I usually watch your videos while I'm in my studio stitching. Its like hanging out with a new friend. Thanks for the lovely long videos, they are a treasure.
My mother in law loved cutting out quilt pieces. When she passed away we found tins and baskets filled with quilt pieces and the beginnings of quilts. My sister in law has since finished all the quilts for her children and grandchildren.
I had to laugh about your husband’s comment that nobody would watch your first video at 18 minutes. You can tell him that people are hungry for the wonderful knowledge you’re sharing and that your amazing success on RUclips is quite unusual but it’s because of because of your expertise. Thank you for being there and coming to us via RUclips. What a fantastic gift you’ve given us! ❤️❤️❤️
Dear k3n clothtales...you have taken me into the most enjoyable place. A place I didn't know existed. I have always tried to be so perfect and now I am traveling down a new road of adventure. Love my new adventure and so delighted you are there with me. Thank you so so so much...
I love all your knowledge of history of the British quilting traditions! Thank you! I am English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish! I grew up with out a mother or any living female relatives!
Thank you Kathryn for all your fabulous tutorials, I am learning so much❤. My dear Mum was my inspiration for stitching and love of cloth and yarn, today would have been her 84th birthday, I will dedicate my flower to her ❤
Your voice is mesmerizing and we fall under your spell. The added bonus is how you welcome us into your home and life while teaching us how to create your amazing projects.❤
Ii have become addicted to your vlog. I first tried hexies in a class with poor results, swearing I swore never to try again. You have changed my mind.
I have just started watching this week's video, but had to stop right after your introduction and comment. You are an amazing teacher and deserve each and every one of those subscribers. It is like you have taken an ages-old techique, dusted it off, and made it very approachable. Congrats on 25K.
You have a lovely way of presenting, as does Marion, and your voices are quite soothing. I like that you are knowledgeable, and I never find myself shouting out ‘ no, that’s not right!’ , or something similar. I do envy (envy is a sin I know) your nerve and courage in presenting what you do. I’m a chicken.
I used to teach and give talks in person years ago and was a bag of nerves in the beginning. I think it's something you can learn. I am sure you are not 🐔🐔🐔❤️
I wish I had been paying attention to your channel. I absolutely love your videos. I’ve just started watching you. I’ve been reading your instagram for awhile. You are amazing! Your tips are just what I need. I’ve been going crazy sewing hexies because my stitches show . Just sew straight. So simple.. love your books too. Keep on you doing you! Thank you for being here.
I am new to slow stitching and am Addicted. Right now, I am working on another project of my own while watching these videos. It’s quite relaxing. I love your journals.
Oh how I enjoyd this!! And also learning british textile history. You have such long traditions. In my vast country most people have been living so poorly " in the woods" , just battleling to survive in the cold and often also hunger that there haven't been almost anything left for making beauty. 😊We don`t have much quilting in our textile history cotton having been in those days quite expensive. People in Finland used wool and linen as they could be produced at home. So, very interesting, thank You! Not to say how much I love this week`s job. ❤
Hi, Kathryn! This was for me a true class. I had never heard about this type of quilting, because I know almost nothing about it, I never tried it, but I was fascinated with the papers hidden in the quilts. I love hidden places, I am making three fabric books with lots of things that belonged to my family and the books have lots of places to hide things. Thanks for this so interesting information. I stopped the video to look up the poem. It really touched me, because I was that person, until 2013, when I had breast cancer and started seeing life really differently. Even in my worst moments (2023 was one of the worst years of my life), I now sing. I may sing sadly, but I sing nonetheless. I always love your company, because I am always stitching along when I watch your videos, so I like them long too 😉 💙🩷💜🩵💛💚🤍♥️🧡🤎
2022 was that year for me; my mom, dad, and husband died within a few months of each other, and I cried often. I still miss them terribly every day, but I can sing now as well. I love how you put that. This channel and a few others have helped me regain a balance I lost that year. Sending you gentle hugs and adding you to my prayers. ❤
@@406annie Thank you so much, Annie, and I am so sorry for your losses, I am adding you to my prayers as well. I also lost my mother in 2022. She passed away due to a severe psychiatric illness, but 2023 managed to be even worse. Again, thank you so much ♥️🙏🤗
I love watching your videos and listening to you 'wittering'. I started stitching 1 inch hexagons together while accompanying my husband to chemo and radiotherapy. I sewed them in groups of 7 and they are now waiting for me to stitch them together as a whole. I'm hoping I will have a quilt to cover our bed when I have finished, but as we are in the process of selling up and moving I've had to pack them all away for now.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! 😊. It has been a lovely, safe and friendly learning environment to be, so CONGRATULATIONS again. We never know what we have to offer until we offer it! In no time you will be at 20 more thousand subscribers. Congratulations. Great project. I find the history you shared so interesting. When video projects are interesting, I tend to like them to be long. Thank you for sharing your talents!
Beautiful piece and the history is fascinating. I have a new respect for vintage quilts now, this video has brought them alive and given them meaning. A piece of social history. Thank you for this background, thats why your tutorials are so interesting 😀
Katherine, I am so grateful for your channel. Years ago I started needleworking and using fabric in non-traditional hand done ways, but I didn’t know about slow stitching and I also felt constricted by these internalized rules of sewing. Finishing edges properly, keeping things square. Your channel has helped free me and show me that I can stitch and use fabric however I like and I feel so thankful for that. Thank you for inspiring us! ❤
I've found you, purely by chance. Last year , I decided that I couldn't make charity quilts any longer. I've got fans is to use so I'm looking forward to making smaller , mindful, projects. Thank you, this has come at just the right time
Yes. I can relate my sister was always over her machine patching I saw I’d never sew a patchwork quilt by machine One day this friend took me into a quilting shop and I saw my first hand sown hexagon quilt I bought fabric and started sewing three years later x 3 km of cotton I gave birth to a queen size quilt And after stumbling upon your utube I’m excited to start again Thank you for your realness honesty
😂had to laugh at your hubby wondering how any of us could watch your hour long videos-tell them that’s why there has been an explosion of tribbles ….err I mean biscornu! We sew one each time we listen to the weekly videos😂. I’ll watch the video and just enjoy by listening and glancing up and seeing what I’ll need to prepare for and then go back and relisten and watch when I start actually making the item. (Btw the tribbles reference is from the old Star Trek shows from when I grew up and there was an episode where there was “trouble with tribbles”-little furry creatures that kept multiplying lol.
