What a lovely video, Kathryn. At 66 I am feeling quite frayed around the edges some days. Thank you so much for your beautiful words regarding each of us having inside of us everything that we need. Your videos and learning the beauty of slow stitching have become peaceful therapy for me and your wittering is a wonderful part of this! Thank you for what you bring to all of us and for allowing us to be a part of your journey. You are loved! ❤
Oh Wittering Wise One! This is such a beautifully meditative video and a wonderful allegory that we each hold within us all that we need to make ourselves whole and complete (even if we feel frayed around the edges) ❤️
dear k3n ....the sweetest surprise in working this week with ' same cloth'., is that it Transformed.! Who knew? Brilliant, and such a joy! Thank you, sweet lady.
Well this was a fun one! I loved just getting to play with the piece of cloth and get to know it's threads. So many analogy's came to mind about life and ourselves and the threads that hold us together, and how they change. As always, thank you ☺❣
I was smiling as you wittered on about this story and that story. You know you actually were weaving these small stories in my head having me pull tiny threads of my childhood and experiences with yours. I liked this process of destruction then of taking those same pieces and using them to stitch back into our pieces of cloth. It reminds me that we takes those pieces of ourselves destroyed by time, events and others and recreate a whole new version of ourselves that is stronger and resilient
I love this!!! Way back in 1965, I was 19, had my first job and bought my own sewing machine. For Christmas, made placemats. I found them after my dad passed away and took them home with me 25 years ago. I finally am doing something with them! They are an evenly woven fabric - coarser thread than broadcloth but looks smooth. Warp is white, weft is green. It has to be cotton since this was before polyester. I had stitched an inch in around on all sides and pulled threads to fringe the edges and stitched a design with the fancy cams plus narrow rickrack near the sides. I still remember that it took hours to do those fringes! I have cut apart a piece of one and am stitching mostly with the white. The green shows up better on the back side. I am not done so we will see! I'm working on my sixth row!
Thank you for giving the advice the way you do and thank you for learning me that perfection is not the goal in life but the freedom of just doing what you feel you must do. Even with the stitching! it is very liberating for me. xxTrudi
I stitched along with you and enjoyed your wittering as always. I have had Claire's book for a number of years now along with other Batsford books, they are all wonderful. Ngā mihi-thank you Kathryn x 🩵
What a calming treat to get a lovely philosophy talk within our weekly slow stitch fix. What a wonderful hour and 17 minutes. Thank you. PS I did occasionally fold and finger crease my fabric to satisfy my inner need for some straightish stitch lines. I was doing me.
I love the little feeling I get of anticipation when you start talking about this week’s project, love it love it love it. I’m so looking forward to doing this . Greetings Kathryn 🌺🌺🌺from Brisbane Australia
Good morning Kathryn 👋 🫖☕ . Ti's a tad early here in Wisconsin, but awake, sipping coffee, and ready to roll out another week of stitching. This one is going to be Great! Going to be working with a piece of linen that my sister gave to me which she "hated" sewing with on her machine. (Remember week 6 of persnickity threads theme?) . Anyway, I'm wittering.😉.. back to the linen....it came from my grandmother, first generation immigrant from Austria who loved sewing, embroidery, needlepoint, etc. So here I am, a piece of her linen, to "joyfully " spend a week with, thanks to you k3n and this fun year I've had to share with you. bye bye👋
Thank you so much Katherine. This was truly wonderful. I too have had the immense privilege of seeing Vincent's paintings up close and deeply personal. Tears coming down my face...
This may be my favorite video of yours so far! I have the book you read from, and nearly cried hearing the passage’s concepts again. Thank you for reminding me of why stitching really matters.
This piece really seems to be synonymous to life itself (as is your cupboard deconstruction): we shed and deconstruct, or plow the earth in order for new things to grow. Love it! You can almost start your own platform: Witter (And only lovely and kind people will join, obviously)!😍 💖🍀
It’s nice to hear that some children still play innocent games that we used to play, that is what is missing in children’s life instead of what goes for child’s play these days.
Wittering is a stream of consciousness. It goes on in our mind all the time and is often suppressed. Birds sing, twitter, when they want, and our twittering, called wittering, is a sign of openness and freedom when I am alone, which is a lot, Going to the Van Gogh exhibition in New Zealand, in the 70s I believe, was a real highlight in my life. I was so intrigued by a vase of flowers in which, one little red flower stood out a centimeter fron the canvas. I one with the Cyprus and men walking at night the window in the cottage had no paint at all. Lots of love❤
Goodafternoon Kathryn ............ I've not commented before but was inspired to do so today because you touched on so many aspects of my experience of you and this community that have had deep meaning and changed my life in many ways, but didn't always seem to believe in the process of what you are doing. I enjoyed a year of a creative art therapy course years ago that encouraged me to be free in expressing, exploring and discovering my thoughts and feelings through art and craft mediums. I had a pile of diaries of work in art mediums, but your approach has enabled me to find that same freedom of expression within cloth and sewing...... perfect!! Why I didn't see it before I do not know. Now i have a freedom to be more myself and am learning not to inhibit myself through, what I see as, conditioned judgements around sewing, around me. Your approach also reminds me of the process of the Buddhist's meditation walk where you open yourself to experience every slow footstep, let yourself be alive through your senses, your spirit too. The process of life, the now, being more important than the end result. We are used, these days, to challenges being in-your-face loud and aggressive and demanding, but your challenges are quiet, deceptively simple, sensible and discrete. You leave us to gently challenge ourselves to be in touch with ourselves through cloth and stitch .....and others and life itself as the process, is in many ways, the same. What was once a whisper in my intuition now becomes a voice which enables me to express who I am. This is my elaborate way of saying thankyou for gifting yourself to us by simply/complexly being who you are and expressing / sharing who you are in your unique way..............and through taking that risk enabling us to find our own unique way to experience what it is to be who we are through the slow stitch process.
This is the first time I’ve actually stitched along to one of your videos. I could do that because I was watching a replay. I’m a line drawer, and it was very interesting to me that I was stitching on one of my lines when you began to discuss your opinion regarding not drawing lines. I thought about what you were saying, and I realized that I really want that line there because the line allows me to focus on the stitch without thinking about where I want to place that stitch.
