Here's a good thought for the day to cheer you up while you recover :-) You are almost at 40,000 subscribers..... AND.... the stitch meditation scroll video is heading towards half a million views !!!!! Wow..... In less than a year. That is incredible. Many KZread channels never reach those kinds of numbers --- even after years and years. It is proof as to how much we love your videos and your stitching and your wittering. So stitch and witter on !!!!! Congratulations.

@nancydale7367

15 күн бұрын

what an achievement, wow!! I hadn't noticed the numbers, K3N is officially famous! :D I don't make a drop in the bucket, but at least 10 of the views on that video were me lololol

@alison64able

15 күн бұрын

So agree ❤

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@SusanMJB45 I hadn't looked at the scroll video in a while, wow that's incredible, half a million people watching me stitch little scraps of cloth to a length of old sheet. 😳 I am so grateful to all of you for your support, it's been incredible and if I had any expectations (I don't think I did..) they are far far exceeded. The strange thing is, it feels like I have been here for years, you all make me feel so welcome and valued. Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@nancydale7367 you make me chuckle 😁 and every single view is a drop in the bucket, you are at least a spoonful on the scroll video 😉❤️

I almost had a heart attack😅! You had told me you were going to talk about my boxes, but I wasn’t expecting it now and I felt sooooo excited 😃to hear you say my name (you’re the only one who says my name correctly 🙏🏻) Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 I have maybe two or three of my mother’s pillow cases that she made herself when she got married in 1969, and they’re exactly like that, because she used them a lot and I ended up using them too. I have them in a drawer, not daring to throw them away and not knowing what could I do with them, since I’ve already mended them as much as possible. So I’m so so happy with this video. I will dye the cloth, because it’s white and maybe make a little pouch just for the pleasure of having it. And, as that lady said, I am so glad I’m a part of a community of people who keep things that “normal” people throw away. No one knows I kept them 😂. I sincerely hope you feel better soon. Sending lots of love from sunny ☀️ Portugal (I was the only Portuguese who didn’t care a bit when Portugal lost 😂) 🌸🌹🌼🪻🌻🪷🌺🌷♥️💛🩵💚💙💜🩶🧡🤎🩷🤍❤️🩶🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Hello Alexandra, I have filmed Wednesday's video and I talk about you a lot so please prepare yourself 😂 we are all secret weirdos, I just replied to a lady who had a scrap of cloth she had rescued from her friend's bin years ago and now she can actually use it. I am so happy we have all found each other. And shame on you, poor Pepe was crying his eyes out. 😂 Actually I did feel sorry for him, not so much for Ronaldo I have to say. Now England will play the Netherlands on Wednesday so either me or Machteld will be sad. Probably me! 😂😂😂❤️

@alexandraalmeida3661

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales I’m happy to have met you too 😊 I must confess, that unlike most people, I don’t like Ronaldo, because he’s very arrogant when he speaks, and the other man, I don’t know who he is 🤦‍♀️😂❤️

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@alexandraalmeida3661 Pepe is Portugal's oldest player, I think he's in his 40s. And yes I have the same impression of Ronaldo too... 😁❤️

@alexandraalmeida3661

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales Oh, my goodness, you know Portuguese players better than me 🤦‍♀️, if my father knew, we would not speak to me ever again 😂😂😂♥️♥️♥️

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@alexandraalmeida3661 😂❤️❤️❤️

Hope you feel better soon Kathryn. Rest, stay hydrated and don’t stress over videos. It’s a wonder you did this one. It is appreciated. Hugs and ❤ to you and Stella! 😊

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@user-fs5vi6if8i thank you so much ❤️

Hi Kathryn. I just set up my iPad to see what you were doing today and had a great surprise that you’re doing zokin. I found some of those videos this week and had planned to tell you about them. I got so excited about them being the kind of thing you (and we) like that I made four from old dish rags and some leftover double gauze. And they work better than the original cloths. Thank you for spreading that knowledge and all the things you share with us. Like Marion, you’re one of the KZread treasures!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Carolyn, I hadn't seen the videos myself until Mary Ellen gave me the heads up, so I went straight to Atsushi's channel because he's my go to for Japanese textiles. Love this community . ❤️

Discussing the hierarchy of clean to dirty cloth use, that was definitely part of farm life. Dirtiest though was always Dad’s rags that he wiped grease off of his hands, then the tiny scraps of the oldest cloths went into the furnace of his garage to be burned and heat the work shop.

