Once upon a time I planted 200 tulip bulbs using the tossing method you described. Surprisingly, the local Squirrels replanted them in a much more natural design ... across the neighborhood.
How Lovely. Just Found your Channel. Find it very Relaxing. I've just come out of an abusive marriage of 34 years. Loved Sewing but always put aside my hobbies to support my ex husbands work n hobbies. Started sorting out my Sewing Corner. I have found Purpose and Motivation from watching your videos amidst this difficult time in my life and feel excited about starting one of your projects. Thank You. ❤
Always cut your thread on a slant it is easier to thread. I am enjoying this series if I was younger (I am 90) I might be tempted to stitch all 52 squares but I have 2 large quilts to quilt so I doubt I will have time to start anything new. Greetings from New Zealand all though I am from the North of England.
The idea of not making an actual practical piece for using is the thing I am fascinated by and enjoying my first foray into something purely creative at the age of 67!
It's so wonderful to watch a fellow stitcher rummage through her tins looking for a particular embellishment. I'm reminded that I'm not alone in my pack-rat, tin filling tendencies. :)
Your voice is so comforting as you stitch and share your thoughts about things. You make me feel like I'm sitting next to you stitching together! Love your work!!! Blessings to you . Minnesota USA
Must write something to make you laugh😂, 😂😂😂 stitching in a straight line isn’t as easy as I’ve never stitched…😂😂I can’t stop laughing. So I think I’ll rule lines… if I can rule straight… sounds silly, but you’ve got good sense of humour 🎉
I’m a 62 y/o Aussie & I pronounce it “APP-li-que” with the stress on the first syllable. I’ve only ever heard it pronounced like this, until now.😊 I do a lot of different sorts of traditional art, make miniatures, knit, read, make junk journals, glue books etc, & don’t really enjoy stitching….I thought….but here I am. I actually followed your tutorial & made myself a cloth pouch to keep the meditation scroll in that your other video (& you, of course) taught me how to make. I’m going to follow along for the 52 lessons, because so far I’m really surprising myself by enjoying it. Much of this is due to you being a really good teacher, I believe, so thank you very much! 💐 Renee.
As you can tell by today's date, I procrastinated do this one. I was sure it would not be gratifying. I just spent a delightful evening planning this out and stitching it. It might be one of my favorites even. I kept your title on mine, as it spoke of how balance is rewarding. I was only going to do the ones I thought I liked, but then I would loose the balance of the favs and so-so's in my journal. In the end I will have a new balance I guess.
A Facebook group is a great idea. I also wondered how people got the photos in the Facebook comments. I love the two little projects so far. Thank you so much.
We .say. App le Kay but spelt applique here in NZ, Funny when my grand was alive, I had to say it with a plum in my mouth ( I think you know what I mean) Lol. Love your teaching, brings fond memories of when we had to use what we had growing up and such beautiful crafts from cloth that would of otherwise been thrown away. Thank you for sharing your passion with us and sew sew resonates with me. Love this Prompt. Huge Hugs xox Hugs to your Pets xx
I love watching this and hope to try to do the same or something similar but different. I see a petri dish in a science project. Looking through a microscope when I was in school lol. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for another inspiring video. I have started my journal with monogami signatures. Alas I cannot share my work as I don’t do social media. Happy stitching
So lovely to have a ‘good thing’ to start the week. I’ve withdrawn from FB & Insta so sadly won’t be joining the group, but wanted to thank you for bringing a weekly dose of joy to a green valley in 🏴
I am memorized by your craft. After my current sewing project, I am going to try some of the stitches and patchwork scraps. Quilting would consume me. Besides I would make a quilt by hand, not machine. These smaller crafts are amazing and can be applied to other projects.
Thank you, exactly as you say, these little pieces can be made from scraps simply for the pleasure of making, or they can find a home in a larger project. ♥️
I love your videos and “wittering on”! I even caught myself talking about my bits and bobs the other day 😂 Thank you for introducing me to slow stitch.
Loved the cloth weave presentation …..yes to the dark and light twine…the Facebook Door Knock Knock….yes the humanness to look for patterns or balance…..love the biscornu as that is what I am working on in cross stitch (supreme stash buster of DMC)while taking in your work here…..Yes let’s work on BEAMING You to Us….yes to 12th Night the visit of The Magi…such FUN visiting with You this Monday Morning Coffee with You…..ps…..a button chase in England would be an exciting field trip
It has been such a pleasure to watch and listen to your videos Kathryn and I thoroughly enjoy what you call the 'wittering' as its as if you are in the house with me and that's lovely. Thank you for the care and consideration you take with your preparation and teaching and for so generously sharing your skills and experience with us. Vera
I finished the first project! I am like a little kid showing off there creation! The 2 cats BayMax and OSoPretty love it but Miss Emma our 1 year old German Shepherd just looked at it like Yeah SO??? My hubby is an awesome cheerleaderand never complains when I ask him to thread my needle! Anyway i sure hope my stitching improves beyond preschool level! Now for. Video 2! Yay! BALANCE.😊
So glad you post on Monday, kicks my week off in such a positive way. All I could think of while watching was phantom of the opera mask. Thank you so much for sharing
Another kiwi (NZer) inspired to join in from a hot and humid mid summer in our far north. Love your quiet mode of delivery and the wonderful little pearls of wisdom along the way. No way can I fast forward or I might miss one of them! I will be a tad late starting as I must be a good girl and finish off a 2023 project within a week.
