It was fun to hear about your time in the Maritimes, especially since I am Canadian. I was taken to the eGreen Gables home as a child as well but only 5 years old. I did go back as an adult though as I just love the East Coast. Thank you again for your company as I stitched along on a Yule gift. ❤
Isn’t being able to produce such lovely textures with cloth and thread just wonderful! I loved the analogy of the back of the piece looking like the sands at the beach when the tide has gone out. The patterns on the beach at low tide are just fascinating ❤ thank you 🙏🏻❤️
This one is going to be so lovely to do...can't wait! I love the way your fluffy edge grew more wavy and uneven when you brought the gathers tight together in spots. I also love the way this could look like a tree trunk. Your stormy background made watching such a cozy time and Anne of Green Gables is one of my favorite book series. The kindred spirit aspect of this community is one of the most lovely parts of life for me right now. We are like a piece of gathered cloth and, in my soul, our gathering has created a warm, creative, place where I can always go to 'belong'. It is a place where not only do I feel close to others, but find myself feeling closer to my essence...the part that can create without judgement from my own inner critic...the part of me that gets to 'play' and explore and just be fully connected to the present moment. And I feel so, so fortunate to have this opportunity.
A beautiful lesson today, thank you. It also brought smocking to mind for me. As I stitch I will be thinking of my mother who used to make the sweetest little smocked dresses for the new baby girls that would come into her life. I still have the prettiest cornflower blue one she made for my daughter that matched her eyes perfectly. ❤
I've been away for 3 Mondays and my stitching has been otherwise directed. I'm going to have such a stitch-fest to catch up over the next week! Exciting!
A delightful episode Kathryn 👌 I have my stepdaughter visiting and out and about more so i am late to watch this episode. I laughed at the description of you being safety pinned into your cocoon camping!!!! 😂 looking forward to Wednesday's and especially part 2 on Friday although it will be Saturday until i get to watch it - never mind. Big love as always from Scotland ❤
Anne of Green Gables is my favorite book! I was thrilled to hear you mention it. The author is Lucy Maude Montgomery. An amazing Canadian writer who has captured the hearts of many. I miss my home and native land…oh Canada! 🍁 🧡🍁
We were rather poor when I grew up and my mother made some of my clothes. She did smocking on some of them. The smocking was not precise but it was beautiful, at least to me. So I was proud to wear her handiwork. I absolutely love your videos. Your chatting is very interesting and inspiring. I don't know how you do it. ❤
Your camping stories brought back many happy memories of my wonderful childhood camping with all seven of us in a tent. Lovely! Yes there are many of us kindred spirits. Going through the ebb and flow of this life together. That truly is meaningful. Have a blessed day.
That was so lovely! I opted to gather my fabric by stitching straight running stitches n/s and wavy lined running stitches e/w. The right 1.5” I didn’t gather but instead used larger seed stiches (which I did before any gathering) which created a really cute ruffle effect. I didn’t opt to do any top stitching on the gathers since there was a lot going on already. I used white, a light lime green, and two shades of purple threads and could see plenty of little specks of color so I left it as it was. I’m already intrigued to try different ways to gather and smock. I’m going to revisit this for sure in the future!
I always look forward to seeing your creations and listening to your stories! Thank you so much for taking time to share with those of us who gather around to enjoy you just being you!♥
I love this slow stitch project !!! Thank you as always.... As to naming storms. Here in the States, The Weather Channel (the big nationwide channel on cable TV) started naming winter storms about 10 years ago. The names are not used by the U.S. National Weather Service, but the media uses the names in many instances. The governmental National Hurricane Center names hurricanes and publishes an alphabetical list each year before the new hurricane season starts. Hurricanes have been named informally for centuries - using the names of the places the hurricane hit or a person's name. But the officlal and formal list of names for hurricanes was started in the 1950s. At first, the list was only of female first names, but was eventually changed to use both male and female first names that alternate on the list. The list changes each year and the names of major hurricanes are officially retired and never used again. But.... I don't know who named your current storm Bert. We are near the end of the hurricane name list for the year and there are no tropical storms in the Atlantic at the moment. So more research is needed 🙂 Research done... LOL. The UK Met Office names storms from September thru to the following August So September 2024 thru to August 2025. So that is how Bert got its name... I'm a weather geek if you can't tell... LOL
In a kind of stormy serendipity, I stitched along with you and Bert as a storm blew and gusted outside my house. No name for my storm except Bomb Cyclone. Talk about a kindred moment. But I chose a piece of my indigo dyed cotton because it's what I imagine the ocean looks like today. Thanks for another fun stitchy exploration. (And now I want to read Anne of Green Gables again.)
Oh, I can't wait to get home from work to try this! I received a beautifully smocked dress made by a woman in her late 80s/early 90s, for my first daughter. I have it still...a treasured hand made garment!
This is like smocking. I used to belong to a smocking guild and learned various stitches to work over the folds of the fabric. I had a smocked dress as a child. It was a popular type of clothing for children in the mid 1900’s in the US and Canada. I remember finding an iron on pattern amongst my mother’s sewing supplies but I used a smocking machine to gather my fabric. People would gather gingham fabric by hand because of the even pattern. Interesting technique. Thank you for all your inspiration!
S’mores is short for “some more” because if you eat one, you want more. They are made by smooshing a large, hot toasted marshmallow and a piece of Hershey’s chocolate bar between two pieces of graham cracker. I made them while camping with the Girl Scouts. Of course, then there is the “great” marshmallow toasting controversy. Do you take your time, holding the marshmallow the right distance from the campfire to get a golden brown crust and melted center, or do you let the marshmallow catch on fire, blow out the fire, and have a blackened marshmallow!
For those who haven’t had them, Graham crackers are a bit like British digestive biscuits, I think, only they are large thin rectangular shapes with perforations so that they may be broken in half or into 4 equal pieces.
I usually burned mine. I like the taste and the crunch 😂. I think it usually caught fire because I was busy talking to my friends, or I got absorbed in the ghost stories 😳☺️
Anne of Green Gables was one of my favourite stories as a girl. Yes it was set in a fictional town (Avonlea) in Prince Edward Island 💚🏡 PS thank you for another lovely video 💜
For the last couple of days I have had the lines from the old harvest hymn “Come ye thankful people come” playing in my head: “All is safely gathered in ‘ere the winter storms begin”. So with the wild wind blowing outside as you stitched on Sunday afternoon, gathering seemed particularly apt. As to memories from childhood, I agree it can be hard to tell. There are some things that I clearly used to remember when I was a child, from when I was tiny, but now some of them are more like a memory of a memory. A much-told family story takes on its own scenery and details in each person’s memory. A younger sibling or cousin remembers it all even though it happened before they were born. I don’t think it matters! Anyway, I am glad you are safe, warm and dry in your park home, while the winter storms come and go. ❤
No substitutions.........Graham cracker piece of Jersey Milk Chocolate and a roasted marshmallow. The hot marshmallow melts the chocolate to a messy yummy very sweet treat. Canadians are very firm on the correct method.LOL
I took an O-level in Needlework in about 1971 (UK), and one of the specific projects we were marked on was hand-smocking the chest area of a child’s dress. I have actually smocked relatively recently. Very satisfying and relaxing. Thank you for this more abstract idea. It’s lovely ❤ We also learned appleeeeque and broderie anglais. I loved it all.
