Flosstube and Variety Show #185

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Flosstube = cross stitch; Variety Show can be anything, and sometimes many things all at once!

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Special intro and outro music: “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms”, excerpts from an arrangement by Byron Williams (my husband)

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Today I mentioned:

Cross stitch:

The Little Book of English Samplers - Jane Greenoff.  32-count Cat’s Whiskers by Tabbycat Linens, called-for DMC, 1 over 2 full cross

Jane Thompson 1838 - The Scarlett House - exclusive through Homespun Needlework Facebook group from The Shepherd’s Needle. 36-count Sleeping Bear (Needle and Flax), called-for NPI silk.

National Female Model School Sampler - Antique Sampler Reproductions (Kathleen Littleton) - 36-count natural linen (Zweigart) and called-for DMCs except for one substitution

A Quaker Pattern Book - With My Needle (Ellen Chester) - 56-count Albarium by Cedar River Linens and Designs, Soie surfine #2352

Harriet Salt 1866 - Hands Across the Sea - 37-count Russian Tea Cake by Legacy Linens, DMC 321 

Maud Newman 1893 - Haberdasher’ School London - Hands Across the Sea; 36-count natural linen, Soie D’Alger 2925, 1-over-2 (sampler and darning examples)

Snippet Tiger Stare - Charting Creations on 18-count Aida - color Sand, I think, from Zwiegart, with called-for DMCs.

Olympic stitching for US medals:
Gold  - 1 flower from the border of Jane Thompson (101 stitches)
Silver - Tiger Stare - 60 stitches
Bronze - Harriet Salt - 20 minutes (two or three small letters)


Hannah Green 1826 - Stitch-along starting January 1, going for 14 months, to end on March 1, 2026 (200 years after Hannah finished her sampler). I am using 36-count Just the Ticket (Tabbycat Linens) and the called-for DMC, 2 over 2. Email me if you would like to have me send you a PDF that shows the breakdown of sections that I am going to do, or watch my video #139 for more details. Please tag me and also use the hashtag (there is some question about how hashtags will be supported in Instagram …) @tworivers_58  #hannahgreen1826sal 

Rice stitch instructions: https://rsnstitchbank.org/stitch/rice-stitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfx1Pn-A7UI at 25:59, Nicola does a tutorial on the Rice Stitch.
Also, Audrey Myrehn @stitchstitchbead has a very recent stitch-with-me showing how to do rice stitch.

Variety Show

Check out a video from a few years ago:

“Rheumatism Movement Cure” by Robert Jones Burdette, as included in the anthology Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, published in 1903. 
https://youtu.be/slbCLtgWmX8