I had watched all your videos and enjoyed each one! Thanks for this one in review! I can't wait to see what you come up with in 2025. Keep up the great work.
Hello Catherine! I Love your Work! Specially the jackets! But also the other ideas. Best regards from Germany and best wishes for the next year, Andrea
I love your comment on "even though something looks like a fun project, make sure I can wear it." I have to remind myself of this all the time! Love the free people brand, I have to remind myself when I am looking at their clothes for inspo - remember my age, and the ages of the models wearing them! 😊😊. The other big one is to persevere and improve on my sewing skill set- sometimes alot of us try projects that are set up for disaster because we haven't mastered the certain skill for the project or have enough experience to know what to do if something goes wrong. I always look back on your videos for instructions on my sewing mishaps!!! Thank you !! Have a great New Year
This was a great review of your very creative year! I had watched every one of your videos. It's fun to see your wonderful (and some quirky) projects again!
Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration! I love watching you create and sharing your thoughts as you work. I've learned many techniques from you. I'm working on a quilt for my daughter, but have been saving some items from my own closet that I think can be upcycled and I'll wear them again. Here's to a great 2024 with you and wishing you the best in 2025!
Thank you Catherine! You’re so creative and cheerful! I’ve enjoyed watching and being inspired by your videos for each of these makes! I’ll be excited to see what this next year brings!
Wonderful vid thank you! My favorite pieces were the leopard sleeveless top w black pants, so lovely and skimming; the sweater with tie bottom, what a wonderful winter piece to add special look to everyday warmth; and the jean jacket with little quilted squares, I would be obsessed too! Thank you for all your inspiration!
I’m so glad you popped up on my iPad last year. You have inspired me to try so many new things with thrifted items. I made a raglan, long sleeved T-shirt out of a jersey sheet which has become my favourite shirt. I look forward to watching you in the new year. Thank you from Winnipeg.
Wow, Catherine! Huge congratulations on so many successful sewing projects in 2024! It was such fun to watch this video and have "oh, I remember that one" moments! Plus, I missed a couple, so can now easily check them out. Thank you! We learn so much from you, both around what works and what has room for improvement. Your joy of experimenting, sewing and upcycling, is contagious. Thanks for brightening our lives! Wishing you and yours the very best in 2025😊
I’ve not had the space to sew for several years but I can sew at my daughter’s and have made things for the grandchildren but mostly I’ve made tote bags for family and friends. The biggest drawback is putting everything away each day as I use the dining table. I’m working on the builder partner to make me a she shed to permanently set up my sewing machine and serger so I can try some of your thrifting make over ideas. Thirty years ago dropped waist loose dresses were in style and I used thrifted dresses to raise the gathers to the bust-line and make my own maternity smocks. Recently I’ve found that old table cloths are a good source for fabric for school play costumes.
Love ALL the things you have created but my favorite is the mash up of the sweater with the jacket. I remember thinking at the beginning of that video that you may have gone off the rails with that. By the end I was a believer. When I saw you pull on the jacket for this video fell in love with it all over again. Very cool.
I’ve been sew inspired by you! I’ve made several items since I’ve been watching your videos. I made several gifts for family and friends. Thank you so much!
Love your makes and the fact you do hide the things that didn’t quite work. Reminds me too be nicer to myself! I’m not at all fashionable but I do enjoy watching you. The closures on sweater/cardigans are great. My kids are always cursing the open cardigan style everywhere! They know how to sew but they want me to do it. I probably will.
Oh my dear lady, you have taught this ol dog some new tricks and I truly appreciate all of your inspiration. I had never sewn a garment before, I just 23:16 turned 65 and have lost a considerable amount of weight but couldn’t afford a new wardrobe. From your videos I learned how to downsize, it has been so much fun, so thank you so very much for all that you do, your students I really hope they know how fortunate they are to have you in their corner.
It was a good year. I like the idea of reviewing at the end of the year. I think I will save a sample of each item I sew on my Bulletin board. Most of my items are given to others, I do have wallhangings planned for myself so it could be interesting. Thank you for sharing your talents.
