I had watched all your videos and enjoyed each one! Thanks for this one in review! I can't wait to see what you come up with in 2025. Keep up the great work.
Catherine I liked when you sew commercial pattern because you are young and dynamic and your choices are great. I made the stretched dress from mccalls it fits me ! So this year pls come up with some patterns that any average sewists could successfully make. Thanks for your videos Best wishes for 2025.😊
Oh my dear lady, you have taught this ol dog some new tricks and I truly appreciate all of your inspiration. I had never sewn a garment before, I just 23:16 turned 65 and have lost a considerable amount of weight but couldn’t afford a new wardrobe. From your videos I learned how to downsize, it has been so much fun, so thank you so very much for all that you do, your students I really hope they know how fortunate they are to have you in their corner.
I just love your creativity. I am a sewer but also a quilter and last year I worked on lots of quilts but no garments. I do hope to change that this year. I have tons of fabrics and thrifted clothes to do upcycles. Not sure which of your upcycles is my favorite as so many of them are just amazing. I love what you do with the sweaters and should go thru my old sweaters and maybe do something with them. Some of my favorite clothes are upcycled thrifted clothes I remake. I am looking forward to what you make this year. I so wish I could have done the retreat in Seattle that looked like such fun and all the ladies were so creative.....I should go rewatch that one again!
Love you already after watching the other video "Making a small skirt fit my waist!". You've helped me to save my beautiful skirts...Thank you so much, Catherine.
Thank you Catherine! You’re so creative and cheerful! I’ve enjoyed watching and being inspired by your videos for each of these makes! I’ll be excited to see what this next year brings!
Question/suggestion: Would it be possible to get a video on turning the top part of a dress into just a shirt? In my head I think i know what I need to do, but at the same time I would love to see it before I try it. I thought I would ask since you do both patterns, flips, and have a great teaching style. Thank you in advance. 😊
Thank you for all the inspiring makes - as I watched the videos I keep going …that’s my favourite and then the next make …that’s my favourite 🤩 I think I have about 7 my favourite makes 🤣
I love your comment on "even though something looks like a fun project, make sure I can wear it." I have to remind myself of this all the time! Love the free people brand, I have to remind myself when I am looking at their clothes for inspo - remember my age, and the ages of the models wearing them! 😊😊. The other big one is to persevere and improve on my sewing skill set- sometimes alot of us try projects that are set up for disaster because we haven't mastered the certain skill for the project or have enough experience to know what to do if something goes wrong. I always look back on your videos for instructions on my sewing mishaps!!! Thank you !! Have a great New Year
Love your makes and the fact you do hide the things that didn’t quite work. Reminds me too be nicer to myself! I’m not at all fashionable but I do enjoy watching you. The closures on sweater/cardigans are great. My kids are always cursing the open cardigan style everywhere! They know how to sew but they want me to do it. I probably will.
Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration! I love watching you create and sharing your thoughts as you work. I've learned many techniques from you. I'm working on a quilt for my daughter, but have been saving some items from my own closet that I think can be upcycled and I'll wear them again. Here's to a great 2024 with you and wishing you the best in 2025!
Really great projects! I love the maroon sweater with the scrappy knit sweater. I am currently a little chilly so that may figure into this a bit. I loved the little drab formerly drop vintage dress that you added a little bit of yellow or lighter color too, and the way that you did that just lightened it up and brightened it up so much. It was such a subtle difference but so big at the same time.
I loooooove every single video of yours! ❤ I learn so much and get inspired again to do some upcycle myself. I have a request for a video please: those pesky underwire bra wires that poke through. What is the best way to fix them, please?
2024 was a stressful year for many of us in the US, and your wonderful videos have been a source of comfort and inspiration for me. Your warmth and enthusiasm come through every moment of every video. I continue to be amazed by your creativity, and appreciate that you are honest about your mishaps! Makes me feel better about mine😆 I look forward to watching you in 2025, and, since I will retire in June, I can finally spend some time on my own thrift flips. Happy New Year from Judy in Avon, Ohio.
