Slowstitch 2024 - Week 22 - Comfort Cloth
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This week I talk about comfort and work with precious cloth that belonged to my Dad. Comfort makes me think of blankets so it seemed a good opportunity to explore the decorative possibilities of the blanket stitch. ❤️
Here's the link to the website I refer to featuring the interview with Takao Momiyama and his work with Boro, thank you Eva ❤️
fiberspace.se/...
Here is the playlist of all the videos in the series, including the two part tutorial for the stitch journal
• Weekly Slowstitch proj...
Tip me if you would like to support my work, I share bonus videos with my supporters, the latest bonus video shares the quilt I made with my Dad's shirts and hankies called the Crumbs of Comfort Cloth
ko-fi.com/k3nc...
I have a private Facebook group for my subscribers to share photos of their weekly slowstitch pieces and other items made following my tutorials.
www.facebook.c...
If you have a CZcams channel, and post about your pieces from this project, please tag me.
I hope some of you will stitch along with me. ♥️
I will do my best to upload the weekly video every Monday by 12pm GMT, rural French internet permitting 🤞
If you don't want to miss future videos, please subscribe and click the little bell to enable notifications.
Find me on social media
/ k3n.clothtales
/ k3nquilts
Thank you for watching, happy stitching! ❤️
#slowstitch #slowstitching #handstitching #blanketstitch #grief
Dear Katherine I am sewing a spool as a memorial for my all of the dogs and cats, goats, chickens, bunnies and geese I have loved and loved me back over my 80 years. My last dog, Jethro, died yesterday There will be no more. What will be is this spool with the names of all my beloveds stitched into it. Thank you so much for providing the creative inspiration I needed so very much at this time.
Vicki
What a lovely sentiment, Vicki. I hope you have great comfort in creating this scroll.
Vicki that is a wonderful memorial to honor your fur and feather babies that you have loved.❤
What a wonderful idea, my condolences on Jethro.
❤ I've wanted to do the same for years now. I'm 59 and know i won't be getting any more pets. My heart is full, and I will only foster for the remainder of my time. ❤
I'm so sorry for your loss, Vicki. I still miss our cat who died 20 years ago, and our dog-in-law who died in 2016, so your stitching a commemorative spool really speaks to me. I put photos of our two four-legged family members inside the little pocket we made a few weeks ago.
Hi K3N, I'm actually a man, and after hearing you talk about those "young women," I'd say you'd probably categorize me as more of a boy! 😅 I'm really glad you liked the Haiku. You've helped me through some interesting times over the past 5 weeks. I've been stitching away with your videos playing in the background, occasionally looking up when you prompt me to. I just wanted to give back a little something in recognition of your help and honesty.
EDIT* just saw you picked up on the tears/tears dichotomy. I try to add homonyms into my work. I feet myself and the reader will find the word they nead to read in the moment they read it. Hopefully changing in at different readings.
Your haiku was a very beautiful skilful piece of writing and a pleasure to read in the context of Kathryn’s sadness. The world’s sanity hangs on these generous kindnesses. Thank you.
Hello thank you so much, again. I hope I pronounced your name ok even though I changed your gender. 😁 Thank you so much again for the gift of the haiku 🙏❤️
@@consideredwhisper a beautiful way to put it ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Pronounced perfectly. Just added and edit after seeing the ending of the vid. xo
@@consideredwhisper What kind thing to say. You really made me smile.
❤love how we went from blanket to Shakespeare to looking for a contact lense and back to blanket stitch thank you 🌹
I am glad you like it, my strange brain 😂❤️
Hi K3N, I’m new to your channel and I’m hooked! Your voice and stories are so relaxing. You have inspired me to make a hand stitched journal book for my granddaughter. It will include all of her grandparents cloths and some of her baby clothes with short stories and poems. I love this idea!
Hello and welcome, that sounds like a lovely project ♥️
I love your stories. Edith Holden was reborn with junk journaling and her price soared with rare findings. I bought in her less expensive days and glad I did. Happy you got a deal.
I love comfort stitching. The wonkier the better.
