12 years, 6 months, and 20 days ago my son died in my arms. Sewing saved my life. He would help me choose quilt block lay-outs, pull colors, he build my new sewing area. Numb for a long time, it was needle and thread that saved my life, and still does. I just found your channel and I think this project is perfect. It provides structure, time to ponder everything or nothing, it stretches your creative muscles. Thank you.
I am so very sorry for your loss and that just doesn't sound like enough. How painful that must be to loose a child. Sending you BIG hugs! And I am glad that stitching helps you and that you found us! ❤️❤️❤️
Huge gentle hugs. I've three boys and I can sympathise. We've had many difficulties which sewing gets me through life, but it is never the same as yourself. You are a brave lady in sharing. Keep all your happy memories going🫂
Hi, im a 71 year old guy who is somewhat creative. I've been knitting for many years. Thanks to UA-cam, I've discovered quilt making and stitching. A year ago I found out I have a respiratory condition, which laid me low for months, until I learned to control it. After just sitting on the couch and doing nothing but watch tv, I saw a video about quilting. Having something creative to fill my time has given me purpose again. Thanks for your encouraging videos. I love the dots, and I'm sure I'll be doing some.
I'm so glad you are feeling better and I am here to inspire and keep people moving. Nothing worse than feeling purposeless! 💛💛💛 Thanks for your comment!
Hallo, I am watching from Cape Town South Africa, and only recently started slow stitching, I am loving it. In South Africa, we have a DOT CONCEPT - which is Do One Thing every day to impact a life - smile at a stranger, feed a homeless person, bless a child, do something practical and non-expensive to DOT every day. So I would make these wonderful dot mats and hand them out to random people and encourage them to keep the concept going ... love your show!
Just came across your channel. I lost my Mother 2 years ago. I have lost all interest in my sewing. I am so glad I did. I am going to do dots with you.
Glad I found your channel today. Eight years ago I lost my mother. She was my best friend. I felt like I had lost my purpose in life. I was so depressed for a couple of years but then I found UA-cam. I learned to make regular quilts and rag quilts. Rag quilts are my favorite. Now. I have become very interested in the slow stitching process. No rules. I love it 😀
Oh Lisa, I can relate, still miss my mom and it's 9 years! Did you see my video where I show a quilt I'm making from her clothes? Thanks for joining me! ♥️
I, too, am worried about the whimpering dog in the rain. Thank you for getting involved. Also: I am not an embroiderer, but I love your dots❣️And I love the fact that you moved yourself out of inactivity toward creativity again. You chose to allow yourself to be inspired by someone/something. A new beginning. One day at a time. I am 10 yrs older than you, and I am feeling as if I've lost that wonderful spark that kept me creating all kinds of things all my life. (The muse may have lost my address...) Well, thank you for your dots. I may not be doing exactly that, but I still have fabric I was using for weaving and rug-making. I've sold all my yarn, but I'm thinking I can maybe get started again using what I have, as resources are fixed. I know it's up to me. No excuses. But I do thank you for sharing your story, your ideas, and your skills. God bless. And I hope the dog is okay. 🫶🏼
Have a friend coming round this week to begin a dot a day project from this wonderful podcast. SO, SO delighted to have found you… love your style and the way you take us into your life and share your many talents. Feel we’ve been friends forever. (UK) ❤❤
I’m 72 and a life long sewer. Taught by my mom when young. She sewed my clothes, and I sewed clothes for both my daughters. I sew scrap lap quilts now and donate them where needed. Love your circle project!
I love the idea of ageing gratefully. I'm newly retired from a long and loved teaching career. I'm allowing myself time to enjoy art and creativity in ways I never had before while working and raising kids. Now I need to release the idea of everything needing to be perfect-it will be a healthy journey for me I hope. Thanks for your positive messaging and lovely art work.
Love you and your journey, I’m on the same one myself!… As a baby boomer, I love and appreciate the journey that we have been blessed to have (good and bad). I …I love that alot of us as children could play and ride bikes and roller skate, write with chalk on the sidewalks and our driveways, camping in the back yard, climbing a willow tree and reading for hours…without fear and only had to be home before the “”street lights came on” in our neighborhood… if you did not have that sense of freedom and creativity whether, in a rural sense … or other areas. Please use these elder years to claim that wonderful feeling in any way possible for your situation!❤🎉😊
Of course I love this idea of a Dot a day. My name is Dot. I am 70 years young and always looking for a portable projects that is fun, simple, and meditative. Thank you so much for inspiring me to give this lovely project a try
Love your Dots idea. Not sure which materials I’ll use but it’s fun thinking about it. Mostly I enjoy being here in your safe and loving community. Reading the comments it sounds like many of us are in grief recovery and healing processes. Me too. Your Dot project might be just the ticket to get my SewJo back. Small, interesting, no rules, no pressure…. Perfect! Thank you. I’m 80+ and I’m not comfortable wasting my time by not “doing”.
I love the improv, artistic nature of this project. I'm 63 and just started quilting during the pandemic, and already tiring of the patterns out there. I also enjoy hand sewing, I find it relaxing.
Hello! I just found you here.. YT miraculously brought you to me. I'm a life long sewist, quilter & clothes maker. For 14 years now I've struggled with autoimmune diseases. So, I have good weeks and bad weeks. Sewing has become a struggle due to arthritis in areas of sitting and my hands. I persist, and have learned to hand sew and knit/crochet laying on my side. On good days I can sit for awhile at a sewing machine. I've been hand appliquing a quilt designed by Judy Newman. Her quilts are quirky, vintage inspired, just all so cute. The quilts had a center of hexagon flowers & stars, with a large border of 6" pieced octagon blocks. I've hand pieced most of them, but the 6" blocks can be seen by machine if your good at precision piecing. I do love your blocks. A few years ago there was a group of ladies on Instagram doing the same thing, but without the variety in sizes. Their block were mostly bright prints on solid or cream colors. You've inspired me to try sewing again. It's been months since I've gotten any sewing done. I live in NE Indiana, not too far from your home. Thanks for passing on your sewing energy! Holly
Uh, those autoimmunes, they stink. I have a bunch too but I try not to think about them! I'm glad you can still manage to create in spite of it. And I find when I'm at my lowest, watching videos on creativity is almost as good. Sending hugs to you! ♥️
I’m an avid crocheter and agree with you that staying busy and creative is healthy in all ways. I’ve sewn, knitted and crocheted most of my 80 years. I may take a break from yarn art and do some hand sewing. Love your content.
I am so thankful I stumbled onto your channel today. I love what you are showing us! I am a 75 year old quilter that has 'hit a wall.' I love quilting and needle work. Preferring hand work over machine work. I so needed something new, you have showed me some possibilities. Can't wait to get started! Thanks so much!
FanTASTIC! I'm so glad to hear this! The whole process is wonderful, from picking out the fabrics to cutting things out and the basting, stitching, and embellishments... Enjoy! ♥️
I’ve never taken a quilt class but remember relatives working on them. I love to have my hands working so about 30 years ago when I started my career I decided to make a Dresden Plate quilt. I finally finished each block during the first year of covid. Now I need to find someone to finish the quilt. I have no living family so I plan to give the Dresden plate to my best friend’s daughter. Now that I found you I’m gonna start this type of quilt for my best friend’s son. I just love the muted tones of your blocks.
Love YOU !!! Slow stitching. The new term for hand sewing.....now why did I not think of that ???? Love what you are doing here and I am going to follow along. It is good to have a project like this --- ready to go on the road with you. I spend a lot of time sitting on the beach and I think I just found my companion for the Summer of 2024. Looking forward to your next episode. Annie Lou !!
