I need a Lap Quilt in my Cabin! I have TWEED scraps!
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- My cabin is taking shape very nicely! You can see the progress here @TheLastHomelyGarden-xw7tw
I have been using it quite a lot, it's a place I can spend an early morning hour or at dusk, I can watch as the sky darkens. It's cold down there at the start of spring here in Northumberland! This little tweed lap quilt is perfect to tuck over my knees!
I never thought I would see the day that I made a quilt out of tweed, but I think all these subtle earthy colours are going to look sensational in the cabin.
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Love
Kate
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Thank you everyone! I really appreciate all these lovely comments! Settle down on The Lime Green Sofa - I just made Apple Cake! it's coming you way! xxx
Will you remind us the names of your other channels please? I'm new to your channel and love it. I would be interested in watching yours on gardening and the cabin. Thank you
Your apple cake is delightful! Thank you!
Apple cake is my very most favorite! Thanks!
Smells delicious! I can’t wait to take a bite!
Always lovely to see you too !
My husband gets up and talks to me and I say " I can't talk right now, I'm watching my friend Kate from england."
That’s how I feel exactly 👍
For certain....no interruptions when we're with Kate on the lime green sofa!
Love it on the lime green sofa!!
Ah, you can always put it on hold. Be sure to get back to your husband. My husband passed on two years ago and we spent a lot of time watching TV, alone and together. But I realized that we often put off talking to each other about important things. Pay attention to the times when you really need to talk to each other.
Same here.
I want to thank God for you Kate. Your videos help me through this cancer. Ive also been watching all your old ones. I don’t know what it is but you make me feel better and yes I sit and quilting crocheting and hand stitching. You are a good friend to us out here all over the world. Love you my friend ❤️
Kate, I appreciate the calm demeanor of your videos. It's lovely to see how you imagine your projects and then bring them to completion.
I love the way Kate explains things. I love that she opened her home and her life, to share with all of us. Thank you, Miss Kate!
Prayers for healing and comfort.
Blessings to you.
Praying for your healing, Theresa. And yes, Kate is such a positive force-she has cheered me up on many occasions.
Kate thank you for a lovely visit while making your tweed lap quilt! I am an American, but lately I have noticed you have influenced my speech: I have begun saying “I must crack on!”
And I have “stopped wittering”. Lol😅
. . . and what about " Whoops a Daisy" ? 😊
And I’ve caught my self saying “yeah yeah” 😂 and “Mum” and some others I can’t remember….
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Oh, I’ve said that too!
Hello Kate. I am 70 years old, I live in Orland Hills, Illinois. I have never quilted. Watching you gives me confidence. I am determined to learn. Thank you for sharing your valuable skills. You're a sweetheart.
Hello from the northwest suburbs of Chicsgo! I applaud you wanting to learn to quilt. It is never too late and it is so much fun! Besides Kate’s wonderful channel, the best place to learn is in person classes at a local quilt shop, community classes through your high school district, park district, or local quilt guild. An internet search will bring up the ones nearest to you. Fabric shops may also be aware of local groups. Quilters Quest in Downers Grove has wonderful fabrics and classes for all levels. The Modern Quilt Guild meets in Chicago.
@dianemacisaac4633 hello I am in the northern suburbs of Chicago and was going to say the exact same thing about connecting with others who quilt. Thx
I remember my grandma, Violet having quilts made of the tweed fabrics. They were warm and comfortable to sleep with. I am 72 years old so this was many years ago. As I have grown older I have a deep respect for the strong woman my grandmother was. She grew and canned her own food. She had beautiful flower gardens around the lot her house was on. All her dish towels were embroidered and had crocheted finished edges. I have some in my hope chest that she made. She made a baby blanket for each addition to our family. As you can see she was an amazing woman. I wish I could have time with her and my other grandmother again. What a blessing she was to my life.❤
Beautiful
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Kate, you are just so calming to watch and to listen to. At age 67 I have just done the maddest thing , coming out of retirement and joining an airline ( I have a wonderful ulterior motive!). On my 2nd week of training, my brain is completely frazzled but YOU have got me smiling and calm with your gentle , clear chat. A thousand thanks. Kx
Such a delight to wake up to a new video from you Kate. I would hate to think of life without you. It would leave such a big hole in our lives! You are so good for the soul.