I am so happy I found your channel, You see I was a bit worried I was turning realy weird with my love for old cloth and worn textiles😅 I have never met anyone with the same interest! So thank you, you are my new (and only) stitching companion😍
My mom makes Hexie quilt initially was 2” then down to 1” and now even smaller as she says she has lots of scraps lololol. She makes for everyone . And she got 10 grandchildren n five great grand . We all hv one each from her too . She so enjoys sewing . So I will show her this video. Mom is 89 🥰 and still sewing . 😘I love your tutorials.thank you ☺️
I was looking at the Facebook group yesterday and was delighted to see how many people were trying EPP for the first time, and that most of them enjoyed it. It is wonderful that you have inspired so many people! Thank you for your lovely videos
So excited about this video! I have never sewed a quilt before but recently came across EPP and dived right in. I enjoy hand stitching a lot so this is perfect. I am using material from my mother in law's sewing stash, who passed suddenly a few years ago and is deeply missed. I have learned new things about EPP while watching this video. It is nice to see you chat with us on camera in the beginning and you do make it feel like I am sitting right there listening. I was not sure I would like the tea dyed look of the material but seeing it now, WOW!!!!! Love it. Thank you as always.
Every time, I watch one of your videos, I think ‘I’m going to try that! ‘ but now I have so many ideas so where to start! Thank you for your inspiration, I’m off to do the last bit of last years #100dayproject -a stitch journal and I’m sure you will there in quite a few stitches! ❤
I love watching the long stitching videos - it's like having a stitching circle, except virtually.😅 Where I am, there is only one group at a library that meets once a month. And it's all the fiber arts together - knitting, crochet, embroidery, etc. So it's nice to have the youtube videos.
Excited for this week. I love EPP and have a king sized 1 inch hexagon quilt on the go at the moment. Using up my stash and sewing together as a colour wash. Inspired by Kate at The Last Homely House when she did a quilt for her granddaughter Agnus. I have over 4,000 thread basted hexagons done (whilst having chemo last year gave me a good chunk of time) and 772 sewn together so far. On my week 3 piece I did some 1cm hexagons. That was fun but soooo tiny!!
I love listening to you chat as you stitch. Honestly on nights I can't sleep I'll put one of your videos and and it soothes me right to sleep. Otherwise I have my morning coffee with your new videos and plan my next journal entry. It's also so nice to be able to imagine your surroundings as you film since we've been given a tour of your creative space.
🎈🎆🎇 25.6k 🎇🎆🎈 Yay! Congratulations Kathryn! You deserve every one! What a lovely piece and the tea dying improved their tones beautifully. The patchwork with the tiny hexagons is lovely. Such patience but so worth it ❤️ When I was nursing in London (many years ago!) my flatmate (hi Jan!!!) handstitched a huge EPP quilt of pink, blue and cream hexagons all in Laura Ashley fabrics. She sent the company a photo of it and they put the actual quilt in the window of their Sloane Square branch. We were so proud of her!!! Mary x
Hi Kathryn , I’ve been watching you now for about a month. One day I was scrolling through my RUclips and there you were! I found you to be very interesting and very gentle and soft-spoken and lovely to listen to and watch. My grandmother loved to crochet and sew and other women in the family at that time quilted. It was that era… my mother knitted sadly she went to heaven in 2012 before Christmas and I miss her so much still. I’ve never done much sewing and have never made a quilt but just watching you today, I really want to tackle I think you called it English paper style Rosette! I have always loved materials and sewing things but I do a little embroidery, but I don’t know all the stitches. I spend a lot of time in bed because I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, osteoarthritis, spine issues. I enjoy heat about your personal life not to be nosy but to see how other people live. It’s very interesting how you and your husband bought a rundown French home and are remodeling it - and you live near a forest! you were talking about walking in the forest and all the flowers. I hope you do show us some pictures that would be wonderful. I love nature I feed birds and I just love it when they come and drink water and eat. So please don’t think you’re talking on too much! Thank you for being such a lovely teacher and such a caring person. Your horses are beautiful. I also looked up the poem by Mary Oliver, and it’s a lovely poem… reminds me of the song of Solomon in the Bible ❤️🍷🤗😊
Hello Kimberly I am so sorry you are poorly but so happy you are enjoying the videos. I hope to share some outside videos in the future, when I can figure out the filming 😉
I have been sewing since I was able to hold a needle. When I was five I made my teddy a dress. I cried when my mum had to cut the stitching away from the table cloth. On Saturdays I meet with my daughter and three of my granddaughters to do crafts . We have been doing this for some years. We did week 4 stitching and two of my granddaughters found it very difficult to not look at the strips. We will be doing week 5 this Saturday. I am basing all mine on the community where I live and I will make them into a small quilt.
I did a wall hanging using 1/4” hexagons I enjoyed doing it but I would not do another with such small hexagons again. I really enjoy all your videos. I am still procrastinating on my slow stitching.
My 3X great aunt who was a school teacher in the Brecon Beacons in the late 1800s used her pupils’ work for the paper pieces. I have a large patchwork of hers without the papers and a smaller sample which I intend framing so that the papers show on the back. Really enjoy your videos - thank you.