Welcome 🤗 is it ok to call you kiwis? I asked an Aussie years ago (in the queue for Wimbledon tennis of all places) if it was ok to call those folk like that and she said it was fine... So now I am asking you on behalf of your country 😁
@@k3n.clothtales Hi, I am also a NZer from the Far North…. and it is absolutely fine to call us Kiwis. We do it ourselves and there are no derogatory connotations at all. I am 1/2 way through a rice bag which is how I found this lovely channel. I say app li que with a short ‘i’ but the kiwi tendency to give all syllables the same stress… 😊😊
Hi K3n, so lovely to find a reply in my rarely-used mail box address. We love to be called Kiwis and it is so much simpler than typing out the full term. Do not call an Aussie a Kiwi, or worse, a Kiwi an Aussie tho'! ETA I think Jo is right to use a capital when talking about NZers as Kiwis.@@k3n.clothtales
Hello from Murchison, near the top of the South Island of New Zealand. There's so many things I love about this Balance piece, but I especially like the eco-died fabric and the yin-yang seed stitching. I've made the woven project from last week. I will join your facebook group and post a pic. I say applique as the Americans do. And I found your cloth twine tutorial easy to follow. There's something rather special about the feeling of the finished twine. I'm looking forward to making a bowl with it. Thank you for the effort you go to in publishing a video each week. They are hugely inspirational and motivating. x
😂😂😂😂 my friend k3n the cloth whisperer with issues 😂😂..thank you for the laugh..(in an enduring way of course)...hay Kathryn I thought you might want to know that one of my chickens ran away from home today...I think it maybe an issue with the zucchini..not sure but it could be....the dog and hubby are very worried...silly thing she knows there are fox dens in the olive orchard down back...we shall see😢...life on a farm is full of issues my friend... Ps...I made Mr drink copious cups of tea in this heat of summer so I can tea die my opshop finds..it was a big pot...lots of tea...lol😅 Pps...the question of applicay...we here in Oz say it like the Americans, but we Aussies are fine with it all ..it dosnt matter what side of the toast your bread is buttered as long as it's butter 😂
Oh no, I hope your chook (believe that is the correct Aussie lingo 😉) comes home to roost ☺️ poor long suffering husbands who have to put up with us weird arty types 😂❤️
@k3n.clothtales FYI.....the chook did not come home to roost but filled the belly of foxy loxy....dog got a stern talking to and now is on gard duty...I always say why bark when you have a dog...lol....(dog better bark or him and his master will be doing double duty..😂.
As I am hand stitching a small quilt for a baby I am watching/listening to you and thinking how it helps me not to worry so much about stitching pieces without a purpose. Your style is much enjoyed, by me at least, because you free up my thinking and be less analytical. On to my quilt!
Hi, Catherine from Australia, It’s pouring with rain here. It’s so totally unusual here as this time of the year it’s 35-40 degrees Celsius but we had the coolest Christmas for a very long time ( which has carried on for the last 2 weeks) 23 degrees with a light shower. However it’s perfect conditions for stitching while watching cricket ( a national past time). Mmmm maybe a slow mindful sport that not the world gets😂😂 My dogs love this time of the year as we are sitting a little more. Love your expressions and little wisdoms like ‘ you do you’. Actually being in your 60’s is very freeing. Embrace, as if you feel young at heart you are. Thankyou again for your generosity.
Hello, ah yes, watching cricket, I have never really got the bug, people in England also listen to it on the radio, or at least, they used to, not sure it's still a thing. 🤔😂 Tennis on the other hand, and I am right there! 😁 Thank you for your encouragement about being 60.. ❤
Another lovely project for this week. Thank you !!! I love the two tone perimeter stitches that you did. And the fabrics and the twine..... well... I just love all of it. Unfortunately, the real world beckons and I won't be able to start until this evening or first thing tomorrow morning...... sigh. As far as the "word" for the week..... I would not limit yourself to one word. A phrase would be appropriate or a word or a couple of words..... whatever feels right to you !!!!
What is your Facebook group called? I am a subscriber I’ve made the pincushion and three quarters of the way through a scroll then I will make a book and attempt to catch up! I’ve always loved hand sewing it’s soothing and meditative to me. I find myself going back to 75 years of memories starting in Beachamwell Norfolk and ending in Whakapirau New Zealand. Keep up the great work xx
Hello lovely to hear you are enjoying the projects 😊 the FB group is called Slowstitch with k3n there's a link in the description under the video that will take you to it and I will let you in ❤️
Thank you. While you were doing the stitching you told about others who liked using the techniques for 'useful things'. F.e. bags ... then an idea entered my mind: I already have some bags I made, so I don't need another bag. But one of my bags is getting some thin spots, or even small holes ... I can use slowstitching to do some repair work! And while your video was going on I started doing that! Now I'll become a member of your FB group. Then I can show everything there AND on Instagram.