I remember all of the original videos and your review of each item matches my thoughts on nearly all of them. I look forward to your 2025 videos - blessings to you and your family throughout the coming year😄🙏🏻👏🏼🎉🎊
I watched most of the original videos, but you showed a couple of pieces in this video that I had not seen. I don't know why I missed those videos, but I'm glad I saw the garments in this review. I admire and envy your talent. I love watching your videos because you are so warm and friendly. God bless you in 2025!
What a productive year! I found you via your fall patch skirt video and instantly subscribed! Thanks for sharing your talent and knowledge, you’re an incredible teacher 🩷
Thanks, Katherine, I enjoyed your review very much, and noticed a couple of items I missed when originally aired, so I will go back and study those. I admire your honesty with revealing the projects which don't work out, and your determination to not waste fabric. I would like to see how you organise your stored fabric stash, if possible, please, as this is a problem I have, which you have probably solved brilliantly.
Looking glam Catherine! I can’t believe it’s been a year since you made the shirt for your husband! This year flew by. I’m looking forward to another year of upcycling inspo. Happy New Year!
What a great review of all the projects that you shared with us this year!!! Somehow, I missed 2 or 3 of these. I'm excited to find the video about your bathing suit/separate dress pieces. I don't often wear a bathing suit (maybe once every two or three years?), but I love the idea of a cover-up that can also be a regular skirt. Looking back, I think the most magical make was the jacket/sweater piece. It's just so, so beautiful. I'm sorry that the lollipop pieces have proven difficult to keep felted onto the sweater, but the way that you edited two sweaters into a more fitted version of a cool, striped sweater and created a more fun, graphic version of another sweater just astonished me. So clever, so cool. And, although I don't wear jean jackets, I completely covet the one with the Brit bus on the back. Thanks, Catherine, for an amazing year.
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m very interested in thrifting and repurposing clothes but never know how to combine or edit. Your videos give me the ideas and motivation to try. Thank you so much. Here’s to an idea filled and thrifty 2025!🥂
Love the review of 2024. So many wonderful garments. I appreciate your tips and tricks and love watching all your videos. Keep it up. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025! 🤗❤️
Happy New Year! I have learned a lot fromyou and have many inspirations for dealing with old clothes of my own that don'e really fit any more. Thank you!
The sweater that you said didn't work, I would cut the front making it into more of a jacket/cardigan. I think with it already open the arm movement wouldn't matter. LOL posted this before you mentioned how little you like cardigans that don't close. So maybe not.
I love your creative alterations/transformation of your thrift hauls, especially at 6:15 and at 15:00 which I will revisit as inspiration. Maybe for your future projects: the most beautiful used clothes that are offered are TOO SMALL. How can I alterate those? Thanks and Creative New 2025! ❤
I really enjoy your videos! You have so much personality that comes across in such a positive and likable way. I want to ask you if you could do more with swimsuits and swimsuit knits. I seem to never have enough coverage on the top of my suits, and often end up layering a bandeau swim top underneath my suits to give me a little extra fabric around the armhole and to cover some cleavage. I would love to feel sufficiently skilled to add the fabric directly to the swimsuit and not need to fuss with a second layer. I’m sure you have other viewers that have similar issues and would love some coaching on making swimwear adjustments. I go to Mexico in March, so please don’t wait until summer!! Thanks, Catherine.
Thank you for the review of your makes for 2024. It is so incredible to see how you have remade so many garments. I was wondering with the Dolman sweater mashup if the sleeve instead of the Doman shape was more similar to your purple, would the sweater then be wearable? You have given me many ideas. Thank you and all the best in 2025. Looking forward to following you for another year.
I loooooove every single video of yours! ❤ I learn so much and get inspired again to do some upcycle myself. I have a request for a video please: those pesky underwire bra wires that poke through. What is the best way to fix them, please?
Maybe you could make a little top or cardi to wear over your beautiful rip off sundress? Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing your videos next year. From a sewist in UK. Xx
For your "naked" dress... How 'bout making a shrug from a men's T-shirt or from a mesh skirt? Lightweight + a bit more coverage. I'd be hesitant to try, but I'm sure you could do it! 😊
Really enjoy thrifting, however, have lately had a challenge with the smell. I’m sensitive to scents, and I’m pretty sure something as toxic as Febreze has been used. I couldn’t get it out, tried all sorts of things. Can you speak to the scents used in thrift shops? I’ve had to resonate the pieces after washing and washing in all sorts of different detergents meant to remove odors. I’d love to get back to wearing/using thrifted items. Thanks!
