This looks great Kathryn. As usual. I just wanted to apologise for not posting as much recently and for not doing weekly stitching projects for a little while. I’m still as obsessed as ever with the stitching but seem to have got involved in larger projects plus I’ve been preparing for my wedding on the 14th (2nd time round age 71!) I want to do so much - wonky log cabins and other wonkiness as well as weekly projects. And as for the journal. Wow! Never done anything like this before and can’t wait. Sending heartfelt thanks for all you do for us. ❤
What a wonderful year of learning that you have given to me! I am able to do so many things with so many new skills. You are a joy and an incredible teacher! ❤
I love your chimes. I have an old quilt my sister gave me when I first had cancer 20 years ago. The quilt was store bought, inexpensive and she used it for many years before she gave it to me. Needless to say the quilt was falling apart. I couldn’t let it go so I kept patching it, mending it. It really is my comfort cloth. There are buttons, lace, unique fabrics. And I have plenty of room for your next year theme. I usually sew a small piece and then add it to the quilt. I like this style you did today - mindful wandering. Hugs
John Cage often used the I-Ching (The Book of Changes) in his work. And Silence. I love this approach to your stitching this week: definitely up my street.
When 'hole' came round the fourth time I really did laugh out loud! Darning instead of eyelet was such a save!! :D 💚💚💚 I hope you're doing well and will feel less foggy soon!
This will be fun to do! I'm so excited about next year's projects, too. A thought about the word "hole" that kept coming up -- it's a good metaphor for personal loss. Each time, you made the hole beautiful. ❤
@@k3n.clothtales lol no actually, great pick up , I had to come back and re read my reply lol coz I'm going what that?? hmmm...well of course it was intended 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kia ora-hi Kathryn, another wonderful video...holes lols. Anyway, i am looking forward to next years comfort quilt/cloth, sounds like what i am working on atm very casual & all hand stitched. Thanks again ❤
That was a very entertaining video Kathryn 😊 I am looking forward to your proposed projects for next year. Journaling is new for me but something i have never got round to - unsurprisingly 😅 and to do 2 different types really appeals to me. And the coverlet is an inspired idea 🎉 I want one! The stitch from the Kantha book will be interesting to see on Wednesday 😊 I am going to mark out time for the videos as self-care going forward because it is! Big love as always from Scotland ❤
That was such a fun exercise! I was filling out greeting cards so I look forward to it later in the day. Thanks for your joyful ways and happy voice. LJ in NM
Laurie Anderson was the guest. I learned about John Cage in art school. ...we had a lecture series guest presentation Wednesday afternoons . Various artists talking about their work and processes. 1981/82
I used that quote about the coin in one of the weeks. I think it was Desert Island week. I have always lived by it and my gut always seems to be right!
Katherine, have you used Oblique Strategies?! I suspect this will be of interest to many here: “In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician.” And from Wikipedia: “…Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking…” Three examples: -Honour thy error as a hidden intention. -Ask your body. -Work at a different speed. Wishing you good fun and fruitful experiments
Also wanted to share that Sister Mary Corita (Corita Kent)’s legacy is one of spreading love through art. We celebrate her life by honoring how our creative work inspires and uplifts. How fitting!
What a good sport you are K3N. I wonder if I will stay true to the plan. I tend to wander off the path. In the end, it made for very interesting work, with a good story to tell. I feel using a monochrome palette worked here but maybe I will extend the concept of chance to selecting random threads with each random prompt. Hope you have a happy day.
There is a writing method that uses pages cut up into words or phrases and then rearranged to create a poem or piece of prose - some lovely results, some rather weird 😂 cannot remember if it has a name - perhaps ‘found poems’?
It's certainly called 'found words ' when you cut words out of magazines etc so found poems make sense. There is also a thing where you black out most of the words on a book page leaving only a few showing to make a poem or saying. Also fun ❤️
I believe that when a language “travels” to another place, people who go to live there (or live there already) tend to simplify it, even because at those times it was the lower classes who emigrated and they had less language knowledge (they didn’t have degrees or anything). For example, Americans take out the “u” in several words, such as colour, favourite, etc. The same happens with the Portuguese language. Brazilian people tend to also simplify the Portuguese language and they don’t have the same words as we do for the same objects. At least, that’s what I inferred from my language and linguistics classes at the university. I do admire your persistence! 👏🏻👏🏻I wouldn’t do the hole when it came out the third time, let alone the fourth 😂 For those (like me 😂) who like to improvise, this is quite a challenge 😅 Sending love ❤️💙🧡💛💚🩵🤎🩷🩶💜♥️
I pulled first and then figured out how work everything in as I went. It was very engrossing. Hoping for an idea of supplies for 2025 Mondays. I am guessing what we have used for 2024 and fabric for a front and back the size of comfort cloth we want, for example two reclaimed twin sheets. Thank you Kathryn, it has been a hoot and i look forward to more.
I will talk about supplies in the little video I will make explaining everything but you won't need much to start with, it will be small pieces, stitched to completion and joined as we go, no big sheets, unless you want the backing pieces to be all the same. ❤️
My personal opinion is that they give storms names simply to keep track of them on the chance that there are several at the same time. I know people who have lived in the storm area and, in retrospect, refer to the storm name when talking about surviving, or the damage done by, a particular storm. One friend lost a home in hurricane Andrew (Florida), then moved to Gulfport, Mississippi shortly before Catrina hit there (and New Orleans).
Hurricanes are named to make it easier for people to identify and remember specific storms, especially when multiple hurricanes are occurring at the same time, which allows for clearer communication and better public preparedness when tracking their progress; using short, distinctive names avoids confusion in written and spoken reports about storms.