I’ve not had the space to sew for several years but I can sew at my daughter’s and have made things for the grandchildren but mostly I’ve made tote bags for family and friends. The biggest drawback is putting everything away each day as I use the dining table. I’m working on the builder partner to make me a she shed to permanently set up my sewing machine and serger so I can try some of your thrifting make over ideas. Thirty years ago dropped waist loose dresses were in style and I used thrifted dresses to raise the gathers to the bust-line and make my own maternity smocks. Recently I’ve found that old table cloths are a good source for fabric for school play costumes.
The sweater that you said didn't work, I would cut the front making it into more of a jacket/cardigan. I think with it already open the arm movement wouldn't matter. LOL posted this before you mentioned how little you like cardigans that don't close. So maybe not.
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m very interested in thrifting and repurposing clothes but never know how to combine or edit. Your videos give me the ideas and motivation to try. Thank you so much. Here’s to an idea filled and thrifty 2025!🥂
I’m so glad you popped up on my iPad last year. You have inspired me to try so many new things with thrifted items. I made a raglan, long sleeved T-shirt out of a jersey sheet which has become my favourite shirt. I look forward to watching you in the new year. Thank you from Winnipeg.
Catherine, I loved seeing the year in review! Your inspirational projects and honesty about the ones that failed are what I love about your channel. I'm beyond grateful for the opportunity to meet you and the wonderful women who came to your retreat in Seattle. I'm excited for what projects 2025 will be upcycled and shared!
I watched most of the original videos, but you showed a couple of pieces in this video that I had not seen. I don't know why I missed those videos, but I'm glad I saw the garments in this review. I admire and envy your talent. I love watching your videos because you are so warm and friendly. God bless you in 2025!
Hello Catherine! I Love your Work! Specially the jackets! But also the other ideas. Best regards from Germany and best wishes for the next year, Andrea
It was a good year. I like the idea of reviewing at the end of the year. I think I will save a sample of each item I sew on my Bulletin board. Most of my items are given to others, I do have wallhangings planned for myself so it could be interesting. Thank you for sharing your talents.
The blue and white March dress….how about a little light weight/sheer shrug or bolero with a small sleeve to tie in the front just under the bust….it would give some more coverage and let you wear the dress.
I just wanted to write and say thank you for all your wonderful videos, I just found you and I'm really enjoying your creations and great instructions!!
Fun recap of your video sewing projects; they were all so unique! I’m excited to see your new sewing room & new projects! Happy New Year blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌲
Love ALL the things you have created but my favorite is the mash up of the sweater with the jacket. I remember thinking at the beginning of that video that you may have gone off the rails with that. By the end I was a believer. When I saw you pull on the jacket for this video fell in love with it all over again. Very cool.
Happy New Year, Catherine! And thank you so much for all your inspiring videos. I have now had loads of fun upcycling charity shop finds in fabulous fabrics, that I’d never considered before ❤
For your "naked" dress... How 'bout making a shrug from a men's T-shirt or from a mesh skirt? Lightweight + a bit more coverage. I'd be hesitant to try, but I'm sure you could do it! 😊
Wow, Catherine! Huge congratulations on so many successful sewing projects in 2024! It was such fun to watch this video and have "oh, I remember that one" moments! Plus, I missed a couple, so can now easily check them out. Thank you! We learn so much from you, both around what works and what has room for improvement. Your joy of experimenting, sewing and upcycling, is contagious. Thanks for brightening our lives! Wishing you and yours the very best in 2025😊
Wonderful vid thank you! My favorite pieces were the leopard sleeveless top w black pants, so lovely and skimming; the sweater with tie bottom, what a wonderful winter piece to add special look to everyday warmth; and the jean jacket with little quilted squares, I would be obsessed too! Thank you for all your inspiration!
This was a great review of your very creative year! I had watched every one of your videos. It's fun to see your wonderful (and some quirky) projects again!