Annie Lou, I love your name! AND yes, I tag everything with "Slow stitching" because it's the new WORD. But it does help to find nice sewing projects. Take those babies to the beach! I'm going to do the same! See you friday! ♥️
I love this idea. Mommy taught me to sew etc as a child. I love doing hand work, needless to say I'm addicted to EPP. I retired to take care of her, now she lives vicariously through my creations😊. I have only my daughter and 11 yr. grandson with me, everyone else is states away so I'm semi home bound. Great channel 👏 👍🏾 ❤
I really don't need another project because I have several going, but this is such a great way of spending a few minutes here and there while enjoying the practice of embroidering. I love, love this and am going to my craft room and collect some scraps for this project.
HA! I started reading your comment and thought you were loving the concept but didn't have the time... I'm so glad you are going to start this project!!! You won't be sorry, it's very satisfying and best part is how small it is and so so SEW easy to pick up and do just a titch of stitching! Hooray! ❤️❤️❤️ Have fun!
Oh my goodness!!! This is the perfect project!!!!!❤ I have wanted to do a circle project and have been looking for a few years already!!! I I'm so excited that I found you.... I love to do handstitching, always have. I have always preferred applique because I could incorporate embroidery and beading and whatever I wanted to. And now I found this fantastic project . What a blessing! Thank you so much!💐❤
So glad to have the chance to be part of your "dots". Aging creatively is the thought i need to put into my head to fill the void retirement has created. Thank you so much...🎉
Beautiful dots! I love your stitchery so much! I discovered Jude with Spirit Cloth back in early 2019 and I agree with you! Her work is so inspiring and have learned a lot from her videos. I'm so glad you're making videos. Really inspiring. Thank you.
@@JeriBellini she really is. I use to auto play all her Playlists when slow stitching on my back porch. So calming and soothing. I'm watching another of your videos and your instruction is wonderful! Love the materials you use. Excited to have discovered your channel.
I'm so glad too, it took me awhile because they have special meaning to me... but it's making me so happy that so many of you want to make them too and I hope they will have special meaning to you as well! 💛
Jeri, thank you for this and your blogging, too. I am thrilled to follow you and learn from you. I am a beginning quilter and needleworker. Love your thoughtful way of moving through the world . . . and taking us with you! Also, thank you for introducing me to Judith Hill’s work - also inspiring!
Oh Jeri!! I have always adored the other dot wall hanging which is sometimes behind you. And now you offer this wonderful project! You make me really really happy. And you don't need to apologize for the way you are working or filming or explaining. You're perfect. A big big thank you from the North Sea coast of Germany
I’m so pleased that I’ve happened upon your channel. I slow stitch and make journals. I’m happy to create this project along with you. I’ve subscribed and look forward to future videos (plus, I’ll go back and watch previous ones). 💖💖💖
Hi, I have just found your channel. Loving the dots, love sewing, love collecting fabric. I think we are lucky being creative as there’s so much to do, so many possibilities ❤
Love love love this and all your methodology. I am a recent attendee of your UA-cam channel and I saw your " dot hanging" in the background of one of the episodes and fell instantly in love with it. Thank you for so carefully explaining just how you go about creating these little lovelies. I off the stash dive and gather. I live in the midwest of Western Australia so you have wide-reaching skills. Hugs Vicki. 🙂💗
Australia! How exciting, thank you so much for being here! I am so happy that you like the way I teach and will be joining in on this project! HUGS to you too! 💛
I love embroidery but I haven’t quilted…but I love this project! And I love this channel and can’t wait to watch more of these. I’m a professional photographer and I’m watching this while editing tonight’s beach family session, and dreaming of what little slow stitching I can do when I finish my edits. I am grateful for you!
Hi, Jeri! I love your dots, because I love to use circles in my stitching, but I must admit that I struggle with measuring and ironing and doing things the same size. Not that I can’t do it, I can, but because I feel that my enjoyment disappears if I have to be precise in my art work. I guess that as I am so organized and disciplined in my day to day life, work, chores, housework, etc, I need some craziness when I do art. Even looking at my house: everything is organized, clean and neat, except my art room, where there’s a bit of a creative chaos, so to speak 😂. I sincerely admire artists who do what you do, but I think I would probably eyeball all the squares and dots. And then I would decide how to join them. The other day, I did a series of wonky log cabins (following Kathryn K3n) and they were all in different sizes! I wanted to make a bag, so I decided to crochet around them until they were all the same size and then I made the bag 😉 It’s how I do things 😂! Well, you said you like to read comments and I love to write, so I tend to write long comments, sorry about that 🤭 And I look forward to seeing the next step, who knows I will do some wonky dots 😉 💛🩵💚🧡♥️🩷🤍💜💙🤎❤️
Hi Alexa, I used to be that way, I can't do the housework anymore, between the Lupus and now lung and heart issues, I spend more time in my little sewing room, doing a little of this and a lot of something else. All I want to do is sew, read or write. And I think I'll try Jeri's "One a Day Dots. I have a lot of Kafe Fasset scraps and some of my husband's old shirts and pants. That should be wild.
@@violet2048 those fabrics sound wonderful! And guess what???? I met Kaffe Fassett! Many years ago a good friend of mine used to sew up his quilt designs. He came to her house one day and we all had a visit! And we do what we can do when we can do it! ♥♥♥
Dear Jeri. I have been hooked on your channel since you came back and I love it. I am so excited that you are doing this tutorial as I have admired your dot hanging so much. I am thinking of doing mine in blues. Thank you, thank you. cheers. Diane from the Gold Coast, Australia ❤
I'm so glad to hear it Diane, I hope you pressed the bell so you don't miss anything! I would love to see your dots, do send me an email with a photo when you have something started. I've started some in my beach colors, couldn't help myself! 💛
Just found your channel and already hooked. Liked and subscribed! I love hand work of any kind and this project is right up my alley, colors and all. I have seventeen years on you in age and so grateful I can still do hand work. Made a hexi quilt during the pandemic and actually enjoyed being shutdown alone with my fabric😂
I just turned 76, I came down with RSV, it affected my heart, long story short, after a week in the hospital, I now have 3 more doctors and 5 more medications. So, everyone that can get an RSV vaccination, just do it. This is acute project it's similar to EPP's, which I started in January, I have 184, Hexagon flowers and I will be aiming for 600. I chose a bunch or scraps and jelly rolls, to make the 1" hexi's. They're all ditzy little flowers. Very colorful. I'll keep on working with it until my hands give out. You are talking about barking dogs keeping you up, last night a coyote, got over the fence and took my cat. He absolutely would not come in. My son found his fur and blood all over the patio. So, I'm not concentrating on much. I miss him, he's the only who would Sleep with me. I took him in when he was a kitten and 3 others that I could catch. I only have 2 of his brothers left. Which I am grateful for. They are very sweet cats. They are all sibling from different litters. I kept trying to catch the mother and have her fixed, but she was too smart. Thank you, Jeri, great project and I love your fabric choices. I Hope everyone is well and enjoying their sewing.
I am so so sad for your loss! My daughter lives in a busy busy area in PA and she has a family of fox living in her yard! She had to stop letting her dogs out in the yard. It's crazy out there! Your hexies sound wonderful! I hope you feel better soon! Thanks so much for being here! ♥️
Thank you for your dot project. I loved listening to you while I was trying to sew my new project.-hobby. Teddy bears Hand sewing is new to me I always did my quilts or any sewing by machine. I'm trying to sew neatly by hand but not where I want to be with it yet. I'm practising. Having my career life finely coming to the end at 72 after having to get my spleen removed, it's time to learn to play. Some times I think it's a waste of time, but at this age I suppose it's fine. I have the rest of my life to better my sewing. Thank you , you have encouraged me.
