Slowstitching the feeling of Home
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Using hand stitching and precious scraps of cloth, create a Slowstitch coverlet with me through the year, suitable for absolute beginners and more experienced stitchers. A journal cloth, for and about yourself. We will create a section each month and join as we go. The projects can also be used individually so don't worry if you join us late. There will be weekly videos every Wednesday at 3pm GMT.
For the month of February, the theme is Home.
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I have lived in one home! It was built in 1880 by my great great grandparents.
How absolutely wonderful 😊
Wow that's a rare thing, isn't it? ❤
Impressive!😊
Thank you so much for giving me the confidence to achieve this! With your expert tuition I made it. When I first saw the video I really thought I couldn’t do this - Ive never done a log cabin before and I assumed it was something I would struggle to do. But thanks to you I made it through, and thoroughly loved the process. Lots of love to you.
That's lovely to hear, thank you 🥰
I LOVE the idea of all the various hearthfires I've tended over the years scattered across this field like stars.
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I absolutely love the idea of doing a meditation scroll with the fabric used in our comfort cloth.
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You are such an artist, and you show us these things so well!! It amazes me how you think of the different ways of doing things, so imaginative and so lovely! Thank you for teaching us!! 💚💚💚
Thank you Nancy, I think I just have a weird, what if kind of brain 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales what if-ing is the best artistry that there ever was!!
I love this, and also love the wonky Wednesday house idea too. Will go with whatever the clothes says to me.
Love how non stressed your methods of stitching are.
After 15 months of enjoying your videos and your delightful company, I am continually amazed by your creativity and exceptional teaching skills. I look forward to every video...... both for the stitching and for the wittering. You are a blessing in my life. You provide stitching fun and a meditative creative space of joy in a world often difficult. Thank you.
Thank YOU so much 😊
This tutorial was amazing, all very logical once you know what you are doing. A fabric, wonky log cabin jig saw. The camera angles today were great, also so much easier to see when working on a desk.
Yes it's certainly easier to film on my desk, stressed me out a bit last week stitching out of shot for an hour. 😂❤️
Dear Kathryn! I am in my 10th home now, which is my 7th in the Netherlands. My first home ever was in Eastern Germany, behind the iron curtain. Even if it is a long time ago (more than 30 years) I still feel a cut through my history of homes. I like to express this in my cloth, maybe I will use the kintsugi technique you taught us last year with the weekly project. That will make a strong line.
The log cabins are so cute, I will try that too. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Liefs, Helene
The kintsugi idea is perfect Helene, representing mending and healing but not hiding the cracks. ❤️
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Well I counted 21 moves, some more adventures than others. Your channel is a Home. I'm loving it. so many great ideas. Thank you
That's such a lovely thing to say, thank you ❤️
Love this idea. I’ll never did make something like this, but I will definitely give this a go. Cannot wait.
Oeh you got me counting now….15 moves so far. The feeling of ‘home’ (wherever or whatever that may be) is the thing people often seem to be searching or longing for in my opinion. I certainly have found it in many different places or situations. And here on youtube i feel right at home with you! Love the wonky log cabins🍀💖😍❤️💐🥰
I agree, that longing for home is powerful. I think the only real peace comes, especially for those of us who have moved a lot, when we realise that home is a feeling rather than a physical place. And that it's us who create the feeling for ourselves. ❤️
I have been excited for today's project...and I enjoyed immensely ✨️💙🌙
Loved this Kathryn looking forward to having a go ❤👵🏼x
Moved around a lot when I was young, became an excellent mover (packer, cleaner and painter, had to make each place my/our home) lol. Over 35 different homes mostly in BC and Ontario. Love the connections in the the log cabin piece. Thanks for the refresher Kathryn.
It's a beautiful ensemble of wonky log cabins Kathryn! Thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas and explaining each step so patiently. Big hug!❤
I’m 62 this year and I think I ‘ve lived in 23/24 homes including student houses back in the 80s. We’ve been here now 22 years and it was a temporary move when my dad was terminally ill and then various life events happened 😂
Having a lovely time with you. Thank you and welcome in to my happy place.