Thank you for this video. You exemplified the motto “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The last time I was under the weather I was so grateful to have the slow stitching to turn to. Hope you feel better soon.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you, I am feeling better, stitching definitely helps ❤️

Thank you Kathryn. I hope you are feeling better soon. I appreciate you rising above it to do our video. Motivation and brain function seem to go out of the window.....enjoy the tennis and a lovely hot lemon drink with honey. Warm hugs

@k3n.clothtales

11 күн бұрын

Thank you Maureen, I am feeling much better ☺️

Dear girl So brave, dutiful, purposeful. Even when you are so evidently unwell. This is the inspiration to recommit to my art that I need so much. Thank you. Sending you virtual chicken soup, crochet blanky, and hugs

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@AnneGinders thank you Anne for the chicken soup and hugs 🤗❤️

Respair - what a wonderful word for an important idea. Today is our 49th wedding anniversary, and we are very happy to celebrate still being together. Without going into personal information, let's say that I can testify to the importance and reality of respair in a relationship that spans several decades. I will stitch with this thought in mind for the rest of today and when I finally do the Zokin piece. I have some threadbare dusters that must be about 49 years old and are a horrible once-yellow-now greyish shade. I am going to tea dye one or two or them and then stitch them, "one for show and one for blow", execept that it will be "and one for wiping up mucky stuff".

@k3n.clothtales

10 күн бұрын

Congratulations that is an achievement. Enjoy making your zokin ❤️

What a lovely, humble, comforting, beautiful activity making zokin, perfect for days where comfort is needed, the mind able to rest. When the hands are busy the mind can rest..to a Franciscan quote. I do hope you re feeling better. With love and hugs 🧡

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

@@lesleymccallion2185 thank you I am much better ❤️

Hello Kathryn! Hope you’re feeling much better. Thank you for spending time with us but please rest as much as you could. You’ll heal / recover faster. Take care. 🌸tess

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! I am feeling much better now ❤️

Enjoyed todays episode, hope you feel better soon. My Granny taught me running stitch when I was about 4 years old. She made all her childrens clothes. She,and my Grandad were not rich, they had a small farm and 7 children. No running water in the house,no electricity till the 1940s. I am sure she was frugal with her cloth and thread! Never waste anything!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Hello Carol, yes I think that heritage of frugality is universal. In a sense, it's something else that connects us all. We maybe have slightly different ways and techniques but fundamentally we have the same experience. ❤️

How marvelous! All of it. And, also, respair made me think instantly of "respect the repair." What a wonderful word! I hope you're soon feeling well again. Oh, and we Canadians also like humour and colour, etc. 😊

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@katethompson2818 respect the repair is also a great interpretation of the word. ❤️

Hope you’re feeling better soon. I have to chuckle thinking about my dad and his rag bag. Always had a dusty old rag hanging out of his polywollyester red cut off pants 😂. It was the family joke that if we misbehaved at school he would show up wearing his old shorts to embarrass us 😂. Anyhoo. Part of me wishes I had some of the old shirts and rags to fiddle with and even a swatch of the red shorts!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@Mommabirdvtg how funny, love the sound of your Dad 😂❤️❤️❤️

You are in much better humour while sick than I, k3N. These are such lovely projects to do while respairing. I have several of my Mom's old tea towels which I keep for nostalgic reason. She was fond of using bleach in the white wash, therefore they are full of wear and holes. I use them constantly to wrap washed greens, etc. to put in the frig. This is a beautiful way to mend them for longer life. Thank you again, and do get well.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@annrubino6252 thank you Ann, I feel much better today. ❤️

I hope you are feeling better. I’m giggling as you are fiddling with the cloth. You have a great sense of humor as well as very knowledgeable.

@k3n.clothtales

6 күн бұрын

Thank you Lisa, fully recovered now ❤️

Hope you’re feeling much better now. My daughter and I both have migraines which can be so debilitating😞. Headaches are no fun! Thank for this wonderful video. Best wishes 🥰

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@user-mk8sh9tj8m I am sorry, I used to get regular migraines too years ago but luckily I seem to have 'outgrown' them. Now I just get occasional sinus type headaches instead 😕❤️

@PlutoDane

14 күн бұрын

My daughter and I also used to get migraines…3 or 4 every week…and we have discovered they were caused by gluten. I had to tell you because going gluten free has been a life changer for us both. Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here 😊

@user-mk8sh9tj8m

14 күн бұрын

@@PlutoDane Thank you so much. Will definitely be investigating that possiblity!

