Slowstitch Week 27 - Stitching on Real Leaves
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- This week we explore stitching on real leaves and look at ways to use them in our slowstitch or mixed media journals.
There are two other related videos, one showing how I wax leaves and another showing you some of the ways I have used leaves and other natural materials in my stitch journals.
Waxing Leaves
• Waxing Leaves for Stit...
Using leaves in my slowstitch journals
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Having been in hospital for 10 days and in need of motivation, I am appreciating you more than ever, K3N. These videos using leaves are making me tres happy - thank you.
My pleasure Ann, I hope you are ok, sending you a big hug 🤗❤️
So much inspiration….and Mary Oliver as well. A perfect morning together. 💖💖💖
Thank you I enjoyed making this one enormously 😁❤️
Oh my goodness, all my loves in one project - leaves, stitching, and the incomparable Mary Oliver brought together by a wonderful teacher. I did the waxed leaves for the first time and I love them - learning all the time🐸 Thank you Kathryn for a fabulous morning 💜 Cath
My pleasure Cath, I am so pleased you enjoyed it 😊
In my world such things are normal!leaf listening is another level though.
Yes! 😁❤️
Hiya K3n 😊the epitome of catching Autumn for me to keep all year round! Having a delightful time,in my happy place,while there's a heavy rainstorm carrying on outside😊❤ Thankyou for the company, one and all.Julia, Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
My pleasure Julia thank you as always for being here ❤️
I've been totally committed to your weekly clothtales. Which is a miracle in itself! Usually I get bored along the way of watching videos, but that hasn't happened with your videos. So obviously you must be very SPECIAL ❤️
Same here.
Thank you Julie 😁❤️
Pocket science 😂😂😂
I sooo agree with you on teaching. The students who don't understand right away make you think how to be more precise or more creative in your instructions and that can actually deepen your own understanding of the subject. I teach horse schooling and riding and I looove those students, because I learn from them the most!
Yes! I am so happy you understood that. And thank you for laughing at pocket science 😁❤️
Wonderful. We say fall and autumn, interchangeably.
Thank you that's good to know ❤️
Your way of couching, btw, is new to me and since I watched your video on it, I've been wanting to couch everything!! I only knew it as up straight on one side and right back down on the other - your way of a stitch each side made much more sense to me and was much happier to stitch!
Thank you Nancy, I prefer it that way though to be honest, because no one showed me 'properly' ' I just worked it out for myself 😂❤️
What a wonderful and inspirational way to spend the day! Thank you so much K3n! And I loved the Mary Oliver quote and it seemed so perfect for this project. Your hair looks so lovely!❤
Thank you Michelle, am blushing 😊
Well, that was truly enjoyable!! I see an herbarium done stitchy style in my really near future. That was super super enjoyable. Enhancing nature’s perfect beauty like that was so stress free for me. Thank you 🙏🏼
That sounds wonderful Heather 😊
I chuckled and said it out loud at the tv when you were fixing the camera and said “I can’t see”. With my aging eyes I say that so often that now my learning to talk 2-1/2 year old granddaughter runs around the house and wants all the lights turned on while she says “I can’t see!” Yes thank you Norah, Bebe needs more light! She goes to speech therapy for delayed speech but boy can she can say that…also just learned the word “donut” bc we got her a donut at the Dunkin’ Donuts by our house 😂.
Oh bless her 😂 she sounds like a little cutie ❤️
Thank you for another inspiring video
I have had a single-hole punch since I was a 17-year-old student, and which my husband mended recently when it fell apart. It is now working again so I will try that on my leaf! 😊😊
That's impressive 😁
@@k3n.clothtales - 🥰😊
Preserving the memory of the leaf…I love that. I have stitched leaves and other natural treasures I find for years. It’s a whole different experience, more of a partnership than stitching fabric to fabric. Its as though the leaf is whispering what it would like. I have never come across anyone else who does it, so this has been an even more wonderful video than usual- at least one other person on the planet is as …er ‘experimental’ as me.
I also have a large box of (used) tea bag papers, great for dyeing and printing.
@@suethompson8538 yes we are experimental, that's a good word for it. 😁❤️
Your hair looks beautiful with the silk scrave interwoven with braid. Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas 🩷
Thank you! 😊
I haven’t done this yet but watched all three videos about it. I rather liked watching the three separate segments! So exciting to watch them all! Can’t wait to do them. At least got the leaves collected yesterday in my woodsy walk with my little granddaughter.