Your palmette in your kitchen is spectacularly beautiful! It was "it" that made me think you should sell your eco dyed/iron dyed fabrics, as yours are colours no one else does!
Thank you. I might one day be able to sell little bundles but my stock is quite low as I wasn't able to do much ecoprinting this year due to circumstances. ❤️
I remember someone saying Cage's piece 4'33" (total silence with not a note played) was a joke. Some bright spark pointed out it was intended to be performed in a forest where there was no silence at all. I think I could enjoy John Cage in a forest.
When they first started naming storms in the US it was A B C, but, they used the words Able, Baker, Charley. Then that changed to female names in the 1950's and that changed again in the 1970's. It was just to keep track of induvial storms.
I have a theory that things pick up energy with use,and we are instinctively drawn to them. If you put me in a museum, I will be drawn to the item that was used in a ritual every time.
Good morning, Kathryn. One of my younger grandchildren likes to throw the dice out of the cup, to a place where I can't see how they have landed. Amazingly, he nearly always gets a double 6 and wins Snakes and Ladders! Sometimes things are evened up as I am allowed to have extra turns until I nearly catch up... Your plans for next year sound wonderful. As I have more-or-less shifted from "fitting in slowstitching around the other things I do" to "slowstitching as much as I can and fitting other things in around it" I might manage to keep up with some of it - maybe one and a half things, like the comfort coverlet and one of the journal projects - although I would love to do them both! Talking about worrying about you, I'm sure you know that taking a break WITHOUT doing three times the number of videos per week to make up for it, would be absolutely fine with me and I guess just about everyone else? In fact we would probably stand up and cheer. As long as you are doing what makes you happy, and that that includes self care without reference to anyone else ( actually as I write this I am thinking, how does anyone even do that? But you know what I mean?) then that is all good, of course.... It is just so easy to confuse one thing with another when making other people happy is one of the things that makes you happy... I think I had better stop now!
I saw John Cage in the early 80s. The performance had all the ingredients of a formal piano concert and then he performed which was nothing like what one would expect given the environment. He also talked about his process. At that time I was in art school so this was everything an art student would love. John Cage was one of the group of artists that attended Black Mountain College which is a very notable art school. A partial list of alumni includes Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Susan Weil, Vera B. Williams, Ben Shahn, Ruth Asawa, Franz Kline, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, M.C.
The Rainbow Swash is the common name for an untitled work by Corita Kent in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The rainbow design painted on a 140-foot tall LNG storage tank was copyrighted in 1972, and was claimed to be the largest copyrighted work of art at the time. I used to drive by it all the time!
Did you know they wanted to paint over it quite a few years ago but the citizens would not have that. North of Boston here. The gas tanks are a landmark, just like the Citgo sign at Fenway.
I thought the Friday interview with Mathew Harris was rather like his artistic method it wasn't until towards the end that I was getting it. I too was wondering how to translate it into my slow stitch. I began to realise there were many ways of doing it. He begins with the same set of marks then cuts and reassembles them in a way that resolves them pleasingly rather like a cryptic puzzle. He likes the element of chance which imposes unexpected constraints within which he has to work That is a shortened interpretation of his process. One method I thought of was, to stitch/mark a fabric "master board" then turn it over and cut it up into squares or rectangles from the backside, element of chance here. Slow stitch either each piece or half or quarter until it resolves into a pleasing stitched piece. This is a poor description, but I hope you can get it. Many artists of various media use methods like this when creating a series. Thank you for taking on my suggestion about the cutwork holes on your pelmet cover. I don't mind if it takes 5 hours at all, I'll be here stitching along. 🤣❣ 🦋 Jenny (NZ)
Hello Jenny, yes that's a good description indeed. And this week it seems that holes are a theme so looking forward to sharing my wonky cutwork with you tomorrow 😂❤️
Names for storms are because of the fact that you can relate to it easier and remember it quicker. So when you hear the name in the weather forecast you easier realise that this storm can be dangerous. So it is for protection and awareness!
This is great fun. Have you ever seen Sean Lock - carrot in the box sketch - there's some swearing but it is a brilliant example of choosing a box. The replay is also funny but a lot more swearing so be warned if you want to watch it. I wonder how many tries it would take to get all six out?
Okay holes 😂. You could have done the holes differently. Maybe combining techniques instead of just eyelet stitch. - closing the hole with overall embroidery maybe a star. - patching underneath and eyelet joining the two materials. That would have been a variety of holes done differently. I so enjoy your videos a hole new world of sewing has opened for me to explore. Thank you❤
Very briefly - I just watched week 3. Mouse problem? The deterrent I have found very effective is coffee, granules or powder. Needs to be a strong aroma if you have it. Apparently mice cannot cope with the smell of coffee. Just a teaspoon or two on a jam jar lid or other shallow containers, place where you think their access points are. It worked for me. I once missed renewing the coffee after the aroma had faded and did have a couple of mice in the traps, but since putting down fresh the mice have stayed away. So many deterrent tips are available, but this one worked, it was already in the house, and takes no preparation. And it does last for many weeks. E❤
@k3n.clothtales oops, didn't think about that, thinking cap not on, head full of Christmas nitty gritty ! But others may find it useful? Keep well. E♥️.