Hiya 🌞, K3n😊,find myself always waiting on Monday (& wonky Wednesday) for some time out listening to you and, later reading others thoughts and comments 😀 Starting to see how so many of us are like minded ( find it comforting in thismad world! ) Thankyou to you and all, Julia, Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
@@cosmiccoyotedog-doreenb9605❤ hiya Doreen, 🌞 ( actually, lm Damiens Mother. He's given me this device so that the grandees can drag me into their era!! Lol! )but thankyou for "talking".
Thank you once again for a lovely week of stitching and wittering and enjoyable listening. Hopscotch was a big part of life for this girl of the 50’s. Memories of childish laughter and easy lives. I love linen cloth and feeling this project is right up my street. You always bring joy to my week! 😘
A beautiful practice today in its simplicity stripped back to just needle and textile. I think we’re all a bit like FredFred in that we need to know we can get out, be free, pursue an adventure or just peer out the open window before returning to the couch. Cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡
I got a bit behind and now I'm up to date by spending some holiday days watching, listening and stitching, and I thought 007 immediately too! Thank you.
I don't know if you are allowed to post twice but the narrative ie the wittering is so special and so helpful to folk - helpful doesn't really cover it! Your community needs you and boy do you deliver¡! ❤❤ and a woof from Oscar
Talking of hopscotch, there is a lovely video somewhere on social media where a chap in London drew hopscotch squares on the ground in a hidden walkthrough, then filmed what happened. You see businesslike adults, putting down their bags and briefcases, looking briefly around them and then jumping across the squares… even turning and jumping back. Its delightful 🙂
😮 addicted to this one, started one and already looking for new fabrics and colour tea to dye. Fabric needle so simple. My linen was quite lumpy and snagged and broke but I love the breaks. ❤ Thank you
This seems so relaxing with no decisions to make. Yes, I played hop scotch as a child also, and it sounds like the rules are the same in the US as they are there. It always makes me smile when I see a hop scotch drawn in chalk on a sidewalk in my neighborhood.❤
Loved this exercise. I used instant coffee 2 TB to 1/3 C hot water and a packet of Orange Kool Aid powdered drink mix to 1/3 C water. Did one side of cloth orange and one side brown. Alternated lines of stitching doing 1 line orange in center and working 2 lines of brown on each side and 2 lines of orange, etc. Really helped me concentrate on the days events and was a relaxing exercise. of Course I also finished preparing the Kool Aid and enjoyed that while stitching. Thanks for the inspiration. I also have purchased the book and am awaiting its arrival.
What I really enjoyed this week is that you worked from your chair and not the table. I am so tempted to try that! I usually stitch seated in my recliner, and it feels unnatural for me to stitch seated at my desk. I am working on a more open-weave fabric and find myself wanting to count the stitches. About a third of the way through, I quit counting, and of course, the stitching looks uneven, but an interesting contrast. It's much different than stitching on a cotton fabric for sure! The long tails remind me of the backs of needlepoint chair seats that have been removed and turned to the back. This certainly is an interesting study! Thank you for yet another fun page -- yes, I ordered the book (used) - my library is growing! 😊
Dear Kathryn, thank you for bringing my attention to this project. It’s a bit embarrassing but I have had the slow stitch book by Claire W-S for a long while now and totally admired the cover. I have it displayed in a cook book stand so I can see the cover all the time. I think I have truly found my happy place, just cloth and needle. I don’t know why I haven’t given it a go but because of your demonisation I have found that I love it so much. In fact I think it will be a lovely my special place to go to chill out.🌻🌻🌻
@@k3n.clothtales so true, I have rediscovered the feeling of touch, the feel of cloth, paper, plants etc. So often we have been taught ‘don’t touch’ all the time, that when we can, we don’t. My cloth piece sort of looks like the slow stitch cover, hope that’s ok? I didn’t mean to copy but had a similar piece of fabric. I added a little difference to hopefully not just imitate Claire but to honour her piece. Cheers Cathy 🌻🌻🌻
HopScotch - absolutely in grade school for me. It's a simple "free" activity that seems so old fashioned nowadays. Made me smile as you described it. Electronics have ruined our children in modern times. I loved your peace-filled project and your smoothing voice. As always, thank you!
I am just loving this. Gently amazed at the variety of each thread as I use it. To think that each one was there, part of the whole, almost invisible, yet maintaining its individuality. Now there’s an analogy for community !
Wasteful, making fluffy edges and throwing away the pulled threads…wasteful. But to restitch them or add the lovely ones to my ort jar, which I have now begun, is more satisfying. Thank you, Kathryn for the exercise.
2 takeaways I got from you today: 1) I loved hop scotch 😂❤... from back in the days before we learned to be competitive, 2) cloth dying can be done in small batches, like one square at a time 😂❤... I have 3 small pieces of cotton sitting in a bath of tea, wicking up pigment. Oh, so lovely ❤ Thank you for the inspiration
Love this stitching exercise! Your videos always inspire and bring me joy! Definitely played hopscotch as a child. I find myself hoping that after this 52 week period that we start all over again! I need these videos ❤️
Yes😊 we have hopscotch. We always played it..jump rope..Simon says..London Bridge..pick up sticks..marbles..jacks. Red Rover..hide and seek.climb trees...ride bicycles for hours and hours❤ You had me traveling back in time to all of the beautiful hours I shared growing up with my Sister and Friends 🧡
Thank you Kathryn - loved the idea. Have had Claire’s book from the library a couple of times but hadn’t tried this exercise. You reminded me to get to it! ❤ the first cloth I laid my hands on - a piece of Japanese yarn dyed cloth- from thrift shop. Not exactly what you suggested but I gave it a go. Pale green threads from one border & brown from another - a very interesting stitch pattern is emerging & two different colour fringes! Love it & the process - so pleasurable. An excellent exercise to introduce young learners to cloth & simple stitching. Bless you. Brenda from OZ down under. 💕🌻🐝X
Morning Kathryn. I enjoyed this so much. I used to do drawn thread work, so this takes me back to that period of my life. It may be a gentle struggle not to fall back into counting etc, and just to enjoy the process, but it is what I need at the moment. I also think it nice that any people in our community with sight issues can be fully involved, so thank you for that. I do think we are all cut from the same cloth here. It is a nice comforting feeling in this busy, crazy world. Take care x
I am really enjoying working on this. I am usually too tired on a Monday to start on something new, but I couldn’t wait to start it’s a wonderful calming process. Re building the cloth by moving the threads around. Thank you Kathryn 💕💕 I so much admire how you are rebuilding your life and continuing to share with us all
I do love Monday mornings with K3N and the whole community. A cup of hot coffee, listening to Kathryn wittering and loving the slow stitch project of the week. And I'm loving this project. My coffee is gone, so it is time to take my impatient fur baby for our early morning walk (east coast U.S.). I'll be back to watch the whole video and to start my project !!!