Absolutely right. Every time I watch I feel better, like I’ve done something good for myself, but it’s Kate! ❤
“Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all’. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness.” (I’m reading Tolkien’s LOTR) ♥️
Yes, Kate has a video on LOTR being the inspiration for her channel name. ❤
Rita... your LOTR quote sounds like something Pooh Bear would love.
How absolutely lovely. Our shoulders will melt down from around our ears, our anxious tummies are soothed, smiles return to our faces, a cuppa tea and a piece of apple cake makes all the world right!
Thank you once again for such an easy paced and lovely video. Sundays are always the best when Kate is on the scene. You are truly special to all of us. You bring back simpler times. We all rush around so much these days. It’s wonderful to have you show us your beautiful homely projects.
Thank you Kate I always enjoy spending time with you❤. Hello everyone who are sitting on the lime green sofa 😊
Hello lily from Australia 😊😊
Hello from South Florida USA 😊
Hello from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺
Hello from Carnoustie, Scotland
@@franceshouston3242Hi Frances, yes we can squeeze one more on to the lime green sofa 😊😊
Two years ago I made a tweed quilt using scraps of fabric left over from my sewing over the last sixty years. I backed it with some new woollen dress fabric I found in my attic . The result a quilt for the top of my bed in in autumn. It is full of memories of garments made over the last 60 years from pure wool tweeds from different parts of the British Isles. A wonderful personal memory
I accidentally came across your videos and much to my delight!
My mother who never had much used to use scraps and hand stitch all sorts of things! Always so beautiful.. she would fill her time enjoying her projects. I miss her.ThankYou and I have subscribed! Looking forward to you.
I love that quilt!
Hi Kate, you could always add some black, Navy, brown, purple or red yarn ties the way they tied wool quilts in days gone by. It would add a vintage touch and a bit of color. Love the tweed and cotton combination...so rustic and cozy.
I absolutely adore the juxtaposition of the scrumptious dark tweeds, with the zingy block prints! What a lovely little quilt, with so much personality.
My Mom made a full size quilt using wool clothing found at thrift shops. Your lap blanket reminded me of her quilt!
How lovely to see you today ! Just when I needed a friendly face and no quilt police. Just do what feels good for you xxx thank you.
Lovely cushion with these linen pieces and your stitching 😍
I love the way that the Indian fabrics are managing to look bright and cheerful at the same time as they look muted and mellow. Very clever - and definitely look better as 5" blocks for a lap quilt.
It is so comforting to see you removing stitches you just don't like. I spent half a day sewing pieces together the wrong way, undoing them, redoing them (wrong), undoing them again and finally getting it right! I know your reason was you didn't like the way yours looked and mine was because I wasn't paying close attention to what I was doing, but still - good to know you sometimes remove stitches for whatever reason! Hope spring has sprung in your neck of the woods. We keep getting glimpses, small samples of the beautiful weather coming our way, interspersed with torrential rain and very high winds on chilly days. Fingers crossed that the weather will be lovely for the eclipse on April 8th which is also my husband's birthday. We have family coming to North Texas from Minnesota for the big event. Trying hard to convince hubby that the eclipse was not ordained by God in celebration of his birthday. This will be his 76th so I have had many years of experience convincing him that he's not the center of the universe, but he's being particularly stubborn about this. Wish me luck! Love your channels, by the way!
We can't wait to hear the Polar Express being read to us by you while cozy in the cabin with your quilt☺️❤️ Nine months from today is Christmas Eve 😮🫢
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I like the colorful side better than the tweed. It is so beautiful !!
