What I love about this is that it gives me a direction to go in. It’s like a signpost popping up in my complex creative mind, which can sometimes overwhelm me into doing nothing. Thank you for taking the time to do this and share it with us. Community in action!
Your channel was recommended by an artist friend and today I have just watched 2 weeks worth and subscribed. I will start at January 1 and catch up soon. Happy to find you and I love slow stitching. It is wonderful little bits to do while sitting at the bedside of my totally disabled quadriplegic husband. I can now do 2 things at once that I love. Thank you.
This is one of my favorite quotes: We are each a thread woven together. We become the fabric of the earth. Let us weave peace. Thank you for a lovely start. I live in Arkansas, USA.
'Ruckle'. What a lovely word. Not only do I enjoy your happy wittering on, but I find it such a relief after plowing through RUclips looking for something that is not AI speech. Thanks for your inspirational videos on cloth scraps. Makes my heart fair glow! 😊
Every time I see an AI voiced video, I select "Do not recommend channel" from the menu. I don't know if it will make a dent, but it gives me some satisfaction. 😊
Happy New Year Slow Stitching "Community" from Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia PA. I am thrilled to be a part of this 52 week global stitch along. Thank you immensely to k3n for your gracious time and giving spirit. Laurie
Happy New Year Longing to start this project but my stash is packed as I’m waiting to move. I intend to make 52 to turn into needlebooks as gifts for next Christmas for stitching friends.🎉
Being new to slow stitching and embroidery in general I find this quite calming as well as easily achievable. I’m calling this my “go with the flow” stitching project… I love the way it can be done with no plan. Making impromptu choices as one goes along. I also like the idea that they can be done rather quickly and not linger for days….same reason I prefer granny squares in crocheting…. Yes this will definitely be a great option to fill my spare time! Looking forward to more….thank you for sharing your experience….Happy New Year btw! Wishing EVERYONE the best for the upcoming year!
I have not done anything like this before but I am recovering from a stroke and trying to get my hands to work again so this feels the ideal project. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. Happy New Year Kathryn and all of our stitching community, from Vera in Ireland ❤
I am glad I found your videos. You are a welcome visitor in my room with your gentle voice and coloured remnants that get turned into yet more softness of fabric that in turn becomes another little wonder of an artfully made item.
1:01:06 Happy New Year! Thank you so much Katheryn; a kindred spirit. Your chosen word is so à propos; makes one look up in surprise and realize there are others sharing this solitary needle art passion. Looking forward to a glorious yearlong journey.
I've been really looking forward to this! I love watching the number of watches go up when the video has only been up for a few minutes, knowing there are many other keen beans here too!
Invisible basting is a game changer ! I’m working on my boro inspired cover but will keep up with individual pieces weekly. Also I need to go back and see how you put the pages in your journal. I’m really loving your videos 😊❤
I have been just watching your videos for a few months. You are so inspiring. I love quilting and embroidery, along with many other things. I am going to start this project, and will backtrack to do your others. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. I would love to see your pets in the video sometime. Thank you, Kathryn, for brightening our days.
That invisible basting stitch has been a revelation. It suits the way I work beautifully, You might tell those of us who are new to you how you came to be living in France. I really like the idea of creating a backcloth that I can stitch on throughout the week. What a delicious way to begin a new year. 😊
My grandmother’s maiden name was Ruckle. Her father came to Canada from Ireland. The name (in a slightly different form) originated in Germany. Here in British Columbia, Canada, where I live, we have Ruckle Provincial Park on Saltspring Island. Some of my Ruckle relatives still live on the Island. ❤️🇨🇦
How wonderful, and what a fabulous name, I am not sure if it is even the correct way to describe crumpling cloth but my Northern English relatives certainly use it that way. I might look up the etymology.. and now everytime I say it, I will think of your Grandmother Ruckle and Ruckle Park ❤
@@k3n.clothtales You might want to look up the Palatines who fled Germany due to religious persecution and settled in Co. Limerick, hence the name Palatine Irish. The German name was Ruttle. ❤️🇨🇦
I just had a lovely thought. I too was so busy the holidays i didn't get my journal made. So I am going to do the weekly journey in quilt blocks. And then by the end I'll have a lovely lap quilt. My mom got me some panels at the thrift store that are hideous 😂 but i don't want to throw out cloth so I'll use that as my backfabric. It gets used and covered up by lovely slow stitch. Win, win. I also have been enjoying slow stitch cuff bracelets as i watch TV or settle for the evening. Live the community ❤❤❤
Thank you Katherine, I’ve been looking forward to this so much. Love this first piece and the idea of us being a world community, I am proud to be able to be part of it. I was listening to you talking about different cultures and learning different techniques from around the world and I wondered if you have ever made a Manx quilt. I’m just about to scurry down that rabbit hole. Another project that I’ve been looking forward to for 2024. I find the history of these quilts so interesting and I’d love to hear your views. 🧵🪡
Hello, I have never made a Manx quilt exactly, but I have made several log cabin quilts, including a folded log cabin which is similar to a Manx in look but constructed slightly differently. What I love about the Manx tradition is that if I remember correctly, everything is measured by the hand of the quilter, no rulers involved. Which makes the finished quilt uniquely personal. Good luck with yours, I hope you enjoy making it ❤
Hiya Katherine, was wondering how the time differences would effect my time with you and everyone. 10pm is here so lol follow along on the morning.Love how you leave room for " you do you!" And being so confident as to saying" it'll be beautiful too!" Makes everything so more relaxed and friendly! Great good wishes for all in 2024! 😊J.I.M.K Mrs. Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺 ♥ 🎉😊
I’ve binged your boro inspired journal videos today to catch up fr today’s slowstitch. I don’t know which video you mentioned this but I’m SO happy to know that someone else sticks their foot out from under the covers when sleeping! I thought I was the only weird person who did this!
