Sorting Scraps and Making Cloth Bundles for Slowstitch
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- My friend gave me a box of fabric scraps and in this video I share how I sort and organise them to use in slowstitch projects.
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Just read all the lovely comments to you - I concur. I am wondering, with amusement, what a therapist would have to say about all of us. Wishing everyone could experience the pleasure we feel from this wonderful occupation. Thank you so very much K3N.
I know exactly what you mean Ann, just handling cloth is wonderful therapy, stitching even more so ❤️
Such a soothing video. There is something incredibly satisfying about watching fabric sorting and listening to your thoughts. 😊
Thank you so much! 😊
Hypnotised by cloth and colour😵💫
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Lovely! Now I want to go through my boxes and sort and fold cloth instead of sorting and folding that pile of clothes from the drying rack...😂
Much more fun 😁❤️
This is perfect for me. So happy you posted today. I could watch for an hour 😂
Thank you Marta 😊
That was so very helpful. I confess to having watched a few videos on 'how to make fat quarter bundles' but they were a) pernickety b) wasteful and c) involved ironing. This is much more my cup of tea and completes the k3n method of processing cloth.
I love how everything you do celebrates the cloth yet with a quiet but firm overview of who is in control. I guess that confidence comes with experience. Thank you Kathryn.
Mary x
Thank you Mary, I am so pleased you like my way 😊
Thanks I thoroughly enjoyed sitting with you while you sorted your cloth into bundles. Very peaceful.
Glad you enjoyed it♥️
Wouldn’t the world be a better place if more people could find their solace and fulfilment in such peaceful and creative ways ❤️
Absolutely ❤️
Listen to k3n when she says “Listen to the cloth.”
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The best colour therapy for this morning!👏🏻💖
Thank you Brenda 😊
So much fun to watch you sort the scraps for your bundles! A great inspiration to do something similar with my scraps. Certainly keeps them tidy and very pleasing to the eye💕. Thank you🥰
My pleasure 😊
It was a fun game guessing if it's a scrap or bundle of the unsure piece
I could start a game show called 'Scrap or Bundle?' 😂❤️
Love this, And nice to see that we sort fabric pieces and scrapes in a similar way. It’s like finding treasures ❤
So true! ❤️
Aren’t we the lucky once, to have such good friends giving us there scraps and leftovers. Better than a box of chocolates. At the moment I am working on a series of fabric collages where I use mostly my friends printed and dyed fabrics. I sorted the bag I got from her in color bundles.
Yes we are Lisbeth, I saw that you had a new stitching video and I am looking forward to watching it when I get a quiet moment ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales enjoy your stay and friend, you can always look at videos later.
High thread count is good for applique , 😊
Yes that's a good use for it 😊❤️
Such a great idea and very soothing for today's crazy world. Have loved fabric, embroidery and stitching since I was a child. My German Mummy taught me embroidery at a young age ( maybe 6). Can't even remember. Loved it ever since. 👍💖
Wonderful!❤️
Because of you I’ve been making small bundles. I do get overwhelmed. We are blessed. Thank you. This summer I’m staying with my daughter in another state. I should have brought more bundles. lol ❤
I have less here with me than I usually have, even with this lovely box full from my friend, but it's also nice to have less to work with, in the spirit of desert island stitching 😉❤️
Thank you K3n for showing how you process fabric scraps. The bundle is a lovely gift for any scrap lover, like all of us!❤
You are so welcome! 🤗
nice friend, nice fabric, nice process!
Thank you so much 🙂
I really enjoy the sound of your voice K3n---very calm and soothing in this ruff and increasingly awkward world. I do agree with you about the bundles being a pleasant way to store bits of fabric.
Thank you 😊
I’ve been very curious about your “little bundles” & how you sort the fabric for them, so will be quite happy to see what you do. Thank you for sharing this! 🌼
My pleasure 😊
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Thank you Hülya, did you know that you can get subtitles by clicking CC then Settings Captions Auto translate and choose your language from the menu? 🤗❤️
Loved watching this. I could have happily watched you sort through the whole box.
Glad you enjoyed it! ♥️
Thank you Kathryn. My cloth is all over the place and of course is very creased, I avoid getting the iron out and almost never press clothes. Your video has encouraged me to make some cloth bundles while I am watching the Olympics. ❤❤
Have a lovely time, sounds perfect. We are watching a little here and there, it's very exciting 😊❤️
Very interesting especially early in the morning ❤❤❤❤❤I don't even have 6 scraps 😊
Just the way you say, "beautiful little bundle" makes me want to make some. I'm sure it's been said before, but I think that we are all made from the same cloth around here. Lovely, intimate insight into an artist at work. Thanks heaps.
Hello Kristelle, I agree there is a real feeling of community ♥️
ooooo but I wanted to watch you sort the rest lol!! ;)
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Excellent ad. Love Congress members Frost and AOC in the mix. 😊
Glad your ads are good ones 😁❤️
I miss hearing Stella's pitter patter paws!
I am missing Stella and Fredfred too but they are safe and sound back in France ❤️
Lovely gift packets all sorted. Will be such a pleasure to use. Now to make my own. xo
Have fun 😊
I enjoyed listening and learning abit more about how you tick. LOL So organized I wish I could be more like that. I will try. 🙃💚
😂 the old library studies training. I have a very dear friend who calls me 'her little librarian ' 😁❤️
Love learning how you sort with thr thought of your working style. 😊
Thank you! 😊
I'm so ready for this!
