K3N thank you for your generosity - sharing your skills and expertise. More importantly, I want to offer great admiration and appreciation for your deep concern, love and actions for taking care of our beautiful planet and ALL the living beings dependent on this astonishing Earth. Many bows 🙇🏻‍♀️ and gasshos to you 🙏🏼. ❤

@Sa_Stafford

4 ай бұрын

Ditto … absolutely 🙏 I have made my bundle and it will hang in some overgrowth in my garden.

Absolutely loved this video and sign me up for the “I’m primitive” tribe. Love adventuring out with you and your pups. Your hands are lovely because you create beautiful art 💛 cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Christine ♥️

@JoZiggy

3 ай бұрын

Yes..her hands ARE lovely, very expressive and sensitive ❤

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

@@JoZiggy thank you so much ❤️

Love this whole thing. Thank you! I thought of Bob Ross and his saying “happy accident” to describe something you didn’t mean to do but it turned into something wonderful when you mentioned the lady and the feather. I hope you are having a good time in England and everything is going beautifully.

At the beginning of this I was so hoping we were going into the woods with you, I resisted skipping to the end and so watched with anticipation. Ahh the final reward, so happy to see the woods, the dogs and the process. Much love for what you are providing here.

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Lovely to take you with me ❤️

I feel privileged to have joined you on a walk through your woods. Thanks for the journey!I wish you well on your trip to England.

Oh How I loved everything about this video, listening to your stories (how interesting they are) and of course your passion for the planet, just everything. I’m digging out my cotton cloth to start stitching my little book all ready for burying in my garden. I just love this idea so much, thank you

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure Jean thank you so much for being here 😊❤️

So excited by this week 's project... and it was so nice to do this little walk in the woods with you ! I guess you have a wonderful time in England ! 🤎🍂🙏🏽

Oooh Kathryn, apart from this being a wonderful project (that i will certainly join you in) i am laughing out loud listening to your royalty stories, you are a great story teller!!😃💖🍀

@dailydoseofpaper

4 ай бұрын

Oh and enjoy yourself in the UK 🍀💖

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Machteld ♥️

This is so much fun!! I loved doing the project and can't to go and bury it! I hope you are having an amazing time in England and that your exhibition is as well received as it should be!

So excited about this project. Love the idea. Can't wait to find a place to bury my bundle.

In college, we placed cloth in a plastic tub and layered it with vegetable/fruit scraps. It created beautiful markings. If you live in an apartment and can’t place your bundle outside, you could do that.

The phrases you are using in this project are ones I had on a poster when I was in my 20s, 50 years ago. And I love your comments about chemicals. I have a college degree in biochemistry and wholeheartedly agree with you. I am having so much fun with the projects you lead us through and cannot wait for Mondays and Wednesdays. I'm not caught up with everything, but I'm having fun trying. Thank-you!!

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Thank you I am so pleased you are having fun, the most important thing 😁❤️

I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you.

Thank you, for another wonderful video.

This was really interesting to watch and wow till June for this one, cant wait to see it then.

How fabulous! I’m so excited about this project. This is fantastic. And walking with you was so lovely.

Another great project. It was fun walking with you in the woods. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻

My niece traveled to London and worked in the castle for a time. She met Prince Phillip and King Charles. She said they were both so nice. King Charles was not King at the time. They both, at separate times, stopped and talked With her. She was doing a placement for her dream job. Love all your videos

so lovely coming to the woods with you and meeting your dogs K! I join you in using apostrophes and the word "organic" correctly :) now that I know the correct direction of the Union Jack I will also be bothered haha. I love what you do, thank you, liz xx

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Hello Liz, my pleasure and sorry for infecting you with the Union Jack foible 😂❤️

I'm so enjoying the journey you're taking us on Kathryn ... thank you. We've had no rain since new year so hard to choose where to place my June bundle ... it's under my young lemon tree where it will at least get water and a touch of fertiliser. I enjoyed your poem ... it seemed to me to relate to possessions and connections. Also reminded me of Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig's piece that to me relates more to emotions and feelings. Leunig philosophised: 'Let it, go, Let it out, Let it all unravel, Set it free and it can be, a path on which to travel. The sentiment appeals to me ...

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Beautiful words, thank you ♥️

This week's project brought into relief how I was holding on to something very tight. I was frantically looking for a beagle. It had to be a beagle 30 pounds or less. When I let go of the need it was obvious I was trying to mask the pain of losing Jake. So good by search hello sadness and maybe in time hello to another sweet beagle in his or her time.