Appliqué take. Out of the mouths of babes. Love it when there is that innocence that only a child usually has. Rare in today’s world as they are too often mini me’s and childhood seems to be rushed at. Doing something like this with a grandchild would make so many happy memories possibly 😀
Happy New Year Kathryn and to everyone in our sewing club! I love that you chose community as our first project. Your piece is beautiful and I can't wait to see what we all create. I'm fascinated by how you 'dissolve' knots - the calm approach of the cloth whisperer! Love from Mary in the windy Hebrides - must be all that Haggis 😂😜
Kathryn...the word is pucker......😂..just so you know i got 4 big zucchini today...I need a reminder not to forget to check on them or they will end up , well you know big😮...😂..now i need to go get some cloths...hope your keeping warm...im here cooking with 37oc today and a balmy 33 the rest of the week...😢
I blame you! Since I found you four days ago, I have made two biscornu pin cushions, two cloth twine bowls to nest them in, and yards and yards of cloth twine! Seriously, you are an inspiration. A wonderful teacher. I love that your first slo-stitch of the year is about community. I'll post some pix of my pin cushions on my IG in case you'd like to see them.
Happy New Year !!! I'm excited to get started. It is early on the east coast of the U.S. and I must go make myself some coffee and a light snack and then come back to my computer and settle in for a fun hour !!! I'll be right back..... :-) One thing that I am still pondering.... and I already know the answer... LOL... is what size to make my pieces. I was thinking 6" x 8 " but then decided that might be too big although a 7 x 10 inch book would be nice. Or maybe 5 x 7 inches pieces in a 6 x 8 book..... which I think is the size of the book you made and are using..... if I remember correctly. My answer to my own question is: do not make my book yet. For the next few weeks, I will do many individual pieces on various sizes of base layer sheets of muslin and see how I like working on the various sizes...... then I can decide on the size of my future pieces and will know what size to make my book !!!!
I love your choice of word: Community. And this woven interpretation of it. I’m off to tear my strips and get started on this first week's project. I’m loving this. 💖💖💖
Thank you Katheryn, this is such a perfect choice to begin our first page. I really love weaving with fabrics. I will enjoy this year of stitching immensely.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year Kathryn and thank you for another wonderful video. I think it would be lovely to see you for perhaps for a few seconds at the start of the video. Does anyone else feel the same ? Loving everything many thanks for sharing with us. x
Thank you. With regards to seeing my face, firstly, are you sure?? 😂 But being serious, for once (!) I am going to film a little studio tour in a week or so and thought of doing a little piece to camera as part of that, just to see how it feels.. ♥️
Hello Kathryn. It’s January 6,2025 and I just finished week 1 of your 2024 journal. I’ve watched many of your tutorials and am looking at fabric in a whole new light. Thank you for encouraging me to take things slower. I look forward to filling my cloth journal I made from your tutorial. Happy New year to you and cheers to new beginnings. Susie
I just today found your channel (7-10-24) and can't decide if I should start with week one and try to catch up or just "jump in" half way through. 😂 Listening to you is so relaxing and sewing is a form of meditation for me. Can't wait to cut up Grandma's stained tablecloth and get started. Keep stitching... ❤
@@patriciabirkes7403 hello Patricia, you are welcome here ❤️ if I were you, I would jump in on the current week then work on the older ones as and when I had the time. Some weeks will take less time. But of course it's up to you. 😊❤️
Happy New Year K3N.. wonderful inspiring video,you are a lovely lady and such a great tutor...look forward so much to your videos and this series,thank you so much for your time too hugs from Gabrielle in the UK xx
I love the meaning of the piece and I completely imagine a community as a weaving: we’re all different, from so many different and distant countries but we’re all interconnected by the love of stitching. I miss a community, I mean, I have it here online, both on RUclips and instagram, but I don’t know anyone who likes any kind of art, so I feel a bit lonely. And this community is the place where I feel “accepted” and understood. I thought the story you told about that quilter and the child was so fun, because something similar happened to me two years ago. I made one of my fabric books with shells and my father insisted on me showing to my stepmother. Although she didn’t say anything, like the child did, she was looking at it and I imagined (by the was she looked at it) she was thinking: “why on earth does she stitch scraps and torn pieces with broken shells, all things I would throw away?” Needless to say that I never showed her anything again. And that’s why this community means so much to me. When my mother was alive, she loved everything I did and she always wanted me to make things for her, but she’s gone and I don’t even have my grandmothers who also appreciated my art. So it’s so nice to be here with you 💜♥️🩷💙🤍💚🤎🩵💛🧡🤗😘
Thank you for sharing that Alexandra, it can be so hurtful when people don't get it, especially our family and friends. I have had similar experiences.. but I try to tell myself that it is as if I am speaking a language that they just don't (can't?) understand... Still it's painful if someone criticises our art, as it comes from our souls. I am sorry you don't have anyone near you geographically and hope you take comfort from your online tribe of stitchers. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh goodness Kathryn, this is sooo addictive. I actually stopped the stitching 🧵 I was doing and have made one of these little treasures as I’ve been watching you. I’m in for the count and look forward to next week. May 2024 be filled with joy and good health, Blessings Gail 🎂🇦🇺
Happy new year and what a way to start, just joyous. Love your first page and such a perfect theme, weaving us all together. I think this is going to be a lovely weekly event and the building of a wonderful, like minded community and now to start x
Met you for the first time today Mon 8th. I am in Queensland Australia.and enjoying your craft session immensely. Thank you. I am English but lived here for a long time. I will return and also,try your grand ideas .