That sweater that you made that is half blue and half white goes with every single thing in the whole world. I can immediately see it with red or pink or green. The blue reads more like gray, so that expands it. Try not to be so narrow, my dear. You are limiting yourself.
I had watched all your videos and enjoyed each one! Thanks for this one in review! I can't wait to see what you come up with in 2025. Keep up the great work.
Hello Catherine! I Love your Work! Specially the jackets! But also the other ideas. Best regards from Germany and best wishes for the next year, Andrea
I love your comment on "even though something looks like a fun project, make sure I can wear it." I have to remind myself of this all the time! Love the free people brand, I have to remind myself when I am looking at their clothes for inspo - remember my age, and the ages of the models wearing them! 😊😊. The other big one is to persevere and improve on my sewing skill set- sometimes alot of us try projects that are set up for disaster because we haven't mastered the certain skill for the project or have enough experience to know what to do if something goes wrong. I always look back on your videos for instructions on my sewing mishaps!!! Thank you !! Have a great New Year
Really enjoyed your review. You have given me so many ideas for my class. I teach an active senior class and they love making old to new projects.
This was a great review of your very creative year! I had watched every one of your videos. It's fun to see your wonderful (and some quirky) projects again!
Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration! I love watching you create and sharing your thoughts as you work. I've learned many techniques from you. I'm working on a quilt for my daughter, but have been saving some items from my own closet that I think can be upcycled and I'll wear them again. Here's to a great 2024 with you and wishing you the best in 2025!
Thank you Catherine! You’re so creative and cheerful! I’ve enjoyed watching and being inspired by your videos for each of these makes! I’ll be excited to see what this next year brings!
You are just so talented and inspirational with your upcycling! Love watching your visions come to life!🎉🎉❤
Thanks so much! I’m so glad you enjoy it!
The bomber jacket would be 🔥🔥🔥with black T or turtleneck and black jeans/slacks!!!
Love your channel Catherine! Great recap on super projects🎉🎉🎉
It was fun putting this together!
A lovely review of your year! I have enjoyed watching and am inspired by your videos. Looking forward to 2025. Thanks, Catherine.
Wonderful vid thank you! My favorite pieces were the leopard sleeveless top w black pants, so lovely and skimming; the sweater with tie bottom, what a wonderful winter piece to add special look to everyday warmth; and the jean jacket with little quilted squares, I would be obsessed too! Thank you for all your inspiration!
Thanks! Those are a few of my faves too!
I’m so glad you popped up on my iPad last year.
You have inspired me to try so many new things with thrifted items.
I made a raglan, long sleeved T-shirt out of a jersey sheet which has become my favourite shirt.
I look forward to watching you in the new year.
Thank you from Winnipeg.
Oh, that's great! So glad to have you on board. Lots of love to Winnipeg!
What a wonderful year of projects!! I can't wait to see what you do in 2025! Happy New Year!!
Wow, Catherine! Huge congratulations on so many successful sewing projects in 2024! It was such fun to watch this video and have "oh, I remember that one" moments! Plus, I missed a couple, so can now easily check them out. Thank you! We learn so much from you, both around what works and what has room for improvement. Your joy of experimenting, sewing and upcycling, is contagious. Thanks for brightening our lives! Wishing you and yours the very best in 2025😊
I’ve not had the space to sew for several years but I can sew at my daughter’s and have made things for the grandchildren but mostly I’ve made tote bags for family and friends. The biggest drawback is putting everything away each day as I use the dining table. I’m working on the builder partner to make me a she shed to permanently set up my sewing machine and serger so I can try some of your thrifting make over ideas. Thirty years ago dropped waist loose dresses were in style and I used thrifted dresses to raise the gathers to the bust-line and make my own maternity smocks. Recently I’ve found that old table cloths are a good source for fabric for school play costumes.