@@ConnieVdheever-wx2hf totally not a waste of time! Being creative is good for the soul, and you could always stitch up some teddy bears and donate them to a worthwhile cause. Hand sewing whether good stitches or not, will bring you a sense of peace and contentment if you can do it just for the pure pleasure of it. Sending you healing hugs for your spleen and GLAD you are here! ox
I have to do this….it speaks to me somehow. I’m going to be 68 in a few months and have been quilting for only a few years since retiring. On June 26, 2023 my husband fell from a roof and was in the University of Utah Trauma Unit (over 2 hours from home) for a long time. After his last surgery he developed a staff infection and ended up back in the Trauma Unit. During his stays in the hospital I had a good friend loan me a featherweight sewing machine so I could bide my time sewing 2” squares together. It had to be mindless sewing, my mind couldn’t handle anything structured. Someday I hope to find a featherweight machine I can afford to buy so that I can sew wherever I am. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us….Bless your heart and fingers! Rita
Rita, I'm so sorry about your hubby. I hope he is feeling better these days. I have a featherweight, they are wonderful sturdy little machines. Hope one day you find one! ❤️ They are very hard to come by. Thanks for being here and for blessing my heart and fingers! ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Jeri, this is my first time with you. I was watching Bonney LOGCABINSTITCHER shared about your channel. It sparked my interest so here I am. I find your dots fascinating. I am a quilt maker and cross stitcher. I also work with wool applique. I am 78 and am very interested in learning about slow stitching. So nice to meet you. I'm looking forward to your next video. Happy stitching.
Thank you Jeri. I have just discovered you and I love your dots. I can feel myself relaxing by just contemplating my background colours etc. I know you will be there when I am ready to begin my dots. Love your philosophy too. Stitching soothes my soul. As I stitch my mind just settles in a calm space. Even if an unpleasant memory enters I usually find my thoughts drift back calmly to my little piece of cloth and before I know it I am slowly getting back into my happy zone.
Everyone is saying that! Ha! I love it... Brian hummed It's my Life, by Bon Jovi... it's got a great message. It's that one.. maybe i'll sing it this week for you! HA! ♥️ It's my life It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive
After watching your videos yesterday, l've woken up and with a cup of tea and watched part one of the dots video. I am now going to go through my stash to plan a wall hanging. Thank you for the chat and kind words. Annette, Bognor Regis, England
I sew patchwork all the time with my sewing machine but usually I miss something to do by hand. This means I never watch TV because then I need something to do with my hands. This is a fantastic idea'. I will never be without Scraps. Thank you! 🥰 (I hope I am expressing myself correctly. I live in Sweden and expressing myself in another language may not always be right)
@@JeriBellini O'm making a multi-coloured circle quilt (on multi-colored squares too) right now, too, along with the other 5 I'm close to finishing! I agree with you, repeating all of those various steps every day would be a bit much. I much prefer the multi-at-a-time method too. What a good idea--something special on UA-cam especially for all of us mature people! It's great to try something new with a smile!!! (I'm 77!)
dawn Collins, artist from California, got me here...not a stitcher , more an advocate, & her summer project inspired by you, is as fun on paper with ink & paint as needle & thread...dittos to comments on loss & found creative outlets from inside out.
What a lovely idea! The lovely Jennifer Coulston just happened to mention you on her channel so thought I would take a look and I’m so pleased I did this is a lovely project that I fancy having a go so thank you for the inspiration
Tickled to find your channel…sewing is my passion and I loved listening to you…positive creativity and relaxation…who could ask for anything more! Can’t wait to start a dot project as we travel! ❤😊❤
One of the BEST instructional videos I’ve seen. I appreciate you explaining the HOW and the WHY of what you’re doing. I love listening to the stories as you instruct us. You may have motivated me to try something new! THANK YOU from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 🙃
Hallo , I started jan. 2023 for the first time with quilting , 1 block a month. I finished a beautiful quilt with little mistakes, but I am learning🥰 and new ideas came on my way. For example Lori Holt club. Today I saw this video and like it too, another way: small blocks😊 thank you for explaning how to do this and your story and give me new ideas to sew. I am very pleased. Wish you many good days ❤😊 greeting from Mandy from Holland
I love the idea of a dot a day. Im 82 and my eyes are starting to fade a bit and fingers have arthritis but I love to keep busy. So I am going to follow what you are doing. I still craft , quilt and knit, but am getting slow. You are doing a great job. I live in NZ and winter is approaching so it will be a good task while staying inside.
YAY YOU Go Girl! My mom inspired me to keep going. She was always doing something either in the garden, cooking, writing letters to people who couldn't get out and her big thing was crocheting hats for the homeless. She was amazing and was doing this right up until she died at 98! We have to keep moving! OR else and SO WHAT if our stitches are wonky?!! sending hugs, ♥️
I love your dots Jeri. I found you by wanting to find out about slow stitching and I found a gem of artist to learn from on oh so many artist forms. This has inspired me to look at my enormous quilting cotton in many different ways.
I am so glad I found your channel today. I wanted a project that was not overwhelming for me and this is it! I love this idea. I am not the best sewer, and not worrying about perfection is right up my alley. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your channel which I was blessed to find. I appreciate your encouragement to seniors keep being creative and not worrying about perfection.! Just enjoy the act of doing what you love I will be 81 this year. 🤗
The dogs barking,woke up my old rescue standard poodle, who looked at me like… “Who is that?… check it out yourself, I’m am napping, and they woke me up”… old, lazy, lovable, but mostly LAZY😂 The turning under of there edges and joining remind me of English paper piecing and that also is for precise piecing together😊❤
The first time I saw you dots was when you filmed in front of the board that displayed them all. At that moment I thought they were a quilt, hanging on your wall and found it breathtakingly beautiful. Have you ever considered doing a big wall quilt with them? Hanging it as art. They are nice in little projects, but one big one would be magnificent. Just an idea, which I am sure you didn't need...
Wow I do get you. At 72 I needed to try something new. Started nalbinding a few months ago. Too Kool. About 15 yrs ago took up crochet with plastic grocery bags. Gotta love it!
I'm so glad I found your channel today. I recently saw a quilt with dots and after watching you, decided I want to make one. Good instructions. Thanks for motivating me to get started. Margie \TN
I’m so glad I found you. I too am 68 years old. I’m in between chapters in my life as my husband passed away 2 years ago followed by my retirement and move back to the city of my birth, Indianapolis. Aging creatively is exactly what I plans to do. I’ve collected so many crafting supplies: beads, buttons, and bows. That’s what I would call my work if I were only able to get it off the ground. I love small things. Mosaics,….lots of fabrics… I look forward to watching your next video as I find your style relaxing to follow. Thank you, Julia
Hi Julia, I am sorry for your loss. I am also glad to hear you plan to keep moving... we must. I do mosaics too and just about every other art thing you can think of and I love everything so much and my head is spinning with ideas. I go through stages of stitching, then bookmaking, weaving and on and on and on... Thanks for being here! ❤️
I am so glad I found this video. What a wonderful idea it is to stitch these and make a great piece of artwork, a pillow, a comforter, and more. Slow stitching is a wonderful pastime, too. So calming. I have made the square and circle templates. Thank so much. Now for part 2.😀
Thank you for sharing this wonderful project. I love the idea of the circles and taking the time to enjoy the process of making a quilt. In the morning I will be going thru my fabric stash to start this quilt. Thanks again.
I absolutely LOVE your video! Love your method of slowly showing us exactly what you are doing. The usual emphasis is on just how fast we can get something done (like faster is somehow better - NOT!) Your choice of colors is right up my alley as well. These are just too adorable for words. Thank you so very much for sharing with us. I am about to watch Part 2, & I'm sure I will enjoy it as much as Part 1. Hoping to start some of my own & already have lots of lovely neutral fabrics to choose from. 😊
Wow. I just watched your first dot a day. I live what your doing. I would have worried about the dog too! I have made a play list of your videos to come back to. I have some long term projects that I had stalled out in, in the past couple of years. Sandwich generation and personal health. So I am back to my journey of making. Glad to have found you. You are inspiring.