Hi Kate, Ive been watching you now for a few months as I have just stumbled onto sewing late into my 50's. I couldn't tell you how I found your channel but am so happy that I did. I really appreciate the speed and tone of your channel. I am reminded of how watching Mr. Rogers as a child and also an adult made me feel. There was no pizzazz and no jazz. No flashing lights just an easy going show that brought you a lot of good information and you felt better and very relaxed after you'd watched him. I get the same feeling as I watch and rewatch your videos. I like your music choices and as an American I love listening to the beautiful lilt and accent when you narrate. So, thank you for giving of your time and giving this old bird some great listening material as I discover the fabulous world of sewing. M
I love this. I am Irish, my daughter is Norwegian and Irish and she married Ashish from India. I grew up, loving India, because my father was stationed there during World War II, and I grew up with artifacts from India.
This so touches my heart. I sent it along to my daughter.
Also, I love, absolutely love the cushion that was intended for the cabin, but for some reason it hasn’t gotten there because you’re using it on your chair, you’re sewing chair! I think I’m gonna make myself one of those !
Love, love the tweed. And think the linen on the back would have been lovely. First time I’ve seen this and am hooked!
Thank you Kate, for sharing your time and wonderful talents! I am a great Grandma now retired and you have inspired to get back to making hand made items. I am learning so much from you! Prayers for good health for you.
I like the fact that when it is folded it looks like a stodgy tweed blanket, then you unfold it and find a burst of bright colors inside.
Love the difference of the tweed. Hope you have some heating in your cute cabin❤
Did I hear a seagull? Do you live by the sea? A lovely, slow video. Nice to spend time!
The videos at The Last Homely House with Kate, I feel so renewed and for quite a long time, I've not known how to proceed in difficult times. This channel and Kate's sharing has been so healing. Love from Alabama, USA
Dear Kate, your explanations of how you came to veer from your usual brights to sewing with brown thread and tweed, seemed to resonate with me. Quilting journey stories are just as meaningful as the finished project. And truly, you are such a good story teller.
I love sewing with brights, but like life itself, browns and tweeds come into our life and should not be ignored. Sewing is creating and we just have to figure a creative way to weave those brown and TWEEDY bits into our life story.
In the end you created a quilt story, beautiful and “unbound” that turned out to be cozy after all.
This therapy session has been grand. Thank you Dr. Kate of Homely House, East of the sea.
I recently discovered your channel. Thank you so much for doing this stuff. Because I found you I am now making my first quilt.
I have always loved tweed and herringbone patterns, since I was a little girl growing up in Chicago in the 1950s! They are so British, and look sharp and smart!
Isn’t it wonderful how those different fabrics harmonize! Lovely.
Love your “little” tweed blanket. Thank you for always sharing with us. When I have a sad day, you or you and Anna are a source of cheer for me.
dear Kate......thank you very much for your video,I am a 64 old woman,living in the northern of germany and I love your videos...................never quilt before but now I am in pension and who knows....perhaps...............Blessings and Greetings from daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘
Oh it’s just perfect for a pair of knees.
It is so peaceful to watch you and your creative ideas. Thank you for sharing your life with us. I love seeing things in England and I watch a lovely lady, Corrine, in Australis doing slow stitching. Places I will never see in person, being in Evansville Indiana USA. I enjoy the difference in culture's and yet we are all so much alike. Amazing, isn't it? Sincerely, Carol Creation's BTW, I'm 86 and still creating.
So cute and cozy 🥰 it looks soft and warm. I love how your mind works, Kate! Your methods are what true quilting is all about
What a great way to decorate a room! The unquilted lap robe looks great without quilting, but you won't be able to wash it without the wadding bunching up and moving around, I'm afraid. You might consider tying it with yarn at random intervals or in the corners. Always good to be with you!
The wool/tweed blanket I have was made by my grandmother ages ago. She took all the wool scraps…and there were lots as my mother sewed for us all constantly including Pendleton wool plaid shirts for my dad…Greandma cut squares about 6 inches square and machine stitched about a 1/4 inch around each square. Then she crocheted around each square and then crocheted the squares together! I can name the garments the squares came from, like my older sisters brown tweed coat (at age 8) to my lavender plaid skirt I just had to have (at age 12…I’m 74 now). And it is still snuggly warm!