Lovely is the loveliest word and you are truly lovely. ❤
Thank you Sandra, the Edith Holden was a gift so I am truly blessed ❤️
The term ‘junk’ journal is a bit pejorative, tho - as if it has no value. There’s such a lot of love and care that goes into the making of things that I wonder who gave it that name. Surely we can come up with a name more elevated and honoured! As Shakespeare has been mentioned today, it reminded me of this: his way of naming things that weren’t named before.
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown
The poet’s pen turns them to shapes
And gives to airy nothing
A local habitation
And a name.
Shakespeare
@@consideredwhisper but, when we say that word, everyone knows what it is. And they treasure it anyway.
@@consideredwhisper I know what you mean but the way I look at it is that the journal is made from 'junk', ie things that would otherwise be thrown away. Not that the journal itself is junk. I guess it has stuck because of the two Js. ♥️
Thank you again, Kathryn. Your videos are such a treat. I'm sure you make many people very happy with them. ❤
You are so welcome! 🤗
I LOVE this! Who would have thought that the humble blanket stitch could be so artistic.
Hope you have fun playing with it. ❤️
Kathryn, I love all the exercises we've done. Some have stretched me out of my comfort zone but that is a good thing.
I am so pleased you are enjoying them ♥️
Dear K3n, this is a lovely comforting stitching sample. I love knowing that you love Marmite (a comfort food for some of us). I grew up with Marmite. I believe it's rich in vitamin B and that's why we older people were fed Marmite when kids. I love it! My mom made the delicious blend of butter and Marmite and put it on noodles and grilled meats. Yum yum!! Thank you for your work and your words. ❤
Hello Vivian, I have just finished my breakfast of marmite on toast 😁 I love the idea of mixing it with butter and putting it on noodles, I am definitely going to try it ☺️
The Boro piece last week was my most favorite so far. I created a hole and mended it and wrote: mended but not fixed…to represent the loss I feel every day. Then this week’s Comfort piece really sang to me. Thank for giving my hands a way to express my heart right exactly at a previous time of year to me personally. Thank you in ways you may never know ❤
Hello Heather, thank you so much for being here, sending you much love ♥️
I LOVE this!!!
It‘s so nice to see what you are doing with your little finger and the thread. As I watched, I realized I was doing the same thing.😂
❤👋🏼🇩🇪
Thank you, I never realised until I started making these videos 😁😁
This reminds me of a dragons eye. With all the cells in place of the scales around the eye.
I am really enjoying reading all the things that people are seeing 😊❤️
Oh no, now I'm humming "Down Under"😊
This stitching is my favourite so far. Looks a bit like something you would see under a microscope. Fun.
Sorry for the earworm 😂❤️
I saw King Lear at The Minnack theatre in Cornwall. Open air carved into the side of the cliffs. So atmospheric. 🌻
How wonderful, I have been there but never seen a play there. It's a wonderful place ❤️
Hi Kathryn, this was such a lovely video to watch whilst waiting for my children and their off-spring to visit me for my 75th birthday. it was lovely hearing what you got up to in England, thanks for sharing. love Bella xx
Hello Bella and happy birthday, I hope you have a lovely time with your family ❤️
That’s such a lovely thing - a nucleus from which all things grow.
A beautiful way to put it. You have a real way with words ❤️
I love this stitching using blanket stitches. I will certainly use this. I love to darn too and use to darn my children's socks. My stepson , I am sure, use to make holes in his socks deliberately as his mates thought the darns were really cool. This was in the 1980s when he was a teen so I was very amused that anything I did was considered cool. I am so impressed by your knowledge of Shakespeare's plays. It's not a conversation I could have with anyone now my Dad has gone. He died two years ago, aged 98, so this September will be 100 years since he was born. He always had cotton hankies too and would sometimes knot the corners to cover my head if it got too hot when he had taken me with him cutting manuka for the coal range. My grandchildren are discusted by the idea of hankies.
I prefer vegemite to marmite and often have it on toast for breakfast. When I was at high school, I made vegemite, walnut, and lettuce sandwiches for lunch.
I find sitting stitching and listening to you in the evenings very calming and comfortable. Thank you so much.❤ Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Hello Jan, what lovely memories of your Dad. I am also impressed with a teenager thinking darned socks are cool 😁❤️
I also studied King Lear at A level. I saw Anthony Quinn as Lear.
