I'm a monogamous stitcher. I think it keeps me motivated because if I want to start that shiny new project, I have to finish the current one. I sometimes will do a two hour stitch to make a birthday card or something, but on the whole, it's one full coverage at a time. I think it's also a space thing, it's a lot easier to kit up and store a project, and it's super satisfying to watch steady progress.

Informative. I typically don't use floss drops but it was interesting. 💧

1️⃣ I stitched on and off for many years. I would get tired of the project and put it down for a while. When I found out “that you could have”multiple projects, said Hallelujah! Why didn’t I think of that! 😂 Now I stitch all the things!

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Hey, y’all! This is my first time watching one of y’all’s videos, and you are both amazing! The vibe is soooo comfortable and fun, and the projects shared were unique and super pretty, and I loved all the pups 🐩🐶🐾 and the genuine joy y’all shared, so I subscribed, and look forward to getting to know y’all better! So fun to meet y’all! 🥰 (Y’all are also great enablers!) 😂 Happy stitching until next time, Meline

1️⃣ I enjoyed this video! Thanks for posting 😁

Hi ladies! Allison - crochet is like riding a bike, you'd surprise yourself! OK - watching this post midsummer stitch - Stephanie... do you have 'froggers' in your cellar?? I am not monogamous (not sure that needs to be said 😂), however, prior to flosstube, I only had maybe 2-3 projects on the go. Long ago in the before internet times, I was monogamous. I 'abandoned' projects, but generally only had one WIP at a time. I just went through a period of time where I really wanted to go back to one primary project with a couple others sprinkled in. It really just depends on the day 😄 Love these discussions! Happy Stitching my friends!

I have a 12 project rotation which get 12, 11, 10, 9… 1 hours each; so some project are fast tracked and others are slow coach. I use the multi-timer app to keep track of time, and start new projects at the bottom and move the others up an hour. Works for me! I’m not religious about the number of hours if I’m having fun or if the frog has come to visit too much. After all, it’s MY rotation!

I am definitely a project crafter. I need to have a set purpose for making the thing, whether it's cross stitch, sewing, knitting, or even painting, there has to be a reason why I'm making it. I currently have 6 cross stitch wips, and that feels like a bit much. I think part of it comes from when I was growing up. I love all arts and crafts, but my mum has no interest in anything like that. Every time I made anything creative my mum would always say "So what's that for?" "Because I wanted to" was not a good enough answer, I was wasting supplies😢 Sorry to get deep, but yeah, kids really take stuff to heart. My mum didn't intend to be mean, she just genuinely didn't understand why I would spend time and money making things.

🐈 This is just what I was looking for. I have a bunch of pins that I want to turn into needle minders. Now I can.

Love your flosstube! I have three products just because two are quite heavy with confetti & relief is needed I’m in awe of those who have loads I really need to be able to finish what I’m doing otherwise I don’t see the point in doing it I get much satisfaction in the finished product & a sense of accomplishment I also knit & have recently taught myself to crochet I find all these crafts give me a sense of wellbeing & comfort Now that I’m retired I have more time to do them The only problem is I sometimes find it hard to decide! Just as well I don’t have to get up at 3.30 anymore!

🥇 I have a TON of WIPs because I did #100DaysOfDifferentProjects and I worked on a completely different project every day for 100 days. I definitely ended up with a LOT more than I started with!

🥇 fruits of plenty has a rhythm to it. You can do it! Can’t wait to see lady of the flag when it is complete

1 you girls always make me smile! Love watching you two! I have been stitching for 35 years and for about 30 of those I was pretty much a monogamous stitcher. The only time I would have more than one project was if I was visiting my mom then I would bring something small that I would start and finish while I was there. Then I would resume my current project when I got home. But in 2020 I did small projects on 32 ct linen, not something I was used to, and I was only comfortable stitching on them during the day because that's when I could actually see what I was doing. So I started doing other projects at night on fabric counts that I could see. That began my transition away from monogamous stitching. But I still kept it to 2-3 projects at a time. Then I discovered flosstube last April or so and it's been a real struggle to not go down the rabbit hole!!!😂 I have 7 wips right now, but I'm holding steady to that, and refuse to start anything else unless I finish something. Now kitting up and planning is a whole different story!!😄😄😄

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1️⃣. Always been a monogamous stitcher/crafter. I love it. Accomplish enormous projects, no stress. I have never been influenced by flosstube, for me it is entertainment.

I admire all your Mira WIPs! There’s a few I want to stitch but my brain can’t handle having that many complex paper patterns at a time!

