Hi friends it's Amanda Mae with Ardith Design. We're here to talk about counted
cross stitch this week and I'm so excited to be here today this is my 10th
Flosstube episode and it's officially autumn outside haha [laughs] here in North
America the days are getting a little shorter so the fake lights are coming
out to us out to play it's been raining for the last couple days here in
Maryland so I guess that's just how it's gonna be I have my little Raji pug here
with me and we're in a different location today this is my little Raji pug.
Oh and he's tired he says mommy don't
wake me up here's Raji hi baby he's uh he's my
little senior pug. Are you snorting for everyone? Alright well I'm so excited to be here I've had a very
interesting week my breaks decided to give up the ghost and so my car has been
in the shop and I had to transfer over everything and my husband's like whoa
what's wrong why are you upset oh I forgot all my Save the Stitches and the
trunk and he goes you didn't forget we'll still go back and get him so when
he went back to the auto body shop and I got all the goodies to show you this
week and I'm so excited okay so what we're gonna do we're gonna do questions
and answers we're gonna do save the stitches
questions and answers I want to thank everyone for your fantastic responses to
my video last week talking about the pineapple crochet chair goodies and I
was able to do some research on the depression-era crochet so thank you all
so much thank you all for telling me what a chicken-egg cozy was and I made
my own little dough ball look at this I made a little dough Bowl with the
chicken koozie her cozy I could fit two artificial eggs in there and then I put
some leaves this is a hand turned bowl that I received as a gift so I
officially have my little chicken out to play I love it
so much thank you all I went on Pinterest and just had so much fun
looking at all the different patterns I don't crochet I have tried and failed
miserably so it was so nice to see and I ended up pinning actually found this
pattern and that's a free pattern available so I was able to really just
have so much fun looking so thank you all again for letting me know as I said
before I'm a lifelong learner I love love love to learn about all this stuff
and I really appreciate the community for coming out and telling me what's
what and telling me about the chicken scratch embroidery I didn't realize that
stitching the X's on gingham was called chicken scratch so thank you again
alright so my next question is what software programs do I use to design
cross stitch patterns well I actually have two that I use I am an iOS Apple
user which means that I am on an iPad pro and I'm on a Mac desktop computer I
also have a PC computer but that's purely for my eBay store in printing
shipping labels and stuff I'm not really a Windows person once you go Mac you
never go back so inside joke because my last name is
starts "M-A-C" so anywho okay I use MacStitch on desktop and I love
it there are some drawbacks to it it is a software program through Ursa or
Ursula it's not Ursula you U-R-S-A. I'll I'll put it down below I'm not
affiliated with them in any way other than enjoying their product I purchased
it at the end of 2015 with their unlimited update option so I when new
updates roll out I'm able to update to meet that the times it is a software
program based out of the UK so any any DMC threads or
threads that are available in the United States but not available in in Europe or
the UK they it's not showing up for instance like DMC 3839 I believe or
anyway it's one of those threads it did come in a sample pack and a it's not
allowed in the UK it's a US. only based dye lot so it's not showing up in the
program also I've noticed that in putting different colors and symbols for
fancy flosses I'm having to do that a lot because it's not updating as quickly
as possible but the program is fantastic as far as being able to save motifs work
larger projects I've started I would say I have close to a hundred project
started on Mac Stitch design, and I've noticed that with drafting I can start
the pattern if I don't like it I can save a section of it as a motif and then
put it into a design later I I really like that feature you just have to stay
really organized with your motifs and what you're calling them and understand
that if you save it in one color palette when you change it over to your new
software or to your new document the color palette might not be the same so
then you might have to change your colors well that might be tricky if you
have two different symbols for the same color so it does take some time to learn
the program and to get the logistics kind of worked out. iPad version of the
cross-stitch design software that I'm using is not compatible with Mac stitch