With all the stitching I have done over the decades I have never done paper piecing, but I did remember that I had bought some plastic templates and I managed to find them! I am excited to try this. I will never do a whole quilt but it will be fun to do a page,
I love the very long videos! I like to work right along with you, and I feel like I'm sitting with a friend and not doing it alone. Keep up the lovely videos. I'm new here just in the last month.
Hello from Canada! I’m still quite new to sewing and stitching but I love your tutorials. The weekly projects are such a fantastic way for me to calm my brain at the end of the day.
I've been doing a lot of half inch hexies before this. I love doing them. I 'm making a friend a needle case. She is going to sew a bear her first venture. Thank you again.
Another fabous video, thank you so much. As always lovely to take a break with a fellow cloth and thread lover. Alas late with my homework again - 🤭. Covid done for me this time Miss 🤦🏻♂️. 👋🏼🏴. And yes I swear I can hear a load of batty stitches shouting 'giant paperclip' all together 😂
I love hanging out with you. I only did the weaving one. I made 3. One in cotton with cotton thread, one in wool with wool thread and one in silk with silk thread. Then life interfered. Need to catch up LOL.
This was brilliant thank you. I’ve never heard of this technique let alone tried it. At first I thought I may skip this week as my sewing skills are new as have just found slow stitching. But your tutorials are brilliant and I managed to make it. Thank you.
I had intentions of going along with the weekly project since I start my retirement soon (was supposed to be in January). Finally watching the weekly videos inspire me to do other stuff…but I guess it is right in the spirit of the series. Taking a road and changing your mind along the way.
I love watching you do traditional EPP, I have been watching Emma Jones do it so I am giving it ago. It is like teaching an old dog new tricks as I am from farm land in Illinois USA and was taught to piece hexagons 60 years ago with no papers. The ladies all made Grandmother's flower garden quilts out of old linens and clothing. I as taught as a child to measure with a tiny tailors rule and make marks for a 1/4 inch seam, but after you had done it awhile you just knew 1/4 inch. I'm sure I won't change my methods at this late date but this was fun to try it. I am Gloria on Facebook.
I love the long videos because I get the chance to learn and listen to you talking. I love the stories, the references etc. There’s so much character and love in the stories.
I love it! Most times people use bride colors or soft romantic colors for the flowers but this vintage feel is wonderful. I like the background information. Please say hello to your husband from a fellow dutchie
Loved the bit of history behind the hexagon quilts , interesting how they used paper to help with the warmth. Oh your tea and coffee dyed fabrics turned out beautiful, I did watch you dye these and it did tame them down. Beautiful work ❤
Being new to sewing, I learned a lot with this project. Also, I think I have settled down into a more meditate mind set and gained some more control over my needle. It was fun.
I loved this video. I live in the States and have not done EPP but keep saying I want a small project. This is perfect and really enjoyed the history and stories behind it. Tell your husband 18 min is way too short :) Thank you!
I love your videos. Congratulations on 25K subscribers! When I sit and watch your videos I work on something (today I knit a washcloth) and I honestly feel like I'm sitting down with a friend who is also crafting, and teaching me about what they are working on. Your videos are so lovely and welcoming- so informative and instructional without being strict. I keep telling myself that I will make myself a weekly stitch journal and make these wonderful prompts - but I have yet to. Maybe I will catch up one day.
I've asked to join the FB group - really looking forward to seeing what everyone is making! I absolutely love your videos - I am brand new but so thrilled to have found you!
Thank you for sharing the book and some background on the paper piecing. The hand stitched cloth left with baby Charles is most poignant. A piece of tangible part of his mom/family. In that note, I think leaving some kind of writing on the material gives it its history and personal touch. Love your channel. And thank you for a long video upload, it’s more substantial than reels. 🌷Tess
This brings back memories of my childhood when my mom used pages from readers digest to make pieces for quilt. This is my favorite part so far for bringing back memories I had forgotten
Just stunning knowledge, you have and your collections of books Showen so far, I seem to get where you are coming from. EPP one of my favorites and that Quilt is just beautiful. Thank you, Katherine, for sharing your knowledge, Love and Inspiration for Cloth with us all, humbly appreciate all you do. Congrates on your milestone and may many more sub to you. Shared your channel out. Hugs from down under in NZ xx
Hi Kathrine, I just want to thank you for your very inspiring videos and tutorials. Unfortunately I can't show my work , since I don't do facebook or instagram. But I enjoy the slow stitch weekly assignments and all the other projects you do. I still feel a bit daunted by the book binding. That is rather too far out of my comfort zone. Hope you continue with all your lovely work.! Ada from Holland
Fabulous vid Kathryn 🤗🤗I am painfully stitching as I watch yor vid 😣 I have a pinched nerve in my right shoulder blade & also, a cyst has developed on the back of my right hand above my wrist,causing much pain with certain hand movements !!!!! My specialist gave me a cortisone injection last week, but it hasn't fixed it, so it seems surgery is the next option !! I'm sure my stitching is aggravating the 2 problems ....... but I love stitching so much 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Getting old is soooooo annoying !!!!!! 2 years ago I was fighting fit ..... then came the rheumatoid arthritis Grrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!! Take care xxx TFS XXXXXXX Sorry about the whinge 🇦🇺😎😍
Oh I am so sorry, don't apologise for whinging, it's so frustrating isn't it? I hope your poor hands are improved soon. A dear friend in England had similar issues, had surgery and was much better afterwards. I nearly said fingers crossed 🤞 but maybe that would be insensitive in the circumstances 🤭 so I will say hugs and best wishes instead ❤️❤️❤️
I could sit and watch your videos forever. I work on my projects while listening and watching you. You do so many projects that I would love to do myself. Happy stitching!❤