@@k3n.clothtales ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️. Please, no apology needed, I didn't see it as glib at all. I haven't been viewing your uploads for very long, so I'm having the fun of dipping into and enjoying earlier ones, but not really registering where they were filmed. .and I love seeing Stella and FredFred - FredFred is the boss? . I haven't had a fur baby for years - animal fur allergy runs in our families, and I need to be free for when the grown up kiddies ask me to stay - I'm not having to find someone to care for pets. (and I can't reciprocate in any way because my children always take priority so I rarely make firm commitments of any sort ). So I just enjoy other people's pets, both the live ones and those in videos, they bring back happy memories. Keep warm. E♥️
@@k3n.clothtales this is the second attempt to respond - my posts seem to get lost in the ether somewhere. No need to apologise, i didn't see it as glib at all. I've been viewing your earlier videos that I hadnt seen - I didn't think about where they were filmed. Keep warm. E♥️
Have you seen the movie called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", based on a book by Tom Stoppard? It is all about the concept of life being a game of chance and is based on the Shakespeare characters in Hamlet who escort Hamlet to England and supposedly to his death but of course it doesn't turn out as they expected.
Because you asked I searched for an answer to the question 'why do storms have names?' I give you a short translation of what I found in Dutch (from the site of KNMI, the Dutch Meteorological Institute). They say it is an easy way to give warnings that there's dangerous weather coming. And because often the same weather-system is (turning around) at both sides of the North Sea the same names are used in the UK (and Ireland) and the Netherlands. KNMI, Met Office and Met Éireann work together.
Thank you Inge, that's a simple enough explanation, that it's just for identification and easier to remember a name than a number or something else. ❤️
Identification. Once the storm is designated a certain class it is given a name for Identification purposes. It is in the news with said name making it easier to track.
I'm enjoying this week's project and the withering it's great however in Australia according to the bureau of meteorology naming a major storm e.g acyclone it is merely a way of communication and identification so people will know what is going on this year it will be 50 years since cyclone Tracy destroyed Darwin Australia and that is the first time I remember a storm having a name stay well and thanks once more for the company
I'm not sure why we started naming storms, but since that tradition was established it has given us a sort of shorthand for referring to major weather events here in the United States. If you say Katrina, everyone's thoughts here immediately go to the devastation in New Orleans in 2005. We commonly compare storms by name because it puts us in mind of a time and place...
Yes, I also feel a bit sorry for people who happen to have the same name as one of the major ones though.. perhaps they should use names from history rather than modern ones. Someone also told me though that the names are suggested by the public. ❤️
Kathryn, do you suppose if you were alone in your stitch would you have felt other responses to pulling the same prompts so often in a row? Do you think you notice the “stare of the other” because you are recording it for video? I mean to say, if you were with us in person as a group, would you feel the same chagrin of a kind? You really do know we carry along with you in good sprite regardless so it’s not ego or judgement… Maybe I’m too much in my philosophy head/heart again but I was just curious to ask. Happy Birthday my dear dear dear friend. I’m hugging you so tightly. So truly. Happy birthday.
Interesting that when we are playing a game of chance we can feel irritated by how it falls, but still hope for "good luck". The randomness of random, and of chance, together with our propensity for finding patterns, seems to almost set us up for superstition, or at least for making hypotheses about what is "meant to be", or what we can do to make it happen.
Lovely video as usual Kathryn! I am struck by how much of your time, resources and energy you are giving to all of us and next year it seems you have decided to increase your workload. In the real world you have expenses to pay for utilities, housing costs, food and so on…like the rest of us. This is perhaps as indelicate question in a world where we will freely discuss sex but not money…will you be okay financially with giving away this much of your time? I am a Ko-fi subscriber but those amounts seem trivial for what we receive. Are there other ways we can support you like you support us? 😘
So kind of you to think of me, Barbara. I am managing. I should mention the Kofi more often, people are so kind but it's kind of hard to find the link down in the description so I guess many just aren't aware. I am maybe too 'English' in that I don't like to openly ask too much as it feels like begging. I could also enable adverts midway through the videos and earn more but I find it annoying myself when watching others so don't want to inflict them on you. But I am ok. ❤️
This is a bit of a whitter, maybe a rant. But I think you asked, so here goes: I think we name things in order to obtain some sort of control over them. We name our dogs, kids, cars and bicycles with affection, but also for the sake of control. Imagine if everyone at the dog park called their dog, "Dog!" How out of control we would be! And we name storms and whatever gods we believe (or don't believe) in for the same reason: it gives us the sense of control for something over which we have no control. The ancients believed that knowing a god's name enabled one to call on them for help. Thor, Shiva, Zeus, were all named and called on. The Hebrews were odd and ridiculed in the ancient middle east because their god didn't have a name. Abraham asked and god replied, "I am what I am." And in that way, they were not allowed control over their god. So, what good was it? Remember in Genesis (which I believe is allegorical and not literal, but still indicative of our human nature) Adam and Eve were told to give things names as a way to steward all creation. Names were a symbol of control. It's interesting to me that several of your slow stich exercises are practicing letting go of control, burying the piece, blindfolding, flipping it over and this one, drawing the next instruction. It's letting go of control in a relatively safe environment and experiencing mindfully what that feels like. Anger, frustration, fear, surprise, anticipation and maybe joy or appreciation. I think many of us, myself included have experienced damage at times when we were not in control of a situation. For me, stitching or knitting is a way to be in control of an out-of-control situation. Having something to stich when I'm waiting, when the baseball game goes on forever, when someone is whittering (me!) incessantly and I can't cut them off. How many of us stitched or knitted by the bedside of a sick one because the process gave us some sense of control in an out-of-control situation? And here you are, K3n, giving us exercises in letting go of control over the very tool we've clung to for control! It's peeling back the fingers of my clenched fist! I've been thinking about the 2025 journaling process where you have Brave as your theme. I'm not sure of my theme yet. But a therapist I went to once advised me that the art of living is, "to be in control of being out of control." And I've taken that to heart over the years. I really hate meditation & mindfulness exercises mainly because it gets me in touch with how insanely fearful I am about being out of control of so much around me. Not just the weather, but my kids and what happens to them, my husband and the dangers of his job, I could go on and on with a list of things that terrify me if I really sit down and focus on my feelings. But I can focus on stitching. I can make my socks one stitch after another. Breathe in breath out. And so on. The die is cast crossing the Rubicon. That's all. Thanks for reading and sharing your process. I'm looking forward to the next year's adventure. Cheers, K3n.
