I absolutely LOVE the Samplers you choose to stitch! Every one is gorgeous!!! I also love that turkey pattern! He is beautiful!!! I love the colorful turkeys!!! That is definitely a Tom turkey!!!
I have not been watching much floss tube as of late, so I really enjoyed hearing the update on your kids. It sounds as if they are all doing well. Our traditions have changed so much over the years as our children have grown and now have children of their own. Things vary now from year to year but baking and decorating gingerbread cookies is something we still do with whoever can be here at the time. Turkey, Santa
Happy Thanksgiving! It is always such fun to see what you are working on, Celeste! Congratulations on video #60! I am so thankful for the joy and inspiration that you share. Thanks as always and happy stitching!
Congratulations on reaching your wonderful milestone of making sixty episodes, Celeste, and I have enjoyed each one immensely. Your stitching wips are looking so beautiful and your wool applique work is so pretty. I hope you have a warm and happy thanksgiving.
I love the heart applique quilt behind you it is great that you got to get some of your mom's things. We always wear our pajamas all day on 🎄 I just bought our turkey for Thursday. Congratulations on 60 episodes.
Thank you! I actually called my dog's name because I thought she was barking at the background, but it was your dog :) Thank you so much for sharing your journey in cross stitch!
Yay to 60.congratulations 🎉! Love the wool items especially snowman! Sweet❤ and again that raven quilt, wow!! Santa is adorable ❤ we go drive and see lights and have hot chocolate when we come back. This yr no chocolate for me any more. And we used to watch wonderful life but I fall asleep every time. Not sure what my kids do with theirs. Lol oh your son!
Great video! Love all your projects. I started 2023 with a goal to finish stitching my oldest WIPS. I really don’t have that many WIPS but I wanted to finish all of the ones started in 2021 and 2022. I got my plan from The Recovering Monogamous Stitcher. Every month she had a focus piece which was her oldest WIP. She stitched on it for 7 days. If she didn’t finish within that 7 days, it carried over to the next month. If she did finish it within the 7 days, she picked up her next oldest WIP. This is exactly what I have done and it has worked out great for me! I have finished 5 pieces this year - some of them were really big. I have now started on my last one from 2022. All my other WIPS were started this year and I will touch most of them within the month. I use a rotation of 4 days on a patriotic piece, 4 days on a sampler piece, and 4 days on a seasonal piece. I do WIPGO - 2 pieces each month at 3 days each. If there are any extra days in the month, I work on ‘“my choice” which could be one of my WIPS that is close to being finished OR a new start. I have started 22 pieces this year and have completed 15 of those. Currently, I have 8 WIPS and 3 of those will be finished the next time I pick them up. Hope this gives you some ideas about working your WIP number down. I will carry this process into 2024. Take care and happy stitching!
Hope you and your family had a very blessed Thanksgiving and enjoyed the time together. Thanks for sharing your talent and sweet personality for 60 videos!!! Love watching and have been enabled too many times to count.
Hiding a pickle (glass) in the tree. The one that finds it gets a little special gift. I think its a German tradition. Turkey, santa, sheep. Love them all. Your raven block is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed seeing your projects
Thank you for a lovely visit again today. You have so many great pieces, both finished and in progress. I really enjoy your choices. As a career quilting teacher, mostly in appliqué, (retired now) I have a couple of things to share with you. With your years of experience using a needle you will find that needle turn appliqué will not be difficult for you. Yes there is a learning curve, but it will not be difficult for you.😊 My chosen technique is backbasting preparation, then simple needle turn. About your new attraction to 19th century fabrics, it is a natural progression. As you become more proficient and confident in quilting you taste becomes more sophisticated and it will lead you to richer colors and fabric design. And lastly, I have been posting hexagon flowers daily on Instagram while working toward a large quilt goal. Today I posted number 69 of 100. I thread baste (the way you are doing it now). It is traditional and it will not leave a residue on your fabric/quilt. To assemble the blocks , I place them front-to-front and use a buttonhole stitch to join them. Whip stitches are slanted and will always be visible on the front.. buttonhole stitch straightens the stitch. Look for a video on UA-cam with key word of hexagon and buttonhole stitch. You will find it much easier and fast compared with what you have been using. Finally, I have just requested to be your friend on Instagram so you can see my hexagon project.😊
Hi Celeste Congratulations on your 60th FT,lovely stitching projects,love the cabinet from your parents home,I live in NZ and I recently visited an opportunity shop near me and found Two small plastic bags filled with wool fabric,pure wool,such an amazing find👏 have a good week Thankyou for sharing 🇳🇿❤️🪡
Don't worry about that oldest one. I have 3 from the early 80's😂😂😂they were for my toddlers. Those toddlers are 40's with teenagers of their own.maybe for my great grands🌻🎅🤣
Congratulations on your 60th episode! I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings! My Christmas tree will go up next week. Enjoy your holidays!
Congrats on 60! Love Santa and Sheep. Wanted you to know you were interrupted multiple times with ads. I don't think you can control that, but it was sooo many this video. A tradition we did was taking a picture of the five of us at the piano, starting when my littlest brother was a new baby. My older brother was 16. We continued until my mom passed away a few years ago - 57 years. We still laugh at the changing hair and styles. Happy Thanksgiving, we have so much to be thankful for.