My naster set & storage is in floss bags. For small projects I'll kit the bags onto a ring. For large projects, i move floss onto cardboard keepers. Mostly me-made with some by LoRan. great channel, ty!! 🎉

I was always a monogamous stitcher until this year. Not to say I didn’t have kits ready to go, had plenty. Flosstube has caused my straying. LOL. But I love it. Stitch on whatever I am in the mood for. 1️⃣ made it to the end but never going back to just one.

Re: quilting - tied quilts is such a legit historical option though - I remember my grandmother telling me that was how her mother finished quilts. Like my grandmother honestly liked tied quilts better.

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The primitive Needle has two. And Queen city retreat has a Mirabilia freebie. And every year Hands On Design does one for her husband for Valentine’s Day that she shares. Theresa Kogut has an Easter one.

I was a monogamous stitcher prior to my hiatus. There are more projects now, but I keep it under ten. And I have about another six or eight in various stages of being kitted up. Flosstube is most definitely an enabler. Great discussion today. 1️⃣

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I have 3 projects Spring, Summer, Christmas that i'm working on. I get bored easy with the dark color. Thank you for sharing Happy Stitching 😊

Speaking of Fancy Ladies are there any Dapper Gentlemen? You know just asking for a friend. 😉

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1️⃣ 🐸 I’ve been looking forward to this video and it did not disappoint! Also Allison, your excitement when you remembered and then shared about phrogging was 💯. I have never been monogamous at anything but relationships, but Flosstube definitely shepherded me further down the road. I’ve always been ooh, shiny, let’s get all the things and then try several of the things, and then get more things when I realize what I bought first wasn’t really the best for me and so on. I would like to finish more things and I have a ton of fabric and quilting supplies that taunt me. My cross stitch stash isn’t quite that bad, but it’s possibly creeping that way. Having said that, I actually can’t keep that many projects in active wip state as I become really overloaded. I tend to be stitching on two or three projects at a time (about a month) and when I get a little tired of those I start something new and go back to older projects. I don’t ufo inactive sips, at least not in the cross stitch sense of the word, but I consider them dormant until I’m working on them again. So in that way the mental load feels a bit more manageable. I think I’m probably at about 20 -25 wips (I haven’t counted) and that seems like a reasonable range. You can maybe guess from this that I’m not a planner and tend to stitch as the spirit leads me. In fact, I love to make plans but hate following them, like really actively rebel against myself. Which is counter productive and so now if I want to get something done I have to kind of squint and come at myself sideways. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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1 🍓not sure if I did emoji correctly. It was funnto listen to both of you. I stitch monogamisly for awhile then dona new start and go back to monigomist wip.

I’ve always been a monogamous stitcher UNTIL last year when I found floss tube and all these fantastic cross stitch groups and went on my first retreat!!! What a bunch of phenomenal enabling friends I’ve met😂 I went from one to prob about 30 wips, plus another 30 or more patterns, a planner, new tshirts, floss drops and scissors fobs, plus a collection of needle minders (and I only really use one cause I stitch in hand). It has been so much fun to give myself the permission to have more than one going at a time! I do think I’ll scale it back because I do find that I do like to finish them and display them, but it’s also fun to know what is next in line! Plus I like having a few for things like wipgo or stitching Olympics etc. Thank you for sharing your perspectives!

2️⃣ I worked on my first big piece monogamously for a month and I really got burnt out. I still have a hard time looking at 986 green, which was highly used in that project. I much prefer having multiple projects to switch up the color palette. I did not start stitching to decorate my walls, but for relaxing. Sometimes I'm sad to finish a project, but a finish does mean I get a new start! I do try to work on each project every month, and work on it for a day or 2 and put it down before I'm ready to - so I will be really excited to pick it up again. It's fun to be really excited for my projects everyday. But I understand people who feel the weight of the projects and prefer just to have one at a time due to the mental baggage. Really big projects (over 60,000 stitches) do weigh on me, so I currently avoid them. Thanks for another great video! Happy stitching!!

1️⃣ I’m a new stitcher with 2 projects finished. Now I have 3 projects going….

I don’t like assignments either. I have about 5 WIPS and I have been slowly working on getting each project finished. 2 of them I have had for years because I had a several year break from stitching

1 - Can you guys do a Video explaining the different types of Patterns? Fancy Ladies / Samplers / Primitive / Replicas… etc.

I am firmly in the multi project camp! But fun to hear the monogamous perspective.

1️⃣ I currently have 4 WIPs. 2 I would consider big and 2 I would call small. Enjoy bouncing back and forth between the 4 as the mood strikes me. I have plans for starts and projects kitted and ready to go but I'd like to have some finishes done before starting a new project. I don't think I could ever be a monogomous stitcher. I know this is strictly for my enjoyment and no one else around me likes it.