Goodmorning! I listened and watched from under my quilt, as its snowing here already and I'm not ready for it! Much more pleasing to lay in bed and watch you stitch! I'm looking forward to doing this one,love the ripples!
I loved doing this! I was watching you over breakfast. So I picked up a piece of cloth and dipped the edge into the blueberries leftover in my cereal bowl. Let it sit for a spell, then rinsed it and left it in the mild sunlight. What a great transformation....and then doing the stitching was just a treat...very satisfying to just be with the cloth so intimately.
❤ watching this episode and husband sat down. He was watching too. He asked a question nicely but I forgot exact words but wondering why we do this one that just has stitch lines and no design. I explained to him the mindfulness and just how it helps the creative process. Still looked confused. So I said “it’s like why in football do y’all tip toe back in forth in the tires???😂”. He says “to help with agility”. I said there ya have it. We are practicing agility but with needle and thread and cloth.
This was so much fun. I agree with you about Marion’s video, you mentioned. I’ve been doing embroidery for 66 years and she did an excellent job explaining for a beginner. Debbie
Thank you Kathryn for this wonderful prompt. I had a wonderful time sitting and stitching with you ( and yes, sorry to say, I am one of those line drawing symmetrical people) BUT this weeks prompt, and many to come, I used only my needle and thread 😊 nono rulers for me
I'm so happy to hear you say you're not going anywhere. I love listening and learning stitching with you. I would like to see more face time from Fred Fred. I'm a serious cat lover. Thank you for who you are and what you do and sharing it with us. Hugs ❤
Thank you. Fredfred is his own boss. I expect he will be around more as winter sets in and I will certainly turn the camera on him when he does show up 😁❤️
Wow Kathryn! You get me! Just yesterday I was looking through Claire Wellesley Smith's Slowstitch for the umpteenth time and I paused as always on the very project for today's piece. Now I'm happily doing my journal page and--BONUS--the technique works perfectly on another of my projects. Thank you for all you do. BTW, hopscotch is alive and well here too.
I've been working on a similar project for the past few days. I cut a strip of a fairly coase cotton- linen blend, hemmed the 2 long edges in a meandering line, and pulled threads from the central area of the strip. I am wrapping the removed threads around the upright threads in the form of trees. It's a wonderful meditative process.
K3n...I just love this. I feel frayed, however, I am strong on the inside and I can sew myself back together and be a better person. Isn't that what we are suppose to do....make ourselves better today than we were yesterdays? You and stitches are a God send to me. Thank you so so so so so so so so much. LouAnn Wilde from Mona, Utah.. USA
Thank you for making this week 42...I had been wondering for some time about using threads from the fabric itself, and this video gave me confidence to give it a try. I had a calico tote bag which I 'won' in my previous job. I cut out and disposed of the printed logo and am making a 'beauty from ashes' piece from the remnants. No knots, I collected some stray threads to try some couching, some frayed strips to add dimension... but all from the same cloth. Many thanks xxx
On a recent morning, I was walking along foggy beach in California and was struck by the beauty of the patterns in the sand made by the waves -- I took several photos of them. I am looking at Them now, and you would be amazed at how much what you have just created Looks like those beautiful patterns! I wish I could show them to you❤ Thank you so much, Katherine, for your lovely morning offering , as always😊
I've become such a cloth snob since meeting you. I always did "feel" the cloth when I went to a material shop. But I'm a lot pickier these days 😂❤ thank you Katherine for encouraging us to nurture, appreciate and love cloth. ❤
I'm catching up over half term, though not thinking of it as catching up, more that the thought of being able to spend time stitching for the joy of it has kept me going through the end of a very long term. I loved this piece; every minute of it was a comfort. I used a precious piece of linen that I had dyed with oak galls; they came from a tree that grew in the campsite of a folk festival we have attended for years with our children and friends. Every year we go back, and for 4 magical days we meet up with friends we have made in previous years. When we arrive it feels like coming home; we live in a temporary community until we go home and the fields are returned to the cattle who graze there. The festival is moving to a new site next year - it was quite emotional this year - and before we left a friend and I collected oak galls, leaves and acorns that had fallen from the tree closest to where we camp. I have a small bundle of silk and cotton and thread and linen and lace dyed with this precious potion. Anyway, that's a really long way of saying a huge "Thank you" - this one really spoke to me.
i love this!(I have a little piece of linnen and I am going tot do this also),I love thé quote of Vincent Van Gogh but above all I love to hear you talking it makes me feel relaxed,thank you Kathryn 🥰
This week I used a piece of indigo dyed linen for a source of pulled threads to stitch on a tea dyed piece of heavier linen as I didn't want to wait for a newly dyed piece to dry. In May of 2023 my sister and I were in Shaftsbury for 6 days while we visited from the USA on a genealogy quest; our ancestors came from that area. I loved that visit on my first time out of the US at 69 years old. I walked up and down Gold Hill for exercise and really enjoyed the farmer's market on Thursday. This year I had the privilege of spending 8 days in Shetland, Scotland for Wool Week.
How lovely, I will say hello to Shaftesbury for you when I go next week. And Wool Week is on my bucket list. I have never been to Shetland though I have visited Scotland many times ❤️
Thank you for explaining hopscotch and confirming there is no point, apart from the skill and strength to hop and jump . I never played it. Love this series, you, your sharings. Thank you
Dear 007 yes most enjoyable as childhood memories were evoked particularly playing hopscotch with my older sister who never really explained to me the rules of the game until today?? With your explanation. I just enjoyed hopping and scotching. …..the process……At about the same age we were taught at school to make a tray cloth for our mother on thick linen which frayed wonderfully.and of course it was never used for its intended purpose but was assigned to the treasure box! Of my mother’s keepsakes which I now have 60 years later remembering the joy it brought🤗
This would have been a good idea for that desert island stitching 😂 I had a scrap of linen that was stained with blackcurrant juice so happy to use that…I nearly always stitch in my chair with a cushion on my lap, so glad to see you doing the same
Dank je wel! Ik hou erg van je video's. Ik leer erg veel van je en gebruik je video's als cursussen naast mijn textielopleiding. Een mooie wijsheid van Vincent van Gogh. Prachtig dat je deze zin gebruikt hebt bij dit project. Succes en sterkte met alles wat er op je levenspad komt. Lieve groet, Elly
The linen must have a stimulating sensory touch. I'm thinking of doing a few (small) samples of various cloths just to feel their differences. Thank you for another lovely project. Also, working with a pillow on your lap is a great idea!