Happy New Year, Kathryn, and to the community. Your story regarding your furry family members is hilarious! I very much enjoyed day one of the slow stitching tutorials. I really like the weaving and your fabric choices; very attractive. ❤😊
I followed your tutorial and made my first lovely little woven patch. It was relaxing and enjoyable, and I used little strips from my stash. To give it a little more weight I added buttons to the ends of each strip. I'm planning to attach it along the top side to a page in my stitch book so that it can flip up and have something else underneath. Thank you for the inspiration and the tutorial. ❤ Happy new year 🎉🎉
Ha ha I love your wittering. My Step mother came from England and used to talk gently under her breath like you do. Brings back memories of cooking or knitting with her when she was alive.
😊 All the women in my family do that. When I was first with my husband, he kept saying 'what?' thinking I was talking to him. 😂 I'd say, if I am talking to you, I'll use your name, otherwise just ignore me. ❤
Thanku so much for this idea and I’m going to try to follow you weekly and achieve making 52 of these …I’m very encourage and I feel it’s lovely just doing one a week which help to b able to get it done and daily would b difficult with other commitments x Thanku again and I am going to encourage some friends and my sister in law to join u x 🙂😊 x
Hi! I’m watching this week one for the second time. I’m headed to the thrift shops tomorrow I wanted to let you know I’m going through my own old clothes too. I found an old linen dress of mine with a small bleach stain on it last night. I tore it into strips and places where I couldn’t tear it on the grain of the cloth I cut it into starting with larger pieces down to small bits. It’s a lovely cloth. Dyed an indigo but it is quite faded. Still the cloth feels strong. I really liked this dress. Oh it had a lace made of the same color and I’m thinking the same linen thread. The lace is about four inches in width and maybe two yards long. I have also told my sister and my best friend about this sewing. They’re excited to get started also. Thank you for your time and effort. I want to finish week ones project this week!❤
I’m doing it! I’m following along. I found enough fabrics at home to make little strips and I had some Muslin in a closet for a backing and I only bought some pins and some flosses in a few colors. Today I am basting using the new to me invisible method and hopefully will be able to get some time to start decorative stitching. I feel so grateful for you and this space. I’m so quietly hooray. I wish I would have tea dyed some of the strips but it’s ok just as it is. It will be beautiful and it will be mine. Ours. 🩷
Katherine, I have begun my fourth rice bag and have made six Biscornus and one scroll. I love, love, love, your videos. Thank your for your wonderful ideas and instruction 😊
How lovely! Enjoyed this quite alot. Absolutely loved the " that'll do Pig reference "! Trained Border Collies for many years and the intense relationship with the dogs and the sheep makes me enjoy the interesting relationship with fabric and threads . Thanks for bringing me into the fold.🎉
I just completed my week 1 woven cloth piece and I am super chuffed with it. Thank you so much for the idea and your beautiful video. Also i made a Japanese rice bag (as guided by you) for my daughter for xmas....turned out great!
Bravo! Just found you and I think I shall join in… you are very relaxing and pleasant to listen to I’m in the US and we’re expecting our first snow of the season/year. We had a fair share of grey days.. time for a project!
😂😂😂wind A lady of one of my stitch groups in central England moved up to live on Benbecula. When bad weather forecast I immediately think of them. My husband takes our collie off in the car to walk and has said how many places are flooded. Today started bright and sunny but darkness fell early and it’s been hoofing it down again. Thankfully we live in an area that is extremely unlikely to flood other than local park as we’ve a very small river part of which runs under a lake called school and housing estate. The houses were built on school fields early 90s
there is localised flooding here too and the stream in our valley is roaring along. Luckily we are on a hill. Yes, I nearly edited the wind thing out.. 😂😂😂
I managed it! I'm chuffed I got it made. Its crochet and knitting I do mostly so embroidery is way out of my comfort zone. Hope everyone had a lovely new year.
Love the 9 patch. This is a great way to design quilt blocks as it is very intuitively based. It is not till the weaving is finished that those 2nd elements stand out and not something I’d thought of. A nicer way than colouring squared paper though this is a nice pass time but means more active thought and not just process enjoyment.😂
😂 yes, I like to create woven pieces just randomly then look for the patterns within them.. we will definitely be doing more weaving in later weeks, and looking at it in more detail ❤️
Lovely! I've been tearing cloth piecied for my backings as I watched this video. I love how you speak of the feel of the cloth and material that you work with and this backing i've picked is just so lovely in my hands. I think it's a corsely woven cotton that ive found second hand, and it's making me long to put something to it. Thank you for yet another relaxing video.