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@PlutoDane I don't mind at all. I used to get migraines all the time and thought I just outgrew them but perhaps I changed my diet at the time. There current headaches are linked to my sinuses and seem to be affected by sudden changes in atmospheric pressure. They last 3 or four days and I have dizziness and balance issues at the same time. I think cutting down on the gluten is no bad thing though. I am pleased you and your daughter are better without it. ❤️

I am also really thrilled, that we will do something with crochet!! Enjoy your relax time with soup and tennis!! Love from NL, Helene

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@knuffelcavia thank you Helene 😊

So good. Hope you feel better soon. LOVE the spot box...looking forward to Wednesday.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@lindalarsen1285 thank you, I hope you enjoy Wednesday 😉❤️

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. I admire your dedication to these stitching videos as I love watching along. Feel better soon.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@SassySue67 thank you Sue 😊

Get wel soon, dear!!❤️‍🩹 A cloth for drying Hans!!! I am sure he needs one!! 😂😂😂 Hilarisch!! Liefs, Helene

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@knuffelcavia 😂❤️

Wow! Inspiration again. I have a very ragged piece of fabric that I rescued from the bin of an elderly friend, and people were like 'WHY?' I had no idea at the time, lol... Now several years later it's repurpose has been revealed! THANKYOU! All your work is beautiful. Thank you for still putting up a video even when you feel washed out.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

You are welcome Vanessa, I am happy to help honour that little piece of cloth ❤️

I am in love with your crochet/ecoprinted box. It looks like a full moon/dark sky. Another item on my list...🤪🤣😋

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@JudeThompson224 thank you Jude, I am quite pleased with it myself, and the one I made for this Wednesday's video 😁

I'm a week late. I do hope you're feeling better now, Kathryn. Thoroughly enjoyed this video - what a gorgeous colour your zokin is! - and love the revival of "respair". Much needed where I live. I'll share it with all and sundry. ... Now to ferret out a rag to use for a zokin.

@k3n.clothtales

7 күн бұрын

@@ReallyJillRogoff thank you Jill I am fully recovered, much love to you and yours ❤️❤️❤️

This is very timely as I've been thinking lately about replacing paper towels in our kitchen with something that could be washed and used. I hope you'll be feeling much better soon.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful Sue and thank you ☺️

Hope you feel better now. Stitching through the two patches on both sides is appealing to me. Thank you for deciding to mend "Stella's" tea towel!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you I do feel better. I like to do the double sided patching, I must do the other holes too 😁❤️

Such a wonderful word of the week, I always learn so much from your videos! Keep getting better.❤

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

Thank you Megan 😊

What is so funny at 30 minutes you were laughing about how wonky your stitching was, but at the moment before that, I was just admiring your stitching and the pleasure it gave me. How we are with our own work. Strange yet wonderful.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@karenb1073 it is, we are our own worst critics sometimes 😂❤️

Hope you’re feeling better soon. You should have rested up rather than indulge us - but we appreciate this video even more than usual for that. I LOVE your slow stitching/crochet box. I’m rubbish at crocheting but I could be tempted … I REFUSE to believe that gorgeous Stella is a muncher! :-)

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Lynne, yes Stella looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but she is definitely the guilty party, I have caught her in the act more than once 😂❤️

When I see your lovely journal it makes me wish I had done one, but I'll just enjoy yours. I have so many projects going on of my own and I watch so many KZreadrs I just need to do some projects from each.