One of my favourite quotes was, " her voice was ever soft, gentle and low. An excellent thing in woman", along with, "Out vile jelly" 😆
Oh yes love the vile jelly thing, there are some great stories about things going wrong when they used rubber eyes etc 😁♥️
Lots of horrible flu going round here and winter setting in so comfort food, comfort blankets and comfort stitching. Perfect. Hello Stella ❤
Oh I am sorry, stay well. Stella says hello back. ♥️
What a sweet sweet girl 💕. Thank you for sharing your talents and your knowledge 💕.
Thank YOU so much 🙏❤️
This is beautiful work! I really want to try this. Thank you for sharing. Blessings on you.
Thank you 😊
Thank you for the quote. Yesterday would have been my youngest daughter's 55th birthday. Sadly she died nearly 2 years ago. The family is getting together for a meal this afternoon. Our sorrow will be weighed with the comfort of being togther xx
I am so sorry for your loss, I wish you and your family comfort and peace in each other's company, much love ❤️❤️❤️
My deepest sympathy
God bless you and give you the comfort only He can give.
❤& hugs
I'm so sorry for your loss. A family meal to remember and celebrate her, while comforting each other sounds just right.
I just want to send my love and gentlest thoughts for you and your family
I lived in Wales for 3 years and I love the Cornish cream, which I have not found elsewhere. I am a cream first kind of gal😊
Hello, you seem to be in the majority, so far no one has agreed with me that it's jam first 🤣♥️
@@k3n.clothtalesI’m in Wales, and it’s always Jam first for me 🏴
@@del1336 yeay! 😁❤️
Thank you Katherine for sharing your life and loves with us all. You are such an inspiration ❤️
My pleasure ❤️
One more…Comfort weaving / darning, yes! InDutch I would say to that one person: Foei, stoute persoon! And to you i would say: big hug!💖🍀
Thank you Machteld, I am not sure of the Dutch words but get the gist. 😂❤️
Thank you, Katherine. This is a great exercise. I never thought of doing the blanket stitch on the flat. I have learned so much by watching your videos!
Thank you, I am so pleased you liked it ❤️
Barbara here from Kansas USA. I found you a few weeks ago. I used to embroidery and quilt over 20 years ago but haven’t been active with it for a long time. Iv’ve been trying the rice bags and am so happy to feel a needle in my hand again! I want to tell you that I greatly appreciate you and the way you teach. I was laughing the other night wondering if you ever sewed your project to your pajamas the way I just did. Thank you for all you share!
Hello Barbara, it's lovely to have you here. I have often sewn things to my skirt, never my pjs though 😂❤️
The center with different color behind is new & I'll use a lot, brilliant. Thank you
You're also the ONLY slow stitch "teacher" or rather demonstrator that I watch & share - because you're really true ART inspiration
Thank you so much, so sweet of you to say that ❤️
Thank you again for another inspiring piece. I am managing to keep up sometimes I finish on the day before but sometimes like last week finished on the same day ❤️I never had much stitching familiarity other than simple mending but I am loving this process.
Your Monday videos keep me grounded as we deal with my son’s illness.❤
It's my pleasure and much love to you and your son ♥️
Danke für das Video ❤. Ich mag den Stich sehr gerne. Das sieht immer super aus. Ich liebe Doc Martens Schuhe. Ich habe mir mit ca 18 meine ersten Doc Martens gekauft . Mittlerweile bin 52 und trage immer noch Doc Martens 😃
They are the most comfortable shoes, I hardly wear anything else. And so stylish, they go with everything. 😁❤️
Thank you for the beautiful discussions you give us. I pray for all that the comfort outweighs sorrows🙏🏻
Me encanta lo que haces, estoy aprendiendo! Muchas gracias ❤.
@@mariacristina9959 you are very welcome thank you ❤️
K3n I love listening to your stories, brings me a lot peace and comfort, loved your piece and the project.