Great wrap up! I have met a few young (teens & 20’s) sewists at my place of business and have recommended them to watch you to learn. I think this video especially will be interesting to them to see what you are all about. It’s been a great year to grow in your upcycling journey and I thank you for your inspiration! All the best in 2025! If you ever come to the Midwest US or to Ontario, I’m in for a thrifting trip!
Looking glam Catherine! I can’t believe it’s been a year since you made the shirt for your husband! This year flew by. I’m looking forward to another year of upcycling inspo. Happy New Year!
Love this review! I missed some videos so will go back to look for them! You can make the dolman sweater into a jacket with a couple buttons or a bolero. Im obsessed this week looking at people making bolero and shrugs from all kinds of material. Even a magic cutting refolding of a tshirt. Teen ideas on that. I have aquired a lot o bling type tshirts and was going to combine them to make a shrug or lightweight jacket maybe lined but the magic folding way puts the bling front as a sleeve and the back as another sleeve. Im trying one today. You can make a white tshirt bolero for your too bare sun dress. I have made a lot of the drawstring types where it gathers around neckline.
I've been watching you all year and have had the occasional thought that something you created may not be one you wear a lot. Funny to see your review that highlights those things that didn't work so well for you and find you picked the same items I did originally. In 55 years of sewing I too have had "woopsies" ... learning experiences that help improve your skills moving forward. Have a wonderful 2025, Catherine. Hugs from Australia. 😊
I’ve been sew inspired by you! I’ve made several items since I’ve been watching your videos. I made several gifts for family and friends. Thank you so much!
Maybe you could make a little top or cardi to wear over your beautiful rip off sundress? Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing your videos next year. From a sewist in UK. Xx
You had some very nice projects. I really like the camo bottom pants and the quilt patches integrated into the jeans and all of the jackets. Everything is very inspirational. Look forward to seeing you more for 2025!!
I love seeing this review of the past year - it's so fun to see them all again. I love that one with the spots so much. It's my favorite. You look great in everything; my favorite on you is hard to pick - maybe the swimsuit with the sheer skirt or the white denim/men's shirt skirt - you are so wonderfully creative!! Thank you for all the inspiration.
You inspired me so much that I had to try your plaid skirt. I was nervous about trying to make something like that, but you gave me the confidence to try. I was scared of my over locker, but i made the whole skirt with it. I now love to sew with it. I also made a tiered under skirt. I wear both together and have had so many lovely comments. Thank you for your wonderful enthusiasm and teaching. Your students are so privileged to have such an amazing, talented tutor. Happy 2025, I can't wait to see what you come up with.
You have so inspired me to look at my wardrobe with fresh eyes. I've converted soooo many tired long-sleeved shirts into summer faves by cutting the sleeves off and adding a contrasting turn-up cuff.
I really enjoy your videos! You have so much personality that comes across in such a positive and likable way. I want to ask you if you could do more with swimsuits and swimsuit knits. I seem to never have enough coverage on the top of my suits, and often end up layering a bandeau swim top underneath my suits to give me a little extra fabric around the armhole and to cover some cleavage. I would love to feel sufficiently skilled to add the fabric directly to the swimsuit and not need to fuss with a second layer. I’m sure you have other viewers that have similar issues and would love some coaching on making swimwear adjustments. I go to Mexico in March, so please don’t wait until summer!! Thanks, Catherine.
Love the review of 2024. So many wonderful garments. I appreciate your tips and tricks and love watching all your videos. Keep it up. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025! 🤗❤️
What a great review of all the projects that you shared with us this year!!! Somehow, I missed 2 or 3 of these. I'm excited to find the video about your bathing suit/separate dress pieces. I don't often wear a bathing suit (maybe once every two or three years?), but I love the idea of a cover-up that can also be a regular skirt. Looking back, I think the most magical make was the jacket/sweater piece. It's just so, so beautiful. I'm sorry that the lollipop pieces have proven difficult to keep felted onto the sweater, but the way that you edited two sweaters into a more fitted version of a cool, striped sweater and created a more fun, graphic version of another sweater just astonished me. So clever, so cool. And, although I don't wear jean jackets, I completely covet the one with the Brit bus on the back. Thanks, Catherine, for an amazing year.