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

I am so sorry for your loss and hope that whilst you can never replace your sweet Jake, you will one day find another lucky little dog to love, when the time is right. ♥️

@JoZiggy

3 ай бұрын

Òwww bless you and bless Jake .❤

So so interesting listening and watching you create. I'm going to get my stuff together to bury and watch it again - a wee bit "feart" of the sewn letters! ❤😅

@k3n.clothtales

Ай бұрын

No need to be feart , I have every confidence in you Margaret ❤️

I was so excited watching your video on Monday night. I couldn't wait to get started on making my little stitched bundle books ❤ I stitched them in a similar style to you, and honestly, both were easy to stitch - I guess it helps if you like stitching words, as I do 🪡🪡 #2 book is buried next my sleeping Buddha head covered in leaf mulch ~ I can't wait to see the magic that happens over the next three months ❤🖤🩶

You see a wolf, I clearly saw a dragon! "Where are the inorganic vegetables?" had me laughing for minutes. And finally, I so appreciate the instruction for this project. My granddaughters and I will be experimenting with natural dyeing this summer, and I think we shall bookend the season with this project. Thank you💚🐲🍃

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

There was some debate about the Wolf Stump between family and friends, my Mum also saw a dragon, there was also a horse and a wild boar, but wolf got the most votes so wolf it became 😉 Have fun with your granddaughter ♥️

Thank you for this wonderful inspiration and walk into the woods. I have to have a walk next day to find a place for my bundle book. Just preparing..... 😇

Another great podcast. So interesting to ponder what the bundle will look like in June!

I thought this was great , I never done anything like that it was fascinating, thanks again my book over has been stitched for a while but in just going on to no 5 to day. Enjoying it VM thanks

I really need to do this ! I’m in the process of letting go of a ton of my possessions as I want to move house and that includes my massive stash of vintage fabrics and linens, threads and wool etc. Not that I’m downsizing I just need the space to go on creating ! There is a woodland nearby and I think that’s where my book will go. But also a beautiful oak tree nearby which I’m drawn to, maybe that will get one too. I bet you would have liked a snippet of the kings camel coat 😂😂😂. Have a great time in England, it’s too far for me to come and meet you sadly. Maybe one day 😊❤x

I really enjoyed listening to your story’s and going out for your lovely walk, I went out this morning to do some collect and really look forward to doing my wrap and putting it in a nature spot. Thanks Kathryn you are such a inspiration.

thank you. I joined you and will put my bundle in my garden now (after I photographed it)

Adored this video Kathryn, took me straight back to my childhood,and living I mu imaginary Enid Blyton world,where I forever wanted to be the famous sixth... my excitement high on this project and had a good conversation with my woofa, Gypsy,on the whereabouts of our to be hiding place 😊Now to get sewing and searching for some earth friendly accompaniments ... .thankyou for your time and beautiful inspiration xx

This was such a lovely treat, to see some of your walk in the woods. So very different from our woods in the Rockies. I saw oak leaves, and ivy and all that lush moss! I love this project and intend to get to it right away. Thank you again, and again.

This is great, really enjoyed the walk in the woods with you. I can’t wait to see how things look JUNE 24th. Thank you.

I’m very excited to try this one with you! Thank You for showing how to do it! I think I will need to video where I end up hiding mine so I will remember. Great idea😊❤️

This is a great process ❤

I like what you said about your hands. I like your hands. Because yes, they are actresses in this movie, and many people today like artificially beautiful actresses who are not at all authentic and then cling to their beauty, unable to age with grace. When I started watching various videos about junk journals and scrapbooking, I realized that I prefer hands that are natural, which don't have freshly glued nails just for some seemingly necessary aesthetic impression. I watched all the little pieces people made, and I still couldn't decide; I don't like embroidering small things, and letters are small :) But I'm glad that today I finally decided and although I don't do things in the order of weeks, it doesn't matter. Today, we're going on a trip to the forest with our doggy, my little book is already embroidered during the afternoon coffee and your video. Thank you for an interesting experience.

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, even if I wanted the fancy nails (I don't!) they wouldn't last five minutes with the life I lead 😂 I am so pleased you are making a woodland foray with your book and your doggy, hope you enjoy ❤️

Since you talked about burying a bundle I have been wanting to try. So happy to try this. I have a half acre. I know I can find a perfect place to place it.!! Your woods are lovely

Hope your exhibition goes well. All the best : )

The stitching and stories have been lovely to watch after a very long day….I will look forward to the wood walk part of your film which I m saving for tomorrow…the idea of this project chimes with me and speaks to my heart. ….Inspiring and purposive . Thank you K3n x

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

What fun!! I may go into the creek near home and bury a bundle as well.