My daughter Annika 21 years old also has a comfort blanket from baby, it was knitted by me, it goes with her everywhere, she takes it on every holiday including overseas, she doesn’t like it when I washed,😂, when you her telling the story I called her over, she had a good laugh 🤣 thank you for sharing more than just the stitching stuff ❤
I will tell Lily she's not the only one 😂❤️
I want Stella to come and stay with me, my heart melted when she was so cuddly with you ❤❤
I found this week hard and did unpick a couple of times because it was just so wrong. I have loved every week’s challenges so thank you for everyone of them ❤
My pleasure Carol, she loves her cuddles it's a shame I can't send her to you for a little holiday. Though she rolled in fox poo a couple of days ago and although she has had a thorough bath, it's lingering. 😂 Enjoy your stitching ❤️
Watching your demo with the blanket stitch on Monday, May 27, Memorial Day in the USA and I think how appropriate K3n you have chosen red, cream/white, and blue threads the color of our nation’s flag. I shall do the same and start stitching soon. Loved hearing your recap of your trip to England and your exhibition. Now I want to bake scones with clotted cream and rhubarb jam!
Happy Stitching, gayle in Minnesota.
Thank you Gayle, I did not know about Memorial Day but I am happy I chose the colours for you. I hope you enjoy your scones if you bake some. ❤️
omgosh!! I have to try it this way!! I do blanket stitch exactly opposite what you showed us!! Must Try!!!
If it works that way for you, it's fine. Of course it's possible that I am doing it 'wrong' 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales if so, please keep teaching us 'wrong'!! ;)
Hey k3n! I really love the organic shapes you've made with the blanket stitch! Looks like the undergound system of mushrooms. Made me think of the forest, where my grandpa went with me a lot.(He also had a hanky at his person all the time, carefully ironed by my grandma🙃) He used to explain the nature to me, the plants, the animals, the lichen, the mushrooms. I could listen to his stories forever, and I can still hear his voice sometimes, when walking through the woods.
Thank you for everything!
Helene
ps: tic tac toe is "boter, kaas en eieren" in Dutch.
My Dutch isn't perfect but I think that's butter, cheese and eggs? Yes I agree the stitching is like the fungal network. Have you read Susan Simard's book The Mother Tree and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake? If not I think you would enjoy them. ❤️
Ja, dat klopt!! I wil look into those books gladly. Thanks!
Thank you for another adventure in gentleness and stitching. 🙂 I really like using blanket stitch in this organic way, and even my first attempt is kind of cool. Will be it doing more, I'm sure because it's so interesting and engrossing and peaceful to do and to look at.
Pleased you enjoy it Kate, it is really meditative to do. ❤️
Loved the blanket stitch done like that will add it to my work thankyou.
I live in Cornwall but eat my scones Devon style - Cream first! ;)
Just plain weird, I am amazed they let you stay 😂❤️😂
Love this, I can think of so many ways to use it in my stitching, thank you for your videos, I'm really enjoying them 🙂 For the record I have my scones with cheese 😂
Just plain weird 😂 although I have cheese (preferably Lancashire or Wensleydale) with fruit cake so who am I to judge? 😁♥️
🤟 ....to think the humble blanket stitch can be used so creatively. .. Got there in the end, not as pretty 😅
Thank you for making embroidery accessible. Love the organic approach.
You’re welcome 😊
This stiching piece reminds me of the 'Grandmother Spider Woman'- folkore, with the webbing look.
Yes, it does look very webby 😁❤️
Beautiful
Love the little piece . I shall do one and add a couple of stump work insects. Thank you
That's a lovely idea 😊
Thank you Kathryn for all I am learning from you. Best wishes from Australia
Hiya nice to hear you had a good time in mother England sorry I missed it me & dates never seem to get on anyways enjoyed watching it on the iPad nice work you all maid thanks for showing I did the onion skins dying came out amazing tried with leaves Came out nice colours but leaves very faint But will try again .anyways hope ya well Peter Scotland & hope to catch up in October . Xx
Thank you Peter, it would be lovely to meet you in October if you can make it. I won't be there all the time as we don't have to steward but I will certainly let you all know when I will be in the gallery. ❤️ PS it's early in the year for leaves, works better later when the tannins are higher. 😉❤️
Love everything about this ❤❤❤
I think it is just great Thank you for your lovely work.