Cozy stitching today with your "fireside " stories and the rain and wind blowing outside.❤ Marion did smocking. She is amazing as are you. I believe that smocking was done along the same lines..after gathering she did some stitching and added beads...I can't remember exactly??
Kathryn this is just perfect for this week. I am visiting family in Florida for Thanksgiving and as I walk along the beach I was gathering all sorts of finds and it came to me! A Song I used to sing at school for Thanksgiving…’ We Gather together to ask the Lord’s Blessings…’. So gathering as a theme is perfect for Thanksgiving week. Brilliant!
@@Dollylit1 That's really sweet, thank you. We don't have nationally orientated thanksgiving here but I do know of someone who has family to a thanksgiving dinner to celebrate family. Sounds like a good idea. Could have a thanksgiving dinner for friends as well. No rigid date, just when it works for everyone. UK. E♥️
Thank you for today, loved it as always. This piece reminded me of my Mother. Love anyone with her name (Miriam), but also the piece brought back memories of the early 50's when my Mother used to have a fitting for a boned corset. Your piece, early on, reminded me of the corset. I remember the first time I witnessed the fitting. The Corsetiere would visit Mum at home and I was astonished as a young girl to see such a thing taking place and her being laced into it. Thank you again.
When i was about 6 we went on our one and only camping trip. My brother broke his glasses and i caught the measles. We never went on another family trip. Instead we spent lots of summer vacations on the farm with our grandmother. I have no idea what our parents did.😂
Anne of Green Gables was my Mums favourite childhood book but I had never read it myself until recently when I found a special edition copy in a charity shop. I really enjoyed it and am now reading Anne of Avonlea 😊
I loved reading Anne of Green Gables! I've never been in PEI, I've never seen a frozen sea, but I've seen the Niagara Falls one very cold February and they were totally frozen. It was a magic sight, but what impressed me the most, was the total silence. Amazing indeed! Kathryn, what about if we call the process of gathering fabric "corrugation"? It sounds much better than the other word. You've made a lovely example of stitched corrugated cloth. Thank you Kathryn! ❤
I have been to Niagara Falls too but in summer. I remember they were very beautiful but mostly I remember swimming in the hotel pool after dark and having foot long chilli dogs afterwards. 😂 I was 9 or 10. However one of my favourite photos of my Dad is with me in front of the Falls. ❤️
Credit for the first usage of personal names for weather is generally given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named tropical cyclones and anticyclones between 1887 and 1907. Storm Bert, which was named by Ireland's Met Éireann on Thursday, is the second named storm of the 2024/25 season. The list of storm names is announced on 1 September each year and runs in alphabetical order, starting this season with Ashley, followed by Bert, then Conall, and later on possibly reaching as far as Izzy, Rafi and Tilly. Storms are named by the UK Met Office, Met Éireann or the Netherlands' KNMI when they are forecast to cause "medium" or "high" impacts.
S'mores are made with a graham cracker on the bottom and top. Inside is a marshmallow that you have roasted over the fire with a piece of chocolate placed on top of the hot marshmallow. If you're lucky the chocolate will melt a bit from the hot marshmallow.
I love this story! We lived for a few years on a mountain in Tennessee which got snow every year. My children were small and looked rather like starfish in their snow suits with that same inability to put their arms down. 😊 Sweet memories! I do love Anne of Green Gables; my middle name is Anne with an E so I have always felt a kinship with her. I devoured Lucy Maud Montgomery books when I was young. 😊. As for Sm‘ores, if you want to upgrade your s’mores game I highly recommend using a square of chocolate with Carmel such as Ghirardelli’s and placing that between the graham crackers and marshmallow. My sister does that and it‘s heavenly. ❤
Loving this. Thank you. And your stories of Canada and memories of your dad. With storm Bert in the background. My grandma was Elsie too. ❤ and I so often know what you mean, very companionable.
Small world! I grew up in Saint John New Brunswick. And my maternal grandparents lived in Charlottetown, PEI. And I learned to smock, made many smocked Christmas balls
@ no, I was living there until 1970, and not too far from the oil refinery, in East Saint John. Saint John was called Canada’s air conditioned city because of the fog in the summertime. Did you visit the City Market when you were there? They had a Sauerkraut Barrel there, and would talk about it on the radio, forecasting the weather by how much liquid was above the weight on top of the kraut when I was a child.
In my twenties I always had this fantasy of moving to Canada one day. Don’t know why, have never been there but it just seemed lovely with beautiful nature, kind people etc. A bit like your Bert😀 (storm) Bert definitely sounds very much like the opposite! Hope you stay warm, cosy and dry. This looks so lovely textured, yummy! I am now wondering ‘what if’ I make the stitches meandering / wonky on purpose….looking forward to trying that. 🍀💖💐🥰❤️
This piece reminds me of a gathered cuff of a blouse. Very elegant. My Moms name was Elsie so when you mentioned your granny it brought back memories for me.
Hiya K3n. I've just watched some footage of your storm Bert. Doesn't look good, flooding etc. Please stay out of harms way and stay safe. Deb, Adelaide, Australia. X
Such great conversation starters this week, many thanks 🙏. From S’mores (I’m in the UK: what exactly is a Graham cracker?) to Storm Bert (nobody in the whole world seems to know a ‘mean’ Albert/Bert) via camping on a cliff edge, along with Anne (with an E) of Green Gable fame added to the mix! I loved it all, including the stitched gathering guidelines…thanks a million K3N. I hope that you’re safe and sound after the storm
Hello Maria, it seems a Graham cracker is like a thinner digestive biscuit only rectangular. 😁 All fine here after the storm, a bit of tree damage around the edge of the park which they sorted out yesterday but nothing major. I hope you got through it ok. ❤️
Smores are made with a graham cracker broken in half, two squares of a Hershey chocolate bar, and a roasted marshmallow made into a sandwich. I agree with you on this storm thing, we had a "bomb cyclone" hit the western coast of the US last week, whatever that is. Either I was oblivious when I was younger or they are just making up crazy names for everything. This cloth gathering does remind me of smocking, my mother made dresses for me as a child with it, but I was never brave enough to try it on my daughter's dresses.
I love listening to your stories. They always remind me of stories of my own. We were campers. Every Summer holidays we traveled 300 miles to camp at Ngunguru in the empty section to my Aunty Margaret, Dad's sister. We had a big canvas tent which wasn't exactly waterproof if it rained hard. We slept on the same kind of stretchers you spoke of. We cooked on meths burners and had a tilly lantern hanging by the center pole. Ngunguru was a small seaside village in those days. My Uncle Ernie, Dad,'s brother, was the principal of the school there. My Nana lived in a cute little cottage on the sea front, in the same crescent of dusty unsealed road as the rest of our extended family. I had 7 cousins and lots of other children to play with. My cousin Brent and I would vanish off around the bays for the whole day or be out in the estuary fishing until Uncle Clack's piercing whistle called us home for tea. So many wonderful adventures were had. My maternal Nana taught me to smock. She made beautiful little blouses for my sister and me with stirring on the front. I loved the pretty patterns stitched into the gathers. I later smocked the front of my babies' first nighties. It was the fashion then to make long nighties for babies of both sees from lovely, soft, brushed cotton fabric. I also crocheted around the neckline and sleeves too.. Thank you for the memories. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand. ❤
Years ago we bought a clay wood burning fire stove for our garden. It was circular pot shaped with a large chimney and sat on iron legs. You could toast the perfect lovely, golden, gooey marshmallow on the coals. Great for S’mores. I’m in Northwestern Ontario now and spent many weekends over the years camping in a van and/or tents on different smaller lakes in the area or by boat or houseboat on islands in the larger lake. It’s quite common to swim and skate on the same lake here, lol. It’s especially lovely to skate on a lake that has frozen over when there has been a very, very hard frost overnight and no wind or snow. The ice is lovely and smooth. That doesn’t happen often tho and people usually flood an area of the lake to make a rink for skating. My mom and I read all the Anne books when I was young, we loved them. Love this piece Kathryn. Thanks for sharing.