Oh, my goodness, your applique and hexies are glorious! Sounds like you and I have only one problem....there's never enough time to do all the stitching we want to do! I'd be a real turkey if I said I didn't want to get more done. Santa will be here before we know it. I'm such a good little sheep, following into more and more stitching all the time. Um, Christmas traditions.....Until 2014 when his mom passed, we went to my hubby folks' on Christmas Eve and we got up as soon as we heard Santas sleigh bells (yes, really) to open gifts. Well, Santa kept coming earlier and earlier each year until, it was established that Santa would be there just past midnight Christmas morning. So for years we got up just past midnight and opened gifts! I treasure those memories.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! We have a flock of wild turkeys where we live. The turkeys have given us lots of grief because they peck at their own reflection on the shiny surface of our cars. They enjoy hanging around with our hens and occasionally I will have a turkey fly into my chicken coop. Loving all your sewing. I have never seen such tiny hexagons. I look forward to seeing your progress. Thank you, Holly
Always so nice to see your sweet face! I'm thankful for the turkey I'm going to enjoy with family next week. Growing up, we had Oyster Stew for Christmas Eve dinner that is basically warm milk with oysters floating around. Not my favorite meal of the year, but my dad was very traditional and it was what he had growing up 🤷🏻♀️Leaving cookies for Santa was a treasured memory. Happy Thanksgiving!
Congratulations on your 60th episode! I love them! A Christmas tradition that is by far my favorite is when my six grandkids and I get together and decorate gingerbread houses. The fun part is the cleanup. I get six dish cloths out, and my job is to keep them rinsed and tossed to one of the grandkids. Meanwhile, they are tossing the dirty ones to me to rinse out. Needless to say, it is hilarious with all the dish cloths flying through the air. The kids are so good. My kitchen is actually cleaner when they get done then when we started. Of course, their goal is to smack Granny with a dish cloth before she can catch it. Turkey, Santa Happy Thanksgiving!❤
Congratulations on 60 videos! I cannot believe how small those hexi's are! It all looks beautiful. When our kids were still at home we always started Christmas pig piled on our bed opening stockings. ( and waiting for the coffee to finish perking 😂 I would love to finish the Turkey for you, that is a pattern I have kept looking at myself.
This was an extra fun episode 😎 I love to work on the same kind of projects. You are one of the kindest, soft spoken creative people I enjoy watching and listening to. About 20 years ago, when we only had our 2 youngest boys still at home, we started going to Cracker Barrel on Christmas Eve. They close at 2pm, so it is basically lunchtime. The boys would sit by their big fireplace and play checkers after we ate. Then we would go finish up last minute shopping. They are all grown up now and live far away, so hubby and I still go and reminisce. 🥰 Turkey, Sheep
Hi Celeste I agree with you I thought the quilt show was really small I would love to stitch the turkey - it’s beautiful I try to add to my Santa and Snowman collection every year. Nothing really crazy for us Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family 🦃🍁
Congrats 🎉🎊 on your 60th episode. Thank you for sharing your talent with us it’s a blessing. Love everything you show and can’t wait for the wip parade. Have a wonderful evening and happy stitching 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Thank you for sharing all of your stitching projects ! I would love the sheep pattern. My husband growing up would have pickled herring as part of there tradition. I Did NOT carry that tradition in our family!!
Thanks for a nice video. Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t think I have an unusual Christmas tradition. We eat, exchange gifts, visit family-all pretty usual! I wish we had sheep to look after.
Hi Celeste! This was my first time watching your video! I enjoyed all the cross stitch and quilting projects you showed. I have a few wool appliqué patterns but I’ve never taken the leap to actually start any of them! Maybe soon. We don’t really have any crazy Christmas traditions, but we do go out on Christmas Eve and drive around looking at all the lights and decorations everyone has out. I love turkey at Thanksgiving and should eat it more often during the year!
I love all your stitching and also your craft area!! Turkey. Santa. Sheep One thing we always have to have for Christmas decor is a pair of bells which are small Dixie kitchen cups covered in aluminum foil and hung from a ribbon above the doorway. We did this when my kids were little no money for decor was short. They kids are grown now and still want the aluminum covered bells!
Congratulations on your 60th episode. Always enjoy them so much. I went down the rabbit home while watching and ordered the snowman wool kit and the hexi quilt kit after seeing yours. I am also doing the Blackbird Raven applique. I will have to do nothing but stitch this winter on cold days here in North Dakota. So far, no snow,what we had melted, so green grass looking at us now. I ❤️ my ❄️❄️❄️❄️. sheep, I was going to order the pattern and never did so, would ❤ it. 😊
Celeste, thank you for your video. I watched you as I am stitching Patchwork Pumpkin from Winds of Autumn by Blackbird Designs. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing some of the special items you inherited from your mom, I know you will treasure them. I also like seeing the other stitching you are doing. Turkey, Santa, Sheep. Wool appliqué is something I want to try. I don’t think we have any different type of traditions. I have had a Santa figurine collection that I display with the cross stitched stockings hung on the mantle. My kids are adults with children of their own now, but I still hang those stockings.
Congrats on 60 episodes! Your raven blocks are gorgeous. I have been gathering fabrics for it, too. At Christmas we make white cocoa, not crazy but we look forward ro it. Happy turkey day!
Hi Celeste! Your videos are very soothing to me and inspirational at the same time. About marking black wool, I often use Press and Seal kitchen wrap! Tear a piece and write whatever you want to embroider in lighter colored ink (use a Sharpie pen in light color). Pin or baste it where ever you want the words and embroider right through it. When done carefully tear away. Good luck!
Your 60th flosstube was packed with lovely projects. I haven't tried any wool applique - don't know if I want to introduce another craft and then find a storage place for it. I envy all the stitching you accomplish. Love your little wool snowman, but hope Santa appears before snow.
I got a lot from my Mom when she downsized. Glad I did. I have siblings who wish they had, because a lot of stuff was sold. It’s sad. I love those civil war fabrics! Your blackbird quilt looks so good so far. Hope you have a happy thanksgiving. I host as my house so Santa doesn’t arrive until the turkey is gone.
Your raven quilt is going to be so pretty. My mom used to come to Houston to the Quilt Festival and loved it! I would love to rescue your Turkey stitch. I also think the Santa chart is super cute! If we have any crazy Christmas traditions, I can’t think of them. 😊I did stitch the Mill Hill beaded pickle ornament and it hides in our tree.