How lovely ❤️
I picked up beautiful patterned eucalyptus leaves today! Will photograph and post them on the FB page. So exciting! I am in Australia.
Wonderful! Looking forward to seeing what everyone gets up to in there 😁❤️
We are actually mending leaves now. This really gets weirder and weirder. And I couldn’t be more happy about it!!!😂 By the way: in your introduction i saw this beautiful narrow piece hanging beside you. I see something new and interesting every time. And you look great, with the twisted hair (and scarf?) on the black shirt, hip, chique and fancy!💖🍀😀
Oh thank you for the hip chique and fancy 😁 the wall hanging is mostly machine, some hand stitching along the edges, the coloured section is those cloth 'bubbles' it's from an exhibition in 2016 ❤️
OK, I gathered damp leaves and twigs this morning. I saw a beautiful feather in the yard the other day. I meant to pick it up, but forgot. It was gone today. I like your big fat journals, and after listening to you on that point, I will do mine all in one big fat volume instead of two. I did dry my leaves in the microwave between two paper plates and weighted down with a heavy bowl. I am ready to wax them. I will do that in my livestream. Again, thank you for a really inspiring page. 🌷🌷🌷
My pleasure Meri, have fun with your leaves ❤️
I’ve stitched into all kinds of things which I really love. Especially the sounds through the leaves and paper, so relaxing. Haven’t waxed the leaves before so now exited to go on a leaf search 😂❤x
Have fun 😊
My dear, you are a genius.
Shucks ☺️❤️
Thank you for sharing this. Love the stitching on the leaves. 🍁🍂
You are so welcome!
Hello ❤ from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Hello Marguerite 😊
This is so exciting! I just put a few leaves in a book to press them, so I will have to wait for them to dry. Some of them are waxy house plant leaves, like hoya. I'm not sure how that will work out, but it's all about seeing what happens initially and over time. As a person who can be paralyzed by perfectionism, I very much appreciate your little reminders to embrace our "wonky" imperfections and to keep creating when things don't go exactly as planned. I love your idea of making gift cards with these as well. ❤
@@jacquelinebergman6431 hello Jacqueline, I think hoya will be great I am glad you are having fun 😊
Herzaman izliyorum videolarınızı ve çokta keyif alıyorum yine bir çalışma olmuş teşekkürler Türkiye'den 😊 Hülya 💐
Thank you so much for being here, watching and commenting Hülya ❤️
How fun! I can't wait to try all of it! I love collecting leaves and I have stitched on them before, but never waxed them, so I am glad to learn how to do that. I am also glad to hear about that app you shared, that will be very helpful.
Have fun Leona, the app is great ❤️
Kathryn I waxed some leaves last fall using beeswax that I rendered -a gift of honey in a raw comb from a friend.
I am stitching them now as I watch this video and find them a bit more flexible. Just a fyi❤Thank you for a fun week27!
Thank you that's good to hear and how lovely to have pure, rendered wax ❤️
Oh and you won yesterday! It was a bit of a heartattack kind of game. Yep. 😱😀💖🍀
Yes! Must confess to having a second glass of wine after the match 😂🙄
I have made a journal based on the concept of, " Fragmentation and Repair". Quite a few of your slow stitched projects have fallen into that category, e.g. Darning, Kintsugi, crazy patchwork etc. and now stitching on leaves.
I also loved doing the buried book which came back grey and rusted and needing to be artistically repaired.
Thank you Kathryn
Jenny (NZ)
My pleasure Jenny, that's a theme that resonates with me too ❤️
Lovely fun. THank you!
I can only aspire to be as 'weird' as you are! And you look beautiful today (the day you filmed) I hope it is a reflection of how things are going for you 💚
Thank you so much Nancy ☺️🙏❤️
Stitching paper forces you to slow down even more. I'm growing patient fruit 😊
Love it 😁❤️
Thank you. I never did this, so (while I was watching you) I made a try-out: waxed paper, waxed leaf (bay leaf from the kitchen) and even couched on a small feather. Some fallen leaves from a cherry tree are waiting now between paper ...
Sounds great! ❤️
Hi Kathryn
I’m wondering if local botanic gardens may have some gum tree specimens where people could take one from the surrounding ground. Gums do drop constantly! Thanks for all your sharing I’m dizzy with all your creativity; so many rabbit holes to go down and I will go down them all. This episode makes me feel I’ve walked through life with my eyes shut, not seeing how beautiful nature can be in our stitching. I’ve so much to learn. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to so many things. ❤
@@EllenWalters-eo8xb hello Ellen, yes I am sure it would be fine to pick one or two leaves up from the ground. And I am so happy you are enjoying the creative journey ❤️
We in Australia say Autumn. And I just love the word autumnal as in it's starting to feel autumnal.