Good morning from New Zealand. I love your videos and have completed week one, and I am looking forward to starting week two. I'll make my paper signatures this week so I can stitch each piece in as I go, but the cover will take me some time as it's full on gardening here at the moment. Im a whittier also, usually to the dogs or any birds that follow me in the garden and my hens. I am looking forward to posting in the Facebook group.
I’m so happy to see this come up on Sunday night, I’ve been looking forward to it all week. Now I can do week 2 project, another page for my book. Thank you.
Loving your videos Kathryn. I’m new to stitching so I’m trying to build up a collection of cloth material. I would love if you can advice in tea dyeing technique as the videos I have found on the internet are a little contradictory of the use of salt and vinegar in the tea water. Thank you 😊
I will do tea dyeing soon, no vinegar, not necessary, it's an acid and there is enough acid in the tea. People have the idea that vinegar is a 'fixative' but it isn't. 😉Anyway, coming soon, promise 😁
I’m loving your videos Kathryn. I’ve had an iPad for years & never knew that you could zoom in to videos until you mentioned it. For my ageing eyes, eleven years older than yours, I’ll definitely be using this useful feature.
Perfect timing as I have just stitched my woven piece to page one of my journal. I love this week's 'darkness & light' theme ~ I look forward to making it, as well as making a piece of twisted cord. I have just requested to join your FB group. Ohh and btw we Aussies say appliquè like our American friends 😃
Oh boy, I changed my book to have removable fabric pages in the middle, I knew I would have issues. I was afraid too. LOL. I really enjoyed doing this project. Thank you for all your inspiration you give us. This has been so fun, and different prompts each week is something to look forward to. Good luck on your button hunt. I always try to find the linen covered buttons and never find them.
Loved this really look forward to doing it, but travelling at moment and stopping at every op shop and buying materials as i go and helping the community as i go as well. My weaving piece is done by the same way. Thanks loving watching and listening to you. Cheers lyn from down under. Look forward to joining facebook when i can work it out lol.
I had a really bad night but woke to your calm voice and most enjoyable post ❤ which is very interesting on seeing dark and light ❤ it's beautiful thankyou wishing you a lovely day ❤❤
You mention trying stitches out on a certain scrap. yes to that, but I also find that when I first sit down it helps to just do some random stitching into a cloth I keep with my sewing. It loosens up my hands and mind; puts me into the rhythm of stitching. I also use this to practice a difficult stitch. Some day, I'll integrate these practice cloths into a project (or not).
I'm watching another channel all about slow stitching. Featherstitch House. I'm following along with your 2024 prompts and also watching Rebecca's beautiful videos for extra inspiration. Thank you for posting.
Gm Kathryn, I,m so thrilled following you. So I Think part two is very lovely. Indeed you don,t have fat fingers. Yes your fine🥰 And a facebook group would be nice.🙋🏻♀️
I am stitching and stitching, absolutely loving it AND getting better in my running stitch. I have a friend with long blond hair and she twines her hair as you do the thread and it works beautifully! So….on to seed stitches now😊🍀💖
I looked forward to my 50th birthday so I could brag that I’ve survived half a century which I feel is a huge achievement. At 52, I still tell my children and students with somewhat of an air of smugness that I have half a century of experience. I don’t know how I will feel when I get to 60 (knock on wood), but I’m leaning in the direction of becoming even more insufferably smug and obnoxious to my children because I feel as though I have earned it.
@@k3n.clothtales Absolutely, I feel that it takes a warrior’s spirit and a bit of luck to live over 50 years, and I hope I’m not the only one who thinks so :)
Moved house, no WiFi, lots of whimpering as mobile data was rashoned for growed-up stuff 😭😭😭. Broadband installed all is right with World, get my k3n fix, hope I don't get a row coz my homework is 2 weeks late 😱😂. 👋🏼🏴
I'm excited to have week 2 up on our Sunday evening. I just finished inserting my woven piece in the journal. I hope we can have a Facebook group sometime in the future to make our community even richer.
Simply lovely. You have inspired myself, my sister and my mom. I am busy with a rice bag, mom has done a rice bag and my sister has made a cloth roll around a knitting Nancy. ❤
I love this light/dark/balance design. I've not tried seed stitch or couching yet so will work them in somehow. I have 3 major projects that I absolutely must finish and once they're done, I can give myself wholeheartedly to the slow stitch. I can't wait!
I've found your videos after Christmas and jumped right in! Ive made the week 1 weaving, and my goodness, i never realized how rusty i am. Its been 6 months since I've slow stitched and my community looks very rough!! But im going to continue on! Thank you Katherin
Well now, what I've noticed in particular is how your channel is going viral! Just a week ago I thought it was 17K (maybe I am mistaken). Hats off to your efforts. I am enjoying the content + wittering immensely. BTW a question -- what is the difference between waffling and wittering? I agree that slow stitch means precision. Not easy to be precise and be fast at the same time. ❤
it has grown very quickly, not quite sure how, I am just 'doing me' 😁 to my mind, waffling is going on and on about the same thing over and over and wittering is aimless chatter about nothing in particular. Hence I think I mostly witter and occasionally waffle 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Doing you is definitely working. So many people work a year and post feverishly and they are enormously lucky if they hit 10K. So really you go girl!!! Also thanks for British slang translations. Very helpful!