This is truly mindful slow stitching 😊 And FredFred is just being cat. They hate closed doors, love their freedom to come and go as they please. And also they love to make us open the door for them😂
And cats love to be up high up - kitchen worktop, table, shelving, (one, a friend's beautiful marmalade, loved the airing cupboard, he had his own shelf and bedding, when you walked past he would walk onto your shoulders if he wanted to get down, and you had to bend so he could gracefully jump on to the floor. Pampered? No, just much loved!). Pulling out threads is a useful way of sometimes making a (near) invisible repair in woven fabric - the inside of a hem is a good source. UK. E❤u.
When we visited our twin granddaughters in Missouri a few years ago my son had drawn them a hop scotch. So we played it all week. Hopping and jumping and laughing. I asked my son what gave him the idea and he said he remembered the fun we had when he was a child playing hop scotch ❤😭❤❤❤
Ooh, lovely! Am going to enjoy this. First, though, off to dip some linen..I used a herbal infusion (actually a fruit tea) to dye my lovely, soft linen fabric: got a gently blushing pink. What an enjoyable exercise this has been. I too like all the little thread tails on one side, and the play of the two tones of thread. It's a pleasure to sew this fabric, and I like the differences both in texture and feel of the different areas. Some of the threads I pulled were long (I pulled them before I cut the piece to size); others were considerably shorter. Used them all. That being said, I really love the other side of the piece, as well: no tails, just a gentle mélange of lines playing over the cloth, some of them intersecting. I've done drawn thread work in the past, where you use the threads to create patterns, but the sheer simplicity of this piece was relaxing and meditative. As you say: back to basics. Shall definitely do this again. I played hopscotch exactly the same way as you, back in 1950s-1960s New Zealand, and my grandchildren play it in the eastern Mediterranean. 😊 P.S.Licence to whitter : that would make a good T-shirt, too. ❤
I know what you mean about pets and food. I have 4 cats, and they all know the sound of the dry food, and the can of moist food opening. That said, I wait all werkend for Mondays and your weekly video
I have some Avocado ink which will be perfect for this. I simply simmered my Avocado dye down until it became a dark pinky brown, a very beautiful colour. You just reminded me about an experience I had as a 10 year old. I tried out for the choir at my new school and was told that I could only be in it if I stood in the back row and just "mouthed the words". I guess it was in the days before lip syncing was a thing. I heard that voice saying I couldn't sing inside me until I was well into adulthood but it definitely became silenced, somewhere along the way. I take great pleasure in bursting into song whenever I feel like it now. I saw Vincent van Gogh's paintings in the Guggenheim New York and had a similar experience to yours. I have watched every film there is about him and his work as I love his painting and of course the traumatic story of his life. Thank goodness he had his painting.
Love this project. While watching the video I thought you could also ink the edge instead of tea dying. I might give that a try. Thank you for sharing your talents.
This process of stitching was so comforting. I love the idea of doing this daily with a simple piece of cloth and a needle.
What a lovely video, Kathryn. At 66 I am feeling quite frayed around the edges some days. Thank you so much for your beautiful words regarding each of us having inside of us everything that we need. Your videos and learning the beauty of slow stitching have become peaceful therapy for me and your wittering is a wonderful part of this! Thank you for what you bring to all of us and for allowing us to be a part of your journey. You are loved! ❤
Thank you so much 😊
Oh Wittering Wise One!
This is such a beautifully meditative video and a wonderful allegory that we each hold within us all that we need to make ourselves whole and complete (even if we feel frayed around the edges) ❤️
I love the idea of this as a daily stitch meditation practice. 💖💖💖
dear k3n ....the sweetest surprise in working this week with ' same cloth'., is that it Transformed.! Who knew? Brilliant, and such a joy! Thank you, sweet lady.
Yes indeed and isn't that a beautiful metaphor? Transformed by what is already within. ❤️
Well this was a fun one! I loved just getting to play with the piece of cloth and get to know it's threads. So many analogy's came to mind about life and ourselves and the threads that hold us together, and how they change. As always, thank you ☺❣
I was smiling as you wittered on about this story and that story. You know you actually were weaving these small stories in my head having me pull tiny threads of my childhood and experiences with yours. I liked this process of destruction then of taking those same pieces and using them to stitch back into our pieces of cloth. It reminds me that we takes those pieces of ourselves destroyed by time, events and others and recreate a whole new version of ourselves that is stronger and resilient
Yes, what a beautiful way of putting it ❤️
Oh Wow, I love how you said that. I was doing much of the same.
Thanks. I sorted my frayed threads as I listened. There are so many they have a jar where they can wait now.
❤ I like your pov
Do love the wittering and of course, the stitching as well.
I love this!!! Way back in 1965, I was 19, had my first job and bought my own sewing machine. For Christmas, made placemats. I found them after my dad passed away and took them home with me 25 years ago. I finally am doing something with them!
They are an evenly woven fabric - coarser thread than broadcloth but looks smooth. Warp is white, weft is green. It has to be cotton since this was before polyester. I had stitched an inch in around on all sides and pulled threads to fringe the edges and stitched a design with the fancy cams plus narrow rickrack near the sides. I still remember that it took hours to do those fringes!
I have cut apart a piece of one and am stitching mostly with the white. The green shows up better on the back side. I am not done so we will see! I'm working on my sixth row!
Love that you are adding another layer of story to your special cloth ♥️
Thank you for giving the advice the way you do and thank you for learning me that perfection is not the goal in life but the freedom of just doing what you feel you must do. Even with the stitching! it is very liberating for me. xxTrudi
As I look back in my year with you., this my be my fave.....it was the simplest of mind, making it perfect .
You could make a book. Such wisdom and charm. Witter a book for us. ❤ 😊
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Yes, that would be amazing!