Thank you so much for sharing this friendly time and space! I've been a crafter for many years (I was crocheting as I watched this), but have never tried quilting. This made me want to start, and gave me an idea of how rewarding it might be.
I already feel motivated. Glad this found me, I love the pace thank you. Never thought I could plan something g long term like a quilt but feel like I would enjoy this as a daily practice and start to use my fabric stash. Thank you! ❤
I moved to State College PA in 1990. That's where I learned to quilt. Antoinette Holl was my teacher. She was Excellent, Fabulous, Inspiring, & Wonderful. She taught beginners to advanced students. She would love "slow stitching". She began in the 1960's. All piecing and quilting by hand. She was a pioneer in machine work and she introduced me to rotary cutters. I am a batch person like you. I learned how to make my own assembly line while in Junior Achievement. Now I apply it to quilting and embroidery. Glad I found you today. Have fun camping!! ;-)
I am so glad I found you again! Years ago I saw some of your videos and started following you, but you know how UA-cam works. They don’t show you the people you follow in your feed, and I think you changed your UA-cam name and I probably didn’t know it was you. Anyways, today I was doing research for a fiber art course I’m writing for my school district, and among the videos that came up, yours did as well. Went to your Etsy shop and suddenly I realized I was already following you on Etsy. Then I realized I was also following you here. Oh, boy! What a great thing to see you again, even if it’s been a while since you started posting again. I’ll just have to go back and watch. This is the third or fourth video I’m watching. You do such a great job explaining that I can have my students watch you in addition to watching me in case they need another voice. This project is so awesome for a collaborative type of project. Thank you for all the awesome ideas! ❤❤❤
OH! I'm so glad we got re-connected!!! Yes, I changed my channel name and now my focus is on Aging creatively and gratefully. Welcome back! I'm tickled to help your students too! 💜 Do you have a channel that you use for your students?
Let's use a hashtag #JeribelliniDotADay if you do anything with the dots, then we can all see them! ♥
That is a great idea
@@PatriciaThompson-m8f I addes my last name and mentioned it in my this weeks video. So... #jeribellinidotaday
Thank you so much for being you this is very enjoyable
I love circles!!! AND I love this project!
12 years, 6 months, and 20 days ago my son died in my arms. Sewing saved my life. He would help me choose quilt block lay-outs, pull colors, he build my new sewing area. Numb for a long time, it was needle and thread that saved my life, and still does. I just found your channel and I think this project is perfect. It provides structure, time to ponder everything or nothing, it stretches your creative muscles. Thank you.
I am so very sorry for your loss and that just doesn't sound like enough. How painful that must be to loose a child. Sending you BIG hugs! And I am glad that stitching helps you and that you found us! ❤️❤️❤️
Sending love.
I’m so happy for you, that you now find comfort and solace in stitching, I hope this continues to bring you peace.
Huge gentle hugs.
I've three boys and I can sympathise. We've had many difficulties which sewing gets me through life, but it is never the same as yourself. You are a brave lady in sharing. Keep all your happy memories going🫂
God bless you. Perhaps your son is helping you still by nudging you toward your sewing again. May it bring you comfort and peace. 🫶🏼
Hi, im a 71 year old guy who is somewhat creative. I've been knitting for many years. Thanks to UA-cam, I've discovered quilt making and stitching. A year ago I found out I have a respiratory condition, which laid me low for months, until I learned to control it. After just sitting on the couch and doing nothing but watch tv, I saw a video about quilting. Having something creative to fill my time has given me purpose again. Thanks for your encouraging videos. I love the dots, and I'm sure I'll be doing some.
I'm so glad you are feeling better and I am here to inspire and keep people moving. Nothing worse than feeling purposeless! 💛💛💛 Thanks for your comment!
Hallo, I am watching from Cape Town South Africa, and only recently started slow stitching, I am loving it. In South Africa, we have a DOT CONCEPT - which is Do One Thing every day to impact a life - smile at a stranger, feed a homeless person, bless a child, do something practical and non-expensive to DOT every day. So I would make these wonderful dot mats and hand them out to random people and encourage them to keep the concept going ... love your show!
i love that!!!!💕
Thank you for this lovely tutorial. I'm so happy I discovered you. I'm 80 and I stitch everyday
That is so wonderful! And welcome! 💜
Just came across your channel. I lost my Mother 2 years ago. I have lost all interest in my sewing. I am so glad I did. I am going to do dots with you.
I'm so sorry for your loss. 💜 I'm very happy you will join in! Stitching brings peace.
Glad I found your channel today. Eight years ago I lost my mother. She was my best friend. I felt like I had lost my purpose in life. I was so depressed for a couple of years but then I found UA-cam. I learned to make regular quilts and rag quilts. Rag quilts are my favorite. Now. I have become very interested in the slow stitching process. No rules. I love it 😀
Oh Lisa, I can relate, still miss my mom and it's 9 years! Did you see my video where I show a quilt I'm making from her clothes? Thanks for joining me! ♥️
I understand your feelings of a loss. In a weird way, a remedy for me was also a craft - sashiko and sewing. I like being a part of this audience.
@@innatal3317 I'm glad you're here! Thanks for watching! ❤
10 years for me, I feel ya ❤
Y’all I have a new hope having found this terrific channel! Thank you for helping me restart my love of the stitching arts. ❤ 15:37
I, too, am worried about the whimpering dog in the rain. Thank you for getting involved.
Also: I am not an embroiderer, but I love your dots❣️And I love the fact that you moved yourself out of inactivity toward creativity again. You chose to allow yourself to be inspired by someone/something. A new beginning. One day at a time.
I am 10 yrs older than you, and I am feeling as if I've lost that wonderful spark that kept me creating all kinds of things all my life. (The muse may have lost my address...)
Well, thank you for your dots. I may not be doing exactly that, but I still have fabric I was using for weaving and rug-making. I've sold all my yarn, but I'm thinking I can maybe get started again using what I have, as resources are fixed. I know it's up to me. No excuses.
But I do thank you for sharing your story, your ideas, and your skills. God bless. And I hope the dog is okay. 🫶🏼
The dog is fine and I hope you get back to some kind of creativity. USE what you have. Sometimes that is better than having a stocked closet! 💜
Have a friend coming round this week to begin a dot a day project from this wonderful podcast. SO, SO delighted to have found you… love your style and the way you take us into your life and share your many talents. Feel we’ve been friends forever. (UK) ❤❤
Oh! I feel the same way!!! thanks for watching and have fun with your friend, maybe she would like to subscribe too and watch! 💜💜💜
I’m 72 and a life long sewer. Taught by my mom when young. She sewed my clothes, and I sewed clothes for both my daughters. I sew scrap lap quilts now and donate them where needed. Love your circle project!
That is wonderful to donate sewing projects to those less fortunate! ❤️
I love the idea of ageing gratefully. I'm newly retired from a long and loved teaching career. I'm allowing myself time to enjoy art and creativity in ways I never had before while working and raising kids. Now I need to release the idea of everything needing to be perfect-it will be a healthy journey for me I hope. Thanks for your positive messaging and lovely art work.
You are so welcome, Congrats on retirement! 💜💜💜
Love you and your journey, I’m on the same one myself!… As a baby boomer, I love and appreciate the journey that we have been blessed to have (good and bad). I
…I love that alot of us as children could play and ride bikes and roller skate, write with chalk on the sidewalks and our driveways, camping in the back yard, climbing a willow tree and reading for hours…without fear and only had to be home before the
“”street lights came on” in our neighborhood… if you did not have that sense of freedom and creativity whether, in a rural sense … or other areas.