I think they make those stoves here, people have them in their gardens, called chimineas or something like that? I loved skating, I had lessons as well while we lived the and I had some gorgeous blue suede ice skates. 😁❤️
@ I don’t know what they were called. Ours was made in Mexico and was like a giant clay bowl with a chimney. We left it out over a winter and it cracked and broke😢 My daughter uses the iron base to hold the inside of a clothes dryer for her outdoor fire pit😁
Oh, dear Anne with an E. One of my favorites. To this day I will read through the series to put life back into perspective. Yes, Prince Edward Island was the setting, loosely based on Lucy Maud Montgomery life as a young girl. I had a dear friend on PEI, Elenore, sadly she passed while on a trip to New Zealand. 😔. I always wanted to go visit the island, and almost did one year, Elenore offered to put me up, but it was not to be. Interesting stitching. I like it. Good, and happy thoughts to you. 🙂
Oh loved this today, I the colours and textures were really beautiful. When you were talking about Canada I was dreaming and planning in my head… I so want to go very soon. ❤️
I do love how this came out! It was so wonderful to hear your stories of camping when you were younger. My family went yearly and i treasure those memories (including the week we went and it rained the entire time!) S'mores are made with what we call Graham Crackers. Which aren't really biscuits(cookies) and aren't really crackers either. I would say they are very plain sweetened cardboard. But better than cardboard. I love them. especially plain, or with peanut butter, or with jam. Anyway. S'mores! S'mores are graham crackers, hershey's (I'm sorry) chocolate and toasted marshmallows all sandwiched together so that the chocolate melts. They are delightful. Have you ever had a Mallomar? Same idea but warm. This sort of stitching reminds me of Shibori dyeing. I mean, in the same way that it reminds me of smocking. Less precise than shibori but I have done some with stitches like this and the end result reminds me of wood grain or water. There are of course all sorts of classic shibori patterns to follow... but that is not for me most of the time.
I haven't had a Mallowmar but we have something called a Tunnocks Tea Cake which is a biscuit with marshmallow and covered in chocolate. And I have been told about 20 different kinds of chocolate for a smore with everyone saying theirs is the correct one 😂😂😂❤️
This is like smocking stitches to gather the tops of little girl dresses. But boho style ! Very popular to do 40 ? Years ago . I never see it anymore as everything is very casual now in clothing. Fun to watch .
Thank you again, Katherine. I do love your textured pieces. It reminds me of Jude Hill' s valleys and hills. My tension of hills and valleys needs much work but I keep at it. Love you.
Oh yes. In the 1940's we made treats with a saltine cracker and a melted marshmellow. Delicious! I like the sweet and salty much more than the very sweet s'more.
I spent weeks making a smocked dress for my six year old daughter. I thought it was so beautiful but she wasn’t impressed at all. In hindsight she probably thought she was too old to wear a smocked dress. Christmas was coming up and I thought it would be nice for her to wear the dress to have a photo with Father Christmas……Emily had other ideas….we came to an understanding- I paid her $2 to wear it for the photo. 😂😂😂 Little bugger. We still talk about “the dress” and she’s now 37. I am really looking forward to the journalling next year and seeing your journal on Friday. We don’t name our storms in Australia, just the cyclones and they are always named in alphabetical order.
A list of storm names is announced 1st sept each year. Storms are named by the UK met office,met Eireann or NetherlandsKNMI...when forecast to cause medium or high impacts.
I was born in the UK but came to Canada when very young. Smores are always seen when camping if campfires are allowed. You take two graham wafers, and some chocolate chips and put them on stand by. Then you put a marshmallow on a stick and brown it. Grab the marshmallow and make it into a sandwich with the wafers and shove the chocolate chips in too. All the inside will melt and be gooey. This is how Canadians get tough - by shoving the whole thing in your mouth and screaming in pain as the boiling hot marshmallow and melted chocolate smears the inside of your mouth. Don't worry, you will get a callous on the roof of the mouth and then you will be a true Canadian.
Your thoughts on names makes me think of the fact that it can be very difficult for elementary teachers to name their children. Thankfully, I had my son before I started teaching!
I really like this and look forward to doing mine. I love the sound of storms, the wild wind. We are in a heat wave at the moment, 29c today, 31c tomorrow, 35c on Wed and then thunderstorms apparently. I love anything Anne of Green Gables. I also quite enjoyed Anne with an E even though I was sure I wouldn’t like it.
I saw Lucy Maud Montgomery’s home on PEI. So lovely. And Nova Scotia. I’d love to go back too. Love your stories. Reminds me of my own camping fiasco’s. I will be gathering at the hospital again today. William is much better but they want to make certain the fracture doesn’t turn into a break. Love the project today.
@@k3n.clothtalesmy favourite Lucy Maud is "a Tangled Web" 😅hilarious my mom, who was born in 1921, had hardcover copies if all her books. We read them over and over again. No TV.
smores in the Midwest of America: Graham cracker squares A layer of chocolate and a fat marshmallow that was semi melted over a campfire on a stick. Terribly messy , and sweet, and yummo! 😋
A "correct" s'more (from the phrase, "I want some more.") consists of a Honey Made graham cracker broken in 1/2 to make 2 squares, about 3" pieces, 2 sections of Hershey's chocolate -- it must be Hersheys because a) it's cheap and b) it melts at a low heat -- and a marshmallow that's been roasted brown all over to perfection, not burned and not raw! You build the treat like a sandwich with a cracker & the chocolate, add the marshmallow while it's still hot and squeeze the lot together with the other 1/2 of the cracker so the chocolate melts and it all gushes out the sides and makes a sticky mess. The mess is part of the fun. Okay, once you have the correct, traditional treat, you can make variations, using Ghirardelli chocolate squares with peppermint or caramel is a favorite. But never, never let your brother cook the marshmallow. Even though he always tells you you're too little to be playing with sticks near the fire and you're sure to poke out an eye or burn yourself. He will ALWAYS burn it and your parents will insist that you use it and not waste it. Ask me how I know.....
Oh this takes me back: we tried smocking (or smoking as I spelt it 😂) and used gingham fabric as the base fabric to aid the evenness of stitches - somehow I still made a right mess of it.
I was in Canada last month and was pointed towards Gander, Newfoundland where 6,500 airline passengers were forced to land on 9/11 instead of landing in New York as planned. The gathering theme was taken to extremes for those five days and the people of Newfoundland rose to the challenge of hospitality like champions. There's a musical about it called "Come From Away" and a documentary about the musical called "You are Here". Both are worth a watch if you get the chance. Also, since "lovely, erudite, soothing conversation" takes the name of 'wittering' around these parts, how about we re-name "cleverly manipulating and readjusting lovely cloth" to something like 'fluffing' or 'fiddling'?