Kate, you are a darling! You make me laugh out loud and smile all the day long! Just a tip about your lovely tweed lap quilt. My grandma made many quilts from heavy wools for the cold winter nights in Wyoming and she always tied them. She used a red wool thread, so those stogy old quilts had this little red tied knot on top. When we were kids it was fun to fiddle with those red threads when we were wrapped up in one while watching Saturday morning cartoons!
Wonderful memories!! I remember "tied" quilts when I was young. I had forgotten all about that!!
My kids call this "memorylanning" - that magical time so long ago, when suddenly a word or phrase whisks us back in time to a happy place! Hugs to you Cecile!@@cecileroy557
The Apple Cake is yummy. Thank you. And thank you for the tweed coverlet idea. I agree with you - it looks very nice the way it is without stitching the "sandwich" together. I hope you embroider your initials and the year in the corner. You could also attach a little pocket for chocolates when Agnes and her brother (when he is older) come to sit with you by the pond. As with all of your podcasts, this one continues the stitching inspiration. Stay safe and well. 🧶🪡🧵
I moved to France 20 yrs ago and a French lady helped me with my first patchwork project. It is such a pleasure to share this experience.
Love this lap quilt. I think it would be cute with tying the quilt instead of stitching it.
I love your beautiful lap quilt. Good idea to add the lovely indian cotton.❤❤❤❤❤
I love seeing the confidence with which you use your rotary cutter. After over 30 years of using dressmaking scissors I'm now trying to convert but still wobble offline often! The tweed is beautiful, lovely choice for a garden cabin.
Hello from Japan. I just finished two quilts I made with a gift of vintage Japanese indigos. A bricks quilt with bits of red and a capital t quilt that looks like little kimonos. Now I’m making two sampler quilts with a gift of vintage thimbleberries scraps and chunks. I usually work with cottons and tie the quilts with crochet thread and use no wadding but back them with fleece or flannel or a cotton sheet for summer. I love your relaxing attitude and all your creative use of fiber.
I love watching you make things Kate❤
It always makes me smile when I see you’ve posted a new video. Thank you, Kate.
Your lap quilt is beautiful! ❤
A lovely cabin quilt and what a cute pillow!
I really like you little lap quilt especially the Indian block fabric makes it very cheery! While the tweed makes it very warm and practical. Thanks for sharing. BTW I do like Apple cake too! Thank You lol
Love the beautiful fabrics you use. Thank you for sharing.
I love your beautiful quilt! Thanks for the video.
Sounds so enchanting to be sitting in your cabin down by the pond and snuggled under your new lap quilt made if warm tweed.
So lovely Kate but the back certainly screams you !!!🥰😍🤩
Just a note, I will quilt the most of these quilts with my Bernina. 😎😊😊
I enjoyed watching you make this. I never thought of using Tweed but your window coverings and your lap blanket look wonderful.
Oh Kate your cabin is going to be such a cozy, homey place to be. ❤the tweeds are a perfect touch
Hi Kate - love both your channels. I actually sit on a lime green sofa to watch you! Don’t throw your scraps of Indian cotton away nor your threads from unpicking. You can use them all for stuffing cushions, draught excluders etc 😀
It is always so calming watching you ☺️
Love the tweed and brown thread. I can’t wait to,heat my treadle machine up and running.
Love the tweed blanket! Great idea Kate ❤
I LOVE the tweed quilt! ❤
The lap quilt is lovely.
Perhaps add a hand made blanket chest! Keep all the fabrics safe from moths, etc. Plus, who does not enjoy a beautiful , wood, blanket chest! Thank you for your video it was a joy to watch.
