Flosstube 36 - Winner, Winner, Chicken dinner

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**Cross Stitch **

Finished Objects

*Little Mushroom ghost

Designer: The Little Stitcher, Just Cross Stitch, Halloween 2025

Started: Sept. 8, 2025

Finished: October 2025

Fabric: Hobby Lobby

Fabric color: natural

Fabric count: 25 lugana

DMC: Called for DCM

*A thing with feathers

Started: Sept. 9, 2025

Finished: Oct. 5, 2025

Designer: Mojo Stitches

Chart purchased: Just Cross Stitch, Autumn 2025

Fabric: Mystery stash aida

Fabric Color: White

Fabric Count: White

Floss used: 434, 3820, 3012, 3011

*Red Panda, part of the Endangered Species club, 2024

Started: July, 5, 2025

Finished: Oct. 20, 2025

Designer: Lindy Stitches

Fabric: Hobby Lobby Aida

Color: Ivory

Fabric Count: 16 count

Floss: called for DMC and fancy floss

*Rescue is my favorite breed

Started: Oct. 31, 2025

Finished: Nov. 2, 2025

Designer MrsAZzoo (Alison)

Fabric: 14 count stash aida

Fully Finished Objects

* Black Cat Sampler

Project Name: Black Cat Sampler

Started: Early Oct. 2024

Finished: Oct. 31, 2024

Designer/Source: Just Cross Stitch magazine Halloween 2024 issue

Nancy Wahler, Faithwurks designs

DMC Floss: 310; 645; blanc; 3822

Fabric: 14 Count Aida purchase from hobby lobby, spa color, I think. 

Needle Size: 26

Last spoke about it on Episode 24

* White Christmas 2022 ornaments

Started: Dec. 2, 2023

Finished: July 2025, I think. 

Designer/Source: Primrose Cottage stitches

Fabric: 14 count aida opalescent

DMC floss in called for colors

B5200, 310, 321, 435, 562, 722, 728, 761, 818, 898, 954, 3841

Needle Size: 26

Made For: Myself. 

Current Works in Progress

*A daily reminder

Started: June 25, 2025

Designer/Source: Brenda Gervais, purchased at Farm Girl Dry Goods

Fabric: Stash Aida

Color: Hand dyed by me, brown and splashes of green

Fabric Count: 14 count

DMC: My own conversion: B5200, 435, 947, 355, 321, 562, 435, 3776, 700

Stitch along with Sarah at Sarah's Stitchy Spot, Holly and Hobbies of Holly, and Judy and Stitching Bunny

New Starts

* Neon Cicada

Started: Nov. 5, 2025

Finished: 

Designer: Bad Stitch on Etsy

Fabric: Black cotton T shirt

DMC: 16, 17, 19, 34, 35, 158, 208, 209, 517, 518, 722, 793, 917, 956, 3804, 3807

**Knitting**

Current Works in Progress

*Vanilla sock

Yarn: Knit Picks Felici

Started: Sept. 9, 2025

Colorway: “Buddy”

Colors: red, green, very light blue.

First sock is complete.

Finished Objects

*Mittens from Tin Can Knits

https://tincanknits.com/pattern/the-worlds-simplest-mittens

Started: Nov. 3, 2025

Finished: Nov. 8, 2025

Yarn: I love this yarn chunky

Colorway: 362 Sunburst Harvet

Needle sizes: U.S. 6 and U.S. 8 

*Hat Captain Tracy’s Watch Cap – by LittleYeti

Ravelry link - https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/captain-tracys-watch-cap

Started:

Finished:

Yarn: I love this yarn chunky

Colorway: 157 Safari Trek

Needle size: U.S. 8

New Starts

*Mittens from Tin Can Knits

Started: Nov. 13

Finished:

Yarn: I love this yarn chunky

Colorway: 157 Safari Trek

Needle size: U.S. 6 and U.S. 8

https://tincanknits.com/pattern/the-worlds-simplest-mittens

**Crochet**

Finished Objects

**Harvest Table runner

Started: Oct. 1, 2025

Finished: Oct. 10, 2025

Designer: Sarah Sach

https://poshpoochdesignsdogclothes.blogspot.com/2025/08/harvest-table-runner-crochet-pattern-by.html

Yarn: Red Heart white with the stelina running through it. 

*Water bottle cozy (2 of them)

Started: Sept. 20, Sept. 21

Finished: Sept. 20, Sept. 21

Pattern: Ninja bunny crochet

Yarn: stash dishcloth yarn

https://www.etsy.com/listing/713066361/crochet-water-bottle-cozy-pattern

Crooked coffee cup cozy pattern.