What you tell about camping: sleeping in a sleeping-bag in a tent on a campsite somewhere in nature ... That's my idea of 'being on holiday'. All holidays during my childhood were like that. And our tents were fairly small, we had air mattresses on the floor, the 'kitchen corner' was outside the tent (under an awning). Now I'm 68 I still love camping in a tent! I do not like hotels. If I can not go camping I rent a B&B-room or a hut/pod/ whatever they call the tiny one-room cabins.
In Australia cyclones were given only female names, this started in 1963-64, but in 1975 they started alternatively using a male name, it is given by our Bureau of Meteorology. Nice to hear your Granny was called Elsie, as I’m a Granny Elsie too.😊
When I was a child if we ate out we had to order something we would never have at home. No hamburgers and french fries. You take graham crackers, marshmallows and Heresy's chocolate, put the marshmallow on a stick to toast over the campfire. When it is toasted take the cracker with a piece of chocolate on it put the marshmallow on that and another cracker on top. Then EAT it. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Hello Kathryn - much quieter today, and the sun is shining. I hope your home escaped storm damage? That very close gathering has formed "fins ", similar in appearance to water filled radiators. A gilet made like that would be very bulky/heavy but would probably be very warm? The more I see your pretty hand stitched creations the more I admire the skills of those who made clothing and household linens by hand before mechanisation made their lives easier.. E❤
@@k3n.clothtales Now that's brought back memories of the British liberty bodice with its rubbery buttons. Must have been 1940s/50s, when I was in primary school. E♥️
This Canadian will share her Smores recipe - two biscuits, a piece of chocolate and a roasted marshmallow sandwiched between (the marshmallow and the chocolate). That's it! Simple and SOOOOOOO good
Oh Smores!!! My favorite food ever! And I am, what I consider to be, the world's best smore maker! It is a sandwich of sorts, made of Graham Crackers, one half hershey bar and a perfectly toasted marshmallow. The key is in getting the marshmallow just right. Marshmallows these days are jet puffed. So it's best to get the cheapest ones that aren't jet puffed. They roast perfectly. So when you roast them you need to do it very slowly at first so that they are perfectly heated and then you let them catch on fire for a bit. That way they are nice and crusty and full of carcinogens,😂 a small price to pay for the perfectly toasted marshmallow! Then you place your marshmallow in your prepared graham cracker and chocolate sandwich immediately so its warmth melts the chocolate a bit. Yum!!!
If it wasn't Albert maybe it could be Bertram? What would a Bertram be like? In my head Bertram would be exceptionally rich and probably snobby! I knew an Alberto from Puerto Rico when I was a teenager, he was a camp counselor at my summer camp! I hope you suffered no damage from Storm Bert! 💚
Bertram does sound quite posh to me too 😁 I am fine and so is my home, I have lots of leaves in the garden though the nearest trees are a few hundred yards away. The leaves came to me😂 none fit to ecoprint with though. 😂❤️
Today, there were quite a few references in your video that took me straight back to the time when I was working as a kindergarten teacher 😂. The first was the image of little children so bundled up, they could barely move. We used to call them "starfish-brigade" when we were going outside with a whole group of those bundles, because they looked like five-pointed stars with there short arms and legs sticking out. The second time was when you were talking about the names. I had such a hard time deciding on a name for my own children, because many were "ruined" for me. Not so much because I did not like the children, but more often because their parents were quite annoying and I did not want to have anything in common with them.
Storms were first named in US with female names in 1953 Men’s names added in 1978 In 2014 the Met office in Uk decided to give both male and female names. Names selected from public suggestions. Assigned in alphabetical order, but not QUXY or Z
Ex-meteorology technician here - I believe the naming of storms is quite recent, and was started in Holland (don’t quote me on this) Also, storm names are suggested by the public, and I think we alternate between English and Irish suggestions. Again, don’t quote me, I’ve been retired for 7 years and my memory has never been very good 🤔
Someone else said it started in Holland and someone put a link in the Facebook group to the met office where you can suggest names. I am seriously tempted to submit Stormy McStormface but I expect they have got wise to that game 😂❤️
My camping story: I fell asleep up against the side of the tent. It rained during the night, and I became a wick., awoke entirely wet! Also, on that first and only family camping experience, we ran out of food...my children suddenly became ravenous animals! 🤪⛺
Maybe storm Ernie is right behind it! (Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street lol). Originally hurricanes were named after women only due to their supposed unpredictability. Grr. Then they started with man names too in 1979. That’s the first hurricane I went through…hurricane david.
It was fun to hear about your time in the Maritimes, especially since I am Canadian. I was taken to the eGreen Gables home as a child as well but only 5 years old. I did go back as an adult though as I just love the East Coast. Thank you again for your company as I stitched along on a Yule gift. ❤
Isn’t being able to produce such lovely textures with cloth and thread just wonderful! I loved the analogy of the back of the piece looking like the sands at the beach when the tide has gone out. The patterns on the beach at low tide are just fascinating ❤ thank you 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you for showing us this interesting technique 😊 it is a lot like “wonky smocking”. I love it 🩷
I had to watch this video again..... I could listen to you all day with your stories❤❤❤❤
This one is going to be so lovely to do...can't wait! I love the way your fluffy edge grew more wavy and uneven when you brought the gathers tight together in spots. I also love the way this could look like a tree trunk. Your stormy background made watching such a cozy time and Anne of Green Gables is one of my favorite book series. The kindred spirit aspect of this community is one of the most lovely parts of life for me right now. We are like a piece of gathered cloth and, in my soul, our gathering has created a warm, creative, place where I can always go to 'belong'. It is a place where not only do I feel close to others, but find myself feeling closer to my essence...the part that can create without judgement from my own inner critic...the part of me that gets to 'play' and explore and just be fully connected to the present moment. And I feel so, so fortunate to have this opportunity.
Such beautiful words Candace and sums up how I feel here exactly ❤️
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A beautiful lesson today, thank you. It also brought smocking to mind for me. As I stitch I will be thinking of my mother who used to make the sweetest little smocked dresses for the new baby girls that would come into her life. I still have the prettiest cornflower blue one she made for my daughter that matched her eyes perfectly. ❤
I've been away for 3 Mondays and my stitching has been otherwise directed. I'm going to have such a stitch-fest to catch up over the next week! Exciting!
A delightful episode Kathryn 👌 I have my stepdaughter visiting and out and about more so i am late to watch this episode. I laughed at the description of you being safety pinned into your cocoon camping!!!! 😂 looking forward to Wednesday's and especially part 2 on Friday although it will be Saturday until i get to watch it - never mind. Big love as always from Scotland ❤
Anne of Green Gables is my favorite book! I was thrilled to hear you mention it. The author is Lucy Maude Montgomery. An amazing Canadian writer who has captured the hearts of many. I miss my home and native land…oh Canada! 🍁 🧡🍁
We were rather poor when I grew up and my mother made some of my clothes. She did smocking on some of them. The smocking was not precise but it was beautiful, at least to me. So I was proud to wear her handiwork. I absolutely love your videos. Your chatting is very interesting and inspiring. I don't know how you do it. ❤
Mine put smocking on my baby doll nightwear. I felt so proud of my mum then. Lol We weren't well off either. Xx
Your camping stories brought back many happy memories of my wonderful childhood camping with all seven of us in a tent. Lovely! Yes there are many of us kindred spirits. Going through the ebb and flow of this life together. That truly is meaningful. Have a blessed day.
That was so lovely!