so if I am creating anything on the go it is reserved to that specific program
which I find to be a huge limitation also the developer is out of Southeast
Asia so there is not only a language discrepancy and a difference in
formatting and setting things up everything's metric versus us you know
American and our inches the great thing about the
iPad software is I can use it anytime if I have an idea I can pull out my Apple
pencil or you can use an equivalent stylus and you're able to chart right
there there are significant limitations to the software program so it's not
something that I'm doing large-scale projects with but I have been able to
really work on my Christmas ornaments and my Christmas ornament series and I'm
so excited about that which I'm gonna premiere today in this video so I will
link the below the other software program that I am using. Save this
Stiches time! I had an excellent time doing save the stitches I ended up
finding some awesome treasures just in time for my my break shifter thing to go
out where I couldn't move the car and it was a whole big ordeal but I got some
really awesome stuff so behind me is this awesome applique piece on barnwood
that I got that is just tremendous so I'm gonna hang that in my craft room
oh so awesome I got this piece here and it is dated 1995 by Linda and it's got a
really neat button on it one of those three-dimensional buttons and I just
think it's really neat I love it. To me these look like hollyhock but I could be
mistaken as to what flower those are but I love the little garden gate and if
anybody has gone to thrift stores antique stores sometimes you were like
have to be very insistent like let me wrap let me wrap the piece I don't want
it to get damaged just just getting it outside of the store so this piece I
they let me actually wrap it so I didn't just damage the button and getting it
out of the store so it's really excited about that I got this little piece and
it's professionally framed New Hampshire New Hampshire Hampshire new New
Hampshire "park the car." [bad attempt at New England accent] ah I'm sorry oh I really can't do this New
England accent I can do the [attempted accent], "coffee talk. you talk and drink coffee," but I mmm
no I can't do that either okay but I love this little bird I got
this one which is so quintessential 1980s look at this frame country quilts
and it was made in 1989 to remember a fun little quilt today that they had
together I love that there is a note on it and professionally framed I got this
it's pretty dirty again professionally framed when someone mentions quilting I
just go to pieces I love it tis the season for Halloween and I was so
excited to find these little doorknob hangers they're gonna go in my house
this one look at these little pumpkins and I love the metallic thread then this
one I'm not I don't like spiders but an occasional design with a spider on it
I'm okay with that I also got these really fun little applique bats I'm not
sure what I'm gonna do with them yet but I really like them
the next cross stitch piece I got is a welcome pineapple very late 80s early
90s
it's behind glass, and then this piece I see I need to stretch it and clean it
here fishy fishy I love kitty cats I love them I I wish I
could have a cat but I I I'm I have allergies to cats what are
you gonna do alright I also did a little retail therapy on
eBay this week and I kind of got in a bidding war. like a little bit like a
little bit of a bidding war with somebody but I was really excited I
couldn't believe I actually won the auction I have this this magazine and
I've sold the magazine before before I ever was a cross-stitcher, I had I had
bought and sold this magazine and I'd always liked it and my husband liked it
and so I ended up getting another copy of it and he goes then you you have to
stitch it clearly you've got that another magazine you've got a stitch it
again well I've just you know cruising through eBay looking at stuff and I saw
a partially completed one and I said yep gotta have it look it's got the colonial
knots or that the French knots the its oh I love it
I'm so excited so now I have I have it halfway finished and I can start working
on it and get it done and hang and have my little beat maybe have the bees up
ready for next year the next piece i got i I did not get this piece online I
found this in the store and it is the Four Seasons and someone had left the
hoop on so it's pretty but I'm excited I have it came with they had bobbinated a
lot of this stuff here's what it looks like
completed and it's just another another cool little piece I don't know if I'll
finish this one or what I'm gonna do with it but I can't I can't leave these
pieces behind. It's time for pattern release time!