Please use these elder years to claim that wonderful feeling in any way possible for your situation!❤🎉😊
Of course I love this idea of a Dot a day. My name is Dot. I am 70 years young and always looking for a portable projects that is fun, simple, and meditative. Thank you so much for inspiring me to give this lovely project a try
Hi Dot! I love that you are Dot! LOL Thanks for joining in! 💜
Love your Dots idea. Not sure which materials I’ll use but it’s fun thinking about it. Mostly I enjoy being here in your safe and loving community. Reading the comments it sounds like many of us are in grief recovery and healing processes. Me too. Your Dot project might be just the ticket to get my SewJo back. Small, interesting, no rules, no pressure…. Perfect! Thank you. I’m 80+ and I’m not comfortable wasting my time by not “doing”.
Oh you go girl! And you are so spot on, this community is the BEST! Thank you for being here! 💜💜💜
I love the improv, artistic nature of this project. I'm 63 and just started quilting during the pandemic, and already tiring of the patterns out there. I also enjoy hand sewing, I find it relaxing.
You are going to LOVE the dots then! Lets just play! ♥️
This is such an awesome quilt! I cant wait to see it completed
Thanks so much! 💛💛💛
Hello! I just found you here.. YT miraculously brought you to me. I'm a life long sewist, quilter & clothes maker. For 14 years now I've struggled with autoimmune diseases. So, I have good weeks and bad weeks. Sewing has become a struggle due to arthritis in areas of sitting and my hands. I persist, and have learned to hand sew and knit/crochet laying on my side. On good days I can sit for awhile at a sewing machine. I've been hand appliquing a quilt designed by Judy Newman. Her quilts are quirky, vintage inspired, just all so cute. The quilts had a center of hexagon flowers & stars, with a large border of 6" pieced octagon blocks. I've hand pieced most of them, but the 6" blocks can be seen by machine if your good at precision piecing.
I do love your blocks. A few years ago there was a group of ladies on Instagram doing the same thing, but without the variety in sizes. Their block were mostly bright prints on solid or cream colors. You've inspired me to try sewing again. It's been months since I've gotten any sewing done.
I live in NE Indiana, not too far from your home. Thanks for passing on your sewing energy! Holly
Uh, those autoimmunes, they stink. I have a bunch too but I try not to think about them! I'm glad you can still manage to create in spite of it. And I find when I'm at my lowest, watching videos on creativity is almost as good. Sending hugs to you! ♥️
Have a close look on YT at the carnivore diet for your arthritis. I have regained the use of my hands that way
I’m an avid crocheter and agree with you that staying busy and creative is healthy in all ways. I’ve sewn, knitted and crocheted most of my 80 years. I may take a break from yarn art and do some hand sewing.
Love your content.
I hope you try some hand stitching!! Thank you! 💜
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...That's the song I thought of.
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That was the song that came to me as well 😅
Been a stitcher all my life. Really into slow stitching now. Love this project. Just found it today.
Wonderful! Welcome, glad you found me! 💜
I am so thankful I stumbled onto your channel today. I love what you are showing us! I am a 75 year old quilter that has 'hit a wall.' I love quilting and needle work. Preferring hand work over machine work. I so needed something new, you have showed me some possibilities. Can't wait to get started! Thanks so much!
FanTASTIC! I'm so glad to hear this! The whole process is wonderful, from picking out the fabrics to cutting things out and the basting, stitching, and embellishments... Enjoy! ♥️
Love them, their simplicity is their beauty. Thank you. ❤❤❤
I agree, and they are so relaxing to create! Thanks for watching! 💜
What fun! Just scrolling on one of my sleepless nights. Hitting my scrap stash tomorrow ❤
YAY! ❤️
I’ve never taken a quilt class but remember relatives working on them. I love to have my hands working so about 30 years ago when I started my career I decided to make a Dresden Plate quilt. I finally finished each block during the first year of covid. Now I need to find someone to finish the quilt. I have no living family so I plan to give the Dresden plate to my best friend’s daughter. Now that I found you I’m gonna start this type of quilt for my best friend’s son. I just love the muted tones of your blocks.
That is so nice that you are making a quilt for your friends kids! 💜 Thanks for watching!
I just found your channel 😮 I am enjoying every moment of our visit thank you for having me over,😂😂😂
Looking forward to starting one,🎉
Thanks for coming! I enjoyed our visit too, stop by anytime! 💜
@@JeriBellini I will be stopping by often! 😂
I love your eco print fabric.
Thanks so much Sue! 💜
Love YOU !!! Slow stitching. The new term for hand sewing.....now why did I not think of that ???? Love what you are doing here and I am going to follow along. It is good to have a project like this --- ready to go on the road with you. I spend a lot of time sitting on the beach and I think I just found my companion for the Summer of 2024. Looking forward to your next episode. Annie Lou !!
Annie Lou, I love your name! AND yes, I tag everything with "Slow stitching" because it's the new WORD. But it does help to find nice sewing projects. Take those babies to the beach! I'm going to do the same! See you friday! ♥️
I love this idea. Mommy taught me to sew etc as a child. I love doing hand work, needless to say I'm addicted to EPP. I retired to take care of her, now she lives vicariously through my creations😊. I have only my daughter and 11 yr. grandson with me, everyone else is states away so I'm semi home bound. Great channel 👏 👍🏾 ❤
I'm glad you found us, we have a wonderful community here! 💜
I’m an assembly line person too. 😊 This is a nice idea. I love all your dots.
Thank you very much! 😊 I hope you have fun playing with them!! 💛
I really don't need another project because I have several going, but this is such a great way of spending a few minutes here and there while enjoying the practice of embroidering. I love, love this and am going to my craft room and collect some scraps for this project.
HA! I started reading your comment and thought you were loving the concept but didn't have the time... I'm so glad you are going to start this project!!! You won't be sorry, it's very satisfying and best part is how small it is and so so SEW easy to pick up and do just a titch of stitching! Hooray! ❤️❤️❤️ Have fun!
Oh my goodness!!! This is the perfect project!!!!!❤
I have wanted to do a circle project and have been looking for a few years already!!! I I'm so excited that I found you.... I love to do handstitching, always have. I have always preferred applique because I could incorporate embroidery and beading and whatever I wanted to. And now I found this fantastic project . What a blessing! Thank you so much!💐❤
You are so welcome! I am so happy that you found me!!!! ♥️ WELCOME!!
So glad to have the chance to be part of your "dots". Aging creatively is the thought i need to put into my head to fill the void retirement has created. Thank you so much...🎉
Stick around! We will keep you busy! 💜💜💜
@@JeriBellini Thanks, I sure will !
Inspiring. Thankyou. Another hand project that is so portable to take to meetings.
I can grab my basket and run out the door anytime!! Thanks for watching! ♥️
Beautiful dots! I love your stitchery so much!
I discovered Jude with Spirit Cloth back in early 2019 and I agree with you! Her work is so inspiring and have learned a lot from her videos. I'm so glad you're making videos. Really inspiring. Thank you.
You're welcome and Jude is amazing! 💜💜💜
@@JeriBellini she really is. I use to auto play all her Playlists when slow stitching on my back porch. So calming and soothing.
I'm watching another of your videos and your instruction is wonderful! Love the materials you use. Excited to have discovered your channel.
I’m so glad you’re showing us how to make the dots! It looks so relaxing and creative. Can’t wait until next time!! 🪡🧵
I'm so glad too, it took me awhile because they have special meaning to me... but it's making me so happy that so many of you want to make them too and I hope they will have special meaning to you as well! 💛
Jeri, thank you for this and your blogging, too. I am thrilled to follow you and learn from you. I am a beginning quilter and needleworker. Love your thoughtful way of moving through the world . . . and taking us with you! Also, thank you for introducing me to Judith Hill’s work - also inspiring!