Hi Kathryn. Thanks for your awesome videos. I have watched a few stitching videos and the stitching in many of them is very unclear. Yours are very clear and visible. About the neat thing, I give up. Although I love the appearance of the slow stitching and the whole thought of it, I just can't do the "untidy" stitching. But because I do want to do it, I am embracing my OCD and making my neat and precise stitching and loving it. I am doing it slowly though so I hope that counts as slow stitching 😂 I am doing me 😂
Hello Sandy, thank you for your kind words. Regarding the neatness, I think it's a misconception that Slowstitch has to be messy. For me, it's about the process and being present and mindful. If you are naturally a neat stitcher and you work within that ethos, then it's still 'slowstitch'. 😉 Why I always say, you do you. No right or wrong. ♥️
How lovely. It’s years since I did any paper piecing but my head is full of ideas now. I have literally thousands of old black and white family photos, too many to display in any meaningful way. I’m thinking I may use some of those as papers. Thankyou for your time and the inspiration x
I have just found you as I plan some slow stitching projects to do whilst travelling in our camper van. Thoroughly enjoying catching up on your content. Thank you! My husband’s phase is … ‘yes, I was wrong once on a Tuesday.’ 😄
Congratulations Kathrine on your 25k milestone! It doesn’t surprise me because you really have something to say, show and teach and i just really want to hang out with you ( as do 249999 other people ofcourse!). I am totally new to this paper peacing and hexagons but i will go for it ! Thanks again🍀💖
I love the idea of leaving special papers in paper pieced quilts. 💖 I’ve written this Mary Oliver poem in many of my daily journals. Those of us of a certain age, “get” it. 💖💖
Loved this week’s project. My first attempt at EPP was just before the pandemic hit us here in the US, late ‘19. I made a new ie throw, hand piecing the entire top, then APP-LEE-KAYing it onto a golden wide border with corner hexie’s in each 4 corner. It’s about 52” square, maybe. I have YET to quilt it, but it’s sandwiched here with 3 or 4 other throws. Thank you for sitting here in my living room with me for the last little bit. I TOTALLY enjoyed the time spent ❤❤❤
So happy I found your channel. I’m really enjoying your videos. I knit while I’m listening. I always wanted to try paper piecing and didn’t know how to do it. I do sewing machine quilting but would like to try hand sewing. Looking forward to your log cabin. Keep your videos going. Also your have a very nice voice.
Congratulations on reaching 25,000! It’s a big number and well deserved. I’m sure that number will continue to grow. You are a wonderful creator, K3N❤. I have enjoyed all of your videos and learned so much about slow stitching, which I love. Best wishes for your continued success. Love hearing about your life and seeing your past quilting designs. You have a wonderful studio. I watch from South Carolina in the USA.😊
Congratulations Kathryn on your success achieving over twenty five thousand subscribers. Love the little paper pieced hexagons, thank you for another lovely enjoyable video. x
I usually watch your videos while I'm in my studio stitching. Its like hanging out with a new friend. Thanks for the lovely long videos, they are a treasure.
My mother in law loved cutting out quilt pieces. When she passed away we found tins and baskets filled with quilt pieces and the beginnings of quilts. My sister in law has since finished all the quilts for her children and grandchildren.
How wonderful ❤️❤️❤️
Wow! How wonderful
I had to laugh about your husband’s comment that nobody would watch your first video at 18 minutes. You can tell him that people are hungry for the wonderful knowledge you’re sharing and that your amazing success on RUclips is quite unusual but it’s because of because of your expertise. Thank you for being there and coming to us via RUclips. What a fantastic gift you’ve given us! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you 😊
The French make fun of Americans for tearing apart cloth to make quilts. Whereas the French just quilt fabric itself. I had to laugh.
Dear k3n clothtales...you have taken me into the most enjoyable place. A place I didn't know existed. I have always tried to be so perfect and now I am traveling down a new road of adventure. Love my new adventure and so delighted you are there with me. Thank you so so so much...
Wonderful!
I love all your knowledge of history of the British quilting traditions! Thank you! I am English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish! I grew up with out a mother or any living female relatives!
My pleasure. I am sorry you grew up without female family members. But how wonderful that you embody all four countries. ❤️
You are doing a wonderful job with your filming and teaching, as evidenced by the many followers! Thank you so much for all your offerings!
My pleasure, thank you ❤️
Thank you Kathryn for all your fabulous tutorials, I am learning so much❤. My dear Mum was my inspiration for stitching and love of cloth and yarn, today would have been her 84th birthday, I will dedicate my flower to her ❤
Your voice is mesmerizing and we fall under your spell. The added bonus is how you welcome us into your home and life while teaching us how to create your amazing projects.❤
Thank you Pam ☺️
Ii have become addicted to your vlog. I first tried hexies in a class with poor results, swearing I swore never to try again. You have changed my mind.
I have just started watching this week's video, but had to stop right after your introduction and comment. You are an amazing teacher and deserve each and every one of those subscribers. It is like you have taken an ages-old techique, dusted it off, and made it very approachable. Congrats on 25K.
Thank you so much 😊
Well said and very inspiring. 👍😊
You have a lovely way of presenting, as does Marion, and your voices are quite soothing. I like that you are knowledgeable, and I never find myself shouting out ‘ no, that’s not right!’ , or something similar. I do envy (envy is a sin I know) your nerve and courage in presenting what you do. I’m a chicken.
I used to teach and give talks in person years ago and was a bag of nerves in the beginning. I think it's something you can learn. I am sure you are not 🐔🐔🐔❤️
I wish I had been paying attention to your channel. I absolutely love your videos. I’ve just started watching you. I’ve been reading your instagram for awhile. You are amazing! Your tips are just what I need. I’ve been going crazy sewing hexies because my stitches show . Just sew straight. So simple.. love your books too. Keep on you doing you! Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much, and welcome here ♥️
I am new to slow stitching and am Addicted. Right now, I am working on another project of my own while watching these videos. It’s quite relaxing. I love your journals.
