Hi Annette. I learned cross stitching and lace net darning from Creative Circle in Indpls in the 80s. Loved it. Have had the bug off and on since. Good story telling. Thx for the video. Brenda is the best. She blows my mind with all her stitching.

Hi Annette. Your first video just popped up on my feed, so thought I'd have a look. I'll certainly be back. Thank you. Steph

Thanks for sharing!

Cross Stich & Country Crafts - best magazine ever printed for cross stitch! I am fortunate to have the premier issue as well as the last one they published. Nice first video...I've subscribed : )

Hey Annette! My name is Annette also! 😃 Love your story about getting started at cross stitch again. I too have started stitching after 30 years! There are so many new fun things. My husband had recently ordered an iPad stand from Amazon and decided it didn’t work for his needs. I tried my magnetic board that holds patterns and it worked great!

Just found your channel and wow you do beautiful work. Welcome to Floss Tube

I started cross stitching again last June after 30 years. Major changes in the craft. I have packs of Aida with 99 cent stickers on them!! Your projects are beautiful! You are very calming. Sunbonnet Sue I just love those patterns. Great video!

Just found you today... I too was a creative circle girl, back in the day... I still have the jacobean sampler that I made while expecting my daughter in 1980. Still have some creative circle kits in a tote somehwhere... As well my sister and I have a least 10 years of the BH&G cross stitch and country crafts. I loved your video. Hope you make more. I live on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and have been a sewist for over40 years. Have recently gotten back into cross stitch, blackwork, am a quilter too. and am interested in learning hardanger. Love the floss tube community. Wish I had a LNS near me... but alas, have to order online a lot... Am nearing retirement.... and am toying with opening a small LNS in my community.Love your enthuisaum Welcome ;-)

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I remember creative circle!!

Hi Annette I just discovered your channel. I will start watching your videos. Thanks for sharing. Grettings from Costa Rica.

Congratulations on your first floss tube video! You did a fabulous job sharing your story of needlework before to current work today. I am interested in how you like the magnifier glasses and especially the brand and weight of them if you could share that information. I started with embroidery and crewel patterns, then cross stitch then quilting and now have come back to cross stitching with fervor!! Stitching brings such therapy to my soul.😀

Great first vid ❤️

I really enjoyed your story. I hope to see you again!!

Your video is great. I was the same way with the old eyes, I also picked up stitching after 30 years. I also learned from the Creative Circle and did so many projects. I also use the magnifying glasses and also a bright light. Thanks for sharing your tips.

Hello Lovely first video welcome to flosstube, You Have Some Lovely Stitching In Progress, Have Subscribed to your channel till next time happy stitching Lynn In England 🧵🪡❤️🇬🇧

Hello Annette! I just found your #1 Flosstube video tonight. I enjoyed looking at your beautiful stitching, especially the large tea garden. I will watch for a finish on that one. You have some nice haul too. Enjoy your stitching week ahead ! Greetings 🇨🇦

Hi, Annette! It was such a pleasure to meet you. You are truly a natural, and delightful to listen to. I enjoyed your “stories”, and seeing your lovely projects. Isn’t it fun, discovering all the new things that have come upon the cross stitch scene? I have those exact same stitching glasses 🤓 and they are such a game-changer! My friend calls them my alien glasses, because she says I look like an alien when I use them, but I prefer to think of them as my mad scientist glasses! 🤣 Thank you for starting a FlossTube! I look forward to seeing more of you in the future! Meline

I had a subscription to that magazine back in the day. I've done the circle of crafts. I stitched when my eyes were younger. Then I discovered the log cabin and started quilting. With COVID and being home bound for the past two years stitching has made a return. Welcome to flosstube.

I just finish watching all of your video's and I had to go see if I had the Cross stitch and Country crafts magazine. And because I never throw any thing away I do. 20 years ago it didn't speak to me, but after seeing yours I am going to have to kit it up. Thanks for adding one more project to my all ready growing pile. Take care!!!

Congratulations on your first Flosstube. Enjoyed watching from Sunny Western Australia. 🌞

I made the same pattern on the cover. I worked at a craft store and started it in 1994 after my dad died. For 4 months start I worked on it after I quit my job. Left it for awhile and started working on it here and there then in 1996 I moved. I had the bottom 5 inches of the right corner to go. Didn’t finish it until 2004. Now it’s framed and in our bedroom. I still love it as it reminds me of central California Pacific Ocean beaches.

