Dear Kathryn, I live alone and I'm quite a solitary person, but I have enjoyed a great deal of gentle company with you in my ear telling me stories and when to "look up" whilst I am knitting. I started this year with you and have watched every week, but I kept putting off making my journal and then it got too hard to catch up. Instead, I have waited and watched and learned and I will give it a go in 2025. As with most of your community, I too am so grateful for your calm presence in this hectic place called RUclips. You are a gem.
I am so moved by your journal, there are tears in my eyes. What a woman you are! Thank you Kathryn, for inspiring me, for sharing your journey with me, and for teaching me. I am better for it. ❤
So beautiful-not only the stitching but also the words and the memories both happy and sad. Thank you so much for your generous sharing of your art and your life. You truly have become a part of my life and even though we will probably never meet I can say without a doubt that I love you . Here's to a new year, no matter what it has in store, because we have community , creativity and love to see us through. ❤
Thank you dear Kathryn- I’ve run out of superlatives for how inspiring you have been for us in this community. When I stumbled across your channel 12 months ago I had no idea of the impact you would have on my life - I am eternally grateful. Many blessings on you for 2025 with much love 💜 Cath
A very emotional viewing for you and for us, thank you for your bravery Kathryn❤ It’s very poignant how our true feelings unintentionally show through in the things we are creating. Sometimes we seem to realise only later when we review what we’ve made. Your journal is a treasure of feelings 🥰
Happy New Year, dear Kathryn and everybody in this lovely community. It was indeed an emotionally intense year. May the next one bring healing and comfort while celebrating the happy memories. ❤
2024 was a lesson in life with cloth needle and thread. The Community you developed have carried us through good times and maybe not so good times but always we had our sense of community. Thank you . May 2025 bring peace and happiness.
Oh, Kathryn, thank you for that wonderful, heartful walk through your 2024 stitch journal. You have brought so much to my life, in so many ways, and I'm so very grateful I bumped into you last November so that I was well ready to begin this journey on January 1, 2024. I want to go on and on, but your time is precious, and many of us have expressed our learnings and growth, so I'll leave it at that. 🙂 Looking forward to the 2025 comfort cloth and creative journal!! 🥰
Hello Kathryn, I am so blessed to have found your channel. When I came across you I didn't know anything about slow stitching and I decided I wanted to have a go at doing it. I am so pleased I gave it a try because I am addicted to it and you have taught me so much not only in my stitching but also in my thought processes. The week you moved into your new home I was having a life changing cancer operation and you will never know how much you have helped me though it by me listening and watching your videos. I still have a long way to go but we will both find comfort and happiness. Take care Kathryn and wishing you all the very best for 2025. Lots of love to you, you are one special lady 😘♥️xxx
@k3n.clothtales thank you, yes it was successful and I'm doing well, I ment to say in my other comment that I love seeing Stella and Fred Fred in your videos ♥️. They make me laugh and are a credit to you. Take care Kathryn lots of love ♥️😘xx
Dear Kathryn, I generally don’t comment on videos but I need to tell you how much this year with you has meant to me. You have kept me company as I am quite alone but more importantly you have reinvigorated my love for hand sewing. In addition to each week’s project with you I have started working with wool appliqué and have revisited embroidery. Thank you so very much for your courage, your lovely stories and your encouragement. I look forward to seeing what the next year brings to both of us.
Dear k3n, thank you for a year of discovery and inspiration. In one of those funny little coincidences that pop up in life, I graduated from the wound clinic this morning after eight months of treatment for a mangled hand. I can go forward into the new year and pick up my crafting tools again.
Hi kathrine thank you for sharing your story and experience and journey through highs and lows you have achieved so much and encouraged us to share your journey and take our own path as well it has been a pleasure and an honour and privilege and I hope to be able to continue in the new year hopefully making it through without having to go back several times as I have said before you have a soothing voice I did happen to see you at the festival of quilts one of those I know you moments and it wasn’t until I was back in Ireland watching you on you tube that I said that was who you were a pity as I would have loved to speak to you in person to hear your views but maybe another day thank you so very much for your videos I really appreciate and enjoy them not everyone here gets slow stitch or some of the things I love and I really appreciate your work have a wonderful new year Angela in Ireland ❤
I didn't expect to get so emotional over the ending of my stitch journal. 52 weeks of my life in stitches. I cannot tell you how much that journal now means to me. I can't pick a favourite page, I love them all. Thank you so much for helping me stay sane and I am very much looking forward to stitching with you again in 2025. Happy New Year Kathryn. Happy New Year Everyone. Deb
Kathryn, what a beautiful, magical gift you gave us this year. Not only the gift of your experience and your creative soul, but the amazing gift of community. So grateful for all your videos, your bravery, your love. wishing you adventure, camaraderie, and a year full of art making in 2025.
Wow, this flip thru marks a year that seemingly fly by in a sense. I did almost half of the projects but watched and made notes on all of them for future reference to go back to and do. Your journal is incredible and I hope that when you look at it you see your wonderful gift. You are so talented and created something very special that not only shared great stitching teachings but wisdom and grace which you have in spades. You have created a very healthy process for your own grief, growth and healing and by doing so, have gifted this to the world. You are a true Artist~I so appreciate you and look forward to stitching with you in 2025. ❤
I wish I could sit with you and hold your hand, or even just have my hand on your shoulder. I wish that your hands didn't tremble, but at the same time - you're making such a huge change and only a tremble!! So courageous. And so kind as well, when it would be so easy to go cold now. 💚
Absolutely stunning… the stitching, the creativity, the variety and the love! I just found your channel and what an introduction. I’m very excited to create this 2024 journal in 2025. Thanks for sharing 🩷🩷🩷
Thank you Kathryn. I went through my journal with you and yes, I was certainly moved by several pieces. One in particular was stitched on the day of my very good friend's funeral. She was an amazing artist and always encouraged me . I stitched it on a piece of sheeting that she gave me. It belonged to her grandmother. Now I look forward in anticipation to our time with you in 2025. ❤
Thank you. I so enjoyed going over this last year with you. I find so much inspiration from you and your stories. This community is life saving from daily life. I've learned to slow down and enjoy all the senses. You are a gentle gift.