That is just beautiful. I need to finish my Japanese rice pouch before I can allow myself to start this project, so will be running late; but can't wait.
Once upon a time I planted 200 tulip bulbs using the tossing method you described. Surprisingly, the local Squirrels replanted them in a much more natural design ... across the neighborhood.
😂😂😂
I’m so used to a touchscreen that I often use my fingers to enlarge something in a paper catalog.🤪
@@cindytenis7275 😂❤️❤️❤️
How Lovely. Just Found your Channel. Find it very Relaxing. I've just come out of an abusive marriage of 34 years. Loved Sewing but always put aside my hobbies to support my ex husbands work n hobbies. Started sorting out my Sewing Corner. I have found Purpose and Motivation from watching your videos amidst this difficult time in my life and feel excited about starting one of your projects. Thank You. ❤
My absolute pleasure, thank you so much I am so pleased you found me. Hugs 😊❤️
Always cut your thread on a slant it is easier to thread. I am enjoying this series if I was younger (I am 90) I might be tempted to stitch all 52 squares but I have 2 large quilts to quilt so I doubt I will have time to start anything new. Greetings from New Zealand all though I am from the North of England.
Thank you, I do do that. So lovely to have you watching fellow Northerner ❤️
I've just started rewatching some of your videos, Thank You for being a kind, calming presence to stitch with.
Catching up and loving it. 💖👍🧵🪡
Thank you Magda 😊
I just love your work.... I'm hooked ... mandii from South Africa ❤😂thank you soooo very much for allll the RUclips sharing
You are very welcome Mandii, I am so pleased you are enjoying the videos ♥️
The idea of not making an actual practical piece for using is the thing I am fascinated by and enjoying my first foray into something purely creative at the age of 67!
That's wonderful, there is real pleasure in making just for the joy of it ♥️
It's so wonderful to watch a fellow stitcher rummage through her tins looking for a particular embellishment. I'm reminded that I'm not alone in my pack-rat, tin filling tendencies. :)
😁 I never have enough tins 😉♥️
I think the fact that you are creating live is what makes your work such a brilliant teaching experience 👍
Thank you ♥️
Your voice is so comforting as you stitch and share your thoughts about things. You make me feel like I'm sitting next to you stitching together! Love your work!!! Blessings to you . Minnesota USA
We say it the same as the Americans here in Australia. 🇦🇺🙋🏼♀️
I am beginning to wonder if it's just me saying it wrong! Hope some other British people chime in 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Emma Jones from England on RUclips says it like you.
I fully understand the ‘big fat thumb’. It’s just a manner of speaking. Well understood by folk in the UK 😂
Thank you 👍😁
I love the sound of your needle and thread snapping through the fabric! It adds, for me, to the mindfulness of creating hand stitched pieces❤
I love the sound too ❤️
Must write something to make you laugh😂, 😂😂😂 stitching in a straight line isn’t as easy as I’ve never stitched…😂😂I can’t stop laughing. So I think I’ll rule lines… if I can rule straight… sounds silly, but you’ve got good sense of humour 🎉
If you want straight lines, you go ahead and draw lines, otherwise, embrace the wonkiness 😁❤️
Love watching and learning. Gives me peace. Thanks so much❤
I’m a 62 y/o Aussie & I pronounce it “APP-li-que” with the stress on the first syllable. I’ve only ever heard it pronounced like this, until now.😊
I do a lot of different sorts of traditional art, make miniatures, knit, read, make junk journals, glue books etc, & don’t really enjoy stitching….I thought….but here I am. I actually followed your tutorial & made myself a cloth pouch to keep the meditation scroll in that your other video (& you, of course) taught me how to make. I’m going to follow along for the 52 lessons, because so far I’m really surprising myself by enjoying it. Much of this is due to you being a really good teacher, I believe, so thank you very much! 💐 Renee.
Oh that's lovely to hear and thank you ☺️❤️
I am the same as you 😁
I’m Canadian but I’ve lived in Australia for so long that I pronounce it as ‘APP-li-que also ☺️
I am in Oz and l say applique the same as the US makes me giggle to hear the English way 😁😁
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As you can tell by today's date, I procrastinated do this one. I was sure it would not be gratifying. I just spent a delightful evening planning this out and stitching it. It might be one of my favorites even. I kept your title on mine, as it spoke of how balance is rewarding. I was only going to do the ones I thought I liked, but then I would loose the balance of the favs and so-so's in my journal. In the end I will have a new balance I guess.
Hello Pam, it's funny how that often happens. Projects we procrastinate turn out to be the most enjoyable. I am so pleased you had fun ❤️
best way to start the week❤
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Funny thing is I had just zoomed in before you mentioned it. Makes it easier to see!
I was happy to learn about zooming myself, I hadn't thought of it until someone mentioned it. 😁❤️
Hello from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
A Facebook group is a great idea. I also wondered how people got the photos in the Facebook comments. I love the two little projects so far. Thank you so much.