Thank you for that Amy, I also feel the need for control, always have (trained as a librarian, so there's that 😉) cataloguing and classifying the world both to understand and gain control. Especially the past few years when I have felt NOT in control, it's especially important to me just now. But in a strange way, these little exercises in my happy place of Slowstitch which has been a constant source of comfort, kind of help. I relinquish control a little bit but know I have the tools to deal with whatever comes. I wanted to say something like that while filming but it got kind of light-hearted with the holes so I didn't get to it. I hope that makes sense. Funny how these themes emerge through the art of making. ❤️
I think my stitching is on hold for the foreseeable future. Our new dog is a handful and needs 24/7 supervision for now. At least I got to watch the technique. His name is John Milton Cage
@k3n.clothtales Her name is Poppy. She's about one and has had a troubled past. Life would be calmer if she would go for a walk. She doesn't want to go out the door. I added the john cage for easy look up
I understand what you’re going through. At the end of September our adult son and his puppy moved in with us because he had to take a job at this side of our state in the US. (His wife stayed in their home 5 1/2 hours away because her job is there.) My son and my husband do most of the dog walking, but I often take care of inside play. We’re all in charge of watching puppy’s every move to keep her from chewing what she shouldn’t. I’ve had to move two pieces of wood furniture into the area where my sewing machine is because we can gate off both entrances into the room. I do most of my stitching between 10 pm and 3 am when everyone else is asleep. I used to finish my pieces early in the week. Now I’m lucky to get them finished by Sunday night. No Christmas tree for us this year because we need to keep the puppy safe, so I don’t have to spend time doing that. We get our respite from the puppy on the weekends that my son and the puppy go back home for visits. It’s not every weekend.
Katherine, have you used Oblique Strategies?! I suspect this will be of interest to many here: “In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician.” And from Wikipedia: “…Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists …break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking…” Three examples: -Honour thy error as a hidden intention. -Ask your body. -Work at a different speed. Wishing you good fun and fruitful experiments
This looks great Kathryn. As usual. I just wanted to apologise for not posting as much recently and for not doing weekly stitching projects for a little while. I’m still as obsessed as ever with the stitching but seem to have got involved in larger projects plus I’ve been preparing for my wedding on the 14th (2nd time round age 71!) I want to do so much - wonky log cabins and other wonkiness as well as weekly projects. And as for the journal. Wow! Never done anything like this before and can’t wait. Sending heartfelt thanks for all you do for us. ❤
Hello Anne, how exciting hope it all goes well ❣️
Dilinizi anlamıyorum ama paylaşımlarınız için teşekkür ederim. Ellerinize emeğinize yüreğinize sağlık ❤❤❤😊
@@k3n.clothtales thank you 💕
Congratulatiions on your wedding. How wonderful to be in love!
@ thank you so much x
What a wonderful year of learning that you have given to me! I am able to do so many things with so many new skills. You are a joy and an incredible teacher! ❤
I’m really excited about the ‘comfort cloth’ project next year ❤
The face you stitched 😂: reminds me of Mr Bill. “Oh No!” 😂.
I love your chimes. I have an old quilt my sister gave me when I first had cancer 20 years ago. The quilt was store bought, inexpensive and she used it for many years before she gave it to me. Needless to say the quilt was falling apart. I couldn’t let it go so I kept patching it, mending it. It really is my comfort cloth. There are buttons, lace, unique fabrics. And I have plenty of room for your next year theme. I usually sew a small piece and then add it to the quilt.
I like this style you did today - mindful wandering. Hugs
That sounds lovely Sandra, lots of love ❤️
Holey moley 😂🤭
Love this, looking forward to giving it a go 😊
😂😂😂❤️
Journals i have kept several different kinds...sketch, planner, bujo was one of the first type I watched on YT
Dilinizi anlamıyorum ama paylaşımlarınız için teşekkürler. Ellerinize emeğinize yüreğinize sağlık ❤❤❤😊
Ohh to be one of the first to view - so exciting, just 5 mins watch before bed then savour the rest tomorrow.
❤ interesting process. Letting go of control
Next year sounds lovely too! ❤❤❤
What an interesting and amusing idea. Am looking forward to trying it .
John Cage often used the I-Ching (The Book of Changes) in his work. And Silence. I love this approach to your stitching this week: definitely up my street.
Such a lovely and relaxing video - great way to start my day. Thank you! Have a wonderful day🥰💕
I applaud you for carrying on with this UA-cam channel , after all you have been through, thank you for taking us through your journey 😘😘
Lovely “holes” you’ve stitched!! Looking forward to next year!
When 'hole' came round the fourth time I really did laugh out loud! Darning instead of eyelet was such a save!! :D 💚💚💚 I hope you're doing well and will feel less foggy soon!
