Weekly Slowstitch 2024 - Week 19 - Inspired by Kintsugi
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2024
- Inspiration this week comes from the Japanese technique of kintsugi where broken porcelain is mended with gold to honour and celebrate the beauty of the imperfection. This is in the ethos of wabi sabi which is centred around the acceptance of transience and imperfection and mono no aware or 'the pathos of things'. I will show how to hand stitch the cloth bubbles I showed in Earth week.
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In the spirit of 'other' languages, here's my favourite 'other'...ubuntu an African word meaning "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". Just like you do Kathryn x
What a great word
Thank you so much Linda, that's a wonderful word ♥️
I like this word very much. Will add it to my list. Which African language is it from?
@@ReallyJillRogoff it's part of a Zulu phrase, great concept isn't it.
Dear Kathryn, this one is so moving ❤ For some reason it makes me think of my mother, you know, someone who cares and has nurtured me when I break into so many small pieces? And it so happens that yesterday was Mother's Day in Europe, it will be here in the US on Sunday, May 12th. I thought maybe you would do something special for us all to celebrate ours and everyone's mothers. Mother Earth like the Mother Trees. Gaia. And then this simple Japanese practice of kintsugi, what a 😊 delight. Gloriously mending, caring, and healing that for me is mothering in a word! And anyone can do it. That simple. Thank you ❤
It's not Mother's Day here in France until the end of May, in the UK it was in March so it's difficult to be globally inclusive. To be honest, I didn't know when it fell in the US, and I just checked, it's the same day in Australia and New Zealand too. I am happy that you enjoyed the theme this week. ❤️
My first thought when I saw the thumbnail was “follow the yellow brick road”. From the Wizard of Oz. What a unique addition to the stitch journal. I’m learning so many new sewing terms from watching your videos. Thank you for sharing with us all. 😊
I hadn't thought of the yellow brick road 😁❤️
Thank you Kathryn for sharing about possible lost opportunities because of bully teachers! I had those experiences and was shut down for many years after until I found a teacher who celebrated a quiet creative! Your inclusive kindness inspires to go on and learn more in lovely snowflake expression!
This technique is so powerful to me! Accepting and enjoying my own imperfections and me doing me, you doing you!
Thank you so very much!
So excited....Happy Monday to all. Who doesn't love bubbles?
Another inspirational piece to add to our stitch journal- thank you Kathryn. Leonard Cohen must have loved Rumi as much as I “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
Yes I agree entirely that nothing is perfect, that has been the hardest lesson of my life!❤
I recently came across a “quilt” I’d started during the pandemic but I didn’t get far because I didn’t know how to quilt and I didn’t want to cut precise blocks, etc. When I saw your kwandi inspired quilting, I knew I had found a technique that I would enjoy. When I finally found that neglected scrap quilt, I went back to remind myself how to do the kwandi type of quilt. Thank you for all the weekly inspiration.
My pleasure Kelly ☺️
Oh, I’ve had such fun watching this. Singing ‘Blowing Bubbles’ and chuckling at ‘pig, donkey goat’ 😂 whilst stitching my wonky log cabin
So excited for Monday! My crafting history is much like yours, learning to knit at 9. My Great-Aunt Nellie taught me to hand stitch at about the same time and I've never stopped crafting. During the 'plan'demic I started taking India Flint's online workshops and now I've found you and I'm thrilled to be inspired down a new crafty path. I'm 70 now and hope I never have to stop.
Had to look up India Flint, WOW, thats the stuff I love. Thanks for sharing🙃
K3N! Love the reference to Leonard Cohen's Anthem. He is no longer with us. He passed away in 2018. Great work. Hallelujah!
Thank you ♥️
Thank you Katherine. I come from a long line of woman who have sewed. During the holidays my granddaughter and I made her first cushion cover. So exciting to start a new generation of sewing. Thank you for being my inspiration. Your channel has changed my life. I now LOVE hand sewing ❤
My pleasure Alison, lovely to hear that your granddaughter is interested in sewing too. ❤️
Never heard of this but found it intriguing! I had purchased a piece of pottery yesterday at a local thrift shop and accidentally bumped it when taking it out of my car and caused a crack which really upset me because it was a really lovely piece! Now I look forward to repairing it with this technique! Also got my mind spinning thinking about using it in my fabric art! As always, thank you. Mondays have become my favorite day of the week!!!!❤
I got rather teary hearing you quote Cohen because the lyrics of Anthem popped immediately into my head when I saw the thumbnail for this week's video. I think most of us get the heartfelt connection between kintsugi and Cohen quite intuitively.