Started and finished: October 2025

Yarn: Stash dishcloth cotton yarn

Hook size: 5 m.m.

https://oombawkadesigncrochet.com/crooked-coffee-cup-cozy-pattern/

*Octopus

Designer: http://mynomadhome.com/octopus-for-a-preemie-osmiorniczka-dla-wczesniaka/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNw55NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF6RGFzdzNrcld3VkNBTVJoAR5fmZOERgd0Hu-wS1LoMTIRdhUtsUB0i9fQnxAW8G_vcyrrTcBnMmvHXKWaSw_aem_Xpo6_a4qEXKnlX8AMskImw

Started: Sept. 24, 2025

Completed: Sept. 25, 2025

Yarn: I love this yarn

Colorway: Sugarplum stripe

Hook size: 3.5 mm

2 Suzette scarves

Started: Oct. 11, 2025

Finished: Oct. 13, 2025

Yarn: I love this chunky yarn

Colorway: Plum garden

Hook size: 9 mm

https://www.hookedbyrobin.com/blog/crochet-suzette-scarf

Started: Oct. 14, 2025

Finished: Oct. 16, 2025

Yarn: I love this chunky yarn

Colorway: Sunburst harvest

Hook size: 9 mm

https://www.hookedbyrobin.com/blog/crochet-suzette-scarf

I’m doing the granny square CAL hosted by Madame stitch.  I’m currently on square 7. 

https://www.madamestitch.com/2025-granny-stitch-sampler-blanket-free-crochet-along/

Started Oct. 2025

Yarn used: Stash yarns

Crochet hook: 5.0 mm

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Sarah  @SarahsStitchySpot  

Judy  @Stitchingbunny1127  

Katherine  @KatherinesStitchingChronicles  

Cat  @StitchinWiththeGriffin  

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Tired from the weekend

My week days are still pretty quiet and not a lot going on.  I'm having flashbacks to a few months ago where I was writing that things were quiet. So nothing has changed, really. 

I did work on my crafty projects. 

Crochet Suzette Scarf from Hooked by Robin.  If you crochet, I recommend this pattern. It's good television crochet. 

I am *almost* done with a cross stitch. 

"But Marcy," you are probably saying, "It looks complete. How are you not done." 

Oh, trust me, I'm *this* close to being done with it. 

Little Mushroom ghost
Designer: The Little Stitcher, Just Cross Stitch, Halloween 2025
Started: Sept. 8, 2025
Fabric: Hobby Lobby
Fabric color: natural
Fabric count: 25 lugana

The weekends, though ... when hunting season started up my weekends became more busy. My weekends are almost always more busy than the week days.  I'm sure that's how it is for everyone. 

This time of year, though, usually it's a very full plate of activities. Hunting activities, preserving the harvest, ripping out the garden and getting things ready for when the snow flies. 

Even though I don't have the usual full bounty of preserving I usually have, there are still a lot of things going on. 

On Friday I started ripping out the garden. It was a bit bittersweet.  I thought I took photos after I had put in a few hours of work. Nope. 

Did I take photos on Saturday? Nuh uh. 

I did take a quick photo of some of the chickens peeking in the front door. 

Almost like the one dared the other one to go peeking in the door. 

Sunday hubby and I "played" out in the woods. We were scoping out a new spot. 

I forgot that I took a photo (well, a few actually) while we were out there. 

Both weekend days were gorgeous days. Windy, but beautiful. 

Have you ever wondered just how good blaze orange shows up? 

It was youth hunt this past weekend, so we were wearing blaze orange while we were out and about. 

Sunday my hubby and I did another big project.  Nothing very exciting or thrilling. Just one of those things that inevitably needs to be done and we'd been ignoring it for a long time.  Once we were done with it I felt inspired to go in to the craft room and do some work: cleaning out, purging and tidying up.  Fun times. 

It looks like the weather for most of the upcoming week is going to be somewhat decent.  Which is great, because I still have a decent amount of outside work to do before snow flies. Knowing my luck, I will get everything taken care of and then the family will harvest a second deer and things will get untidy and then it will snow and freeze.  That has happened to me in the past. Let it stay decent enough, weather-wise, until every thing is taken care of. Is that too much to ask for? Maybe. *grin* 

Oh, and before I forget, I put out a flosstube last week. Did you watch it yet? If not, I highly recommend you do so. You might win something. 

Hello there, October

And just like that ... September has left the party and October has joined the chat. Love how I mixed things up there? 

It's a quiet start to the month so far. That's how September started, and look what happened there. I'm feeling cautious about what may come during this month.

What happened this week? Thankfully not much.  My craftjo seems to have returned.  I'm still feeling the yarn crafts more than the cross stitch. 

Fighting with a cross stitch project is not helping that sentiment of "I'd rather be yarn crafting." 

This is where I was a few days ago.  I started working on the border and it's not lining up correctly and I can't figure out what the issue is. So annoying when that happens. 

Project: "Hope is the thing with feathers
Started: 9/9/25
Designer: Mojo Stitches
Chart purchased: Just Cross Stitch, Autumn 2025
Fabric: Mystery stash aida
Fabric Color: White
Fabric Count: White
Floss used: 434, 3820, 3012, 3011

Wish me luck. 

I had a quiet morning before work earlier this week. It was so nice to have a bit of decompression time before starting work that day. 

I didn't make a project card for this project. It's Knit Picks Felici yarn. "Buddy" colorway. I'm following the crazy sock lady method, hence the stitch markers in the sock. 