I stitched along with you and enjoyed your wittering as always. I have had Claire's book for a number of years now along with other Batsford books, they are all wonderful. Ngā mihi-thank you Kathryn x 🩵
What a calming treat to get a lovely philosophy talk within our weekly slow stitch fix. What a wonderful hour and 17 minutes. Thank you. PS I did occasionally fold and finger crease my fabric to satisfy my inner need for some straightish stitch lines. I was doing me.
Perfect ♥️♥️♥️
I love the little feeling I get of anticipation when you start talking about this week’s project, love it love it love it. I’m so looking forward to doing this . Greetings Kathryn 🌺🌺🌺from Brisbane Australia
Good morning Kathryn 👋 🫖☕ . Ti's a tad early here in Wisconsin, but awake, sipping coffee, and ready to roll out another week of stitching. This one is going to be Great! Going to be working with a piece of linen that my sister gave to me which she "hated" sewing with on her machine. (Remember week 6 of persnickity threads theme?) . Anyway, I'm wittering.😉.. back to the linen....it came from my grandmother, first generation immigrant from Austria who loved sewing, embroidery, needlepoint, etc. So here I am, a piece of her linen, to "joyfully " spend a week with, thanks to you k3n and this fun year I've had to share with you. bye bye👋
That makes me so happy ☺️
That's wonderful ❤️
Thank you so much Katherine. This was truly wonderful. I too have had the immense privilege of seeing Vincent's paintings up close and deeply personal. Tears coming down my face...
This may be my favorite video of yours so far! I have the book you read from, and nearly cried hearing the passage’s concepts again. Thank you for reminding me of why stitching really matters.
My absolute pleasure ♥️
This piece really seems to be synonymous to life itself (as is your cupboard deconstruction): we shed and deconstruct, or plow the earth in order for new things to grow. Love it! You can almost start your own platform: Witter (And only lovely and kind people will join, obviously)!😍 💖🍀
That made me chuckle. 😁😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 💕
@@dailydoseofpaper 😂 made me chuckle
It’s nice to hear that some children still play innocent games that we used to play, that is what is missing in children’s life instead of what goes for child’s play these days.
Wittering is a stream of consciousness. It goes on in our mind all the time and is often suppressed. Birds sing, twitter, when they want, and our twittering, called wittering, is a sign of openness and freedom when I am alone, which is a lot,
Going to the Van Gogh exhibition in New Zealand, in the 70s I believe, was a real highlight in my life. I was so intrigued by a vase of flowers in which, one little red flower stood out a centimeter fron the canvas. I one with the Cyprus and men walking at night the window in the cottage had no paint at all. Lots of love❤
Goodafternoon Kathryn ............ I've not commented before but was inspired to do so today because you touched on so many aspects of my experience of you and this community that have had deep meaning and changed my life in many ways, but didn't always seem to believe in the process of what you are doing. I enjoyed a year of a creative art therapy course years ago that encouraged me to be free in expressing, exploring and discovering my thoughts and feelings through art and craft mediums. I had a pile of diaries of work in art mediums, but your approach has enabled me to find that same freedom of expression within cloth and sewing...... perfect!! Why I didn't see it before I do not know. Now i have a freedom to be more myself and am learning not to inhibit myself through, what I see as, conditioned judgements around sewing, around me. Your approach also reminds me of the process of the Buddhist's meditation walk where you open yourself to experience every slow footstep, let yourself be alive through your senses, your spirit too. The process of life, the now, being more important than the end result. We are used, these days, to challenges being in-your-face loud and aggressive and demanding, but your challenges are quiet, deceptively simple, sensible and discrete. You leave us to gently challenge ourselves to be in touch with ourselves through cloth and stitch .....and others and life itself as the process, is in many ways, the same. What was once a whisper in my intuition now becomes a voice which enables me to express who I am. This is my elaborate way of saying thankyou for gifting yourself to us by simply/complexly being who you are and expressing / sharing who you are in your unique way..............and through taking that risk enabling us to find our own unique way to experience what it is to be who we are through the slow stitch process.
Wow, thank you so much. That makes me happy beyond measure. Truly. 🙏❤️❤️❤️
@murielhudson2104 you have expressed my thoughts and feelings so perfectly and much better than I am able to at the moment thank you 😊
Well said. Great to hear your voice with the rest of us who love K3n.
This is the first time I’ve actually stitched along to one of your videos. I could do that because I was watching a replay. I’m a line drawer, and it was very interesting to me that I was stitching on one of my lines when you began to discuss your opinion regarding not drawing lines. I thought about what you were saying, and I realized that I really want that line there because the line allows me to focus on the stitch without thinking about where I want to place that stitch.
Hiya 🌞, K3n😊,find myself always waiting on Monday (& wonky Wednesday) for some time out listening to you and, later reading others thoughts and comments 😀 Starting to see how so many of us are like minded ( find it comforting in thismad world! ) Thankyou to you and all, Julia, Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
Likewise, Julia. Shakti, middle England 😊
@@shakti7514 😊❤hiya shakti😊Julia.
Nicely said, Damien
@@cosmiccoyotedog-doreenb9605❤ hiya Doreen, 🌞 ( actually, lm Damiens Mother. He's given me this device so that the grandees can drag me into their era!! Lol! )but thankyou for "talking".
Thank you once again for a lovely week of stitching and wittering and enjoyable listening. Hopscotch was a big part of life for this girl of the 50’s. Memories of childish laughter and easy lives. I love linen cloth and feeling this project is right up my street. You always bring joy to my week! 😘
Oh thank you! ☺️
Thank you for another wonderful video❤️❤️
A beautiful practice today in its simplicity stripped back to just needle and textile. I think we’re all a bit like FredFred in that we need to know we can get out, be free, pursue an adventure or just peer out the open window before returning to the couch. Cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡
I got a bit behind and now I'm up to date by spending some holiday days watching, listening and stitching, and I thought 007 immediately too! Thank you.