Thank you Nancy 😊
This will be fun to do! I'm so excited about next year's projects, too. A thought about the word "hole" that kept coming up -- it's a good metaphor for personal loss. Each time, you made the hole beautiful. ❤
Thank you so much Wendy, what a lovely thought ❤️
Maths here in Australia, and yes I'm with you on dice, die is correct for one but dice sounds much nicer, it rolls of the tongue better
Pun intended? 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales lol no actually, great pick up , I had to come back and re read my reply lol coz I'm going what that?? hmmm...well of course it was intended 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would be wonderful to see Christmas lights and decorations in England on one of your Park home life videos ❤
I will see what I can do 😉❤️
Good morning, K3n, so nice to wake up at 5:00 am and see your videos on Mondays. Thank you.
So excited with what you have in store for us next year Kathryn
So funny when you kept picking out hole 😂❤
As they say, you couldn't make it up 😂❤️
Kia ora-hi Kathryn, another wonderful video...holes lols. Anyway, i am looking forward to next years comfort quilt/cloth, sounds like what i am working on atm very casual & all hand stitched. Thanks again ❤
Hole. Hahaha haha I loved it. This will be fun. I was looking back in my journal the other day. We have come a long way. Thank you so much
I also watch FIBER ARTS TWO, it's very good and free. Today journey with you today was very funny, but truly a great exercise. Thank you Kathryn.
This was a game of chance and you came up a winner with four holes. The best to you.
This is a fun game !
That was a very entertaining video Kathryn 😊 I am looking forward to your proposed projects for next year. Journaling is new for me but something i have never got round to - unsurprisingly 😅 and to do 2 different types really appeals to me. And the coverlet is an inspired idea 🎉 I want one! The stitch from the Kantha book will be interesting to see on Wednesday 😊 I am going to mark out time for the videos as self-care going forward because it is! Big love as always from Scotland ❤
Hello Margaret, Wednesday will be more holes 😂 the stitch from the kantha book will be in a couple of weeks ❤️
@k3n.clothtales ah I see! Well you can never have enough holes 😅😅 ❤
Prepared piano - my brother is a composer and wrote some pieces in the style of Cage, it's fascinating listening.
Thank you Jaki, I should really have done more research 😂❤️
That was such a fun exercise! I was filling out greeting cards so I look forward to it later in the day. Thanks for your joyful ways and happy voice. LJ in NM
Laurie Anderson was the guest. I learned about John Cage in art school. ...we had a lecture series guest presentation Wednesday afternoons . Various artists talking about their work and processes. 1981/82
Great fun Kathryn. Thank you. ❤
This is going to be fun!
Clock be like ..I resonate 🎉😂❤
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I used that quote about the coin in one of the weeks. I think it was Desert Island week. I have always lived by it and my gut always seems to be right!
Did you share in the Facebook group? It's very possible I got it from you if so 😁❤️
@k3n.clothtales Yes, I did. I didn't make it up, but it was something my Dad said - he probably heard it from someone else too.
Then thank you ❤️
Love this idea!! ❤
All of them!!! I’m in!!❤
Excellent ❤️
Ivory Blush Rose does crazy quilting this same way
Katherine, have you used Oblique Strategies?!
I suspect this will be of interest to many here: “In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician.”
And from Wikipedia: “…Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking…”
Three examples:
-Honour thy error as a hidden intention.
-Ask your body.
-Work at a different speed.
Wishing you good fun and fruitful experiments
Ooo! that sounds cool. I need to look for those.
Also wanted to share that Sister Mary Corita (Corita Kent)’s legacy is one of spreading love through art. We celebrate her life by honoring how our creative work inspires and uplifts. How fitting!
I haven't but it's wonderful and very appropriate 😁❤️
What a good sport you are K3N. I wonder if I will stay true to the plan. I tend to wander off the path. In the end, it made for very interesting work, with a good story to tell. I feel using a monochrome palette worked here but maybe I will extend the concept of chance to selecting random threads with each random prompt. Hope you have a happy day.
There is a writing method that uses pages cut up into words or phrases and then rearranged to create a poem or piece of prose - some lovely results, some rather weird 😂 cannot remember if it has a name - perhaps ‘found poems’?
It's certainly called 'found words ' when you cut words out of magazines etc so found poems make sense. There is also a thing where you black out most of the words on a book page leaving only a few showing to make a poem or saying. Also fun ❤️
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thank you, this is a funny game to play
I believe that when a language “travels” to another place, people who go to live there (or live there already) tend to simplify it, even because at those times it was the lower classes who emigrated and they had less language knowledge (they didn’t have degrees or anything). For example, Americans take out the “u” in several words, such as colour, favourite, etc. The same happens with the Portuguese language. Brazilian people tend to also simplify the Portuguese language and they don’t have the same words as we do for the same objects.
At least, that’s what I inferred from my language and linguistics classes at the university.
I do admire your persistence! 👏🏻👏🏻I wouldn’t do the hole when it came out the third time, let alone the fourth 😂
For those (like me 😂) who like to improvise, this is quite a challenge 😅
Sending love ❤️💙🧡💛💚🩵🤎🩷🩶💜♥️
I did try to mix it up a bit within the constraints of the 'hole' prompt 😂❤️
I pulled first and then figured out how work everything in as I went. It was very engrossing.
Hoping for an idea of supplies for 2025 Mondays. I am guessing what we have used for 2024 and fabric for a front and back the size of comfort cloth we want, for example two reclaimed twin sheets. Thank you Kathryn, it has been a hoot and i look forward to more.