Congratulations on making your 60th episode. I found your channel about a year ago and have enjoyed following along on your projects. Your work is beautiful. I would love to work on the turkey as I have a flock of wild turkeys that roam through my yard now and then. Always wanted to have a few sheep, as I am a knitter also and love wool applique, but I'll just have to be content with stitching them for now. Thank you for sharing all of your projects with us. Happy Thanksgiving!
Love all your projects, especially the Star in the Garden! I’m thinking about getting the kit myself. One of our traditions is to burn a bayberry candle. We light it on Christmas Eve and let it burn itself out. (we put it in our stainless steel sink overnight, to be on the safe side) This is in representation of the Star of Bethlehem. The turkey comes before Santa, lol. Happy stitching!
Congrats on 60 episodes! My favorite way to transfer lettering onto wool is with press n seal. Trace lettering onto press n seal, peel off pattern and place onto wool. Then stitch right through it and when finished tear away. I too am doing Stars in the Garden. Your version of the raven is looking beautiful.
Great to see your video again. The Christmas pickle sounds like fun! One of the Christmas traditions my family had when I was growing up was a Christmas Eve picnic in the local park during Carols by Candlelight (I'm in Australia, our Christmas is in summer). It's not particularly weird, but I thought you might enjoy hearing about a very different Christmas from what you know. I'm looking forward to your WIP parade! Happy stitching!
I look forward to watching your videos. I loved seeing all your stitching and your new projects from the quilt show. You make me want to do more quilting and wool applique. This season I decided to stitch more for Thanksgiving and Turkey Day would be perfect. Sew Cherished has many cute designs, the sheep are adorable. Have a wonderful holiday season! The Lego snowman is so cute! I need to get one for my grandson who loves Legos. This year my husband and I will be visiting my son and family. I have 3 small grandchildren who I can't wait to see and spend Christmas with.
Thanks again Celeste ! I love your felt projects. I have yet to make one. I started doing EPP as well, but doing a 1" with Gramma's Garden pattern. Enjoy your turkey time next week! Up in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving early Oct. I am stitching everything Santa now!
Congratulations on number 60. Love all the inspiration you provide. I’m now interested in doing the blackbird quilt it’s going to be beautiful. I was just thinking of ordering that turkey chart and would love to rescue yours. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.❤
Turkey. Thanks for another fun and informative video! We always pick a color and wear shirts in the picked color for family pictures on Christmas Day. Pictures are always a fun time! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! 👍❤️🦃
Love the turkey pattern. I have been looking for that chart. I didn’t make it to festival this year. I got so spoiled belonging to the national quilt association and getting in early to festival. I was so sad when they went out of business during Covid. No interesting traditions for us
Oh my gosh I just found you! I love your floss tubes and you live so darn close to me!! I’m jumping in with you for 2024 and finishing WIPS! Thanks for the idea❤❤❤
I have that same sewing cabinet. It belonged to my great grandmother. Our family goes out to dinner for Japanese food and then we open our presents together while eating dessert and drinking eggnog. Love the Santa chart! 🎅🏼
I enjoy you so much. Love all your projects. All of them. 😊 Turkey Day is always my favorite. I'm getting the Raven quilt kitted by Blackbird Designs. Ive had the book several years. The 3 quilt shops we had closed all this year. 😢 I also ordered the Stars in the Garden. 😅 Every year we try to be the first to call early on Christmas morning and say Christmas Gift to our family members out of state. Course now that everyone has caller ID it makes it harder. Texting is not allowed so we say. 😂😂 However now one second after midnight, they text. I always say that's cheating. 😂😂 Us older people are in bed. 😊 You have a great Thanksgiving. See you next time. 😊
Your Sarah Hardman sampler is beautiful! I love the colors. I don't quilt or applique, but that quilt kit with the mini hexie is so pretty! I always enjoy seeing all of your needlework. You get so much done and it all looks perfectly stitched😊. Very inspiring! We don't have any out of the ordinary Christmas traditions, but I do stitch each of my kids an ornament each year. Our tree is now full of those ornaments, and I think they look forward each Christmas to seeing what ornament I've stitched for them.😊. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Turkey
Celeste, congratulations. #60 flosstube. That's a great accomplishment. Please let me know the designer of the snowman applique. I will love to make them. The turkey, the sheep and Santa are great projects. 🎅 🧑🎄 🦃 🐑 🐏
You put a smile on my face when your flosstube popped up. I would love to see your WIP parade in the new year. Love all your stitching and sewing progress 💜🥰💜
Great wips. What a blessing having such wonderful kids. I’m lucky too mine came out great but I only had 2 lol. Beautiful wips. I found I created more wips since flosstube came out lol. Old days we only saw what we saw in shops now we see it all over the place. I love the quilt kit. I haven’t tried appliqué yet. I guess I need to UA-cam them. Or you can do a video? 😁 I love Lori Holt and Corey Yoder fabrics. Olivia is the reason I got drawn to civil war quilts. The raven quilt is amazing!!!
Regarding tracing your pattern on dark wool....I've seen where you can take press and seal, place it over your design, trace design with sharpie, then place the press and seal with the traced design on top of your wool and stitch trough the press and seal. It seems the press and seal is easy to remove after you've completed your embroidery. Love all your cross stitch.
I always love seeing your projects! Our Christmas tradition is watching the movie White Christmas, then driving around neighborhoods looking at all the holiday lights. This year I'm wondering if Santa will bring a turkey or sheep. Enjoy your family time next week!
Well done on 60 episodes! I am hearing you about clearing out your parents house … my mum and dad have just gone into a retirement village and it was heartbreaking having to get rid of most of their things. I did keep her quilts, sewing and craft stuff though. I would love it if you did a video showing how you do the wool applique esp if you are going to do another snowman ornament as would like to give that a go but not too sure how. It wouldn’t have to be showing the whole thing but just some snippets would be great pretty please.