I just discovered your Channel. I have done a couple of slow Stitch projects but I have never used a journal with paper pages. Very interesting approach. I have been working in a slow Stitch journal without any prompts just my own ideas but I am happy to find this Channel with an idea for each week. I will be subscribing blessings and love from New Mexico
Welcome 😊 my first ever stitch journal was a handmade leather and paper one that I bought and from then on I made my own, usually with paper pages as I like to write in them as well. The Boro inspired journal, a current series of tutorials, will have some cloth pages too. I hope to get the 4th and final part uploaded soon. ❤️
I've just recently begun dabbling again in stitching/mending, etc. I found your channel and it's delightful. I turned it on and listened to you 'whitter' while I was cutting up old clothing to prepare it for projects. It was lovely to look up every time and see what you had accomplished. It goes right along with the 'slow living' concept I've been studying on. To listen to those things which feel wholesome and peaceful and good with no particular moral question to be answered. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, I hope you will just jump in and give it a go. It's only cloth and thread, it's very forgiving and kind, and I am sure you will surprise yourself with the beauty you create ❤️
Happy New Year and huge thanks for this lovely little project. My head is buzzing with ideas for putting these samples to practical use. I have pyjamas with no pocket, driving me mad. One of these samples would add a whimsical pocket for my hanky. For now I'm happy making a book of inspiration. This is the most relaxing passtime ever!
What I love about this is that it gives me a direction to go in. It’s like a signpost popping up in my complex creative mind, which can sometimes overwhelm me into doing nothing. Thank you for taking the time to do this and share it with us. Community in action!
Love that!
Couldn’t have said it better! I’m enjoying this and the possibilities of the upcoming year! Thank you!
Oh boy. I can relate to that! 😊
I have the same problem 😅. Loving the nudge. 😊
My thoughts exactly.
Your channel was recommended by an artist friend and today I have just watched 2 weeks worth and subscribed. I will start at January 1 and catch up soon. Happy to find you and I love slow stitching. It is wonderful little bits to do while sitting at the bedside of my totally disabled quadriplegic husband. I can now do 2 things at once that I love. Thank you.
Welcome so lovely to have you here ❤️
This is one of my favorite quotes:
We are each a thread woven together.
We become the fabric of the earth.
Let us weave peace.
Thank you for a lovely start. I live in Arkansas, USA.
That is beautiful 'let us weave peace', if only we could ❤️❤️❤️
I'd love to use that quote in my new journal! Thanks Juliann, from Vera in Northern Ireland ❤
I don’t remember where I read the quote. In my journal I usually write the author, but nothing on this. So go ahead and write it in your journal.
@@k3n.clothtales❤ ❤ ❤
Today, August 16, 2024 I made week one’s prompt. Hey….better late than never!
😁 indeed, and I usually find that latecomers to a party are often the most fun 😉❤️
'Ruckle'. What a lovely word. Not only do I enjoy your happy wittering on, but I find it such a relief after plowing through RUclips looking for something that is not AI speech. Thanks for your inspirational videos on cloth scraps. Makes my heart fair glow! 😊
Oh no, is AI speech a thing here? I have so far managed to avoid it 😮❤❤❤
Every time I see an AI voiced video, I select "Do not recommend channel" from the menu. I don't know if it will make a dent, but it gives me some satisfaction. 😊
@@msherry5 good tip, if I come across AI, I'll do the same... Hope my speech is somewhat 'I' and it's certainly not remotely 'A' 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Not remotely! Your voice is lovely & soothing. Another reason I enjoy your videos. ❤️
I love the weaving in the slow stich I might try that next time I do slow stich I just subscribed
Happy New Year Slow Stitching "Community" from Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia PA. I am thrilled to be a part of this 52 week global stitch along. Thank you immensely to k3n for your gracious time and giving spirit. Laurie
Hi, I'm watching from the other side of the state. It's so dreary in western PA today. Happy New Year!
welcome and it's my pleasure ❤
Happy New Year to you all those watching 😊
So excited to see how this evolves! Thank you Kathryn x
Happy New Year Longing to start this project but my stash is packed as I’m waiting to move. I intend to make 52 to turn into needlebooks as gifts for next Christmas for stitching friends.🎉
That is a lovely idea, if you don't mind I will mention it in next week's video, for those who like to make useful things 😉😁❤️
Yes please do, nice to hear what others are doing.😘
Being new to slow stitching and embroidery in general I find this quite calming as well as easily achievable. I’m calling this my “go with the flow” stitching project… I love the way it can be done with no plan. Making impromptu choices as one goes along. I also like the idea that they can be done rather quickly and not linger for days….same reason I prefer granny squares in crocheting…. Yes this will definitely be a great option to fill my spare time! Looking forward to more….thank you for sharing your experience….Happy New Year btw! Wishing EVERYONE the best for the upcoming year!
thank you, everything you say is exactly why I love this process 😊
I have not done anything like this before but I am recovering from a stroke and trying to get my hands to work again so this feels the ideal project. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. Happy New Year Kathryn and all of our stitching community, from Vera in Ireland ❤
Thank you Vera, hope you enjoy the project and it helps your poor lovely hands ❤️❤️❤️
Very best wishes for improvement. It’s amazing how the body, with the right mental attitude and will, can move mountains so to speak. Gentle hugs
User-me3, sending my best wishes to you, and do hope that you are enjoying your sewing, and feeling better!❤ Shirley in the US
@@juliaogara8794 thank you so much God bless v
@@juliaogara8794 thank you so much God bless. V
Oh I love this! Stitching scraps! Insignificant bits that for some reason I kept and eventually joined to make a story - something lovely. Thanks💜
I am glad I found your videos. You are a welcome visitor in my room with your gentle voice and coloured remnants that get turned into yet more softness of fabric that in turn becomes another little wonder of an artfully made item.
Thank you, you are welcome here too into my little 'room' ❤️
Absolutely with you... Sitting at table with crafty project, tea and 2 biscuits and listening to k3n is heaven on earth... 👋🏼🏴
Yes me too! I love what you do! 🥰
1:01:06 Happy New Year! Thank you so much Katheryn; a kindred spirit. Your chosen word is so à propos; makes one look up in surprise and realize there are others sharing this solitary needle art passion. Looking forward to a glorious yearlong journey.