Finding much comfort in stitching away while spending time with you, albeit on a different project (I love blanket stitch variations, just working to finish a particular piece - one of my favourite variations is German knotted blanket stitch as it looks like people holding hands especially if you add a French knot for a head). If the Bard comes after you in your comments we’ve got your back as well as amazement (and here’s a handy little tip a friend shared with me when I had one unpleasant comment - YT has a handy little function called hide user from channel). Sending you much love as you navigate through your grief. Christine 💙🧵🪡
Thank you Christine, I will look out for that next time I have a nasty comment. Some people eh? Luckily it doesn't happen very often . Thank you so much for the love too, have a lovely day ❤️
This is a lovely piece I'll do mine tomorrow ,looking forward to it Vegemite is a flavour all on its own has quite a tang and you only need a scrape on your hot toast an Aussie invention sold to the USA and then bought back to Australia by a company in NSW we love it however thankyou once again for a great video best wishes to you 🙏
Thank you, I do believe you can get Vegemite in the UK, I will try it next time I am there. 😁❤️
Both my father and my mother used hankies. I kept my mother’s, because they wiped my tears, but I won’t keep my father’s (he still uses them), because they never wiped my tears. My father either gets indifferent or furious at my tears. And I don’t cry easily, or get sad easily, it’s not my nature, I’m a very positive person, but I had a few difficult moments in the last two years and I didn’t have a hankie to comfort me. Whenever I listen to you talk about your dad, I always think about my relationship with mine: it’s nice, as long as I’m not sad or feeling the need of comfort…
I love this way of doing blanket stitch. It always reminds me of a spider web, which I find amazing.
I loved to have seen Stella, she was looking at you so tenderly.
Sorry if I sounded a bit negative today. Love 🩷🩶❤️💜💙🤍💛♥️🤎💚🧡🩵
Not all dads are nice or what we need them to be, being truthful isn’t being negative. Take care and go steady
@@cathybrelza5055Thank you 🙏🏻💙
My dad wasn't a source of comfort either. It's hard, isn't it? He mellowed in his last years but it was a bit late by then.
Hear hear, I was very lucky 🙏❤️
I am sorry for that, I was very lucky. My Mum was and is less soft and it has taken me years to come to terms with that but she is the way she is. ❤️
Thank you for the chat and another project that holds a deeper meaning. 🩷
My pleasure Pam ♥️
so good to find some one who loves needle work and thread..thank you
That’s incredible! I loved seeing how the outfit was constructed.
LOVED this week. When I started with slow stitching I saw this stitch on pintrest and didn't realize what it was so I search for it using different words like spider web stitch etc. Its definitly a favorite and I love it around the button hole! As always, excellent lessom Kathryn! Thank you for much.
My pleasure Jayne, I am pleased you enjoyed it. Yes it's not obvious just by looking that it's done with blanket stitch. 😊❤️
King Lear, The Tempest, The Railway Children ("Daddy! My Daddy!" - always makes me tear up)... I've only just begun watching, and already I know this is going to be special... Three days later, my piece finished... Thank-you for another beautiful "session". I thoroughly enjoyed the process of using blanket stitch in an unfamilar way and will continue to explore it. That quote from The Tempest speaks so aptly to this week's prompt. May everyone feel comfort.
I hope you enjoyed the rest Jill ❤️
Hi Katherine, you are a beautiful down to earth "lady" - your'e no hypocrit😂 ❤
Thank you Christa ♥️
That was so much fun and freeing!! Thank you Kathryn. You are such a treat.❤
Thank you Michelle ❤️
Thank you, as ever. ❤🙏 Beautiful.
My pleasure Sandra ❤️
Challenges can be used for growth
It doesn’t need to be a negative ❤😊
Yes you are absolutely right ❤️
This, again, is a favourite for me. Loving all the random decision-making involved in shapes and directions. Good idea to make the shapes larger towards the finish, representing the diminishing of sadness and growing gratitude for our comforts. Each little space representing a sorrow or a comfort, weaving the fabric of life. Thank you, K3N.
Hello Ann, I love your words describing the changing of the spaces, so beautifully put. ❤️
Love this stitch and it’s organic development
I love this stitch pattern, it reminds me of the veining on leaves and simultaneously the eye of a parrot or other animals.
