Slowstitch Week 43 - Sensory Stitching
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- This week we create an intuitive Slowstitch piece, trying to engage senses other than sight in the choices of materials and explore how our senses interact with each other.
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Loving this edition!
Smells are so evocative. I could write screeds on Sunlight soap....
I'm old enough and colonial enough to remember camphor wood boxes for textile storage. In the chest I inherited from my Grandmother were/are layers of precious domestic 'linens' and cloths, starched and pressed, beautifully folded.
As a child in the '60s, opening Granny's chest from the 19-teens was the full sensory assault. The camphor and mothballs are such a strong aroma you can taste them. Aniseed. And yet, the cloths were washed in hot water and Lux flakes then line dried in sun and wind. You can still smell the sun of 100 years ago! I'm blessed that I have them to hold, open and re-fold. They are safe as she would want.
Not sure why... none of us wear camiknickers anymore😂
Oh my, when I read Sunlight soap I immediately and strongly smelt Pears soap that my Granny used ❤️
@@AnneGinders I discovered Sunlight soap only as a young adult, but it's just such excellent stuff.
@AnneGinders sunlight soap reminds me of wash day when I was a child. We had no electricity, iving in a remote rural area in the "wop wops" of Aotearoa New Zealand. Mum washed our clothes in a big copper with a fire box at the bottom to heat the water. There is a certain smell to very hot cloth too. Dad used the same copper to make home brew. Now I am smelling hops which makes me think of Summer.
@@k3n.clothtales I still use Pears soap because I love the smell
Besides watching your amazing cloth samples come to life through the stitching; I just love hearing your "talks" through it all. The "talks" are just as interesting as the cloth tales. ❤
When I first peeked last week I couldn't take hold of the concept. I dumped....oops...softly upended all my scraps...and then just started touching and feeling. Still nothing but today I pulled myself together..lol...and started and voila I have my invisibly tacked piece ready to rock and roll. I didn't sit in my big turquoise velvet chair but instead on my desk that looks out into my yard. I could hear birds and all different sounds and your voice wittering away gently. I love Marion too and it makes sense that you are both on similiar pages. Anyway I am off now to catch up on my Wonky Wednesday then I will have 2 pieces to cover in stitches later this afternoon when the heat has left the day. One happy little Vegemite here today. Big hugs Kathryn
Took me about 6 decades to realise I'm very, very sensitive to sounds. For those of us who can hear, we are almost always surrounded by sounds. Some sounds move me to tears, others drive me nuts. And cloth... all materials have their own sound. The sound when you pick one up from a pile. The sound when you take one down from the washing line. The sound when you shake one before folding it. The sound when you stroke it before folding it. The sound when you fold it. The sounds of clothing, of sheets, of curtains, of dish cloth, of, well, anything! Cloth has SO many sounds. I love most of them.
YES! Sounds and smells! Clothesline dried clothes and especially sheets was a wonderful experience, as long as you pull them in before the bugs and bees decide they are for sleeping! I did NOT like towels that had dried outside. They were scratchy! The only thing I really did not like was when the neighbor hung her wash on our lines. It was fine that she used them BUT, she had 4 sons. I didn't like my unmentionables hung where they could see them and I most certainly didn't want to see theirs! LOL! I finally talked to my mother and she talked to Mrs. F, and those things were hung out on their lines after that. She always had them out first thing back in the 50s and 60s so back about 1999, I asked her how she managed that. She said she did all the wash the night before! LOL! Mystery solved!
Nicely said. Thank you for sharing.
I love the sewing song the needle makes with the fabric. The pop, and the whisper as it is pushef, and pulled through. It can lull me to sleep like the tick tok of a clock. 🙂
As you talk about silk fabric springing back from crunch, I'm pinning my black silk raven in place to sew, and noticing how it's telling me how it wants to be folded over... 😅❤
😁 listen to the cloth ❤️
😂snippies vs blunties sounds! The husband equivalent of that would be clicking the grill tongs 😂. There’s a meme out there about that. 😂
Oh yes! 😂
Hi Kathryn! As someone pointed in her comments below, I love your stitching and your words. On the topic of slow stitching as a mindset, because I'm old (turning 75 in December), I often think about life and the activities I enjoy doing. I always loved stitching, and I'm a slow everytime I do something I'm enjoying. So I think of slow stitching as an approach to life as a whole. Thank you for your videos! ❤
My pleasure, yes I think the slow stitching ethos can also be applied to life. And you are not old 😁😉♥️♥️
"Slow stitch is a mindset, not a technique" Well said dear Kathryn. For me, it is mindfulness..... being in the moment... not the past... not the future, but being in the very moment of doing something. I very much also get into that mindset when I am crocheting a simple lap throw. One can also get into that sense of "flow" when doing "stream of consciousness" writing (by hand) a la Julia Cameron's Morning Pages (The Artists Way) where you just write what comes to mind.... no thought about what to write or how to write it.... no thought of grammar or spelling. One just writes whatever appears in your brain. That's why I love doing a slow stitch meditation scroll --- as you taught us --- with just running stitch. So much in the "flow" of mindfulness. Or Boro/Sashiko with layers of scrap fabrics covered with rows of running stitch. I love it all. I imagine that it is like a runner's high.... being in the flow of placing one foot after the other in a regular rhythm. Anyway.... look who is wittering now... LOL
Absolutely, I agree whole heartedly ❤️
Thanks for your "short" with Stella and FredFred! So much fun to watch! ❤
My Mother is blind, she feels like we see.The first thing she taught us was to use our fingers . Think this is where my love of hand sewing.
