler and Laura loved the gifts you gave to Brenda, you two are just awesome!!!! Happy Birthday Brenda, wishing you a boat full of happiness and lots of stitching. 🎁🎂🎉💕 Hugs to you both, Lynn
First, let me say that when I heard Laura say it was going to be a long video I said out loud, to no one in particular except my stitching, yay! That Laura duet sampler is all kinds of fabulous. I immediately stopped the video and sent a message to Fox and rabbit asking for them to please release it to the public. If that’s OK with Laura, of course. The hand and lock box from Hobby House, oh my gosh! Love it so much! I also love my stitch tray from not forgotten farms. I think you guys will love them too! Stitch on!
Fantastic sampler for Laura.... Beautiful stitchy goodies from Brenda... Wowwww I think you both have bought nearly everyone o Nicola's pattern ladies .... I had a finish yesterday... My first one in Book of days.. Jane Marshall 1837... Stitched oan coffee /tea dyed 28 count Laguna I dyed it meself.... I am stitching oan Pride and Prejudice by Kristen Ashley... Saphire Mountain Crafts. while visiting today.... you are suppossed to listen to the book while you stitch... I have tried many times I just can't stitch and listen to a book... I like a book in my hand when reading... Hubby has bought from a few shops today. trying to get the floss for some Samplers.... My birthday is this month too... Happy Birthday Brenda.. Happy stitching... xx
Such a fabulous flosstube. Thank you for showing all of the HATS - lots on my list now. Happy Birthday to both of you January babies.. I have one of my own - my son on the 29th
Fabulous video as always ladies!! Happy birthday month to both of you wonderful people. Thank you for continuing to inspire and enable us! I have to rewatch with a note pad at the ready... so much beauty. I'm so glad you spotlighted HATS... I'm working on a few at the moment and now have more on list :) Happy stitching to you!
As always I loved my time stitching with your floss tube. Seeing Nicola and HATS designs are what lured me into samplers. Samplers helped me find you two beautiful ladies. We are off to a great year! Happy Birthday month to both of you
Hello this is Mary Ann from South Jersey I enjoy your video so much happy birthday ladies it's a good year 2022 January 9th we can never have enough cross stitch or enough fabric to do quilting
Fantastic video. I loved seeing EVERYTHING! That custom Sampler for Laura is awesome. Laura, I hope you had a fantastic birthday, loved the video. Happy Birthday Brenda! Marilyn
Happy Birthday to both of you!! What an amazing friendship you have and for Brenda to order a sampler designed for Laura is really something special!! I really love the Mother's strawberry gift as well!!
Just wanted you to know……before Christmas I received my first total framing order. Well….it took forever! But…..it was well worth the wait. They made my stitching look so good that at first I thought it wasn’t mine. Have already sent them more cross stitch to frame. They told me it might be awhile as they are backed up. Told them it is definitely worth the wait. Thanks for recommending them. They just love you two at Total Framing!
Total Framing is THE BEST! I need to get some stuff out to them this week. I (Laura) have had stuff to send to them for 2 years and I have not done it. I am weirdo. So happy that you had a good experience Kim!!!!!!
Happy birthday Brenda. Loved your new organizer pouch in the teal color. Fancy. I have 2 HATS charts Mary Carter and Sarah Brazier. Love them both. Laura happy birthday to you as well.
Such a dynamic duo! I think you both must live a few lifetimes to complete all of those gorgeous charts. Brenda, you are such a thoughtful friend to Laura to arrange with that designer that lovely personal chart. What a dear friend! XOXO
Laura, because of your love of Baby Yoda, we started watching the Mandalorien and are really enjoying it. How do they make that little critter so cute!! Even my husband thinks he is adorable.