It's very versatile and expressive, I need to do it more. 😉❤️
I’ve never tried this way of doing blanket stitch but I’ve wanted to for a long time - I will give it ago! By the way, my husband who is 8th generation Tasmanian would be horrified by even the thought of Vegemite and marmite being the same. He says marmite is too sweet and won’t eat it 😉😘
Oh my, then Vegemite must be really salty! 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales - yes it is! I have not acquired a taste for either of them 🙃
I like the organic blanket stitch, it’s lovely. I have a couple of lovely blanket stories to tell one day ……xxx😊
I would love to hear them ♥️
I've not watched it through yet, but have to comment before i forget - iif you have the chance to read Richard Armour's Twisted Tales from Shakespeare it's absolutely howlingly funny and also very apt and wry in some places. He's not put in King Lear but he does have two of my favorites in there amidst a few others - Macbeth and Midsummer NIght's Dream. And you were right - I love this stitch and your takes on it ❤
I don't know that book, I will look it up thank you 😄
Hi Kathryn. Thank you so so much for being such an inspiration to all of us. I have just discovered you (I'm a Kate who is actually a Kathryn, spelt exactly the same way) and will be starting working through with you from now on. I have recently returned to slow stitching after many years away, and I just can't stop now that I've started. I've been so blessed by this community on CZcams - sharing my work as I evolve too. Sending blessings. Sincerely, Kate from Australia ❤
Hello Kate, I was also Kate at school as my best friend was Katherine (spelt wrong 😁) but only a couple of people still call me that. My Dad hated it when I was a teenager, if friends phoned and asked for Kate, he would say 'there's noone here of that name' and hang up 😂 I am happy you found me and this lovely community, welcome ❤️
Hello Katherine thank you once again for your very timely tutorial. Had seen this done by others and loved it so am really looking forward trying it. 😊
My pleasure, I hope you enjoy it ❤️
I have watched this week’s video slowly over the last three days….it s beautiful..I ve hankered after doing some blanket stitch in the way you showed since I first began watching your work early this year…I love the work this technique produces so much in what emerges as random organic splendour that I have been almost afraid to try, if that makes sense, but now I will . I ve also been going through the process of grieving/acknowledging there s so little fabric remaining of my late mother’s ( her skin so fragile those last years that she could only wear layers of cashmere, dear soul. I gave it all away to others who could use it to wear and be warm). Of my father’s, who died 45 years ago there is only his woollen submarine sweater and two naval uniform buttons remaining . Maybe though I realise there is a handkerchief as I kept them all and use these myself. For me the stitching and all that goes with it is a way of working on myself too, all my layers of feeling and the weft and warp of life. Deep stuff at times. Blessings and thanks always for your beautiful, calm, kind and containing way ❤xxx
All the layers of feeling and the warp and weft of life. Such a beautiful way to put it. Sending you warm, gentle hugs ♥️
Hi, I always wanted to know how to stitch this what I call "spider web stitches". Thank you very much for charing your knowledgment. ☺
My pleasure 😊
My book is also getting quite fat, and I absolutely love it ❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing all of these wonderful lessons with us.
I trying to imagine you tea dying your purple boots.😂
😂 now you're just giving me ideas 😜
Hi K3n- yes, you are right about the scones, jam on first in the part of Cornwall I grew up in, far down in the southwest. Thanks for another thoughtful video and glad you are enjoying the scissors ✂️
Thank you Sue, for the scone info and the scissors 😁❤️
Good morning K3n! Can you sometime talk about the other exhibits that were there with you in England. Love listening to your wittering 💗
Hello Julie, have you seen the video I made of the exhibition? ♥️
czcams.com/video/HFdKbzG-C70/video.htmlsi=JdkG3yd3HNpHh2Wd
Thank you.
Me encanta
I never thought to use the blanket stitch in that way. I love the look of it. It reminded me somewhat like cobble stones around a pretty manhole cover in the street.