Hi Katherine, I think that what we are drinking while stitching is a way we incorporate taste that I think a lot of us do. Sitting down with a cup of tea or wine😉 to sip periodically while we stitch. I find the combination of a cup of tea and stitching to be one of my most favourite ways to relax. I love to listen to your ticking clock while I’m watching your videos that you so kindly make for us. The combination while stitching with a cup of tea and listening to you reminds of simpler in some ways times. Those ladies of the past had slow stitching down pat long before someone gave it a name.
Yes they did and it's indeed such a soothing practice, I am so pleased you find pleasure in it. ❤️
Hiya K3n 🌞, catching up! I had a blind friend who could tell the colour and type / method of dyeing by taste! Her accuracy and way of describing the piece was truly amazing😊 will hush and watch now,Love seeing Stella & Fred Fred having fun on the carpet- settling in well.Best wishes to you and all, Julia, Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
I have heard of people tasting their indigo vat though I have never done it myself 😊❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Don't think that ld want to taste any of the vats that lve made over the years! Lol 😅!
This mini series is quite interesting. It puts a whole new perspective on fabric for me. I really love the diversity of your videos! Thank you for the Fred Fred "fix"!! Hugs ❤
So pleased you like them ☺️
This is very thought provoking! Also, sense provoking, too. I have added my sense of achievement! My chosen cloths here are all those which I have tampered with! Dyed, printed or painted. Thank you for inspiring this! Xx
My absolute pleasure, the sense of achievement is very important 😁❤️
This comment is exclusively for Fredfred! Hi, Fredfred, I loved to have seen you! You’re the cutest little cat in the world 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
He would have answered himself but his paws can't manage the on screen keyboard so he asked me to send you lots of love and a very loud purrrrrr ❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 🐈❤️❤️❤️
Loved this sensory journey K3n. Thank you so much! And then I could feel FredFred's hair 😻he's a beuty!
My pleasure, yes he is quite something 😁❤️
Managed to purchase a copy of Slow Stitch book you recommended an inexpensive purchase on eBay. I love the book and it sits well with my book on manipulating fabric . Thank you for sharing
Am looking forward to delving into my fabric and thread stash, and trying this out. Thank-you for another inspiring witter (sp?), Kathryn. Your voice is very soothing, too, which is a bonus.
Had to chuckle when you told yourself to "put your teeth back in"! 😊❤
😁 that's how I spell witter, I believe some people put an h in it. Not sure which is correct 🤔❤️
Whew! Thought it was only me. Either way, a good word for Scrabble.
Thank you ! You inspire me with your creativity! ❤
You're killing me with the talking!
You can always mute me...
Fredfred looks morecthan happy❤ thankyou for once again a super video 🌹🥀🌹
The Fat Duck is at Bray (Berks). Near where I grew up, but I’m sure we never ate there - far too pricy!
Also, a washing detergent that smells lovely is Ecover, the lavender and sandalwood ‘flavour’.
Thank you 😊
Juul Thissjen is a “cos-tuber”, whose sewing videos I have enjoyed. Your concentration on the senses here, brings her videos to mind for me, because I find that my sense of hearing is very much involved in my enjoyment of her videos. The way she films one very much hears the snip of scissors and their movement through the cloth, the sound of thread pulling through fabric, the sound of a vintage sewing machine, etc. She uses captions rather than speaking, and I just love the different way those videos affect me. To me they are a sort of “brain massage”. It’s also interesting because I believe she is hearing impaired and that is part of why she does her videos in the manner she does, but my hearing of them, the concentration on those soft sounds that are drowned out by the cocaphany of modern living, adds so much enjoyment to me.
I did not know about her, but I thought: this must be a Dutch name, but with a mistake in the way it's written. So I did a search and found her, it's Juul Thijssen. Now I can watch her videos too.
Yes. I think she’s Dutch., and hearing impaired. I found her channel during the pandemic, and, like many, I think she started her channel during the lockdown, and stopped making videos when we all got our freedom back. I was sorry that she stopped, because I enjoyed her videos a lot, and her beautiful cat, Wegie 😻
@@ingeleonora-denouden6222 Thank you for making the correction so people can find her. I love her videos.