My pleasure 😊
We .say. App le Kay but spelt applique here in NZ, Funny when my grand was alive, I had to say it with a plum in my mouth ( I think you know what I mean) Lol. Love your teaching,
brings fond memories of when we had to use what we had growing up and such beautiful crafts from cloth that would of otherwise been thrown away. Thank you for sharing your passion with us
and sew sew resonates with me. Love this Prompt. Huge Hugs xox Hugs to your Pets xx
Thank you 😊 yes I know the plum in the mouth thing 😂 will pass on the hugs to the furry ones 😉❤️
I love watching this and hope to try to do the same or something similar but different. I see a petri dish in a science project. Looking through a microscope when I was in school lol. Thank you for sharing with us.
My pleasure, microscopic images are wonderful inspiration ❤️
Thank you for another inspiring video. I have started my journal with monogami signatures. Alas I cannot share my work as I don’t do social media. Happy stitching
My pleasure, I have had a little play with that myself a while ago, must dig them out 😉❤️
what are monogamy signatures
What a lovely interpretation of balance. Thank you! We go with the accent on the A for Applique in sunny South Africa.
Yours in stitching 🌞
@@PatLightbody-em7go Momigami cloth from paper
@@AndreaChristie-r8o thank you ❤️ I am seriously beginning to think it's only me and I am mispronouncing appliqué 😂❤️
Last week was addictive and I made 3 LOL
Overachiever 😂❤
So lovely to have a ‘good thing’ to start the week. I’ve withdrawn from FB & Insta so sadly won’t be joining the group, but wanted to thank you for bringing a weekly dose of joy to a green valley in 🏴
Thank you, completely understand but lovely to see you here. Love Wales, lived in Pembrokeshire for a couple of years as a child ❤️
I am the same no social media, would be great to have a group somewhere else too for those avoiding Facebook…..but not sure where x
@@MrRainbowfairydust I did try to find other non FB possibilities as it's not my favourite either but couldn't really find another solution. 🤔❤️
Ooo. “Really awks…” I am so impressionable… my new favourite expression. 😁😁😁😁💕
Can I get you to say 'a-pleeee-kay' then?! 😂😂😂
I am memorized by your craft. After my current sewing project, I am going to try some of the stitches and patchwork scraps. Quilting would consume me. Besides I would make a quilt by hand, not machine. These smaller crafts are amazing and can be applied to other projects.
Thank you, exactly as you say, these little pieces can be made from scraps simply for the pleasure of making, or they can find a home in a larger project. ♥️
I love your videos and “wittering on”! I even caught myself talking about my bits and bobs the other day 😂 Thank you for introducing me to slow stitch.
My pleasure, happy I am also spreading the bits and bobs 😂❤️
Loved the cloth weave presentation …..yes to the dark and light twine…the Facebook Door Knock Knock….yes the humanness to look for patterns or balance…..love the biscornu as that is what I am working on in cross stitch (supreme stash buster of DMC)while taking in your work here…..Yes let’s work on BEAMING You to Us….yes to 12th Night the visit of The Magi…such FUN visiting with You this Monday Morning Coffee with You…..ps…..a button chase in England would be an exciting field trip
Lovely comment, thank you 😁 I will be sure to share the results of my button hunt 😂❤
It has been such a pleasure to watch and listen to your videos Kathryn and I thoroughly enjoy what you call the 'wittering' as its as if you are in the house with me and that's lovely. Thank you for the care and consideration you take with your preparation and teaching and for so generously sharing your skills and experience with us. Vera
So pleased you are enjoying Vera, hope you are doing ok ❤️
Beautiful book cloth ❤
Yes most of us Australians say it the American way, app-lique 😊
I finished the first project! I am like a little kid showing off there creation! The 2 cats BayMax and OSoPretty love it but Miss Emma our 1 year old German Shepherd just looked at it like Yeah SO??? My hubby is an awesome cheerleaderand never complains when I ask him to thread my needle!
Anyway i sure hope my stitching improves beyond preschool level! Now for. Video 2! Yay! BALANCE.😊
Love the sound of your little team of cheerleaders, and as for Miss Emma, well there's always one isn't there? 😂❤️❤️❤️
So glad you post on Monday, kicks my week off in such a positive way. All I could think of while watching was phantom of the opera mask. Thank you so much for sharing
Hrrrmmm (throat clearing) (now singing...) 'The phaaaaantom of the op-er-a is therrrre, insiiide your mind'! 😂❤
Another kiwi (NZer) inspired to join in from a hot and humid mid summer in our far north. Love your quiet mode of delivery and the wonderful little pearls of wisdom along the way. No way can I fast forward or I might miss one of them! I will be a tad late starting as I must be a good girl and finish off a 2023 project within a week.