I loved seeing all of your HATS charts! I recently started my very first one "When Thou Art Rich". Thank you very much for taking the time to share with us. :) Happy birthday Brenda and happy belated birthday Laura! :)
What a fun video gals! It’s cool that you both celebrate January birthdays! Happy early birthday Brenda! Laura, the chart Karen made for you is incredible. I doubt she would sell it to anyone. I wonder if she would for someone that just turned 60 in December, that also happens to have Dutch heritage?! Hmm 🤔 Your designer series of HATS samplers was great. I have a lot of them, and I’ve stitched a lot of them. I don’t have your curated collection of charts though. I kind of ran out of money. But when one really speaks to me, well…ka-ching!
Happy birthday to you both. I am working on My Dear Hearts by Blackbird Designs for both your birthdays because you are such dear hearts to one another and also to so many of us. I love the Lucy Owen finish. Just gorgeous. And I would stitch the Laura Duet chart. I hope it will be released to everyone. Happy new year.
Happy Birthday Brenda Love all of your WIPS - they are just beautifiul. Both of you are making great progress on them. I am going to be buying some Hand Across The Sea Patterns. I love them and they are so pretty. Stay Warm - Do lots of Stitching Take Care & Happy Stitching ❤️🤗🙏🧵🪡
Wow,wow,wowzers! HATS GALORE! Love them all. Happy late Birthday to both of you. I am actually planning my first HATS Sampler for my bday start next month. 'Where Blossoms Grow'
Another great video. Happy birthday and Happy New Year to both of you January ladies. Enjoyed seeing your haul and beautiful projects. Happy stitching🪡
Always fun to watch you two. Your special gifts to each other are so touching! So enjoy seeing what you are working on and your haul. (Makes me feel good to see others spending too) Love all your starts and especially loved the Designer Showcase. I have Maria Vincenza Laricchia 1837 and Mary Snow ordered from my LNS. So, I am compliant!!!! LOL Thank you so much for taking time to do these floss tubes, I can't tell you how much I look forward to seeing them. I don't usually comment, because I watch it on my tv but just wanted to help you get this mission going!!! It is so hard to choose what lovely to work on, almost overwhelming at times. I am in the Esther Blackwood SAL and have a small start on her. Almost half done with Ann Morison. I finished Only One Rose for my hubby for our 31st anniversary last year too. I have been so lucky to have met both of you twice and hope our paths cross again. Going to a small get together with about 20 other gals next week. We are going to a B&B and just stitching our hearts out for a few days. Always so much fun to share our love of needlework. You are both looking so good. Hugs.
Thanks Judy!!! Love hearing what you are stitching. I am so glad we met too!!! You are a gem!!!! I hope you had a great stitching retreat with your buddies!!
Love y’all’s floss tube. I always look forward to see what y’all are doing. I’m stitching on Ruth Gibb while watching. It is my first Hands Across the Sea Sampler pattern and I LOVE IT!!! ♥️♥️
What a beautiful sampler for Laura! It’s amazing. Oh and your HATS parade was awesome. You will love Elizabeth Atkinson and Sarah Spencer and Alice and oh so many great charts. I finally found my stitching mojo again, stitching the MFE SAL 2022, just my speed right now. Got my thread from Evertote for Elizabeth Eyles, just having a hard time with a choice for linen. Going to either start Rosa or the Pear for my birthday this Wednesday. My husband gets to ring the bell Thursday but then he is having a major surgery in February but we are thankful we have good doctors who help us navigate through all this. Hope you are both doing well!
Happy Birthday Brenda and Laura. Have Mary Clayton all set to start. I think I will get Martha Pudsey to fulfill my January marching orders from Brenda and Laura!!! Thank you gals. Your HATS parade was so fun and inspiring.
OMG! I'm blown away by your designer showcase!!!! Just beautiful. I just LOVE Laura's Duet sampler!!!!! Red is my favorite color, but I can imagine it in a beautiful blue!!!! You both hre the BEST BFF's ever!!!!! Laura, I almost died laughing when you pulled out the yard of fabric with you tiny start.
Oh Brenda, getting Karen to customize a sampler for Laura is the ULTIMATE!!! You are the greatest friend!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Those two really surprised me!!!! It was so wonderful!!! Both of them are great friends for sure!