Thank you 😊
Oh how I enjoyd this!! And also learning british textile history. You have such long traditions. In my vast country most people have been living so poorly " in the woods" , just battleling to survive in the cold and often also hunger that there haven't been almost anything left for making beauty. 😊We don`t have much quilting in our textile history cotton having been in those days quite expensive. People in Finland used wool and linen as they could be produced at home. So, very interesting, thank You! Not to say how much I love this week`s job. ❤
Happy you enjoyed it. I think Finland has some beautiful knitting traditions no? Perhaps they came from the need to keep warm. 😉❤️
Hi, Kathryn! This was for me a true class. I had never heard about this type of quilting, because I know almost nothing about it, I never tried it, but I was fascinated with the papers hidden in the quilts. I love hidden places, I am making three fabric books with lots of things that belonged to my family and the books have lots of places to hide things. Thanks for this so interesting information.
I stopped the video to look up the poem. It really touched me, because I was that person, until 2013, when I had breast cancer and started seeing life really differently. Even in my worst moments (2023 was one of the worst years of my life), I now sing. I may sing sadly, but I sing nonetheless.
I always love your company, because I am always stitching along when I watch your videos, so I like them long too 😉 💙🩷💜🩵💛💚🤍♥️🧡🤎
Sending you very gentle hugs ❤️❤️❤️
2022 was that year for me; my mom, dad, and husband died within a few months of each other, and I cried often. I still miss them terribly every day, but I can sing now as well. I love how you put that. This channel and a few others have helped me regain a balance I lost that year. Sending you gentle hugs and adding you to my prayers. ❤
@@406annie Thank you so much, Annie, and I am so sorry for your losses, I am adding you to my prayers as well. I also lost my mother in 2022. She passed away due to a severe psychiatric illness, but 2023 managed to be even worse. Again, thank you so much ♥️🙏🤗
@@406annieJust began watching K3n a few weeks ago and am binge watching. Just read your comment and hope you are doing much better now. 🙏😇❤
my heart goes pitter patter when I see your video ready for viewing.
☺️☺️☺️❤️
Have never been attracted to this type of quilt, but I think I might give it a wee try. Thank you again. The best to you.
I love watching your videos and listening to you 'wittering'. I started stitching 1 inch hexagons together while accompanying my husband to chemo and radiotherapy. I sewed them in groups of 7 and they are now waiting for me to stitch them together as a whole. I'm hoping I will have a quilt to cover our bed when I have finished, but as we are in the process of selling up and moving I've had to pack them all away for now.
Wishing you all the best with your move and very good wishes for yourself and your husband ❤️
CONGRATULATIONS!!! 😊. It has been a lovely, safe and friendly learning environment to be, so CONGRATULATIONS again. We never know what we have to offer until we offer it! In no time you will be at 20 more thousand subscribers. Congratulations. Great project. I find the history you shared so interesting. When video projects are interesting, I tend to like them to be long. Thank you for sharing your talents!
Thank you so much!!
Beautiful piece and the history is fascinating. I have a new respect for vintage quilts now, this video has brought them alive and given them meaning. A piece of social history. Thank you for this background, thats why your tutorials are so interesting 😀
Katherine, I am so grateful for your channel. Years ago I started needleworking and using fabric in non-traditional hand done ways, but I didn’t know about slow stitching and I also felt constricted by these internalized rules of sewing. Finishing edges properly, keeping things square. Your channel has helped free me and show me that I can stitch and use fabric however I like and I feel so thankful for that. Thank you for inspiring us! ❤
You are so welcome!
You are so welcome!
I've found you, purely by chance. Last year , I decided that I couldn't make charity quilts any longer. I've got fans is to use so I'm looking forward to making smaller , mindful, projects. Thank you, this has come at just the right time
Welcome 🤗
I absolutely love the time you spend with us sharing your stitching and your stories.
Dem kann ich nur zustimmen. Vielen Dank ❤❤❤
Yes. I can relate my sister was always over her machine patching
I saw I’d never sew a patchwork quilt by machine
One day this friend took me into a quilting shop and I saw my first hand sown hexagon quilt
I bought fabric and started sewing three years later x 3 km of cotton I gave birth to a queen size quilt
And after stumbling upon your utube I’m excited to start again
Thank you for your realness honesty
Hello Deborah and welcome, it's wonderful indeed to create by hand, the slow, 'old fashioned ' way ❤️
Totally. I love it when the universe directs us towards new things
I watch Roxy Creation videos quite regularly and really enjoy them.
😂had to laugh at your hubby wondering how any of us could watch your hour long videos-tell them that’s why there has been an explosion of tribbles ….err I mean biscornu! We sew one each time we listen to the weekly videos😂. I’ll watch the video and just enjoy by listening and glancing up and seeing what I’ll need to prepare for and then go back and relisten and watch when I start actually making the item. (Btw the tribbles reference is from the old Star Trek shows from when I grew up and there was an episode where there was “trouble with tribbles”-little furry creatures that kept multiplying lol.
😂 I wonder if Gremlins was inspired by the tribbles? 🤔 Funny to think of all the biscornu in the world because of me... What a legacy! 😂😂😂
I am so happy I found your channel, You see I was a bit worried I was turning realy weird with my love for old cloth and worn textiles😅 I have never met anyone with the same interest! So thank you, you are my new (and only) stitching companion😍
Hi Anne, well if you are weird, we both are so at least there are two of us 😜❤️
Kathryn, you're teaching us to have a different look at things and you have a fascinating personality. I guess that explains the 25.000 subscribers.