You are very talented, Catherine. I love the knit skirt and sweater. I think I might have out in too many pounds to be able to get away with it, but I think I’ll try. You have a great imagination in up cycling..
I remember all of the original videos and your review of each item matches my thoughts on nearly all of them. I look forward to your 2025 videos - blessings to you and your family throughout the coming year😄🙏🏻👏🏼🎉🎊
Thanks, Katherine, I enjoyed your review very much, and noticed a couple of items I missed when originally aired, so I will go back and study those. I admire your honesty with revealing the projects which don't work out, and your determination to not waste fabric. I would like to see how you organise your stored fabric stash, if possible, please, as this is a problem I have, which you have probably solved brilliantly.
This was a fun video! I appreciate all the knowledge and wisdom you share and I have learned ao much from your videos. Did you make your blouse that you're wearing throughout? I love the color on you!
Great round-up Catherine! It reminded me of some ideas I would like to try myself so I added a few things for my 2025 plans. I love to thrift and re-make things (you would often find me in the larger-size section at the thrift store for that reason) and love your videos and ideas! Happy New Year from Nova Scotia!
Loved reviewing these projects. Fabulous. Happy New Year and look forward to more projects in 2025. You have inspired me so much to do things I never thought I would or could. Thank you Catherine
I had watched all your videos and enjoyed each one! Thanks for this one in review! I can't wait to see what you come up with in 2025. Keep up the great work.
Catherine I liked when you sew commercial pattern because you are young and dynamic and your choices are great. I made the stretched dress from mccalls it fits me ! So this year pls come up with some patterns that any average sewists could successfully make. Thanks for your videos
Best wishes for 2025.😊
Oh my dear lady, you have taught this ol dog some new tricks and I truly appreciate all of your inspiration. I had never sewn a garment before, I just 23:16 turned 65 and have lost a considerable amount of weight but couldn’t afford a new wardrobe. From your videos I learned how to downsize, it has been so much fun, so thank you so very much for all that you do, your students I really hope they know how fortunate they are to have you in their corner.
I just love your creativity. I am a sewer but also a quilter and last year I worked on lots of quilts but no garments. I do hope to change that this year. I have tons of fabrics and thrifted clothes to do upcycles. Not sure which of your upcycles is my favorite as so many of them are just amazing. I love what you do with the sweaters and should go thru my old sweaters and maybe do something with them. Some of my favorite clothes are upcycled thrifted clothes I remake. I am looking forward to what you make this year. I so wish I could have done the retreat in Seattle that looked like such fun and all the ladies were so creative.....I should go rewatch that one again!
Love you already after watching the other video "Making a small skirt fit my waist!". You've helped me to save my beautiful skirts...Thank you so much, Catherine.
A lovely review of your year! I have enjoyed watching and am inspired by your videos. Looking forward to 2025. Thanks, Catherine.
Thank you Catherine! You’re so creative and cheerful! I’ve enjoyed watching and being inspired by your videos for each of these makes! I’ll be excited to see what this next year brings!
I just discovered your channel. Wow, I’m ready to get busy thrifting and redesigning some of my own clothes. Thank you! Have the best 2025!
Really enjoyed your review. You have given me so many ideas for my class. I teach an active senior class and they love making old to new projects.
Question/suggestion: Would it be possible to get a video on turning the top part of a dress into just a shirt? In my head I think i know what I need to do, but at the same time I would love to see it before I try it.
I thought I would ask since you do both patterns, flips, and have a great teaching style.