Congratulations on your first flossttube! Well done! SunBonnet Sue is so cute! Looking forward.to more floss tubes! Thank you!

I’ve really been enjoying your videos. It was fun hearing your stitchy history and seeing your ‘WIP parade.’

If you out a piece of 1 to2 inch ribbon the opposite way you put your strips of fabric you can use the ribbon to pull off the clamps.

I loved Creative Circle and Cross Stitch & Country Crafts and miss them both. Remember lace net darning? Those were some of my favorite kits in addition to cross stitch. Back then I wasn't that great about finishing things and I have several CC kits on my WIPGO board for this year. I enjoyed your floss tube and look forward to more.

Thank you I learned so much even though I have been stitching awhile.

Wonderful video and great wips!😍

I think you are great!

You are easy to listen to, and I enjoyed your first video. I returned to cross stitch 2 years ago, and what a different world from the 80's and 90's. Brenda, Handworkmaniac, has been on of my favorites, too. Her stitching is beautiful. Because of Flosstube, I've really gone down the rabbit hole with trying all the things!

Love your video and yes, the struggles that we all have when we try to cross stitch till we find what works for us. Beautiful stitching 😍

This was wonderful!!! I completely enjoyed watching your flosstube and cant wait to see more! Have a lovely rest of your day! Thanks for sharing! Felicia =)

What a sweet video! I've followed you on Instagram for awhile and now nice to hear your voice. I just recently got back into cross stitching and this was a very helpful, fun video!! Great job!

You did a wonderful job on your first video. I, too, remember Creative Circle and still have a couple of finished projects in my drawer. I love the sea project you are doing and that spring pattern from a Filligram is beautiful! It’s going to look great on that fabric you picked out. Also, the sun bonnet girls in red are adorable. My grandma taught me to embroider and I like doing that. I can understand your trouble trying to see on some of those smaller count fabrics. I still like Aida and will continue with that. Thanks for sharing.

Love the magazine design- so pretty. Your story about your redwork is hilarious!

Loved your first video! I completely understand the struggles of not being able to see when stitching! 😀 Thank you for sharing your tips and your beautiful cross stitch projects. I am looking forward to your next video!

Wow! So many projects going! They are beautiful. My mom does the same. I like your ideas on gadgets to make stitching easier!

Hi! Congratulations on your first FlossTube! I use the same magnifying glasses and can’t do without. You have some very nice WIPs. Looking forward to seeing more of your work 🤓

I very much enjoyed your first floss tube and looking forward to seeing your progress.

Yay, fab 1st floss tube. It's so nice to see you coming back to cross stitch. I love the new Hydrangea kit, I think the Gold collection have some fantastic flower ranges, such depth and detail. Looking forward to seeing more from you. Love from England xx

Loved your video! Congrats on your launch video. Heard about you from stitchywitch42. Glad I found you. Love reminiscing crossstitching from years ago. Keep going we're with you.

I attended a Creative Circle party and got hooked. Had a party and bought all kinds of kits, mostly crewel embroidery but others too. I still have the brown craft bag I got for having the party. Switched to cross stitch, switched again to quilting for years and now am doing quilting and cross stitch. Loved your video and bought a lot of memories to mind. Thank you.

Creative Circle is how I got my start too! I just stitched though. I like that your video was not too long. Happy stitching.

Love all your WIP projects! I love to do hand embroidery, and most recently got into cross stitch. I’ve done a bit of simple EPP hexagon flowers with hand embroidered centers, hoping one day to turn those into lap quilts (when I can figure out and/or research how to 😊). Stitching is so therapeutic, especially enjoy it while listening to upbuilding music, etc! Looking forward to your future videos!

Hi, I've just found your channel and I love your work and how you tackled the hurdles with your first piece, I can't wait to see more. I'm off to subscribe to you. The rocking stitcher has some amazing pieces doesn't she, I've not heard of the other one so thanks for shouting her out, I'll go take a look at her channel. Take care xx

Just found you! So happy I did! I’m just picking cross stitch back up after 20 some years break.

Congratulations on your first video. Great job. Glad you mentioned Instagram. I found you🤗. Following you on both I and YT. Looking forward to your postings. 🥰

Hey Annette! Welcome to FlossTube!! I swear by q-snaps too. I like to use a big one (11x17) that I can even have my pattern stuck to using my needleminder while seated at a table.