Thank you I will check her out ❤️
That was most interesting hearing you speak of the senses, I haven't given them 'all' much thought. You always stir the cobwebs in my mind. Thank you. FredFred is so at peace. Hi, Stella.💙💚💛
Stella says hello back. Fredfred is asleep. 😁❤️
My daughter has synesthesia, and she’s an artist. Her synethesia is seeing numbers as colours and there was a time I could say a random number and she would try to describe the colour, very specifically. I wrote them down years ago and she was exact at describing a repeated number by its colour. She thought for years that everyone saw them as she did. Fascinating to me.
This is me, but I see days of the week in colours. Thursday is a very specific shade of burgundy/brown. I don't see numbers in colours, but they are in patterns.
Thank you so much for sharing that, I do find it so interesting and quite a few people here have commented that they or someone they know has it. It must be more common than you might think but not often discussed. ❤️
Is memory another sense? When you mentioned Kandinsky it brought back a memory of when I first encountered one of his paintings. It was an overwhelming experience. I stood in the gallery, thoughts of my father (who had died a few years before) swimming through my mind and tears streaming down my face. To this day I can’t explain it, but it remains one of “those” memories.
I don't know if it's classed as a sense but it's certainly linked to the senses, and can be powerful emotionally as well as you describe ❤️❤️❤️
Very interesting Kathryn. I enjoyed hearing about Synesthesia and seeing how to do the granitos, little grain, stitch. I hope to do this project soon.
Thank you Leona ❤️
This is definitely a Master Class ! So interesting to listen to you put words on what we have generally already experienced through different crafts (the sound of the needle crunching through carded wool while needle felting for me ) Merci infiniment ❤
Am mid-watch but just had to stop long enough to say - it could be like rage cleaning, you end up with a spotless house because you were SO MAD that you just had to keep going; you'd end with a huge long scroll 😂😂😂
I can relate to that 😁❤️
I was rage baking last week. Hubby’s office benefitted greatly from it! 😂
I'm loving this episode! I highly recommend 'A Natural History of the Senses' by Diane Ackerman. It's absolutely fascinating!
Diane Ackerman is an amazing writer.
Thank you that sounds great ❤️
I have synesthesia! I always thought everyone was the same until I became an adult. Days of the week are specific colours for me. Monday is blue, Tuesday is pale yellow, Wednesday is bright yellow, Thursday is a very particular shade of burgundy/ brown, Friday is blue, Saturday is red and Sunday is bright yellow.
When I think of days, weeks and months, they are in a particular pattern in my head. I could even point out the pattern for you. The same with numbers. They are set out in a particular pattern, that I can actually see in my minds eye.
It might sound strange, but it has always been that way for me.
Yes I feel the same but didn’t truly think this was synesthesia as also assumed everyone did the same.?!
I think it's fascinating and not strange at all, a different way of perceiving the world ❤️
Your description of the days of the week - each with its own colour - could be the inspiration for a quilt (or other textile piece). Sounds to me like synaesthesia is a gift to whomever experiences it.
Any creative project I have done when I have been annoyed by something, I have ripped up later or somehow discarded!! I like to do slow stitching when I am feeling contented and relaxed or in order to feel relaxed. Can’t wait to try this project.
Creating something then ripping it up could be a cathartic exercise in itself. ❤️
Loved this video. Amazing how, in this busy world, we do things without without taking the time to consider just what we are doing or feeking.
❤So fun! I “see” language, conversational words “ coming at me” as geometrical, multi colored, shapes. Thankfully I have the ability to not see them until I “tune in”.
❤Thank you for this revelation.❤
How wonderful, you are a synesthete ❤️
What an interesting synesthesia to have. I have not heard of that particular way of sensing the world before.
I never heard of synesthesia before
The ripping of the cloth is an example of sound. Also the crinkling noise of different stiff fabrics that you can hear. Loving your Monday morning stitching.
Thank you! 😊
I’m so glad you tried the Marmite on a crumpet and that you quite liked it Kathryn. For years I had jam or just butter on them but now always go for the Marmite. I realised when watching this video that I’ve never had honey on a crumpet so having heard you mention it I’m going to try it soon! Thanks for great videos. Love watching them. Thanks so very much for all the time you put into them.
My pleasure Anna ❤️
Back for second installment - and chuckling away 😂 lost it at the scissor dance! Re Slow Stitch - I definitely turn to my stitching when I feel unsettled, so the process calms me. Not sure that I’d be able to maintain a frenzy once I started stitching
That would be interesting, to see if we can start angry and if we stay in that mood or if the process inevitably calms us... Hmm, food for thought ♥️
i love your idea of slow stitching and the way you talk about it and I love 🥰Fredfred
I was lucky to eat at the Fat Duck and it was a once in a lifetime experience. He really is a genius! We were at the table for more than 5 hours! Each course was theater, staff were wonderful and it is lovely to think about it again today❤️
Oh I am so pleased you had the experience. How lovely to hear about it ❤️
I'm thinking it's all about awareness, and taking time to acknowledge each of our senses which are often jumbled together as one vague perception. While you were talking, I thought of my textile technology instructor in college and how much I love your equally informed approach to cloth, infinitely better. It makes me happy to hear you mentioning Marion who has led me to appreciate, and make space in today's creativity for traditional embroidery. So many joyful things to do - so little time. Thank you, Kathryn.
