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We have a really fun science centre here in Calgary though it’s been a while since I went. Hope it was a fun trip and how do kids grow up so fast??

I vote spot sampler

Great video as always! If you like the vignette style and are still looking for something to read, I’d highly recommend Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, if you haven’t read it. It’s part of a mystery series but very different than American detective fiction, with the intertwined character relationship sections. 😊

I’m about to start a nonfiction book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland called Say Nothing. My friend said it’s the best book she ever read and it’s made many best books of all time lists. Obviously different than my usual fantasy romance but it sounds so good!

Have a fantastic week!

Love your tour piece!!!

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I think the bell pool is a100% a sentimental piece.

Hi Michelle! I love your charity auctions! So cool. Would love to talk to you sometime about a potential collab for a really great org or just tips on how to run my own. I think the bell pull totally qualifies as sentimental!

❤❤❤ your spot sampler could be your sentimental pc because you attended to these retreats and saw and hang out with your friends (memories)

Love watching your progress on the tour piece. 🚲

Love seeing your progress on the tour piece! Love your nerdy devotion for the tour ❤ I need to get my cozy witch deck out. Love their artwork. Have a great day!

I think the retreat or the Christmas in July for Diana’s birthday are sentimental pieces

The bell pull is sentimental, since you love the tours. Is Josephine sentimental?

I vote the bell pull is sentimental simply based on your yearly passion for the tour ;)

Can’t wait for the snarky sampler release!

there are times that I wonder if we did a DNA test if we wouldn't be a leafs off the same tree...cause i totally followed the Tour Stitch explanation.....

Your excitement for cycling is so cute Michelle, I never know what anything you’re saying means but it’s fun to watch 🥰

Eh?! I love it

Le Tour de France will always have a special place in my heart because it was one the TV in the hospital room while I was in labor with my oldest. Also, it's pronounce "lee-dl", Lidl is a German supermarket company lol

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Love hearing you explain the Tour. Beautiful nails and stitching! I'm just kind of blah this week, still in recovery mode from hurricane Beryl. Have a fanstastic week!

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I totally agree with the Stitch4Pride SAL, I am loving the learnings and all the patterns. I am doing the same with using some of the previous months floss in the current months pattern, what is funny is most months we have ended up changing out the same area without knowing it. Looking forward to seeing how the rest of the year turns out.

Fun video! Was going to say that I thought you didn’t like yellow but you wore it. Looks good on you. However, I understand why now. Nails look good too! Nice auction items! Cheers

Your nails are so pretty today! Also...I loved the floss you got for the July Pride stitch! BEAUTIFUL!

Great tarot card today. Appreciated the explanation.

I wish I was brave enough to do a chatelaine. They r so pretty. I wish I could stitch 4000 stitches in that short amount of time. I do a lot of full coverage n they take me for ever.

Michelle, yet another lovely floss tube. Thank you for the thoughtful patterns.I have 3 Chatelaines. They are Water Garden, Alhambra Garden, and Taj Mahal. I also purchased my accoutrements from European Cross Stitch. I don't have fabric yet, but maybe we could do a start-a-long. What do you think?

Oh...oh that slaxolatol would make my partner explode. He plays the sax and loves those little guys.

I wonder for the retreats that you attended without a motif to riff on, a text border with initials and year? Or as a spot filler in the emptier spaces? This is the most creative but slow collage ever and I love seeing how your brain parses it

Just watching this and missing Stitch North! I am so happy I got to stitch on your sampler before the big finish

Look, I could care less about cycling 😂 but I LOVE listening to you talk about it because I can passively learn with little effort

Thank you for the free charts….though tragic that now there is a series 😞. “UFO those bitches” lol, dying…🤣

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I'm so impressed, and a little jealous, that you did classical studies in college! I didn't know that sort of major still existed in this country!!! In my next life....Also, thank you for the freebie charts. Doing them will help me deal with my anxiety about the current state of the county I love but am terribly worried about....💙

Our nation is such a sad scary place right now. Thank you for giving me something to stitch while I think.

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Michelle! Greetings from Dallas!! Sending you hugs and kisses!! ❤️

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Thank you for the gift of the charts. I will definitely stitch and display them. These are scary times...At 66, almost 67, I have lived a damn good life, but I am so disheartened for the world we are going to be leaving behind for our children and grandchildren. .💔❤‍🩹

That Chatelaine is going to be stunning!!!!

Michelle says “I ran with it” when talking about making a professional cycling tangent/chart conversion and my brain immediately says “no Michelle…you cycled with it.” 😂😂 Is it just me or do I need a Bendy chart that says something like “I just cycled with it” 😂

Thanks for the free charts. I am 74 years old. I have seen so much progress throughout the years. This was a real punch in the gut . Charts are a good idea. I will stitch both, with tears, as I feel too old to fight, but I can VOTE.

Always watch the Tour de France. Subscribed to Peacock just to watch it this year. Such a great idea to stitch this piece. Beautiful and interesting. When I was younger I road bikes a bit. Years ago myself and 2 friends biked 150 miles over a 4th of July weekend. It was so HOT 🥵 we only biked in the mornings (50 miles a day). Was quite the accomplishment for me. I have always been interested in the weather. This is the 3rd year I have stitched a temperature chart.

"most people have left already" 😂

Great video. Love how geeky you are with the tour and bicycling. Love your finishes! Dee's pattern was great for July. Have a good weekend.

Thank you for the free charts ❤ What a world, what a world…

You could always put little dudes on bikes as a border between tours in that 2 inch space if the spacing bothers you?