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

Hello Gloria, I am glad you like my journal. Who knows, maybe one day you will make one of your own but I completely understand, we just can't do everything we would like, not enough hours in the day 😁❤️

Wishing you better. I think it was Quentin Crisp who said the dust doesn’t get any worse after 4 years

@k3n.clothtales

11 күн бұрын

I can attest to the truth of that 😂❤️

Fabulous Kathryn. Love this….. i hope you are recovering well. Jx 🦔🐨🇦🇺👍❤️

@k3n.clothtales

11 күн бұрын

@@daffodilangel8724 thank you so much, yes fully recovered 😊❤️

You really made me smile with your comment about towels and the dogs towel. Hope you feel better soon, carry on wittering

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

Thank you Ann, I will ❤️

I hope your feel better soon. Thanks for showing this. I had burnt a hole in one of my favorite dishcloths last year, mended it and continue to use it. I was happy to see your technique and will put it to good use in repairing some other cloths. In fact, I am going right to my rags and going to see what I can find to repurpose. I am enjoying this community. Take care

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@marykienenberger9078 thank you Mary ❤️

I laughed right out loud at your hands/Hans comment. 😂 Hope you are feeling well soon. Take care. 💖💖💖

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@debzehr3244 thank you Deb ♥️

I hope you feel better very soon I watched you all the way through because I enjoy your crafts very much. Now I want to go to my local thrift store and find holey things to mend. lol Thanks for all you share.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

My pleasure Deborah, happy thrifting ❤️

lovely work even through your brain not working! You had me chuckling here and there too. Get well and thank you for this video.

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@kntshovary my pleasure and thank you ❤️

Wishing you a quick recovery! Thanks for the link, I loved his quote of using fabric until it dissolves in the water!❤

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@ulrikejackson_kreativ thank you, I love Atsushi's way with words ❤️

When you wrote the word “respair” and just before you explained its meaning, the thought that came into my head was that it must have do with “repairing with respect”. I guess, in this context, that works too 😆

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@bevstorey9077 yes, it does, many layers of meaning ❤️

@bevstorey9077

15 күн бұрын

As many layers of meaning as there are layers of cloth ❤

Another lovely video. I’m there for the duration- a lesson in patience if you will. Feel better. My KZread time is my daily prep time for whatever may unfold. At least I’ve been a little consistent with a routine. Most of my days are anything but routine.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you, patience and routine are not easy sometimes but kind of balancing ❤️

Thanks as always Kathryn and thanks heaps for the words! Respair is a (can't think of a deserving word :)) so beautiful word. Also found confelicity when researching Susy Dent on respair :) And that kin means cloth and family :) Thank you !

@k3n.clothtales

12 күн бұрын

Yes, cloth and family, what a lovely thought ❤️

After watching the video this morning, I spent a couple of hours searching for fabric from my grandmother’s kitchen. I knew I had a piece of tablecloth, a linen tea towel and an apron that were older than me (82)!!! When I found them, a mouse had nibbled a bit on them so I had readymade holes to repair. I’m off to wash them and hope they don’t fall apart before I can stitch. I hope your headache has eased! Sending healing hugs!❤️

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@megfowler4177 thank you Meg, it's much better today. And what a helpful little Mousie, making holes for you to mend 😁❤️

Wishing you a full and comfortable recovery

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@BahliPadma thank you so much, I am feeling a lot better ❤️

Thank you Kathryn. I hope you are feeling better now.

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@leonasdesigns I am thank you Leona ❤️

I'm so sorry you aren't feeling well. I get migraines, I sympathize with your horrible three day headache. I hope it's broken and you're not hurting. If I lived closer I would drive you mad by being much too helpful ;) 💚💚💚

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@nancydale7367 you made me chuckle! Drive me mad by being too helpful 😂 you would too, I don't like fuss when I am poorly, actually it makes me cross so I am best left to my 'cave'. Think bear with a sore head. 😉 I am sorry you get migraines, I think mine are related to my sinuses, I get dizzy, balance issues as well. I am much better today luckily. ❤️

@nancydale7367

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales I suspected as much!! But some helpful people (VERY HELPFUL people) do persist!!! 😂

I hope you are well on the way to complete recovery. Thank you for this video. So interesting. Way back when, in a school I went to, we had to polish our desks at the end of the day with a little tin of lavender polish plus, guess what, a cloth which we had brought from home. Mine was a little gingham square, which my mother had hemmed. Thank you for connecting me with that lovely memory. ❤️

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@Sa_Stafford that is a lovely memory, how wonderful. I can almost smell the lavender polish ❤️

hello k3n - when you were discussing the qualities of stitching, i thought of how i have also found them to be structural - most of what remained of one of my buried bundles was the stitching - which was unexpected and interesting 🪡 glad to hear are beginning to feel less awful, i have migraines too and they leave me weak for a few hours or even days after they pass i am tremendously enjoying this year of stitch and happy to have found you and all my fellow stitchers here 🪡