@@nicolebeauchamp7622 yes, I wonder if there is an equivalent word for fall, feeling fally? Fallal? I am being silly 😂
@@nicolebeauchamp7622 fallish? Ok, I will stop 😜
@@k3n.clothtales 😂😂
Hello K3n 😊
Tellement magnifique 😍
Inspiration 💯
Merciii pour votre gentillesse
Guylainexxxx
@@GuylaineDesfosses merci Guylaine 😊❤️
Wonder person ❤❤❤❤
Thank you 😊
Nice one like like . Hope ya well Peter scotland watched your video last week when in the Amsterdam had a good giggle with you be good Peter xx😂
Hello Peter hope you had a good time in Amsterdam ❤️
Tell your son that you’re not making me weird, because I was already weird 😂, which is better than being what “they” call “normal” 😂
I love the eyelet stitch on the leaf 🍃, it’s a pity I can’t do it on a shell 🐚
I watched the other two videos before this one, so I wrote in one of them my experience with natural elements. I think nature provides amazing “material” to embellish our art. I saw someone (I don’t know who) doing something stitching with algae! How cool is that?
Teaching those who either have some difficulty in learning or think differently from us is the best experience ever!
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Hello Alexandra, I will tell him you said so and he will do this 🙄😂 stitching on shells, there's an English artist called Alice Fox who stitched limpet shells, i think she drills tiny holes. Stitching with algae sounds fun! ❤️
Waxed leaves - how wonderful! 🌿🌱🍁🍂 I’m with you on football. I’m not interested in club football but I do like an international - bizarre since I’m Scottish and they never win anything!!! 😂
I am sorry for Scotland, they woz robbed. 😂 England only just scraped through and didn't deserve it. Why do we put ourselves through it? 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales They might have been robbed of the penalty but they just weren’t good enough from the first ball of the first game to the whistle of the Hungary game. What is it a lot of Scotland fans say? You can live with the despair, it’s the hope that kills you! 😂
@@lynnstewart7034 😂 same could be said of England, but then, no Scotland, no party 😁❤️
I'm still obsessed with hexagons, but I'll get here soon
@@kathyffarney-keck8593 take your time ☺️
I love how the leaves look with stitches. Kathryn are you familiar with Alice Fox? She is from England. I have two of her books-Natural Processes in Textile Art. She also stitches on leaves. This is where I first saw this cool mixed media. So glad to see more from you.
Hello Doreen, yes I know Alice, I did a two day workshop with her years ago in Torquay, she is lovely and very inspiring ❤️
Thanks
Thank you so much ❤️
Oooh I have a heart shaped punch. I think I will give that a shot.
@@jennyh290 good idea! ❤️
My buried cloth went the way of your cloth in the river. I will bury several cloths soon. I was very disappointed when I couldn’t find the cloth.
I am sorry Patricia but I am pleased you are inspired to bury more ❤️
I believe I have some mulberry paper. Maybe I'll use that! Either as a leaf or under one of my leaves...
Good idea, I love mulberry paper ❤️
You could also use an awl to perforated the leaf
Yes you could ❤️
Loving this! I also pressed flowers. Can you stitch on those? Or what do you do?
I guess you could try waxing them though I have never done that. They would be more fragile but certainly worth trying 😊
“Pocket Science” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for laughing at my silliness 😂❤️
I have indigo sprouting on my allotment...seeds from lovely lady in Guernsey who does seeds for dyeing
I can't remember her name but a few years ago a lovely lady from there sent me some symplocus, possibly the same person? ❤️
Can you explain what your journals are for please.? I have had journals i write in and add in relevant art, pictures etc. but yours seems to be more of a picture book and I’m not sure of its purpose. I love what you make, very inspiring.
Hello Patricia, they are mostly just for the pleasure of making them, a way of journalling through stitching, of trying ideas on a small scale like an artist sketchbook, many things really. I just love making them and looking back through them over the years ❤️
Here in Idaho we it fall and autumn
Thank you Judy, it's good to learn, I always thought fall was US and autumn English. 😁❤️
Have you tried glycerin with water? It’s amazing.
Hello no I haven't, thank you 😊
Strobing POLLYWALLYESTA.
😁❤️
are there going to be any giveaways anytime soon???