That's a lovely image, there have been many interesting interpretations but yours is a nice one ❤️😊
Thanks
Thank you so much ♥️
I actually made notes of what i wanted to say to you😀1) I think Stella has comfort furr😍😍😍2)loved the lyrics of Coat of many colors, thank you! 3) Love the blanket stitch done this way. Looks a bit like a brain structure. Or maybe just like mine??😱 4) will be happy to send you some marmite💖 5) yaay you like my black and white weaving. 6) love all your videos, challenging or not. 💖🍀💖🍀💖🍀
I see what you mean about the brain 😂 thank you for the kind offer of marmite, of course Dutch people must like it because you have those disgusting dubbel zout dropjes. 😂 I can get some when I am next in England or ask Hans to bring some but thank you so much ❤️
I wasn’t thinking brain. Dragon Scales popped into my mind, but now it’s like an optical illusion-I can see each depending on how I squint at it. 😂
Hello I have just been watching your piece of stitching for week 22!
I love 💕 it. I recently bought a group of Dinosaur fabric. My granddaughter is totally Dino 🦖 crazy!!!!
Your piece reminds me of the eye of a Dino! I think you have given me an idea for the quilt label!!! Thank you for sharing this brilliant idea.
I very much enjoy these stitch and chat sessions!!
Hello, I now have the song 'the eye of the tiger ' in my head but 'the eye of the dino' 😁
I do love intuitive stitching! You begin the journey and you don’t know where you’re going, just enjoying the ride. At first the work looks weird, even a little ugly, but you stick with it and trust in the process because you know it’s leading you home. And just like the ugly duckling, after a few ruffled feathers the work that emerges is more beautiful than you could have ever imagined. It is a piece of you, a gift the soul has coaxed out for you to love.
My comfort cloth is completely different to yours, Kathryn, but I thank you for giving us the inspiration to begin. You are a wonderful teacher🙏 XX Cath
Thank you Cath, and for putting it all into such beautiful words ❤️
Kathryn, in no way did I mean to imply your work went through an ugly stage. Quite the opposite- it was beautiful to see the evolution of your little gem. I just wanted to challenge myself and not copy your work so I took the blanket stitch in a different direction. Also, you might be interested in reading the award winning novel A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley which is based on King Lear. I’ve just started it 🌻
Thank you for the book recommendation, I will look it up. I wasn't at all offended. 😁❤️
Although we have an abundance of baked goods here in Germany, we sadly don't have anything similar to scones :( The scones were one of the reasons I fell in love with Ireland right on my first hiking trip there^^ I've never been to the UK so far but to my understanding the scones are quite different from the ones in Ireland...? A nice lady in one of the B&Bs gave me her recipe and it requires for example buttermilk and dried fruit...but maybe it's just a regional thing. Clotted cream doesn't exist here in Germany either and while I'm baking scones on the regular, I never attempted to make clotted cream ;) I'm team cream first btw lol.
I have made scones both ways, they are a little different. And cream first is weird but you do you. 😂❤️
I love this! Thank you!!
Lovely video ❤❤❤❤ many a bad person walks and talks ...sad as it is and hurtful ....just know we love you ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for that and it's mutual 🥰🥰🥰
❤❤
Oh my gosh! I have found this stitching completely challenging! I think it’s because I do my blanket stitch the opposite way around? I viewed your video many many times… and just as I thought I “ got” it, I don’t think I did! 🫢never mind. I still have a lovely sample. Thank you Kathryn for challenging my brain. I’ll have another try, another day!, ☺️
Oh, and it IS raining across a lot of Western Australia at last! 👏🏻👏🏻
I am pleased you have rain, it was reasonable yesterday, dry but grey. Today it's raining again 🙄 regarding the blanket stitch, when I first started doing it like this and before I did all the stitching on my quilt I referred to, that I am holding in the photo, I made a square of around 12" of two layers of cloth and just blanket stitched all over it, in every direction and every way until I found a rhythm. And even then, sometimes you get a bit 'lost', but I think it's quite forgiving in the end if you are happy for it not to be perfect, it still looks good. 😁❤️
King Lear: 💟 I also did it for Eng Lit A level along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and D H Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. One of the greatest moments of my life was discovering that I am related to Shakespeare - very distantly but as a lifelong Shakespeare devotee, I will take it.
Loved the piece this week. Very relaxing to watch and I'm so happy that you had such a good break back in England. Cream teas...mmm...jam first every time.