Thank you ❤️
My mom makes Hexie quilt initially was 2” then down to 1” and now even smaller as she says she has lots of scraps lololol. She makes for everyone . And she got 10 grandchildren n five great grand . We all hv one each from her too . She so enjoys sewing . So I will show her this video. Mom is 89 🥰 and still sewing . 😘I love your tutorials.thank you ☺️
Your Mum sounds like an absolute legend 😍😍😍
I was looking at the Facebook group yesterday and was delighted to see how many people were trying EPP for the first time, and that most of them enjoyed it. It is wonderful that you have inspired so many people! Thank you for your lovely videos
I am enjoying that too, seeing people try it for the first time ❤️
So excited about this video! I have never sewed a quilt before but recently came across EPP and dived right in. I enjoy hand stitching a lot so this is perfect. I am using material from my mother in law's sewing stash, who passed suddenly a few years ago and is deeply missed. I have learned new things about EPP while watching this video. It is nice to see you chat with us on camera in the beginning and you do make it feel like I am sitting right there listening. I was not sure I would like the tea dyed look of the material but seeing it now, WOW!!!!! Love it. Thank you as always.
Good morning everyone....👋 Couldn't wait for week 5 to arrive
Love the idea of using paper with meaning. Thank you
Every time, I watch one of your videos, I think ‘I’m going to try that! ‘ but now I have so many ideas so where to start! Thank you for your inspiration, I’m off to do the last bit of last years #100dayproject -a stitch journal and I’m sure you will there in quite a few stitches! ❤
I love watching the long stitching videos - it's like having a stitching circle, except virtually.😅 Where I am, there is only one group at a library that meets once a month. And it's all the fiber arts together - knitting, crochet, embroidery, etc. So it's nice to have the youtube videos.
Excited for this week. I love EPP and have a king sized 1 inch hexagon quilt on the go at the moment. Using up my stash and sewing together as a colour wash. Inspired by Kate at The Last Homely House when she did a quilt for her granddaughter Agnus. I have over 4,000 thread basted hexagons done (whilst having chemo last year gave me a good chunk of time) and 772 sewn together so far. On my week 3 piece I did some 1cm hexagons. That was fun but soooo tiny!!
Wow 4000 is a lot of hexies ❤️
Congratulations on reaching many subscribers your videos are so informative and creative.
Thank you 😊
I love listening to you chat as you stitch. Honestly on nights I can't sleep I'll put one of your videos and and it soothes me right to sleep. Otherwise I have my morning coffee with your new videos and plan my next journal entry. It's also so nice to be able to imagine your surroundings as you film since we've been given a tour of your creative space.
Sorry had to chuckle that I send you to sleep 😁 but I know what you mean and thank you ❤️
"Breathe it all in., love it all out". Mary Oliver ❤
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Yay! Congratulations Kathryn! You deserve every one!
What a lovely piece and the tea dying improved their tones beautifully. The patchwork with the tiny hexagons is lovely. Such patience but so worth it ❤️
When I was nursing in London (many years ago!) my flatmate (hi Jan!!!) handstitched a huge EPP quilt of pink, blue and cream hexagons all in Laura Ashley fabrics. She sent the company a photo of it and they put the actual quilt in the window of their Sloane Square branch. We were so proud of her!!!
Mary x
I am not surprised! What a wonderful thing. I did love Laura Ashley fabrics back in the day 😁❤️
Hi Kathryn , I’ve been watching you now for about a month. One day I was scrolling through my RUclips and there you were! I found you to be very interesting and very gentle and soft-spoken and lovely to listen to and watch. My grandmother loved to crochet and sew and other women in the family at that time quilted. It was that era… my mother knitted sadly she went to heaven in 2012 before Christmas and I miss her so much still. I’ve never done much sewing and have never made a quilt but just watching you today, I really want to tackle I think you called it English paper style Rosette! I have always loved materials and sewing things but I do a little embroidery, but I don’t know all the stitches. I spend a lot of time in bed because I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, osteoarthritis, spine issues. I enjoy heat about your personal life not to be nosy but to see how other people live. It’s very interesting how you and your husband bought a rundown French home and are remodeling it - and you live near a forest! you were talking about walking in the forest and all the flowers. I hope you do show us some pictures that would be wonderful. I love nature I feed birds and I just love it when they come and drink water and eat. So please don’t think you’re talking on too much! Thank you for being such a lovely teacher and such a caring person. Your horses are beautiful. I also looked up the poem by Mary Oliver, and it’s a lovely poem… reminds me of the song of Solomon in the Bible ❤️🍷🤗😊
Hello Kimberly I am so sorry you are poorly but so happy you are enjoying the videos. I hope to share some outside videos in the future, when I can figure out the filming 😉
I have been sewing since I was able to hold a needle. When I was five I made my teddy a dress. I cried when my mum had to cut the stitching away from the table cloth. On Saturdays I meet with my daughter and three of my granddaughters to do crafts . We have been doing this for some years. We did week 4 stitching and two of my granddaughters found it very difficult to not look at the strips. We will be doing week 5 this Saturday. I am basing all mine on the community where I live and I will make them into a small quilt.
How wonderful 😊
Such a nice learning process for young kid!
Thank you Kathryn, you are so inspiring with all your knowledge and stories. 💕💕💕vicki
I did a wall hanging using 1/4” hexagons I enjoyed doing it but I would not do another with such small hexagons again. I really enjoy all your videos. I am still procrastinating on my slow stitching.
My 3X great aunt who was a school teacher in the Brecon Beacons in the late 1800s used her pupils’ work for the paper pieces. I have a large patchwork of hers without the papers and a smaller sample which I intend framing so that the papers show on the back. Really enjoy your videos - thank you.
Treasure 😍😍😍
With all the stitching I have done over the decades I have never done paper piecing, but I did remember that I had bought some plastic templates and I managed to find them! I am excited to try this. I will never do a whole quilt but it will be fun to do a page,
😁 hope you enjoy ❤️
I love the very long videos! I like to work right along with you, and I feel like I'm sitting with a friend and not doing it alone. Keep up the lovely videos. I'm new here just in the last month.
