Inspired by other Flosstubers, a few months ago, I created a booklet Stitchy Tracker, which I showed in a recent video.  I have gotten positive feedback and requests to share the files, so I am posting them here:


Basic instructions


Printing Instructions


Assembly Instructions


Pages for printing:


Full Sheet


Top-only


Bottom-only


I am planning to do a tutorial video once I've returned from my trip to Wisconsin. (should be posted sometime in August)

UPDATE: Video tutorial completed... you can find it here.


If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.   Happy Stitching!

Rotation Tag (Flosstube)

Rotation Tag  -

- posted 17JAN16 by Tea and Stitches 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

1.  Do you have a consistent Rotation or does it change?

2.  How many tips are in your rotation?

3.  How do you choose the pieces in your Rotation?

4.  How does your Rotation change?

5.  When do you add or change pieces in your rotation?

6.  How long have you been using a rotation?

7.  How often do you review or reassess your rotation?

8.  How has having a rotation changed your stitching?

9.  What would you change about your stitching?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Updated Tag Tracker

Tonight I updated the tag archive.  Here is the updated tag tracker:

Tag Tracker as of 7Jan16

As always, if I am missing any tags, please let me know. 

Happy Stitching!

Peep's Christmas Tag (Flosstube)

Peep’s Christmas Tag  -

- posted 23DEC15 by Rachel Peep

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1) Which Christmas cartoon or movie would you like to be in?

 

2) Which Christmas recipe is the worst/best at family gatherings?

 

3) What is the best white Christmas you’ve ever had?

 

4) What is the most controversial or worst thing that has ever happened on Christmas?

 

5) If you could start of new Christmas tradition, what would it be?

 

6) What is your favorite stocking stuffer to receive?

 

7) How many days does it take you to clean up Christmas decorations?

 

8) How soon should department stores really put up Christmas decorations?

 

9) What is your worst Christmas shopping experience?

 

10) What do you feel is the most Christmas-y decoration?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

Peep's Christmas Tag

End of Year 2015 Tag (Flosstube)

End of Year 2015 Tag  -

- posted 23DEC15 by Teresa Little Stitcher

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1.  What is the most useful tip you have ever got from watching the Flosstube community?

2.  What is the best cross stitch related thing you have learnt this year?

3.  Based on 2015 what have you learnt that you will not do in 2016 – if anything?

4.  What are you favorite Flosstube videos to watch – Updates, Hauls, Stash, Tags, Tutorials and just watching someone stitch?

5.  Based on this year’s cross stitching, what now is your most used tools/objects and what now are your least used tools/objects?

5.5.  Random question… what did you do before needle minders?

6.  Based on your experiences in 2015, do you now prefer small projects or big projects, Full coverage or not?

7.  Do you stitch cards as well as other things?

8.  What has been your biggest accomplishment this year?

9.  What has been the most disappointing stitching thing of 2015?

10.  What is the funniest moment in stitching this year?

11.  What was your worst moment in stitching this year?

12.  If you were put on a deserted island what 5 stitchy things would be your must have items?

13.  Which 4 Flosstubers would you like to have on your island with you and why?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

End of Year 2015 Tag

Teeny Tiny Tag (Flosstube)

Teeny Tiny Tag  -

- posted 09DEC15 by Amanda Stitching

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1. When stitching a design with a face, do you do the eyes as you go or at the end?
2. What is the most unusual thing you use for cross stitching?
3. Have you ever moved onto something more up-to-date only to end up going back to how you originally did it?
4. Do you have to hide your haul/stash?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

Teeny Tiny Tag

Holiday Tag (Flosstube)

Holiday Tag  -

- posted 05DEC15 by Jo & Molly

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1) What's the worst holiday gift you have ever received? Best?
2) What holiday do you celebrate at this time of the year?
3) What is your favorite holiday cookie/candy?
4) If you could go anywhere in the world to spend the holidays, where would you go?
5) What is your favorite childhood holiday memory? Favorite grownup holiday memory?
6) Do you decorate for your holiday? Are you an over decorator, a minimalist or somewhere in between?
7) Do you have a big holiday meal? Does it involve just your immediate family, extended family, friends or a mixture of all?
8) Favorite holiday to stitch (doesn't have to be this holiday, it can be a time of year and/or season).