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Hello Tania, yes I find it interesting how the stitching relates to the cloth, and I am feeling better thank you. I am sorry you suffer with migraines. Hugs ❤️

Wishing you a speedy recovery. Never mind the 'fuzzy brain'. It happens to all of us. 💕

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Barbara, I am much better today, now I have to find another excuse for the fuzzy brain 😁❤️

Oh no l am just stitching a slow stitch style patch on a pair of my jeans. So you saying what you did has almost put me off! Lol xxx

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Nooo go for it! It's so lovely to do and your jeans will be a unique work of art 😁❤️

My Zokin would get black the first time I used it! 🤣 Being a domestic goddess and all.... It was fun to watch you make it, and if I was honest, I would love one made with a piece of old soft cloth. I hope you're feeling better. healing hugs coming at you! 💜

@k3n.clothtales

12 күн бұрын

Thank you Jeri, I have seen your tiny house tour and I am sure that isn't true 😁 or it films very well. 😂 I am fully recovered thank you 😊

thank you so much for making the video! I hope you feel much better soon! Until last week I had never heard of zokins, then came across the concept somewhere, and had to look up what it was. And now here you are showing me how to make one! Thanks again! Take care / sterkte!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!! 😊

I have Travers 🐾 antiqued tea towels too - hope you’re feeling better soon. Cheers, Christine

@k3n.clothtales

8 күн бұрын

@@createandcraftwithchristine thank you Christine I am fully recovered. Hugs to you and Travers ❤️

We use the traditional English "ou" spelling in Canada as well. I'm quite aware of it every time I write the word "colour" in a post. Thanks for sharing the word "Respair". I enjoyed learning a new word and the way you relate it to the word repair makes perfect sense. I know it's tough to work when you don't feel well, but you still did a fine job. I hope you received some comfort and healing from your auntie's cloth to help you feel like yourself again soon. I'm looking forward to the upcoming videos you mentioned and have been very curious about Kantha. Take good care and see you in the next one!🤗😊

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

Thank you Jacqueline, I feel much better. I hope you enjoy today's video 😁❤️

Thank you for another fun and informative video. I always look forward to Mondays! It is 3 pm here as I write this, and I actually have my zokin page finished (usually that does not happen until after Thursday for me). Doing the running stitch is so relaxing! I was also able to finish a few extra pages I will be putting in my journal. Looking forward to Wonky Wednesday!!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Hello Meridel, thank you I hope you enjoy the Wednesday video. ❤️

I have not had time or energy to watch this through to the end or to start the Zokin-inspired project this week (yet), so it suits me down to the ground to have something so restful and also potentially useful to try. I have had extra grandma duties this week - lovely to have more time with three of the grandsons, but I have felt like I have had a hangover every day, and even woke up in the night because of a headache! So I also sympathise with the difficulty of getting one's brain to sequence thoughts coherently. Glad to hear that you are feeling better now.

@k3n.clothtales

10 күн бұрын

Hello again Nina, I get your comments in reverse order. I am very sorry for your headaches, I hope you can find a little peaceful time to stitch your zokin ❤️❤️❤️

Sorry to hear you have been feeling poorly. Glad to know you are feeling a bit better now. Look after yourself.

@k3n.clothtales

12 күн бұрын

Thank you Nina, I am much better now ❤️

My mother crocheted lacy doilies and when we were little, we wrapped our Barbie dolls in then as dresses, and some of them got unintended holes as a result, but when I was learning crochet I was put off by the tiny stitches so I learned from my grandma instead, who taught me granny squares. I’m more fond of tiny stitches now but not enough to make doilies 😂

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

I agree, I love crocheting blankets, ponchos and shawls with big wooden hooks and chunky yarn, but I didn't mind doing this little bit of finer crochet to make the box. ❤️

There's a very nice channel called The Green Wrapper and the person there also made gorgeous zokins recently. And their sashiko patterns are stunning:)

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@zefugainspe thank you for the recommendation ❤️

@SusanMJB45

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales Yes..... I also follow the KZread channel The Green Wrapper....... which I found after you introduced me to Boro/Sashiko.