Watching you using tweed for your quilts brought back wonderful memories for me of my childhood. We would visit my grandparents in Northern Ireland for our summer holidays and we would have patchwork quilts on the bed. They were made from tweed but the squares were crocheted together with orange wool. I believe the tweed squares were from samples as one of my uncles had been a salesman who traveled around the countryside with his case of samples. Oh boy that’s showing my age 👵🏻. Thank you for the memories. 🧵🏴🇦🇺
Lovely quilt Kate and isn’t it rewarding using fabrics that give you comfort. I am a scrap quilter so appreciate others using theirs too. 🇨🇦
Another beautiful quilt! You really are so talented and your videos are a joy to watch. Do you think you'll have time to make lap quilts for everyone on the lime green sofa?😂 ❤👍from Somerset
Love this style Lap Quilt ,thank you so much ,.❤❤❤❤❤
I love tweed and I love your curtain-quilt! Those modest brown colours are so beautiful....
I love natural fibers. Thankyou for sharing
I am thinking the small quilt needs more quilting so when it is laundered the batting will stay in place. Love the tweeds.
Lovely, your tweed quilt is stunning, need a wee bit crochet in the cabin too 😂🧶🏴
Thank you for sharing, Kate! I love the organic look of tweed, and the gorgeous colors in the Indian fabric! They are really lovely together, and either side would be lovely on your lap. I just purchased natural linen curtains (haven’t worked up the courage to sew them, just yet) and need linen cushions and a table runner. Those I can make! Your video’s always make me want to jump right into sewing and your creativity gets my imagination and energy working with excitement!
Thank you very much for sharing. I have not seen your cats lately. I trust they are all well.
I wish you would have shown how you added the wadding and got it to lay so flat after turning the whole thing inside out. 💖🌞🌵😷
It would have been very nice to have tied the quilt. Love the tweed and the Indian fabric!
g'day to everyone on the lime green sofa from Australia, bit of a wet one here where i am & thankful for the much cooler temperature
loving this Cabin Fever you have going, so different to what you usually make but it goes so well with the beautiful rustic cabin & can't wait to see what you do for the window dressings
in olden times they even had quilts & blankets they made for the walls as old houses & castles were very drafty,
so looking forward to see what you make next
thanx for sharing
Simply Beautiful lap blanket
I have been thinking of making a quilt in that way for my bed…. Lap quilt sounds good too 😊
The little cushion is so sweet
I love the lap blanket, it’s beautiful. 😁😊
Holaaa que bonita manta, me encanta! Admiro tu trabajo, que es más bien un arte, el amor que le dedicas es una bendición!
Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos.
A mi también me gusta mucho cocer a mano y el pachwork 😍
Saludos desde Venezuela 🙆 al otro lado del mundo 🌎🌟🍃⚘🍃
I love your ideas and that little cushion 😊
Wow I love this project! What a great combination of the Indian block prints and the tweeds. I love the texture of the Indian cotton, I'd love to get some.
Hello again! You are so fast at everything ,I need you here to help me finish eleven or twelve quilts I have started!LOL! I live in Lubbock, Texas, it would be quite a trip to get here! I hand quilt with a tiny needle and tiny stitches. When I started quilting I used a larger needle and longer stitches, I need to get back to that! Good to see you again! ❤️😊
Kate, Thank you so much for this awesome idea. I have a BFF who works for a furniture store and she gets these wonderful samples and gives them to me. Now I know what to do with them. Simple blankets/quilts with or without batting and a fun backing. YES! Thank you again.
Wow Kate I’d never put those fabrics together but my gosh it’s perfect.
I so enjoy watching you, Kate, even though I don't do quilting. I knit, crochet, paint and write. If only there were more hours in the day, then perhaps...? Keep well x 😊
Beautiful. I love the muted colours.
Se ve muy hermosa la colcha, dan ganas de acariciarla, la lana es estupenda en ese proyecto😊
That’s lovely. I bought two bags of tweed scraps from Morpeth chantry, 8 pounds each. It was gorgeous colour full tweed💕
That is absolutely beautiful.
I love that blanket Kate! Gosh the India prints are GORGEOUS on the back . . . . Sending you much love from the states💚
....so very enjoyable..Thank You..😊💙
I ran across a video of a women making a Yesenin blanket and it reminded me of your style. The quilt colors were not your colors but the design and a mix of machine and hand sewing made me think it would be a project you would enjoy.
Love your blankets. They look so cozy. Happy sewing❤