I now understand why I save lovely leaves et al. The melding of cloth, paper and plant seems such a no-brainer and you have made the ultimate art of chemistry with these journals. Your journals are priceless!
I love it that everything that passes through your hands has a story that goes with it. I can see the joy that the simple things bring to you. Thank you for sharing.
Wowsers, your journals are just wonderful. I could happily spend hours looking through them all. Spending long moments on each page. They are all amazing little treasures! 💕🥰 Thank you sooooo much for sharing these with us.
I really loved to have seen all your beautiful stitching with natural elements. I have stitched with leaves, they’re in a book and they look fine, but I have also stitched on leaves. I put two together, while they were still greenish, I stitched little shells on them and crocheted around. They aged and turned into a different colour and I absolutely love them. I didn’t treat them. And on other three, that I also stitched together, I stitched some bits of fabric. They also aged and turned into a different colour. They’re on my wall for some time now. Although I use feathers, sticks, little stones, my favourite thing to stitch on a book is a shell 🐚! I choose the broken ones, because they always have lots of stories to tell 🐚💙♥️🧡🩵💜❤️🖤🤎💚🩷💛🩶
Kathryn, your journals are so sumptuous and a joy to behold ❤ i wanna see more!!! 😁🥰 i can't wait to start waxing and stitching leaves 🍂🍃🪡 i love your weekly challenges - thank you!! ❤❤
Your nature journals are wonderful! I'm going to try the wax thing, I've stitched on leaves before after I flattened it out, but not waxed. It's at home of course so I can't check on it. 💜💜💜 I'm getting ideas! Oh I left the comment too soon, I really love the one that looks like a repair with the red behind it! 💜 The crosses with the sticks are wonderful! Yikes, I love this!
I’m so inspired! ❤ Thank you so much. I’m in the middle of making my journal to take for my next trip - coming up. I will show my grandchildren this method. Thanks again.
Oh my goodness, these journals are beautiful. I love what you did worh the woven twigs and X's. We have a soap company locally that uses eucalyptus. I wonder if they use leaves and maybe they would spare a couple. Thank you for sharing. On to watch how you wax the leaves. Thank you for sharing🌷🌷🌷
Thank you, I would imagine they use the oil but you can always ask. Otherwise florists often use eucs in bouquets (in England at least) and I used to scrounge their waste when I lived next door to one. Should have thought of that and mentioned it in the video. Duh! ❤️
Oh, those journals!!!!!! Fan-tab-u-lous!!!!! All so different and beautiful. I love the round one, it reminds me of a tree trunk....stunning! I made my first journal for my son and followed your "Boro Inspired Journal" video....I must have watched it 10 times because I had such trepidations about ruining it. Since I'm a stitcher and haven't worked with paper, it was overwhelming....until I watched the video 10 times! lol Thank you for all you share...I love your view on making and I believe you have inspired and encouraged me to be even more of a creating Goddess !
OMG! Spent entire 19:01 minutes, mouth open, transfixed. Journals are amazing. Yet to make a cloth journal (plan to eco rust tea coffee dye printing soon). Opened a world of possibilities. Frequently pick leaves (now will try to pick fallen leaves) If only I had had the sense to keep a journal 😥. Would it not be lovely to see every page of every single one of your journals..? plz, plz, plz🤩
I just love watching and listening to you. You are truly inspiring. Do you have a video on making your own journal? ❤️ Beth B in Sarasota, Florida Just started slowstitch journal with cloth cover!! So I guess I found what I was looking for. Super excited 😘
Katherine, I watched your tutorial on waxing leaves. I assume that you were using paraffin from candle remains. I have a collection of bees’ wax. Will that work?
How helpful to see and hear your offerings in these three videos for Week 27 (and beyond!). Thank you, Kathryn. I'm going to have fun waxing my leaves and seeing what happens.
