Slowstitching the feeling of Home
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Using hand stitching and precious scraps of cloth, create a Slowstitch coverlet with me through the year, suitable for absolute beginners and more experienced stitchers. A journal cloth, for and about yourself. We will create a section each month and join as we go. The projects can also be used individually so don't worry if you join us late. There will be weekly videos every Wednesday at 3pm GMT.
For the month of February, the theme is Home.
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This tutorial was amazing, all very logical once you know what you are doing. A fabric, wonky log cabin jig saw. The camera angles today were great, also so much easier to see when working on a desk.
What a challenging and fun way to work this month 😅 I hope I can get through it without going too 😵💫 😂💪 Thanks for the warm homely inspiration ❤
I love this idea. For me, people are home ,and without cloth with meaning to me, it would only be an exercise. I don't have any kind of old cloth
I have just finished two little wonkified log cabins and am so enjoying this 2nd block. I have to parcel out my stitching but I will continue slowly...I love the wedges idea for filling in the spaces; what fun using all those little bits of strips I've been hoarding...thank you for another great video....hugs, Julierose😃
Thank you for sharing
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Thanks Kathryn I can feel some enthusiasm mixed with motivation beginning. I know myself well enough to realise that if I just settled into viewing your 2026 prompts that would be enough. I guess being a creation coming in from a completely different non structured angle has thrown my Virgo mind into a spin and asking myself if I really needed such a challenge. Or if I could being myself to actually be centred on myself but after creating most of the prompts from Wonky Wednesday in 2025 I actually enjoy the Log Cabins. My centre piece for my Comfort Cloth has been basted down since early January, folded neatly and tucked away but today I am going to find it and start stitching. Hugs
Dear Kathryn! I am in my 10th home now, which is my 7th in the Netherlands. My first home ever was in Eastern Germany, behind the iron curtain. Even if it is a long time ago (more than 30 years) I still feel a cut through my history of homes. I like to express this in my cloth, maybe I will use the kintsugi technique you taught us last year with the weekly project. That will make a strong line.
The log cabins are so cute, I will try that too. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Liefs, Helene
I have never done log cabins wonky or otherwise so I am so excited to try. I can embrace a little wonk but not too much, so I am just going to do three in a straight line as I have to have things in odds and I live at number 3. Once again Kathryn, you amaze us ☹️
You are such an artist, and you show us these things so well!! It amazes me how you think of the different ways of doing things, so imaginative and so lovely! Thank you for teaching us!! 💚💚💚
Thank you Nancy, I think I just have a weird, what if kind of brain 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales what if-ing is the best artistry that there ever was!!
Love this video and the idea of using tiny scraps for a meditation scroll - is there a video on it ?
I have been excited for today's project...and I enjoyed immensely ✨️💙🌙
Very interesting log cabin design. Never seen anything like this with the log cabin block before. I like it.💛💚💛
I counted all the different places I’ve lived, 15, maybe more but that’s all I remembered right now. I love the idea of making log cabins connect, thanks for sharing.
I LOVE the idea of all the various hearthfires I've tended over the years scattered across this field like stars.
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We are wanderers. I’ve had a nomadic life also. 💕
I love the idea of HOME covering my self….and my family (my four patch inside a nine patch) 💖💖💖
I’m 62 this year and I think I ‘ve lived in 23/24 homes including student houses back in the 80s. We’ve been here now 22 years and it was a temporary move when my dad was terminally ill and then various life events happened 😂
Oh fun! I did a few of the wonky homes last year but not enough so looking forward to the piece this month. Cattywompus is great…and like we used to say at my old job when we transcribed reports…”just make it look pretty” 😂.
Very interesting and challenging. I am certainly going to attempt the wonky look as I really enjoyed the Wonky Wednesday projects!
Being a creative can be scary, but whatever you create never scares me Kathryn 🙂 It inspires me and your speaking always leds me to mind therapy at the same time. Fractured art is always "deep" and "thought promoting". I thought my 13 places were a lot, oh my! 30!!! I never think of home as a place either - it is definitely a feeling of "warm fuzzies" Sidebar....your left thumb has a lot of stress and pressure on it while sewing...I overused mine until it collasped and they had to reconstruct it, fix my carpel tunnel. Metal in your body anywhere isn't fun and I want you to take care of YOU. Just saying...