*sniffle* I think our whole tribe has been on a journey with you, in so many ways, but there you have been, a wonderful constant. I've loved spending a year with you and I look forward to the next! Wishing you every success in 2025 and sending huge hugs to you, Stella and Fredfred ❤❤❤
How lovely to revisit all the pages. Personally I stitched some and worked on my own projects while following along. I’ve enjoyed sharing our stitching time together and looking forward for 2025. xo
Thank you so very much dear Kathryn. A bit of a rough ride this year for many of us ,but you've smoothed the road every week with your steady way and tremendous creativity. Thank you again. I'll be with you always.
Thank you for a creative year of stitching! I've been inspired by you and all the members of the group. A thought about so-called "ugly" pieces: no matter what you end up with every week, good, bad or meh, the pieces go into the journal and become part of the whole. At that point I don't judge the beauty, or lack thereof, of the individual piece, but the whole journal itself becomes the creation and each piece another page that loses it's individuality and takes on the beauty of the whole, if you catch my meaning. Any way you say it, I'm thrilled with my completed journal. Thanks again.
I find it difficult to describe with words all the emotions, inspiration, and joy you have shared with me and others this year. I, too, have had tremendous loss this year, but I have been able to carry on through your strength and courage. For that, I sincerely thank you. I can't imagine this past year without you. I look immensely forward to 2025. I can't imagine it being better than 2024, but I'm positive it will be. Love and hugs to you, Stella, and Fred Fred! ❤❤❤
Thank you for letting us join you on your journey through 2024! I have loved every minute of it. You have brought together a wonderful community and even though I’m thousands of miles away I feel very connected to this amazing global gathering. May 2025 be a year FULL of good things - sending you love, peace and joy from ‘down under’ xxx
Looking back over all the prompts with you felt the same as looking at old photo albums full of memories. What a wonderful year of creativity we all shared, even if life kept on lifing in all sorts of challenging ways. Thank you so much for putting so much energy into your videos and the community! I hope you have a beautiful 2025 and I'm so looking forward to seeing what sorts of stitching shenanigans we all get up to. 💖
Wasn’t this a year to be remembered? The soft, gentle parts were so soft and gentle. The challenging parts perhaps less soft and gentle but formative and informative just the same. The stitching and the community carried us through it all. Grateful and grateful and grateful. Sitting next to you revisiting your journal and our year was so touching. You are so special. You are so special to me.
Thank you so much for this stitching journey you’ve taken us all on this last year. I’ve loved the stitching along every week and have learnt so many new skills and techniques which I’ll take forward into my future stitching. Sending love 💕
It’s been wonderful, never mind that I have a lot to make up and will view it as an ongoing (never ending?) project! But I’m not going to stress about it, as you pointed out in the beginning, and it makes me admire you and all the others who kept up even more. Life will always dish out the interruptions and obstacles, and these slow stitch lessons are like flowers that bloom along the path, each one uniquely enjoyable. Thank you, again, and a happy, healthy, and productive 2025 to you, dear k3n 🥰
We have taken a special journey together this year; a journey of creative stitching and personal stories. Thank you, Kathryn for creating and hosting this amazing journey!
I agree with all who have said that we have all been on a journey together with you. You and a couple of others like you have inspired me to grow SO much in my stitching this year. Thank you for all you have invested in us and all the ways you have taught us. I am grateful for this community. Indeed, being part of it has started me dreaming about what I might share in a RUclips channel…because I have benefitted SO much from being part of these communities, and it makes me want to give back. Who knows where that will go. But I want you to know that you have inspired me not only to learn and grow but also to share with others, and I think that says a lot about the impact you have had. Many blessings in the coming year. With love from Florida. ❤ Kate
I’m filled with love and appreciation as I think of this past year. Thank you, Kathryn, and community. And I’m sooo looking forward to the comfort cloth…and the journals. 💖💖💖
Hi Kathryn Like many others of your followers i too live alone, it becomes very empowering .i followed each week but only watched and didnt sew a stitch but made many marks and painted two books full of artwork. Your wolf stitched piece alway brought to mind " clan of the cave bears" l0ve the park life vlogs which Stells and you take us on.. well done and keep on empowering folk through the gentle art of stitching ❤
Very much looking forward to the comfort cloth creativity, and thank you for the year (13 months now, actually) of sharing your life, your pets, your adventures, and your Craft to enrich us all. I did not make a journal or stitch many of the week's projects, but because of your coaching on the true mindfulness of stitching, I took on a 100 day project of stitch meditation squares, accompishing 93 over 2 vacations even! I took on a nightly stitch practice that lasted 6 months and is 1" tall and 6 yards long: one little inch or so each night on natural cotton twill weave webbing/tape using bits of fabric and thread. So much of what I saw and learned here played into those efforts. When I saw your eclipse piece, I remembered doing exactly that for the day's stitch meditation project. Thank you and much love 💚
Kathryn, I started 2024 with you and have completed all the weekly prompts. I am so proud of myself . You have been inspirational and, though it has been a difficult year, I hope you will take solace from the joy you have given so many right across the globe. I am looking forward to 2025. Take care.
Like yourself, to find where I am at this current moment is not that easy to accept and handle. We do because of those extra special people that remain in our lives. Many best wishes and look forward to continuing creativity 😍😀
Happy New Year, dear Kathryn, you inspire me to complete projects I had abandoned for years. I finished two cross stich pictures and one lap quilt I had started years ago. Your presence is a gift. Thank You.