Wow!!! your journals are a real treasure trove of inspiration - thank you Kathryn. Leaves are a passion of mine too and have stitched the sturdy ones for many years on my sewing machine. The wind brings gifts of eucalyptus leaves right to my door and they are a favourite. Now that you’ve shown us the wax method I can include the more fragile leaves 👏👏👏 I like using the naturally cracked ones in the kintsugi way, putting gold paper or fabric behind them. Let the stitching begin🐸🌻 💜💜 Cath
How surprised was I to see that you have been to Geldrop in NL. That's where I was born and lived till I was 3 years old!! Then my family moved to Australia. Plenty of eucalyptus leaves to stitch on here. 😆
Mesmerised! The leaves surviving so beautifully over 7-8 years - beyond my ken! I can't wait to watch this week's slow stitch - not enough hours in the day right now. Big love as always from Scotland ❤️
I’ve stitched through fresh bay leaves, they work well as do pressed. They have the benefit of their smell too. Thank you for sharing your journals. Like the others, I find them fascinating 😍😍😃
I loved looking through your journals but as an Australian I found your gum leaves disconcerting they all hang down they don’t face up small thing I know and artist discretion but to me off putting .Notwithstanding I would still love to just spend days looking through your journals they are stunning . Thankyou for showing what you have.
@@elizabethstreeter2145 that is a really interesting perspective, being flippant, maybe because I am in the northern hemisphere they are the wrong way up? 😁 I do understand that it bugs you though, I can imagine. I am pleased you like my journals ❤️
I love your journals so much Kathryn! It was seeing one of your beautiful journals that got me hooked on stitching and journals. I have lots of eucalyptus trees on my place so I’m going to stitch some! Thank you so much for sharing this. Take care ❤
Just beautiful!! I am so inspired by your work …I have no interest in copying but feel all things are possible and could rapidly get into the creative zone.
Watching each of your videos opens so many different avenues in my brain. You are such an inspiration. I have been away child minding through school holidays but once back home I will be out scavenging our fields. We have a tree here we call paperbark as the bark is layer upon layer of tissue fine tree, so I am hoping I can incorporate some into my next project and seeing your waxing video I have loads of wax candle ends. Thank you for all your truly wonderful ideas.
Thanks for sharing these pages, I saw several new ideas for using leaves in my journals. Thought you might to know that the sycamore or maple seed cases sometimes called helicopters are botanically named samaras. I have two Japanese maples with very small and delicate samaras, but I never thought to preserve them. I always learn a lot from your videos.
Hello, I usually dry and wax. There is a video about waxing and also a video of me stitching, there are links to both in the description below this one. ❤️
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! So many lovely ideas. 👏Thank you Kathryn.
Thanks so much! 😊
I wish I could spend days looking through your journals. Such deliciousness! Every page speaks to me. ❤️
Oh yez it would be lovely.
A friend of mine showed me a library that is filled with artists sketchbooks from around the world journals
Thank you Meg 😊
@@jodymcknight187 that sounds wonderful 😊
Yes, i feel the same- looking at your journals or bags.
@@sandramyer7081 thank you ❤️
I now understand why I save lovely leaves et al. The melding of cloth, paper and plant seems such a no-brainer and you have made the ultimate art of chemistry with these journals. Your journals are priceless!
you said this perfectly!
Thank you ❤️
I love it that everything that passes through your hands has a story that goes with it. I can see the joy that the simple things bring to you. Thank you for sharing.
@@nicolebeauchamp7622 my pleasure Nicole ❤️
Wowsers, your journals are just wonderful. I could happily spend hours looking through them all. Spending long moments on each page. They are all amazing little treasures! 💕🥰 Thank you sooooo much for sharing these with us.