Welcome 🤗 is it ok to call you kiwis? I asked an Aussie years ago (in the queue for Wimbledon tennis of all places) if it was ok to call those folk like that and she said it was fine... So now I am asking you on behalf of your country 😁
@@k3n.clothtales Hi, I am also a NZer from the Far North…. and it is absolutely fine to call us Kiwis. We do it ourselves and there are no derogatory connotations at all. I am 1/2 way through a rice bag which is how I found this lovely channel. I say app li que with a short ‘i’ but the kiwi tendency to give all syllables the same stress… 😊😊
@@jochalder-royle9130 good to know thank you ❤️
Hi K3n, so lovely to find a reply in my rarely-used mail box address. We love to be called Kiwis and it is so much simpler than typing out the full term. Do not call an Aussie a Kiwi, or worse, a Kiwi an Aussie tho'! ETA I think Jo is right to use a capital when talking about NZers as Kiwis.@@k3n.clothtales
Hello from Murchison, near the top of the South Island of New Zealand. There's so many things I love about this Balance piece, but I especially like the eco-died fabric and the yin-yang seed stitching. I've made the woven project from last week. I will join your facebook group and post a pic. I say applique as the Americans do. And I found your cloth twine tutorial easy to follow. There's something rather special about the feeling of the finished twine. I'm looking forward to making a bowl with it. Thank you for the effort you go to in publishing a video each week. They are hugely inspirational and motivating. x
Thank you so pleased you like the videos 😊 You're in the Murchison that's famous for the meteorite, right? 😊
😂😂😂😂 my friend k3n the cloth whisperer with issues 😂😂..thank you for the laugh..(in an enduring way of course)...hay Kathryn I thought you might want to know that one of my chickens ran away from home today...I think it maybe an issue with the zucchini..not sure but it could be....the dog and hubby are very worried...silly thing she knows there are fox dens in the olive orchard down back...we shall see😢...life on a farm is full of issues my friend...
Ps...I made Mr drink copious cups of tea in this heat of summer so I can tea die my opshop finds..it was a big pot...lots of tea...lol😅
Pps...the question of applicay...we here in Oz say it like the Americans, but we Aussies are fine with it all ..it dosnt matter what side of the toast your bread is buttered as long as it's butter 😂
Oh no, I hope your chook (believe that is the correct Aussie lingo 😉) comes home to roost ☺️ poor long suffering husbands who have to put up with us weird arty types 😂❤️
@k3n.clothtales FYI.....the chook did not come home to roost but filled the belly of foxy loxy....dog got a stern talking to and now is on gard duty...I always say why bark when you have a dog...lol....(dog better bark or him and his master will be doing double duty..😂.
Oh poor chook! 😔❤️
Thank you, I find your videos very soothing.😊
You’re welcome 😊
As I am hand stitching a small quilt for a baby I am watching/listening to you and thinking how it helps me not to worry so much about stitching pieces without a purpose. Your style is much enjoyed, by me at least, because you free up my thinking and be less analytical. On to my quilt!
Decided to use linen bag that my new linen sheets came in. I intend to cover it each week. Have completed week one. Hope to show you on fb
great idea Alison, will look out for you on FB ♥️
Hello an amazing channel 💖.
Started late completed Wk 1&2 . Hope to catch up.
Love the sayings: process not the final... just be U! 🙏
Hello and welcome 🤗
Looking forward to the next class…❤
Hi, Catherine from Australia,
It’s pouring with rain here. It’s so totally unusual here as this time of the year it’s 35-40 degrees Celsius but we had the coolest Christmas for a very long time ( which has carried on for the last 2 weeks) 23 degrees with a light shower. However it’s perfect conditions for stitching while watching cricket ( a national past time). Mmmm maybe a slow mindful sport that not the world gets😂😂
My dogs love this time of the year as we are sitting a little more.
Love your expressions and little wisdoms like ‘ you do you’.
Actually being in your 60’s is very freeing. Embrace, as if you feel young at heart you are.
Thankyou again for your generosity.
Hello, ah yes, watching cricket, I have never really got the bug, people in England also listen to it on the radio, or at least, they used to, not sure it's still a thing. 🤔😂 Tennis on the other hand, and I am right there! 😁 Thank you for your encouragement about being 60.. ❤
Another lovely project for this week. Thank you !!! I love the two tone perimeter stitches that you did. And the fabrics and the twine..... well... I just love all of it. Unfortunately, the real world beckons and I won't be able to start until this evening or first thing tomorrow morning...... sigh. As far as the "word" for the week..... I would not limit yourself to one word. A phrase would be appropriate or a word or a couple of words..... whatever feels right to you !!!!
I agree about the "word count" in the themes, @SusanMJB45 and @3n.clothtales. Go with the feeling as you work the piece or write the words.
@@katethompson2818 thank you both, you are of course absolutely right, no need to set ourselves limits 😊❤️
Thanks for the videos 😊 in Australia, I say applique with the stress on the 'app', like Americans
thank you, isn't it funny how some words have different pronunciations in different parts of the world? 😁♥️
Love ❤️
What is your Facebook group called? I am a subscriber I’ve made the pincushion and three quarters of the way through a scroll then I will make a book and attempt to catch up! I’ve always loved hand sewing it’s soothing and meditative to me. I find myself going back to 75 years of memories starting in Beachamwell Norfolk and ending in Whakapirau New Zealand. Keep up the great work xx
Hello lovely to hear you are enjoying the projects 😊 the FB group is called Slowstitch with k3n there's a link in the description under the video that will take you to it and I will let you in ❤️
Truly enjoying your videos 🥰
Glad you like them! ❤
I loved this page on the balance of darkness and light. Thank You!