As always ladies, your enthusiasm and exuberance (which was cranked up to eleven this week!!!! ) has been a restorative tonic. 😘🤗❤️😘🤗❤️
Thank you G!!!!!!! and thank you again for the amazing birthday presents!!!!! Love everything! Love you for your kindness, generosity and great wit! and mad curling skillz!!!!
Yay! Start them both, Brenda! Jane Hopkins is probably the most fun stitch I've ever done. The colors are just gorgeous and happy!
Laura Duet 1962 - LOVE LOVE LOVE! Karen of Fox & Rabbit is AMAZING! HATS needs to slow her roll.... I cannot keep up with all of her AMAZING releases. I want to stitch Mary Snow and Rose and giant pear. You all are giving me an H&H today. Happy Birthday again Laura and happy early Birthday Brenda - and most of all - Happy birthday Month to both of you. Celebrate all month long.
Ladies Ladies Ladies🤦🏼♀️ I think I could probably count on one hand how many times I have NOT made a purchase after watching an episode. You two are diabolical 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi gals. Love all your stitching and goodies! Love your attitudes toward stitching and life too. So glad you doing better Brenda - Praise God. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you so much Deborah!
Wow! Never have I ever seen so many beautiful charts and stash! Happy Birthday Brenda! I’m amazed each time I watch at all of the beautiful samplers on your walls, and at the number of more you want to stitch! Where on Earth will they go?
Who knows Carol! Who knows! We just feel compelled to keep stitching them! We might have to move into a big warehouse!!!
Wow, all the birthdays in January! My birthday is the day after yours, Brenda. So Happy Birthday to all of us 💕
Love, love, love this video! Thanks for sharing your wonderful collections of Hands Across the Sea charts!
Laura, what a treasure your birthday sampler is. You MUST start and finish it so we can see the beauty of it! Happy birthday belated!
Thank you Sue!!!! I will try!
Thank you so much for staring Hands across the Seanad enabling me to stitch my first sampler. Lots of terrific starts among them all, keep stitching ladies. Happy birthday to you both. Love and blessings xx
Your first sampler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so exciting!!!!!!!! I bet you will be hooked! Thank you Julie!
Started my Jane Bannister as I was watching you two this afternoon. Now have twenty more “must buy” HATS on my list. Honestly, you’d think being surrounded by stitching patterns and threads every day would get me about as inspired as I can be (it does), but somehow watching you two just always ramps that up another notch! - Sheri
Buy all the HATS?! You're killing me, Smalls. I just ordered Ann Roberts. It's stunning. Brenda your birthday is the same day as Josh's, so I'll remember to send a special thought your way on Sunday. Thanks for sharing all your treasures, ladies!
Happy Birthday to Josh!!!!! We will be sending all kinds of love his way!!!!!! I need to start Ann Roberts. I have about 25 samplers that I am about to start!
That knitted Yoda is priceless! I saw snack bag holders with Yoda on them when I was at Walmart!
Oh, I actually teared up a little at the sight of Laura's custom sampler! What a special treasure for a lovely lady!
Happy birthday to you both! ❤
Thank you so much!!!!
You guys are DA BOMB!! Not only do I love to watch your FTs, but whenever you mention my bags or cards, I get a flurry of activity at my Etsy shop and more sales!!! You are the Royal Enablers!! But I really do appreciate you ladies and wanted to thank you again for jump-starting my shop! Bless you both! Great video today! Happy Belated Birthday to Laura! And Happy Future Birthday to Brenda! Laura, what a wonderful gift of that personal chart!! 💖
That custom sampler from Karen is the BEST! Loved all the Hands Across the Sea charts. They are my favorite.
OK! Let’s start out with the fact that everybody needs a Brenda/Laura stitching friend!! Your friendship is a gift!
Love the designer spotlight! I started Jane Hopkins on Christmas Day in DMC and I am loving it! Of course, after today’s episode I see more HATS in my future😂
I am now even more HATS crazy after yesterday!!!!!! Can't wait to get home from work and see what else I can start. I need to make a special basket of HATS starts!!!