You are so welcome! 🤗
Three wonderful videos today. Thankyou 🍂🍃🍁
Glad you like them!❤️
Amazingly beautiful… 😍 ❤😍
Thank you ❤️
I really loved to have seen all your beautiful stitching with natural elements. I have stitched with leaves, they’re in a book and they look fine, but I have also stitched on leaves. I put two together, while they were still greenish, I stitched little shells on them and crocheted around. They aged and turned into a different colour and I absolutely love them. I didn’t treat them. And on other three, that I also stitched together, I stitched some bits of fabric. They also aged and turned into a different colour. They’re on my wall for some time now.
Although I use feathers, sticks, little stones, my favourite thing to stitch on a book is a shell 🐚! I choose the broken ones, because they always have lots of stories to tell 🐚💙♥️🧡🩵💜❤️🖤🤎💚🩷💛🩶
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@@susanadams3563 💙💙💙
Crocheting on leaves is next level, I haven't tried that yet! I left you a comment somewhere about the shell stitching 😁❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales I saw it, thank you 🐚♥️
@@k3n.clothtales I sent you some photos for you to see, if you want 🌿💚
Kathryn, your journals are so sumptuous and a joy to behold ❤ i wanna see more!!! 😁🥰 i can't wait to start waxing and stitching leaves 🍂🍃🪡 i love your weekly challenges - thank you!! ❤❤
Thank you so much! I expect there will be more little peeks in the future 😉❤️
Yapmış olduğunuz güzel hayırlı işlerinizi becerilerinizi bizlerle paylaştığınız için teşekkürler videolarınızı beğeniyorum 😊👏💐🌼☘️🌻🪻 Türkiye
Thank you ❤️
Love seeing all the treasures you've created for your journals! 💙💙💙
thank you Kathryn for sharing, and filling my mind with so my ideas!
My pleasure Pam 😊
Just beautiful, did you use the water colour paper on the first journal, or another sort of paper to adhere them to? huge hugs and awesome journals
The first journal I made myself is actually lokta paper, very thin but quite strong ❤️
I also would adore sitting with your journals! I’d pay admission and bring you sweeties and all the tea you’d ever want to be able to do so.
The sweeties and the tea would be more than enough 😁❤️
Such a treat to peek into your stitch journals. Thank you, Kathryn. 💖💖💖. You’ve given me confidence to stitch my leaves. 😊
I am pleased to hear that and I hope you have fun 😊
What a lovely idea. Thank you for sharing ❤
Glad you like it!
Your nature journals are wonderful! I'm going to try the wax thing, I've stitched on leaves before after I flattened it out, but not waxed. It's at home of course so I can't check on it. 💜💜💜 I'm getting ideas! Oh I left the comment too soon, I really love the one that looks like a repair with the red behind it! 💜 The crosses with the sticks are wonderful! Yikes, I love this!
😂 thank you ❤️
I’m so inspired! ❤ Thank you so much. I’m in the middle of making my journal to take for my next trip - coming up. I will show my grandchildren this method. Thanks again.
You are so creative
I love your books ❤❤❤
Thank you so much! 😊
I love your journals with the naturals ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for sharing - so inspiring 💕💕
Oh my, lovely books.
Thank you Lisbeth 😊
What an inspiration thanks for sharing
I'd call that a nice obsession ❤
I love your voluptuous stitch journals and your ways of incorporating natural materials. Cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡
@@createandcraftwithchristine thank you Christine, voluptuous is a great word 😁❤️
OMG! Beloved leaves! How beautiful and natural! Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh my goodness, these journals are beautiful. I love what you did worh the woven twigs and X's. We have a soap company locally that uses eucalyptus. I wonder if they use leaves and maybe they would spare a couple. Thank you for sharing. On to watch how you wax the leaves. Thank you for sharing🌷🌷🌷
Thank you, I would imagine they use the oil but you can always ask. Otherwise florists often use eucs in bouquets (in England at least) and I used to scrounge their waste when I lived next door to one. Should have thought of that and mentioned it in the video. Duh! ❤️
Beautiful.It's lovely to look through your work. So much inspiration
Thank you 😊
❤❤❤ your journals are amazing and so beautiful, thank your for sharing with us and being so generous. ❤❤❤
My pleasure Lucille, thank you for being here ❤️
Beautiful journals bursting with wonderful memories. And yes...objects in their own right. Thank you for sharing and for teaching us
Mary x
My pleasure Mary, hugs ❤️
Your journals are really awesome, I am awed by your free work... Thank so much for sharing ... Very inspiring.