When you spoke about the complexities of translating concepts from one language/culture to another (especially French and Japanese) my mind also went to The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Does anyone else love that book/film as much as I do? Because I think I have to go reread it right now.
I don't know that book or film, I am going to look it up. 😊
I love to hear all the fascinating stories you tell and the information you share but I also like the sound of the thread pulling through the cloth. Even when you don't have anything to say the piece you are working on is talking.
Thank you so much Nicole that's a lovely thing to say 🤗❤️
Ooh Kathryn, I love this so much! I’ve been in the ‘imaginary design’ phase for a month or so, a gift for a very dear old artist friend. There are three elements I want to incorporate; Leonard’s divine quote from Anthem, that it is hand stitched and is dark with a small bit of yellow/gold showing. Imagine my delight watching your stunning piece being created and then… da da daaaaaa the quote! Mind blown, heart full and gift now a fully formed concept which I just know I will very much love making. Thank you so very much.
Wishing you very well with your busy week and a really wonderful time in England with your exhibition and some of your favourite people.
Oh and yes, whoops, whoopsie and whoopsie daisy are all very well known and often spoken phrases in New Zealand. ❤
Lovely, so amazing ❤
Thank you so much for your good wishes. Have fun making your piece ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Thank you I will! 🤩❤️
@@karenbrown4294 Thanks so much Karen, very kind of you to say 😁
I really wanted to say that I’ve got it all chicken basted and have done my first layer of stitching and am, as predicted obsessed! You are such a world class inspiration! Thank you thank you. P.s i can only imagine how much time you spend replying and as much as you may enjoy it I truly mean it when I say to you that I really don’t expect a reply. Happy travels ❤️
Let us always try to hope over experience, no matter how many times 💚💚💚
Absolutely agree ❤️❤️❤️
Hello Kathryn, It’s Monday Mending Day for me, and coincidentally I’ve got a small group of ceramics lined up for Kintsugi style repair. I came across the technique by accident many years ago, and just loved the idea of an item being more valuable & beautiful with the repair. As I’ve got older and more clumsy, and share my home with some exuberant animals, things get damaged and broken quite regularly around here, so I’m getting lots of experience in practicing the technique, and my own particular version of it. I admit, I hadn’t considered using it to tart-up my cloth repairs before seeing this, since I’ve been trying to get to grips with embroidery for that, so thank you ❤
On the subject, and also coincidentally, I was hugely moved by your Pocket for Sirius, and have had to say, Goodbye, to one of my cats this week. Partly inspired by your Sirius Pocket, and by Marion @Marions World, I’m planning to make a Pocket for my little Alice. I’ve been worried that my ideas are too ambitious, given scant experience in embroidery, and that I’ll mess it up, but this video has reminded me that perfection is overrated and I love your reference to the Leonard Cohen song (one of my favourite artists, and also, sadly, no longer with us.)
Thanks again, Kathryn ❤
I am so sorry for your loss of little Alice. I love the sound of your exuberant animals, they sound just like Stella and Fredfred, who are at this moment both curled up next to me on the couch sleeping peacefully after a walk round the woods followed by breakfast and a wrestling match. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtalesThank you ❤
I love the practice of Kintsugi and do truly believe a vessel is more beautiful after these repairs. The deeper meaning tha can go along with that is also valuable. TFS! Becca
Totally agree willow...
Yes absolutely Becca ❤️
This piece is so beautiful. I love how the heavy stitching turns it into beaten gold.
I remember seeing this form of mending on a piece of Japanese porcelain on The Antiques Road Show and loving the concept.
My A level English Lit teacher gave me a lifelong love of Shakespeare. When I did my Nursing training in London, the RSC were still based at the Aldwich and I went at least twice a month. Such happy memories 💟
Mary x
This was wonderful to wake up to this morning. I actually knew what Kintsugi was. My son and I stumbled across it years ago. We had even talked about trying it ourselves just never got around to it. So being able to do a kintsugi inspired piece meant a lot to me. Can’t wait to show my son.