I opted to gather my fabric by stitching straight running stitches n/s and wavy lined running stitches e/w. The right 1.5” I didn’t gather but instead used larger seed stiches (which I did before any gathering) which created a really cute ruffle effect. I didn’t opt to do any top stitching on the gathers since there was a lot going on already. I used white, a light lime green, and two shades of purple threads and could see plenty of little specks of color so I left it as it was.
I’m already intrigued to try different ways to gather and smock. I’m going to revisit this for sure in the future!
I always look forward to seeing your creations and listening to your stories! Thank you so much for taking time to share with those of us who gather around to enjoy you just being you!♥
I love this slow stitch project !!! Thank you as always.... As to naming storms. Here in the States, The Weather Channel (the big nationwide channel on cable TV) started naming winter storms about 10 years ago. The names are not used by the U.S. National Weather Service, but the media uses the names in many instances. The governmental National Hurricane Center names hurricanes and publishes an alphabetical list each year before the new hurricane season starts. Hurricanes have been named informally for centuries - using the names of the places the hurricane hit or a person's name. But the officlal and formal list of names for hurricanes was started in the 1950s. At first, the list was only of female first names, but was eventually changed to use both male and female first names that alternate on the list. The list changes each year and the names of major hurricanes are officially retired and never used again. But.... I don't know who named your current storm Bert. We are near the end of the hurricane name list for the year and there are no tropical storms in the Atlantic at the moment. So more research is needed 🙂 Research done... LOL. The UK Met Office names storms from September thru to the following August So September 2024 thru to August 2025. So that is how Bert got its name... I'm a weather geek if you can't tell... LOL
Thank you Susan and thank goodness for geeks 😁❤️
Atlantic storms have been being named, always alphabetically, since the 50's.
Gathered spirits. This week as family, friends, and kindred spirits gather for a meal giving thanks. Here in US. 🥧🦃🎶🙏🏻 Thank you, dear Kathryn. xo j
In a kind of stormy serendipity, I stitched along with you and Bert as a storm blew and gusted outside my house. No name for my storm except Bomb Cyclone. Talk about a kindred moment. But I chose a piece of my indigo dyed cotton because it's what I imagine the ocean looks like today. Thanks for another fun stitchy exploration. (And now I want to read Anne of Green Gables again.)
Anne of Greengables is my favorite book. I miss camping. I really enjoyed your camping stories.
Oh, I can't wait to get home from work to try this! I received a beautifully smocked dress made by a woman in her late 80s/early 90s, for my first daughter. I have it still...a treasured hand made garment!
This is like smocking. I used to belong to a smocking guild and learned various stitches to work over the folds of the fabric. I had a smocked dress as a child. It was a popular type of clothing for children in the mid 1900’s in the US and Canada. I remember finding an iron on pattern amongst my mother’s sewing supplies but I used a smocking machine to gather my fabric. People would gather gingham fabric by hand because of the even pattern. Interesting technique. Thank you for all your inspiration!
S’mores is short for “some more” because if you eat one, you want more. They are made by smooshing a large, hot toasted marshmallow and a piece of Hershey’s chocolate bar between two pieces of graham cracker. I made them while camping with the Girl Scouts. Of course, then there is the “great” marshmallow toasting controversy. Do you take your time, holding the marshmallow the right distance from the campfire to get a golden brown crust and melted center, or do you let the marshmallow catch on fire, blow out the fire, and have a blackened marshmallow!
Thank you Carol, I thought crackers were involved. I am a gentle toaster of marshmallows with the occasional accidental catching on fire 😁❤️
Brings back yummy memories 😊
For those who haven’t had them, Graham crackers are a bit like British digestive biscuits, I think, only they are large thin rectangular shapes with perforations so that they may be broken in half or into 4 equal pieces.
I usually burned mine. I like the taste and the crunch 😂. I think it usually caught fire because I was busy talking to my friends, or I got absorbed in the ghost stories 😳☺️
@@k3n.clothtales me too, Kathryn me too.
Anne of Green Gables was one of my favourite stories as a girl. Yes it was set in a fictional town (Avonlea) in Prince Edward Island 💚🏡
PS thank you for another lovely video 💜
For the last couple of days I have had the lines from the old harvest hymn “Come ye thankful people come” playing in my head: “All is safely gathered in ‘ere the winter storms begin”. So with the wild wind blowing outside as you stitched on Sunday afternoon, gathering seemed particularly apt. As to memories from childhood, I agree it can be hard to tell. There are some things that I clearly used to remember when I was a child, from when I was tiny, but now some of them are more like a memory of a memory. A much-told family story takes on its own scenery and details in each person’s memory. A younger sibling or cousin remembers it all even though it happened before they were born. I don’t think it matters! Anyway, I am glad you are safe, warm and dry in your park home, while the winter storms come and go. ❤
I also had that hymn in my head ❤️
You do so many different things. I enjoy your flosstube program Thank you Kathryn. God Bless you Sue
No substitutions.........Graham cracker piece of Jersey Milk Chocolate and a roasted marshmallow. The hot marshmallow melts the chocolate to a messy yummy very sweet treat. Canadians are very firm on the correct method.LOL
Cadbury dairy milk chocolate bar. Sorry. Lol
Oh no, now I have started something 😂❤️
I took an O-level in Needlework in about 1971 (UK), and one of the specific projects we were marked on was hand-smocking the chest area of a child’s dress. I have actually smocked relatively recently. Very satisfying and relaxing. Thank you for this more abstract idea. It’s lovely ❤ We also learned appleeeeque and broderie anglais. I loved it all.
Cozy stitching today with your "fireside " stories and the rain and wind blowing outside.❤ Marion did smocking. She is amazing as are you. I believe that smocking was done along the same lines..after gathering she did some stitching and added beads...I can't remember exactly??
Just lovely! Thank you for talking about my country, Canada, I adore LM Montgomery ! PEI is so beautiful!
Kathryn this is just perfect for this week. I am visiting family in Florida for Thanksgiving and as I walk along the beach I was gathering all sorts of finds and it came to me! A Song I used to sing at school for Thanksgiving…’ We Gather together to ask the Lord’s Blessings…’. So gathering as a theme is perfect for Thanksgiving week. Brilliant!
@@Dollylit1 That's really sweet, thank you. We don't have nationally orientated thanksgiving here but I do know of someone who has family to a thanksgiving dinner to celebrate family. Sounds like a good idea. Could have a thanksgiving dinner for friends as well. No rigid date, just when it works for everyone. UK. E♥️
@@EileenSpeakmanyou can do a Friendsgiving dinner! It is lovely to gather loved ones around you x
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Thank you for today, loved it as always. This piece reminded me of my Mother. Love anyone with her name (Miriam), but also the piece brought back memories of the early 50's when my Mother used to have a fitting for a boned corset. Your piece, early on, reminded me of the corset. I remember the first time I witnessed the fitting. The Corsetiere would visit Mum at home and I was astonished as a young girl to see such a thing taking place and her being laced into it. Thank you again.
When i was about 6 we went on our one and only camping trip. My brother broke his glasses and i caught the measles. We never went on another family trip. Instead we spent lots of summer vacations on the farm with our grandmother. I have no idea what our parents did.😂
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Anne of Green Gables was my Mums favourite childhood book but I had never read it myself until recently when I found a special edition copy in a charity shop. I really enjoyed it and am now reading Anne of Avonlea 😊
Merci beaucoup K3n
Pour ce beau projet et j’adore vos histoires
Bye Bye ✋ Guylaine
Quebec Canada 🇨🇦
my dad was born in New Brunswick! Smores: graham crackers, chocolate (chips or chocolate bar pieces) and marshmellows...