You are so welcome! Welcome if you just got here and thank you so much for being here! 💜💜💜
Oh Jeri!! I have always adored the other dot wall hanging which is sometimes behind you. And now you offer this wonderful project! You make me really really happy. And you don't need to apologize for the way you are working or filming or explaining. You're perfect. A big big thank you from the North Sea coast of Germany
Thank you SO much! And these ARE the dots behind me!!! I'm glad you like them! 💛💛💛
I’m so pleased that I’ve happened upon your channel. I slow stitch and make journals. I’m happy to create this project along with you. I’ve subscribed and look forward to future videos (plus, I’ll go back and watch previous ones). 💖💖💖
@@debzehr3244 I'm so happy to have you along on this journey! ♥
Hi, I have just found your channel. Loving the dots, love sewing, love collecting fabric. I think we are lucky being creative as there’s so much to do, so many possibilities ❤
Welcome!!! 💜💜💜
Love love love this and all your methodology. I am a recent attendee of your UA-cam channel and I saw your " dot hanging" in the background of one of the episodes and fell instantly in love with it. Thank you for so carefully explaining just how you go about creating these little lovelies. I off the stash dive and gather. I live in the midwest of Western Australia so you have wide-reaching skills. Hugs Vicki. 🙂💗
Australia! How exciting, thank you so much for being here! I am so happy that you like the way I teach and will be joining in on this project! HUGS to you too! 💛
I have always wanted to make squares with dots. I really enjoyed watching!
I'm so glad! 💜💜💜
This is great! I love the dots!!! Can’t wait for next week. Thank you for sharing your creativity.
I'm SO HAPPY! I'll be back before you know it! 💛
I love embroidery but I haven’t quilted…but I love this project! And I love this channel and can’t wait to watch more of these. I’m a professional photographer and I’m watching this while editing tonight’s beach family session, and dreaming of what little slow stitching I can do when I finish my edits. I am grateful for you!
Ditto! Thanks so much for being here! 💜
Hi, Jeri! I love your dots, because I love to use circles in my stitching, but I must admit that I struggle with measuring and ironing and doing things the same size. Not that I can’t do it, I can, but because I feel that my enjoyment disappears if I have to be precise in my art work. I guess that as I am so organized and disciplined in my day to day life, work, chores, housework, etc, I need some craziness when I do art. Even looking at my house: everything is organized, clean and neat, except my art room, where there’s a bit of a creative chaos, so to speak 😂.
I sincerely admire artists who do what you do, but I think I would probably eyeball all the squares and dots. And then I would decide how to join them. The other day, I did a series of wonky log cabins (following Kathryn K3n) and they were all in different sizes! I wanted to make a bag, so I decided to crochet around them until they were all the same size and then I made the bag 😉
It’s how I do things 😂!
Well, you said you like to read comments and I love to write, so I tend to write long comments, sorry about that 🤭
And I look forward to seeing the next step, who knows I will do some wonky dots 😉
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I know I wrote back to you, why can't I see it? Anyhow, YOU DO YOU like K3N says!
Hi Alexa, I used to be that way, I can't do the housework anymore, between the Lupus and now lung and heart issues, I spend more time in my little sewing room, doing a little of this and a lot of something else. All I want to do is sew, read or write. And I think I'll try Jeri's "One a Day Dots. I have a lot of Kafe Fasset scraps and some of my husband's old shirts and pants. That should be wild.
@@JeriBellini Sometimes I can’t see my comments too 🤷♀️, but don’t worry, because I can see it. Thanks, Jeri 🙏🏻♥️
@@violet2048 those fabrics sound wonderful! And guess what???? I met Kaffe Fassett! Many years ago a good friend of mine used to sew up his quilt designs. He came to her house one day and we all had a visit! And we do what we can do when we can do it! ♥♥♥
@@JeriBellini Oh that sounds like it was fun. Thank you for your reply, I'm sure you're very busy.
I’ve been a fan of Jude Hill for years. Love her.
Love her! 💜💜💜
Dear Jeri. I have been hooked on your channel since you came back and I love it. I am so excited that you are doing this tutorial as I have admired your dot hanging so much. I am thinking of doing mine in blues. Thank you, thank you. cheers. Diane from the Gold Coast, Australia ❤
I'm so glad to hear it Diane, I hope you pressed the bell so you don't miss anything! I would love to see your dots, do send me an email with a photo when you have something started. I've started some in my beach colors, couldn't help myself! 💛
Jeri is amazing slow and steady, creative and all inspiring! As a near housebound person at 62 I appreciate her so very much!
Just found your channel and already hooked. Liked and subscribed! I love hand work of any kind and this project is right up my alley, colors and all. I have seventeen years on you in age and so grateful I can still do hand work. Made a hexi quilt during the pandemic and actually enjoyed being shutdown alone with my fabric😂
@@hedylack1004 Oh Hedy, that is so wonderful that you are still stitching! Thanks for being here! ♥
I really enjoy your detailed instruction and your conversation. It’s delightful! I think you just turned me onto a new adventure. Thank you.😊
Oh that makes me SO HAPPY! 💜
my mom would have loved this slow stitching idea. she was such a talented 'maker'. ya she would have loved this type of thing.
Make something in her memory! Do you have any of her things? 💜
@@JeriBellini i do!! i am using it to start slow stitching!!
Hi I am from Alberta Canada and so glad I found your channel! Sooo looking forward to the Dot a Day😊
Yay! Another Dotter on board! Welcome! 💜💜💜
I just turned 76, I came down with RSV, it affected my heart, long story short, after a week in the hospital, I now have 3 more doctors and 5 more medications. So, everyone that can get an RSV vaccination, just do it.
This is acute project it's similar to EPP's, which I started in January, I have 184, Hexagon flowers and I will be aiming for 600. I chose a bunch or scraps and jelly rolls, to make the 1" hexi's. They're all ditzy little flowers. Very colorful. I'll keep on working with it until my hands give out.
You are talking about barking dogs keeping you up, last night a coyote, got over the fence and took my cat. He absolutely would not come in. My son found his fur and blood all over the patio. So, I'm not concentrating on much. I miss him, he's the only who would Sleep with me. I took him in when he was a kitten and 3 others that I could catch. I only have 2 of his brothers left. Which I am grateful for. They are very sweet cats. They are all sibling from different litters. I kept trying to catch the mother and have her fixed, but she was too smart.
Thank you, Jeri, great project and I love your fabric choices. I Hope everyone is well and enjoying their sewing.
I’m so sorry for your pet loss! I hope your health improves!
I am so so sad for your loss!
My daughter lives in a busy busy area in PA and she has a family of fox living in her yard! She had to stop letting her dogs out in the yard. It's crazy out there!
Your hexies sound wonderful!
I hope you feel better soon! Thanks so much for being here! ♥️
@@LakesideQuiltmakingArts Thank you, they said it's a slow recovery, but I'm keeping busy with hand sewing.
Thank you for your dot project. I loved listening to you while I was trying to sew my new project.-hobby. Teddy bears Hand sewing is new to me I always did my quilts or any sewing by machine. I'm trying to sew neatly by hand but not where I want to be with it yet. I'm practising. Having my career life finely coming to the end at 72 after having to get my spleen removed, it's time to learn to play. Some times I think it's a waste of time, but at this age I suppose it's fine. I have the rest of my life to better my sewing. Thank you , you have encouraged me.