It was lovely to see Stella and hear she is settled some.
Hope you get some better sleep and rest up before your travels. Sending virtual HUGS. Take care and be well our lovely Kathryn. And thank you for your time and guidance with this amazing project. 💜🤗🤗🤗
Thank you so much Jenny, hugs to you too ❤️
Thank you for sharing this with us🙏🏻. I am very much in favor of celebrating what some would call imperfection but I see as the beauty of a thing as it seems like you may feel the same. Love this square and you ‘golden’ stitches make it feel like molten gold was used to mend the ‘imperfection’. Thank you for you thoughtful ways of creating.
This is so very deep in meaning and the beloved Leonard Cohen would approve of his words accompanying this ode to kintsugi. I am learning so much from you, K3N - thank you, once more.
Love this Kathryn. I was petrified of my maths teacher in middle school, Mr Webber, he would throw the chalkboard rubber at you if you weren’t paying attention 😳
There was a chemistry teacher at our school who did that, I wasn't in his class. He would fly into uncontrollable rages. It later came out that his wife was having an affair with the English teacher. We never knew if the rage was because of that or if her affair was because of his rage, if you see what I mean. I do remember that for a term or too, school was a very tense place to be. It culminated with a punch up in the staff carpark and them both being absent for a while. 🙄❤️
Love this, the gold “repair” really pops. Just beautiful!
I love to see the back, and also all the meaning that it is involved 😊
You inspire me every time I watch you ❤
I love this! Back home from vacation. Ready to get back to work. ❤
Hope you had a lovely time ❤️
In Minnesota we say Ohp! More than ooops. But yes… we say it all the time! Drop things… bump into people… mistakes of any and all kinds.
Dear k3n what a beautiful piece to watch and then to begin to work with when I can. The principle of Kintsugi is very dear to me. In my commonplace book I wrote some years ago, this quote from Ernest Hemingway, “ The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” If we are fortunate and can spin gold from straw ( the story of my life to date, I d say) that is how it goes. Thank you for your inspiration and for sharing the journey of your stitching. I enjoyed that so much - as though I was sat in my kitchen or yours, stitching and listening, stitching and sharing. 🧡X
Thank you Lesley, it's lovely that we have access to this virtual kitchen 😊 and I love the Hemingway quote. ❤️
Thank you. Love listening and stitching along. ❤
Thank you, Kathryn, for another cosy stitching night. I loved it. 😍
You are so welcome!
I collect words and enjoy learning words in other languages. Latest is petrichor. The sweet smell of rain in the air.
I love words too, and that's a beauty...as is the scent of rain.
I had to look that up, what a wonderful word ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Isn't it just?!
Another inspiring and enjoyable watch. The pocket book you talked about came in the mail today. I had a hard time deciding whether to read it or listen to you -- you won🙃 I selected my fabrics for this page and worked on last week's Wonky Wednesday while listening. Thank you for another fun page 🌷🌷🌷
Thank you Meridel, hope you enjoy the book ❤️
Brilliant! Just last week I so much wanted to learn how to do this pebble quilting by hand but everyone does it by machine so I couldn't find anything appropriate. Plus I didn't know kinstugi existed & find it fascinating. Thx an awful lot! Incidentally, whenever I think of sth, the next week you are sure to come up with the very idea - amazing!
My pleasure 😊
Love the look of gold, your piece has me thinking of a golden stream of harmony. I have two of Alice Fox books, they are so good and inspirational. Well, that will do pig, donkey, goat and horse. LOL Great vid today thank you.💚💛🧡
Glad you enjoyed it 🐖🐴🐐🐎😁❤️
🧡 I’m looking forward to doing kintsugi in cloth as I have done it in china repair on a vintage dish. 🧡 thank you, Kathryn. I still have a fear of maths because of experiences at school. My love of patchwork started with a skirt my mother made me of patchwork and I loved wearing it. ❤
Enjoy making your piece Lucille ❤️
Beautiful stitching and lovely story telling.