Such a fun episode! Loved when Laura started listing every Fox and Rabbit fabric name! 😂 Happy Birthday Brenda! 🎂🥳
Thank you Shelly!!!!!!!!
Once again so very happy to see you both! Happy Birthday Brenda. Thanks for the permission to buy more!!!!!
Hi birthday girls! So great to see you again. Yall both look wonderful. Laura, how special is the chart that Brenda had Karen to do for you! That Brenda is the best of friends. I think that should be your first start. I enjoyed your video-so many laughs and beautiful charts to see! Wow! Brenda, have a super birthday this upcoming weekend. I know Laura enjoyed hers. Love you girls! Pam Miller
Thank you so so much Pam!!!!!! We are sending you a big hug!
I'm a January baby, too (1/14/??). My LNS offers a discount on a full project plus was given a gift certificate (where I spent way more) plus gift certificates to 123Stitch (where I spent waaaay more) so I feel I did my part to keep the cross-stitch economy moving along! Thanks for all the HATS enabling!
Wow! What a wonderful gift from Karen! Blows me away.
Me too!!!!!!!!!! Amazing!
Ladies JOB WELL DONE AGAIN!!! The sampler made one of a kind for Laura makes STITCHING what it is all about!! I will have to just CONGRATULATE YOU MS. DUET!! ,What a BEAUTIFUL stitchy life you both live...wish mine was as exciting!! Do you know you have over 19,000 views on this episode!!! HAPPY STITCHING TODAY AND EVERYDAY IN 2022!!
Thank you two tons Karen!!!
I needed a cold shower after this episode! I would love to stitch the Laura Duet circa 1962 sampler. It is so beautiful. I always counted your early designer parade episodes among my favorites.
Thank you so so much!!!!!!!! We will have to do some more parades!!!!
I don’t comment often, but I wanted you to know I JUST LOVE designer showcase. I like seeing what all the designers have to offer Thank You !
Thank you so much Eva!!!
Quite impressive collections! Looks like the new motto is "Buy all the Hands Across the Sea!"
Thanks for sharing.
I think that is the new motto! Uh oh!!! Thanks Sally!
So glad to see you again. Laura's sampler is wonderful. It really needs to be available for everyone. I Love it.
Thanks Susan!!! and did you see???? Fox and Rabbit have the chart on their site!!!
Happy birthday Laura and now Brenda on the 16 th. The pattern for Laura is beautiful.
The BEST Sunday afternoons are Brenda and Laura afternoons!!! Happy birthday to both of you! I love seeing your HATS charts! I love so many of those!!! My wish list is growing!!!
Thank you Vicki!!!!!!!!!! I feel a bit HATS obsessed today after all of that!
I just got the Sampler download and made a donation to the RED CROSS. Thanks Laura, Brenda & Karen
Thank you for doing that Melissa!!!
Wow! That was some treat seeing all those HATS patterns!! They are all so beautiful! I hope you get to stitch them all one day! I have yet to add any to my stash, so I will try to do so in January (and somewhere a cuckoo sounds off) 😆 Happy Birthday Brenda!
Wow - that was magnificent!!! If only we could buy more time..........Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday Brenda! Ubba Dubba but you are both going to be busy. It would be so nice to have a stitching buddy to share the joy and excitement of projects with.
No way next Sunday is your birthday Brenda, it is also my husband's bday. Have a great day. Love all that you show I have most as wips Sophia Dogget was a must stitch as is Mary Snow, which is my cousins name. Laura love your customized sampler have a blast stitching it
Thanks for showing your beautiful wips and your stach. Love all that you showed. Would love to have and stitch all of them. Love watching your video's they are never to long. You both make me laugh.
One of my very favorite episodes. I already watched twice! Happy Birthday to both of you!
Thank you dear!
Great friendship, great projects, great enabling, great surprise! Happy birthday to you both!
Thank you so much!
I CANNOT thank you two enough for your flosstube and being you!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
oh wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for watching Theresa!!!!!! Hugs!!!
