Crafter's Log aka me being very underwhelming
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2023
- Two whole months of the year are already over and I'm only just now getting around to doing my first Crafter's Log of 2023. That pretty much sums things up around here!
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Flosstube shoutouts:
@MadMorti
@RogueMamaStitcher1
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Other random mentions / people you should investigate:
@retrocraftdreams
@KatieMakesStuff
@SimplyInspiredbySheena
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Patterns etc mentioned:
- Magnolia Dress: www.mygoldenthimble.com/summe...
- Garden Cat: satsumastreet.com/shop/p/gard...
- Peppermint Purple's Year of Blackwork SAL: peppermintpurple.com/pages/20...
- Steampunk World Map: circlecross.net/product/steam...
- Autumn Stories: www.painefreecrafts.com/produ...
- Justyna Jumper: www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
- Mermaids in Juneau: www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
- Crochet Ranunculus: moaracrochet.com/crochet-ranu... (this is the pattern I based my bouquet flowers on, however the written version makes no sense and you'll have to watch the video version instead. I gave up and just made it up as I went)
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#flosstube #yarntube #crafterslog
This may not look like the sort of video that should've taken three weeks to put together, but that's just the world I'm living in right now! Thanks for bearing with! ❤️
For what it's worth, a few weeks ago there was a lady who came into my local yarn shop to show off a stocking that she had cast on in 1997 and just now finished! I was honestly so impressed by her tenacity. A weaker knitter (me) would have just given up on the project somewhere in the mid 2010s 😅
Wow that is impressive! It must have felt absolutely AMAZING when she finished 😳
Hellooo Michelle!👋 Glad you took time off when you knew you needed it! Holidays + wedding planning is a lot going on.
Thank you so much for your super kind shout-out! ❤🥰 I'm honored you enjoy my Flosstube even though we tend to gravitate toward different designs. 😁 Your projects are always so cool, and you're smart and entertaining (your accent is def a bonus)!
Great idea to add your own crafting talents to your wedding! Your crochet flowers are beautiful. 😍 Just remember the day is for you to shine! Don't add so much that you're too stressed the day of at least. Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! ❤💍💐
Finding that balance is definitely the thing. Not so muchstuff to be stressful, but enough so that I'm not thinking and freaking out about how awkward and un-bridey I'm gonna be on the day lol. Just have to stay in that perfect "zone" of focus and not wobble out either side 😂
First, I don't know how I missed that you put this video up last week. Second, AAAAHHH!! You mentioned mentioned your video! I was doing blackwork while watching until you said my name and my jaw hit the floor! Third, bring on the wedding talk! It's therapeutic and who knows who you might help! For my wedding, we made the favors, invitations, thank yous and thousands of paper stars that were used as table decorations. The stars are now in a plastic tub in our closet waiting to be used again. You've got this! It will all come together! I'm also going it have to look into this 100 days project. Maybe it would help me keep up with the 3 SALs, 3 blackwork projects and 2 cross stitch projects I've got going on.
Lol I live for freaking people out by mentioning their names in videos 💅
It makes me a bit sad that we're not doing the sort of thing that needs all the paper invitations etc because I literally used to design them for a living so that would've been fun. Seems like a popular thing to DIY, too, judging by the other comments! The paper stars sound adorbs, love a good bit of origami but again we're just not doing the sort of thing that needs it. Maybe for our ten year anniversary party 😉
I feel so seen!! Haven't touched the macrame yet but it's definitely going to happen!
Best of luck with your wedding crafting! I made the napkins for mine 12 years ago. I bought a boatload of white cotton, cut it to size (pinked the edges), then dyed them a few different colors. It felt very picnic-y and I made a quilt out of the leftovers after the wedding.
Ooh that sounds fun! And very you to make something that could be reused! Honestly no idea when I'm gonna get round to the macrama either, most of my plans were hatched before we suddenly decided to do the wedding thing. But it will happen! Maybe it's more of a summer activity anyway...
💙 Hey!! Thanks so much for the mention! 🤗
Like you I TOTALLY fell off the creative bandwagon around Christmas time. I’m still struggling to get back into it….but!…I think that’s normal. Downtime is time well spent too 🤗
So glad it's not just me, it feels like it takes me ages to ramp back up sometimes! Nothing like a wedding deadline to get the crafting mojo back in gear though, haha.
Would love to see any crafty wedding content. I made my bouquet as well, but with ribbon. Looking forward to seeing how your crochet bouquet turns out.
I must be cheap and tacky too, cuz I love the crochet flowers too. I bet they were beautiful!
Yep - show the wedding stuff. All crafts welcome.