I thoroughly enjoyed your 2024 in review. You are wonderful to listen too and your clothes are stunning and so unique. All the best for 2025
Love ALL the things you have created but my favorite is the mash up of the sweater with the jacket. I remember thinking at the beginning of that video that you may have gone off the rails with that. By the end I was a believer. When I saw you pull on the jacket for this video fell in love with it all over again. Very cool.
That sweater-jacket mashup was a wild ride, and I'm glad it worked out in the end!
Beautiful projects. I enjoy watching you create so many beauties. Happy Holidays to you.
I just realized I had not subscribed!!!!!!!!
Love watching you! Your pace and voice are soothing!! And your skill and explanations are wonderful!!
I’ve been sew inspired by you! I’ve made several items since I’ve been watching your videos. I made several gifts for family and friends. Thank you so much!
Love your makes and the fact you do hide the things that didn’t quite work. Reminds me too be nicer to myself!
I’m not at all fashionable but I do enjoy watching you. The closures on sweater/cardigans are great. My kids are always cursing the open cardigan style everywhere! They know how to sew but they want me to do it. I probably will.
Oh my dear lady, you have taught this ol dog some new tricks and I truly appreciate all of your inspiration. I had never sewn a garment before, I just 23:16 turned 65 and have lost a considerable amount of weight but couldn’t afford a new wardrobe. From your videos I learned how to downsize, it has been so much fun, so thank you so very much for all that you do, your students I really hope they know how fortunate they are to have you in their corner.
I enjoy ALL of your videos! BTW, FYI, you look amazing in the rip curl dress.
It was a good year. I like the idea of reviewing at the end of the year. I think I will save a sample of each item I sew on my Bulletin board. Most of my items are given to others, I do have wallhangings planned for myself so it could be interesting. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Thank you so much for all of your lovely videos.
I remember all of the original videos and your review of each item matches my thoughts on nearly all of them.
I look forward to your 2025 videos - blessings to you and your family throughout the coming year😄🙏🏻👏🏼🎉🎊
I watched most of the original videos, but you showed a couple of pieces in this video that I had not seen. I don't know why I missed those videos, but I'm glad I saw the garments in this review. I admire and envy your talent. I love watching your videos because you are so warm and friendly. God bless you in 2025!
You are ALWAYS an inspiration. Happy New Year to you. I wish as h the very best for you.
What a productive year! I found you via your fall patch skirt video and instantly subscribed! Thanks for sharing your talent and knowledge, you’re an incredible teacher 🩷
I’ve been so inspired by your videos. I’ve picked up great tips and new techniques. Looking forward to 2025. Happy new year!
Thanks, Katherine, I enjoyed your review very much, and noticed a couple of items I missed when originally aired, so I will go back and study those. I admire your honesty with revealing the projects which don't work out, and your determination to not waste fabric. I would like to see how you organise your stored fabric stash, if possible, please, as this is a problem I have, which you have probably solved brilliantly.
Love all your videos. I think I've only missed one from this year! Looking forward to many more videos!
Looking glam Catherine! I can’t believe it’s been a year since you made the shirt for your husband! This year flew by. I’m looking forward to another year of upcycling inspo. Happy New Year!
I love your channel and can’t wait to see your creativity in the coming year! Not sure how you’ll top these projects of 2024, however! ❤️
Great review....looking forward to more.❤
Free motion stitch those circles on the pink sweater. Go around and around to tack them down.
What a great review of all the projects that you shared with us this year!!! Somehow, I missed 2 or 3 of these. I'm excited to find the video about your bathing suit/separate dress pieces. I don't often wear a bathing suit (maybe once every two or three years?), but I love the idea of a cover-up that can also be a regular skirt.
Looking back, I think the most magical make was the jacket/sweater piece. It's just so, so beautiful. I'm sorry that the lollipop pieces have proven difficult to keep felted onto the sweater, but the way that you edited two sweaters into a more fitted version of a cool, striped sweater and created a more fun, graphic version of another sweater just astonished me. So clever, so cool. And, although I don't wear jean jackets, I completely covet the one with the Brit bus on the back. Thanks, Catherine, for an amazing year.
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m very interested in thrifting and repurposing clothes but never know how to combine or edit. Your videos give me the ideas and motivation to try. Thank you so much. Here’s to an idea filled and thrifty 2025!🥂
I love watching your videos. You're going to have to get a much bigger closet as you continue❤
I loved the big kiss your husband gave you for his new flannel shirt. It was so ❤.