Very interesting and challenging. I am certainly going to attempt the wonky look as I really enjoyed the Wonky Wednesday projects!
Scary 😨!I think I will make them individually then applique them on you are so clever thankyou for sharing I am going to keep going just do my best🎉X
Oh please don't be scared. It's very forgiving because you can just stitch pieces over any gaps. But you do you and what makes you feel comfortable, this project is all about the comfort after all. ❤️
I have never done log cabins wonky or otherwise so I am so excited to try. I can embrace a little wonk but not too much, so I am just going to do three in a straight line as I have to have things in odds and I live at number 3. Once again Kathryn, you amaze us ☹️
I remember moving for the first time in my life, when I was 21 and leaving my beloved childhood home with my family. I remember thinking that it was this house that was my home and that I just couldn't live anywhere else. And then, as we gradually packed our things, furniture and so on and took it to the new place, I noticed how gradually this house ceased to be our home and the new one begun to feel like home more and more with each piece of our belongings. We took our home with us.
I think 'home' is a feeling we can take with us, and it's in the memories associated with our things. Although I do have a kind of envy for people with real roots, family homes going back generations. It is an interesting thing to ponder. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtalesI don't know anyone like that. I think here in Poland very few families live in homes for more than two generations (because od the distruction and migration caused by WWII).
I feel lucky to have been raised in a home I felt safe in, with loving and caring parents - I think that is a true gift which can equip a person with a sense of security and belonging for a lifetime, no matter where they end up living.
Not prone to excitement, I actually had goose bumps and clapped my hands when you approached bridging the two wonky cabins. This is beoootiful! I can see where there are options for angling (ankleing) them into a community but I love the way yours melt into one another. This signifies the self moving from one, into the next. I would love to see the colour scheme carried on but sadly, I will have to use a mixed palette - should be interesting. Can't wait for next week. Thank you Kathryn.
So happy to hear that Ann. I was thinking while stitching, how fabulous it would be to make a large piece only using this technique and playing with colour transitions at the same time. I have a WIP that's similar but they are all square and in rows. Who knows if I will have time but I think it could be fab. 😁❤️
Such a valuable practice as part of the self care to consider such matters as the places we have lived. Noticing a recurring pattern and how I was able to break out of that... or can now choose a when a different level of discernment in making choices started was hugely helpful. Thank you so much for this. I'm just listening to this at present, while I doodle stitch a fabric scroll, and will start the home themed piecing a bit later. (I have no problem with 'being behind'!) Bless you for your work and sharing dear Kathrine. You keep doing you.
Being a creative can be scary, but whatever you create never scares me Kathryn 🙂 It inspires me and your speaking always leds me to mind therapy at the same time. Fractured art is always "deep" and "thought promoting". I thought my 13 places were a lot, oh my! 30!!! I never think of home as a place either - it is definitely a feeling of "warm fuzzies" Sidebar....your left thumb has a lot of stress and pressure on it while sewing...I overused mine until it collasped and they had to reconstruct it, fix my carpel tunnel. Metal in your body anywhere isn't fun and I want you to take care of YOU. Just saying... I understand you completely - I trust you'd never led us down the wrong garden path.
Thank you I will pay a bit more attention. Thumbs in my family tend to develop arthritis so very important to take care. ❤️
I do EEP while I listen and watch you ❤
I’ve lived in 13 homes so far and I’m sure I will live in a few more. That’s just life for me. 🏠
I’ve lived in 4 houses. The first one was a true home. I’ve lived there for 29 years and I was born there too. I have the fondest memories of that house and specially my room, which was also my art room and my study room. I was really happy there. Then, not so happy. I’m definitely not happy at this house and I’m looking for my 5th and forever home. I guess it’s more the feeling and the people rather than the physical space, wether it’s big or small, white or blue, it doesn’t matter. Many times, a special object, a gift from a family member or a childhood toy may turn a simple house into a real home.