Yay!! My favorite wonky log cabins. 💕
Its going to be fun. Thank you. 😊
I'm excited to make some wonky log cabin homes and join them "whichy way." I made my first Manx-style block for the centre square, representing myself and made with my hand measurements. The wonky log cabins will go perfectly. Thank you, Kathryn 😊❤
Wonderful Wendy ❤️
Well I counted 21 moves, some more adventures than others. Your channel is a Home. I'm loving it. so many great ideas. Thank you
That's such a lovely thing to say, thank you ❤️
I lived in 12 places some in the same area ....the longest Walthamstow for over 30 years love this log cabin idea but mine might be a 2up 2 down terraced house or Penzance influenced where I live now
I too have been a nomad😊. Love this wonderful idea of the small log cabins.
Very clever and slightly rebellious to my liking .
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Thankyou for the video. I have been checking and waiting for the video since I opened my eyes in the morning 😅😅
Awesome fun and wonky project. Thank you🎉
I had such a lovely time editing my larger pile of possibles for this month and just moving bits around on my background cloth as you stitched and chatted. At the end, when you mentioned making wonky houses, that really appealed, along with a/some log cabin bits. Such lovely possibilities to contemplate and begin on this week. Thank you for helping build my confidence throughout last year! I can't imagine ever attempting such a thing before.
Shew, brave ❤
Lovely thanks Kathryn
You made me think about how many homes have I lived in. I am 37 years old and this is my tenth home. I have been in this home for 12 years which is the longest I have ever stayed in the same place.
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Scary 😨!I think I will make them individually then applique them on you are so clever thankyou for sharing I am going to keep going just do my best🎉X
Oh please don't be scared. It's very forgiving because you can just stitch pieces over any gaps. But you do you and what makes you feel comfortable, this project is all about the comfort after all. ❤️
Not prone to excitement, I actually had goose bumps and clapped my hands when you approached bridging the two wonky cabins. This is beoootiful! I can see where there are options for angling (ankleing) them into a community but I love the way yours melt into one another. This signifies the self moving from one, into the next. I would love to see the colour scheme carried on but sadly, I will have to use a mixed palette - should be interesting. Can't wait for next week. Thank you Kathryn.
So happy to hear that Ann. I was thinking while stitching, how fabulous it would be to make a large piece only using this technique and playing with colour transitions at the same time. I have a WIP that's similar but they are all square and in rows. Who knows if I will have time but I think it could be fab. 😁❤️
Kathryn when you said something about this new month being about Home. The first thing I thought of was log cabins and doing something with a log cabin for this new month. Then opened this video and you’re going with. Log cabin. The hairs on my neck are standing up. lol.
I've had a lot of short term jobs where I lived & worked in a new place -- summers in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Washington DC, even Crawley near Gatwick for a few months. But since it was before cell phones and email, I had to have a new address & telephone everywhere I went, even for a short time. I'm thinking I might make some triangular cabins for these homes, and they sort of wedge between the larger square-ish ones. My husband & I bought this house about 30 years ago, but between 17 and 33 I moved 20 times. All my family had my details in pencil in their address books as they were constantly erasing them.
I absolutely LOVE that when you camped you brought a rug and pillows! When you said home I immediately thought of doing the wonky house like last year's project. If you have any thoughts on how that might be done I would love to hear!❤
I think if it was me, I would go with a strip and piece a few with different characters to kind of represent some of the kinds of places I have lived then arrange them as a little row or street, maybe even chronologically could be fun. 😁
@@k3n.clothtales Oh I love the chronological idea! Thank you!!
I don't think of the number of places we lived, but the number of schools, 13.
I've moved around too ,only in England tho 😅
Am I right in thinking that Feb cloth will be the same width, but much shorter in length?
Would it be helpful to draw lines around the piece so we don’t go into the seam around the backing? Guess we have to keep 1 inch all around? Or will that get in the way of the strip which will be a kind of frame…..i am a bit confused about the end result …..it being added to the first section. Love the log cabins though and will try and make them wonky😳🤗
If you just leave a good inch of backing exposed all round, you will have no problem with the joining. You could even leave a couple of inches to be on the safe side and allow for the frame. ❤️
I am a military brat (child of a soldier) so we never think about where we’re from, only where we’ve been because we have no hometown and most of us have no home state even, just a list of military bases we have lived on. I joined the military after graduating from high school and continued wandering throughout my life until my children were old enough to complain about it. It never occurred to me before then that “roots” might matter. Now that I’m older and my children are nearly grown, the concept of providing them with a “home base” has become important to me but the concept of home has no true meaning for me and is rooted more in people than in places. I will probably build my home block with cloths from my family since they are my home.