Morning K3n, trust you getting better. This Zokin exercise, got me dyeing (sorry Procion, not yet matured to natural dyes ) an old tea clothe for stitch beautification later and regretting binning previous tea clothes ! Loved this. 🥰 🙏

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

@@minimalist279 I am glad you enjoyed it ❤️

I did stop watching at 37.18 after you said that's it, but I don't want to short change you. 😂 nearly 40 minutes is more than enough. We aren't paying for your time,.you created this blog out of kindness . I also feel rough with bronchitis and my brain doesn't want to function. X

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@jacquielawrence5670 I am sorry I hope you feel better soon bronchitis is no fun at all. 😕 Because the videos are usually long, I don't want people to be disappointed, also the projects usually just take me that long 😂❤️

@user-tr7xl5df2p

14 күн бұрын

Take care. Please look after yourself . Why hurry? Life is too short.

Well done k3n - a very entertaining slow-stitch video against the odds 🎉 and good to hear what's coming up on Wednesday and the Friday video using tee- shirts. I have been thinking of edging the old towel halves I use for Oscar - he's a mini Yorkie and I am definitely going to do that now - it will be really relaxing to do i think. 🙂 I really like the word respair and the whole concept of a return to hope - I wasn't aware of the word. I also have a couple of items for visible repairs so I will re-watch the mending videos - although they are teeny holes so maybe a piece on the inside is the way to go. This is going to be very helpful as a way of building my confidence and going with the flow. I hope you are getting better and well done again for bothering to deliver such lovely content while being under the weather. Much appreciated and I hope you are enjoying the tennis and your hearty soup. ❤ Big love from Scotland 💖

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Margaret, Oscar sounds so cute, he deserves fancy towels. Apart from taking Stella for a clip this morning and doing a bit of grocery shopping, I have been taking it easy and watching the tennis and I feel much better 😊

@margaretmcgregor5686

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales so glad to hear that 🤗🤗🐶

I found myself particularly relating to the ‘thought that counts’. I have many thoughts that count when it comes to housework and feel even better about them now😎 I love the cute zokin and the mending. I hope you feel better soon Kathryn (we also have a match coming up)🥰🍀💖🍀💖

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@dailydoseofpaper thank you Machteld, hoping to be match fit by Wednesday 😉❤️

I pray this message finds you feeling much better, k3n! You bring me so much joy and calmness with every video you post - I look forward to our time together each week. Although I’m more of a traditional quilter, I am trying my hand at different things and truly, truly, I appreciate your presence and teachings. Sending you tons of well wishes and hugs and hope you’re on the quick mend! ❤ - Amie (Washington, DC, USA)

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@AmieESharaf thank you Amie I am feeling much better. I am so happy you enjoy this community ❤️

I hope you feel better soon 🍲

I DID enjoy this video. Thank you for forging on. I have a flour sack towel that my mother-in-law embroidered and gave to me when her son FINALLY asked me to marry him. She commented that she was going to give it to whoever married first - me or my niece who is 15 years younger! Anyway, the towel has seen much better days over the last 41 years and I didn't have the heart to get rid of it. What a perfect way to honor it! ♥♥♥ Rest and feel better soon!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

How lovely, what a precious thing. I am glad you got it rather than your niece ☺️

Love that word respsair.

Such a. Lovely book!!

Sending warm, gentle hugs and hope you feel better very soon. Thank you for soldiering on and making this for us ❤

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@lynnegibb7030 thank you Lynne I am much better now ❤️

So appreciative of you’re doing this video when you’re not well. Please take care of yourself! Hibiscus tea has lots of vitamin C. We’re in the middle of hurricane Beryl here in Houston, so hope this posts. 1.3 million without power in the area. It’s hit and miss for phone and texts to post. Crews are already coming from Tennessee, bless them, but it’s terribly hot here!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

I am sorry Judith, I saw about Beryl on the news. I hope you are safe. ❤️

@suebrown3194

14 күн бұрын

Wishing you the best possible outcome from Beryl. God bless the power crews who respond to need so promptly. ❤

@judithgrace8359

14 күн бұрын

@@suebrown3194 thank you!