I again decided to get my bits together and stitch with you, rather than wait. I did learn that you are definitely faster than I am -- a faster slow stitcher?? 😉 That was kind of fun to notice. No "comparative value" placed on either of us. 💛 Anyway...! The denseness of this stitching is very interesting. I've tried four strands, three strands and two strands and like the three best for this piece. Thanks for this intriguing little adventure of bubbles and beautiful brokeness. I"ll finish the dense parts over the next while. Cheers to you for fun in England this week! Continuing hugs to you as you adjust to Sirius' physical absence in your home.
Thank you Kate for the hugs. I very much appreciate them. ❤️
Good morning, Stella. From The USA..
Love your hands, so natural, clean.
India Flint: I just got a 2nd hand version of her book on eco-dyeing and printing. Haven’t read anything yet because I’m so absorbed by the images in the book. Gorgeous. Love this week’s project. As always, thank you ❤️🙏
My pleasure, hope you enjoy India's book. ❤️
Beautiful ❤
What a great idea, it really inspires me to make these by the dozen for a quilt.
That would be wonderful ☺️
Beautiful!
It was all so inspiring!
❤ and hugs to you Stella.
Thank you from both of us ☺️
Love this project! I look forward to trying it. I am behind in my weekly stitching because the weather has been so nice here where I live that I have been spending alot of my time outside in my garden planting flowers :)
In my area we just say "Football" and yes, I do often say "whoops" :)
So lovely to be planting flowers ☺️
What a lovely idea! Can't wait to get started.
Safe travels, and have a wonderful time at the exhibition.
A few days later:
Well, I can either thread my three strands through a needle eye, or put a sharper needle through four fabric layers. Not both. Not even with the brand-new "sharps" I just bought. Frustration unlimited (and a very sore hand).
Thank you Jill 😊
Hello Stellar ❤ I must admit i was intrigued by this week's project and found it rather challenging until i got right into making it. I was pleasantly surprised by my finished piece ~ it's so tactile, I love it 💛
Pleased to hear it ❤️
I had a subscription of Quiltmania for me it was inspirational & wish book mix in a lovely magazine.
With hubby’s cravate and shirt appearing in your work… I can now only see him sitting in his knickers. 😂
Oh no, that's a vision indeed 😂❤️
Beautiful work another one for me to do thank you
Hello 👋🏻! I find this topic of perfection/imperfection very interesting. You know I’m all about imperfection and I guess that’s because my family never really “pushed” me to be perfect. They always accepted me for who I was. When I started teaching, I would feel very sad when I saw a student thinking they weren’t able to learn English, because some other teacher had told them, they were not good at it and I have made my life’s mission to praise even the tiniest victory, such as finally learning the verb to be, when you have already been learning the language for five years! Yes! That’s true. Portuguese students somehow have a bit of “aversion” to English and now they’re choosing Spanish over it (which is now allowed unfortunately) and then when they go to the university or find a job, they face huge difficulties, because they can’t speak English!
Anyway, I find “positive affirmations” very important to anyone’s learning process, but teachers in Portugal tend to prefer the good students and neglect the ones who are not so good…
I love that technique. I’m already thinking of incorporating it in a piece somehow.
I wish you would do a live video! I would be answering you all the time! 😂 But then you would block me 😱😱😱…. 😂😂😂
I loved to have seen little Stella 🥰
Sending love ❤️💙🤎🩷💛🤍💜💚🧡🩵
Hello Alexandra, I would never block you 😁 I actually preferred teaching the less able people, the ladies who took a little longer to grasp things because it was so rewarding when I finally found a way for them to understand. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the bubbles. Hugs ❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales ❤️❤️❤️
I really liked the song. Thanks for sharing.
Knew that that quotation was nagging at some thread in my mind…I have a writing book called ‘How the Light Gets In’ by Pat Schneider, so now I know where the title came from, thank you.
What a beautiful piece you created…….it should be in a gilded frame 😊
Thank you 😊
Merci encore pour tout Katheryn!!
mon mari appréci vos vidéos,il dit la même chose que moi !vous avez une voix relaxante,et vous expliquer très bien !!!
beaucoup de talent 😊
Professeur Magnétic ❤
très inspirantes vos techniques
Félicitations
Guylaine Québec
Merci à vous deux ❤️❤️
1:07:30 oh my goodness! I thought I was the only one with a math teacher like that! In our class , after our midterm exam, he created a “neutral zone” that divided “the students” from the “non-students”. This was senior year, trigonometry/calculus, so none of us were slackers.