Simply brilliant Kathryn!! As I watched you with your book of stitched emotions, so many things came up that were so relatable. I could feel the threads telling your story for 2024. Yes, I believe threads speak and they tend to tell us exactly what we need. Thanks for sharing a year of your soul stitched in a journal representing so much spoken and unspoken. x's lj
Your gentle heart as shared through your stitching videos has been such a gift to me this year, Kathryn. Thank you so much! Here’s to the start of 2025, may it be a year of stitching, art, friendship and contentment for you and for all the members of this community you have created!
Thank you Kathryn! I 'found' you a short while back and have been following you since. As many will do, I will start at the beginning of your 2024 journal and follow it through the year of 2025. I may not do as you do, but I will learn. I am very much looking forward to this adventure. Thank you for leaving the your videos up for us to enjoy.
I have learned so many different ways of stitching and creating this year, but more than anything else I have learned to truly enjoy stitching. Thank you for leading me on this journey.
I’ve watched through this twice already this morning. I’m going to be dipping back and forth, I think, from these projects and the coming year’s projects, to create my journal. Though I watch each video, I work so much more slowly than most. I work parts in more gradually over time. How wonderful, k3n, to have this visual, tactile piece of work to remember and process back through your year. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. ❤️
Thank you for this journey in 2024. I have learned so much and not just in stitching. You are an incredibly talented and knowledgeable person. I am looking forward to 2025 and taking another trip around the sun with you. Happy New Year!
Thank you so much for all we have shared together. I cannot believe an entire year has passed. Our stitching together has been at the center of my days....a place from which to be grounded and move forth into the world. Along with my cat and dog, stitching has become 'home' to me, central to my being and a way to give to myself and to the people I love. You are such a precious and kind person, Kathryn. Thank you from the depths of me for the gifts you have shared. I am so ready for our next cloth journey!
That was such a moving session. The year seems to have flown and recalling each of these sessions as you did made the year soooo cohesive, connected and sensitively inspired ☺ through such a year of transition. I haven't made a journal, but have used some of the stitch techniques in the various projects I had for myself this year. Now finally making a rice bag for a friend's birthday. Thank you so much for creating this space - it's a place of comfort.💕
So interesting going back over the year and remembering conversation. Wishing all the very best for the new year, much happiness and love. Thankyou again for all you do ❤️
You have indeed created something that provided you with the therapy you needed for the tweaks you have made in your life. All the talking you could have paid a therapist to hear has drawn in reciprical energy from your audience. As a professional counseller I have found your process very interesting. Diolch
What an interesting comment . I have found K3n’s delivery very therapeutic as well as the encouragement of viewing her ideas at set times in the week as a means of focus and mindfulness ,
Your journal is beautiful. It was fun listening to you talk about the pages. I love looking thru my journal. It was a year of discovery. I am looking forward to working on the comfort cloth. Happy new year .!! And also. I love the fabric in your skirt❤❤
Dear Kathryn, I'm only partway through your touching review. You are a deeply gifted artist and a very special, gentle person. It has been a pleasure to hear your voice each week, hear your stories, and witness your strength and reslience in a challenging time for you. Thank-you for all that you have shared. Today was the day for my students, so I shall have to wait to finish your video tomorrow. I have chosen to repeat last week's prompt, as my first wrappings were too loose. The new ones I made today are much better, and I'm excited to construct another 3D piece. It's all ready to be stitched down, but I'm going to take a photo of it "just in case"... Thank-you once again for this beautiful, inspiring, engrossing, joyful journey: it will continue for a while longer as I complete the journal for holding all the pieces, and only once it's all done will I allow myself to begin another big project. (Am still working on my blackwork rice pouch, too.) A few days ago, I found a dilapidated dictionary -- with its pretty, blue hard cover hanging by a thread -- and I pounced on it. You can guess what I'll be using it for. ;-) Today two more haiku sprang into my mind. Here's one, which I think I'll write onto the 54th page of my slow stitch journal: Cotton, linen, silk. Audition, cut, and then stitch. The thread and cloth blend. Happy New Year to you and your family, and everybody here! Be safe and well, wheresoever you all may be.
My dear Katheryn that was so brave of you, it must have been a real challenge, well done for getting to the end of your journal. I pray that this year will be a much happier and peaceful time for you. I am really looking forward to your new projects. I have found a lovely ledger in my stash for my cover and I will definitely be following along with the stitching cloth. Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas along with the knowledgeable information that you provide with your pieces. Happy New Year my dear, sending love and lots of hugs. God bless, Bella xx
Lieve Kathryn, Bedankt voor Slowstichen met jou. Je inspireert me in vele dingen. Ik vond het een geweldig traject. Met veel liefde naar jou gekeken. Ik hoop Kathryn volgend jaar weer met jou iets te gaan maken. 52 weken … 52 bladzijdes…. Wat een tijd. Dank je lieve Kathryn ❤ Liefss Joke uit Nederland ( Slochteren) Happy New year✨🎇✨🎆✨❤️❤️
A huge warm hug of gratitude for an amazing year of creativity and humanity in each and every of your inspiring stitches! Wishing you a wonderful New Year, and looking forward to following you along your magical cloth journey 🥰🌻🍀🌞xxxxx!
Thank-you, Kathryn, for such a wonderful year of so many layers of delight. I was drawn to your channel by your lovely soothing voice, and stayed for the ethos. Your creative practice and relationship with the world of things aligns in countless ways with my own. I hold so much gratitude for being introduced to: Invisible baste Stacked running stitch Cloth collage Cloth weaving Purpledicular😊 Bags and pouches from scraps Text on cloth Couching!!! - i really like your method and it has renewed my love of it .... the list is very long And it has been an honour to be present as you share your deep life changes with grace and courage. I look forward to the continued journey in 2025.