What great projects you’re working on. I’m on the other side of the bridge from you in Baytown. Small world. Love shopping at PPNQ and at And Sew it Began in LaPorte. Santa Happy Thanksgiving
My friend has that EPP piece framed above her fireplace. It's stunning. Jill Shaullis is amazing. Ive met her a couple of times. Msny of her quilting patterns are wonderful to sew up. I am crawling slowly on His Eye is on the Sparrow. I have the called for flosses and love the colors. I center started, so hoping to get to the word strip at some point to feel like I'm making progress. I, too, thought I'd never use civil war fabrics, and now they are my go to. Living 1 mile from the Woolen Needle is dangerous, let me tell you! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! One of our traditions is to have a nut bowl. We only have one nut cracker out ( although we have many of them). We have them after dinner and everyone has to take their turn to crack the nuts. It keeps us around the dinner table longer talking. Turkey, Santa, sheep
60 Episodes! And I’ve loved every one of them! I live in Southeast Louisiana and one of our Christmas traditions is making Seafood Gumbo on Christmas Eve. The gumbo will cook for hours, then we would go to ‘Midnight Mass’ at church. When we get home, everyone is tired and hungry, so they have this big pot of gumbo and potato salad for everyone before the rest of our Christmas Eve. I’m just wondering if Santa is going to fly his sheep around the world on turkey day?😉
Since Covid we do a bake off… and have family friends over as the judges. The recipe for this year has yet to be determined. I am totally going to be a SHEEP and follow your new year plan. I love playing SANTA and make stitched gifts for my family. Sometimes I can be a TURKEY and wrap things up that are silly but fun.
Actually now I know what is different.Santa lives in Finland at Korvatunturi and he starts the journey on Chrstmas Eve. It is in the national news when he leaves his house with reindeers. Then he visits all children that has been kind that year and delivers presents. So we actually meet the Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Oh my dear, I learned years ago never to to say never. I used to quilt only with white backgrounds and bright, clear colors and then started watching Carol, Salt Box Stitcher, Olivia B, Olivia at Pumpkin Hollow Quilts, and more recently Katie of Sew Tattered. I'm in love with Antique Reproduction fabrics as much as samplers! I still haven't started stitching applique quilts, but I probably will. I recently bought some fabric to make a couple of dresses from Fabric Wholesale Direct. They sell cotton voile fabric - 58-60" wide for $4.99/yard! It would be perfect for applique lining.
Yes it’s very sad to have your parents down size. When my mom passed away I got many things from her, then my dad eventually wanted to move to the mountains into our cabin which was already furnished. So my brother and I had to go through and decide what we wanted and what could be sold. Very hard to do. Dad’s still doing well at 88.
Celeste I've never tried it but have heard of using Press N Seal on wool for embroidery. Your crow blocks are wonderful! I have done needle turned applique since the 80s, everything else seems like too much work . Happy Thanksgiving!
Love your floss tubes, beautiful stitching and those quilts are going to be gorgeous Celeste !! I’m not a quilter but I love seeing your progress on yours and those Civil War fabrics are beautiful!! I looked back at some of your videos, I’m trying to get all my thread on thread drops like yours, I”d love for them to all be on the same kind, may I ask where you get yours from. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you and Happy Stitching and Quilting 🧵✂️🪡❌🍁🍂🦃
That little snowman ornament is sooo cute. Do you think you'll make the banner? Ahhhhhh that Blackbird quilt square is Amazing!!! So it's all hand sewn? Can a beginner do this?
Hi Celeste! So happy to find you. Enjoyed your video and reintroduction. I started stitching again this year after a loong time. I live in Houston and would have known you are a Texan by the sneeze and sniffles I live near Meyerland in Houston and am looking for local stitchers. Do you know any?
I don’t know about a group close to you. But we have a group that meets monthly for a stitchy get together in Friendswood. Called Space City Stitchers. You can join on Facebook. You are welcome to join us!!!!! We’d love it.
I’m so happy to hear that another homeschool mom carries her stitching with her when her kids are at their lessons ❤
Congratulations on 60!!! I always enjoy your videos! Thank you for continuing to share all your stitching beauty with us!
I absolutely LOVE the Samplers you choose to stitch! Every one is gorgeous!!! I also love that turkey pattern! He is beautiful!!! I love the colorful turkeys!!! That is definitely a Tom turkey!!!
Turkey, Santa, sheep. Thank you so much Celeste.
I have not been watching much floss tube as of late, so I really enjoyed hearing the update on your kids. It sounds as if they are all doing well. Our traditions have changed so much over the years as our children have grown and now have children of their own. Things vary now from year to year but baking and decorating gingerbread cookies is something we still do with whoever can be here at the time. Turkey, Santa
Love watching you and seeing the things you make. Santa. Don't have anything crazy but have lots of hand made treats out to eat in the morning .
Happy Thanksgiving! It is always such fun to see what you are working on, Celeste! Congratulations on video #60! I am so thankful for the joy and inspiration that you share. Thanks as always and happy stitching!
I always enjoy your videos. Its like visiting with a old friend. Turkey and sheep.
Congratulations on reaching your wonderful milestone of making sixty episodes, Celeste, and I have enjoyed each one immensely. Your stitching wips are looking so beautiful and your wool applique work is so pretty. I hope you have a warm and happy thanksgiving.
Celeste...your crow Blackbird pattern is awesome...thanks for all you shared...have a great Thanksgiving...best wishes❤❤
I love the heart applique quilt behind you it is great that you got to get some of your mom's things. We always wear our pajamas all day on 🎄 I just bought our turkey for Thursday. Congratulations on 60 episodes.
Thank you! I actually called my dog's name because I thought she was barking at the background, but it was your dog :) Thank you so much for sharing your journey in cross stitch!