I loved reading Anne of Green Gables! I've never been in PEI, I've never seen a frozen sea, but I've seen the Niagara Falls one very cold February and they were totally frozen. It was a magic sight, but what impressed me the most, was the total silence. Amazing indeed! Kathryn, what about if we call the process of gathering fabric "corrugation"? It sounds much better than the other word. You've made a lovely example of stitched corrugated cloth. Thank you Kathryn! ❤
I have been to Niagara Falls too but in summer. I remember they were very beautiful but mostly I remember swimming in the hotel pool after dark and having foot long chilli dogs afterwards. 😂 I was 9 or 10. However one of my favourite photos of my Dad is with me in front of the Falls. ❤️
Credit for the first usage of personal names for weather is generally given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named tropical cyclones and anticyclones between 1887 and 1907. Storm Bert, which was named by Ireland's Met Éireann on Thursday, is the second named storm of the 2024/25 season.
The list of storm names is announced on 1 September each year and runs in alphabetical order, starting this season with Ashley, followed by Bert, then Conall, and later on possibly reaching as far as Izzy, Rafi and Tilly.
Storms are named by the UK Met Office, Met Éireann or the Netherlands' KNMI when they are forecast to cause "medium" or "high" impacts.
Thank you, I am learning so much from you all ❤️
S'mores are made with a graham cracker on the bottom and top. Inside is a marshmallow that you have roasted over the fire with a piece of chocolate placed on top of the hot marshmallow. If you're lucky the chocolate will melt a bit from the hot marshmallow.
I love this story! We lived for a few years on a mountain in Tennessee which got snow every year. My children were small and looked rather like starfish in their snow suits with that same inability to put their arms down. 😊 Sweet memories! I do love Anne of Green Gables; my middle name is Anne with an E so I have always felt a kinship with her. I devoured Lucy Maud Montgomery books when I was young. 😊.
As for Sm‘ores, if you want to upgrade your s’mores game I highly recommend using a square of chocolate with Carmel such as Ghirardelli’s and placing that between the graham crackers and marshmallow. My sister does that and it‘s heavenly. ❤
Loving this. Thank you. And your stories of Canada and memories of your dad. With storm Bert in the background. My grandma was Elsie too. ❤ and I so often know what you mean, very companionable.
Small world! I grew up in Saint John New Brunswick. And my maternal grandparents lived in Charlottetown, PEI. And I learned to smock, made many smocked Christmas balls
I was there from 74 to 76, were we there at the same time? ❤️
@ no, I was living there until 1970, and not too far from the oil refinery, in East Saint John. Saint John was called Canada’s air conditioned city because of the fog in the summertime. Did you visit the City Market when you were there? They had a Sauerkraut Barrel there, and would talk about it on the radio, forecasting the weather by how much liquid was above the weight on top of the kraut when I was a child.
I don't remember, I will have to ask my mum. Shame we missed each other, it would have been funny if we had been there at the same time ❤️
I reread Anne of Green Gables last year - what a joy! Her positive attitude to everything is so inspiring.
In my twenties I always had this fantasy of moving to Canada one day. Don’t know why, have never been there but it just seemed lovely with beautiful nature, kind people etc. A bit like your Bert😀 (storm) Bert definitely sounds very much like the opposite! Hope you stay warm, cosy and dry. This looks so lovely textured, yummy! I am now wondering ‘what if’ I make the stitches meandering / wonky on purpose….looking forward to trying that. 🍀💖💐🥰❤️
Have fun meandering 😁❤️
This piece reminds me of a gathered cuff of a blouse. Very elegant. My Moms name was Elsie so when you mentioned your granny it brought back memories for me.
Beautiful true quote. So lovely, cant wait to try ❤
Hiya K3n. I've just watched some footage of your storm Bert. Doesn't look good, flooding etc. Please stay out of harms way and stay safe. Deb, Adelaide, Australia. X
Thank you Deb, we are fine here, my heart goes out to those less fortunate ❤️
Such great conversation starters this week, many thanks 🙏. From S’mores (I’m in the UK: what exactly is a Graham cracker?) to Storm Bert (nobody in the whole world seems to know a ‘mean’ Albert/Bert) via camping on a cliff edge, along with Anne (with an E) of Green Gable fame added to the mix! I loved it all, including the stitched gathering guidelines…thanks a million K3N. I hope that you’re safe and sound after the storm
Hello Maria, it seems a Graham cracker is like a thinner digestive biscuit only rectangular. 😁 All fine here after the storm, a bit of tree damage around the edge of the park which they sorted out yesterday but nothing major. I hope you got through it ok. ❤️
Smores are made with a graham cracker broken in half, two squares of a Hershey chocolate bar, and a roasted marshmallow made into a sandwich. I agree with you on this storm thing, we had a "bomb cyclone" hit the western coast of the US last week, whatever that is. Either I was oblivious when I was younger or they are just making up crazy names for everything. This cloth gathering does remind me of smocking, my mother made dresses for me as a child with it, but I was never brave enough to try it on my daughter's dresses.
I love listening to your stories. They always remind me of stories of my own. We were campers. Every Summer holidays we traveled 300 miles to camp at Ngunguru in the empty section to my Aunty Margaret, Dad's sister. We had a big canvas tent which wasn't exactly waterproof if it rained hard. We slept on the same kind of stretchers you spoke of. We cooked on meths burners and had a tilly lantern hanging by the center pole. Ngunguru was a small seaside village in those days. My Uncle Ernie, Dad,'s brother, was the principal of the school there. My Nana lived in a cute little cottage on the sea front, in the same crescent of dusty unsealed road as the rest of our extended family. I had 7 cousins and lots of other children to play with. My cousin Brent and I would vanish off around the bays for the whole day or be out in the estuary fishing until Uncle Clack's piercing whistle called us home for tea. So many wonderful adventures were had.
My maternal Nana taught me to smock. She made beautiful little blouses for my sister and me with stirring on the front. I loved the pretty patterns stitched into the gathers. I later smocked the front of my babies' first nighties. It was the fashion then to make long nighties for babies of both sees from lovely, soft, brushed cotton fabric. I also crocheted around the neckline and sleeves too.. Thank you for the memories. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand. ❤
Beautiful memories, I remember Tilly lamps too. Pumping to prime them and the gentle hiss as they burned ❤️
I used to do smocking all long time ❤😊
Your rant about storm names ❤😂❤ and Bert 😂😂😂
This has given me lots ideas, thankyou for a lovely relaxing video.
Years ago we bought a clay wood burning fire stove for our garden. It was circular pot shaped with a large chimney and sat on iron legs. You could toast the perfect lovely, golden, gooey marshmallow on the coals. Great for S’mores. I’m in Northwestern Ontario now and spent many weekends over the years camping in a van and/or tents on different smaller lakes in the area or by boat or houseboat on islands in the larger lake. It’s quite common to swim and skate on the same lake here, lol. It’s especially lovely to skate on a lake that has frozen over when there has been a very, very hard frost overnight and no wind or snow. The ice is lovely and smooth. That doesn’t happen often tho and people usually flood an area of the lake to make a rink for skating. My mom and I read all the Anne books when I was young, we loved them. Love this piece Kathryn. Thanks for sharing.