I am so happy you are enjoying yourself Ann ❤️
Love the “Granny Toss” stitch! 👵🏻
I once tea dyed some paper and fabric. I only had chai tea, so the fabric and paper have a faint scent of spices. It is lovely!!
Yes, my ecoprinted cloth, even when it's been laundered has a memory of the smell of leaves.. ❤️
Love love love the sensory stitching. 💖💖💖 About Time is my very favorite movie. Everyone must watch it. It has the warmest message. 🥰
Isn't it wonderful? I am going to watch it again soon ❤️
Food and clean linen does it for me. A house that has that smell of something cooking instantly becomes a home and every home has its own smells and feels. I can still recall entering my grandmother's home and how you immediately knew you were safe and being taken care of. She wrote several cooking books and had a radio show and was always trying out new recipes, so it was delicious to enter her home and be met by a wift of baked goods or something appetizing for later. It just made my heart sing 😊❤
What a lovely thing to have a Grandmother like that. Mine always baked too . I can remember her coming to visit once and starting making a cake before she even took off her coat. ❤️
Thanks for this overflowing video with knowledge and creativity. I've always been a highly tactile person as far back as 5 that I can remember. I spent oodles of time with my grandmother learning the art of handiwork and that idle hands are the devil's playground! P.S. I am an "odd shape" - that's why I love odd creations 🙂
I love this.... for lots of reasons 🙂 This is my favorite kind of slow stitching i.e. making little works of art with fabric, needle and thread. And, as always, I love to listen to you witter.... I learn so much and get such great enjoyment out of it. I have watched until minute 37 when you are starting to baste the pieces down, so I shall pause here and deal with real life.... sigh. I'll be back this evening to finish watching. I love the "composition" that you have created here.... all of it... the colors, the textures, the shapes and the "blank" spaces where the beautiful blanket piece is allowed to shine. In my own pieces, I always leave some of the foundation fabric showing..... very much like you have done here. Love, love, love it. I can't wait to get back to the video this evening and see what you do with the stitching...... Thanks Kathryn. Another great video !!!
So pleased you enjoy this Susan, I hope you had a good day and enjoyed the rest ♥️
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Welcome and thank you ❤️
A really thought provoking concept ….I think I have done this automatically in past projects but in recent years and traumas have caused anxiety over everything and blocked creativity. Slowing down and capturing thought processes is a valid way of unravelling that condition ,much like art on prescription. Allowing oneself to acknowledge a sensual delight or dislike of a textile to form a composition is very freeing.and emotionally rewarding….my turn to witter🙄thankyou!
Yes, art on prescription would do a lot of good in the world I think. I am glad its therapeutic value is increasingly recognised. ❤️
This is brilliant Kathryn. I was lucky to stumble across little bags of cloth for sale at an Art exhibition on Friday - it was in a church and the lady selling told me it was the stash of a parishoner's wife who had passed away and he wanted her cloth to go to people who would enjoy it. Lots of little bags in colours and some with thread to which looked like it had been dyed maybe eco dyed certainly muted shades. Costing literally pennies per bag so I made a donation to the fundraising and now I can go through them at my leisure not getting stressed by cholces but using the senses. I have to get.ready for a trip to a hospital visit - as a visitor! But I shall return to this video this evening. What a joy to look forward to. 🎉 you are so clever in your teaching Kathryn 😊 big love from Scotland as always ❤
How wonderful Margaret and how fortunate those little scraps are to have found their way to you ❤️
Love the video. The chat and the stitching 👍🧡💐
Thank you so much 😊
Beautiful piece, lovely idea. Thank you for sharing ❤
Love this series ❤Tineke
You talk about anger stitching…well when I do dry felting,stabbing and stab in with the needle just makes me feel this strange emotion boiling up. Anger, satisfaction? Not sure which one. But I always heard my needles going in and out of the layers, but this time I feel joy hearing it swishing away like my Grandmother sitting in her rocking chair doing her stamped embroidery
Absolutely love About time. I expect you know Tim's parents house is Porthpean house in Cornwall and can be rented out for holidays. Be the perfect venue for a clothtails stitching retreat 😁
Oh I didn't know that, I knew it was in Cornwall but not that it could be rented. What a great idea 😁❤️
Sense of security, sense of foreboding, sense of humor, sense of time, sense of being…
I like the texture idea. I usually am turned by color so I will try the texture route. Hugs! ❤
In My embroidery guild I am exploring fibre maps as a project. This weeks sensory project really looks map like and is going to pursue this further. Thank you k3n!
When you talked about that restaurant where it's dark, it reminded me of this: when I studied to become a teacher (in fiber arts) we wanted to organise an exhibition of art in the dark. The art had to be 'tactile' and 3D, not only textiles. First we (a small group of students and a teacher) visited a blind man to ask for his advice. I can not remember if we really had that exhibition ... (it was long ago, in the 1970s).