Yay to 60.congratulations 🎉! Love the wool items especially snowman! Sweet❤ and again that raven quilt, wow!! Santa is adorable ❤ we go drive and see lights and have hot chocolate when we come back. This yr no chocolate for me any more. And we used to watch wonderful life but I fall asleep every time. Not sure what my kids do with theirs. Lol oh your son!
Great video! Love all your projects. I started 2023 with a goal to finish stitching my oldest WIPS. I really don’t have that many WIPS but I wanted to finish all of the ones started in 2021 and 2022. I got my plan from The Recovering Monogamous Stitcher. Every month she had a focus piece which was her oldest WIP. She stitched on it for 7 days. If she didn’t finish within that 7 days, it carried over to the next month. If she did finish it within the 7 days, she picked up her next oldest WIP. This is exactly what I have done and it has worked out great for me! I have finished 5 pieces this year - some of them were really big. I have now started on my last one from 2022. All my other WIPS were started this year and I will touch most of them within the month. I use a rotation of 4 days on a patriotic piece, 4 days on a sampler piece, and 4 days on a seasonal piece. I do WIPGO - 2 pieces each month at 3 days each. If there are any extra days in the month, I work on ‘“my choice” which could be one of my WIPS that is close to being finished OR a new start. I have started 22 pieces this year and have completed 15 of those. Currently, I have 8 WIPS and 3 of those will be finished the next time I pick them up. Hope this gives you some ideas about working your WIP number down. I will carry this process into 2024. Take care and happy stitching!
Thank you so much!! Such great ideas
60! Congratulations!
I love the angels on the Brenda Gervais piece.
Great video. Enjoy the variety of what you’re working on. Nice to hear your family update. Glad all is well.
Hope you and your family had a very blessed Thanksgiving and enjoyed the time together. Thanks for sharing your talent and sweet personality for 60 videos!!! Love watching and have been enabled too many times to count.
Hiding a pickle (glass) in the tree. The one that finds it gets a little special gift. I think its a German tradition. Turkey, santa, sheep. Love them all. Your raven block is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed seeing your projects
Hi Celeste. You had gotten erased from my favorites and now I have refound you. Love all that you do.
I'm so glad!
Hi Celeste! Love your videos! I hope you and your family have a wonderful Turkey Day. 🦃
Thank you for a lovely visit again today. You have so many great pieces, both finished and in progress. I really enjoy your choices.
As a career quilting teacher, mostly in appliqué, (retired now) I have a couple of things to share with you. With your years of experience using a needle you will find that needle turn appliqué will not be difficult for you. Yes there is a learning curve, but it will not be difficult for you.😊 My chosen technique is backbasting preparation, then simple needle turn.
About your new attraction to 19th century fabrics, it is a natural progression. As you become more proficient and confident in quilting you taste becomes more sophisticated and it will lead you to richer colors and fabric design.
And lastly, I have been posting hexagon flowers daily on Instagram while working toward a large quilt goal. Today I posted number 69 of 100. I thread baste (the way you are doing it now). It is traditional and it will not leave a residue on your fabric/quilt. To assemble the blocks , I place them front-to-front and use a buttonhole stitch to join them. Whip stitches are slanted and will always be visible on the front.. buttonhole stitch straightens the stitch. Look for a video on UA-cam with key word of hexagon and buttonhole stitch. You will find it much easier and fast compared with what you have been using. Finally, I have just requested to be your friend on Instagram so you can see my hexagon project.😊
Thank you thank you thank you for all your wonderful suggestions
The turkey stitch would be great. Another great visit today, thanks.
Thanks for sharing 🎉
Love all your projects. We love the bake cookies several people all doing their davorite at the same time ...cookie crisis. Santa sheep
Hi Celeste Congratulations on your 60th FT,lovely stitching projects,love the cabinet from your parents home,I live in NZ and I recently visited an opportunity shop near me and found Two small plastic bags filled with wool fabric,pure wool,such an amazing find👏 have a good week Thankyou for sharing 🇳🇿❤️🪡
Don't worry about that oldest one. I have 3 from the early 80's😂😂😂they were for my toddlers. Those toddlers are 40's with teenagers of their own.maybe for my great grands🌻🎅🤣
Congratulations on your 60th episode! I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings! My Christmas tree will go up next week. Enjoy your holidays!
Congrats on 60! Love Santa and Sheep. Wanted you to know you were interrupted multiple times with ads. I don't think you can control that, but it was sooo many this video. A tradition we did was taking a picture of the five of us at the piano, starting when my littlest brother was a new baby. My older brother was 16. We continued until my mom passed away a few years ago - 57 years. We still laugh at the changing hair and styles. Happy Thanksgiving, we have so much to be thankful for.
I can’t to till Turkey day. I love Santa. I like sheep never had any. We didn’t have any. Happy thanksgiving.
Oh, my goodness, your applique and hexies are glorious! Sounds like you and I have only one problem....there's never enough time to do all the stitching we want to do! I'd be a real turkey if I said I didn't want to get more done. Santa will be here before we know it. I'm such a good little sheep, following into more and more stitching all the time. Um, Christmas traditions.....Until 2014 when his mom passed, we went to my hubby folks' on Christmas Eve and we got up as soon as we heard Santas sleigh bells (yes, really) to open gifts. Well, Santa kept coming earlier and earlier each year until, it was established that Santa would be there just past midnight Christmas morning. So for years we got up just past midnight and opened gifts!
I treasure those memories.
Great stitching.
Love that Raven block, that's going to be a gorgeous quilt.
We also do the Pickle ornament.
I love that Turkey!