You are so welcome! 🤗
Thank you for showing us your beautiful books, I love, love, love it. Kind regards Tineke
You are so welcome! 🤗
Oh, those journals!!!!!! Fan-tab-u-lous!!!!! All so different and beautiful. I love the round one, it reminds me of a tree trunk....stunning! I made my first journal for my son and followed your "Boro Inspired Journal" video....I must have watched it 10 times because I had such trepidations about ruining it. Since I'm a stitcher and haven't worked with paper, it was overwhelming....until I watched the video 10 times! lol Thank you for all you share...I love your view on making and I believe you have inspired and encouraged me to be even more of a creating Goddess !
Thank you Susan, I am happy to inspire you but I am sure you were already a goddess without me 😁❤️
Your beautiful journals! I loved seeing them and the examples of your stitching with leaves and found materials.🧡xxx
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you ❤️
OMG! Spent entire 19:01 minutes, mouth open, transfixed. Journals are amazing.
Yet to make a cloth journal (plan to eco rust tea coffee dye printing soon). Opened a world of possibilities.
Frequently pick leaves (now will try to pick fallen leaves) If only I had had the sense to keep a journal 😥.
Would it not be lovely to see every page of every single one of your journals..? plz, plz, plz🤩
😂 I have a flip through of the round one on my Ko-fi page, maybe I will do one of the others here too ❤️
Such treasures! Some living on in a “monster” journal. I’m thinking that journal might be feeling rightfully smug hearing your description. xo
Oh yes, I think it's proud to be a monster 😁❤️
I just love watching and listening to you. You are truly inspiring.
Do you have a video on making your own journal? ❤️
Beth B in Sarasota, Florida
Just started slowstitch journal with cloth cover!! So I guess I found what I was looking for. Super excited 😘
Yes, there are a couple, but I think you found them 😁❤️
Katherine, I watched your tutorial on waxing leaves. I assume that you were using paraffin from candle remains. I have a collection of bees’ wax. Will that work?
Hello Ann, yes it should work ❤️
How helpful to see and hear your offerings in these three videos for Week 27 (and beyond!). Thank you, Kathryn. I'm going to have fun waxing my leaves and seeing what happens.
You are so welcome! 🤗
Thank you very interesting. I'm like you I love bulging books - there is something very satisfying about them.
Yes, bursting with goodness ❤️
Wow!!! your journals are a real treasure trove of inspiration - thank you Kathryn. Leaves are a passion of mine too and have stitched the sturdy ones for many years on my sewing machine. The wind brings gifts of eucalyptus leaves right to my door and they are a favourite. Now that you’ve shown us the wax method I can include the more fragile leaves 👏👏👏 I like using the naturally cracked ones in the kintsugi way, putting gold paper or fabric behind them. Let the stitching begin🐸🌻 💜💜 Cath
Yes, kintsugi leaves sound wonderful 😊
How surprised was I to see that you have been to Geldrop in NL. That's where I was born and lived till I was 3 years old!! Then my family moved to Australia. Plenty of eucalyptus leaves to stitch on here. 😆
Small world. 😁❤️
Mesmerised! The leaves surviving so beautifully over 7-8 years - beyond my ken! I can't wait to watch this week's slow stitch - not enough hours in the day right now. Big love as always from Scotland ❤️
Hugs to you Margaret ❤️
Just discovered you, and found you so inspiring. Could you please instruct us how you do the little weaving using plant material?
Hello, thank you and welcome. I am planning on doing some weaving of that kind as one of the Monday projects. ♥️
I’ve stitched through fresh bay leaves, they work well as do pressed. They have the benefit of their smell too.