Just recently found your channel after getting the urge to get back into stitching after many years. You guys are a hoot together!
What a great designer showcase!! Happy birthdays and happy stitching ladies!! You guys have such wonderful plans!! I’m cheering you on! ❤️
You ladies sure are bad for the pocketbook! Just ordered my first HATS...Mary Snow...doubt I will get around to stitching her this year since I already have my long list of charts I already have kitted to start this year. It is so hard to decide what to stitch first...I get something kitted up, and then I change my mind! Work sure gets in the way of our stitching time. I turned 65 last year...so in Oct. I semi-retired so I hope to get a few extra hours of stitching in this year. Happy Early Birthday Brenda!
Happy Birthday 🎂🎁 Brenda! You two are amazing, your informative, knowledgeable, funny, and enabling😃 Thank you both for doing what you do !
Thank you so much Denise!
That Laura Duet sampler abides by ALL the rules and laws of cross stitch and it is gorgeous and perfection!! You two wonderful ladies always brighten my day. ❤️❤️🥰🥰🪡🪡🪡. Have a wonderful Birthday Brenda 🎂🎉❤️
Thank you so much Betsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wishing you a happy birthday Brenda!! Laura, your personal chart from Karen is to die for - I was drooling!! Enjoy. Brenda’s strawberry gift from Laura made me tear up, even though my mom of 95 is still living; such gorgeous gifts. I was just thinking before the video how much I loved your old format with the special sections, so I was thrilled when you said you were going to showcase the HATS charts and projects. I just love it when the two of you do the special sections, so fun. Enjoy all your projects, and happy stitching to you both.
Thanks Pam!!!!!!! Hugs to your Mom!!!!! We will try to think up more special sections for you!!!!
@@brendaandtheserialstarter2410 You are so sweet!! Thank you 😊
Ooh boy that was fun! I don’t have any HATS charts (yet) but I hope to change that very soon - thanks for the enabling! Laura - you need to stock up on ALL the DMC! I got “lucky” a few years ago when a local craft store was going out of business and all their DMC was 10 cents a skein! The hubs authorized a purchase of every single color!!! When I got back into cross stitch two years ago I only needed to stock up on the newer colors. So now I’m a bit OCD, but I have all the colors listed in a spreadsheet and I note which I’ve pulled for a project- then I know right where to go if I need that color for a different project (and I put them back with the original project when I’m done). It might seem like a lot of work, but pulling colors for a new project is my very favorite thing to do! If I’m getting low on a color, I make a note in my phone and next time I’m at Hobby Lobby or Joann’s I restock. Have a wonderful couple of weeks!
Hi ladies 🙂 Happy Birthday Brenda for the weekend 🎉🎉🎉 OMG what a wonderful video loved seeing all HATS charts and like you Brenda just could not resist Sophia Doggett 1804 as soon as I saw it on Nicolas floss tube I had to have her 🤗 also had to have Ruth Gibb , Wow ladies what a video even I'm tuckered out just watching all those chart perades between you both 🤣 it made me smile 😁 xxx looking forward to seeing what you decided to stitch till the next Video !!! Happy stitching ladies and keep safe and healthy 💛💛
Happy Birthday Brenda! Have a great time celebrating you❤️
Wow!! So many beautiful things!!! So much stitching to do and so little time🤣🤣🥺as always just adore you two! Happy Birthday Laura and to you on your upcoming birthday Brenda🎊🎉🎊🎉
Thank you so much Dee!
First of all you two are my all time favorite. I just love both of you. Now Brenda how wonderful for you to be able to give Laura the special sampler that Karen had made brought tears to my eyes. The Laura Duet Chart is beautiful and I hope Karen sells it if only for a day because I would love to stitch it. Happy Birthday Laura. Next holy cow on Hands Across the Sea Samplers ladies. I love them all and I need to go shopping and spend lots of money. My husband will not be happy but what the hell I will be. I glad you did a designer parade, I have missed that. I loved, loved, loved this video. It was so much fun. And Brenda early Happy Birthday!