I absolutely love the sound of your clock, my granny had a clock with a chime and it takes me back
Love your podcast 👵🏼x
I don't know if you are allowed to post twice but the narrative ie the wittering is so special and so helpful to folk - helpful doesn't really cover it! Your community needs you and boy do you deliver¡! ❤❤ and a woof from Oscar
@@margaretmcgregor5686 thank you Margaret, you can post as many times as you like 😁 love to you both ♥️
Talking of hopscotch, there is a lovely video somewhere on social media where a chap in London drew hopscotch squares on the ground in a hidden walkthrough, then filmed what happened. You see businesslike adults, putting down their bags and briefcases, looking briefly around them and then jumping across the squares… even turning and jumping back. Its delightful 🙂
How wonderful! ♥️
Exciting news about the Shaftesbury exhibition! I’ll call in and say hello Jx
Lovely, will be great to see you ☺️
😮 addicted to this one, started one and already looking for new fabrics and colour tea to dye. Fabric needle so simple. My linen was quite lumpy and snagged and broke but I love the breaks. ❤ Thank you
This seems so relaxing with no decisions to make. Yes, I played hop scotch as a child also, and it sounds like the rules are the same in the US as they are there. It always makes me smile when I see a hop scotch drawn in chalk on a sidewalk in my neighborhood.❤
Loved this exercise. I used instant coffee 2 TB to 1/3 C hot water and a packet of Orange Kool Aid powdered drink mix to 1/3 C water. Did one side of cloth orange and one side brown. Alternated lines of stitching doing 1 line orange in center and working 2 lines of brown on each side and 2 lines of orange, etc. Really helped me concentrate on the days events and was a relaxing exercise. of Course I also finished preparing the Kool Aid and enjoyed that while stitching. Thanks for the inspiration. I also have purchased the book and am awaiting its arrival.
What I really enjoyed this week is that you worked from your chair and not the table. I am so tempted to try that! I usually stitch seated in my recliner, and it feels unnatural for me to stitch seated at my desk. I am working on a more open-weave fabric and find myself wanting to count the stitches. About a third of the way through, I quit counting, and of course, the stitching looks uneven, but an interesting contrast. It's much different than stitching on a cotton fabric for sure! The long tails remind me of the backs of needlepoint chair seats that have been removed and turned to the back. This certainly is an interesting study! Thank you for yet another fun page -- yes, I ordered the book (used) - my library is growing! 😊
I do think I will do more stitching like this when I don't need the desk for lots of supplies or things to show ♥️
This is so perfect for my situation right now . I am watching when I can and I will use this process for ever. Thank you 🎉
Love this, I used an Inktense pencil to colour the edge. I sometimes pull some threads, randomly, from a piece of fabric to alter the texture!
Thanks for the tip about using Inktense pencil around the edges - I'm definitely going to try that ☺
Dear Kathryn, thank you for bringing my attention to this project. It’s a bit embarrassing but I have had the slow stitch book by Claire W-S for a long while now and totally admired the cover. I have it displayed in a cook book stand so I can see the cover all the time.
I think I have truly found my happy place, just cloth and needle.
I don’t know why I haven’t given it a go but because of your demonisation I have found that I love it so much. In fact I think it will be a lovely my special place to go to chill out.🌻🌻🌻
It's a beautiful cover, I can imagine why you display it like that. Also lovely tactile covers on the Batsford books ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales so true, I have rediscovered the feeling of touch, the feel of cloth, paper, plants etc. So often we have been taught ‘don’t touch’ all the time, that when we can, we don’t.
My cloth piece sort of looks like the slow stitch cover, hope that’s ok? I didn’t mean to copy but had a similar piece of fabric. I added a little difference to hopefully not just imitate Claire but to honour her piece.
Cheers Cathy 🌻🌻🌻
HopScotch - absolutely in grade school for me. It's a simple "free" activity that seems so old fashioned nowadays. Made me smile as you described it. Electronics have ruined our children in modern times. I loved your peace-filled project and your smoothing voice. As always, thank you!
I am just loving this. Gently amazed at the variety of each thread as I use it. To think that each one was there, part of the whole, almost invisible, yet maintaining its individuality. Now there’s an analogy for community !
Yes! ❤️❤️❤️
Your words have value to me 👵🏼x
Keep wittering
Yes they are wonderful words. I was thinking the same thing.
Wasteful, making fluffy edges and throwing away the pulled threads…wasteful. But to restitch them or add the lovely ones to my ort jar, which I have now begun, is more satisfying. Thank you, Kathryn for the exercise.
I'm fortunate to have a copy of this beautiful book...
2 takeaways I got from you today: 1) I loved hop scotch 😂❤... from back in the days before we learned to be competitive, 2) cloth dying can be done in small batches, like one square at a time 😂❤...
I have 3 small pieces of cotton sitting in a bath of tea, wicking up pigment. Oh, so lovely ❤
Thank you for the inspiration
My absolute pleasure ❤️
Love this stitching exercise! Your videos always inspire and bring me joy! Definitely played hopscotch as a child. I find myself hoping that after this 52 week period that we start all over again! I need these videos ❤️
Thank you, yes there will be a new weekly project next year ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales Yay!!
Yes😊 we have hopscotch. We always played it..jump rope..Simon says..London Bridge..pick up sticks..marbles..jacks. Red Rover..hide and seek.climb trees...ride bicycles for hours and hours❤ You had me traveling back in time to all of the beautiful hours I shared growing up with my Sister and Friends 🧡
All the best games. It's so lovely to see children still playing them. ❤️
Me too ! ! Until the street lights came on.... home we would run.
Same here! Wonderful childhood memories!
Oh, Kathryn, I loved this so much! Instead of stitching along, I watched and listened. What a lovely, meditative experience. Thank you!
Wonderful! 😘
Thank you Kathryn - loved the idea. Have had Claire’s book from the library a couple of times but hadn’t tried this exercise. You reminded me to get to it! ❤ the first cloth I laid my hands on - a piece of Japanese yarn dyed cloth- from thrift shop. Not exactly what you suggested but I gave it a go. Pale green threads from one border & brown from another - a very interesting stitch pattern is emerging & two different colour fringes! Love it & the process - so pleasurable. An excellent exercise to introduce young learners to cloth & simple stitching. Bless you. Brenda from OZ down under. 💕🌻🐝X
Morning Kathryn. I enjoyed this so much. I used to do drawn thread work, so this takes me back to that period of my life. It may be a gentle struggle not to fall back into counting etc, and just to enjoy the process, but it is what I need at the moment.
I also think it nice that any people in our community with sight issues can be fully involved, so thank you for that.