You, your work and chat are so enjoyable, and I hope that your day went on with less pain and more ease. I am interested in your decision to carry on making this video despite feeling poorly; maybe mending with mending? Hope you feel the appreciation from this side of the screen 🥰

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@lindarose712 thank you Linda, I have promised a video every Monday so as long as I can sit at my desk and stitch, there will be a video every Monday. 😁 I also have a couple of one off videos in reserve in case of real emergencies. I do feel the appreciation and I am very grateful for you all. ♥️

Aw, feel for you. My husband’s been below par, so thankful for the football as it’s encouraged him to sit down for large periods of time without any guilt. Take care of yourself x

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@AlisonGreenValleyCrone thank you Alison, feeling better today luckily, hope your husband gets well soon ❤️

Please feel better ❤ I always am very happy to see you have posted but taking care of yourself is of the most importance . Take care and thank you so much for your thoughtful ways !

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, I feel much better today ❤️

Hope you feel better soon Kathryn x

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

Thank you Angie, I am much better ☺️

I’m so sorry about your headache. Happy Wimbledon helped. I’m going to find some cloth to respair! Loveliness. ❤

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you! My head is better today ❤️

Get well soon K3N❤❤❤ Thank you for still making a video this week!Love your work!❤

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, I am a little better today ❤️

Thank you Kathryn for soldiering on to bring us our weekly joy - much appreciated. Hope you are feeling better🌻 My favourite cleaning cloths are old flannelette PJs. I just tear them into manageable pieces and don’t even stitch the edges…lazy girl here🐶 Respair is a wonderful word of the week and brings to mind Emily Dickinson’s poem: “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - ❤Cath

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@periknows hello Cath, that is one of my favourite poems and I wrote it in my journal the week we made the fantasy feather. Old flannelette pjs are the cosiest of things ♥️

@periknows

13 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales of course I remember now. I should add that I have been retrieving some of the flannelette pieces to use in slow stitch projects. You’ve made me look at all the old cloths in a new way and I’m ever so grateful 🐸

Wish you well thank you and happy stitching

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you 😊

I hope you are feeling better today ❤

@k3n.clothtales

9 күн бұрын

I am much better thank you ♥️

Love it..will do my apron❤

I hope you feel better soon. ❤

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Pam ☺️

Love your word. Love your wittering. Enjoy your soup and don't forget to dry Hans 🤣Get well soon.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

😂 thank you ❤️

Loved this video, especially when you said look up, I’m trying to show you something.😂😂 It made me think of a pillow case I have somewhere in the house that belonged to my grandmother. It has a crocheted lady with parasol on the end. Now I have to go on the search?!?😂 hope you’re feeling better soon!! ❤️❤️

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

Thank you Donna, I feel much better. Hope you find your pillow case 😊❤️

Love your videos get better soon.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thanks so much❤️

I love your stories almost more that the project. Get well soon

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Janet, I am feeling much better 😊

Another lovely video. Hoping you feel right as rain soon. I had to smile as my little schnoodle also loves chomping tea towels but also only when they fall on the floor. I hang them from the oven door handle and he leaves them be. 😂

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@lisadixon9935 aren't they funny! On the floor, she mustn't want it anymore so I can have it 😂🐶

Hopefully you are feeling better now. It's so crazy how I just watched another video on making zokin! I found I have a very worn hand towel and I told my husband how I wanted to make it into a zokin or cleaning cloth using my stitching habit. So serendipitous! In all honesty I don't think I would have used it to clean so it's a perfect challenge project. Thanks for sharing your talents with us!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you yes much better. 😁 Mary Ellen from @redparrot sent me a pm about the zokin so it must be doing the rounds. Since I felt like a wrung out dishcloth, it seemed appropriate 😂❤️

Such a pleasure “working” alongside you. While listening to your dulcet tones, I shortened the sleeves of my thrifted madras shirt, which was three sizes too large. Don’t you love madras? Wonder if you’ve ever worked with it?