I will talk about supplies in the little video I will make explaining everything but you won't need much to start with, it will be small pieces, stitched to completion and joined as we go, no big sheets, unless you want the backing pieces to be all the same. ❤️
Thank you. Sounds like I ready to go. Looking forward to your introduction video.
My personal opinion is that they give storms names simply to keep track of them on the chance that there are several at the same time. I know people who have lived in the storm area and, in retrospect, refer to the storm name when talking about surviving, or the damage done by, a particular storm. One friend lost a home in hurricane Andrew (Florida), then moved to Gulfport, Mississippi shortly before Catrina hit there (and New Orleans).
I am so sorry, that is really bad luck 😔❤️
Hurricanes are named to make it easier for people to identify and remember specific storms, especially when multiple hurricanes are occurring at the same time, which allows for clearer communication and better public preparedness when tracking their progress; using short, distinctive names avoids confusion in written and spoken reports about storms.
Your palmette in your kitchen is spectacularly beautiful! It was "it" that made me think you should sell your eco dyed/iron dyed fabrics, as yours are colours no one else does!
Thank you. I might one day be able to sell little bundles but my stock is quite low as I wasn't able to do much ecoprinting this year due to circumstances. ❤️
I remember someone saying Cage's piece 4'33" (total silence with not a note played) was a joke. Some bright spark pointed out it was intended to be performed in a forest where there was no silence at all. I think I could enjoy John Cage in a forest.
When they first started naming storms in the US it was A B C, but, they used the words Able, Baker, Charley. Then that changed to female names in the 1950's and that changed again in the 1970's. It was just to keep track of induvial storms.
Another fun challenge
I have a theory that things pick up energy with use,and we are instinctively drawn to them. If you put me in a museum, I will be drawn to the item that was used in a ritual every time.
Good morning, Kathryn. One of my younger grandchildren likes to throw the dice out of the cup, to a place where I can't see how they have landed. Amazingly, he nearly always gets a double 6 and wins Snakes and Ladders! Sometimes things are evened up as I am allowed to have extra turns until I nearly catch up...
Your plans for next year sound wonderful. As I have more-or-less shifted from "fitting in slowstitching around the other things I do" to "slowstitching as much as I can and fitting other things in around it" I might manage to keep up with some of it - maybe one and a half things, like the comfort coverlet and one of the journal projects - although I would love to do them both!
Talking about worrying about you, I'm sure you know that taking a break WITHOUT doing three times the number of videos per week to make up for it, would be absolutely fine with me and I guess just about everyone else? In fact we would probably stand up and cheer. As long as you are doing what makes you happy, and that that includes self care without reference to anyone else ( actually as I write this I am thinking, how does anyone even do that? But you know what I mean?) then that is all good, of course.... It is just so easy to confuse one thing with another when making other people happy is one of the things that makes you happy... I think I had better stop now!
I understand completely, and it would make me unhappy to miss out any videos 😁❤️
Excited for 2025 ❤
I saw John Cage in the early 80s. The performance had all the ingredients of a formal piano concert and then he performed which was nothing like what one would expect given the environment. He also talked about his process. At that time I was in art school so this was everything an art student would love. John Cage was one of the group of artists that attended Black Mountain College which is a very notable art school. A partial list of alumni includes Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Susan Weil, Vera B. Williams, Ben Shahn, Ruth Asawa, Franz Kline, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, M.C.
How wonderful, I bet it was fabulous ❤️
The Rainbow Swash is the common name for an untitled work by Corita Kent in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The rainbow design painted on a 140-foot tall LNG storage tank was copyrighted in 1972, and was claimed to be the largest copyrighted work of art at the time.
I used to drive by it all the time!
How fabulous ❤️
Did you know they wanted to paint over it quite a few years ago but the citizens would not have that. North of Boston here. The gas tanks are a landmark, just like the Citgo sign at Fenway.
Very interesting ❤ thankyou ...2025 wow 🎉
I thought the Friday interview with Mathew Harris was rather like his artistic method it wasn't until towards the end that I was getting it. I too was wondering how to translate it into my slow stitch.
I began to realise there were many ways of doing it. He begins with the same set of marks then cuts and reassembles them in a way that resolves them pleasingly rather like a cryptic puzzle. He likes the element of chance which imposes unexpected constraints within which he has to work That is a shortened interpretation of his process.
One method I thought of was, to stitch/mark a fabric "master board" then turn it over and cut it up into squares or rectangles from the backside, element of chance here. Slow stitch either each piece or half or quarter until it resolves into a pleasing stitched piece. This is a poor description, but I hope you can get it.
Many artists of various media use methods like this when creating a series.
Thank you for taking on my suggestion about the cutwork holes on your pelmet cover. I don't mind if it takes 5 hours at all, I'll be here stitching along. 🤣❣
🦋 Jenny (NZ)
Hello Jenny, yes that's a good description indeed. And this week it seems that holes are a theme so looking forward to sharing my wonky cutwork with you tomorrow 😂❤️
Watching on catch up...absolutely made me chuckle! Are you sure you didn't write 'hole' on more than one! 😂
I couldn't believe it 😂
Names for storms are because of the fact that you can relate to it easier and remember it quicker. So when you hear the name in the weather forecast you easier realise that this storm can be dangerous. So it is for protection and awareness!
We say “maths” in South Africa, because we do it more than once!
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This is great fun. Have you ever seen Sean Lock - carrot in the box sketch - there's some swearing but it is a brilliant example of choosing a box. The replay is also funny but a lot more swearing so be warned if you want to watch it. I wonder how many tries it would take to get all six out?