Hello Denise, you are so welcome, pleased you are enjoying the videos ❤️
Hello from Canada! I’m still quite new to sewing and stitching but I love your tutorials. The weekly projects are such a fantastic way for me to calm my brain at the end of the day.
Hello and welcome 🤗
I've been doing a lot of half inch hexies before this. I love doing them. I 'm making a friend a needle case. She is going to sew a bear her first venture. Thank you again.
Another fabous video, thank you so much. As always lovely to take a break with a fellow cloth and thread lover. Alas late with my homework again - 🤭. Covid done for me this time Miss 🤦🏻♂️. 👋🏼🏴. And yes I swear I can hear a load of batty stitches shouting 'giant paperclip' all together 😂
I hope you feel better soon... Spoiler alert, I just filmed Monday's video and I remembered the giant paper clip 😂❤️
I loved the poem! thank you for sharing ❤❤
I love hanging out with you. I only did the weaving one. I made 3. One in cotton with cotton thread, one in wool with wool thread and one in silk with silk thread. Then life interfered. Need to catch up LOL.
This was brilliant thank you. I’ve never heard of this technique let alone tried it. At first I thought I may skip this week as my sewing skills are new as have just found slow stitching. But your tutorials are brilliant and I managed to make it. Thank you.
My pleasure, so pleased you enjoyed it 😊
In the winter....my Grandpa always helped my Grandma hand stitch her quilts.
I had intentions of going along with the weekly project since I start my retirement soon (was supposed to be in January). Finally watching the weekly videos inspire me to do other stuff…but I guess it is right in the spirit of the series. Taking a road and changing your mind along the way.
Absolutely 😁 just have fun and go with the flow ❤️
I love watching you do traditional EPP, I have been watching Emma Jones do it so I am giving it ago. It is like teaching an old dog new tricks as I am from farm land in Illinois USA and was taught to piece hexagons 60 years ago with no papers. The ladies all made Grandmother's flower garden quilts out of old linens and clothing. I as taught as a child to measure with a tiny tailors rule and make marks for a 1/4 inch seam, but after you had done it awhile you just knew 1/4 inch. I'm sure I won't change my methods at this late date but this was fun to try it. I am Gloria on Facebook.
Hello Gloria ☺️
You are a beautiful soul,thank you for your time and love.
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Gorgeous combination of fabrick! Love it!
I love the long videos because I get the chance to learn and listen to you talking. I love the stories, the references etc. There’s so much character and love in the stories.
Thank you so pleased you are enjoying it 😊
Lovely spending time with you while stitching away on a scrappy slow stitch fabric container 🤗 cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡
Thank you Christine 😊
I love it! Most times people use bride colors or soft romantic colors for the flowers but this vintage feel is wonderful. I like the background information. Please say hello to your husband from a fellow dutchie
Thank you, I will say 'hi hi' to him 😁❤️
Loved the bit of history behind the hexagon quilts , interesting how they used paper to help with the warmth.
Oh your tea and coffee dyed fabrics turned out beautiful, I did watch you dye these and it did tame them down. Beautiful work ❤
Thank you 😊 part two of the tea dyeing and the full reveal should be up on Wednesday 😉
Oh lovely will look forward to it ❤
My mom and sister quilt. I have unending admiration
Love your patchwork ❤️ Thank you ⛄️
This is inspiring something purely fun! I need more of that. Thank you!
Thank you Kathryn. Another lovely video. 🪡
Loved this video, and I'm so happy to be one of your subscribers❤
How can I subscribe?
Being new to sewing, I learned a lot with this project. Also, I think I have settled down into a more meditate mind set and gained some more control over my needle. It was fun.
Lovely to hear that 😊
It's been a delight, so glad I found you
I loved this video. I live in the States and have not done EPP but keep saying I want a small project. This is perfect and really enjoyed the history and stories behind it. Tell your husband 18 min is way too short :) Thank you!
I will 😉 I keep telling him every time one of you lovely people say it and he just 'harrumphs' 😂❤️
I love your videos. Congratulations on 25K subscribers! When I sit and watch your videos I work on something (today I knit a washcloth) and I honestly feel like I'm sitting down with a friend who is also crafting, and teaching me about what they are working on. Your videos are so lovely and welcoming- so informative and instructional without being strict. I keep telling myself that I will make myself a weekly stitch journal and make these wonderful prompts - but I have yet to. Maybe I will catch up one day.
Thank you lovely to hear that ☺️
thankyou K3n, I love how you are inspiring us to think about what the themes mean to us.
Congratulations Kathry, we all really enjoy you sharing your knowledge with us, so much fun, Thankyou.
Thank you so much!
Another beautiful addition, and inspiration for countless variations. Thank you K3N, and for introducing me to Mary Oliver.
Thank you 😊.
I've asked to join the FB group - really looking forward to seeing what everyone is making! I absolutely love your videos - I am brand new but so thrilled to have found you!
Welcome, hope you are in the group ok ❤️
Lovely!
Thank you for sharing the book and some background on the paper piecing. The hand stitched cloth left with baby Charles is most poignant. A piece of tangible part of his mom/family. In that note, I think leaving some kind of writing on the material gives it its history and personal touch.
Love your channel. And thank you for a long video upload, it’s more substantial than reels.
🌷Tess
My pleasure Tess ❤️
This brings back memories of my childhood when my mom used pages from readers digest to make pieces for quilt. This is my favorite part so far for bringing back memories I had forgotten
So pleased you like it 😊
This is the first time watching yr videos!