Just found your u tube! Your journey back to cross stitch sounds very similar to mine! And I love quilting! Can’t wait to see more….

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Hello Annette, it is a pleasure to "meet" you. Welcome to Flosstube! I think you did a marvelous job on your first video. Looking forward to more of your craft sharing. I promise to share your name and channel on my next video. Happy Stitching, Sew Grateful to have found you. Your new friend, Daleen

Wonderful 1st video. If your in Salt Lake you need to take a trip to Shepherds Bush in Ogden.

Hello Annette welcome to flosstube😁, it's a fabulous place to be. I taught myself through Library books back in the 80's. Found it again about five years ago and boy has it changed. Thank goodness for flosstube. Its a whole new world out there😜.I look forward to your next video and to follow your journey. Brenda is one of my favourites, amongst hundreds of others lol.Stitching Jules was one of the first I followed and over the past year or two years or so she's changed many things. Have you tried a lap stand? Or floor stand? Many people put their finished projects into photo frames. A fantastic lady called Vonna Phiffer is a fantastic finisher😁. Have fun. Stay safe🖐️

Hi Annette, lovely to meet you and I'm a new subscriber. I wish you the very best for your channel. Your pieces look lovely 😊. I'm a 38 year old man from Wales in the UK and just love to cross stitch. I'm working on a full coverage Heaven and Earth Designs Nativity piece at the minute 28ct Lugana, 1 over 1 and am loving it. I always stitch by way of a hoop and very rarely diverge, only on the odd occasion using a Q-Snap. However, I've ordered a Quantum Frame from Omanik based in Estonia (the largest size they offer) for larger future projects. I'm looking forward to it arriving. My grandmother used to crochet and knit and she taught me the latter when I was very young although sadly, I never took it up properly. Cross stitching however is just fab. Here in the UK, the magazine I buy is called The World of Cross Stitching. It's a good magazine with some lovely patterns in each monthly issue. Lots of tips, tricks and techniques also. I keep trying to muster the courage to start a channel myself, but at the moment don't feel confident enough. This year, I'll give it serious thought though 🤞🏻 All the best to you and yours Annette. Ps: Stitching Jules is one of my favourite floss tubers as is Mary Rose of Stitch Bliss Corner who's from all the way down in Australia. Chris Xx

I heard about your channel from Audrey - Stitchy Witch 42 on KZfaq. I used to sell Creative Memories long ago also. It was so fun! I have to have a magnifying light to stitch anymore also. Great first video! 💜 - Connie

Hello this is Mary Ann from South Jersey I hope you don't mind if this is my second comment I just saw your sunbonnet Susie cross stitch I got so excited I think it's so beautiful thank you so much for sharing

You are delightful! I can't wait for your next video. Your journey back to cross stitching is similar to any of us who started before the 2000"s. Linen, jobelan, lugana?? Hand dyed? Over dyed? It cost what for that??? It's a steep learning curve if you've been away for a while. Your ocean piece is stunning. I now wish I had kept all those magazines from the past.

Nice to meet you. Its a pain having older eyes isnt it? 😉 looking forward to your next video.

Hello my name is Mary Ann and I'm from South Jersey in September end of October I am going route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica and one of the days we are stopping in Las Vegas we are cross stitchers and we are looking to go to stitchers stitchers Paradise that you have mentioned we are so excited about this trip because in downtown Chicago there's a cross stitch also called Nina's while we're doing our route 66 we are looking for cross stitch shops along the way thank you for mentioning the one in Vegas we are so excited about our trip we are new at cross stitch I'm the quilter but we are enjoying our new adventure thank you for sharing

Just discovered you! Nice to have a mature lady to watch, I'm mature too! Lovely work and enjoyed your chat.

Your video is inspiring I will be looking forward to more. By the way Handwork maniac i want to be her when I grow up lol I’m 69 her work is amazing.

Enjoyed watching your video and seeing your projects. Love the Sunbonnet Sue blocks you shared - wonderful stitching! What color red are you using? Looking forward to next time, and thanks for the stitching tip recommendation to handwork maniac #19 - gonna check it out. Also, do you remember the name of the magnifying glasses you showed? Thanks!

Very nice video! I’d love to see your quilting as well. Any plans for that?