He told us “non-students” that he wasn’t speaking to us, answering our questions (until we started independent work), or even looking our way. We had to prove (on the next test) that we were worthy of moving seats.
As shell-shocked as we were, it still only took a couple of days for us to realize if he really wasn’t going to speak to us, then we were free to do whatever we wanted as long as we didn’t make so much noise that it’d disrupt the “student” lesson.
He couldn’t discipline us if he wouldn’t talk to us. 🤭
We brought crackers, cheese, smoked clams, and a bottle of sparkling cider with cups. Ate them absolutely silently-I hadn’t thought steam could actually come out of someone’s ears from rage, but I believe we heated him up to that point on that day.
I don’t think it was a pact, but none of us bothered to exert ourselves enough to get moved over with the good students. We worked Enough to avoid tanking our GPA, sure, but nothing else.
Though he DID let me sit at the front of the neutral zone for two weeks while I waited for glasses to come in.
All the other teachers in that building stopped talking to him. That show of support from them was much appreciated.
I love your protest, great that the other teachers showed support but it's a shame that he was allowed to carry on. I truly hope that teachers like that are a thing of the past. ❤️
Americans call football - football, not American football. The game using the soccer ball is called soccer and not English football by most Americans. Also I do think that in Japanese culture where perfection is so important that it does make sense to celebrate and value imperfection. Imperfection is the signifier of the human hand (at least this is how I think of it). I live in Massachusetts and I've been watching most everything you have posted yet this is my first comment. You are a joy to watch and I've learned gobs and gobs. Thank you for what you are giving us.
Thank you so much, so pleased you are enjoying the videos. I agree with you about imperfections being the mark of the hand ♥️
Oh I would definitely have been on the wrong side of that Maths class! My face was turning red as you told the story! I am so glad that we have you as our teacher!!♥ Loved today's lesson and Leonard Cohen's song. I think you said you are leaving in a few days for England. Have a wonderful trip and don't forget to buy a scissors!!
Thank you Michelle, I fly on Thursday 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Safe travels♥!
STELLLLLLLAAAAA!!!!❤❤❤❤
Love it, looks amazing 🤩
Πολύ όμορφο!
Thank you 😊
Thank you for this enjoyable project .
Amazing ❤
Thank you so much, I have a whole project in my head now. So excited. Yea!
Another inspiring episode K3N. Greetings from Canada on this sunny and warm Monday.
You made me giggle so much today.
😁❤️❤️❤️
I love Kintsugi and Leonard Cohen. I felt sure you would Trapunto your bubbles but maybe that is something I can explore in my piece.
It's not really necessary if you use wadding but of course you could. 😁❤️
Excellent, I really enjoyed this... Woopsy Daisy and all : ) 🌸🌸🌸
Glad you enjoyed it ❤️
😂 back when I started high school we learnt French .
One day a young lady dropped her pen and said whoops a daisy …. Our French teacher then turned around and said when in class say zuit !
Memories 😂
😁 ❤️
I feel a sense of peace knowing this😅
🥰
Have a tendency to watch these videos in bed in the morning, what happens? The tea goes cold whilst I jump out of bed to find the materials for the next project 😅😊. Also just watched the desert island into, you were quite right about feeling overwhelmed, just getting passed that stage by leaving perfection behind. I don’t like the word stash either but they are my treasures that need using not admiring, thank you for the wise words which encapsulated my inner thoughts xx
Treasures that need using is a perfect way to put it 😊❤️
Thanks
Thank you so much ❤️
👍😊 Hai mai pensato di portare le tue opere alla biennale d'arte di Venezia? X dare più respiro a tutte le forme d'arte
You need to make T-shirts to sell with your quote "You do You" .....🌟
They would have to be secondhand t-shirts 😁❤️
ANTHEM - yes sometimes you do just like something......this one I will make but first I will collect bits of gold fabric.......
Hi Kathryn, love the way the bubbles appear! I thought mine were going to just be flat but not 🙂
I was excited to be able to come to the exhibition on Saturday and felt very inspired by the work from the different artists, and especially to see some of your work in real life. Beautiful.