Cute red dress. Dress pattern to playsuit is an interesting idea. I like the colours in your blackwork. 🎉 on progress with anything.
🏆 for blanket, cuppa, book restorative cosy-ing up. It’s opposite season here but I recently treated myself to full-on reading weekend. 📚
I love hearing about the wedding stuff. I’d love to hear more if you are happy to share 😃
You would think with the amount of stuff I'm doing for it, it was actually going to be an actual "proper" wedding. But in reality I can sum up the plans thusly lol:
- Registry office
- Hardly anyone there
- Air hockey
- Cocktails
🥳🥳🥳
I made my own bouquet, too, but mine was out of floral wire and different colors of tissue paper. (Sorry...no pics I can upload right now.)
Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! I pray your special day is absolutely PERFECT!!!! :-D
I usually watch UA-cam on my tv and thus totally forget to use my phone to comment on videos. But today I wanted to remember to come on and say congratulations!! I would love to see a wedding dress video. I made our order of services, invites, table signs and even cross stitched little name tags for each persons place (almost ran out of time for this one!!). I also melted chocolate and reset it in heart moulds to make little heart chocolate favours. My wedding was definitely the best day of my life 😊 xx
I do this literally all the time and am the worst commenter so no worries lol, thank you! I really wanted to try and cross stitch something but because it's such a little, casual event couldn't really think of anything. The name tags sound stressful but a lot more interesting for people than the normal cardboard ones! Glad you had such an amazing time, I think our wedding day will struggle to be the best, I mean, we did go to Green Bay that one time after all. But you never know 😂
The awful thing is that not a single day with my son has topped my wedding day 😆.
Oh and the name tags were so stressful!! My mum had to end up learning xstitch and helping me 🤣
Super lovely video, Michelle! 🥰 I personally love hearing about your wedding, there is no "too much" of it at all, and I can't wait to see the dress and the flowers! 🤭🎉
I need to catch up on the Eurovision! 😨
Ps: Dave, time to crochet! 😋
You really do need to catch up, if you thought those Norwegian space wolves were crazy you've seen nothing yet! Glad someone is interested in the wedding nonsense at least, you know me I'm probably just massively overthinking it and worrying that I'm being annoying. Such is life.
I love how you keep saying. you are too lazy to take things out of the hoop and such. That speaks to me... I'm the same way! I actually did a lot of wedding crafts myself along with my mom who had most of the tools and things. I made a lot of the paper crafts, so menu, invitations, place cards, boxes for favors. It was so long ago (13 years) that I'm not sure if I remember being too stressed. I do remember toward the end when the little twine bows were misbehaving that our mantra became "it's all going to end up in the trash anyways", so I'm not sure if that helps you or not!
But it's your wedding! You do whatever you want! I think it all sounds lovely and if it were me, I know I work better under pressure ;). Good luck!
Paper crafts seems like the most popular thing people have DIYed, for sure. Sadly we don't have anything like that so I don't get to flex those particular creative muscles, our invites were just a casual DM asking people if they're free on that date and want some free food. But plenty of other things to get on with, and you're right I actually kinda enjoy the pressure a bit but check back in like two weeks and I'm sure that'll change 😬
Congratulations on getting married! And making so much yourselves. You save so much money with making the dress, the cake and the flowers (wow, really cool!), I think it's okay if the yarn is a bit more pricey. That cover up is sooo cute, you're going to love it. I've been married for almost 9 years, but it is still fun to see all the great wedding stuff you make. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Honestly at this point I'm not sure what will get finished and what won't, but it's better to have fun trying and not quite get there than to never give it a go! 😄
of course YAY on the wedding dress video :) and much love to you and David on your upcoming wedding!
Thank you so much! 🥰
Sometimes we just need to curl up in a blanket. Loved seeing what craft projects you incorporate to your wedding. My sister got married last year. She bought a cheap dress online and our neighbour did changes, it ended up looking nothing like the original!
That's such a good plan, well done your sister! Would probably have been a much more sensible project given my almost complete lack of sewing skills but we live and learn! 😅
I love that green sweater! I hope it turns out amazing for you but big baggy sweaters are also fun. Also, count me in for a wedding dress video! And I love that Novelette shawl thing. Before you said it was super chunky, I shouted "white mohair!!" at the screen. In the brown, it doesn't look very wedding-y but, in white, I think it would be lovely. I got married in Ontario, Canada, at the end of March, so I'm all about the wedding knitwear. I made nothing for my wedding so I'm of no use there, but I'm enjoying watching all your projects. If the crochet flowers falls through, I saw the most amazing antique broach bouquets that were amazing and wouldn't take much to put together (aside from collecting the broaches).