You are so welcome! ❤
I like your concept of the circle/earth! I live in Canada so I say applique the French way.
thank you, I wonder if all English people say it like I do? Now I am wondering if it's only me and I have been saying it wrong all these years! 😂♥️
Really enjoying this project. I think I will use mine on blank cards or note books , for family gifts.
That's a great idea! ❤
Thank you. While you were doing the stitching you told about others who liked using the techniques for 'useful things'. F.e. bags ... then an idea entered my mind: I already have some bags I made, so I don't need another bag. But one of my bags is getting some thin spots, or even small holes ... I can use slowstitching to do some repair work! And while your video was going on I started doing that!
Now I'll become a member of your FB group. Then I can show everything there AND on Instagram.
Yes, perfect idea to use as mending patches ❤ I will get into visible mending at some point on here as it's something I do a lot ❤
Fiskars do scissor shareners. They do a great job
Good morning from New Zealand. I love your videos and have completed week one, and I am looking forward to starting week two. I'll make my paper signatures this week so I can stitch each piece in as I go, but the cover will take me some time as it's full on gardening here at the moment. Im a whittier also, usually to the dogs or any birds that follow me in the garden and my hens. I am looking forward to posting in the Facebook group.
Hello there! Yes I also talk to my animals and birds, seems slightly less crazy than talking to myself ❤😂
Just subscribed so catching up on your videos x
Welcome!!
I’m so happy to see this come up on Sunday night, I’ve been looking forward to it all week. Now I can do week 2 project, another page for my book. Thank you.
my pleasure, and you got it yesterday even though I only uploaded it today.. 😂 love the time difference thing, never gets old 😉♥️
Loving your videos Kathryn. I’m new to stitching so I’m trying to build up a collection of cloth material. I would love if you can advice in tea dyeing technique as the videos I have found on the internet are a little contradictory of the use of salt and vinegar in the tea water. Thank you 😊
I will do tea dyeing soon, no vinegar, not necessary, it's an acid and there is enough acid in the tea. People have the idea that vinegar is a 'fixative' but it isn't. 😉Anyway, coming soon, promise 😁
I’m really enjoying these topics , vids & the process of stitching slowly.
I’m loving your videos Kathryn. I’ve had an iPad for years & never knew that you could zoom in to videos until you mentioned it. For my ageing eyes, eleven years older than yours, I’ll definitely be using this useful feature.
Happy to pass it on, we're all learning from each other 😉❤️
Lowe you work, thank you❤
日本から見ています。古布が好きで小さな端切れも捨てられずにとってきました。貴方の方法は全ての布を生かしてくれそうです。
Hello and welcome, yes every little scrap has value ❤
Perfect timing as I have just stitched my woven piece to page one of my journal. I love this week's 'darkness & light' theme ~ I look forward to making it, as well as making a piece of twisted cord. I have just requested to join your FB group. Ohh and btw we Aussies say appliquè like our American friends 😃
I hope I have let you in 😉 people have been knocking on the 'door' all day, it's wonderful! ❤️
1965 was a good year. 😂 I‘m born in March🌷💐
Ha! you are waaaayyyy older than me, I wasn't born until June 😂❤
Oh boy, I changed my book to have removable fabric pages in the middle, I knew I would have issues. I was afraid too. LOL. I really enjoyed doing this project. Thank you for all your inspiration you give us. This has been so fun, and different prompts each week is something to look forward to. Good luck on your button hunt. I always try to find the linen covered buttons and never find them.
My pleasure, yes linen covered buttons are treasure indeed 😊
Loved this really look forward to doing it, but travelling at moment and stopping at every op shop and buying materials as i go and helping the community as i go as well. My weaving piece is done by the same way. Thanks loving watching and listening to you. Cheers lyn from down under. Look forward to joining facebook when i can work it out lol.
Hi again Lyn, happy travels ❤️
How wonderful your journey is! Your pieces will have so much meaning and memories!
I had a really bad night but woke to your calm voice and most enjoyable post ❤ which is very interesting on seeing dark and light ❤ it's beautiful thankyou wishing you a lovely day ❤❤
I am sorry you had a bad night, wishing you a lovely day to make up for it, hugs ❤️
Another wonderful video and great tutorial. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it ❤
You mention trying stitches out on a certain scrap. yes to that, but I also find that when I first sit down it helps to just do some random stitching into a cloth I keep with my sewing. It loosens up my hands and mind; puts me into the rhythm of stitching. I also use this to practice a difficult stitch. Some day, I'll integrate these practice cloths into a project (or not).
I use my stitch meditation scrolls for exactly that ♥️
I'm watching another channel all about slow stitching. Featherstitch House. I'm following along with your 2024 prompts and also watching Rebecca's beautiful videos for extra inspiration. Thank you for posting.
My pleasure and that is a lovely channel ❤
I love your work. I wish I had the time for this project. Maybe, after I'm done with this hand stiched quilt then I will pick this project up.
Thank you, it will still be here 😊 happy quilting ❤
That is just beautiful!!!
I never knew that you could zoom the video. Very helpful to see the details of the stitches . Such a beautiful and peaceful video.