Thank you in advance. 😊
Thank you for all the inspiring makes - as I watched the videos I keep going …that’s my favourite and then the next make …that’s my favourite 🤩 I think I have about 7 my favourite makes 🤣
Congratulations on a very creative year! I've found it very inspiring but I haven't had a chance to sew yet. But I won't let that stop me. 😊
I love your comment on "even though something looks like a fun project, make sure I can wear it." I have to remind myself of this all the time! Love the free people brand, I have to remind myself when I am looking at their clothes for inspo - remember my age, and the ages of the models wearing them! 😊😊. The other big one is to persevere and improve on my sewing skill set- sometimes alot of us try projects that are set up for disaster because we haven't mastered the certain skill for the project or have enough experience to know what to do if something goes wrong. I always look back on your videos for instructions on my sewing mishaps!!! Thank you !! Have a great New Year
Happy new year! And thanks for sharing your ideas and knowledge! Best wishes from Toronto. 😊🪡🇨🇦
Thanks! So glad to have you on board! And a big shout-out to Toronto!
I loved this review, loved the jacket from January!
Looking forward to more “how to videos” in 2025.
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Love your makes and the fact you do hide the things that didn’t quite work. Reminds me too be nicer to myself!
I’m not at all fashionable but I do enjoy watching you. The closures on sweater/cardigans are great. My kids are always cursing the open cardigan style everywhere! They know how to sew but they want me to do it. I probably will.
Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration! I love watching you create and sharing your thoughts as you work. I've learned many techniques from you. I'm working on a quilt for my daughter, but have been saving some items from my own closet that I think can be upcycled and I'll wear them again. Here's to a great 2024 with you and wishing you the best in 2025!
Really great projects! I love the maroon sweater with the scrappy knit sweater. I am currently a little chilly so that may figure into this a bit. I loved the little drab formerly drop vintage dress that you added a little bit of yellow or lighter color too, and the way that you did that just lightened it up and brightened it up so much. It was such a subtle difference but so big at the same time.
I loooooove every single video of yours! ❤ I learn so much and get inspired again to do some upcycle myself. I have a request for a video please: those pesky underwire bra wires that poke through. What is the best way to fix them, please?
You are just so talented and inspirational with your upcycling! Love watching your visions come to life!🎉🎉❤
Thanks so much! I’m so glad you enjoy it!
2024 was a stressful year for many of us in the US, and your wonderful videos have been a source of comfort and inspiration for me. Your warmth and enthusiasm come through every moment of every video. I continue to be amazed by your creativity, and appreciate that you are honest about your mishaps! Makes me feel better about mine😆 I look forward to watching you in 2025, and, since I will retire in June, I can finally spend some time on my own thrift flips. Happy New Year from Judy in Avon, Ohio.
It has really been a pleasure following you! Happy New Year🎉
I’ve not had the space to sew for several years but I can sew at my daughter’s and have made things for the grandchildren but mostly I’ve made tote bags for family and friends. The biggest drawback is putting everything away each day as I use the dining table. I’m working on the builder partner to make me a she shed to permanently set up my sewing machine and serger so I can try some of your thrifting make over ideas. Thirty years ago dropped waist loose dresses were in style and I used thrifted dresses to raise the gathers to the bust-line and make my own maternity smocks. Recently I’ve found that old table cloths are a good source for fabric for school play costumes.
Thanks for the reminders and fun ideas. Looking forward to your 2025 projects.
The bomber jacket would be 🔥🔥🔥with black T or turtleneck and black jeans/slacks!!!
The sweater that you said didn't work, I would cut the front making it into more of a jacket/cardigan. I think with it already open the arm movement wouldn't matter. LOL posted this before you mentioned how little you like cardigans that don't close. So maybe not.
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m very interested in thrifting and repurposing clothes but never know how to combine or edit. Your videos give me the ideas and motivation to try. Thank you so much. Here’s to an idea filled and thrifty 2025!🥂
Thank you for your videos. You are so positive and happy. I love thrifting and get inspired watching you transform something.
I’m so glad you popped up on my iPad last year.
You have inspired me to try so many new things with thrifted items.
I made a raglan, long sleeved T-shirt out of a jersey sheet which has become my favourite shirt.