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Thankful Tag (Flosstube)

Thankful Tag  -

- posted 17NOV15 by Stitchin Fisch

 

 – video deleted

 

1. What is your favorite thing about thanksgiving?
2. What is your favorite memory from thanksgiving?
3. What are you most thankful for in your family world?
4. What are you most thankful for in your stitchy world?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Special Item Tag (Flosstube)

Special Item Tag  -

- posted 17NOV15 by MichelletheMerry

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1) What is the object?
2) Where did you get it?
3) What is the story connected to the item?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

Special Item Tag

General Stitching Tag (Flosstube)

General Stitching Tag  -

- posted 09NOV15 by Jo & Molly

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1. How often do you stitch? Once a month, week, weekly, day? How long is your typical stitching 'session'?
2. What was the longest time (one time session) you had ever stitched for?
3. Show your favorite needle minder.
4. What does the way you stitch say about you?
5. Is there one piece you stitched that didn't turn out the way you had wanted it to?
6. What do you find the easiest thing/type of pattern to stitch?
7. Are you planning on starting a new piece in the next year that you would consider a challenge?
8. What was/is the best stitching product you were 'enabled' to buy?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Crafty Tag (Flosstube)

Crafty Tag  -

- posted 27OCT15 by Pam Reid

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 1) Do you do crafts other then cross stitch? (Knitting, crochet, scrapbooking, quilting, etc)
If yes, tell us what they are and do a show & tell.
2) If you do not do other crafts, are there ones you are interested in trying?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Halloween Tag (Flosstube)

Halloween Tag  -

- posted 26OCT15 by j00licious

  – LINK TO VIDEO

1.) How do you like your Halloween entertainment: cute & fun or super scary?
2.) What is your favorite Halloween candy?
3.) Candy corn: love it or hate it?
4.) What's your favorite scary movie? (or Halloween-themed movie in general.)
5.) Do you have a yearly Halloween tradition? (i.e. trick-or-treaters, going to a "haunted house," costume party, etc.)
6.) Favorite or most memorable Halloween costume?
7.) Recommend a Halloween-themed cross stitch pattern.

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Stitchy Friends Tag (Flosstube)

Stitchy Friends Tag  -

- posted 17OCT15 by Jo & Molly

 

 – LINK TO VIDEO

 

1)  Do you have any stitchy friends?
2) Do you have any IRL (in real life) stitchy friends? Do you get together to stitch?
3) Do you Skype or have Hangouts w/your stitchy friends?
4) Do you get more or less stitching done while you are w/your stitchy friends?
5) Have you ever met up w/an online Stitchy friend and realized they were wackadoo?
6) How far would you travel to meet a stitchy friend?
7) Have you, or would you, gone to a monthly stitching group or a retreat?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Adele's Stitching Confession Tag (Flosstube)

Adele’s Stitching Confession Tag  -

- posted 14OCT15 by Adele McNaughton

  – LINK TO VIDEO

 1) Do you have a stitching confession you’d be willing to share?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:

LINK TO DOCUMENT

Dreamworld Tag (Flosstube)

Dreamworld Tag  -

- posted 28AUG15 by Rachel Peep – Link to Video

1) If you could stitch in any place in the world where would it be?
2) What is your most interesting dream while sleeping? Awake?
3) If you could design your own planet what would it look like? Which element (animal, plantlife) of Earth would you take with you?
4) If you were told you would have your own cross stitch line one day what would its theme be? Color scheme?
5) If you could would you design a new type of thread? What would it look like?
6) If you knew you would live a hundred more years what would you stitch?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document:


Dreamworld Tag

Wow...done...for now.