I do think we are all cut from the same cloth here. It is a nice comforting feeling in this busy, crazy world. Take care x
I am really enjoying working on this. I am usually too tired on a Monday to start on something new, but I couldn’t wait to start it’s a wonderful calming process. Re building the cloth by moving the threads around. Thank you Kathryn 💕💕 I so much admire how you are rebuilding your life and continuing to share with us all
I do love Monday mornings with K3N and the whole community. A cup of hot coffee, listening to Kathryn wittering and loving the slow stitch project of the week. And I'm loving this project. My coffee is gone, so it is time to take my impatient fur baby for our early morning walk (east coast U.S.). I'll be back to watch the whole video and to start my project !!!
Hope you had a lovely walk ❤️
Goodmorning! I listened and watched from under my quilt, as its snowing here already and I'm not ready for it! Much more pleasing to lay in bed and watch you stitch! I'm looking forward to doing this one,love the ripples!
I loved doing this! I was watching you over breakfast. So I picked up a piece of cloth and dipped the edge into the blueberries leftover in my cereal bowl. Let it sit for a spell, then rinsed it and left it in the mild sunlight. What a great transformation....and then doing the stitching was just a treat...very satisfying to just be with the cloth so intimately.
How lovely ♥️
❤❤oh yes I remember playing this game, and I am from Ontario Canada!❤Memories😊
Thank you for this stitching piece ,it is just what I neeeded❤
You’re welcome 😊
❤ watching this episode and husband sat down. He was watching too. He asked a question nicely but I forgot exact words but wondering why we do this one that just has stitch lines and no design. I explained to him the mindfulness and just how it helps the creative process. Still looked confused. So I said “it’s like why in football do y’all tip toe back in forth in the tires???😂”. He says “to help with agility”. I said there ya have it. We are practicing agility but with needle and thread and cloth.
Made me laugh out loud 😂 nice way to make it relevant to him though. ❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 😂 me too me too. I’m not he understood the mindfulness part lol😂
This was so much fun. I agree with you about Marion’s video, you mentioned. I’ve been doing embroidery for 66 years and she did an excellent job explaining for a beginner. Debbie
Very much looking forward to doing this. I am lying in bed after a HUGE day and enjoying the restful view of your stitching and calming voice.
Thank you Kathryn for this wonderful prompt. I had a wonderful time sitting and stitching with you ( and yes, sorry to say, I am one of those line drawing symmetrical people) BUT this weeks prompt, and many to come, I used only my needle and thread 😊 nono rulers for me
Wonderful!♥️
I'm so happy to hear you say you're not going anywhere. I love listening and learning stitching with you. I would like to see more face time from Fred Fred. I'm a serious cat lover. Thank you for who you are and what you do and sharing it with us. Hugs ❤
Thank you. Fredfred is his own boss. I expect he will be around more as winter sets in and I will certainly turn the camera on him when he does show up 😁❤️
You made me feel Zen, didn’t need mindfulness after this. Love the idea of changing the cloth without putting something to it. Love, Tineke
Wow Kathryn! You get me! Just yesterday I was looking through Claire Wellesley Smith's Slowstitch for the umpteenth time and I paused as always on the very project for today's piece. Now I'm happily doing my journal page and--BONUS--the technique works perfectly on another of my projects. Thank you for all you do. BTW, hopscotch is alive and well here too.
Wonderful!😁
❤🫂 thank you for another lovely catch up 😊 really, really enjoyed the zen if this one.
I also look forward to all of your videos
Loved this video….. Have just started using a pillow in my lap to stitch, brilliant…… from Indiana USA
Love the widdering,like sitting with a friend having tea.
I was able to get a used copy of the book which delighted me. Third party vendor on Amazon. Can’t wait to start reading.
Oh, I am so happy you will be continuing next year. 💕
I've been working on a similar project for the past few days. I cut a strip of a fairly coase cotton- linen blend, hemmed the 2 long edges in a meandering line, and pulled threads from the central area of the strip. I am wrapping the removed threads around the upright threads in the form of trees. It's a wonderful meditative process.
My quote is ‘Perfection is not Perfect’. Really enjoyed todays video, so relaxing
K3n...I just love this. I feel frayed, however, I am strong on the inside and I can sew myself back together and be a better person. Isn't that what we are suppose to do....make ourselves better today than we were yesterdays? You and stitches are a God send to me. Thank you so so so so so so so so much. LouAnn Wilde from Mona, Utah.. USA
Yes absolutely, we have the means within us. Lots of love ❤️
Thank you for making this week 42...I had been wondering for some time about using threads from the fabric itself, and this video gave me confidence to give it a try. I had a calico tote bag which I 'won' in my previous job. I cut out and disposed of the printed logo and am making a 'beauty from ashes' piece from the remnants. No knots, I collected some stray threads to try some couching, some frayed strips to add dimension... but all from the same cloth. Many thanks xxx
My morning ASMR, k3n’s wittering and stitching. Thank you, as always. ❤
What a lovely video! Thank you!
On a recent morning, I was walking along foggy beach in California and was struck by the beauty of the patterns in the sand made by the waves -- I took several photos of them. I am looking at Them now, and you would be amazed at how much what you have just created Looks like those beautiful patterns! I wish I could show them to you❤ Thank you so much, Katherine, for your lovely morning offering , as always😊
Wow this was a lovely stitching experience, so relaxing and so easy to get materials together, no thinking just grab ❤
I've become such a cloth snob since meeting you. I always did "feel" the cloth when I went to a material shop. But I'm a lot pickier these days 😂❤ thank you Katherine for encouraging us to nurture, appreciate and love cloth. ❤
@@alison64able me too. Always felt the cloth of clothes but now I always check the label too
I'm catching up over half term, though not thinking of it as catching up, more that the thought of being able to spend time stitching for the joy of it has kept me going through the end of a very long term.
I loved this piece; every minute of it was a comfort. I used a precious piece of linen that I had dyed with oak galls; they came from a tree that grew in the campsite of a folk festival we have attended for years with our children and friends. Every year we go back, and for 4 magical days we meet up with friends we have made in previous years. When we arrive it feels like coming home; we live in a temporary community until we go home and the fields are returned to the cattle who graze there. The festival is moving to a new site next year - it was quite emotional this year - and before we left a friend and I collected oak galls, leaves and acorns that had fallen from the tree closest to where we camp. I have a small bundle of silk and cotton and thread and linen and lace dyed with this precious potion. Anyway, that's a really long way of saying a huge "Thank you" - this one really spoke to me.