@@ConnieVdheever-wx2hf totally not a waste of time! Being creative is good for the soul, and you could always stitch up some teddy bears and donate them to a worthwhile cause. Hand sewing whether good stitches or not, will bring you a sense of peace and contentment if you can do it just for the pure pleasure of it. Sending you healing hugs for your spleen and GLAD you are here! ox
I have to do this….it speaks to me somehow. I’m going to be 68 in a few months and have been quilting for only a few years since retiring. On June 26, 2023 my husband fell from a roof and was in the University of Utah Trauma Unit (over 2 hours from home) for a long time. After his last surgery he developed a staff infection and ended up back in the Trauma Unit. During his stays in the hospital I had a good friend loan me a featherweight sewing machine so I could bide my time sewing 2” squares together. It had to be mindless sewing, my mind couldn’t handle anything structured. Someday I hope to find a featherweight machine I can afford to buy so that I can sew wherever I am. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us….Bless your heart and fingers! Rita
Rita, I'm so sorry about your hubby. I hope he is feeling better these days. I have a featherweight, they are wonderful sturdy little machines. Hope one day you find one! ❤️ They are very hard to come by. Thanks for being here and for blessing my heart and fingers! ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Jeri, this is my first time with you. I was watching Bonney LOGCABINSTITCHER shared about your channel. It sparked my interest so here I am. I find your dots fascinating. I am a quilt maker and cross stitcher. I also work
with wool applique. I am 78 and am very interested in learning about slow stitching. So nice to meet you. I'm looking forward to your next video. Happy stitching.
Welcome!! It's so nice to have you here! I upload at least 2 videos each week. Enjoy! 💜
Thank you Jeri. I have just discovered you and I love your dots. I can feel myself relaxing by just contemplating my background colours etc. I know you will be there when I am ready to begin my dots. Love your philosophy too. Stitching soothes my soul. As I stitch my mind just settles in a calm space. Even if an unpleasant memory enters I usually find my thoughts drift back calmly to my little piece of cloth and before I know it I am slowly getting back into my happy zone.
I just finished stitching a bunch of dots! I find it gets me ready for a good nights sleep! Thanks for watching and commenting! ♥️
You just came up on my feed today. I sew but never quilted. It looks like a fun project. I’m a 66 year old Australian woman.
You dont have to quilt this if you don't want to, that's the beauty of this project! Hope to see more of you! ❤️❤️❤️
“It’s my party. I’ll cry if I want to.”
Everyone is saying that! Ha! I love it... Brian hummed It's my Life, by Bon Jovi... it's got a great message. It's that one.. maybe i'll sing it this week for you! HA! ♥️
It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
I just discovered you thanks to a friend who recommended you. Fabric and stitching are so relaxing and your manner of teaching is calm. Thank you!
Oh thank you! 💜💜💜
❤❤❤thank you for the “long workshop how to” instruction and inspiration❤❤❤
You are so welcome! 💜
Can't wait to see your applique and embellishments! 😃
Keep watching! And thanks for being here! 💛💛💛
After watching your videos yesterday, l've woken up and with a cup of tea and watched part one of the dots video. I am now going to go through my stash to plan a wall hanging. Thank you for the chat and kind words. Annette, Bognor Regis, England
Wonderful! I'm so happy! 💜💜💜 We share in the FB group, if you're interested.
I sew patchwork all the time with my sewing machine but usually I miss something to do by hand. This means I never watch TV because then I need something to do with my hands. This is a fantastic idea'. I will never be without Scraps. Thank you! 🥰 (I hope I am expressing myself correctly. I live in Sweden and expressing myself in another language may not always be right)
A must have is something to do when sitting... When my hands are doing nothing, that means I'm sleeping or SICK! LOL 💜💜💜
i am ;75 almost 76.. i have benn lisening
to you and two other women thanks for helpin us the beginner🌹
Welcome welcome! I'm so glad you're here!!! 💜💜💜
Lovely project Jeri, have cut out my squares and it will be my go to project when needing some stitching time, thank you.
Wonderful! Happy Yellow Monday! 💛
"It's my Party..." That may be the song!!! Glad you're not feeling the need to cry. I like your dots.
LOL... I promise I'm not crying, not at the moment anyhow! Thanks for watching! ♥️
@@JeriBellini O'm making a multi-coloured circle quilt (on multi-colored squares too) right now, too, along with the other 5 I'm close to finishing! I agree with you, repeating all of those various steps every day would be a bit much. I much prefer the multi-at-a-time method too. What a good idea--something special on UA-cam especially for all of us mature people! It's great to try something new with a smile!!! (I'm 77!)
@@lyndaevans1132 Oh I'm so glad you like trying new things, it's what keeps us young!!! Have fun with your new project! ♥
so cool !! will watch all these. thanks for a great, portable idea
You are so welcome! 💜💜💜
dawn Collins, artist from California, got me here...not a stitcher , more an advocate, & her summer project inspired by you, is as fun on paper with ink & paint as needle & thread...dittos to comments on loss & found creative outlets from inside out.
Glad you're here, Dawn is one of my moderators in my FB group. 💜
What a lovely idea! The lovely Jennifer Coulston just happened to mention you on her channel so thought I would take a look and I’m so pleased I did this is a lovely project that I fancy having a go so thank you for the inspiration
Really? Oh how interesting! I just put her link in a video I made! LOL See we inspire one another! 💜 Glad you are here!
Tickled to find your channel…sewing is my passion and I loved listening to you…positive creativity and relaxation…who could ask for anything more! Can’t wait to start a dot project as we travel! ❤😊❤
Thank you so much! Glad you are here! ❤️
One of the BEST instructional videos I’ve seen. I appreciate you explaining the HOW and the WHY of what you’re doing. I love listening to the stories as you instruct us. You may have motivated me to try something new! THANK YOU from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 🙃
Hi Joan, Great to see you here! Thanks for your comment! ❤️❤️❤️
Love your simple, organic dot a day project. It is just pure goodness. Thank you for sharing your creative mind & heart.
Thank you so much! It is pure goodness isn't it!? LOL ♥️♥️♥️
I’ve been trying to simplify my life and not take on more crafts, but this idea is intriguing. Thank you for sharing.
Oh it's so relaxing, I love making Dots! Thanks for watching! 💜
Hallo , I started jan. 2023 for the first time with quilting , 1 block a month. I finished a beautiful quilt with little mistakes, but I am learning🥰 and new ideas came on my way. For example Lori Holt club. Today I saw this video and like it too, another way: small blocks😊 thank you for explaning how to do this and your story and give me new ideas to sew. I am very pleased. Wish you many good days ❤😊 greeting from Mandy from Holland
Hi Mandy, so happy you started stitching, it is so good for the soul! Welcome!!! 💜💜💜
@@JeriBellini thank you 🥰
I love the idea of a dot a day. Im 82 and my eyes are starting to fade a bit and fingers have arthritis but I love to keep busy. So I am going to follow what you are doing. I still craft , quilt and knit, but am getting slow. You are doing a great job. I live in NZ and winter is approaching so it will be a good task while staying inside.
YAY YOU Go Girl! My mom inspired me to keep going. She was always doing something either in the garden, cooking, writing letters to people who couldn't get out and her big thing was crocheting hats for the homeless. She was amazing and was doing this right up until she died at 98! We have to keep moving! OR else and SO WHAT if our stitches are wonky?!! sending hugs, ♥️
I love your dots Jeri. I found you by wanting to find out about slow stitching and I found a gem of artist to learn from on oh so many artist forms. This has inspired me to look at my enormous quilting cotton in many different ways.
YES!!! So many ideas, so little time! Glad you're here! 💜
Woohoo dots!!! Love everything you do Jeri. Always feel good after watching you. ❤
Yay! Thank you Cathy! Sending hugs!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
2nd time watching this great tutorial. I’m getting ready to select my color-way and start making dots, can’t wait! Thank you Jeri! 🩵
I'm excited for you! It's so fun to start a new project!