Okay.... so all the current tags have been posted. YAY!

It is completely up to you, if  you want to start at the most recent and work your way back to the first one, or start at the first tag and work your way forward to the most recent.  Or do them in your own random pattern.  Whatever works for you.

The linked documents can be downloaded for your convenience.

If you create a new tag, please keep the following things in mind:
- try to avoid repeating questions that have already been asked
- give your tag an appropriate, description, unique name
- include the tag name in your video title, and indicate that it is new
- type out the questions in the description box
- let me know somehow, so I can add it to list. You can comment on this blog post, or comment on my video linked here:

Video: Archive of Flosstube Tags

As always.... Happy Stitching!
- Tricia

The Chaotic Tag (Flosstube)

The Chaotic Tag  -

- posted 20AUG15 by mn chaos – Link to Video

1. What is your culture/heritage? (Where are your ancestors from? What foods did you grow up eating? Did you grow up with a particular set of beliefs and traditions?)
2. Do you make an effort to pass on the culture you grew up, are you part of any counterculture, or are you more of an individualist?
3. Is there a social issue/cause you are passionate about? (whether it be about education, health, the military, human rights, etc.)
4. Do you have a favorite style or aesthetic? (For example: modern/vintage, fantasy, chic/shabby chic, anime, kawaii, a certain decade’s aesthetic, etc.)
5. Do you somehow incorporate any of your above 4 answers into the choice of patterns you choose to stitch/design? If yes: How do you incorporate them? If no: Would or wouldn’t you want to? Why or why not?
6. If you were to stitch a person, who would it be?
7. Do you know of a little known designer that you would like to let us know about?
8. What direction do you lay your top cross? Is there a reason for that?
9. Are there any “rules” or popular methods you don’t follow in cross stitch? Why?
10. If someone were to find your FFOs or WIP pile in 100 years, when you’re long gone, what might they say/think about you?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document linked here:

The Chaotic Tag

Tips and Techniques Tag (Flosstube)

Tips and Techniques Tag  -

- posted 18AUG15 by mondot stitches – Link to Video

1.  How do you keep your projects clean when working on them?
2.  Do you have a tip or technique that hasn't been asked in previous TAGs that you'd like to share?
3.  What advice would you share with a newer stitcher?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document linked here:

Tips and Techniques Tag

The Fun Little Tag (Flosstube)

The Fun Little Tag  -

- posted 11AUG15 by Carolina S – Link to Video

1.  How do you arrange the floss you are using on a project?
2.  Have you attempted to dye fabric, if so what method(s) did you use? If not, is there any particular method you want to try?
3.  If you use a needle threader, is there any specific type you prefer?
4.  If you use any type of frame to stitch, do you stitch with the fabric over the frame or “in the well”?
5.  Do you start your threads in the front or back of your projects? What methods do you use?
6.  If you are a gridder, what is you preferred method of gridding?
7.  What is your favorite way(s) to finish projects?
8.  What was your first cross stitching milestone?
9.  What is a stitch goal you have/ something you want to conquer?
10.  What is your silliest “duh” stitch moment?
11.  If you use paper charts, do you print them at home or use a service?
12.  How do you mark of your paper charts ( if you use them)?
13.  Is there a Cross Stitch book you suggest?
14.  Is there anything that you find you are very nitpicky about when you cross stitch?
15.  Favorite LNS you’ve visited while on a trip (if you’ve been to one?)
16.  Is there anything you do that you feel takes up a lot of time when you cross stitch but is worth it in the end?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document linked here:

The Fun Little Tag

Jo's Tag (Flosstube)

Jo’s Tag  -

- posted 04AUG15 by Jo Gregoire – Link to Video

1.  If you do kits, what do you do with the leftover floss?

2.  Do you keep most of your FFOs or give/gift them to others?

3.  Have you have ruined a project while FFOing it?

4.  Who would you will your stash to?

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The above list of questions in a downloadable document linked here:

Jo's Tag