Jane x
Thank you Jane, so pleased you enjoyed the exhibition. Were you the lady who mentioned to my colleague that I needed scissors? ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales No that wasn't me, I did mention that I watched your podcast and that was where I heard about the exhibition. I treated myself to one of your bags, for added inspiration 🙂
Thank you, I am pleased it's gone to a good home 😁❤️
“Don’t let perfect get in the way of good”
I don’t see a reply in the comments so I will answer: We differentiate between Professional football and College football, but I guess the American part is just understood 😂😂😂I love college football.
And your former math teacher was a terrible teacher and likely hurt many children. I had one elementary teacher who was awful but after a semester he was fired for abusing children. When I think about the awful things he did, I remember that I am over 50 and he’s likely long dead and that makes me feel better. I also remember my favorite English teacher who rewarded us with story time: she turned the classroom lights low, let us lay our heads on our desk and read us books while we rested in the cool quiet room and listened. I still love listening to storytelling.
Thank you for the football clarification 😉 ❤️
🤣🤣 so I did have to go and google overcast stitch!
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Leonard Cohen “Anthem”
I enjoyed making this so much I might do another one!
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When speaking of bubbles the song that comes to my mind first and foremost is Tiny Bubbles sung by Don Ho in Hawaii. 😁
Don't know that, will have to look it up 😁❤️
Thank you for another inspiring video. When you did free motion embroidery did you come across Pam Watts? Pam instructed me many moons ago when I did City and Guilds. I love my sewing machines but at this point in time I enjoy hand stitching.Have a wonderful time in England.
City's and guilds - do you niki healey - back in 2007/8 .
Thank you, no sorry I don't know Pam ♥️
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As usual your abilities and infectious humor are a breath of fresh air. Thank you 😊. Question at 8:04 you mentioned dying your silk thread with “bulia “? Would you please tell me/us who don’t know - what is that dye stuff?
Hello, it was buddleia, the dead flowers believe it or not ❤️😁
speaking of songs sung on a coach trip, the big one here in the Midwest area of USA, was "100 bottles of beer 🍻 on the wall"...and sing it down from 100 to one. 😂....if one 1⃣ F those bottles should happen to fall., 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
Oh yes I know that one, it's a great one 😁
😅lts better to cry over spilt milk than try to get it back in the bottle, from Alan Silitoe, Billy Liar or The loneliness of the long distance runner, us one of my favourites. Xx
We 'did' Billy Liar for O levels but I don't believe I have read the other one so I will add it to my list ❤️
Fun. Do I have any yello/gold fabric?
Let's see
Oeps🙈
Football and then soccer
In Biology class in high school, my friend and I were placed at a table in the back of the room that had a big tall plant on it, which literally hid us from the teacher so he couldn’t bother with us. The year after we graduated, he was fired.
I am sorry, how awful, for you I mean. Sounds like he shouldn't have been a teacher. ❤️
Listened to you while cleaning a biiiig harvest of garden spinach. I felt at peace. Isn't the French Knot un noeud francais? Sorry, no cedille😅
Apparently it's 'point de noeud' or knot stitch 😁❤️
Beautiful work I’m still working on mine, I had to put a stop to it because I need to sleep, but your teacher story, took me back to my 4th grade in Portugal, my teacher would give 🍬 to the smart kids, none for the the kids that didn’t do well, she also would do two lines in front of the black board, she would ask a question, for example name all the rivers in Portugal, the child that answered the most rivers, was told to hit the one that answered less with a wooden ruler the back their hand, I remember getting hit in the playground by the kid that I had to hit in class, because of her horrible way to punish the not so smart kids 😡
Goodness that's awful, we can only hope that teachers like that are a thing of the past. ❤️
Noeud francais 😉❣
Ou Point de nœud 😉
@@tashidelek7372 thank you both, I thought there must be an actual name for it ❤️
Even though the Japanese says and do Kintsugi and Wabi Sabi, they are so aesthetic in all the crafts they do. Here in Denmark we just say UPS if we drop something in the supermarket. Think is 1/2 sorry 1/2 dam if you know what I mean.
Yes I know what you mean 😊
Do you couching with these gold squares?
I am sorry I don't really understand what you are asking? I stitched them down through the cloth, leaving the circle unstitched. ❤️