Marilyn
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! We have a flock of wild turkeys where we live. The turkeys have given us lots of grief because they peck at their own reflection on the shiny surface of our cars. They enjoy hanging around with our hens and occasionally I will have a turkey fly into my chicken coop. Loving all your sewing. I have never seen such tiny hexagons. I look forward to seeing your progress. Thank you, Holly
Congratulations on 60 episodes, really enjoyed this episode, thank you. It won’t belong before December and Santa
Always so nice to see your sweet face! I'm thankful for the turkey I'm going to enjoy with family next week. Growing up, we had Oyster Stew for Christmas Eve dinner that is basically warm milk with oysters floating around. Not my favorite meal of the year, but my dad was very traditional and it was what he had growing up 🤷🏻♀️Leaving cookies for Santa was a treasured memory. Happy Thanksgiving!
That hexie project is amazing! I'm thinking it would make a great Christmas present. Your projects are beautiful. Sheep
Congratulations on your 60th episode! I love them! A Christmas tradition that is by far my favorite is when my six grandkids and I get together and decorate gingerbread houses. The fun part is the cleanup. I get six dish cloths out, and my job is to keep them rinsed and tossed to one of the grandkids. Meanwhile, they are tossing the dirty ones to me to rinse out. Needless to say, it is hilarious with all the dish cloths flying through the air. The kids are so good. My kitchen is actually cleaner when they get done then when we started. Of course, their goal is to smack Granny with a dish cloth before she can catch it. Turkey, Santa Happy Thanksgiving!❤
Congratulations on 60 videos! I cannot believe how small those hexi's are! It all looks beautiful. When our kids were still at home we always started Christmas pig piled on our bed opening stockings. ( and waiting for the coffee to finish perking 😂 I would love to finish the Turkey for you, that is a pattern I have kept looking at myself.
This was an extra fun episode 😎 I love to work on the same kind of projects. You are one of the kindest, soft spoken creative people I enjoy watching and listening to.
About 20 years ago, when we only had our 2 youngest boys still at home, we started going to Cracker Barrel on Christmas Eve. They close at 2pm, so it is basically lunchtime. The boys would sit by their big fireplace and play checkers after we ate. Then we would go finish up last minute shopping. They are all grown up now and live far away, so hubby and I still go and reminisce. 🥰 Turkey, Sheep
Thank you for your kind words
Hi Celeste I agree with you I thought the quilt show was really small
I would love to stitch the turkey - it’s beautiful
I try to add to my Santa and Snowman collection every year. Nothing really crazy for us
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family 🦃🍁
Congrats 🎉🎊 on your 60th episode. Thank you for sharing your talent with us it’s a blessing. Love everything you show and can’t wait for the wip parade. Have a wonderful evening and happy stitching 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Thank you for sharing your tips and talents. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you for sharing all of your stitching projects ! I would love the sheep pattern. My husband growing up would have pickled herring as part of there tradition. I Did NOT carry that tradition in our family!!
Thanks for a nice video. Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t think I have an unusual Christmas tradition. We eat, exchange gifts, visit family-all pretty usual! I wish we had sheep to look after.
Hi Celeste! This was my first time watching your video! I enjoyed all the cross stitch and quilting projects you showed. I have a few wool appliqué patterns but I’ve never taken the leap to actually start any of them! Maybe soon. We don’t really have any crazy Christmas traditions, but we do go out on Christmas Eve and drive around looking at all the lights and decorations everyone has out. I love turkey at Thanksgiving and should eat it more often during the year!
I love all your stitching and also your craft area!! Turkey. Santa. Sheep
One thing we always have to have for Christmas decor is a pair of bells which are small Dixie kitchen cups covered in aluminum foil and hung from a ribbon above the doorway. We did this when my kids were little no money for decor was short. They kids are grown now and still want the aluminum covered bells!
I love that tradition
Congratulations on your 60th episode. Always enjoy them so much. I went down the rabbit home while watching and ordered the snowman wool kit and the hexi quilt kit after seeing yours. I am also doing the Blackbird Raven applique. I will have to do nothing but stitch this winter on cold days here in North Dakota. So far, no snow,what we had melted, so green grass looking at us now. I ❤️ my ❄️❄️❄️❄️. sheep, I was going to order the pattern and never did so, would ❤ it. 😊
Celeste, thank you for your video. I watched you as I am stitching Patchwork Pumpkin from Winds of Autumn by Blackbird Designs. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing some of the special items you inherited from your mom, I know you will treasure them. I also like seeing the other stitching you are doing. Turkey, Santa, Sheep. Wool appliqué is something I want to try. I don’t think we have any different type of traditions. I have had a Santa figurine collection that I display with the cross stitched stockings hung on the mantle. My kids are adults with children of their own now, but I still hang those stockings.
Congrats on 60 episodes! Your raven blocks are gorgeous. I have been gathering fabrics for it, too. At Christmas we make white cocoa, not crazy but we look forward ro it. Happy turkey day!
Hi Celeste! Your videos are very soothing to me and inspirational at the same time. About marking black wool, I often use Press and Seal kitchen wrap! Tear a piece and write whatever you want to embroider in lighter colored ink (use a Sharpie pen in light color). Pin or baste it where ever you want the words and embroider right through it. When done carefully tear away. Good luck!
Thank you!!!
Your 60th flosstube was packed with lovely projects. I haven't tried any wool applique - don't know if I want to introduce another craft and then find a storage place for it. I envy all the stitching you accomplish. Love your little wool snowman, but hope Santa appears before snow.
I got a lot from my Mom when she downsized. Glad I did. I have siblings who wish they had, because a lot of stuff was sold. It’s sad.
I love those civil war fabrics! Your blackbird quilt looks so good so far.
Hope you have a happy thanksgiving. I host as my house so Santa doesn’t arrive until the turkey is gone.
His eyes on the sparrow is my Sunday stitch and I love it. I’m doing it on lakeside buttercream with dmc.
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Happy Thanksgiving! We do matching pyjamas for Christmas morning. Turkey, Santa, Sheep
Your raven quilt is going to be so pretty. My mom used to come to Houston to the Quilt Festival and loved it! I would love to rescue your Turkey stitch. I also think the Santa chart is super cute! If we have any crazy Christmas traditions, I can’t think of them. 😊I did stitch the Mill Hill beaded pickle ornament and it hides in our tree.