That is a really interesting idea ❤️
THANK YOU for going back to earthy colors. When you brought out the piece of apron I loved it. Great ideas
Thank you for this wonderful video, I can always learn from others and I have learned so many lessons from you. Thank you so much 🧵🪡♥️
Last week's sewing was fabulous. I have used it to start a meditation stitch scroll to honour my mom (cut from the same cloth) xx thank you Katherine
How wonderful ❤️❤️❤️
I love Kadinsky’s sense of color
I just received Claire Wellesley-Smith’s Slow Stitch book, and I immediately noticed the soft texture of the front and back cover. I am now going about my day, noticing with all my senses! 🙏🏼
Looks like I'm rewatching this! LOL! I have to ask you, Kathryn, if you've ever tried a Fiskars SewSharp Scissors Sharpener or anything similar??? I bought the one they sold that is very similar to this way back when I first got my first pair of Fiskars scissors - probably in the early 90s. I've been keeping my plastic handled scissors sharp ever since! The metal they use for Fiskars and other plastic handled scissors is quite soft. My Ginghers are NOT the same metal and I need professional sharpening or using a sharpening stone to carefully sharpen them. I even use my little Fiskars sharpener on my kids' old battered scissors (the last one got married 19 years ago - and they all have that lovely sound now. I believe it actually moves the metal over a bit to make that lovely connection that cuts through the strangest fabrics!
And here in the States, we talk about "thread" - and it is usually referred to as cotton thread, poly or poly cotton thread, rayon thread, etc or embroidery thread (machine usually) or embroidery floss for the multi-stranded stuff, getting more defined as polyester embroidery thread, or cotton sewing thread meaning machine sewing, with a whole lot of etcetera! LOL!. Getting used to thinking of cotton meaning thread in general and wool as yarn has taken a bit of thinking!
My friend has the fiskars gizmo, I need to remember to take the Blunties over next time I go. 🥰
@@k3n.clothtales Yes!!! Then you will have two pair of pointies!!!
😂 the sound of snippies vs blunties!
Yes, I am thinking of making up a Snippy Blunty song 😂♥️
Oh you made me laugh today. Angry slow stitching😂😂 and gloopy😂😂.
I love the sounds of the thread running thru the cloth and my fabric scissors cutting the cloth. This has given me some fun ideas. Thanks for the great video. Here kitty kitty kitty😊
I am seriously tempted by the angry slowstitching but I don't want to wind you all up into a rage 😁❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales hahahaha
I like this one it gives us licence to do many things at once. We may have done something like before but I'm working with an old 70 brain . Your cat looks so content on your bed.
Kanalınızı ve yaptığınız dikişleri seviyorum teşekkürler 💐😊🙋
Very interesting video! I didn’t know there was a name for what I always do. I put colours with names….in my head. I.e. if your name is Christine I immediately visualise orange. Debbie is red, Kathryn is a soft apricot…..I don’t know why I do it, I have just always thought this way. Also, I have done patchwork for nearly 40 years and always hand quilted because it’s relaxing and I like the feel and look of it, didn’t think of it as slow stitching, I just thought I put a lot of time into making a quilt because I couldn’t afford to be buying fabric all the time. It always went against the grain when I worked in patchwork shops to be told to sell as much fabric as I could when teaching a sewing workshop. Still love your crocheted bed rug and of course there’s nothing better than a cat tucked up on a bed and Fredfred looks very snuggly. Thank you again for your video. X
My pleasure, I know exactly what you mean about teaching in fabric shops, I used to feel the same when I did it ❤️
Karen Brown, Just Get It Done Quilts, just posted an interview with Ekta Kaul who wrote a book on Kantha. Very interesting hearing about all the variations.
Thank you, I have watched it. I was going to wait and put the book on my Christmas list but I caved in and ordered it. It arrived yesterday and a preliminary flick through last night tells me it's great. Can't wait to read it properly ❤️
What a lovely video and interesting subject as always dear Kathryn! This way of stitching is exactly why I love stitching so much. It fits my ‘going with the flow’ style of making and living (not necessarily always by choice but simply because I am so bad at planning stuff ahead).
I had to think of ‘visual thinking’ when you talked about the synthesists (?) and about another great food movie: Eat Drink Man Woman (I think by a Taiwanese director, older movie). This is me wittering back at you. Have a lovely day🍀💖😍
Love your witterings Machteld. I will Google the movie but I only have access to British TV these days, no other streaming type things. Much love ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 💖
Another sense that I have learned about is kinesthesia, the ability to sense our body's movement through space. We can also sense internal pressure, intra-abdominal pressure, or pressure from swelling. This has been a most interesting exercise.
Is kinesthesia another name for proprioception? It sounds like the same thing. ♥️
Lovely, thanks Kathryn.
I really enjoyed this. It's such a fresh approach when the usual advice for sewers is to keep to the same weights of material. I know you never do that but this tactile method just emphasises and celebrates the differences. Lovely.
I adore Heston Blumenthal - especially the Christmas Dinner episode. He is so innovative and I love the science behind his cooking. He has managed to retain a boyish wonder which is very endearing.