I don't think I have though I did love Sean Lock, I will look up the carrot in the box. 😁❤️
Just watched both, hilarious! 😂❤️
Okay holes 😂.
You could have done the holes differently. Maybe combining techniques instead of just eyelet stitch.
- closing the hole with overall embroidery maybe a star.
- patching underneath and eyelet joining the two materials.
That would have been a variety of holes done differently.
I so enjoy your videos a hole new world of sewing has opened for me to explore. Thank you❤
I could have 😁 a hole new world of sewing, love it ❤️
Very briefly - I just watched week 3. Mouse problem? The deterrent I have found very effective is coffee, granules or powder. Needs to be a strong aroma if you have it. Apparently mice cannot cope with the smell of coffee. Just a teaspoon or two on a jam jar lid or other shallow containers, place where you think their access points are. It worked for me. I once missed renewing the coffee after the aroma had faded and did have a couple of mice in the traps, but since putting down fresh the mice have stayed away. So many deterrent tips are available, but this one worked, it was already in the house, and takes no preparation. And it does last for many weeks. E❤
I left the mouse problem behind in France 😉❤️
@k3n.clothtales oops, didn't think about that, thinking cap not on, head full of Christmas nitty gritty ! But others may find it useful? Keep well. E♥️.
Yes thank you Eileen, sorry if I came across as glib, I didn't mean to ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️. Please, no apology needed, I didn't see it as glib at all. I haven't been viewing your uploads for very long, so I'm having the fun of dipping into and enjoying earlier ones, but not really registering where they were filmed. .and I love seeing Stella and FredFred - FredFred is the boss? . I haven't had a fur baby for years - animal fur allergy runs in our families, and I need to be free for when the grown up kiddies ask me to stay - I'm not having to find someone to care for pets. (and I can't reciprocate in any way because my children always take priority so I rarely make firm commitments of any sort ). So I just enjoy other people's pets, both the live ones and those in videos, they bring back happy memories. Keep warm. E♥️
@@k3n.clothtales this is the second attempt to respond - my posts seem to get lost in the ether somewhere. No need to apologise, i didn't see it as glib at all. I've been viewing your earlier videos that I hadnt seen - I didn't think about where they were filmed. Keep warm. E♥️
Have you seen the movie called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", based on a book by Tom Stoppard? It is all about the concept of life being a game of chance and is based on the Shakespeare characters in Hamlet who escort Hamlet to England and supposedly to his death but of course it doesn't turn out as they expected.
Oh yes I have, years ago. Love Stoppard. ❤️
Because you asked I searched for an answer to the question 'why do storms have names?' I give you a short translation of what I found in Dutch (from the site of KNMI, the Dutch Meteorological Institute). They say it is an easy way to give warnings that there's dangerous weather coming. And because often the same weather-system is (turning around) at both sides of the North Sea the same names are used in the UK (and Ireland) and the Netherlands. KNMI, Met Office and Met Éireann work together.
Thank you Inge, that's a simple enough explanation, that it's just for identification and easier to remember a name than a number or something else. ❤️
Identification. Once the storm is designated a certain class it is given a name for Identification purposes. It is in the news with said name making it easier to track.
I'm enjoying this week's project and the withering it's great however in Australia according to the bureau of meteorology naming a major storm e.g acyclone it is merely a way of communication and identification so people will know what is going on this year it will be 50 years since cyclone Tracy destroyed Darwin Australia and that is the first time I remember a storm having a name stay well and thanks once more for the company
That makes sense ❤️
I'm not sure why we started naming storms, but since that tradition was established it has given us a sort of shorthand for referring to major weather events here in the United States. If you say Katrina, everyone's thoughts here immediately go to the devastation in New Orleans in 2005. We commonly compare storms by name because it puts us in mind of a time and place...
Yes, I also feel a bit sorry for people who happen to have the same name as one of the major ones though.. perhaps they should use names from history rather than modern ones. Someone also told me though that the names are suggested by the public. ❤️
Kathryn, do you suppose if you were alone in your stitch would you have felt other responses to pulling the same prompts so often in a row? Do you think you notice the “stare of the other” because you are recording it for video? I mean to say, if you were with us in person as a group, would you feel the same chagrin of a kind?
You really do know we carry along with you in good sprite regardless so it’s not ego or judgement…
Maybe I’m too much in my philosophy head/heart again but I was just curious to ask.
Happy Birthday my dear dear dear friend. I’m hugging you so tightly. So truly. Happy birthday.
Reverberate I think is the word you were looking for.
Yes! Thank you 😊
Interesting that when we are playing a game of chance we can feel irritated by how it falls, but still hope for "good luck". The randomness of random, and of chance, together with our propensity for finding patterns, seems to almost set us up for superstition, or at least for making hypotheses about what is "meant to be", or what we can do to make it happen.
Yes, I agree ❤️
I love this kind of prompt, I've done it for my art journal but not for stitching! Excited to try it.