I think they make those stoves here, people have them in their gardens, called chimineas or something like that? I loved skating, I had lessons as well while we lived the and I had some gorgeous blue suede ice skates. 😁❤️
@ I don’t know what they were called. Ours was made in Mexico and was like a giant clay bowl with a chimney. We left it out over a winter and it cracked and broke😢 My daughter uses the iron base to hold the inside of a clothes dryer for her outdoor fire pit😁
Great idea for a firepit. I miss mine, I left it in France. We are not allowed fires here. ❤️
Oh, dear Anne with an E. One of my favorites. To this day I will read through the series to put life back into perspective. Yes, Prince Edward Island was the setting, loosely based on Lucy Maud Montgomery life as a young girl. I had a dear friend on PEI, Elenore, sadly she passed while on a trip to New Zealand. 😔. I always wanted to go visit the island, and almost did one year, Elenore offered to put me up, but it was not to be.
Interesting stitching. I like it. Good, and happy thoughts to you. 🙂
I am so sorry about your friend. I am watching Anne With an E and enjoying it, it makes me want to go back to PEI too and see it properly. ❤️
Thanks! It's beautiful!❤
Fabric Sculpting, maybe? Instead of the dreaded "M" word 😊
Yes, good word ❤️
I have no problems with manipulating cloth, but I think clothscaping may be an acceptable alternative term. 😊 xx
I like that term! Clothscaping!
Cloth scaping, love it ❤️
Oh loved this today, I the colours and textures were really beautiful.
When you were talking about Canada I was dreaming and planning in my head… I so want to go very soon. ❤️
Another beautiful piece. Looks liked what we call smocking. Love Tineke
Yes , very wonky freeform smocking 😁❤️
I do love how this came out! It was so wonderful to hear your stories of camping when you were younger. My family went yearly and i treasure those memories (including the week we went and it rained the entire time!) S'mores are made with what we call Graham Crackers. Which aren't really biscuits(cookies) and aren't really crackers either. I would say they are very plain sweetened cardboard. But better than cardboard. I love them. especially plain, or with peanut butter, or with jam. Anyway. S'mores! S'mores are graham crackers, hershey's (I'm sorry) chocolate and toasted marshmallows all sandwiched together so that the chocolate melts. They are delightful. Have you ever had a Mallomar? Same idea but warm. This sort of stitching reminds me of Shibori dyeing. I mean, in the same way that it reminds me of smocking. Less precise than shibori but I have done some with stitches like this and the end result reminds me of wood grain or water. There are of course all sorts of classic shibori patterns to follow... but that is not for me most of the time.
I haven't had a Mallowmar but we have something called a Tunnocks Tea Cake which is a biscuit with marshmallow and covered in chocolate. And I have been told about 20 different kinds of chocolate for a smore with everyone saying theirs is the correct one 😂😂😂❤️
@ ooooh! Yes a that sounds very similar to a mallomar. And oh good- I’m glad people have more sense than me about chocolate for their s’mores.
This is like smocking stitches to gather the tops of little girl dresses. But boho style ! Very popular to do 40 ? Years ago . I never see it anymore as everything is very casual now in clothing. Fun to watch .
Thank you again, Katherine. I do love your textured pieces. It reminds me of Jude Hill' s valleys and hills. My tension of hills and valleys needs much work but I keep at it. Love you.
Oh yes. In the 1940's we made treats with a saltine cracker and a melted marshmellow. Delicious! I like the sweet and salty much more than the very sweet s'more.
If you can you should definitely watch Anne With an E. It is wonderful!!
I have begun watching it, enjoying it so far 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Oh good! It gets even better!♥
I spent weeks making a smocked dress for my six year old daughter. I thought it was so beautiful but she wasn’t impressed at all. In hindsight she probably thought she was too old to wear a smocked dress. Christmas was coming up and I thought it would be nice for her to wear the dress to have a photo with Father Christmas……Emily had other ideas….we came to an understanding- I paid her $2 to wear it for the photo. 😂😂😂 Little bugger. We still talk about “the dress” and she’s now 37. I am really looking forward to the journalling next year and seeing your journal on Friday. We don’t name our storms in Australia, just the cyclones and they are always named in alphabetical order.
Oh how funny that you paid her to wear it 🤣 she sounds quite a character ❤️
Very interesting way of creating, thanks for sharing, I’ll definitely have fun trying this technique. 🧵🪡♥️
My sister-in-law introduced me to s'mores with Reese's peant butter cups.
That really made me laugh . . . I said the same . . . who on earth calls a STORM Bert ‼. . .
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That rain sounds fierce. Please take care.
Me encantó la idea,lo voy a aplicar gracias por compartir no tienes idea de cómo me gustan tus trabajos saludos desde Perú 🇵🇪
A list of storm names is announced 1st sept each year. Storms are named by the UK met office,met Eireann or NetherlandsKNMI...when forecast to cause medium or high impacts.
Thank you 😊
I was born in the UK but came to Canada when very young. Smores are always seen when camping if campfires are allowed. You take two graham wafers, and some chocolate chips and put them on stand by. Then you put a marshmallow on a stick and brown it. Grab the marshmallow and make it into a sandwich with the wafers and shove the chocolate chips in too. All the inside will melt and be gooey. This is how Canadians get tough - by shoving the whole thing in your mouth and screaming in pain as the boiling hot marshmallow and melted chocolate smears the inside of your mouth. Don't worry, you will get a callous on the roof of the mouth and then you will be a true Canadian.
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Your thoughts on names makes me think of the fact that it can be very difficult for elementary teachers to name their children. Thankfully, I had my son before I started teaching!
I have the type of basement you described…and in America, it’s called an English basement!
How funny! We don't really have basements here, older houses often have cellars though 😁😂
Oh yes we loved camping as children. I loved smores
My fabric was a bit short so once I gathered it there was not a lot of room to stitch, but what I did I loved ❤
I really like this and look forward to doing mine. I love the sound of storms, the wild wind. We are in a heat wave at the moment, 29c today, 31c tomorrow, 35c on Wed and then thunderstorms apparently. I love anything Anne of Green Gables. I also quite enjoyed Anne with an E even though I was sure I wouldn’t like it.
I watched the first episode last night, quite promising. I like Geraldine James. Lovely to have a new series to watch ❤️
I saw Lucy Maud Montgomery’s home on PEI. So lovely. And Nova Scotia. I’d love to go back too. Love your stories. Reminds me of my own camping fiasco’s.
I will be gathering at the hospital again today. William is much better but they want to make certain the fracture doesn’t turn into a break.
Love the project today.
I am sending you and him happy thoughts and healing wishes ❤️
@@k3n.clothtalesmy favourite Lucy Maud is "a Tangled Web" 😅hilarious my mom, who was born in 1921, had hardcover copies if all her books. We read them over and over again. No TV.