Thank you for sharing your journals. Like the others, I find them fascinating 😍😍😃
That's lovely, I have a bay tree I must try them ❤️
Love to look at these. What a treat
Oh I love your journals. You and Marions World have so much in common. She is always bring home little nature objects.
Thank you Gloria, yes I feel that Marion is a kindred spirit indeed 😊
I loved looking through your journals but as an Australian I found your gum leaves disconcerting they all hang down they don’t face up small thing I know and artist discretion but to me off putting .Notwithstanding I would still love to just spend days looking through your journals they are stunning . Thankyou for showing what you have.
@@elizabethstreeter2145 that is a really interesting perspective, being flippant, maybe because I am in the northern hemisphere they are the wrong way up? 😁 I do understand that it bugs you though, I can imagine. I am pleased you like my journals ❤️
Your journals are so beautiful K3n! Thank you for sharing parts of them. I'd love to see more. ❤
Thank you so much! 😊
Love this little peak at your journals - I love everything about them ❤
I am no stranger to overflowing journals🥰
They are the best and thank you ☺️
I love your journals so much Kathryn! It was seeing one of your beautiful journals that got me hooked on stitching and journals. I have lots of eucalyptus trees on my place so I’m going to stitch some! Thank you so much for sharing this. Take care ❤
Noni you are so welcome, have fun with your eucs ❤️
Just beautiful!! I am so inspired by your work …I have no interest in copying but feel all things are possible and could rapidly get into the creative zone.
Lovely to hear 😊
Lovely to see what you can do with natural objects. Hope to include some in my #field notes journal inspired by Roxy Creations
Hello Helen, I haven't watched any of this month's Roxy prompts yet, field notes sounds like a lovely theme. ❤️
Watching each of your videos opens so many different avenues in my brain. You are such an inspiration. I have been away child minding through school holidays but once back home I will be out scavenging our fields. We have a tree here we call paperbark as the bark is layer upon layer of tissue fine tree, so I am hoping I can incorporate some into my next project and seeing your waxing video I have loads of wax candle ends. Thank you for all your truly wonderful ideas.
Thank you, paper bark sounds wonderful 😊
Thanks for sharing these pages, I saw several new ideas for using leaves in my journals. Thought you might to know that the sycamore or maple seed cases sometimes called helicopters are botanically named samaras. I have two Japanese maples with very small and delicate samaras, but I never thought to preserve them. I always learn a lot from your videos.
Thank you Victoria, Samara rings a vague bell somewhere in my brain 😁❤️
Thanks so much, Kathryn. I knew all the sycamore seeds outside our home must be good for something. 😊
A lady just reminded me that they are called Samaras 😁❤️
Such beautiful work. A joy to look through, thank you heaps.
Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Your journals are so inspiring - Thank you for sharing your beautiful work!
Glad you like them!
Beautiful!❤
Thank you. Love your journals. I sure want to make more. I’ve made 2 so far.
Wonderful!❤️
So beautiful and interesting Kathryn! i love it when they get nice and round, like a tree trunk almost🍀💖
Yes! Like a tree trunk. I love that. ❤
What a treat to have a guided tour through your journals Kathryn ... thank you so much
@@sandrafitzpatrick4225 my pleasure Sandra, happy to share them with you ☺️
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Nice work you got all the stars from me Peter scotland xx
Thank you Peter 😊
Do you stitch the leaves while they are green?
Hello, I usually dry and wax. There is a video about waxing and also a video of me stitching, there are links to both in the description below this one. ❤️
How do you wax the leaves?
I see you found the other video 😁♥️
Wow how wonderful 😍
Thank you! 😊
Could you use dried seaweed Kathryn?
There is dried seaweed on one of the pages I showed you, I think it's from 2017 and still there 😊
Sorry I obv wasn’t paying enough attention! 🤣❤️