Sometimes a UA-cam channel can also feel like home and the way you share your thoughts and feelings makes it feel very homely 🥰♥️💙🩷💛💚🧡🤎💜🩵❤️ P. S. I love your wonky log cabins, but you already know that, don’t you?😉
We are wanderers. I’ve had a nomadic life also. 💕
Love your wonky idea and fits the theme perfectly. I had no idea there would be a prompt or idea for following panels. 😢 I have been stitching away with certain themes of my own. I will keep nature and beaches/water in mind since I grew up in the ocean with a sailboat and motorboat. That would be very special for me.
Thank you for your patience, tips, ideas and detailed explanations.
I am sorry, I should have been clearer at the beginning. 😕❤️
@k3n.clothtales No worries. I heard your original intro and dont recall you mentioning that. I understand why you started with the 9 patch and notice many took your lead and created similar piece. Overall I thought the Comfort Cloth was to be made with special things that had meaning to us. Very personalized. I do agree that given prompts people can be creative in their own way but I see many have gone with wonky patches. Like you I have moved over 40 times and will depict that in a new panel. At the point of joining panels I guess it does not matter what order they are in but we can include the various prompts.
I sew about 6-8 hours a day so I have made 3 panels and working on 4th. I will go back and add some words or short phrases and after I think they are complete will put them aside. I figure I need at least 14 panels (15x28) and once I attach it may have to add more fabric in some of the "joined" areas. Eventually will add batting and a back. I know you will say "you do you" but I will try to make a panel following your prompts. For sure ocean and sailboat as i grew up with one. It was my life! I made a pattern on paper and will have to cut it out of fabric and figure how to vest attach it onto panel and elaborate. Thank you for patiently explaining things. You are so creative!
I've had a lot of short term jobs where I lived & worked in a new place -- summers in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Washington DC, even Crawley near Gatwick for a few months. But since it was before cell phones and email, I had to have a new address & telephone everywhere I went, even for a short time. I'm thinking I might make some triangular cabins for these homes, and they sort of wedge between the larger square-ish ones. My husband & I bought this house about 30 years ago, but between 17 and 33 I moved 20 times. All my family had my details in pencil in their address books as they were constantly erasing them.
I had such a lovely time editing my larger pile of possibles for this month and just moving bits around on my background cloth as you stitched and chatted. At the end, when you mentioned making wonky houses, that really appealed, along with a/some log cabin bits. Such lovely possibilities to contemplate and begin on this week. Thank you for helping build my confidence throughout last year! I can't imagine ever attempting such a thing before.
I have so enjoyed this! How generously you explain things so clearly...allowing for individual creativity to spill over..Loved the way these blocks grew and linked up.
Much tonthink about here and explore with fun!
Thanks Kathryn...
home...yes..I have to think about that one... many places, faces and different avatars...:):)
Really looking forward to doing this.
Thanks once again!
10 different homes for me, including government housing and a mobile home. Love to look at different homes where ever I travel. Savanna, Georgia has some beautiful old homes as does Calistoga, California, where they have many original American Craftman houses lovingly restored. I collect little PUTZ houses to place on my Christmas tree. The originals are getting scarce, and a bit expensive, but there are many replicas available.
Packing and moving is certainly an art, you have had plenty of practice. 😊
I like it a lot😊
I'm excited to make some wonky log cabin homes and join them "whichy way." I made my first Manx-style block for the centre square, representing myself and made with my hand measurements. The wonky log cabins will go perfectly. Thank you, Kathryn 😊❤
Wonderful Wendy ❤️
So sweet
Very clever and slightly rebellious to my liking .
Ive had a light bulb moment with log cabins ....they've always looked complicated but I now realise how easy it is ❤
Excellent! So happy to hear that ❤️
This episode got me thinking about when I stopped calling the house of my childhood "home" and it became "my parents' house" and then after my father died it became "where I grew up" or "my mother's house". I recently moved and it was a few months before the new (to me) house became "home", as you said, it's something about how it feels. Thanks for this series (and I don't feel any pressure to any, and certainly not all, of the projects!).