I look forward to watching you in the new year.
Thank you from Winnipeg.
Oh, that's great! So glad to have you on board. Lots of love to Winnipeg!
Catherine, I loved seeing the year in review! Your inspirational projects and honesty about the ones that failed are what I love about your channel. I'm beyond grateful for the opportunity to meet you and the wonderful women who came to your retreat in Seattle. I'm excited for what projects 2025 will be upcycled and shared!
@@pamkellertomchick7199 Awww, thank you for such a sweet comment, Pamela!!
I watched most of the original videos, but you showed a couple of pieces in this video that I had not seen. I don't know why I missed those videos, but I'm glad I saw the garments in this review. I admire and envy your talent. I love watching your videos because you are so warm and friendly. God bless you in 2025!
Hello Catherine! I Love your Work! Specially the jackets! But also the other ideas. Best regards from Germany and best wishes for the next year, Andrea
It was a good year. I like the idea of reviewing at the end of the year. I think I will save a sample of each item I sew on my Bulletin board. Most of my items are given to others, I do have wallhangings planned for myself so it could be interesting. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Happy New Year Catherine. Thanks for all the education and smiles. You really are a Queen! 😊
@@QueenAmethyst55 Thank you, Queen!!
I love all of your videos - it was fun watching this review. Thank-you!
The blue and white March dress….how about a little light weight/sheer shrug or bolero with a small sleeve to tie in the front just under the bust….it would give some more coverage and let you wear the dress.
I just wanted to write and say thank you for all your wonderful videos, I just found you and I'm really enjoying your creations and great instructions!!
I absolutely love everything you do with up cycling clothes. Looking forward to 2025 to see what you do x❤
Fun recap of your video sewing projects; they were all so unique! I’m excited to see your new sewing room & new projects! Happy New Year blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌲
I wish I had you for Home Ec sewing as a budding fashionista. Your students must be so lucky! Happy New Year!
I thoroughly enjoyed your 2024 in review. You are wonderful to listen too and your clothes are stunning and so unique. All the best for 2025
I just can't wait your next projects for 2025 ! Happy new year !!! ❤
Love ALL the things you have created but my favorite is the mash up of the sweater with the jacket. I remember thinking at the beginning of that video that you may have gone off the rails with that. By the end I was a believer. When I saw you pull on the jacket for this video fell in love with it all over again. Very cool.
That sweater-jacket mashup was a wild ride, and I'm glad it worked out in the end!
Happy New Year, Catherine! And thank you so much for all your inspiring videos. I have now had loads of fun upcycling charity shop finds in fabulous fabrics, that I’d never considered before ❤
For your "naked" dress... How 'bout making a shrug from a men's T-shirt or from a mesh skirt? Lightweight + a bit more coverage. I'd be hesitant to try, but I'm sure you could do it! 😊
Love your ideas!! I bet your students are inspired seeing your makes!
Love your channel Catherine! Great recap on super projects🎉🎉🎉
It was fun putting this together!
Wow, Catherine! Huge congratulations on so many successful sewing projects in 2024! It was such fun to watch this video and have "oh, I remember that one" moments! Plus, I missed a couple, so can now easily check them out. Thank you! We learn so much from you, both around what works and what has room for improvement. Your joy of experimenting, sewing and upcycling, is contagious. Thanks for brightening our lives! Wishing you and yours the very best in 2025😊
Wonderful vid thank you! My favorite pieces were the leopard sleeveless top w black pants, so lovely and skimming; the sweater with tie bottom, what a wonderful winter piece to add special look to everyday warmth; and the jean jacket with little quilted squares, I would be obsessed too! Thank you for all your inspiration!
Thanks! Those are a few of my faves too!
Can you do a video showcasing what you students make I would love to see creative people and what they make. Thank you
This was a great review of your very creative year! I had watched every one of your videos. It's fun to see your wonderful (and some quirky) projects again!
Oh no! I love that scarves sweater, but you live and learn. Not everything works.
