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Thank you for sharing your photos from Iran! How beautiful!! I hope I can visit one day!!

What black thread did you use for your crow stitch?

The lady in blue in your video would be great in cross stitch

Wow the trip you took was fabulous! That intricate designs in all the buildings takes my breath away! Thank you for sharing your culture with us, looking forward to learning more! Take me with you next time!❤

Thank you so much for including the slideshow and information about Shiraz. Such stunning images!

So good to see you .. and great job Mom!!!!!!! Some of those bread covers would make great charts --- really appreciated the details and photos about your trip.

Hello friend!! Miss you already! 🙂 Yay Mom!! That is beautiful!! Great job! Oh I just love Byron Blackbird! Those earrings and boxes are so beautiful!! So happy you were able to make this trip and have such an amazing time! Love, hugs and peace my friend 💙💙💙

So many beautiful things! Love your fabric choices! I have been eyeing Octopus's Garden for a while and have not yet picked it up...someday. Your trip sounds amazing!! So many beautiful things from Iran, you have made me want to go and visit if I ever have the chance. The pictures are amazing!! Can't get over the mosaic tile work.... just wow!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

Beautiful finishes from both you and your mum. Lovely to see an update from you!

What wonderful trips you took! I also have Jackson Fiber Arts hemp fabric - India Ink is the fabric I'm doing your color conversion of Teresa Kogut's Come to the Garden pattern. It's beautiful to stitch on & your color conversion pops! Thank you for sharing your stitching & all the cool unique things from Iran.

Always wonderful to catch up with you!! So many gorgeous investments stateside and from your travels 😍😍 thank you for sharing about your trip - loved the slideshow and some of your captions were cracking me up!

As a designer, I thought that you might like that I recognised the piece your Mum stitched (19:17 in the video). You explained it as a purchased stamped cross stitch, but I know it as one of the Flower of the Month series from Ellen Maurer-Stroh. They are available for free on her website. Not sure where you purchased it, but I'm suspicious that it wasn't from the designer.

Welcome back Maryam! Thanks for sharing all your cross stitching goodness. So glad that you all had a great retreat this year! I really enjoyed seeing all of the wonderful things you brought back from your trip back to Iran. And the pictures at the end were fabulous. The architecture, the colors, textures, and patterns! 😍 I am amazed! And your palm tree is just beautiful.

Thank you for sharing your cultural history and cultural arts. I have a "THING/LOVE" of small boxes. I was in awe of the artistry and explanations for the ones you showed.

Thanks for the wonderful video! So glad you had so much fun on your vacation. I love the tradition of naming palm trees. Your photos of the trip are amazing. I can see why you love color so much in your stitching/clothing, etc. It's literally everywhere you look in your home country. So question: what were the walls made of in the rooms with all the silver? So beautiful, but I think I'd get dizzy with all the reflecting surfaces 😅 Have a great week!

It's so good to see you back and to know that you have been enjoying yourself! Absolutely fabulous photos at the end! There's nothing quite like revisiting home and family! Thank you so much for sharing! 💝

It’s so nice to see a new video from you. I’m glad you had a safe trip, and were able to reconnect with family and friends in your home country. And those pictures! So much inspiration to include in your designs.

I have wondered if there’s room in the cross stitch world for the stamped fabric. Maybe done in light colors or borders.

This is one that I did for my daughter because of the way you titled it! She (daughter) cried when I gave it to her and it now hangs on her wall. It’s one of my all time favorites!!

Thank you Maryam. I really enjoyed seeing the photos of my city Shiraz from your camera. They were really beautiful. Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

Welcome back! Lovely stitching, as usual, and thank you for sharing about your trip. I loved seeing all the photos, and it looks like you had a wonderful time.

Hi Maryam! I came here to look for recommendations for Flosstubes you'd been watching recently and realized that I hadn't responded to this video! Your Bella piece is a showstopper. Looks fantastic on that green fabric, what a perfect pick! That Workbasket crow looks pretty fun, and i like the shocking pinky orange fabric for that one, too. And of course Daare Leng Daar is a triumph. One of my faves amongst all your critters! I've got a Crow Hill too. Let me know if you start yours and I'll start mine. Thanks foe the book talk, I've got a few to add to my list!

Having a huge catch up on your channel! Heard you saying that your threads shred often. It could be resolved with something as simple as using a larger needle. The larger hole in the needle creates more space for the thread to pass through the fabric, therefore decreasing the wear on the thread. Hope this helps! Melissa

Love the Good Omens adjustment instead of Adam and Eve!