What a journey it has been! I’m so very pleased that I came across your channel in January and have loved travelling with you through life’s ups and downs all while creating. Thanks so much for everything you’ve given in 2024 and I look so forward to 2025. ❤
Thank you Kathryn for sharing your feelings as well as your wonderful ideas. Like many people in England I was discouraged from showing emotion. When I was younger I blamed my Father but now I can understand that he was brought up in the same way. I am not sure that I have broken out of the cycle, but hopefully it never too late, however many times I have been around the sun. Lots of hugs 💕
(((((((hug)))))) Thank you for taking us through your journal Kathryn. I am sure we could all feel your emotions as you recalled your journey.I I was particularly moved by your loss of Sirius. Your pocket is also the shape of my dear dog which we lost this year. Then hearing Stella in the background getting all excited when she saw her friend outside. I miss that. Slightly off topic, but we are now looking forward to taking on a pup to raise for Guide Dogs for the blind. We can't wait. A new year with a new adventure! Much love x
Thank you for all your expertise and information. It was wonderful to go through your journal and hear your personal and insights. I didn't get to follow all the prompts due to pressure of family life but hopefully I will be able to do a few of them at leisure. It has been an amazing year and I have learnt so much sometimes doing and sometimes watching. I am ready to take on the 2025 challenges and looking by forward to starting journaling with you. All the best for the New Year. 🐾🐾❤
So emotional for us all to go back and revisit all of these wonderful pages that have united us...Many, many thanks to you for sharing with us all of it❤ I came across a tiktok just today saying that the biggest revolution in 2024 has been the uprising of threads and fiber arts....so, well done you and all of us for taking part in what used to be just a womens way of passing time mending clothes or weaving or knitting to a whole adventerous new art form recognized by the whole world 🎉🎉🎉 Happy New Year and may the sowing continue 💪🥂❤
Was a lot happening to each of us on our journeys, but made more easier for many by travelling together as your community has grown!Nice to be a part of it-"thatll do!;" Looking forward to 2025 and more companionable "wittering" as l make a rice bag to celebrate 🍾 Chinese new year 🎉😊Wishing all a safe, healthy and prosperous 2025,as it dawns tomorrow. Julia, Brisbane,Australia, 🇦🇺 🪃❤😊
Dear Kate. You are NOT alone!! I love you! God loves you! We all love you! You don't even realize just how far you have come through your major life changes from 2024! You are a strong and amazing g intelligent woman. I have already learned so much from you, even though I have just started watching your channel. Thank you for being the amazing person you are!! Dee Dee in Texas. By the way, I can so relate to yoy. We are both Gemini's. My birthday is June 7th, but I am several years older than you, an I also live alone. Sorry, I " whitter" also, and I love listening to you whitter!!
I take my hat off for your vulnerability during the whole year, and even now with looking back. I wish you all the luck and health for 2025. And I certainly will join in some of the projects.
Dear Kathryn, I live alone and I'm quite a solitary person, but I have enjoyed a great deal of gentle company with you in my ear telling me stories and when to "look up" whilst I am knitting. I started this year with you and have watched every week, but I kept putting off making my journal and then it got too hard to catch up. Instead, I have waited and watched and learned and I will give it a go in 2025. As with most of your community, I too am so grateful for your calm presence in this hectic place called RUclips. You are a gem.
I am so moved by your journal, there are tears in my eyes. What a woman you are! Thank you Kathryn, for inspiring me, for sharing your journey with me, and for teaching me. I am better for it. ❤
So beautiful-not only the stitching but also the words and the memories both happy and sad. Thank you so much for your generous sharing of your art and your life. You truly have become a part of my life and even though we will probably never meet I can say without a doubt that I love you . Here's to a new year, no matter what it has in store, because we have community , creativity and love to see us through. ❤
Here's to a creative and peaceful New year for us all and lots of love to you too ❤️
Thank you dear Kathryn- I’ve run out of superlatives for how inspiring you have been for us in this community. When I stumbled across your channel 12 months ago I had no idea of the impact you would have on my life - I am eternally grateful. Many blessings on you for 2025 with much love 💜 Cath
A very emotional viewing for you and for us, thank you for your bravery Kathryn❤ It’s very poignant how our true feelings unintentionally show through in the things we are creating. Sometimes we seem to realise only later when we review what we’ve made. Your journal is a treasure of feelings 🥰
Happy New Year, dear Kathryn and everybody in this lovely community. It was indeed an emotionally intense year. May the next one bring healing and comfort while celebrating the happy memories. ❤
So glad of the recap …what a delight to see and consider life in stitch, …..
an account both moving and inspiring …thank you Katherine
2024 was a lesson in life with cloth needle and thread. The Community you developed have carried us through good times and maybe not so good times but always we had our sense of community. Thank you . May 2025 bring peace and happiness.