No more projects allowed! If the crochet flowers fall through I'll just end up carrying some actual yarn or something instead lol. It's looking increasingly unlikely there'll be time for the capelet thing but I live in hope 🤞🤞🤞
Congratulations on the upcoming wedding. I have been away for videos for awhile. Sad being a grown up gets in the way of all the fun stuff. I was so excited to see your jump in headfirst on the wedding dress. You amaze me with your courage. I would definitely think the crochet flowers would be up my alley. Looking forward to photos or videos to come.
Being a grown up is the worst sometimes! But thank you, I am nothing if not determined to make all the things 😄
Yeah! To wedding dress video. I think the crocheted flowers are quirky and cute...yay to them too. And yes you are taking on a lot. Good luck!
Thanks, I think they're cute too and I can confirm Dave has now contributed to the cause, so all good. I've got it all planned out in my head and everything seems doable but we all know what they say about best laid plans. We'll see!
great video as usual! your going to smash this wedding right out of the park❤
Thanks! I choose to believe you! 😂
You are so cute! Yes! More wedding dress updates. Good luck with all your plans. 😉
Thank you! It seems like the "yes to wedding stuff"es are on for a pretty convincing victory lol 😄
I discovered your channel not too long ago, and am very much enjoying going back through the videos I missed, and learning lots! I also love watching your videos because of how you remind me that it’s okay that sometimes looking after mental health (and sometimes my physical health lol) can mean not doing any projects for a while, and that’s ok. Don’t know why I need that validation, but I seem to, so thanks! I’ve recently acquired 4 full-coverage kits, which it’s been years since I’ve done one, and in anticipation I’ve been researching the “parking method”. You mentioned going back to cross-country for your autumn project, but I’d be interested in your take on either or both of these approaches maybe sometime? Your tone and tempo (if that makes sense?) work so great for my brain and general well-being that I’d love it if you did one someday on that/those!
Aw thank you! I'm honestly no expert on the different methods at this point, my strategy has just been to try a new one every now and then and see what seems to stick! But a summary of the different options would probably still make for a good video so I'll definitely add that one to the list :)
Yay on the wedding dress video and anything else wedding craft. I made all the invitations, seating plan, placeholders, wedding favour boxes (with chocolates inside) and table numbers for 106 guests. Love mad morti and have purchased my own dis world (Binky and Death) to stitch for the husband, who is a fan (takes for the book enablement I will be taking a look at that for his birthday). Congratulations on the up coming wedding 🎉
Wow that sounds elaborate and exhausting! Bet it was a lot of fun, though! 😄 Definitely check out the Pratchett biography, it's a bit of a tear-jerker obviously but somehow comforting at the same time. And thank you!
Wedding dress content... hell yeah! It's fiiiiine. Not like I didn't hand stitch 3 full historically accurate dresses plus 7 child costumes for our handfasting. At the time it feels chaotic, but your wedding should reflect the two of you, not other people x
Yeah but you are if anything even more mental for crafting than I am! Today I've been tea dyeing a net curtain and yesterday we had a flower crocheting afternoon so yeah, very us :D
Enjoy your wedding adventure and congratulations
Thank you so much! 🥰
Step boldly forward on this new adventure! Congratulations! Yea on video of dress. Since your dress is white, what about a chunky white yarn for the coverup? good luck!
Thank you! That was my (I thought simple) plan but you would not believe the hassle I've had trying to find something in our local shops! Online will help though, if I get time 😅
Ohhh someone who likes Eurovision and Cross stitch!awesome!
It's apparently not a very common intersection of interests but I've been doing good work the last couple of years getting new stitchy friends into Eurovision by sheer force of will, haha, who are your faves this year?
It really is so cute! I love the contrasting pockets! Proud of you for chilling when you needed to - don't want you to burn out on youtubing! Also a little jealous, considering I had the _brilliant_ plan to sew (and film) my first garment - a coat, no less - while preparing for a 2000 mile cross country move. Not my wisest moment. 😅 I'm also laughing so hard because I basically made the same, yet opposite mistake on my coat. I also had extra fabric across the back, but it was because there WAS supposed to be a center back seam but I didn't want one. But instead of the easy fix, I still steadfastly refused to put that seam in and did all kinds of workarounds.
Wedding content isn't something I seek out, but I love when my favorite youtubers incorporate their big milestones in their content, and honestly wedding stuff will be a refreshing change from the dozen channels I've watched move into new houses. Oh, and I'm especially interested in the crochet flowers. I've been thinking about trying some at some point.