I said "claggy" a moment before you did 😂. My Mum was a geordie and it's the perfect word for anything...claggy.
Glad to see Fred Fred looking so relaxed and I'm happy you got your cat flap in before the really cold weather kicks in.
Mary x 💟
Yes! Still can't think of a perfect synonym for claggy! 😂❤️
Un collage hermoso y diverso, gracias ❤
Love the colours x
I keep my incense stock in my sock drawers - just delightful to have a pleasant smell each morning
Taste? I ate a large hole in a green silk bedspread as a child, delicious. Lots of us also chewed the corner of our cotton hankies!
Yes! I used to chew the corner of my pillow case 😁❤️
I love nag champa incense and also sandalwood, patchouli and musk. Apparently my whole house smells of incense. I sometimes smudge with green rosemary.which has lots of special memories for me. I do put an incense stick and some rosemary sprigs in my embroidery baskets. I also have synesthesia where I mix my senses together so that colour's have tastes,. I have had this ever since childhood. When I was four I described the magnolia to my mother as the tree which have flowers that smell like the taste of a lemon. The colour red I think smells like earth in the hot sun and tastes like caramel.
Your memory failing you at present is probably because of the changes, the grief and stresses you have been undergoing.
Oh you have just mentioned synesthesia. I am an artist and a poet. I love that I have this ability to experience my senses in this way. I didnt realise that others didnt experience senses in the way that I do. Of course people often attach mood and emotion to colour too. When Iwas about 10 my mother made a new friend called Mrs McKay. I instantly disliked her. When Mum asked me why I said she was too red. Of course my mother shrugged this off. However, a few weeks later my mother told me zi was right about Mrs McKay. We had party line telephones in those days and Mum had picked up the phone to ring someone and heard Mrs McKay saying nasty things about her to another friend. Lots of love.
I just love the description of the magnolia and I am so happy that you see your synesthesia as a blessing. Thank you for your words about my memory, it has been worrying me and I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense. Hugs ❤️
@k3n.clothtales stress brain fog is very common. You are probably also a bit hypervigilant about your own well being too given the momentous changes. Checking yourself out, how am I doing? Am I OK? What do I need to do to keep up my emotional and mental health . That kind of thing. It's all normal given the circumstance. What I do is keep a reassuring dialogue with my inner, fragile self going. So that the young one that is worrying or scared gets a healthy inner parent. It may sound a little crazy but you know all humans have a crazy inner dialogue or monologue unfolding. You are doing really well in my opinion. You are proactive, creative and open about your process. Lots of love. The number 6 is blue and 9 is yellow.🙃😘
Thank you Jan, I am sure you are right. Sometimes I catch myself saying out loud, 'I am ok', often in different tones for example reassuringly or sometimes even as a statement with a note of surprise. Like it's in response to a question, probably a subconscious one from the fragile self. ♥️
That was a very interesting exercise. Loved it ❤
Glad you enjoyed it Carol ❤️
Definately for me Honey on Crumpets!! Its the best. I would also have velvet on my sensory stitching love the feel of velvet and silk too. I do enjoy my button collection too so would include some buttons. The autumn colours are lovely too on your stitching piece. Hoping you will do this next year and I can join you. Already planning my journal fingers crossed. Aww Fred Fred gorgeous!
Velvet! I have some, I should have used it. Oh well, next time. Next year's project will be a little different but will allow those who want to make a journal to do so. ♥️
Slow stitching as an ethos, like slow living. It just means being in the present and doing things while present in the moment. A friend used to calling it “living with grace”.
On to kantha: did you watch Karen Brown’s interview with Ekta Kaul on Just Get It Done Quilts? Really wonderful interview and Ekta is entirely contactable in the UK. Give it a watch if you haven’t. X
Yes! I just watched it this morning, someone sent me a link by private message. Wonderful. I was going to put the book on my Christmas list but I have weakened and ordered it 😂❤️
This is such a fascinating topic!! As I was watching I was thinking that I sometimes associate colors with tastes or smells as well - the certain shade of brown that would be caramel, or coffee, a certain pink that makes me think of watermelons, or a different one that would make me think of taffy or strawberries... and then if you have the smell/sight connected you could almost taste the thing you're imagining from the color!
Great video, Kathryn!
I believe there’s been scientific research into the brain creating stronger neural connections, and so memories, where the senses are involved in the process or event. I think I read it in the context of the Scandinavian countries and how they, despite living in cold, dark and often rainy (in the case of Denmark) environments consistently come out top in terms of their overall happiness, and it has a lot to do with their ethos of creating sensory experiences and prioritising them in their lives. I nod along happily with that information because, having working (short term) memory challenges I can still remember, vividly, going, with American friends to a Blue Man Group gig on Manhattans Broadway almost 20 years ago, and, from start to finish, the brilliance of it was that it engaged the whole range of senses fully, and they managed to involve ‘taste’ by invoking the sounds and other sensory elements of food stuffs in the performance. It’s hard to explain. You have to be there really, but I can still taste & hear cheese puffs when I listen to Blue Man Group on CD 🤣 I’ve also seen TED Talks where the speaker has enabled a member of the audience to taste a lemon just by describing it to them while their eyes are closed. All of this stuff, backs up what this video is about, and, for me at least, I’m finding that if I take the time to engage my senses, it fires up my imagination, which in turn makes me more creative. I also find it very calming and a rested brain is far more effective than a frazzled one. What’s not to love? ❤️
I need to look up the ted talk. And also I now want cheese puffs 😁❤️
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1. Kathryn, you are an amazing teacher and I'm sure that's because you are and avid learner.