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I've been really looking forward to this! I love watching the number of watches go up when the video has only been up for a few minutes, knowing there are many other keen beans here too!
Keen bean! Yes … also new favourite phrase! 💕🇨🇦💕
Yes, thank you lovely keen beans 😂❤️❤️❤️
Thanx for mentioning the numbers going up never noticed it before too busy watching Katherine lol 🥰
Invisible basting is a game changer ! I’m working on my boro inspired cover but will keep up with individual pieces weekly. Also I need to go back and see how you put the pages in your journal. I’m really loving your videos 😊❤
I have been just watching your videos for a few months. You are so inspiring. I love quilting and embroidery, along with many other things. I am going to start this project, and will backtrack to do your others. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. I would love to see your pets in the video sometime. Thank you, Kathryn, for brightening our days.
Thank you, Fredfred the cat has showed up (uninvited 😂) a couple of times, and I expect the small dog will appear in the studio tour next week ❤
That invisible basting stitch has been a revelation. It suits the way I work beautifully, You might tell those of us who are new to you how you came to be living in France. I really like the idea of creating a backcloth that I can stitch on throughout the week. What a delicious way to begin a new year. 😊
I might do a little piece to camera and a studio tour in a couple of weeks, and include a little bio about myself in that, will that do? 😊❤
@@k3n.clothtales Absolutely!
My grandmother’s maiden name was Ruckle. Her father came to Canada from Ireland. The name (in a slightly different form) originated in Germany. Here in British Columbia, Canada, where I live, we have Ruckle Provincial Park on Saltspring Island. Some of my Ruckle relatives still live on the Island. ❤️🇨🇦
How wonderful, and what a fabulous name, I am not sure if it is even the correct way to describe crumpling cloth but my Northern English relatives certainly use it that way. I might look up the etymology.. and now everytime I say it, I will think of your Grandmother Ruckle and Ruckle Park ❤
@@k3n.clothtales You might want to look up the Palatines who fled Germany due to religious persecution and settled in Co. Limerick, hence the name Palatine Irish. The German name was Ruttle. ❤️🇨🇦
I just had a lovely thought. I too was so busy the holidays i didn't get my journal made. So I am going to do the weekly journey in quilt blocks. And then by the end I'll have a lovely lap quilt. My mom got me some panels at the thrift store that are hideous 😂 but i don't want to throw out cloth so I'll use that as my backfabric. It gets used and covered up by lovely slow stitch. Win, win. I also have been enjoying slow stitch cuff bracelets as i watch TV or settle for the evening. Live the community ❤❤❤
That is a lovely idea 😊
This is new to me but I’m looking forward to following along. I love what you make. Now to dig through my material and get going.
Thank you Katherine, I’ve been looking forward to this so much. Love this first piece and the idea of us being a world community, I am proud to be able to be part of it.
I was listening to you talking about different cultures and learning different techniques from around the world and I wondered if you have ever made a Manx quilt. I’m just about to scurry down that rabbit hole. Another project that I’ve been looking forward to for 2024. I find the history of these quilts so interesting and I’d love to hear your views.
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Hello, I have never made a Manx quilt exactly, but I have made several log cabin quilts, including a folded log cabin which is similar to a Manx in look but constructed slightly differently. What I love about the Manx tradition is that if I remember correctly, everything is measured by the hand of the quilter, no rulers involved. Which makes the finished quilt uniquely personal. Good luck with yours, I hope you enjoy making it ❤
Hiya Katherine, was wondering how the time differences would effect my time with you and everyone. 10pm is here so lol follow along on the morning.Love how you leave room for " you do you!" And being so confident as to saying" it'll be beautiful too!" Makes everything so more relaxed and friendly! Great good wishes for all in 2024! 😊J.I.M.K Mrs. Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺 ♥ 🎉😊
Hello, my brain kind of understands time difference but it still seems crazy that it's now yesterday here for you and tomorrow there for me 😁❤️
I laughed out loud when you made yourself laugh with your “wind” joke 😂 in America, one of the phrases we say is “breaking wind” 😂
😁 we never grow up do we? Well some of us don't and isn't it grand? 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales absolutely grand! 😊😂
Love this. I see a boudoir pillow cover in my near future (using leftover bits from new quilt). Thank you, Catherine.
Such a fun and fresh start to the new year. Thank you and happy 2024 to you ♥️
Thank you so much for taking us through this. I am planning to take part and look forward to what the year holds. Best wishes from Australia. Chrissie
Beautiful journal and lovely start ❤
I’ve binged your boro inspired journal videos today to catch up fr today’s slowstitch. I don’t know which video you mentioned this but I’m SO happy to know that someone else sticks their foot out from under the covers when sleeping! I thought I was the only weird person who did this!
😁 I also was happy to learn that I am not the only one 😉❤️
Me too!
😆Talking of wind @32 mins - yes Kathryn, put down the spade and come out of the hole you're digging!
I'm loving today's stitch-along 🙂
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Appliqué take. Out of the mouths of babes. Love it when there is that innocence that only a child usually has. Rare in today’s world as they are too often mini me’s and childhood seems to be rushed at. Doing something like this with a grandchild would make so many happy memories possibly 😀
oh yes, out of the mouths of babes indeed 😊
Happy New Year. This will be a fun year with you and our community. ❤
Oddly enough I’ve been thinking about weaving strips of cloth. Thank you.