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

I do love Madras, I would buy it like a shot if I saw it in a thrift shop xx

Oh I loooove this!!! I think I made Zokins before because I cut worn out clothes and towels into smaller pieces, folded and sewed seems to the edges, and used them as cleaning cloths! Except I did not fold them into several layers! What a great idea this is and I will use it in the future for sure!!! Thank you K3n!!!! Wonderful!!! I hope you will feel 100 soon again!!! Take care!!!! Susanne

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Susanne 😊

Thanks

@k3n.clothtales

13 күн бұрын

@@lesleymccallion2185 thank you so much ❤️

I live in an area with colony folk. I won't say what kind because I am honestly not sure. I have noticed in different homes pieced / quilted shoe pads they use to move around on the floor so outdoor foot wear doesn't have to be removed. I think these would be great for that, now if I can teach jack to use them I won't have to wipe up his not so little paw prints! 😂 ahhh a girl can dream haha

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@leeyakiwchuk863 oh that brings back a memory of tying dusters around my feet and sliding on the parquet after my Granny had polished it. Hmmm, maybe she invented the game for us children to shine the floor?! Just thought of that 😂❤️

@leeyakiwchuk863

14 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales that is sweet. We were so gullable as children 😆

Thank you so much for a lovely video . Stay well, soup , tennis and doing nothing seems like a good option! Take care, from Sutton, so almost hear Wimbledon!

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

My pleasure, and thank you. I am watching now, if I wave at the TV, it's meant for you 😁❤️

So, so enjoyed making the zokin. Husband came in and showed interest and has requested that I make a bigger one, for bigger hands (not Hans!) so back to the rag-bag - which is actually the leg of an old pair of green tights that I made into a double-ended ‘sausage’ - like the ones for plastic bags…

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

That's a good idea for rags, I used to have one for plastic bags but they hardly come into the house anymore. Was husband interested enough to actually make his own zokin? 🤔😂❤️

Sorry you are feeling poorly. ❤ as far as the videos go, it usually takes me 3 times watching to get your videos complete. 😅. Great video. I still have to wax my leaves and get them done. I will be busy this week

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@judymarkel8029 thank you Judy, have fun 😊

Sorry you've been sick. ❤ sending love

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@alison64able thank you ❤️

Hope you feel better soon xo Re:- turning your box into a rice bag - you could crochet the tabs …. you could even crochet the string/twine as well. Just saying! 🥰😊

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@gonerustic I could do that, great idea. Thank you Rita ❤️

@gonerustic

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales - just a thought 😊

Somebody likes a magnum. ……I couldn’t use this as a floor cloth ….too beautiful… hope you feel better soon

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Thank you Susan, I could blame the children for the magnums but that wouldn't be the complete truth 😁 I am feeling better today ❤️

Güzel bir çalışma teşekkürler Türkiye'den 👏😊💐 Hülya

I love the comfort of sitting and mending! I did not see an ad in this video, was there a step missed in posting? (Could be on my end, who knows, wanted to tell you just in case.)

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

@@mindym.1166 thank you so much Mindy, there is an ad at the beginning, I checked. I don't allow ads during the video, only the beginning and end. I really appreciate you looking out for me ☺️

Ah. I grew up with zokin cleaning cloths. To me they should start out beautiful. Left over cotton sewing fabric. Primarily wood floor water hand mopping cloths, I wouldn’t want one looking ragged or dirty from the start.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

I love that there is beauty in such domestic cloths ❤️

@jant4741

14 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales Standard was blue cotton plaid that didn’t show dirt easily. Won’t want neighbors talking! Culture of contrasts. One hand have tea ceremony wabi sabi appreciation, and on the other hand an aversion to second hand stuff.

@k3n.clothtales

14 күн бұрын

@@jant4741 culture of contrasts indeed, I think that is partly why I find it so interesting. In my own Northern English heritage, I come from poor, working class people, materials were honoured through thrift, repaired and reused, nothing wasted. My Granny kept a dislike of old or secondhand things her whole life and could never understand my love of junk shops or buying my clothes from charity shops when I didn't need to do so. I think we are all more the same than we are different. I like to look for those connections across cultures and learn as much as I can along the way. ❤️

@jant4741

14 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales the unspoken- there use to be a lot of tuberculosis that could be contaminating used soft goods.

Sending good thoughts and lots of hugs and hoping that you feel better soon. You are allowed to take a sick day now and then...... please don't push yourself to make a video if you don't feel well. We will all understand. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ Kathryn }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} I have not yet watched this video (except to find out that you are sick), but now I am about to watch and am excited for this topic.

@k3n.clothtales

15 күн бұрын

Hello Susan, thank you so much. I would have to be pretty bad to leave you all without a video. And I do have two or three little random tutorial type ones in reserve for emergencies. 😁❤️

@SusanMJB45

15 күн бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales 🙂