Saw them all..great review😊😊
So inspiring! Ty
Super review. Thanks Katherine. I even caught a video i had missed. Happy 2025!
Happy new year Catherine 🧵💃🏽❤️
Thanks for the inspiration! I love your ideas. Happy New Year from Australia
Thanks and all the very best to you also
You are amazing - many thanks
Kudos 👏🏻 thanks for the inspiration ❤
Love the review of 2024. So many wonderful garments. I appreciate your tips and tricks and love watching all your videos. Keep it up. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025! 🤗❤️
You inspire me!
I recently thrifted a vintage 100% wool sweater made in Sweden. I love it!
Happy New Year! I have learned a lot fromyou and have many inspirations for dealing with old clothes of my own that don'e really fit any more. Thank you!
So glad you did this. I missed a couple of your great videos this year. Now I can watch my faves.
The sweater that you said didn't work, I would cut the front making it into more of a jacket/cardigan. I think with it already open the arm movement wouldn't matter. LOL posted this before you mentioned how little you like cardigans that don't close. So maybe not.
Thanks for the videos! Happy New Year!
Just great!
I love what you do!!
Happy New Year ❤
I love your creative alterations/transformation of your thrift hauls, especially at 6:15 and at 15:00 which I will revisit as inspiration. Maybe for your future projects: the most beautiful used clothes that are offered are TOO SMALL. How can I alterate those? Thanks and Creative New 2025! ❤
I see I missed a few!! I'll have to go watch them. Love thus video, thanks
Happy new year! And thanks for sharing your ideas and knowledge! Best wishes from Toronto. 😊🪡🇨🇦
Thanks! So glad to have you on board! And a big shout-out to Toronto!
Oh no! I love that scarves sweater, but you live and learn. Not everything works.
So true! It might not always work out but we always learn something!
I really enjoy your videos! You have so much personality that comes across in such a positive and likable way.
I want to ask you if you could do more with swimsuits and swimsuit knits. I seem to never have enough coverage on the top of my suits, and often end up layering a bandeau swim top underneath my suits to give me a little extra fabric around the armhole and to cover some cleavage. I would love to feel sufficiently skilled to add the fabric directly to the swimsuit and not need to fuss with a second layer. I’m sure you have other viewers that have similar issues and would love some coaching on making swimwear adjustments. I go to Mexico in March, so please don’t wait until summer!! Thanks, Catherine.
Thank you for the review of your makes for 2024. It is so incredible to see how you have remade so many garments. I was wondering with the Dolman sweater mashup if the sleeve instead of the Doman shape was more similar to your purple, would the sweater then be wearable? You have given me many ideas. Thank you and all the best in 2025. Looking forward to following you for another year.
I loooooove every single video of yours! ❤ I learn so much and get inspired again to do some upcycle myself. I have a request for a video please: those pesky underwire bra wires that poke through. What is the best way to fix them, please?
Maybe you could make a little top or cardi to wear over your beautiful rip off sundress? Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing your videos next year. From a sewist in UK. Xx
For your "naked" dress... How 'bout making a shrug from a men's T-shirt or from a mesh skirt? Lightweight + a bit more coverage. I'd be hesitant to try, but I'm sure you could do it! 😊
Really enjoy thrifting, however, have lately had a challenge with the smell. I’m sensitive to scents, and I’m pretty sure something as toxic as Febreze has been used. I couldn’t get it out, tried all sorts of things. Can you speak to the scents used in thrift shops? I’ve had to resonate the pieces after washing and washing in all sorts of different detergents meant to remove odors. I’d love to get back to wearing/using thrifted items. Thanks!
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Could you post the link for the patchwork sweater skirt?
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Have you heard of "slow sewing?" Sort of using scraps to make art pieces, mostly by hand
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That sweater that you made that is half blue and half white goes with every single thing in the whole world. I can immediately see it with red or pink or green. The blue reads more like gray, so that expands it. Try not to be so narrow, my dear. You are limiting yourself.
Fabulous year in review. You continue to inspire me. I look forward to seeing you in 2025!
So glad to hear it! I'm excited for next year, too.
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