2. A friend of mine used to dye wool with plant roots, bark, and leaves. I remember a jumper she knitted for her daughter using wool which she had dyed with fig tree leaves. The smell of figs coming from this jumper was just amazing.
3. I am synesthetic. I associate the sound of vowels, numbers, and days of the week (all of these in Portuguese) with colours. I didn't know this "thing" had a name until I went to university and my linguistics teacher spoke about it. Most of the time I don't even notice I'm doing it, but on occasions it becomes very active and it's a bit annoying.
I have ecoprinted with fig leaves when I lived in France and yes, the smell is amazing. I am sorry your synesthesia is sometimes annoying. I can kind of imagine how it might be. ❤️
A number of years ago I had a subscription to Scientific American. One of the first articles I read was about people who had lost their sight due to brain injury, but their eyes and optic nerves were fine. There was a video showing a man in this situation walking down a corridor with obstructions along it, and he walled round every one. His eyes worked, the information was sent to a part of the brain that couldn’t form images, but he still reacted as if he could see.
That is interesting, still so much we don't know about how the brain works ❤️
Hello ❤❤❤❤❤ from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
When I go to the thrift store I peruse the sweater aisle feeling up the sleeves 😂🎉
Don't we all? 😁❤️
@k3n.clothtales , no, we don't all! What would be the point? I live in south Georgia, USA, where all the sweaters are synthetics. Since we only wear them about 3 days a year, nobody buys the expensive wools, angora, or cashmeres.
I do the feel as am in the south of the south island in NZ and wear sweaters a lot of the year, angora and cashmere is a treasure find 😊
Oh me too with the Nag Champa!❤
What a fascinating episode, very thought provoking. And what a unique ice-breaker of a question for those bloody awful training sessions some of us have to endure - “If you were a cloth, what would you be?” That’d stump a lot of cocky participants! 😉 If asked today, I’d be a piece of knitted Angora (or fuzzy wuzzy wool as we used to call it in my family). My mum knitted me a bolero of white fuzzy wuzzy wool which I wore to parties when I was a little girl and I LOVED it.
Oh I did one of those once. Only it was 'if you were a car..' it was years ago just out of uni and all the loud young chaps being Ferraris and Porsches. 🙄 I can't remember what I said. How I wish they had asked cloth. I think I would be linen. Crumply, eco-friendly and no point in ironing it. 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtalesI think I’d be an orange Citroen Dyann - a bit wobbly on corners 😂
And fabric - something tricksy and hard to pin down, maybe silk chiffon 😊
@@rosywilson3076 😂 perfect
Not eaten in the Fat Duck, which is in Bisham, near Marlow, Bucks, but heard it is very nice. We now live in Wales, a bit far to go for dinner 😂
Yes it would be 😂
My son and daughter in law have eaten in that restaurant 'Dans le Noir'. They said it was an amazing experience
What a lovely stitching time. I look forward to feeling my way through my cloths and threads for my piece. 🙂 As you talked about temperature of cloth, I remembered an article in Life Magazine that I found when I was about 13. It talked about being able to discern colour by touch only and included squares of various colours with which to experiment. I think they tried to use inks that were as consistent as possible? I cut out the squares, as recommended, so I had no clues from their position. It was fascinating to me that I could feel the differences and name the colours with a high percentage of accuracy. I don't remember more detail than that except that I was so very intrigued by this new perception of touch and of colour and the fluid relationships among our senses. How I would love to have a multiple-pots-of-tea conversation about these things you've brought up today!!
Wow, that's a really interesting idea, I feel a major, deep and winding rabbit hole coming on 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Uh oh.... 😁😂
Claggy! I shouted out that word when you were looking for the right word. I am from the midlands.
I’m from Coventry. Mum’s handwritten cake recipes often had the phrase ‘clag it together’ to mean, mix and combine!
Different fabrics have different smells when you iron them (eg polyester has a sweet chemical smell, wool can smell like wet dog :)) and sometimes ironing can "resurrect" the smell of the person who wore the clothing before, even if it has been washed (which can be a good or a bad thing)!
Yes I know what you mean about resurrecting the smell 😁♥️
😊yes, ironing polyester always reminds me of ironing my kids’ school shirts!😊
45:45 Quick 🤨comment, while the thought is “hot off the press” ; your Blunties - the reason that they won’t sharpen is the precise condition that you’ve noticed here! The blades are “loose.”