You have made such great progress on so many WIPs this year! Always a joy to see them all together. Also some quality Asal background work in this one 😄🖤🐈‍⬛

I envy your courage in choosing bold fabric colours. I always chicken out at the last minute and go with bland colours. You’ve inspired me to try at least!

I am always manifesting that we all find a rich uncle 😂😂 So many beautiful projects my friend!!! Hope you are enjoying your time away 🥰

I love your idea to swap Adam and Eve for the Good Omens characters! Absolutely brilliant! You have gorgeous WIPs and fabrics 😍

Beautiful projects!!!! I love how bold your choices are ! And your background it’s just sooo cool ! Keep it up ! You are soo amazing ❤❤❤

Great treasures! I hope you are having a wonderful visit and can’t wait to hear about it in your next update. Your stitching is beautiful as always, and I have added two more of your patterns to my to do list 😅

Beautiful projects - too many favourites among them! I hope that long lost uncle turns up soon for you 🤞

Love your color choices! The fabric/floss in your Come to the Garden and Workbasket pieces make me smile every time I see them. Even if it's a small start, I love your Least of the Fleet as well, and look forward to seeing what you do with it, whether it's all of the pattern or just a portion of it. And oh how wonderful it would be to have a body double to do our day jobs so we could focus on the things we really want to do--like stitching! So many projects and not enough time.

I love a good wip parade! Half the stuff you were talking about I had no clue but I really love the colors you pick and images!

How lovely visiting with you and admiring your beautiful and meaningful projects! 🎉

I hope you're enjoying your vacation! Thank you for sharing your WIPs! 💝

That was fun Maryam. Thanks for taking the time to do this! Your wips are beautiful. So many pieces to choose from to work on next! Do you ever think of doing a rotation like Shelia? I've been thinking about it.

Always love seeing your stitching for all the gorgeous fabric choices. The hoop there it is fabric/thread combo is everything. Hope you have a wonderful vacation. Stay safe and make lots of great memories.

Hi Maryam. It was great seeing all of your beautiful WIPs!

Love your pride piece! Hope you have a relaxing trip 😊

I like “investments” vs haul 😂

congrats on your published pattern (and on the COVER, no less!). your child of the rainbow piece is so beautiful, it makes me very excited to try out Cosmo! safe travels and happy stitching 💕✨

Started Come to the Garden on blue last night so I had to catch your video! Not sure the colors I selected pop as much as yours. I think I may cave and order your Sulky conversion. Have a wonderful time on your trip. Looking forward to your wip parade! 🎉❤ -Stephanie

Love seeing all your stitchy progress. Congrats on the pride release and the Halloween pattern 🎉 I love your Good Omens sampler. Every time you show that sampler it makes me laugh. So nerdy! I feel like you need to add a potted plant in there or a spray bottle and see if any one notices 😂 How wonderful that your local guild can pass on a fellow needleworker's collection for others to enjoy. Wishing you safe travels. Can't wait to hear about your adventures. Have a great rest of June and happy pride 🌈 ❤

Hello my friend! Love Child of the Rainbow and that you leaned into your bountiful borders!! It is beautiful!! Those Cosmos are brilliant! Congratulations on the Hoo in the Halloween issue! I got mine today - Yay! Cannot wait to stitch this! Amazing haul! Love that Daffodil pattern 💞 All those Birds of a Feather! So good! Safe travels my friend - cannot wait to see you soon!!

Maryam!!! You continue to inspire us all!!! I love watching you and learning from you and I’m so happy for all your success!!! I can’t wait to stitch EVERYTHING❤❤❤

I spotted the owl on the front cover and knew they must be yours!!

Congrats on your Pride release and your magazine COVER feature!! 🎉 Can’t wait to get this year’s Halloween issue!! Very cool investments, I think it’s nice to see just a glimpse of all the amazing sorts of offerings there were before the time of PDFs and all the releases that have come since I really started stitching in 2020 😊 Have a lovely trip and I am already excited for your WIP parade! 💚

Maryam! So happy to see you! Your pride pattern is beautiful. Yes! Lean in to those borders! Lovely stitching on Jacob's piece. Those colors on that parchment fabric look beautiful. Can't wait to hear about your trip. You got some amazing haul. Yes! Daffodils.for your grandpa, right? That rooster is hard to find, it's a real treasure! That trip was fun, wasn't it?

Have a wonderful vacation, and congrats on having another pattern published in a magazine! You picked up some great items at the sale, and the knot garden is especially intriguing. Love the 3D look, and can't wait to see how yours turns out. Seeing everyone posting their Stitch4Pride samplers and talk about the learning made me wish I'd signed up in December, so I snagged it when it opened back up. (Also, love your nail polish!)