Lovely video as usual Kathryn! I am struck by how much of your time, resources and energy you are giving to all of us and next year it seems you have decided to increase your workload. In the real world you have expenses to pay for utilities, housing costs, food and so on…like the rest of us. This is perhaps as indelicate question in a world where we will freely discuss sex but not money…will you be okay financially with giving away this much of your time? I am a Ko-fi subscriber but those amounts seem trivial for what we receive. Are there other ways we can support you like you support us? 😘
So kind of you to think of me, Barbara. I am managing. I should mention the Kofi more often, people are so kind but it's kind of hard to find the link down in the description so I guess many just aren't aware. I am maybe too 'English' in that I don't like to openly ask too much as it feels like begging. I could also enable adverts midway through the videos and earn more but I find it annoying myself when watching others so don't want to inflict them on you. But I am ok. ❤️
You might end up with nothing but holes. ( Very funny )
Wouldn't that be fun! 😲❤️❤️❤️🤣
This is a bit of a whitter, maybe a rant. But I think you asked, so here goes:
I think we name things in order to obtain some sort of control over them. We name our dogs, kids, cars and bicycles with affection, but also for the sake of control. Imagine if everyone at the dog park called their dog, "Dog!" How out of control we would be! And we name storms and whatever gods we believe (or don't believe) in for the same reason: it gives us the sense of control for something over which we have no control. The ancients believed that knowing a god's name enabled one to call on them for help. Thor, Shiva, Zeus, were all named and called on. The Hebrews were odd and ridiculed in the ancient middle east because their god didn't have a name. Abraham asked and god replied, "I am what I am." And in that way, they were not allowed control over their god. So, what good was it? Remember in Genesis (which I believe is allegorical and not literal, but still indicative of our human nature) Adam and Eve were told to give things names as a way to steward all creation. Names were a symbol of control.
It's interesting to me that several of your slow stich exercises are practicing letting go of control, burying the piece, blindfolding, flipping it over and this one, drawing the next instruction. It's letting go of control in a relatively safe environment and experiencing mindfully what that feels like. Anger, frustration, fear, surprise, anticipation and maybe joy or appreciation. I think many of us, myself included have experienced damage at times when we were not in control of a situation. For me, stitching or knitting is a way to be in control of an out-of-control situation. Having something to stich when I'm waiting, when the baseball game goes on forever, when someone is whittering (me!) incessantly and I can't cut them off. How many of us stitched or knitted by the bedside of a sick one because the process gave us some sense of control in an out-of-control situation? And here you are, K3n, giving us exercises in letting go of control over the very tool we've clung to for control! It's peeling back the fingers of my clenched fist!
I've been thinking about the 2025 journaling process where you have Brave as your theme. I'm not sure of my theme yet. But a therapist I went to once advised me that the art of living is, "to be in control of being out of control." And I've taken that to heart over the years. I really hate meditation & mindfulness exercises mainly because it gets me in touch with how insanely fearful I am about being out of control of so much around me. Not just the weather, but my kids and what happens to them, my husband and the dangers of his job, I could go on and on with a list of things that terrify me if I really sit down and focus on my feelings. But I can focus on stitching. I can make my socks one stitch after another. Breathe in breath out. And so on.
The die is cast crossing the Rubicon.
That's all. Thanks for reading and sharing your process. I'm looking forward to the next year's adventure. Cheers, K3n.
Thank you for that Amy, I also feel the need for control, always have (trained as a librarian, so there's that 😉) cataloguing and classifying the world both to understand and gain control. Especially the past few years when I have felt NOT in control, it's especially important to me just now. But in a strange way, these little exercises in my happy place of Slowstitch which has been a constant source of comfort, kind of help. I relinquish control a little bit but know I have the tools to deal with whatever comes. I wanted to say something like that while filming but it got kind of light-hearted with the holes so I didn't get to it. I hope that makes sense. Funny how these themes emerge through the art of making. ❤️
Australia - maths
I think my stitching is on hold for the foreseeable future. Our new dog is a handful and needs 24/7 supervision for now. At least I got to watch the technique.
His name is John Milton Cage
Oh how funny about his name, not so much that he is such a handful, I hope he settles down ❤️
@k3n.clothtales Her name is Poppy. She's about one and has had a troubled past. Life would be calmer if she would go for a walk. She doesn't want to go out the door.
I added the john cage for easy look up
I understand what you’re going through. At the end of September our adult son and his puppy moved in with us because he had to take a job at this side of our state in the US. (His wife stayed in their home 5 1/2 hours away because her job is there.) My son and my husband do most of the dog walking, but I often take care of inside play. We’re all in charge of watching puppy’s every move to keep her from chewing what she shouldn’t. I’ve had to move two pieces of wood furniture into the area where my sewing machine is because we can gate off both entrances into the room. I do most of my stitching between 10 pm and 3 am when everyone else is asleep. I used to finish my pieces early in the week. Now I’m lucky to get them finished by Sunday night. No Christmas tree for us this year because we need to keep the puppy safe, so I don’t have to spend time doing that. We get our respite from the puppy on the weekends that my son and the puppy go back home for visits. It’s not every weekend.
@Carol_Sews I'm astonished at what poppies finds to chew.
Ships female 😂🎉
Have you ever done a weather stich project?
I did a sky piece for 100 days once, stitched a line each day the colour of the sky. ❤️
@k3n.clothtales IS it possible to do something like that for 2025?
I already have the projects in mind and don't really have time for another one, maybe in 2026 😁❤️
But why should we ask ourselves why more?? 😂😂😂
Oh you are a funny one! 😂❤️
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I’m sorry Kathryn but I cheated, and didn’t put the prompts back into the pot! 😂
Well at least you owned up 😉😂
Ha! I cheated too. I gave myself 8 choices and did 6. But like you, I didn't put them back in the pot. Ssshhhh!
@ hehe x
Katherine, have you used Oblique Strategies?!
I suspect this will be of interest to many here: “In 1975, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno created the original pack of Oblique Strategies cards, through thinking about approaches to their own work as artist and musician.”
And from Wikipedia: “…Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists …break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking…”
Three examples:
-Honour thy error as a hidden intention.
-Ask your body.
-Work at a different speed.
Wishing you good fun and fruitful experiments