Jeri, Thank you for your very clear demonstrations, and life lessons. I really enjoyed hearing the birds in the background. Enjoy your little house.
You are so welcome! 💜
I am so glad I found your channel today. I wanted a project that was not overwhelming for me and this is it! I love this idea. I am not the best sewer, and not worrying about perfection is right up my alley. Thank you so much!
That's great! Just aim for peaceful sewing and let it happen! ❤️
Thank you for your channel which I was blessed to find. I appreciate your encouragement to seniors keep being creative and not worrying about perfection.! Just enjoy the act of doing what you love I will be 81 this year. 🤗
God bless you! I think it's wonderful that you and so many others have joined me here! ❤️❤️❤️
I really love this! I just found you and I will be back. You are lovely.
Welcome Karen! I'm so glad you found me! 💜💜💜
The dogs barking,woke up my old rescue standard poodle, who looked at me like… “Who is that?… check it out yourself, I’m am napping, and they woke me up”… old, lazy, lovable, but mostly LAZY😂
The turning under of there edges and joining remind me of English paper piecing and that also is for precise piecing together😊❤
Yes, it's paper-LESS piecing. I really enjoy it! 💜 Poor doggie! LOL
The first time I saw you dots was when you filmed in front of the board that displayed them all. At that moment I thought they were a quilt, hanging on your wall and found it breathtakingly beautiful.
Have you ever considered doing a big wall quilt with them? Hanging it as art. They are nice in little projects, but one big one would be magnificent. Just an idea, which I am sure you didn't need...
Yes, and I have PLENTY of them and can do that! Right now I'm hot to show you guys how to use them in your projects and having SO MUCH FUN! 💛 💛 💛
I love this it’s so organic, the templates give it a precision but the organic feel comes from your stitching on the dots. This is right up my street.
I love the way you thought about this, I agree! I'm glad you love them, thanks for your comment! ♥️
Just the inspiration I needed. Perfect design for a baby floor quilt. Looking forward to part 2.😊
Part 2 will be out in about 20 minutes! LOL ♥️
You are an inspiration!
HUGS! Thank you! 💜
Wow I do get you. At 72 I needed to try something new. Started nalbinding a few months ago. Too Kool. About 15 yrs ago took up crochet with plastic grocery bags. Gotta love it!
Oui... nix the nail biting and get out your sewing! And hang around with us here, we will inspire you! ❤️
I'm so glad I found your channel today. I recently saw a quilt with dots and after watching you, decided I want to make one. Good instructions. Thanks for motivating me to get started. Margie \TN
I'm here to inspire and encourage! Thank you for joining me! ♥️
I’m so glad I found you. I too am 68 years old. I’m in between chapters in my life as my husband passed away 2 years ago followed by my retirement and move back to the city of my birth, Indianapolis.
Aging creatively is exactly what I plans to do. I’ve collected so many crafting supplies: beads, buttons, and bows. That’s what I would call my work if I were only able to get it off the ground. I love small things. Mosaics,….lots of fabrics… I look forward to watching your next video as I find your style relaxing to follow. Thank you, Julia
Hi Julia, I am sorry for your loss. I am also glad to hear you plan to keep moving... we must. I do mosaics too and just about every other art thing you can think of and I love everything so much and my head is spinning with ideas. I go through stages of stitching, then bookmaking, weaving and on and on and on... Thanks for being here! ❤️
Gary is so sweet! What a lucky boy he is. I can't wait to see him grow.
I am so glad I found this video. What a wonderful idea it is to stitch these and make a great piece of artwork, a pillow, a comforter, and more. Slow stitching is a wonderful pastime, too. So calming. I have made the square and circle templates. Thank so much. Now for part 2.😀
You are so welcome! I am so glad you are enjoying this! ❤️
Love this!
Thank you! 💜💜💜
Thank you for sharing this wonderful project. I love the idea of the circles and taking the time to enjoy the process of making a quilt. In the morning I will be going thru my fabric stash to start this quilt. Thanks again.
YAY! I'm so glad I inspired you! ❤️
I absolutely LOVE your video! Love your method of slowly showing us exactly what you are doing. The usual emphasis is on just how fast we can get something done (like faster is somehow better - NOT!) Your choice of colors is right up my alley as well. These are just too adorable for words. Thank you so very much for sharing with us. I am about to watch Part 2, & I'm sure I will enjoy it as much as Part 1. Hoping to start some of my own & already have lots of lovely neutral fabrics to choose from. 😊
Thank you thank you! I'm so happy you enjoyed the video! Have fun! ❤️❤️❤️
THANK you so much for showing your 365 dots. I started my "dots" a couple months ago!!! So simple...but so creative and FUN.💝🙏
Awesome!! Thanks for doing that! sending hugs! ♥️
Wow. I just watched your first dot a day. I live what your doing. I would have worried about the dog too! I have made a play list of your videos to come back to. I have some long term projects that I had stalled out in, in the past couple of years. Sandwich generation and personal health. So I am back to my journey of making. Glad to have found you. You are inspiring.
Welcome welcome Jo-anne! I'm so glad you found me! 💜💜💜
Thank you so much for sharing this friendly time and space! I've been a crafter for many years (I was crocheting as I watched this), but have never tried quilting. This made me want to start, and gave me an idea of how rewarding it might be.
OH do give it a go, it's not hard and don't strive for perfection, just enjoy the process! 💜
This looks like so much fun and at the same time relaxing. Love those dots and I look forward to watching what comes next.
Part 2 is up and running! Thanks for being here! ♥️
So glad I found your channel. I love your fits and appreciate you sharing your fluid process. I am following along and plan to grow a collection 😊
YAY!!! Welcome, glad you're here! 💜💜💜
I’m happy I came across your channel! This is a super project and I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Thank you. ❤
thank you so much Hilary! ❤️
I already feel motivated. Glad this found me, I love the pace thank you. Never thought I could plan something g long term like a quilt but feel like I would enjoy this as a daily practice and start to use my fabric stash. Thank you! ❤
You are so welcome! ❤️❤️❤️
I moved to State College PA in 1990. That's where I learned to quilt. Antoinette Holl was my teacher. She was Excellent, Fabulous, Inspiring, & Wonderful. She taught beginners to advanced students.
She would love "slow stitching". She began in the 1960's. All piecing and quilting by hand. She was a pioneer in machine work and she introduced me to rotary cutters.
I am a batch person like you. I learned how to make my own assembly line while in Junior Achievement. Now I apply it to quilting and embroidery.
Glad I found you today. Have fun camping!! ;-)
Thank you for finding me, I'm glad you're here! Another PA friend! ♥️♥️♥️
Love, LOVE this project. It is so me! I love the organic, artistic process for each piece. Thank you. I’m so glad I found you,
Thank you so much! I am so glad you found me too! 💜
I am so glad I found you again! Years ago I saw some of your videos and started following you, but you know how UA-cam works. They don’t show you the people you follow in your feed, and I think you changed your UA-cam name and I probably didn’t know it was you. Anyways, today I was doing research for a fiber art course I’m writing for my school district, and among the videos that came up, yours did as well. Went to your Etsy shop and suddenly I realized I was already following you on Etsy. Then I realized I was also following you here. Oh, boy! What a great thing to see you again, even if it’s been a while since you started posting again. I’ll just have to go back and watch. This is the third or fourth video I’m watching. You do such a great job explaining that I can have my students watch you in addition to watching me in case they need another voice. This project is so awesome for a collaborative type of project. Thank you for all the awesome ideas! ❤❤❤
OH! I'm so glad we got re-connected!!! Yes, I changed my channel name and now my focus is on Aging creatively and gratefully. Welcome back! I'm tickled to help your students too! 💜 Do you have a channel that you use for your students?
@@JeriBellini I do! I will find you on instagram and message it to you. Hugs and blessings!