Oh, Kathryn, thank you for that wonderful, heartful walk through your 2024 stitch journal. You have brought so much to my life, in so many ways, and I'm so very grateful I bumped into you last November so that I was well ready to begin this journey on January 1, 2024. I want to go on and on, but your time is precious, and many of us have expressed our learnings and growth, so I'll leave it at that. 🙂 Looking forward to the 2025 comfort cloth and creative journal!! 🥰
Thank you so much for being here Kate ❤️
@k3n.clothtales 🧡🤍🧡
Hello Kathryn, I am so blessed to have found your channel. When I came across you I didn't know anything about slow stitching and I decided I wanted to have a go at doing it. I am so pleased I gave it a try because I am addicted to it and you have taught me so much not only in my stitching but also in my thought processes. The week you moved into your new home I was having a life changing cancer operation and you will never know how much you have helped me though it by me listening and watching your videos. I still have a long way to go but we will both find comfort and happiness. Take care Kathryn and wishing you all the very best for 2025. Lots of love to you, you are one special lady 😘♥️xxx
Hello Christine, I hope the operation was successful and you are doing well. Lots of love to you too and hoping for a better new year ❤️
@k3n.clothtales thank you, yes it was successful and I'm doing well, I ment to say in my other comment that I love seeing Stella and Fred Fred in your videos ♥️. They make me laugh and are a credit to you. Take care Kathryn lots of love ♥️😘xx
Dear Kathryn, I generally don’t comment on videos but I need to tell you how much this year with you has meant to me. You have kept me company as I am quite alone but more importantly you have reinvigorated my love for hand sewing. In addition to each week’s project with you I have started working with wool appliqué and have revisited embroidery. Thank you so very much for your courage, your lovely stories and your encouragement. I look forward to seeing what the next year brings to both of us.
Hello thank you so much for commenting, I am very happy to keep you company and so pleased you enjoy the videos. Lots of love ❤️
Dear k3n, thank you for a year of discovery and inspiration. In one of those funny little coincidences that pop up in life, I graduated from the wound clinic this morning after eight months of treatment for a mangled hand. I can go forward into the new year and pick up my crafting tools again.
I am so happy to hear that Meg, lots of love to you ❤️
It has been a bittersweet year and I would not have missed it for anything. The cloth truly does tell the tale.
Thank you too Kathryn! 😘
omgosh when i got to the end and saw you dedicated it to all of us 😢how lovely
Hi kathrine thank you for sharing your story and experience and journey through highs and lows you have achieved so much and encouraged us to share your journey and take our own path as well it has been a pleasure and an honour and privilege and I hope to be able to continue in the new year hopefully making it through without having to go back several times as I have said before you have a soothing voice I did happen to see you at the festival of quilts one of those I know you moments and it wasn’t until I was back in Ireland watching you on you tube that I said that was who you were a pity as I would have loved to speak to you in person to hear your views but maybe another day thank you so very much for your videos I really appreciate and enjoy them not everyone here gets slow stitch or some of the things I love and I really appreciate your work have a wonderful new year Angela in Ireland ❤
I am so sorry we didn't get the chance to chat at F of Q. Definitely next time ❤️
I didn't expect to get so emotional over the ending of my stitch journal. 52 weeks of my life in stitches. I cannot tell you how much that journal now means to me. I can't pick a favourite page, I love them all. Thank you so much for helping me stay sane and I am very much looking forward to stitching with you again in 2025. Happy New Year Kathryn. Happy New Year Everyone. Deb
Kathryn, what a beautiful, magical gift you gave us this year. Not only the gift of your experience and your creative soul, but the amazing gift of community. So grateful for all your videos, your bravery, your love. wishing you adventure, camaraderie, and a year full of art making in 2025.
Thank you so much Tracy, sending you a big but gentle hug and wishing you and the ones you hold dear peace and light for the coming year. ❤️
I cried. I smiled. I let your stitching soak into my heart. A truly lovely recap of the 2024 project. You are an oasis for so many of us. Thank you.
Wow, this flip thru marks a year that seemingly fly by in a sense. I did almost half of the projects but watched and made notes on all of them for future reference to go back to and do. Your journal is incredible and I hope that when you look at it you see your wonderful gift. You are so talented and created something very special that not only shared great stitching teachings but wisdom and grace which you have in spades. You have created a very healthy process for your own grief, growth and healing and by doing so, have gifted this to the world. You are a true Artist~I so appreciate you and look forward to stitching with you in 2025. ❤
I wish I could sit with you and hold your hand, or even just have my hand on your shoulder. I wish that your hands didn't tremble, but at the same time - you're making such a huge change and only a tremble!! So courageous. And so kind as well, when it would be so easy to go cold now. 💚
Thank you so much Nancy, I feel your hand on my shoulder and it's so comforting ❤️
Absolutely stunning… the stitching, the creativity, the variety and the love! I just found your channel and what an introduction. I’m very excited to create this 2024 journal in 2025. Thanks for sharing 🩷🩷🩷
Hello Wendy and welcome, lovely to have you here ❤️
Thank you Kathryn. I went through my journal with you and yes, I was certainly moved by several pieces. One in particular was stitched on the day of my very good friend's funeral. She was an amazing artist and always encouraged me . I stitched it on a piece of sheeting that she gave me. It belonged to her grandmother. Now I look forward in anticipation to our time with you in 2025. ❤
Thank you. I so enjoyed going over this last year with you. I find so much inspiration from you and your stories. This community is life saving from daily life. I've learned to slow down and enjoy all the senses. You are a gentle gift.
*sniffle* I think our whole tribe has been on a journey with you, in so many ways, but there you have been, a wonderful constant. I've loved spending a year with you and I look forward to the next! Wishing you every success in 2025 and sending huge hugs to you, Stella and Fredfred ❤❤❤
Thank You so much for our year of stitching! Memories saved in stitch are the best!
How lovely to revisit all the pages. Personally I stitched some and worked on my own projects while following along. I’ve enjoyed sharing our stitching time together and looking forward for 2025. xo
Thank you so very much dear Kathryn. A bit of a rough ride this year for many of us ,but you've smoothed the road every week with your steady way and tremendous creativity. Thank you again. I'll be with you always.
Thank you for a creative year of stitching! I've been inspired by you and all the members of the group. A thought about so-called "ugly" pieces: no matter what you end up with every week, good, bad or meh, the pieces go into the journal and become part of the whole. At that point I don't judge the beauty, or lack thereof, of the individual piece, but the whole journal itself becomes the creation and each piece another page that loses it's individuality and takes on the beauty of the whole, if you catch my meaning. Any way you say it, I'm thrilled with my completed journal. Thanks again.