Congratulations on making your 60th episode. I found your channel about a year ago and have enjoyed following along on your projects. Your work is beautiful. I would love to work on the turkey as I have a flock of wild turkeys that roam through my yard now and then. Always wanted to have a few sheep, as I am a knitter also and love wool applique, but I'll just have to be content with stitching them for now. Thank you for sharing all of your projects with us. Happy Thanksgiving!
Love all your projects, especially the Star in the Garden! I’m thinking about getting the kit myself. One of our traditions is to burn a bayberry candle. We light it on Christmas Eve and let it burn itself out. (we put it in our stainless steel sink overnight, to be on the safe side) This is in representation of the Star of Bethlehem. The turkey comes before Santa, lol. Happy stitching!
Congrats on 60 episodes! My favorite way to transfer lettering onto wool is with press n seal. Trace lettering onto press n seal, peel off pattern and place onto wool. Then stitch right through it and when finished tear away. I too am doing Stars in the Garden. Your version of the raven is looking beautiful.
Thanks for the info!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Turkey, Santa, sheep
Great to see your video again. The Christmas pickle sounds like fun! One of the Christmas traditions my family had when I was growing up was a Christmas Eve picnic in the local park during Carols by Candlelight (I'm in Australia, our Christmas is in summer). It's not particularly weird, but I thought you might enjoy hearing about a very different Christmas from what you know. I'm looking forward to your WIP parade! Happy stitching!
I look forward to watching your videos. I loved seeing all your stitching and your new projects from the quilt show. You make me want to do more quilting and wool applique. This season I decided to stitch more for Thanksgiving and Turkey Day would be perfect. Sew Cherished has many cute designs, the sheep are adorable. Have a wonderful holiday season! The Lego snowman is so cute! I need to get one for my grandson who loves Legos. This year my husband and I will be visiting my son and family. I have 3 small grandchildren who I can't wait to see and spend Christmas with.
Thanks again Celeste ! I love your felt projects. I have yet to make one. I started doing EPP as well, but doing a 1" with Gramma's Garden pattern. Enjoy your turkey time next week! Up in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving early Oct. I am stitching everything Santa now!
Congratulations on number 60. Love all the inspiration you provide. I’m now interested in doing the blackbird quilt it’s going to be beautiful. I was just thinking of ordering that turkey chart and would love to rescue yours. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.❤
I would use #12 perle cotton thread and embroider the wording on your wool piece. I loved seeing your sewing projects. sheep
19:16 consider the lilies is beautiful.
Santa sheep
Turkey. Thanks for another fun and informative video! We always pick a color and wear shirts in the picked color for family pictures on Christmas Day. Pictures are always a fun time! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! 👍❤️🦃
Love the turkey pattern. I have been looking for that chart. I didn’t make it to festival this year. I got so spoiled belonging to the national quilt association and getting in early to festival. I was so sad when they went out of business during Covid. No interesting traditions for us
Oh my gosh I just found you! I love your floss tubes and you live so darn close to me!! I’m jumping in with you for 2024 and finishing WIPS! Thanks for the idea❤❤❤
Welcome!! Where do you live????
I live in Sugar Land , work in downtown Houston and have several clients I see out in clear lake/league city area.
@nancybunt8151 Let me know if you are ever out this way for a coffee or lunch!
@@CelesteCreates I sure will!!
I have that same sewing cabinet. It belonged to my great grandmother. Our family goes out to dinner for Japanese food and then we open our presents together while eating dessert and drinking eggnog. Love the Santa chart! 🎅🏼
Sounds so fun
I enjoy you so much. Love all your projects. All of them. 😊 Turkey Day is always my favorite. I'm getting the Raven quilt kitted by Blackbird Designs. Ive had the book several years. The 3 quilt shops we had closed all this year. 😢 I also ordered the Stars in the Garden. 😅 Every year we try to be the first to call early on Christmas morning and say Christmas Gift to our family members out of state. Course now that everyone has caller ID it makes it harder. Texting is not allowed so we say. 😂😂 However now one second after midnight, they text. I always say that's cheating. 😂😂 Us older people are in bed. 😊 You have a great Thanksgiving. See you next time. 😊
Your Sarah Hardman sampler is beautiful! I love the colors. I don't quilt or applique, but that quilt kit with the mini hexie is so pretty! I always enjoy seeing all of your needlework. You get so much done and it all looks perfectly stitched😊. Very inspiring! We don't have any out of the ordinary Christmas traditions, but I do stitch each of my kids an ornament each year. Our tree is now full of those ornaments, and I think they look forward each Christmas to seeing what ornament I've stitched for them.😊. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Turkey
Celeste, congratulations. #60 flosstube. That's a great accomplishment. Please let me know the designer of the snowman applique. I will love to make them. The turkey, the sheep and Santa are great projects. 🎅 🧑🎄 🦃 🐑 🐏
Thank you! The Snowman Appliqué is by Sew Cherished. There should be a link in the description box.
You put a smile on my face when your flosstube popped up. I would love to see your WIP parade in the new year. Love all your stitching and sewing progress 💜🥰💜
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Clover gel pen that irons off. When using it have to wait a few seconds until it shows. On lighter fabric you can use friction pen that also irons off
Thank you!!
Great wips. What a blessing having such wonderful kids. I’m lucky too mine came out great but I only had 2 lol. Beautiful wips. I found I created more wips since flosstube came out lol. Old days we only saw what we saw in shops now we see it all over the place. I love the quilt kit. I haven’t tried appliqué yet. I guess I need to UA-cam them. Or you can do a video? 😁 I love Lori Holt and Corey Yoder fabrics. Olivia is the reason I got drawn to civil war quilts. The raven quilt is amazing!!!