Happy New Year Kathryn and to everyone in our sewing club! I love that you chose community as our first project. Your piece is beautiful and I can't wait to see what we all create.
I'm fascinated by how you 'dissolve' knots - the calm approach of the cloth whisperer!
Love from Mary in the windy Hebrides - must be all that Haggis 😂😜
😂😂😂 Happy New Year to you too! ❤❤❤
Kathryn...the word is pucker......😂..just so you know i got 4 big zucchini today...I need a reminder not to forget to check on them or they will end up , well you know big😮...😂..now i need to go get some cloths...hope your keeping warm...im here cooking with 37oc today and a balmy 33 the rest of the week...😢
Oh they hide from you, under the leaves 😂 wow 37, we have that here in summer too, way too hot for me. I think it's about 8 degs and drizzly here ❤
I blame you! Since I found you four days ago, I have made two biscornu pin cushions, two cloth twine bowls to nest them in, and yards and yards of cloth twine! Seriously, you are an inspiration. A wonderful teacher. I love that your first slo-stitch of the year is about community. I'll post some pix of my pin cushions on my IG in case you'd like to see them.
Guilty as charged 😂 pleased you are having fun ❤
so happy to have found your channel - i am a textile artist in hamilton, ontario, canada and this is a wonderful project for 2024, thank you :)
Happy New Year !!! I'm excited to get started. It is early on the east coast of the U.S. and I must go make myself some coffee and a light snack and then come back to my computer and settle in for a fun hour !!! I'll be right back..... :-) One thing that I am still pondering.... and I already know the answer... LOL... is what size to make my pieces. I was thinking 6" x 8 " but then decided that might be too big although a 7 x 10 inch book would be nice. Or maybe 5 x 7 inches pieces in a 6 x 8 book..... which I think is the size of the book you made and are using..... if I remember correctly. My answer to my own question is: do not make my book yet. For the next few weeks, I will do many individual pieces on various sizes of base layer sheets of muslin and see how I like working on the various sizes...... then I can decide on the size of my future pieces and will know what size to make my book !!!!
Happy New year! Yes. You answered your own question perfectly... 😁😂❤️❤️❤️
Good idea
I love your choice of word: Community. And this woven interpretation of it.
I’m off to tear my strips and get started on this first week's project. I’m loving this. 💖💖💖
Happy New Year everyone! This is an awesome way to start off the new year.❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Katheryn, this is such a perfect choice to begin our first page. I really love weaving with fabrics. I will enjoy this year of stitching immensely.
I am very happy to have found you and be part of your slowstitch community. With grateful thanks and excited anticipation for what is to come.
I enjoyed what you say and telling us! Love your small scraps- thanks!🥰
Wishing you a very Happy New Year Kathryn and thank you for another wonderful video. I think it would be lovely to see you for perhaps for a few seconds at the start of the video. Does anyone else feel the same ? Loving everything many thanks for sharing with us. x
Thank you. With regards to seeing my face, firstly, are you sure?? 😂 But being serious, for once (!) I am going to film a little studio tour in a week or so and thought of doing a little piece to camera as part of that, just to see how it feels.. ♥️
As always; just a perfect viewing!
I find it a great ‘comfort’ to watch you hand sewing whilst I’m doing exactly the same!
Just made this piece in memory of a sweet friend who gave me the fabric scraps x
Lovely Kath, have you posted on Instagram? I will go and look 😉❤️
Hello Kathryn. It’s January 6,2025 and I just finished week 1 of your 2024 journal. I’ve watched many of your tutorials and am looking at fabric in a whole new light. Thank you for encouraging me to take things slower. I look forward to filling my cloth journal I made from your tutorial. Happy New year to you and cheers to new beginnings. Susie
Hello Susie happy new year to you too, enjoy filling your journal ❤️
I just today found your channel (7-10-24) and can't decide if I should start with week one and try to catch up or just "jump in" half way through. 😂 Listening to you is so relaxing and sewing is a form of meditation for me. Can't wait to cut up Grandma's stained tablecloth and get started.
Keep stitching... ❤
@@patriciabirkes7403 hello Patricia, you are welcome here ❤️ if I were you, I would jump in on the current week then work on the older ones as and when I had the time. Some weeks will take less time. But of course it's up to you. 😊❤️
Happy New Year K3N.. wonderful inspiring video,you are a lovely lady and such a great tutor...look forward so much to your videos and this series,thank you so much for your time too hugs from Gabrielle in the UK xx
I love the meaning of the piece and I completely imagine a community as a weaving: we’re all different, from so many different and distant countries but we’re all interconnected by the love of stitching.
I miss a community, I mean, I have it here online, both on RUclips and instagram, but I don’t know anyone who likes any kind of art, so I feel a bit lonely. And this community is the place where I feel “accepted” and understood.
I thought the story you told about that quilter and the child was so fun, because something similar happened to me two years ago. I made one of my fabric books with shells and my father insisted on me showing to my stepmother. Although she didn’t say anything, like the child did, she was looking at it and I imagined (by the was she looked at it) she was thinking: “why on earth does she stitch scraps and torn pieces with broken shells, all things I would throw away?” Needless to say that I never showed her anything again. And that’s why this community means so much to me.