I'm really excited I want to show you a Christmas ornament and Halloween
ornament that I worked on and a little bit of crafty goodness the first or the
first piece I have is Halloween slash bartender slash home bar themed and it's
dark spirit brew with a dash of scream and sugar. I made it to kind of
look like an old menu or it could be I think turned into a bell pole. I
attached it on to this really fun piece that I have I have a have a bar at my
house well I have like a mid-century bar and I have it all decked out so I have a
lot of paraphernalia I don't know the right word a lot of drinking goodies
wait wait I had this in my collection there we go
this is in my collection and I thought that it would be a tremendous way of
displaying this it's got some fun little stitches I put some beadwork on it it's
got some variegated threads and I just had a lot of fun creating it the next
piece is my little crafty idea I went to the dollar store and I got this really
fun tray and I thought well what could I do and I ended up using the matte board
and then gluing it down, a-la the twisted stitcher tutorial. I'm gonna mount it
here and then I'm gonna I'm gonna mount to have it something on the back you
know so I can hang it and then I'm gonna put this and then I'm gonna try to do
one of those like decorative picks so I can display this and I'm really excited
about it I think it's so fun I got the fabric in the remnant section of a
big-box store and when off season so I'd had this in my stash the tray
from the dollar store the matte board from the dollar store the ribbon around
my cross-stitch piece here was also from the dollar store and then my fancy floss
threads are from the wool a needlework [PH Primitive Homespuns] store in Frederick Maryland and I also
thought well maybe it'll be fun no don't mount anything at all just
leave the drink tray as is as display because I'm not drinking I I have a bar
and I don't drink but that's a whole nother story
and then setting it here with some other display items will see my next piece is
a Christmas piece that I finished I really liked KittenStitcher's kind of
box tutorial I got this it's ok this is not finished but I'm showing you you
know real life here I got this piece from it was in the patriotic section I
got it on clearance this is a baby headband that I'm used using it right
now as I'm gluing the glue didn't set in time for the video so that's why that's
there but here's my little piece in its ornaments it's got the metallic threads
and then I've got fancy flosses so this is part of one of the ornament
collections this is on 32 count R&R Reproduction linen, and the more I
ironed it with the steam with the padding with everything the more
wrinkled it got I stretched it I left it for I don't know two weeks and I still
it's not perfect but here we are I look I really and I'm really enjoying doing
the Christmas ornaments and there I am I am gonna debut a couple more ornaments
but they are in the digital simulation or digital rendering of the pattern I
haven't actually physically stitched them I hope that you understand that
a lot of us new designers we have more ideas and then we can stitch or have
time to stitch so it's not that we're being lazy by doing the digital
rendering but I genuinely do not have time between being a small business
owner a mother a woman a wife entrepreneur artist homeowner Digital
Video Maker some days I sleep you know but it's I
want to get the patterns out and then they're not all model stitch so please
forgive me all right I'm gonna stop making excuses let me show you what I
have worked on so far on my pumpkin pie sampler I am so close to finishing it I
am I'm so excited she still is like disembodied head we've
been watching a lot of Scooby-Doo and there's an episode of the headless
Specter and we've only watched it like 87 times this week but every time I look
at her all I can think of now is the episode of scooby-doo the Headless
Specter anywho there I am I'm hoping to get it done and ready to display so many
awesome needlepoint resources I just got this
the museum in a Baltimore did an exhibit back in 2001 tremendous exhibit pamphlet
I didn't even know it existed I did some digging and some research and I pulled
this up I've been reading on it and it's on the the handiwork of kind of
Baltimore County Carroll County and the historical influence of it and I I want
to reach out to some of the museums and see about seeing some of this stuff in
the collection there so there are so much stuff amazing needlework needle art
there's uh it's everywhere I mean we have Mr. X stitch across the pond
specializing and you know he says he's the kingpin of contemporary embroidery
I've got so much history here in the mid-atlantic New England American
history indigenous history african-american
history all it's amazing so with every stitch just know that you are a thread
that's connecting historical needlework to contemporary needle art I want to
thank you for joining me again this week and I'll see you next week Cheers
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