I know exactly what you mean Sue ❤️
I find it difficult to describe with words all the emotions, inspiration, and joy you have shared with me and others this year. I, too, have had tremendous loss this year, but I have been able to carry on through your strength and courage. For that, I sincerely thank you. I can't imagine this past year without you. I look immensely forward to 2025. I can't imagine it being better than 2024, but I'm positive it will be. Love and hugs to you, Stella, and Fred Fred! ❤❤❤
Love to you too, we go onward into the new year together ❤️
@k3n.clothtales yes we do... hand in hand, heart in heart!!
Thank you, Kathryn, for facing the challenge of reviewing the last year with us. Your bravery shines through. I'm sending you a warm hug!
Thanks for the inspiration. See you next year
Thank you for letting us join you on your journey through 2024! I have loved every minute of it. You have brought together a wonderful community and even though I’m thousands of miles away I feel very connected to this amazing global gathering. May 2025 be a year FULL of good things - sending you love, peace and joy from ‘down under’ xxx
I absolutely be here with you in 2025. (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays ! ! Thank you for all you have done for my mind, soul and crazy wee brain. 💚💛💚
You were obviously putting out to the universe the big message of community
Looking back over all the prompts with you felt the same as looking at old photo albums full of memories. What a wonderful year of creativity we all shared, even if life kept on lifing in all sorts of challenging ways. Thank you so much for putting so much energy into your videos and the community! I hope you have a beautiful 2025 and I'm so looking forward to seeing what sorts of stitching shenanigans we all get up to. 💖
Wasn’t this a year to be remembered? The soft, gentle parts were so soft and gentle. The challenging parts perhaps less soft and gentle but formative and informative just the same. The stitching and the community carried us through it all. Grateful and grateful and grateful. Sitting next to you revisiting your journal and our year was so touching.
You are so special. You are so special to me.
Yes, please keep the year up! I re-watch a lot for inspiration. You are wonderful. Thank you for everything. ❤
I am looking forward to the next journey.
I must make my journal.
Thank you for what you have given me.
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Thank you so much for this stitching journey you’ve taken us all on this last year. I’ve loved the stitching along every week and have learnt so many new skills and techniques which I’ll take forward into my future stitching. Sending love 💕
I've had such a fabulous time with your help this year. Thank you, and all the best for 2025, Kathryn .
It’s been wonderful, never mind that I have a lot to make up and will view it as an ongoing (never ending?) project! But I’m not going to stress about it, as you pointed out in the beginning, and it makes me admire you and all the others who kept up even more. Life will always dish out the interruptions and obstacles, and these slow stitch lessons are like flowers that bloom along the path, each one uniquely enjoyable. Thank you, again, and a happy, healthy, and productive 2025 to you, dear k3n 🥰
What a beautiful image: the prompts as flowers along a path. Thank-you for that, Beth.
We have taken a special journey together this year; a journey of creative stitching and personal stories. Thank you, Kathryn for creating and hosting this amazing journey!
I agree with all who have said that we have all been on a journey together with you. You and a couple of others like you have inspired me to grow SO much in my stitching this year. Thank you for all you have invested in us and all the ways you have taught us. I am grateful for this community. Indeed, being part of it has started me dreaming about what I might share in a RUclips channel…because I have benefitted SO much from being part of these communities, and it makes me want to give back. Who knows where that will go. But I want you to know that you have inspired me not only to learn and grow but also to share with others, and I think that says a lot about the impact you have had. Many blessings in the coming year. With love from Florida. ❤ Kate
Thank you so much Kate, good luck with the channel if you decide to go ahead ❤️
I’m filled with love and appreciation as I think of this past year. Thank you, Kathryn, and community. And I’m sooo looking forward to the comfort cloth…and the journals. 💖💖💖
Hi Kathryn
Like many others of your followers i too live alone, it becomes very empowering .i followed each week but only watched and didnt sew a stitch but made many marks and painted two books full of artwork. Your wolf stitched piece alway brought to mind " clan of the cave bears" l0ve the park life vlogs which Stells and you take us on.. well done and keep on empowering folk through the gentle art of stitching ❤
Very much looking forward to the comfort cloth creativity, and thank you for the year (13 months now, actually) of sharing your life, your pets, your adventures, and your Craft to enrich us all. I did not make a journal or stitch many of the week's projects, but because of your coaching on the true mindfulness of stitching, I took on a 100 day project of stitch meditation squares, accompishing 93 over 2 vacations even! I took on a nightly stitch practice that lasted 6 months and is 1" tall and 6 yards long: one little inch or so each night on natural cotton twill weave webbing/tape using bits of fabric and thread. So much of what I saw and learned here played into those efforts. When I saw your eclipse piece, I remembered doing exactly that for the day's stitch meditation project. Thank you and much love 💚
Kathryn, I started 2024 with you and have completed all the weekly prompts. I am so proud of myself . You have been inspirational and, though it has been a difficult year, I hope you will take solace from the joy you have given so many right across the globe. I am looking forward to 2025. Take care.
this is just stunning Kathryn very inspiring
Happy New Year, Kathryn. Thank you for all of what you give from your heart and soul. May 2025 bless you in ways you can't even imagine. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much Kim happy new year to you too ♥️
Like yourself, to find where I am at this current moment is not that easy to accept and handle. We do because of those extra special people that remain in our lives.
Many best wishes and look forward to continuing creativity 😍😀
What a beautiful and thoughtful journal I only managed to make a few pieces but I will add to these you have given me inspiration. Thank you x
Happy New Year, dear Kathryn, you inspire me to complete projects I had abandoned for years.