So true! It might not always work out but we always learn something!
I loved your recap. You have such talent.
Great review....looking forward to more.❤
Great wrap up! I have met a few young (teens & 20’s) sewists at my place of business and have recommended them to watch you to learn. I think this video especially will be interesting to them to see what you are all about. It’s been a great year to grow in your upcycling journey and I thank you for your inspiration! All the best in 2025! If you ever come to the Midwest US or to Ontario, I’m in for a thrifting trip!
I've learned so much from you in 2024. Thank you for all the inspirations. Happy new year!
My first video of yours. Love to thrift shop and upcycle my buys. You’ve given me wonderful ideas. And I’ve subscribed!
@@Army2Fire I’m so glad you found me! Happy to have you on board!
You inspire me!
Looking glam Catherine! I can’t believe it’s been a year since you made the shirt for your husband! This year flew by. I’m looking forward to another year of upcycling inspo. Happy New Year!
Free motion stitch those circles on the pink sweater. Go around and around to tack them down.
I thought the same thing ... free motion swirls on those dots.
Every time I watch i wish you had been my teacher.
You're great
I enjoy ALL of your videos! BTW, FYI, you look amazing in the rip curl dress.
I watched almost all of your videos for 2024
Enjoyed watching your review of 2024! I’ve been with you through most of them! Happy New Year!
Love this review! I missed some videos so will go back to look for them! You can make the dolman sweater into a jacket with a couple buttons or a bolero. Im obsessed this week looking at people making bolero and shrugs from all kinds of material. Even a magic cutting refolding of a tshirt. Teen ideas on that. I have aquired a lot o bling type tshirts and was going to combine them to make a shrug or lightweight jacket maybe lined but the magic folding way puts the bling front as a sleeve and the back as another sleeve. Im trying one today. You can make a white tshirt bolero for your too bare sun dress. I have made a lot of the drawstring types where it gathers around neckline.
What a fun video! You are so clever with your refashioning! Happy New Year!
I've been watching you all year and have had the occasional thought that something you created may not be one you wear a lot. Funny to see your review that highlights those things that didn't work so well for you and find you picked the same items I did originally. In 55 years of sewing I too have had "woopsies" ... learning experiences that help improve your skills moving forward. Have a wonderful 2025, Catherine. Hugs from Australia. 😊
Your blue and white bomber jacket would pair well with brown tones.
Enjoyed your review and hearing your thoughts. Thanks for the inspiration
Beautiful projects. I enjoy watching you create so many beauties. Happy Holidays to you.
I just realized I had not subscribed!!!!!!!!
Thank you for a year of great vlogs!
Absolutely amazing, fabulous makes. I love watching your videos. Your ingenuity is always very inspiring.
I’ve been sew inspired by you! I’ve made several items since I’ve been watching your videos. I made several gifts for family and friends. Thank you so much!
Maybe you could make a little top or cardi to wear over your beautiful rip off sundress? Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing your videos next year. From a sewist in UK. Xx
What a wonderful year of projects!! I can't wait to see what you do in 2025! Happy New Year!!
You had some very nice projects. I really like the camo bottom pants and the quilt patches integrated into the jeans and all of the jackets. Everything is very inspirational. Look forward to seeing you more for 2025!!
I love seeing this review of the past year - it's so fun to see them all again. I love that one with the spots so much. It's my favorite. You look great in everything; my favorite on you is hard to pick - maybe the swimsuit with the sheer skirt or the white denim/men's shirt skirt - you are so wonderfully creative!! Thank you for all the inspiration.
You inspired me so much that I had to try your plaid skirt. I was nervous about trying to make something like that, but you gave me the confidence to try. I was scared of my over locker, but i made the whole skirt with it. I now love to sew with it. I also made a tiered under skirt. I wear both together and have had so many lovely comments. Thank you for your wonderful enthusiasm and teaching. Your students are so privileged to have such an amazing, talented tutor. Happy 2025, I can't wait to see what you come up with.