Thanks Deb!!!! and did you see??? Karen from Fox and Rabbit put the sampler up for free with a donation to charity!!! Go to their website if you have not already. Glad you are going to get some HATS!!!!
@@brendaandtheserialstarter2410 I have it and I can't wait to start stitching it. Thank you Laura for allowing Karen to release it.
In the 1960's I bought a beaded strawberry coin purse that looks exactly like the one you showed today. It was new at the time. I used it as a coin purse in my evening bag. I was taught to carry a dime for a phone call, a tissue and a lipstick in a small evening purse when I went to dances or parties.
That is the best story Carolyn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those were the days!
Hope you enjoyed your birthday Laura and your wished a wonderful Birthday Brenda. Laura your custom sampler is stunning. Enjoyed the Hats parade.
Happy Birthday, Brenda! Laura, you need to start your birthday sampler. That is amazing. What a special gift! Love, you two!
Thank you Nancy!!!!! I will be starting it very soon!!!!!!!!
WOW, I was a little sweaty after that impressive video!!! Brenda what an amazing gift you gave Laura, her own personal Sampler and Laura loved the gifts you gave to Brenda, you two are
just awesome!!!! Happy Birthday Brenda, wishing you a boat full of happiness and lots of stitching. 🎁🎂🎉💕 Hugs to you both, Lynn
Thanks Lynn!!!!!! We hope to see you someday soon!!!!
I hope so too!! @@brendaandtheserialstarter2410
First, let me say that when I heard Laura say it was going to be a long video I said out loud, to no one in particular except my stitching, yay! That Laura duet sampler is all kinds of fabulous. I immediately stopped the video and sent a message to Fox and rabbit asking for them to please release it to the public. If that’s OK with Laura, of course. The hand and lock box from Hobby House, oh my gosh! Love it so much! I also love my stitch tray from not forgotten farms. I think you guys will love them too! Stitch on!
Fantastic sampler for Laura.... Beautiful stitchy goodies from Brenda... Wowwww I think you both have bought nearly everyone o Nicola's pattern ladies .... I had a finish yesterday... My first one in Book of days.. Jane Marshall 1837... Stitched oan coffee /tea dyed 28 count Laguna I dyed it meself.... I am stitching oan Pride and Prejudice by Kristen Ashley... Saphire Mountain Crafts. while visiting today.... you are suppossed to listen to the book while you stitch... I have tried many times I just can't stitch and listen to a book... I like a book in my hand when reading... Hubby has bought from a few shops today. trying to get the floss for some Samplers.... My birthday is this month too... Happy Birthday Brenda.. Happy stitching... xx
Such a fabulous flosstube. Thank you for showing all of the HATS - lots on my list now. Happy Birthday to both of you January babies.. I have one of my own - my son on the 29th
Thank you Robyn!!! and Happy Birthday to your son!
Fabulous video as always ladies!! Happy birthday month to both of you wonderful people. Thank you for continuing to inspire and enable us! I have to rewatch with a note pad at the ready... so much beauty. I'm so glad you spotlighted HATS... I'm working on a few at the moment and now have more on list :) Happy stitching to you!
As always I loved my time stitching with your floss tube. Seeing Nicola and HATS designs are what lured me into samplers. Samplers helped me find you two beautiful ladies. We are off to a great year! Happy Birthday month to both of you
Thank you Candy!!!!! So glad you found sampler stitching....to my mind..it is the most fun!
Wow,wow wow is that the best Laura. Your very own Sampler. Karen you are something else. I want to learn to do something like that. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello this is Mary Ann from South Jersey I enjoy your video so much happy birthday ladies it's a good year 2022 January 9th we can never have enough cross stitch or enough fabric to do quilting
Another educational and enabling flosstube...Thank you! Wishing you a happy and healthy 2022!
Thank you Marjorie! We wish you the same!!!!
Oh my goodness ladies!!!! I love it all and on a retirement budget! Love you two! I am a collector at heart too. Have a great week
Thank you Elaine!!!!