Mary x
Well hello Mary Shakespeare, how wonderful. I hope you won't come after me on your ancestor's behalf for getting the Gonzalo quote utterly wrong! 😂 Seriously though I can imagine the joy when you discovered that, how fabulous. And thank you for saying jam first, you are the first to say it, many have said cream first, I was beginning to think I was the only one. 😉❤️
I love the craquelure effect with the blanket stitch. It’s so organic too. I shall certainly use it. Thanks for this idea. I suppose you could also use this technique and embroider in the created spaces. My mind is starting to buzz and it’s not yet 8 am! 😊
Oh yes, so much you can do with it. 😁 Have fun ❤️
❤
I have been keeping up. I love when you challenge me. I am enjoying this group. The ones who arent kind can just move on. Thank you for the storys❤
Oh ya...we in this side of the United States call them yard sales or Estate sales😊
Thank you Judy 😊
Oh, I wish it would rain here in Western Australia!
I wish we could send you some of ours. It's finally dry today. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 🙏🏻🩷
Dear Katherine gosh I look forward to your video's each week. I finally seem to have a place to put all the things that swim happily around in my mind. I turn you on, gather my bits and pieces, then settle in my sewing pod and lose myself in my stitching and I listen to all your little snippets and stories. I love all the references you make to quotes or sayings etc. It is like another layer to my cloth. Sometimes I start notes and things on my facing journal page and have to tug on the reins to stop writing. I am the same when I embellish, I seem to get caught up and keep adding this or adding that and before you know it my piece has totally changed and almost needs a crane to lift it, ha ha, just joking. Anyway enough wittering, as you would say. Anything else I have to say can keep for another day. I seldom comment but I need to say that I love your channel and your wonderful creativity. Cyber hug
Hello Maureen, it's so lovely to have you here stitching along. And it's wonderful to get so engrossed in the work, sending you a big hug too ♥️
Hello Maureen, it's so lovely to have you here stitching along. And it's wonderful to get so engrossed in the work, sending you a big hug too ♥️
Adding to your Haeckel reference, whrpen I took courses in college,looked at leaves under microscope and saw quilt designs..omg.
They are everywhere 😁❤️
I am for one very glad to be doing projects outside of my usual types of stitching. I enjoy a good challenge, and it is inherent in my personality to continually seek to learn new things, so your weekly videos have been very welcome. Can’t wait to try the blanket stitch in a round with the help of your artistic instruction. It’s bothered me that my blanket stitch in the past looked so stiff and square and now I know what to do. Just now I found myself humming “I come from a land down under” and my husband is looking at me and wondering why (I listen in earbuds). 😊
You are not the only one humming it, just as I get it out of my head, someone else mentions it. 🤣 My own fault. 😉♥️
Ahh, now I get it! I've tried to replicate this look on my own but never succeeded. Going under the leg of the previous round is the trick. 😁 What started out looking like a bloodshot eye has turned into a stone or mosaic floor surrounding a well. I, for one, will enjoy playing with this approach to the blanket stitch.
Hope you have fun. You are not the first person to see an eye. It's making me chuckle, all the different things you all are seeing. 😁❤️
I have been picking up darning cotton at the thrift store for several years. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it, but now I can use it. Yeah !
🤗❤️
Here in the USA we call such a gathering a 'flea market' where we sell things we no longer want.
Thank you 👍😊
Love this video and your work, thank you for sharing. I am sorry you had a nasty reaction on your trip to England, I really do not understand why people are doing so but I hear it often enough. I read an article last week in a Dutch newspaper called Trouw more or less about this subject. A journalist wrote an article about the eating cheese and if this was good or bad for the environment. The reactions he got were horrible. He decided to get in touch with some of the people and wrote about that too. It was not as if they changed their minds completely but they were more friendlier than they were on the internet….
It's a very strange thing how people feel they can be mean behind their keyboards, when they are kinder face to face. Oh well, I am just happy that it hasn't happened to me that often. ❤️
❤
Very effective stitch can be used in many ways would look good in garden stitchery as cobbles and brick/stone walls.
Yes that would be a lovely use for it. ♥️
Love your spidery thingy.
Thank you 😊
Thank you again, K3N. In the US we have yard sales, garage sales, Ramich cells, or even flea markets instead of boot sales. We also enjoy our peanut butter and jelly.
I remember PBJ from when we lived in Canada when I was a child 😁❤️