Thank-you, Kathryn, for taking us to the woods with you. Am looking forward to making my little books, and burying one in the garden on our kitchen porch (we're in a top-floor apartment). Sadly, I can't buy undyed thread here, but will do my best to keep everything as natural as I can. Safe journeys to and from England, and I hope the exhibition is both enjoyable and successful. PS I like your choice of the name Sirius for one of your dogs. 😊

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Jill 😊

I love this process ! I have my rusty bits and some maple and oak leaves so ready to go ❤

I'm going to actually do this Kathryn. I'll stitch something purposefully with my first cloth dyed with bay leaves and I'll bury it in the garden. We're twins again.... I've met King Charles twice. The first time I was showing him around a nature reserve and made him fruit cake, which he had with some Wensleydale cheese.... :)

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Oh yes, fruit cake and Wensleydale, no other way to eat it. Southerners always think I am mad. 😁 I haven't had chance to watch your Sunday video yet but looking forward to it. ♥️

Wonderful journey...❤

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Pam, I am so happy to see you enjoying the videos ❤️

Wow! Love the woods! Something about its serenity, all the living things growing quietly in it and the natural progression of things in an unhurried pace always give one a reassurance that all things flourish in its own appropriate time . Thank you for taking us along your walk and for introducing us to very interesting creative endeavors. Safe flight to England. Wishing you a good exhibition. 🌷tess

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Tess, I arrived safely ♥️

What a great way to wake up this morning! Thank you, Kathryn, for the company as I built a fire in the fireplace to warm the house 😊as I listened to you and enjoyed my morning cup of tea. Looking forward to this project and even now am thinking of where to tuck my “book” in out in our Wisconsin, USA woods.

@DawnMARKCUM-vn7gt

4 ай бұрын

Good morning Kathryn I love how when you pulled out the old sheets and it had a patch on it reminded me when I was a child and went to Ohio to spend weekends at my grandmother's she had sheets like that that was on the bed and pillow cases as young as I was I probably thought she was poor but they were nice and crisp like they were hanging on the clothesline all day I think I've got lost I'm way behind and need to catch up but I have to watch this video because I love taking walks in the woods with my dog I'm picking up pine cones and stuff thanks so much for your video it's been really cold here in Lansing Michigan snowing for the last 2 days hopefully tomorrow will be warmer so I can take the walk in the woods and collect my material

Kathryn, you do know it’s okay to color outside the lines, (letting letters go outside the circle) 😂. You have a beautiful piece of property, thank you for taking us on that walk.

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

😂 I always hated to colour outside the lines and if it happened, I would turn to a new page in the colouring book. Now in my slowstitch I have pretty much shaken off the perfectionism but apparently not when I am doing text. 😁❤️

I so enjoyed our walk through the woods! I'm definitely going to do this and am gazing out our bank of windows looking for a possible place to place my bundle. Our property borders the Wisconsin River in the back, so there are many possibilities.

Really like the project and we have the privilege to have some very old trees in our property but poison ivy is a thing around here so I decided to bury my little bundle close to the house where will be safer for me to retrieve it, hope you have a great trip and exhibition

Wonderful ideas, excited to do this, only hope I can find a place to bury it as it is still winter in Canada and the ground id frozen. Happy to hear you say you will apologize less, you could stop apologizing about everything you are doing cause its all good! 🌻

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you ♥️ hope you find somewhere for your bundle, it doesn't have to be buried, it could be tucked into a tree for example 😉😁

I hope you have a wonderful time in England would love to see photos of the exhibition.

I totally agree with you about chemicals. I'm sure you're aware of the dangers of that chemical, dihydrogen oxide. It's all around us.

@k3n.clothtales

16 күн бұрын

😁 I will confess I had to Google 😉♥️

Loved the video loved the doggy walking. Thanks.