Beautiful stitching! You ladies are awesome!
Happy birthday Ladies xx so good to have you back, missed you both
Fantastic video.
I loved seeing EVERYTHING!
That custom Sampler for Laura is awesome.
Laura, I hope you had a fantastic birthday, loved the video.
Happy Birthday Brenda!
Marilyn
Thank you so much Marilyn!!!
i almost had an H and H after seeing all the stash you both have. So lucky and I want it all, too.
Happy Birthday to both of you!! What an amazing friendship you have and for Brenda to order a sampler designed for Laura is really something special!! I really love the Mother's strawberry gift as well!!
Thanks Teresa!!!! I think Karen of Fox and Rabbit came up with the idea and Brenda helped her with the family initials. Amazing gift!!!
Just wanted you to know……before Christmas I received my first total framing order. Well….it took forever! But…..it was well worth the wait. They made my stitching look so good that at first I thought it wasn’t mine. Have already sent them more cross stitch to frame. They told me it might be awhile as they are backed up. Told them it is definitely worth the wait. Thanks for recommending them. They just love you two at Total Framing!
Total Framing is THE BEST! I need to get some stuff out to them this week. I (Laura) have had stuff to send to them for 2 years and I have not done it. I am weirdo. So happy that you had a good experience Kim!!!!!!
Happy birthday Brenda. Loved your new organizer pouch in the teal color. Fancy. I have 2 HATS charts Mary Carter and Sarah Brazier. Love them both. Laura happy birthday to you as well.
Thank you Cheryl!!!!!
Such a dynamic duo! I think you both must live a few lifetimes to complete all of those gorgeous charts. Brenda, you are such a thoughtful friend to Laura to arrange with that designer that lovely personal chart. What a dear friend! XOXO
Happy Birthday Brenda!! Awesome sampler for Laura, what an honor! Love you guys so much! Happy stitching ladies!
What a show. Your collections are amazing. I love your showcase shows.
Thanks Debi!!!!
Happy Birthday Brenda. Stitch what you Love.🎂
Laura, because of your love of Baby Yoda, we started watching the Mandalorien and are really enjoying it. How do they make that little critter so cute!! Even my husband thinks he is adorable.
That makes me SO HAPPY Lois!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your friendship makes me :-). The love you have for each other is evident.
Happy Birthday Ladies!🎂🧁Thank you for your super fun video!! SO inspiring!
I am new to stitching. I love watching you two..such a hoot and beautiful stitching!!
Thanks Kim!!! Welcome to the fun world of stitching!!!
I loved seeing all of your HATS charts! I recently started my very first one "When Thou Art Rich". Thank you very much for taking the time to share with us. :) Happy birthday Brenda and happy belated birthday Laura! :)
Thank you! Glad you are stitching a HATS!
Happy Birthday Brenda, May your day be filled with fun and love.🎂🎉🧁🥳🎈🌸🌻🎂I love you January babies, I’m a January baby too🥳🥳🥳
Thank you Debbie!!! Happy Birthday to you too!
What a fun video gals! It’s cool that you both celebrate January birthdays! Happy early birthday Brenda! Laura, the chart Karen made for you is incredible. I doubt she would sell it to anyone. I wonder if she would for someone that just turned 60 in December, that also happens to have Dutch heritage?! Hmm 🤔
Your designer series of HATS samplers was great. I have a lot of them, and I’ve stitched a lot of them. I don’t have your curated collection of charts though. I kind of ran out of money. But when one really speaks to me, well…ka-ching!
Happy Birthday young ladies! Wow, HATS eye candy! Such goodness! So inspiring!
Thank you Mary!
Great video Brenda and Laura. Happy Birthday Brenda.
Great video! Lots of laughs. It’s so nice to see others with the same addiction! Happy birthday!
Thanks again!!
Thank you for a great video, my list has grown again. Laura thanks so much for sharing your chart, I am also Dutch and love it!
That is so great Pat!!!!!