@@lisawhite5072 Wow, Lisa! That’s amazing! Your lovely comment made my day! All the best to you in the new year 💕
💃💃..FANTASTIC..💃💃
You have so inspired me to look at my wardrobe with fresh eyes. I've converted soooo many tired long-sleeved shirts into summer faves by cutting the sleeves off and adding a contrasting turn-up cuff.
You are ALWAYS an inspiration. Happy New Year to you. I wish as h the very best for you.
So many awesome upcycles! ❤
I really enjoy your videos! You have so much personality that comes across in such a positive and likable way.
I want to ask you if you could do more with swimsuits and swimsuit knits. I seem to never have enough coverage on the top of my suits, and often end up layering a bandeau swim top underneath my suits to give me a little extra fabric around the armhole and to cover some cleavage. I would love to feel sufficiently skilled to add the fabric directly to the swimsuit and not need to fuss with a second layer. I’m sure you have other viewers that have similar issues and would love some coaching on making swimwear adjustments. I go to Mexico in March, so please don’t wait until summer!! Thanks, Catherine.
Love watching you! Your pace and voice are soothing!! And your skill and explanations are wonderful!!
Love the review of 2024. So many wonderful garments. I appreciate your tips and tricks and love watching all your videos. Keep it up. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025! 🤗❤️
What a great review of all the projects that you shared with us this year!!! Somehow, I missed 2 or 3 of these. I'm excited to find the video about your bathing suit/separate dress pieces. I don't often wear a bathing suit (maybe once every two or three years?), but I love the idea of a cover-up that can also be a regular skirt.
Looking back, I think the most magical make was the jacket/sweater piece. It's just so, so beautiful. I'm sorry that the lollipop pieces have proven difficult to keep felted onto the sweater, but the way that you edited two sweaters into a more fitted version of a cool, striped sweater and created a more fun, graphic version of another sweater just astonished me. So clever, so cool. And, although I don't wear jean jackets, I completely covet the one with the Brit bus on the back. Thanks, Catherine, for an amazing year.
You are very talented, Catherine. I love the knit skirt and sweater. I think I might have out in too many pounds to be able to get away with it, but I think I’ll try. You have a great imagination in up cycling..
Thank you for all the inspiration! I always learn something new. Happy New Year!
I remember all of the original videos and your review of each item matches my thoughts on nearly all of them.
I look forward to your 2025 videos - blessings to you and your family throughout the coming year😄🙏🏻👏🏼🎉🎊
Thanks, Katherine, I enjoyed your review very much, and noticed a couple of items I missed when originally aired, so I will go back and study those. I admire your honesty with revealing the projects which don't work out, and your determination to not waste fabric. I would like to see how you organise your stored fabric stash, if possible, please, as this is a problem I have, which you have probably solved brilliantly.
This was a fun video! I appreciate all the knowledge and wisdom you share and I have learned ao much from your videos. Did you make your blouse that you're wearing throughout? I love the color on you!
Thanks and all the very best to you also
that mosaic tile denim jacket is absolutely stunning. I would absolutely buy that if I saw it for sale somewhere.
I’ve been so inspired by your videos. I’ve picked up great tips and new techniques. Looking forward to 2025. Happy new year!
I recently thrifted a vintage 100% wool sweater made in Sweden. I love it!
It was fun to see all the great upcycles you made in 2024. Here's to more fun in 2025.
Happy New Year Catherine!!🎉🎉 ❤❤ ❤
Great round-up Catherine! It reminded me of some ideas I would like to try myself so I added a few things for my 2025 plans. I love to thrift and re-make things (you would often find me in the larger-size section at the thrift store for that reason) and love your videos and ideas! Happy New Year from Nova Scotia!
I loved the big kiss your husband gave you for his new flannel shirt. It was so ❤.
Loved reviewing these projects. Fabulous. Happy New Year and look forward to more projects in 2025. You have inspired me so much to do things I never thought I would or could. Thank you Catherine