I'd love to hear more about your father. You have mentioned how difficult it was when you lost him and you clearly honor him with the fabric that was his. It's just idle curiosity on my part but you seem to have been strongly influenced by him (and I was by mine).
I only stopped calling my parents house 'home' when they moved after I had left home. It's interesting isn't it, how we think of home. I have a little box full of my Dad's little notes to himself, his music sheets for his guitar etc and I will make a journal one day. I don't feel up to it yet but one day. ❤️
I counted all the different places I’ve lived, 15, maybe more but that’s all I remembered right now. I love the idea of making log cabins connect, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing
You made me think about how many homes have I lived in. I am 37 years old and this is my tenth home. I have been in this home for 12 years which is the longest I have ever stayed in the same place.
Thankyou for the video. I have been checking and waiting for the video since I opened my eyes in the morning 😅😅
I was a bit stressed but then the option of wonky houses made me feel better ❤❤❤❤ thankyou
Good to hear, I wanted to give you options if you didn't like the idea of the log cabin ❤️
@k3n.clothtales the idea I like but I'm not that confident to be honest ..😉
You could try a little one with some scraps, what's the worse that could happen? I think you will surprise yourself. ❤️
Very interesting log cabin design. Never seen anything like this with the log cabin block before. I like it.💛💚💛
I love the idea of HOME covering my self….and my family (my four patch inside a nine patch) 💖💖💖
Yay!! My favorite wonky log cabins. 💕
still very much enjoying your process and work - did make me giggle that your rectangle, which "just happened to be" 10 inches is in fact almost exactly the golden ratio with your square of 16..
I think it's the piece I tore off the January block to make it square 😁❤️
I have just finished two little wonkified log cabins and am so enjoying this 2nd block. I have to parcel out my stitching but I will continue slowly...I love the wedges idea for filling in the spaces; what fun using all those little bits of strips I've been hoarding...thank you for another great video....hugs, Julierose😃
So pleased you are enjoying yourself 😊
What a challenging and fun way to work this month 😅 I hope I can get through it without going too 😵💫 😂💪 Thanks for the warm homely inspiration ❤
Awesome fun and wonky project. Thank you🎉
Thanks Kathryn I can feel some enthusiasm mixed with motivation beginning. I know myself well enough to realise that if I just settled into viewing your 2026 prompts that would be enough. I guess being a creation coming in from a completely different non structured angle has thrown my Virgo mind into a spin and asking myself if I really needed such a challenge. Or if I could being myself to actually be centred on myself but after creating most of the prompts from Wonky Wednesday in 2025 I actually enjoy the Log Cabins. My centre piece for my Comfort Cloth has been basted down since early January, folded neatly and tucked away but today I am going to find it and start stitching. Hugs
That's good to hear Maureen, I hoped this would please all the wonky Wednesday fans 😁❤️
Oh fun! I did a few of the wonky homes last year but not enough so looking forward to the piece this month. Cattywompus is great…and like we used to say at my old job when we transcribed reports…”just make it look pretty” 😂.
I absolutely LOVE that when you camped you brought a rug and pillows! When you said home I immediately thought of doing the wonky house like last year's project. If you have any thoughts on how that might be done I would love to hear!❤
I think if it was me, I would go with a strip and piece a few with different characters to kind of represent some of the kinds of places I have lived then arrange them as a little row or street, maybe even chronologically could be fun. 😁
@@k3n.clothtales Oh I love the chronological idea! Thank you!!
I love this idea. For me, people are home ,and without cloth with meaning to me, it would only be an exercise. I don't have any kind of old cloth
Kathy, sometimes something as simple as using blue cloth for example which was my Dad's favourite colour can give meaning to a scrap of new cloth that has no meaning or story. Or a print of white roses, representing my Yorkshire heritage. Maybe you can find your own story in new cloths. ❤️
@k3n.clothtales I like that. I've been a bit envious of your beautiful block.
Lovely thanks Kathryn
Kathryn when you said something about this new month being about Home. The first thing I thought of was log cabins and doing something with a log cabin for this new month. Then opened this video and you’re going with. Log cabin. The hairs on my neck are standing up. lol.