That's ME I'm a GATHER BIRD ( A CROW )
smores in the Midwest of America: Graham cracker squares A layer of chocolate and a fat marshmallow that was semi melted over a campfire on a stick. Terribly messy , and sweet, and yummo! 😋
Slap jack wonkie.😂 I love wonkie
A "correct" s'more (from the phrase, "I want some more.") consists of a Honey Made graham cracker broken in 1/2 to make 2 squares, about 3" pieces, 2 sections of Hershey's chocolate -- it must be Hersheys because a) it's cheap and b) it melts at a low heat -- and a marshmallow that's been roasted brown all over to perfection, not burned and not raw! You build the treat like a sandwich with a cracker & the chocolate, add the marshmallow while it's still hot and squeeze the lot together with the other 1/2 of the cracker so the chocolate melts and it all gushes out the sides and makes a sticky mess. The mess is part of the fun. Okay, once you have the correct, traditional treat, you can make variations, using Ghirardelli chocolate squares with peppermint or caramel is a favorite. But never, never let your brother cook the marshmallow. Even though he always tells you you're too little to be playing with sticks near the fire and you're sure to poke out an eye or burn yourself. He will ALWAYS burn it and your parents will insist that you use it and not waste it. Ask me how I know.....
I have been told so many variations on the chocolate you wouldn't believe. 😂❤️
Oh this takes me back: we tried smocking (or smoking as I spelt it 😂) and used gingham fabric as the base fabric to aid the evenness of stitches - somehow I still made a right mess of it.
I was in Canada last month and was pointed towards Gander, Newfoundland where 6,500 airline passengers were forced to land on 9/11 instead of landing in New York as planned. The gathering theme was taken to extremes for those five days and the people of Newfoundland rose to the challenge of hospitality like champions. There's a musical about it called "Come From Away" and a documentary about the musical called "You are Here". Both are worth a watch if you get the chance.
Also, since "lovely, erudite, soothing conversation" takes the name of 'wittering' around these parts, how about we re-name "cleverly manipulating and readjusting lovely cloth" to something like 'fluffing' or 'fiddling'?
I will look those up, thank you and yes to 'cloth fiddling ' 😁❤️
What you tell about camping: sleeping in a sleeping-bag in a tent on a campsite somewhere in nature ... That's my idea of 'being on holiday'. All holidays during my childhood were like that. And our tents were fairly small, we had air mattresses on the floor, the 'kitchen corner' was outside the tent (under an awning). Now I'm 68 I still love camping in a tent! I do not like hotels. If I can not go camping I rent a B&B-room or a hut/pod/ whatever they call the tiny one-room cabins.
As a teacher I had dreadful trouble agreeing which names to give our children, as I’d had some holy terrors in my classes 😂
In Australia cyclones were given only female names, this started in 1963-64, but in 1975 they started alternatively using a male name, it is given by our Bureau of Meteorology.
Nice to hear your Granny was called Elsie, as I’m a Granny Elsie too.😊
You are the Elsie I was thinking of when I mentioned it 😁❤️
My mom’s name was also Elsie as was her Aunts. Mom’s family is from New Brunswick Canada. Still have some very distant relatives there.
My swiss grandmother called Elsi and my yorkshire grandmother was called Lilly 🙂
When I was a child if we ate out we had to order something we would never have at home. No hamburgers and french fries. You take graham crackers, marshmallows and Heresy's chocolate, put the marshmallow on a stick to toast over the campfire. When it is toasted take the cracker with a piece of chocolate on it put the marshmallow on that and another cracker on top. Then EAT it. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Hello Kathryn - much quieter today, and the sun is shining. I hope your home escaped storm damage? That very close gathering has formed "fins ", similar in appearance to water filled radiators. A gilet made like that would be very bulky/heavy but would probably be very warm? The more I see your pretty hand stitched creations the more I admire the skills of those who made clothing and household linens by hand before mechanisation made their lives easier.. E❤
It would be very warm and possibly quite hard to move in, like my childhood snowsuit 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Now that's brought back memories of the British liberty bodice with its rubbery buttons. Must have been 1940s/50s, when I was in primary school. E♥️
This Canadian will share her Smores recipe - two biscuits, a piece of chocolate and a roasted marshmallow sandwiched between (the marshmallow and the chocolate). That's it! Simple and SOOOOOOO good
Oh Smores!!! My favorite food ever! And I am, what I consider to be, the world's best smore maker! It is a sandwich of sorts, made of Graham Crackers, one half hershey bar and a perfectly toasted marshmallow. The key is in getting the marshmallow just right. Marshmallows these days are jet puffed. So it's best to get the cheapest ones that aren't jet puffed. They roast perfectly. So when you roast them you need to do it very slowly at first so that they are perfectly heated and then you let them catch on fire for a bit. That way they are nice and crusty and full of carcinogens,😂 a small price to pay for the perfectly toasted marshmallow! Then you place your marshmallow in your prepared graham cracker and chocolate sandwich immediately so its warmth melts the chocolate a bit. Yum!!!
You make it sound like delicious haute cuisine. 😁 Actually I am sure it's much more delicious 😋❤️
If it wasn't Albert maybe it could be Bertram? What would a Bertram be like? In my head Bertram would be exceptionally rich and probably snobby! I knew an Alberto from Puerto Rico when I was a teenager, he was a camp counselor at my summer camp! I hope you suffered no damage from Storm Bert! 💚
Bertram does sound quite posh to me too 😁 I am fine and so is my home, I have lots of leaves in the garden though the nearest trees are a few hundred yards away. The leaves came to me😂 none fit to ecoprint with though. 😂❤️
Rich, snobby and a little bit silly… would that be Bertie Wooster perhaps…with a butler named Jeeves? 🤣
❤ TFS
Today, there were quite a few references in your video that took me straight back to the time when I was working as a kindergarten teacher 😂. The first was the image of little children so bundled up, they could barely move. We used to call them "starfish-brigade" when we were going outside with a whole group of those bundles, because they looked like five-pointed stars with there short arms and legs sticking out.
The second time was when you were talking about the names. I had such a hard time deciding on a name for my own children, because many were "ruined" for me. Not so much because I did not like the children, but more often because their parents were quite annoying and I did not want to have anything in common with them.
I am so pleased I am not the only one with the name thing 😉 love the starfish brigade 😂❤️
Storms were first named in US with female names in 1953
Men’s names added in 1978
In 2014 the Met office in Uk decided to give both male and female names.
Names selected from public suggestions.
Assigned in alphabetical order, but not QUXY or Z
How funny and a bit irritating that it began with female names 🙄 so it's only since 2014 in the UK. I wonder what the thinking is behind it. ❤️
Hurricanes mainly ??
Ex-meteorology technician here - I believe the naming of storms is quite recent, and was started in Holland (don’t quote me on this)
Also, storm names are suggested by the public, and I think we alternate between English and Irish suggestions. Again, don’t quote me, I’ve been retired for 7 years and my memory has never been very good 🤔
Someone else said it started in Holland and someone put a link in the Facebook group to the met office where you can suggest names. I am seriously tempted to submit Stormy McStormface but I expect they have got wise to that game 😂❤️
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I love your work and stories. I just received the kantha book you spoke about a few weeks ago. Like it.
My Joey pup is now doing a Stella ruff bc he’s hearing the wind on the video lol.
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My camping story: I fell asleep up against the side of the tent. It rained during the night, and I became a wick., awoke entirely wet! Also, on that first and only family camping experience, we ran out of food...my children suddenly became ravenous animals! 🤪⛺
Maybe storm Ernie is right behind it! (Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street lol).
Originally hurricanes were named after women only due to their supposed unpredictability. Grr. Then they started with man names too in 1979. That’s the first hurricane I went through…hurricane david.
Yes grr was my first thought when I heard that. Bert and Ernie, absolute legends 😁❤️
smores Graham Cracker, Hershey Chocolate square, and a toasted marshmallow,,,