I finished two cross stich pictures and one lap quilt I had started years ago. Your presence is a gift. Thank You.
Your EmotionalJourney this year has been unimaginable .What a Brave Lady. ❤ Best wishes for the Year ahead and may your Heart begin to heal.❤
Simply brilliant Kathryn!! As I watched you with your book of stitched emotions, so many things came up that were so relatable. I could feel the threads telling your story for 2024. Yes, I believe threads speak and they tend to tell us exactly what we need. Thanks for sharing a year of your soul stitched in a journal representing so much spoken and unspoken. x's lj
I have enjoyed every single minute spent in your company. Thank you so much for this year. Looking forward to 2025!❤
I took my journal to show my mom. Am so proud of what I accomplished. Thank you so much Katherine. What a journey we had together. ❤❤❤
Your gentle heart as shared through your stitching videos has been such a gift to me this year, Kathryn. Thank you so much! Here’s to the start of 2025, may it be a year of stitching, art, friendship and contentment for you and for all the members of this community you have created!
Thank you Kathryn! I 'found' you a short while back and have been following you since. As many will do, I will start at the beginning of your 2024 journal and follow it through the year of 2025. I may not do as you do, but I will learn. I am very much looking forward to this adventure. Thank you for leaving the your videos up for us to enjoy.
Thank you for your time and talents, you have touched my life and made me want to try many new things. Bless you. Sue.
I have learned so many different ways of stitching and creating this year, but more than anything else I have learned to truly enjoy stitching. Thank you for leading me on this journey.
I’ve watched through this twice already this morning. I’m going to be dipping back and forth, I think, from these projects and the coming year’s projects, to create my journal. Though I watch each video, I work so much more slowly than most. I work parts in more gradually over time. How wonderful, k3n, to have this visual, tactile piece of work to remember and process back through your year. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. ❤️
Yay! ❤ Greetings from Texas. I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure; you have been a lovely tour guide in 2024. Well done!
Thank you for this journey in 2024. I have learned so much and not just in stitching. You are an incredibly talented and knowledgeable person. I am looking forward to 2025 and taking another trip around the sun with you. Happy New Year!
Thank you Mary happy new year to you too ❤️
That was nice to look back on the work
Thank you so much for all we have shared together. I cannot believe an entire year has passed. Our stitching together has been at the center of my days....a place from which to be grounded and move forth into the world. Along with my cat and dog, stitching has become 'home' to me, central to my being and a way to give to myself and to the people I love. You are such a precious and kind person, Kathryn. Thank you from the depths of me for the gifts you have shared. I am so ready for our next cloth journey!
Thank you so much for being here Candace, I am so looking forward to the next phase of our journey ❤️
So wonderful Kathryn! So grateful for this journey❤
What an amazing achievement. It looks wonderful. Thank you for sharing your skills. I’ve learned so much. ❤
That was such a moving session. The year seems to have flown and recalling each of these sessions as you did made the year soooo cohesive, connected and sensitively inspired ☺ through such a year of transition. I haven't made a journal, but have used some of the stitch techniques in the various projects I had for myself this year. Now finally making a rice bag for a friend's birthday. Thank you so much for creating this space - it's a place of comfort.💕
So interesting going back over the year and remembering conversation.
Wishing all the very best for the new year, much happiness and love.
Thankyou again for all you do ❤️
Happy New Year to you Kathryn and thank you for the amazing journey you took us on. Love to Stella and FredFred x ❤
You have indeed created something that provided you with the therapy you needed for the tweaks you have made in your life. All the talking you could have paid a therapist to hear has drawn in reciprical energy from your audience. As a professional counseller I have found your process very interesting. Diolch
What an interesting comment . I have found K3n’s delivery very therapeutic as well as the encouragement of viewing her ideas at set times in the week as a means of focus and mindfulness ,
Thank you, it was never my intention but I guess sometimes we know what we need on a subconscious level ❤️
Thank you for all the video's. I enjoy them all. I wish you a great 2025👍🧡💐
I loved this so much. Thank you ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Your journal is beautiful. It was fun listening to you talk about the pages. I love looking thru my journal. It was a year of discovery. I am looking forward to working on the comfort cloth. Happy new year .!! And also. I love the fabric in your skirt❤❤
Thank you so much Judy, happy new year to you too ❤️
Dear Kathryn, I'm only partway through your touching review. You are a deeply gifted artist and a very special, gentle person. It has been a pleasure to hear your voice each week, hear your stories, and witness your strength and reslience in a challenging time for you. Thank-you for all that you have shared.
Today was the day for my students, so I shall have to wait to finish your video tomorrow. I have chosen to repeat last week's prompt, as my first wrappings were too loose. The new ones I made today are much better, and I'm excited to construct another 3D piece. It's all ready to be stitched down, but I'm going to take a photo of it "just in case"...
Thank-you once again for this beautiful, inspiring, engrossing, joyful journey: it will continue for a while longer as I complete the journal for holding all the pieces, and only once it's all done will I allow myself to begin another big project. (Am still working on my blackwork rice pouch, too.)
A few days ago, I found a dilapidated dictionary -- with its pretty, blue hard cover hanging by a thread -- and I pounced on it. You can guess what I'll be using it for. ;-)
Today two more haiku sprang into my mind. Here's one, which I think I'll write onto the 54th page of my slow stitch journal:
Cotton, linen, silk.
Audition, cut, and then stitch.
The thread and cloth blend.
Happy New Year to you and your family, and everybody here! Be safe and well, wheresoever you all may be.
Thank you so much Jill, what a beautiful haiku. Wishing you peace and joy for the new year ♥️
Thank-you. I seem to be on a haiku binge: I wrote several more yesterday. It's so enjoyable and meditative.
Absolutely perfection ❤️👍👏
Wonderful to see it all in one go. I have the last 4 weeks to finish but I’ll get there!