I love the idea of paper piecing and I’m definitely going to see how to make the journal 😊
Welcome ❤️
these are quite fun....made a bunch on our recent road trip, being the passenger , obviously. Easy to sew even on bumpy roads. 😊
Road trip stitching is great, obviously not when you are driving 😂
Just stunning knowledge, you have and your collections of books Showen so far, I seem to get where you are coming from. EPP one of my favorites and that Quilt is just beautiful. Thank you, Katherine, for sharing your knowledge, Love and Inspiration for Cloth with us all, humbly appreciate all you do. Congrates on your milestone and may many more sub to you. Shared your channel out. Hugs from down under in NZ xx
Thank you so much for the sharing 😊
Hello from a fellow Kiwi.
Hi Ms @@ReallyJillRogoff Glad you and I are on the same beautiful journey. Will sub to you xx
Hi Kathrine, I just want to thank you for your very inspiring videos and tutorials. Unfortunately I can't show my work , since I don't do facebook or instagram. But I enjoy the slow stitch weekly assignments and all the other projects you do. I still feel a bit daunted by the book binding. That is rather too far out of my comfort zone. Hope you continue with all your lovely work.! Ada from Holland
Thank you ❤️ you could buy a nice sketchbook and stitch a wrap around cover for it if you didn't want to tackle the book binding 😉
Fabulous vid Kathryn 🤗🤗I am painfully stitching as I watch yor vid 😣 I have a pinched nerve in my right shoulder blade & also, a cyst has developed on the back of my right hand above my wrist,causing much pain with certain hand movements !!!!! My specialist gave me a cortisone injection last week, but it hasn't fixed it, so it seems surgery is the next option !! I'm sure my stitching is aggravating the 2 problems ....... but I love stitching so much 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Getting old is soooooo annoying !!!!!! 2 years ago I was fighting fit ..... then came the rheumatoid arthritis Grrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!! Take care xxx TFS XXXXXXX Sorry about the whinge 🇦🇺😎😍
Oh I am so sorry, don't apologise for whinging, it's so frustrating isn't it? I hope your poor hands are improved soon. A dear friend in England had similar issues, had surgery and was much better afterwards. I nearly said fingers crossed 🤞 but maybe that would be insensitive in the circumstances 🤭 so I will say hugs and best wishes instead ❤️❤️❤️
I could sit and watch your videos forever. I work on my projects while listening and watching you. You do so many projects that I would love to do myself. Happy stitching!❤
Hi Kathryn. Thanks for your awesome videos. I have watched a few stitching videos and the stitching in many of them is very unclear. Yours are very clear and visible. About the neat thing, I give up. Although I love the appearance of the slow stitching and the whole thought of it, I just can't do the "untidy" stitching. But because I do want to do it, I am embracing my OCD and making my neat and precise stitching and loving it. I am doing it slowly though so I hope that counts as slow stitching 😂 I am doing me 😂
Hello Sandy, thank you for your kind words. Regarding the neatness, I think it's a misconception that Slowstitch has to be messy. For me, it's about the process and being present and mindful. If you are naturally a neat stitcher and you work within that ethos, then it's still 'slowstitch'. 😉 Why I always say, you do you. No right or wrong. ♥️
Love listening to all of your stories!❤
How lovely. It’s years since I did any paper piecing but my head is full of ideas now. I have literally thousands of old black and white family photos, too many to display in any meaningful way. I’m thinking I may use some of those as papers. Thankyou for your time and the inspiration x
Or maybe maps?
Both great ideas 😁
Brenda: Thank you for such an interesting part of fabric quilting history!
I have just found you as I plan some slow stitching projects to do whilst travelling in our camper van. Thoroughly enjoying catching up on your content. Thank you! My husband’s phase is … ‘yes, I was wrong once on a Tuesday.’ 😄
Oh mine says that as well! Noooo there are two of them 😂😂😂
Come valorizzare ogni piccolo niente che insieme ad altri diventa importante, così è nella vita. Ciao e grazie mille dall'Italia
Buongiorno, grazie ♥️
Congratulations Kathrine on your 25k milestone! It doesn’t surprise me because you really have something to say, show and teach and i just really want to hang out with you ( as do 249999 other people ofcourse!). I am totally new to this paper peacing and hexagons but i will go for it ! Thanks again🍀💖
My pleasure Machteld, hope you enjoy ❤️
I love the idea of leaving special papers in paper pieced quilts. 💖 I’ve written this Mary Oliver poem in many of my daily journals. Those of us of a certain age, “get” it. 💖💖
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This was so enjoyable. Love the hexagons and the history, also love the idea of using a letter as the templates. Thank you for sharing Kathryn.
Loved this week’s project.
My first attempt at EPP was just before the pandemic hit us here in the US, late ‘19. I made a new ie throw, hand piecing the entire top, then APP-LEE-KAYing it onto a golden wide border with corner hexie’s in each 4 corner.
It’s about 52” square, maybe. I have YET to quilt it, but it’s sandwiched here with 3 or 4 other throws.
Thank you for sitting here in my living room with me for the last little bit. I TOTALLY enjoyed the time spent ❤❤❤
😂 if nothing else, I am getting you all to say appliqué properly 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 😂🤣😂❤️
So happy I found your channel. I’m really enjoying your videos. I knit while I’m listening. I always wanted to try paper piecing and didn’t know how to do it. I do sewing machine quilting but would like to try hand sewing. Looking forward to your log cabin. Keep your videos going. Also your have a very nice voice.
Thank you 😊
Giant paper-clip ! Great idea ! Enjoyed every second of this English Paper Piecing Patchwork 🩷
Congratulations on reaching 25,000! It’s a big number and well deserved. I’m sure that number will continue to grow. You are a wonderful creator, K3N❤. I have enjoyed all of your videos and learned so much about slow stitching, which I love. Best wishes for your continued success. Love hearing about your life and seeing your past quilting designs. You have a wonderful studio. I watch from South Carolina in the USA.😊
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Kathryn on your success achieving over twenty five thousand subscribers. Love the little paper pieced hexagons, thank you for another lovely enjoyable video. x