I’ve got a fetish for vintage scissors, and have amassed quite a collection, but I also like to be able to use them. Because they’re always second hand when I buy them, and generally well used, they are often in need of some TLC and are quite loose in the joint. I used to try sharpening them with both modern gadgets and whetstones, but, while it helped, in the case of the more “loved” (looser) ones the difference was less apparent. I tried to tighten the joint by taking a hammer to the rivet, but that wasn’t always successful either. Confused and frustrated, and needing to know why, I did some digging. What I found out is that the blades are meant to be slightly curved or bowed. With use, and often where they have been used to cut thicker or more coarse materials than they were designed to handle, the curve or bow can be forced out of the blades, which, in turn, causes them to appear blunted. It suddenly all made sense to me, plus it helped to answer my question about why there are so many different styles and types of scissors specifically for different purposes, historically. Now, if a pair of scissors appear to be blunted, my first port of call is to give the blades a little tweak (it doesn’t take much) to restore the curve and my second port of call is to put myself, or the previous owner, in the naughty corner for using them on a material that they weren’t intended for. - just as ones choice of needle would be dictated by the cloth and the thread being worked , ones choice of scissors would also be appropriate for the application.
In the case of your Blunties, I would think, because the gap between the blades is larger, they would still perform well when cutting thicker / more coarse threads & cloth e.g upholstery weight, if you didn’t want to risk manipulating the blades and don’t feel the need to correct them since they’ve been replaced. I’ve got a jewellers anvil here and use the horn of it to gently tap the curve back into the blades, when needed. That’s the safe way of doing it and I use my dinky anvil because I’ve got it, but one could use the edge of a kitchen worktop just as well, because it often doesn’t need a lot of force. Hopefully that makes sense and is helpful, for future reference 🤓❤
Thank you, that's very helpful and makes sense. I think I am happy to look after the Sharpies and save them for natural fibres and sacrifice the Blunties to the polywollyester and the like. 😁❤️
❤😊, i can't keep it in anymore..... vegemite on crumpets DELICIOUS 🥰🤣🤣🤣🤣 Controversial I know but that's how we roll in New Zealand 🤭🤭🤭
Oh no, crumpetgate goes on 🤣 I have never tried Vegemite, I must. ♥️
The term "sewing cotton" was totally new to me as a description of "sewing thread," either of which, I now understand, mean any type of thread. I astonished me when i first heard a British or Australian RUclipsr say she was putting a length of linen into her needle and then called it "cotton." But then again, we Americans have changed English into quite a different language than what it has evolved into in the "British Empire."
Very interesting how the same language has evolved differently, even within countries there are regional differences ♥️
I love that film too, Domnal (sp?) Gleason and Rachel Mcadams😊
Yes! I had a look at the DVD when I finished 😁 I am going to watch it again soon ♥️
The sensitivity of a body part increases the more you use it. When you use a finger repeatedly, you’re bringing the brains attention back to that finger again and again. As a massage therapist, I have developed increased sensitivity in my thumbs, fingers, palms and forearms because as I am using them, I’m intently focused on what I can feel. Often I massage with my eyes closed because I am intently focused on the texture and structure of the tissues (muscles, tendons, fascia) under my hands or forearm so I can assess what is going on with those tissues. So my arms from the elbow down have become very sensitive. I also learned that there are parts of the body that become effectively numb because people ignore them so much that there’s very little brain connection to the area so I will purposely focus massage on areas on a client that they have disconnected from because often but not always the pain people experience originated in areas they ignore. My idea is that if I bring their awareness back to that part of them, the brain will reconnect with that area and they will be more mindful of not holding that area tensely or wonky. I also give them practices for home to intentionally relax and stretch those areas. We talk often about how people will say “I didn’t even know that was hurting until you pressed it “ when that is where a lot of their pain is coming from.
Anyway, I am a body nerd and go on about it a lot, but I hope it was informative.
Wow, that's fascinating. Feel free to go on about it. 😁 I have only had a couple of proper massages in my life but I do recognise the not knowing it was hurting thing. ❤️
Dear Kathryn.
Thank you for so much pleasure. I love your way of teaching. I am from Holland. Looking forward to every monday and wednesday for the new episode.
In this episode today you showed a piece of cloth you were working on with squares and the pattern with rosés.
It wasn t finished yet.
Could you tell how you made it. What you will make of it?
Lots of love Lettie.Appingedam
Hello, I pieced the squares right sides together with seams then stitched the whole thing to a piece of very soft linen. I don't yet know what it will become, it's just a little 'because I felt like it' cloth. ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales thank you so much.
I got an amount of cloth with the romantic roses.
It was from a lady who Made a lot of guilts in de past years.
She just gave it all to me. Just like that. I am so gratefull for it. I am 64 years old, and am a verg beginner in stitching. Learning a lot, looking just at your teachings.
So I thougt I might make something nice for the lady.
But hadn’t any idea’s what.
What you showed looked like something I could try to.
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