Happy birthday to you both. I am working on My Dear Hearts by Blackbird Designs for both your birthdays because you are such dear hearts to one another and also to so many of us. I love the Lucy Owen finish. Just gorgeous. And I would stitch the Laura Duet chart. I hope it will be released to everyone. Happy new year.
Happy Birthday Brenda
Love all of your WIPS - they are just beautifiul. Both of you are making great progress on them.
I am going to be buying some Hand Across The Sea Patterns. I love them and they are so pretty.
Stay Warm - Do lots of Stitching
Take Care & Happy Stitching ❤️🤗🙏🧵🪡
Wow,wow,wowzers! HATS GALORE! Love them all. Happy late Birthday to both of you. I am actually planning my first HATS Sampler for my bday start next month. 'Where Blossoms Grow'
Another great video. Happy birthday and Happy New Year to both of you January ladies. Enjoyed seeing your haul and beautiful projects. Happy stitching🪡
So excited after watching you two ladies. I want to stitch all the things
Us too!!!
Such a fun episode, and Laura’s sampler is beyond words. My face hurts from smiling! Happy New Year and joyous birthdays to both of you!🥰
Thank you so so much!!!!!
Love your sweatshirt! My parents lived on Bainbridge Island and my brother-in-law worked at Bay Hay. Love that little shop!!
That is so cool Marci!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bay Hay is such a great place!!!
Happy birthday, ladies! God Bless you both. 🎂
Always fun to watch you two. Your special gifts to each other are so touching! So enjoy seeing what you are working on and your haul. (Makes me feel good to see others spending too) Love all your starts and especially loved the Designer Showcase. I have Maria Vincenza Laricchia 1837 and Mary Snow ordered from my LNS. So, I am compliant!!!! LOL Thank you so much for taking time to do these floss tubes, I can't tell you how much I look forward to seeing them. I don't usually comment, because I watch it on my tv but just wanted to help you get this mission going!!! It is so hard to choose what lovely to work on, almost overwhelming at times. I am in the Esther Blackwood SAL and have a small start on her. Almost half done with Ann Morison. I finished Only One Rose for my hubby for our 31st anniversary last year too. I have been so lucky to have met both of you twice and hope our paths cross again. Going to a small get together with about 20 other gals next week. We are going to a B&B and just stitching our hearts out for a few days. Always so much fun to share our love of needlework. You are both looking so good. Hugs.
Thanks Judy!!! Love hearing what you are stitching. I am so glad we met too!!! You are a gem!!!! I hope you had a great stitching retreat with your buddies!!
Love y’all’s floss tube. I always look forward to see what y’all are doing. I’m stitching on Ruth Gibb while watching. It is my first Hands Across the Sea Sampler pattern and I LOVE IT!!! ♥️♥️
Oh Ruth Gibb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We both want to stitch her too!!!!!!!! Yay!!!
Happy Birthday Brenda, hope your day is special. You two are a “hoot” to watch . Wish I had your stitching mojo
Thank you Lucinda!! We will send you some stitching mojo over the airwaves!!!
What a beautiful sampler for Laura! It’s amazing. Oh and your HATS parade was awesome. You will love Elizabeth Atkinson and Sarah Spencer and Alice and oh so many great charts. I finally found my stitching mojo again, stitching the MFE SAL 2022, just my speed right now. Got my thread from Evertote for Elizabeth Eyles, just having a hard time with a choice for linen. Going to either start Rosa or the Pear for my birthday this Wednesday. My husband gets to ring the bell Thursday but then he is having a major surgery in February but we are thankful we have good doctors who help us navigate through all this. Hope you are both doing well!
We both will be thinking of your husband and hope will be well. It sounds like you have many great projects in the works!! Hugs!!!
Happy Birthday Brenda and Laura. Have Mary Clayton all set to start. I think I will get Martha Pudsey to fulfill my January marching orders from Brenda and Laura!!! Thank you gals. Your HATS parade was so fun and inspiring.
It was sooooo much fun to watch and spend time with you both! Happy Birthday to you both!
Thank you Kari!!!