I've moved around too ,only in England tho 😅
I am so glad that I did some log cabins last year, and also that I learned not to dither but to “ just get on with it”. As I was thinking this I felt that this amount of self-congratulation was a bit wicked, not something a well-brought up girl would do, and certainly not so that others would notice. But if the opposite is negative self-criticism then a little basking is ok - I am following my plan of self-care! But as you said, Kathryn, it is not easy. It is a bit like trying to swim upstream; going downstream is so much more familiar.
It really isn't easy, it feels like 'showing off' doesn't it? Something I have been criticised for growing up, and at the same time being made to feel that I had to be perfect to earn praise. Oh the baggage we carry! 🙄❤️
@ Yes, being told off for boasting, bragging, showing off, all of that, and finding ways to try to gain approval… But now we can encourage each other in practising self-care, and lots of other people who subscribe to your channel and are in the Fb group.
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I lived in 12 places some in the same area ....the longest Walthamstow for over 30 years love this log cabin idea but mine might be a 2up 2 down terraced house or Penzance influenced where I live now
I don't think of the number of places we lived, but the number of schools, 13.
I too have been a nomad😊. Love this wonderful idea of the small log cabins.
Thanks 🌞
Its going to be fun. Thank you. 😊
Would it be helpful to draw lines around the piece so we don’t go into the seam around the backing? Guess we have to keep 1 inch all around? Or will that get in the way of the strip which will be a kind of frame…..i am a bit confused about the end result …..it being added to the first section. Love the log cabins though and will try and make them wonky😳🤗
If you just leave a good inch of backing exposed all round, you will have no problem with the joining. You could even leave a couple of inches to be on the safe side and allow for the frame. ❤️
Kathryn! How did you know I was knitting?? I had to LOOK UP when you yelled just now! You were talking to me weren’t you!
Absolutely Nancy, I was! 😁❤️
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Love this video and the idea of using tiny scraps for a meditation scroll - is there a video on it ?
Yes here it is ua-cam.com/video/Hx1dUQvr6Ss/v-deo.htmlsi=zrcba83NrW7XnqbW ❤️
Thankyou xx
Nice
Shew, brave ❤
Am I right in thinking that Feb cloth will be the same width, but much shorter in length?
Yes, as long as one side is the same as the side of the block you want to join to, it can be any width ❤️
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I am a military brat (child of a soldier) so we never think about where we’re from, only where we’ve been because we have no hometown and most of us have no home state even, just a list of military bases we have lived on. I joined the military after graduating from high school and continued wandering throughout my life until my children were old enough to complain about it. It never occurred to me before then that “roots” might matter. Now that I’m older and my children are nearly grown, the concept of providing them with a “home base” has become important to me but the concept of home has no true meaning for me and is rooted more in people than in places. I will probably build my home block with cloths from my family since they are my home.
I think I messed up at the beginning.I didn't put the patches on in the right order and now on patch no.7 I chose dark olive green.Will that spoil the wished for log cabin effect?
It's hard to say without seeing it. If it looks wrong to you and you don't want to take it out, you can sew another piece over the top 😊
I’ve lived in 4 houses. The first one was a true home. I’ve lived there for 29 years and I was born there too. I have the fondest memories of that house and specially my room, which was also my art room and my study room. I was really happy there. Then, not so happy. I’m definitely not happy at this house and I’m looking for my 5th and forever home. I guess it’s more the feeling and the people rather than the physical space, wether it’s big or small, white or blue, it doesn’t matter. Many times, a special object, a gift from a family member or a childhood toy may turn a simple house into a real home.
Sometimes a UA-cam channel can also feel like home and the way you share your thoughts and feelings makes it feel very homely 🥰♥️💙🩷💛💚🧡🤎💜🩵❤️ P. S. I love your wonky log cabins, but you already know that, don’t you?😉
I hope you find a home where you can be happy soon. Yes I think it is a feeling, more than just the physical structure of the place. I am pleased you like the wonky log cabins, I had to include them in my coverlet of course 😁❤️
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