Lol I'm glad it's not just me making these silly mistakes. honestly I finished his shirt and was so proud and looked at this simple little dress pattern like "I'm gonna smash this now"...but turns out no 😂
I've not caught up on your coat video yet (pls forgive, v busy 😭) but I can say it looked awesome from the thumbnail!
Note to self: try not to move house anytime soon.
Congratulations to you and David on your upcoming wedding. (Yay!) Long may you wave.
Thank you! 🥰
Wedding stuff: YEAH!
Adding the crochet flowers to real ones is stunning, personal, and saves money by filling out a smaller bouquet. Good luck in your wedded life.
Well exactly, I honestly coouldn't believe when I saw the prices people pay for real flowers! If that's your thing, great, but I'm way too frugal for that haha. Thank you! :D
WorksNotSoMuchInProgress or here's all what I haven't done anything on. Now this is a trend I can TOTALLY get on board with
Sometimes you just don't get much stitching time and I am here to say that's ok! 😂
Loved the video, any content is good content, especially wedding stuff. I did a few things when I got married, invites and table runners etc. Nothing as ambitious as a dress. I bought mine online 😉. Love your idea for your bouquet, it's so you. 😊 🪡
Thank you! This was my thought exactly, it might not be very "elegant and classy" but then who am I kidding? 😂 If we'd actually done invites I'd definitely have designed those too, bit jealous you got to do that although at least I get to dodge all the inevitable paper cuts. Our invites were just basically a DM sent to a few friends saying "hey are you free on X date?" haha.
I just found you from your latest video and I'm backtracking. I can watch crafty wedding content FOREVER. For our 2003 wedding, I made my dress, my flower girls' dresses, my David's and his sons' waistcoats, the puddings and sauce for the reception, the invitations, the four tier wedding cake and brunch for 30 the next day. My mother is a florist and did all the flowers and my sister sang me down the aisle. Don't be like me! To be fair, I had a bridal shop in the days when we made everything from scratch so I was used to it all, and I am pretty Extra. It was more stressful dealing with a couple of D's extended family members turning toxic, than all of that and I did have friends help with some of the jobs like invites and making petals for our flower girls. It was magical, but honestly a wedding should reflect the people getting married and their self expression, and as you found out from all those toxic and unhelpful articles, that's not how the industry works!
Wow that is a LOT! And to think people were getting worried about me when I announced we were crocheting flowers as well as me "making my dress". Clearly I could've gone a lot worse lol.
Sounds like you were much better equipped though, and I bet it was super satisfying! Honestly this whole thing just made me extra glad I'm not really the wedding type, my main emotion on the day was relief that it was over 😅
@@TheGiddyStitcher It was a lot, but I am a lot hehe. And I bring out the Lot in David. But yes a combo of practice and Excel skills got us through. How do people craft without spreadsheets!
would love to see your wedding dress video!
Noted! Good thing I recorded so much random footage of the process so far really 😅
Omg you’re making your own wedding dress wow that’s a challenge I hope it goes ok I can imagine the stress if it doesn’t will keep my fingers crossed for you 😍😍👍👍
Thank you! Luckily I have very basic tastes, haha, nothing too fancy and complicated 😅
Yay! A new video!!!
Thanks awfully for such a fab shout out! I must have channelled your activity on UA-cam today cos you popped into my mind and.. well… you’ll see tomorrow or Saturday, hopefully 🤭😉
I often think what we do on FT is rather like the clacks. We all mention each other and it just goes round and round and up and down the line…. 😂
And yea, let’s have that wedding dress video ❤
Oh lord I'm intrigued but also intimidated by your vague hintery 😆
And absolutely! GNU all my favourite Flosstubers!
Also…. Now I’ve watched the last couple of minutes…. Wedding crafts - you had to ask!
Takes deep breath….
When David and I got married we:
-made all our own invitations etc
-made home made fudge as our wedding favours (whole story there for another time - there’s an idea….)
- made the boxes for the fudge
- decorated the cake my Mum baked for us
- made my bouquet and my bridesmaid’s (our daughter)
And Yikes, yes, that’s was hard work but so much fun.
First time I married, I just made the invites - but my Mum made my wedding dress, 8 bridesmaid/flower girl dresses, flowers and wings for the flower girls, head dresses for all, and made and iced the cake. And after all that declared she was bored and stitched a big cross stitch for me. She was 70 at the time…. 😱
If I can locate pics I’ll stick them on Instagram.
Wow your mum is a legend! And your list makes me happy to know I'm not actually being unreasonable with mine so thank you 😅 Homemade fudge is such a good idea, none of those pointless favours that people never know what to do with, nom nom nom. Ok yes I may be commenting while hungry.