Last night I cast on for a crooked cozy coffee from the Oombawka Design Crochet site. It's going to be a quick stitch and super cute when it's done. 

In my last blog post I wrote that I've been reading. Not as quick as I would like, but progress is being made. I started using my GoodReads account again, and made a widget for the blog, over on the right. 

I'm listening to Lord of the Rings, book 1,  I have Wuthering Heights and The Obituary Society on my Kindle. It would seem I've been setting myself up for any scenario where I need something to read or hear. I was listening to Lord of the Rings while I was waiting at my doctor's appointment.  I didn't have my knitting and was glad to have something to occupy my time. 

The weather has been lovely this week. 

The fall colors are really starting to pop. 

I've been taking photos of the trees almost every morning.  I'm debating on either posting them all on the blog, or making them into a video. Anyone have opinions? 

My sweet little Feffer has been sort of enjoying the weather. He also has been shedding. A lot. His winter coat is starting to come in. 

I haven't sat out all week. I have been going out the morning to grab the SD cards, keeping an eye on what's coming through. 

I realize there hasn't been a chicken update. 

The babies and the older hen, who I've been calling "Mama," are slowly starting to get along. 

They won't sleep by each other, though. Mama is usually way off to the other side of the roost.  When I go out there at night to tuck them in, I give them all pets and tell them what good birds they are.  Mama will move towards me, like she wants pets, too.  But she doesn't want to be too close to them. Ha! 

The babies have figured out this whole coming up to the front door thing. They come visit and stare at me like they want something.  Then run away as soon as I open the door a little bit. Yesterday they were at the door and I asked "Are you pooping on my stoop?" They turned and ran like they were guilty of something. 

Garden update ... well, a month ago the garden was in better shape. ... then ... stuff, man, stuff. It's definitely winding down. Frost could technically happen at anytime. I think the first chance of it, officially, is Oct. 18.  I need to get out there and harvest what's ready and preserve what I can, and then start prepping it for winter.

I did take a few more recent photos and a quick video overview, so I can mark the end of the season. I suppose.  This year didn't really feel like much of a garden season. There's always next year, right? The weather will hopefully be better. *Fingers crossed* 

Here's a bumble bee sleeping in one of my hollyhocks. 

This meme was spotted in Book of Faces land. I thought it was hilarious.  Maybe not enough people have seen the movie? It's like a running joke with the husband and I. 

No firm plans for the weekend.  I'm *way* overdue for posting shownotes for my last flosstube on here. I will try and get that taken care of.  I also need to write notes for my next video. I need to pull things together and remember what all I've worked on this past month. While it doesn't seem like I've done much, I'm sure it will be more than I realize. 

Until next time. 

Fall is here

 It's been a minute since I last wrote.  September has been a bit of a rough month. Over the course of the first part of the month I've thought how I was going to write this blog post.  Events at the national and world level got me such that I shared this on my book of faces ...

and disappeared in to the woods. So to speak.  

A wonderful place to be when you want to get away from the noise of the world. 

Hunting season started on Sept. 13 and I've spent a fair amount of time out in the back 20, disconnected from social media, by choice, and thinking, knitting, listening to audiobooks and staring out at the trees. 

A little bit of the knitting while I was out there. 

Not a lot of fall colors out there yet. 

Just a lot of brown. 

I am happy to share that I have filled one of my tags.  I also had a hunting buddy one of the days I was sitting out there. 

It's hard to tell, but that is a tree frog hiding in my blind. Oh, and he was loud when he croaked. 

Then I saw this meme. I have no idea where, and decided I liked it. Seriously. There really isn't anything good on social media anymore. 

When I wasn't out in the woods I was re-watching Fr. Brown Mysteries, and even started a few books. 

Crafting slowed down.  I've barely touched my cross stitch.  I've done some knitting and crochet. 

Look at this sweet little Octopus. 

I made it for a little girl who keeps trying to sneak away her baby sister’s Octopus. The mom told me they “fight” over the one I made for her baby girl, because both daughters love it so much.

Started: Sept. 24, 2025
Completed: Sept. 25, 2025
Yarn: I love this yarn
Colorway: Sugarplum stripe
Hook size: 3.5 mm

I have a few other things I'll share on my next video. 

Soooooo ... if anyone was wondering, that's where I've been. Offline for the most part. I'm slowly dipping my toes back online.

I have been keeping an eye on the number of views/hits on my last blog post. I'm at more than 2,500 views. My friend Becky said it's probably bots. Which, is another reason to dislike what's going on with social media and the Internet. 

Anywho ... I've never written on this blog for hits. It was to hopefully meet other crafters and let family know what's going on. Unfortunately, I doubt family reads the blog, because it's not just a quick post on a social media site, and crafters are mostly on social media sites that are now too busy to make real connections.  

Fortunately, the connections I've been making with other cross stitchers and crafters has been through Youtube. Or I've already known them for 100 years. 

So this blog post ends on a more light note, here's a photo of bee in one of the garden hollyhocks. 

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