When my mother was alive, she loved everything I did and she always wanted me to make things for her, but she’s gone and I don’t even have my grandmothers who also appreciated my art. So it’s so nice to be here with you 💜♥️🩷💙🤍💚🤎🩵💛🧡🤗😘
Thank you for sharing that Alexandra, it can be so hurtful when people don't get it, especially our family and friends. I have had similar experiences.. but I try to tell myself that it is as if I am speaking a language that they just don't (can't?) understand... Still it's painful if someone criticises our art, as it comes from our souls. I am sorry you don't have anyone near you geographically and hope you take comfort from your online tribe of stitchers. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 💙🙏🤗
Happy New year to you and your followers happy stitching everyone x,x
Oh goodness Kathryn, this is sooo addictive. I actually stopped the stitching 🧵 I was doing and have made one of these little treasures as I’ve been watching you. I’m in for the count and look forward to next week. May 2024 be filled with joy and good health, Blessings Gail 🎂🇦🇺
Thank you Gail ❤
It makes sense that you laughed at 'serious wind', since your dog is named Sirius, and I just BET he passes some serious Sirius wind, haha!!
😂😂😂😂 It has been known! Sometimes he does, then he looks round at his rear end in surprise.. 😁❤️
Happy new year and what a way to start, just joyous. Love your first page and such a perfect theme, weaving us all together. I think this is going to be a lovely weekly event and the building of a wonderful, like minded community and now to start x
I look forward to our 52 weeks together. Happy healthy New Year everyone!
Hello from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Hello and welcome 🤗
Beautiful start to your journal. I love the fabrics you chose to weave.
Thank you Marion ☺️
Your interpretation of community inspires thought on the subject. Thank you.
Happy New Year! I intend to keep up each week, but we'll see how that goes. Thank you for such a lovely start!
Your work is most charming and beautiful. There’s joy in it and I love that. 🌷💕
That is lovely to hear thank you 😊
'Serious wind' 😅🤣🤭Thank you lovely : )
Love this!! So excited to be taking part! Thank you for sharing yourself with all of us!! xoxo
Met you for the first time today Mon 8th. I am in Queensland Australia.and enjoying your craft session immensely. Thank you. I am English but lived here for a long time. I will return and also,try your grand ideas .
Welcome lovely to have you here ♥️
Love your stitches - tiny- any you did weft and warp =weaving= and more variety ideas ! Thank you!
Happy New Year, Kathryn, and to the community. Your story regarding your furry family members is hilarious! I very much enjoyed day one of the slow stitching tutorials. I really like the weaving and your fabric choices; very attractive. ❤😊
I'm in on this one!! 52 weeks is quite a commitment, but I think I can manage. I love watching your videos!! Stay safe. Hugs ❤
great, just one week at a time 😊❤
Finished watching 😊
I guess I was interrupted
Hello from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
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Kathryn , this is lovely ❤ Cannot wait to start my first piece & love your journal you are putting it in! Thank you ⛄️
I followed your tutorial and made my first lovely little woven patch. It was relaxing and enjoyable, and I used little strips from my stash. To give it a little more weight I added buttons to the ends of each strip. I'm planning to attach it along the top side to a page in my stitch book so that it can flip up and have something else underneath.
Thank you for the inspiration and the tutorial. ❤
Happy new year 🎉🎉
Fabulous, love the idea of the buttons, happy new year to you too ❤️
This is such a wonderful idea 😊 I'm in South Australia and it's January 2nd 1:07am. Happy New Year to this lovely community 🌼
Ha ha I love your wittering. My Step mother came from England and used to talk gently under her breath like you do. Brings back memories of cooking or knitting with her when she was alive.
😊 All the women in my family do that. When I was first with my husband, he kept saying 'what?' thinking I was talking to him. 😂 I'd say, if I am talking to you, I'll use your name, otherwise just ignore me. ❤
Thanku so much for this idea and I’m going to try to follow you weekly and achieve making 52 of these …I’m very encourage and I feel it’s lovely just doing one a week which help to b able to get it done and daily would b difficult with other commitments x Thanku again and I am going to encourage some friends and my sister in law to join u x 🙂😊 x
welcome and thank you for the recruitment drive 😉♥️
@k3n.clothtales and thanku for your wonderful ideas and gorgeous items u hav made and kindly show us how to make them x 🥰
Hi! I’m watching this week one for the second time. I’m headed to the thrift shops tomorrow I wanted to let you know I’m going through my own old clothes too. I found an old linen dress of mine with a small bleach stain on it last night. I tore it into strips and places where I couldn’t tear it on the grain of the cloth I cut it into starting with larger pieces down to small bits. It’s a lovely cloth. Dyed an indigo but it is quite faded. Still the cloth feels strong. I really liked this dress. Oh it had a lace made of the same color and I’m thinking the same linen thread. The lace is about four inches in width and maybe two yards long. I have also told my sister and my best friend about this sewing. They’re excited to get started also. Thank you for your time and effort. I want to finish week ones project this week!❤
Hello love the sound of your indigo linen and lace, I think they will be lovely to stitch with. And thank you for recruiting followers too 😉❤️
I’m doing it! I’m following along.
I found enough fabrics at home to make little strips and I had some Muslin in a closet for a backing and I only bought some pins and some flosses in a few colors. Today I am basting using the new to me invisible method and hopefully will be able to get some time to start decorative stitching.
I feel so grateful for you and this space. I’m so quietly hooray.