Or the favours that everyone breaks their teeth on… sugared almond, anyone?
Really looking forward to seeing how your bouquet turns out - and the Dress of course! 🙂
I'm crocheting my flowers too! (For me and my 7 bridesmaids. Send help!) I'm testing out different ones bc I want variety, but so far I have sunflowers, marigolds, and daffodils.
Oh wow that is a whole other level! How long do you have? Having a variety of flowers was my original plan as well but tbh with the very limited time and the knowledge that this is a tiny ceremony situation where I'll probably hold the bouquet for all of about 30 seconds, sticking with all the same flower in different colours just seemed way more sensible. Not to be a total enabler but have you seen the realistic flower patterns from Happy Patty Crochet? If we'd had more time I would TOTALLY be going down that route 👀
@@TheGiddyStitcher the wedding is Nov. 4, so I have quite a bit of time. If I end up running out of time, having all one type of flower is the backup plan, which would be totally fine by me. But since I have the extra time, I wanted to try. A good majority of the patterns are from the book Kawaii Crochet Garden by Melissa Bradley, I'm just omitting the faces on the flowers and also putting them on some floral wire. I haven't seen the realistic flower patterns you mentioned, but definitely worth checking out! Congrats on your wedding by the way! I totally admire the fact that you're also making your wedding dress!
Btw, also wanted to add that I just discovered your channel over the weekend and I'm loving your videos! I'm also a multicrafter, so everything you say is very relatable 🙂
@@smb826 Aw yay, congrats too you too! I forgot to say that part but was definitely thinking it, haha 🤦♀️ Welcome to the channel in that case and since we only have about 4 weeks to go now, normal video schedule should resume shortly.
November is definitely enough time to make cool things! Or at least, to have a few false starts without having to stress too much about lost time. You're gonna smash it. We're BOTH gonna smash it! 💪
@@TheGiddyStitcher haha thank you! And heck yea we are! Take whatever time you need, enjoy the upcoming month (hopefully without too much stress and panic!), and have fun! I look forward to watching more of your videos!
You know I would love to see whatever you want to share. I have that pattern that is reminiscent of Disc World. Haven't started it yet. Where can you get officially licensed Discworld patterns? Good luck with the wedding.
By the time I'm ready to buy and start that one maybe you'll have got your WIPs under control and we can start it together 😄 You can find the patterns at www.lyndisfarne.com, if you check under the "catalogue" menu at the top there are three pages of licensed Discworld ones. Definitely something I want to do at some point but it can wait until life is a bit more calm I think!
@@TheGiddyStitcher I'm in no hurry to start it, so I can definitely wait for you. No new starts in 2 months, and 3 finishes. Thanks, I'll check the patterns out.
Congratulations on your wedding, I've just binge watched your videos and love them. Can I ask where you got those coloured plastic holders with faces on on your hoop please xx
Ah thank you so much! Those are "magnetic cable ties", I got my specific ones from Amazon but honestly if you just google that phrase you'll find tons of the things. They're not super strong so you need quite a few to hold anything but they make great needle minders as a bonus feature!
@@TheGiddyStitcher thank you x
I accidentally found a free jumpsuit pattern you might like. It was in a video by The Yorkshire Sew Girl about #SewFrugal23 challenge at about 14:30. It’s the Phoebe Freebie by Pattern Union.
At first glance, it’s a full length jumpsuit with a sort of halter neck, BUT it comes with hacks for both the top and bottom, including shorts!
Not sure if it’s always free or only for March/SewFrugal23.
That's like, the perfect cruise jumpsuit! Thank you! I've not been keeping up with anyone's SewFrugal plans this year because I can't play with them and am jealous. But maybe I'll do some catching up in case of other freebies. Excellent reminder!
@@TheGiddyStitcher 🙂
go ahead and share wedding stuff if you have time, grouches can just click away
This is a very well timed comment as I am just about to hit publish on an update video lol 😂
oh for heavens sake how many times have you been married??? Go ahead and talk about it because it's news to me, love to hear about your progress.. congratulations just have fun
Lol imagine if I said "well actually this is my seventeenth time" 😂
But no, you're right, I get in my head, I will attempt to chill a bit! Also that's a spicy and confident take on Voyager, I do like their song but can't get over the fact that it's just not as good as Dreamer was. Still, most people voting will never have heard that and they do put on an excellent live show so fingers crossed for a good result!
I'm sorry who makes the rules?? YOU so if you want to stitch and not make videos........Voyager from Australia will win