Thank you for sharing this journey with us. We love your kindness and humor and your humility.
My dear Katheryn that was so brave of you, it must have been a real challenge, well done for getting to the end of your journal. I pray that this year will be a much happier and peaceful time for you. I am really looking forward to your new projects. I have found a lovely ledger in my stash for my cover and I will definitely be following along with the stitching cloth. Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas along with the knowledgeable information that you provide with your pieces. Happy New Year my dear, sending love and lots of hugs. God bless, Bella xx
Thank you so much Bella, I don't really feel brave, but I very much appreciate hearing it. Happy new year to you too ❤️
Lieve Kathryn,
Bedankt voor Slowstichen met jou. Je inspireert me in vele dingen.
Ik vond het een geweldig traject. Met veel liefde naar jou gekeken. Ik hoop Kathryn volgend jaar weer met jou iets te gaan maken.
52 weken … 52 bladzijdes…. Wat een tijd.
Dank je lieve Kathryn ❤
Liefss Joke uit Nederland ( Slochteren)
Happy New year✨🎇✨🎆✨❤️❤️
A huge warm hug of gratitude for an amazing year of creativity and humanity in each and every of your inspiring stitches! Wishing you a wonderful New Year, and looking forward to following you along your magical cloth journey 🥰🌻🍀🌞xxxxx!
Thank-you, Kathryn, for such a wonderful year of so many layers of delight.
I was drawn to your channel by your lovely soothing voice, and stayed for the ethos. Your creative practice and relationship with the world of things aligns in countless ways with my own.
I hold so much gratitude for being introduced to:
Invisible baste
Stacked running stitch
Cloth collage
Cloth weaving
Purpledicular😊
Bags and pouches from scraps
Text on cloth
Couching!!! - i really like your method and it has renewed my love of it
.... the list is very long
And it has been an honour to be present as you share your deep life changes with grace and courage.
I look forward to the continued journey in 2025.
What a journey it has been! I’m so very pleased that I came across your channel in January and have loved travelling with you through life’s ups and downs all while creating. Thanks so much for everything you’ve given in 2024 and I look so forward to 2025. ❤
Thank you Kathryn for sharing your feelings as well as your wonderful ideas. Like many people in England I was discouraged from showing emotion. When I was younger I blamed my Father but now I can understand that he was brought up in the same way. I am not sure that I have broken out of the cycle, but hopefully it never too late, however many times I have been around the sun. Lots of hugs 💕
(((((((hug)))))) Thank you for taking us through your journal Kathryn. I am sure we could all feel your emotions as you recalled your journey.I
I was particularly moved by your loss of Sirius. Your pocket is also the shape of my dear dog which we lost this year. Then hearing Stella in the background getting all excited when she saw her friend outside. I miss that.
Slightly off topic, but we are now looking forward to taking on a pup to raise for Guide Dogs for the blind. We can't wait. A new year with a new adventure!
Much love x
That's a wonderful adventure indeed. Guide Dogs for the Blind was my House charity at school. Lots of love ❤️
Thank you for all your expertise and information. It was wonderful to go through your journal and hear your personal and insights. I didn't get to follow all the prompts due to pressure of family life but hopefully I will be able to do a few of them at leisure. It has been an amazing year and I have learnt so much sometimes doing and sometimes watching. I am ready to take on the 2025 challenges and looking by forward to starting journaling with you. All the best for the New Year. 🐾🐾❤
So emotional for us all to go back and revisit all of these wonderful pages that have united us...Many, many thanks to you for sharing with us all of it❤ I came across a tiktok just today saying that the biggest revolution in 2024 has been the uprising of threads and fiber arts....so, well done you and all of us for taking part in what used to be just a womens way of passing time mending clothes or weaving or knitting to a whole adventerous new art form recognized by the whole world 🎉🎉🎉 Happy New Year and may the sowing continue 💪🥂❤
Was a lot happening to each of us on our journeys, but made more easier for many by travelling together as your community has grown!Nice to be a part of it-"thatll do!;" Looking forward to 2025 and more companionable "wittering" as l make a rice bag to celebrate 🍾 Chinese new year 🎉😊Wishing all a safe, healthy and prosperous 2025,as it dawns tomorrow. Julia, Brisbane,Australia, 🇦🇺 🪃❤😊
Happy New year to you Julia ❤️
You have been a great delight to follow this journey with you ❤
Thank you Kathryn, this was so moving. Happy New Year to you dear.
Dear Kate. You are NOT alone!! I love you! God loves you! We all love you! You don't even realize just how far you have come through your major life changes from 2024! You are a strong and amazing g intelligent woman. I have already learned so much from you, even though I have just started watching your channel. Thank you for being the amazing person you are!! Dee Dee in Texas. By the way, I can so relate to yoy. We are both Gemini's. My birthday is June 7th, but I am several years older than you, an I also live alone. Sorry, I " whitter" also, and I love listening to you whitter!!
It's lovely hearing you mention the word "home" dear Kathryn ❤️
Your journal is a huge inspiration for future stitching. Tfs xx
Such beautiful work. I feel and see all the emotions throughout your stitching. Such energy. So powerful. ❤
So so beautiful. Thank you Kathryn 💕💕🫶🏻💕💕
Thank you 💖🙏 so much for this 2024 year! I am with you in 2025. You are amazing lady 💖. Happy New year 💖😘🎄✨🌟
I take my hat off for your vulnerability during the whole year, and even now with looking back. I wish you all the luck and health for 2025. And I certainly will join in some of the projects.
Thank you so much Martine ❤️
Hope you're ok, Kathryn, I know this has been such a difficult year. Take care of yourself ❤
Thank you beautiful Kathryn. See you next year. I cant wait xx