I wish I would have tea dyed some of the strips but it’s ok just as it is. It will be beautiful and it will be mine. Ours. 🩷
yes, it will be yours. ours. 😊😊😊♥️
Katherine, I have begun my fourth rice bag and have made six Biscornus and one scroll. I love, love, love, your videos. Thank your for your wonderful ideas and instruction 😊
Wonderful! ❤️
Happy new year to all in this lovely Community! A wonderful way to start this new year Katherine, thank you!!🍀💝
How lovely! Enjoyed this quite alot. Absolutely loved the " that'll do Pig reference "! Trained Border Collies for many years and the intense relationship with the dogs and the sheep makes me enjoy the interesting relationship with fabric and threads . Thanks for bringing me into the fold.🎉
@@kengle7089welcome, love all your sheepdog references ❤❤❤
50:32 at the moment, I’m chuckling that one of the paper circles may be clipped from a grocery list! I think it says _eggs_ maybe?
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Very probably! 😂❤️
Yup, just checked! 😉
I just completed my week 1 woven cloth piece and I am super chuffed with it. Thank you so much for the idea and your beautiful video. Also i made a Japanese rice bag (as guided by you) for my daughter for xmas....turned out great!
Lovely to hear, thank you ☺️
Love the slow, meditative place of this, just as it should be. Looking forward to more!
This lloks great can’t wait to get going. Happy new year to you 🎉. Out of the mouths of babes 😂
Bravo! Just found you and I think I shall join in… you are very relaxing and pleasant to listen to
I’m in the US and we’re expecting our first snow of the season/year. We had a fair share of grey days.. time for a project!
Thank you and welcome 🤗
So calming, enjoying your slowstitch videos. Thanks
I can’t wait to start. I haven’t made my journal yet, but hope to soon. Meanwhile, I’m off to rummage😃
happy rummaging 😂❤
Happy New Year! What a lovely first page….the “weaving” of a community is perfect!
Thank you from a like minded stitcher from Australia …..who has zucchini’s too!Wendy power
My pleasure, when I read your name at the end of your comment it sounded like 'girl power ' 😉 great name 😁❤️
❤ Teeny tiny pins - incase nobody's said it - are Applique pins - got some about yr ago - their soo cute 😍. 👋🏼🏴
Yes! Mine are Clover and they are great 😃
😂😂😂wind
A lady of one of my stitch groups in central England moved up to live on Benbecula. When bad weather forecast I immediately think of them.
My husband takes our collie off in the car to walk and has said how many places are flooded. Today started bright and sunny but darkness fell early and it’s been hoofing it down again. Thankfully we live in an area that is extremely unlikely to flood other than local park as we’ve a very small river part of which runs under a lake called school and housing estate. The houses were built on school fields early 90s
there is localised flooding here too and the stream in our valley is roaring along. Luckily we are on a hill. Yes, I nearly edited the wind thing out.. 😂😂😂
Happy New Year. This is going to be a wonderful project. I am so happy to have to be in this community. Thank you
Your wind comments made me chuckle 😂
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I managed it! I'm chuffed I got it made. Its crochet and knitting I do mostly so embroidery is way out of my comfort zone. Hope everyone had a lovely new year.
Wonderful! ❤
Love the 9 patch. This is a great way to design quilt blocks as it is very intuitively based. It is not till the weaving is finished that those 2nd elements stand out and not something I’d thought of. A nicer way than colouring squared paper though this is a nice pass time but means more active thought and not just process enjoyment.😂
😂 yes, I like to create woven pieces just randomly then look for the patterns within them.. we will definitely be doing more weaving in later weeks, and looking at it in more detail ❤️
Lovely! I've been tearing cloth piecied for my backings as I watched this video. I love how you speak of the feel of the cloth and material that you work with and this backing i've picked is just so lovely in my hands. I think it's a corsely woven cotton that ive found second hand, and it's making me long to put something to it. Thank you for yet another relaxing video.
Your cotton sounds lovely ❤
I just discovered your Channel. I have done a couple of slow Stitch projects but I have never used a journal with paper pages. Very interesting approach. I have been working in a slow Stitch journal without any prompts just my own ideas but I am happy to find this Channel with an idea for each week. I will be subscribing blessings and love from New Mexico
Welcome 😊 my first ever stitch journal was a handmade leather and paper one that I bought and from then on I made my own, usually with paper pages as I like to write in them as well. The Boro inspired journal, a current series of tutorials, will have some cloth pages too. I hope to get the 4th and final part uploaded soon. ❤️
I've just recently begun dabbling again in stitching/mending, etc. I found your channel and it's delightful. I turned it on and listened to you 'whitter' while I was cutting up old clothing to prepare it for projects. It was lovely to look up every time and see what you had accomplished. It goes right along with the 'slow living' concept I've been studying on. To listen to those things which feel wholesome and peaceful and good with no particular moral question to be answered. Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure Ursula, you are very welcome here ❤️
Love love your work Kathryn ! I am wanting to try this work, but have not gotten the confidence, yet. Am watching and listening !!
Thank you, I hope you will just jump in and give it a go. It's only cloth and thread, it's very forgiving and kind, and I am sure you will surprise yourself with the beauty you create ❤️
Happy New Year 2024!
Thank you, beautiful journal!
Witam ❤ oglądam te projekty i bardzo mi się podobają ❤dziękuję ❤ łączę serdeczne pozdrowienia z Polski ❤
Happy New Year and huge thanks for this lovely little project. My head is buzzing with ideas for putting these samples to practical use. I have pyjamas with no pocket, driving me mad. One of these samples would add a whimsical pocket for my hanky. For now I'm happy making a book of inspiration. This is the most relaxing passtime ever!
oh no pocket would drive me mad too! 😂❤
Thank you Kathryn for this project, it’s exciting and can’t wait to start! Love love love❣️
❤I love to start the new year with this inspiring work of you…..thank you
Happy New year from Loma Linda California. I love sewing by hand. ❤