Thank you ❤️
Thank you for your videos, regards Marg.
My pleasure Marg ❤️
60 is the new 40 😊
Beautiful!
Je viens de passer un moment merveilleux devant votre créativité. Merci pour ce partage.Haut Alpine d'adoption.
Merci à vous aussi ❤️
Gm Kathryn,
I,m so thrilled following you. So I Think part two is very lovely. Indeed you don,t have fat fingers. Yes your fine🥰
And a facebook group would be nice.🙋🏻♀️
Thank you Joke 😉❤️
I am stitching and stitching, absolutely loving it AND getting better in my running stitch. I have a friend with long blond hair and she twines her hair as you do the thread and it works beautifully! So….on to seed stitches now😊🍀💖
Hi Machteld, twining my hair, why didn't I think of that? I am going to try it 😄
@@k3n.clothtales haha yes you should!! It looked really cool. Let me know how it works out!💖🍀
I like your video’s,would like to start to sew like this.Thank you.
❤спасибо за ваши работы они все замечательное произведения искусства
My pleasure and thank you ❤
I looked forward to my 50th birthday so I could brag that I’ve survived half a century which I feel is a huge achievement. At 52, I still tell my children and students with somewhat of an air of smugness that I have half a century of experience. I don’t know how I will feel when I get to 60 (knock on wood), but I’m leaning in the direction of becoming even more insufferably smug and obnoxious to my children because I feel as though I have earned it.
😂 that's a fantastic outlook, love it, permission to adopt it myself? 😉
@@k3n.clothtales Absolutely, I feel that it takes a warrior’s spirit and a bit of luck to live over 50 years, and I hope I’m not the only one who thinks so :)
Moved house, no WiFi, lots of whimpering as mobile data was rashoned for growed-up stuff 😭😭😭. Broadband installed all is right with World, get my k3n fix, hope I don't get a row coz my homework is 2 weeks late 😱😂. 👋🏼🏴
You get a pass, I'll let you off just this once 😉❤️
🤭🤭🤭 @@k3n.clothtales
I'm excited to have week 2 up on our Sunday evening. I just finished inserting my woven piece in the journal. I hope we can have a Facebook group sometime in the future to make our community even richer.
Yes! Thank you so much!!!
think I just let you in 😁♥️
Simply lovely. You have inspired myself, my sister and my mom. I am busy with a rice bag, mom has done a rice bag and my sister has made a cloth roll around a knitting Nancy. ❤
Thank you, so happy you have made it a family affair ❤️
I love this light/dark/balance design. I've not tried seed stitch or couching yet so will work them in somehow. I have 3 major projects that I absolutely must finish and once they're done, I can give myself wholeheartedly to the slow stitch. I can't wait!
This is a great piece. Thank you for leading us thru slow stitching. I just joined the fb group. It will be fun seeing others slow stitching work.
Thank you Judy, the FB group is already buzzing, it's lovely ❤
Light & Dark
Love and harmonious stitchery to you from Australia.
Thank-you for your beautiful videos.
Could you create a podcast of your videos please?
Hello thank you, I am not sure what a podcast is in this context? ❤️
I've found your videos after Christmas and jumped right in! Ive made the week 1 weaving, and my goodness, i never realized how rusty i am. Its been 6 months since I've slow stitched and my community looks very rough!! But im going to continue on! Thank you Katherin
And..I've discovered Marian's World because of you and she's just so wonderful ❤
Welcome lovely to hear I am helping to oil your stitching cogs 😁❤️
Hi, I’m keen to try this when I get time. In New Zealand we say APPlique with the emphasis on the App. I haven’t finished my woven piece yet.
Hello no rush, this is slowstitch after all. 😁 And no obligation to keep up or do every week 😊
I’m using my pieces to patch a blanket my dog has chewed holes in. I’ll end up with a lovely and terribly warm blanket!
Oh just like my naughty Stella 😂
Well now, what I've noticed in particular is how your channel is going viral! Just a week ago I thought it was 17K (maybe I am mistaken). Hats off to your efforts. I am enjoying the content + wittering immensely. BTW a question -- what is the difference between waffling and wittering? I agree that slow stitch means precision. Not easy to be precise and be fast at the same time. ❤
it has grown very quickly, not quite sure how, I am just 'doing me' 😁 to my mind, waffling is going on and on about the same thing over and over and wittering is aimless chatter about nothing in particular. Hence I think I mostly witter and occasionally waffle 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Doing you is definitely working. So many people work a year and post feverishly and they are enormously lucky if they hit 10K. So really you go girl!!!
Also thanks for British slang translations. Very helpful!
Just found you on u tube, totally hooked. Thank you Jo
welcome and thank you ♥️
Love this!
I'm really enjoying the tutorials. I love the light and dark theme. ❤ 12.49
Thank you so happy you are enjoying them 😊
That is just beautiful. I need to finish my Japanese rice pouch before I can allow myself to start this project, so will be running late; but can't wait.
oh you are a serial stitcher... 😂 such discipline, kudos 💪😁❤️
Oh no. Very far from it. I always have multiple projects on the go in various crafts. But if I don't limit myself somehow, I'll never finish anything.
Stunning ❤🎉😊