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I have 12 wips. That gives each project two WIPGO pulls. When I finish one of those 12, then I start another project. Thanks for another thought provoking video. 1️⃣ 🐸

Fun conversation. thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have 5 cross stitch projects going. I spend 75% of my time on one, and touch the other 4 every week. I think of them as sheep and I'm a sheep dog - I don't want any of them to fall too far back and get lost. I resist stockpiling patterns, kits or even starts by keeping a notebook of things I see and admire. When I get the urge to shop, I go online and look at the list of someday projects. Often I cross one or more off, because I just don't feel them any more. When my focus piece is complete, I'll move another into lead position, and go shop for a new one from my list.

Great video ladies. I currently have 29 WIPs. I am participating in WIPGO this year and I've been enjoying it. Years ago when I was a monogamous stitcher, I would quit stitching and didn't realize then it was because I had project fatigue and was just sick of looking at it.

Love these videos!!! I fill like I’m with friends. So much fun. Thank you both.

I also didn't even know until flosstube that you could have more than one project. It just never occurred to me. Also, I was so poor, there was a long time when I couldn't even have one. I had a friend who got to be a stay-at-home wife, and she had many nice things and plenty of time for whatever she wanted. She wouldn't share her cross stitch patterns, claiming it would be in violation of copyright law. As if you couldn't loan a friend a book.... (eye roll). So one day I asked if I could borrow a pattern so I would have something to stitch while I watched tv at night after work. (All of my unessential money went into affording cable tv (of what, maybe 20 channels back then?) which I needed to watch to zone out from my actual life.) She said sure. I stitched multiple things for her, but I wanted to ask her about places where I would use a different color, so usually she had a few stitches in every project. One day she gave me the alphabet pattern with Kate Greenaway children and lectured me to just put in whatever color I wanted. But that felt too nervy to me, and I did the same thing I always did, so she had maybe twenty or so stitches to put in when I gave it back to her. I had hoped, as always, that she would consider with me the different color options where I would make a change, making it a cooperative friends activity. I was fine with stitching whatever color we would decide on, but I wanted to talk it over. But she was just took it back, really angry because by now she had told me on multiple occasions that she didn't care. As she took it back, she said something that rambled around and boiled down to now she would have one cross stitch project for each of her children. She had so much trouble extricating herself from that sentence, I knew she was going to tell her daughter that she had made this. (She had in fact made a pillow for her son.) Not long after this, I was invited to her house along with a friend she had just made at one of the crafty classes she had just taken. She was eager to show her friend something she had just done. We all walked into her daughter's bedroom, and there was the Kate Greenaway alphabet framed and hanging. The friend oohed and ahhed. I said, I made this. They both ignored me. I said it again, I MADE THIS. They didn't even turn their heads to look in my direction. I never felt more invisible. Now, I KNEW that woman was going to lie about having made it, but I didn't know she was going to lie to my face. The depth of contempt it takes to treat someone like that is breathtaking to me. I was a natural-born railroad stitcher, a term I never heard until flosstube. She stitched in a style I called to myself crunchy granola, a kind of lumpy texture. I didn't exactly think it was worse, just vastly different, just as handwriting differs from person to person. Did you ever meet a railroader who would randomly make a patch of crunch granola for one color? Ahem. So if you ever see one of those, most likely, I MADE THAT. What was the question, again? lol The answer for me was one. One thing at a time. I love flosstube. People are so nice here.

1️⃣ I have a todo list in every part of my life (work, adulting, parenting)-I want nothing to do with a todo list when it comes to my hobbies. I can’t even stand picking up too many side quests in video games. It’s too much mental overhead to have lots of WIPs. Every project I start is something my brain worries about constantly until I go back and finish. I’m also a product stitcher though, so I’m sure that contributes. Each of my projects has a purpose or an end goal in mind-often gifts, a specific display I have in mind, or just pebbling for my daughter. I really really want to finish them and so it’s disappointing to see them sit undone as well. I’m happy at my current WIP count of 2, because I have a small and a medium. I can take a break from my medium and knock out a small and then get back to the story quest.

You girls are a hoot! You know I stitch a million things allll the time ❤ Happy Stitching!!

Although I bought almost every cross stitch pattern know to man, now that I have started stitching, I think deep down Im a 1️⃣ BUT… I have also learned the benefits of working on more than one so maybe im a 2️⃣. For me, I like a big project because it makes my heart happy and a small project so I can have those good feel(ees) on completing something on a regular basis, and then a fun one for me. So three or four is my comfort zone So I guess I’m a 1.5😊

1️⃣ I have been 99.9% monogamous stitcher because in the past everything I stitched was a gift. Now that I'm picking this up again I will probably still only work on a limited number of projects. I'm thinking 5 or less, but that would let me work on a gift and something for me. This time around I am going to do some projects for me to keep.