I love that Val, to preserve the memories of that special place in the cloth ♥️
i love this!(I have a little piece of linnen and I am going tot do this also),I love thé quote of Vincent Van Gogh but above all I love to hear you talking it makes me feel relaxed,thank you Kathryn 🥰
My pleasure Lucia 😊
This week I used a piece of indigo dyed linen for a source of pulled threads to stitch on a tea dyed piece of heavier linen as I didn't want to wait for a newly dyed piece to dry.
In May of 2023 my sister and I were in Shaftsbury for 6 days while we visited from the USA on a genealogy quest; our ancestors came from that area. I loved that visit on my first time out of the US at 69 years old. I walked up and down Gold Hill for exercise and really enjoyed the farmer's market on Thursday. This year I had the privilege of spending 8 days in Shetland, Scotland for Wool Week.
How lovely, I will say hello to Shaftesbury for you when I go next week. And Wool Week is on my bucket list. I have never been to Shetland though I have visited Scotland many times ❤️
Thank you for explaining hopscotch and confirming there is no point, apart from the skill and strength to hop and jump . I never played it.
Love this series, you, your sharings. Thank you
Dear 007 yes most enjoyable as childhood memories were evoked particularly playing hopscotch with my older sister who never really explained to me the rules of the game until today?? With your explanation. I just enjoyed hopping and scotching. …..the process……At about the same age we were taught at school to make a tray cloth for our mother on thick linen which frayed wonderfully.and of course it was never used for its intended purpose but was assigned to the treasure box! Of my mother’s keepsakes which I now have 60 years later remembering the joy it brought🤗
That's so lovely Susan. ❤️
I tried ink to dye the edge of my piece of linen. It wicked up in an interesting pattern. Stitching with the pulled thread was easier than I expected.
I am loving your channel. So much to be learned from you. Many thanks.
This would have been a good idea for that desert island stitching 😂 I had a scrap of linen that was stained with blackcurrant juice so happy to use that…I nearly always stitch in my chair with a cushion on my lap, so glad to see you doing the same
Dank je wel!
Ik hou erg van je video's. Ik leer erg veel van je en gebruik je video's als cursussen naast mijn textielopleiding.
Een mooie wijsheid van Vincent van Gogh. Prachtig dat je deze zin gebruikt hebt bij dit project.
Succes en sterkte met alles wat er op je levenspad komt.
Lieve groet,
Elly
Thank you Elly ❤️
The linen must have a stimulating sensory touch. I'm thinking of doing a few (small) samples of various cloths just to feel their differences. Thank you for another lovely project. Also, working with a pillow on your lap is a great idea!
Lovely idea to try with different cloths ♥️
This is truly mindful slow stitching 😊
And FredFred is just being cat. They hate closed doors, love their freedom to come and go as they please. And also they love to make us open the door for them😂
And cats love to be up high up - kitchen worktop, table, shelving, (one, a friend's beautiful marmalade, loved the airing cupboard, he had his own shelf and bedding, when you walked past he would walk onto your shoulders if he wanted to get down, and you had to bend so he could gracefully jump on to the floor. Pampered? No, just much loved!). Pulling out threads is a useful way of sometimes making a (near) invisible repair in woven fabric - the inside of a hem is a good source. UK. E❤u.
Merci 😍 merci 😍
votre inspiration 🧡
votre douceur 🧡
Votre gentillesse 🧡
Bonne journée Bisous
Guylaine xxx
Love your videos so inspirational
#Whittering Whitter on. I've waited all week for it. 💙💜
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When we visited our twin granddaughters in Missouri a few years ago my son had drawn them a hop scotch. So we played it all week. Hopping and jumping and laughing. I asked my son what gave him the idea and he said he remembered the fun we had when he was a child playing hop scotch ❤😭❤❤❤
How wonderful. ❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales great memories
I re-found a handwoven sample given to me by a local weaver years ago and it was perfect for this! Stitching it felt like a tribute to her work 💕😊
Wonderful Rita, look forward to seeing it 😊
@@k3n.clothtales - loved this project; I did it while watching the video 😊😊
The stitching are standing out, love this idea, and will do this, thankyou k3n, always look forward to your videos, from NZ
Ooh, lovely! Am going to enjoy this. First, though, off to dip some linen..I used a herbal infusion (actually a fruit tea) to dye my lovely, soft linen fabric: got a gently blushing pink.
What an enjoyable exercise this has been. I too like all the little thread tails on one side, and the play of the two tones of thread. It's a pleasure to sew this fabric, and I like the differences both in texture and feel of the different areas. Some of the threads I pulled were long (I pulled them before I cut the piece to size); others were considerably shorter. Used them all.
That being said, I really love the other side of the piece, as well: no tails, just a gentle mélange of lines playing over the cloth, some of them intersecting.
I've done drawn thread work in the past, where you use the threads to create patterns, but the sheer simplicity of this piece was relaxing and meditative. As you say: back to basics. Shall definitely do this again.
I played hopscotch exactly the same way as you, back in 1950s-1960s New Zealand, and my grandchildren play it in the eastern Mediterranean. 😊
P.S.Licence to whitter : that would make a good T-shirt, too. ❤
Yes it would 😁❤️
I love the feel of pulling threads, maybe it’s a ‘thing’. My grandmother used to pull threads from an inconspicuous place on a garment to mend a hole.
I know what you mean about pets and food. I have 4 cats, and they all know the sound of the dry food, and the can of moist food opening.
That said, I wait all werkend for Mondays and your weekly video
I have loved this so much. Love your wittering, and am so glad you’re not going anywhere and will be here next year. So will I xx
Thank you so much! 😊
I have some Avocado ink which will be perfect for this. I simply simmered my Avocado dye down until it became a dark pinky brown, a very beautiful colour.
You just reminded me about an experience I had as a 10 year old. I tried out for the choir at my new school and was told that I could only be in it if I stood in the back row and just "mouthed the words". I guess it was in the days before lip syncing was a thing. I heard that voice saying I couldn't sing inside me until I was well into adulthood but it definitely became silenced, somewhere along the way. I take great pleasure in bursting into song whenever I feel like it now.
I saw Vincent van Gogh's paintings in the Guggenheim New York and had a similar experience to yours. I have watched every film there is about him and his work as I love his painting and of course the traumatic story of his life. Thank goodness he had his painting.
I am so happy that you now burst into song ♥️
Love this project. While watching the video I thought you could also ink the edge instead of tea dying. I might give that a try. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Yes I think ink would work great ❤️