Thank you for this. I do have my fabrics mostly sorted by sizes but I really love the idea of bundles, it would make things so much easier 😀
Glad it was helpful!❤️
Inspiring and relaxing to watch you sort cloth. And what a lovely gift from a good friend who knows what will make you happy! Thank you.
My pleasure 😊
You so sooth my soul, I love watching you , I get so inspired!
That's lovely to hear ☺️
Just sat down with a cup of coffee and watched your lovely video. Bliss! All feels right with the world. You do seem to have the knack for pulling out pieces that all seem to work with each other colourwise without stressing about it. Is it luck or experience? Whatever, I wish I had it!
Thank you Heather, I would guess it's experience, over the years I have learnt what I like and what works, not necessarily the same thing 😁♥️
Hi K3n, if I had only known it, whilst you were doing this, early this morning, I was less than 100 miles away doing the same. That would have added to my pleasure. I have ‘fiddled’ my bundles a little as a sort of triage system for a project, but sometimes that misses on the serendipitous. I might also have done a little iro£#&, but we all have our weaknesses!
😂 love that you wrote 'iron' as if it were a rude word 😉❤️
Watching you sort through the cloth (fabric in the US) is rather cathartic to me. Thought the rather long orange scrap might work well for a meditation scroll. Thank you for sharing the sorting process.
My pleasure Sue, the orange strip would indeed make a beautiful scroll ❤️
This was really useful for me. I have been struggling for a while to get some kind of control and organize my fabric stash. Making these bundles just makes so much sense.Thank you for sharing..
Glad it was helpful!❤️
Thank you Kathryn…. Ik ga der ook eens voor zitten. Heel rustgevend denk ik om daar mee aan de gang te gaan🥰❤️
Gives me incentive to make bundles for my fabric❤
Wonderful 😊
Oooo, so satisfying
And not remotely particularnous 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales😂
Super helpful video! Thanks so much, Kathryn.
My pleasure 😊
It has been 5 days since I watched your video. I came back because I had to tell you I used your method you clean up a pile of fabric. I put them in piles according to size You probably did not hear me thank you at the time haha . I Thank you so much for sharing and for just being you!!🥰
Lovely to hear Brenda and thank you for the thank you ♥️
This is really inspiring and I feel like organizing my fabric now, because I have them in a kind of chaotic organization 😂, I know where I have them, but I wouldn’t be able to explain why they’re in this or that basket 😂! I had never thought of bundles!
I don’t have anyone to give me fabric or even scraps, so I wait that the second hand clothes shop (where I buy some clothes) has every piece for the price of 1€ each! 😃 They do these kinds of sales every two months (at this time, the pieces of clothes are not what I would wear, but they’re great to stitch) 😃💙🩷💛❤️🤎💜🧡🩵♥️🩶💚
If you know where things are then it's organised 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 😂😂😂 I guess you’re right 😂😂😂
Hi thankyou for that it's given me insensitive to sort through my scraps also I'm going to look for your tea dying video🎉
Very interesting
Lovely to watch! I recently sorted out my scraps and cloths and it is very funny to see how you make the exact same decisions around cutting of bits and pieces. I only made piles but I love your idea of making bundles. I gonna look over my piles to see if I can make some bundles out of them too. Thank you!
Wonderful!❤️
@K3n - I loved this! I have made all kinds of kits of things but never thought of this kind of a sort! I still have a half-dozen buckets of scrapish bits and pieces to bring some sort of order to - mostly just to make them more visible in an eye-pleasing way! I am genetically predisposed to sorting, so it is quite pleasurable. To actually use the sorts is something else! I used to sort my beads by type and color until I realized that it was the spills of several containers that made my eyes dance, thus changing the thing in me that says THIS is how I like it! 🪡🧵🪡
Yes! Having your supplies sorted in a way that makes your eyes dance is a wonderful way of putting it 😊♥️
I have missed you so much k3n ! This is a very good video - I get a bit stressed pulling out bits and pieces and then things look so messy it's not enticing at all! Even if I can just have one bundle ready for the next slow stich I will be very happy 😊 Looking forward to catching up with Wednesday and Monday tomorrow 😊 big love from Scotland ❤️ 🐶
Hello Margaret, I missed you too 😁 enjoy catching up, much love ♥️
I just finished organizing all my threads and there’s your video….now i have to dig in my scraps as well😂 No really, this was like visual ASMR to me, love it! I can’t help noticing in the past videos that you sound a bit like you either have a cold or just a lot of fun (or both?). In any case: be well!😀💖🍀🥰
Hello Machteld, I saw your lovely thread storage on Instagram, what a fabulous box. I might be burning the candle at both ends as we say but I am well. It's maybe just my early morning voice you are hearing because I am filming before the rest of the house is up. 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 💝
Hi Kathryn! Hope you’re well 🙂
Thank you yes I am, hope you are too ♥️
I hope you didn't wake anyone up with that tearing. Mike was looking up from his coffee. What's that?
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Glorious Mike 😂😁♥️
So now show us how you go about picking fabric for your project without making a mess!
I look sometimes look through the bundle without undoing it, sometimes undo it and go through piece by piece. But I always put it back together again. I don't really make a mess, but that's just me. 😊❤️
Hi can you tea dye and coffee dye on any time of cloth?
@@janehargreaves3867 I have successfully tea dyed all kinds of natural cloth and thread, cotton linen and silk. I don't do much with coffee though I use it on paper but I don't see why not. I don't really use synthetic fibres so can't comment on those. ♥️