Regarding tracing your pattern on dark wool....I've seen where you can take press and seal, place it over your design, trace design with sharpie, then place the press and seal with the traced design on top of your wool and stitch trough the press and seal. It seems the press and seal is easy to remove after you've completed your embroidery. Love all your cross stitch.
Thank you so much!!!
I always love seeing your projects! Our Christmas tradition is watching the movie White Christmas, then driving around neighborhoods looking at all the holiday lights. This year I'm wondering if Santa will bring a turkey or sheep. Enjoy your family time next week!
Well done on 60 episodes! I am hearing you about clearing out your parents house … my mum and dad have just gone into a retirement village and it was heartbreaking having to get rid of most of their things. I did keep her quilts, sewing and craft stuff though. I would love it if you did a video showing how you do the wool applique esp if you are going to do another snowman ornament as would like to give that a go but not too sure how. It wouldn’t have to be showing the whole thing but just some snippets would be great pretty please.
What great projects you’re working on. I’m on the other side of the bridge from you in Baytown. Small world. Love shopping at PPNQ and at And Sew it Began in LaPorte. Santa Happy Thanksgiving
My friend has that EPP piece framed above her fireplace. It's stunning. Jill Shaullis is amazing. Ive met her a couple of times. Msny of her quilting patterns are wonderful to sew up.
I am crawling slowly on His Eye is on the Sparrow. I have the called for flosses and love the colors. I center started, so hoping to get to the word strip at some point to feel like I'm making progress.
I, too, thought I'd never use civil war fabrics, and now they are my go to. Living 1 mile from the Woolen Needle is dangerous, let me tell you!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
How wonderful!
Happy Thanksgiving! One of our traditions is to have a nut bowl. We only have one nut cracker out ( although we have many of them). We have them after dinner and everyone has to take their turn to crack the nuts. It keeps us around the dinner table longer talking. Turkey, Santa, sheep
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60 Episodes! And I’ve loved every one of them!
I live in Southeast Louisiana and one of our Christmas traditions is making Seafood Gumbo on Christmas Eve. The gumbo will cook for hours, then we would go to ‘Midnight Mass’ at church. When we get home, everyone is tired and hungry, so they have this big pot of gumbo and potato salad for everyone before the rest of our Christmas Eve.
I’m just wondering if Santa is going to fly his sheep around the world on turkey day?😉
Since Covid we do a bake off… and have family friends over as the judges. The recipe for this year has yet to be determined. I am totally going to be a SHEEP and follow your new year plan. I love playing SANTA and make stitched gifts for my family. Sometimes I can be a TURKEY and wrap things up that are silly but fun.
I love Calico Patch Designs! I go to Vicki McCarty’a retreat in Kentucky 2x a year. She and her husband are great people.
I don't know if we have any crazy or different Christmas traditions but we do visit graveyard and light up the candels there. Santa turkey.
Actually now I know what is different.Santa lives in Finland at Korvatunturi and he starts the journey on Chrstmas Eve. It is in the national news when he leaves his house with reindeers. Then he visits all children that has been kind that year and delivers presents. So we actually meet the Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
I love this!!
Oh my dear, I learned years ago never to to say never. I used to quilt only with white backgrounds and bright, clear colors and then started watching Carol, Salt Box Stitcher, Olivia B, Olivia at Pumpkin Hollow Quilts, and more recently Katie of Sew Tattered. I'm in love with Antique Reproduction fabrics as much as samplers! I still haven't started stitching applique quilts, but I probably will. I recently bought some fabric to make a couple of dresses from Fabric Wholesale Direct. They sell cotton voile fabric - 58-60" wide for $4.99/yard! It would be perfect for applique lining.
Yes it’s very sad to have your parents down size. When my mom passed away I got many things from her, then my dad eventually wanted to move to the mountains into our cabin which was already furnished. So my brother and I had to go through and decide what we wanted and what could be sold. Very hard to do. Dad’s still doing well at 88.
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Celeste I've never tried it but have heard of using Press N Seal on wool for embroidery. Your crow blocks are wonderful! I have done needle turned applique since the 80s, everything else seems like too much work . Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for the tip
Congratulations on 60! I can’t wait to start the raven quilt. Your fabric choices are gorgeous! Do you think Santa eats a turkey on Thanksgiving?
Yes!!!
Love your floss tubes, beautiful stitching and those quilts are going to be gorgeous Celeste !! I’m not a quilter but I love seeing your progress on yours and those Civil War fabrics are beautiful!! I looked back at some of your videos, I’m trying to get all my thread on thread drops like yours, I”d love for them to all be on the same kind, may I ask where you get yours from. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you and Happy Stitching and Quilting 🧵✂️🪡❌🍁🍂🦃
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That little snowman ornament is sooo cute. Do you think you'll make the banner? Ahhhhhh that Blackbird quilt square is Amazing!!! So it's all hand sewn? Can a beginner do this?
Really enjoy seeing your appliqué crow quilt. How does appli-quilt compare to freezer paper applique?
I much prefer apliquick to freezer paper and starch
@@CelesteCreates oh I misunderstood. I must give that a try.
Hi Celeste! So happy to find you. Enjoyed your video and reintroduction. I started stitching again this year after a loong time. I live in Houston and would have known you are a Texan by the sneeze and sniffles I live near Meyerland in Houston and am looking for local stitchers. Do you know any?
I don’t know about a group close to you. But we have a group that meets monthly for a stitchy get together in Friendswood. Called Space City Stitchers. You can join on Facebook. You are welcome to join us!!!!! We’d love it.
Thanks, Celeste! I applied for membership!
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I’m so glad!!! Hope to see you at a stitchy Saturday
What time on Saturday?
You have been busy. Turkey Santa Sheep We really don’t have any traditions.
My dachshund Gus even gets indignant if people walk on the sidewalk across the street
NEVER can also mean "not exactly very exciting right-now" ;) Turkey.
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