What a lovely project and video. I’m both inspired and a little envious, as I’m sure many of your viewers are 😊 I grew up in a house built by my great grandfather which backed onto forestry commission land in Wales. It was mostly coniferous, with patches of native woods peppered through it. That forestry was our playground, and I still love walking in the woods now, especially in spring when the bluebells are in bloom. I’d be delighted to see your woods through the seasons, if you were inclined to do that in the future - of course, I’m sure you’ll be taking us with you in June when you go to retrieve your bundle. Lovely to meet Sirius too❤

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, yes I will video retrieving it in June ♥️

Very interesting 🥰

This looks like fun. Going to have a go. I'm in Australia on a farm and after severe floods over the last 2 years its gone back to dry. I plant trees constantly so I think I will put mine near a new tree that has to be watered. Maybe more than one! 😊🙋‍♀️🌳🌳🌳 Hope your exhibition goes well.

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

That's a good idea, so happy that you are planting trees, thank you ❤️

This is so amazing to me... while I was watching, I noticed 888 thumbs up - if every one of those did the prompt there would be 888 bundles out in the world!! That's huge! :D Did you ever think you would teach so so so many people?!? (Thousands not just hundreds!!)

@k3n.clothtales

Ай бұрын

That is an amazing thought 🥰 no I never had any idea, even when I started the channel. If you had told me in advance how many people would be watching me, I expect I would have been terrified 😂♥️

@nancydale7367

Ай бұрын

@@k3n.clothtales I'm so glad you decided you weren't and went ahead!! 💚

@k3n.clothtales

Ай бұрын

Me too! Very 'feel the fear and do it anyway ' 😁❤️

❤ TFS

Another great video thank you

Amazing Kathryn, I thought I would do freehand stitching on one and marked for the other, good to try both. Loved your stories about King Charles. So excited to try book bundles and have already thought where I would put it

Yippee. Been eagerly awaiting this. Found your channel 1 week ago and have caught up already 😅. Yes, I did remember to feed my husband. Thank you .

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Lucky man, what a good wife you are 😂♥️

@susanhannon7596

4 ай бұрын

Am envious. I am three projects behind at this point and I started at the beginning. So much fun and good people, great teacher

I too wonder why people are ‘in distress’ with their upside down flags. Apparently it was a sign on tall ships to others when they were under attack from pirates/enemies, who apparently didn’t know the correct flying of the English flag.

I’m going to make a few simple books and bury them when I go to the beach in a few weeks. I’m there from mid April until end of October. I’ll leave them until then. This was very interesting! Of course I’ve followed your other journals, buried and unearthed, fascinating! 🩵

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Fabulous to leave them on a beach, though of course the sea might take a few. 😁❤️

Having just learned about weathergrams, I may do something like that in lieu of burying my work. 😊

Have a lovely time in England, we are having a wee break in Northumberland soon to see galaxys in thier dark skies and hopefully birds and red squirrels. Looking forward to the bundle results soon. Xx

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Have a lovely time, I love Northumberland, been camping there a few times. ♥️

@consideredwhisper

4 ай бұрын

Beautiful dark skies there. And so many red squirrels! Also some of the kindest people I’ve ever met. Have fun

Thank you once again.Lovely to see part of your woods too.Oh,I'm a fellow policer (if that's a word?)of inappropriately hung Union Jacks

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Yeay there are two of us, we should start a club 😁♥️

@jj-nb1ll

4 ай бұрын

Count me in!!!!@@k3n.clothtales

thanks again for your company as i sew :) the quote reminded me of a song ("this is gospel," by panic! at the disco) that also uses the phrase "if you love me let me go," though it takes the meaning in a very different direction.

@soundofez

2 ай бұрын

oh, also! i wondered how much a stump could possibly look like a wolf, but it really does! nature does some impressive stuff 🐺

@k3n.clothtales

2 ай бұрын

I don't know that song, so I will have to Google it. 😁

love barrington court ,son lives in somerset . Like to visit there when visiting love the gardens. Lots of trees and nice walks.

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

It's a beautiful place ♥️

I interesting to see the natural dye. I'm going to attempt growing wode this year

I have wanted to try eco dying for a long time and this is such a cool project!😎K3n, I love the way you are incorporating that quote we all know and love!♥I live in a city apartment in central Canada. It is still winter here in Winnipeg and I don't have access to the cottage yet, so I wasn't sure if I could find the stuff to do this. Then the universe helped me find a rusty nut and washer on the way into work this morning. On the way home I found some rusty screws and a rusty safety pin (bonus!). I also found a few sticks and pine cones that I could wrap my fabric around, so I'm super excited to try this! I am going to bury it in a moss lined planter which was used to hang plants off my balcony railing and let the weather work its magic. I might add a couple of house plant leaves and some loose tea leaves to see if they work some magic on the cloth.🤞🏻

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

I am so happy you can play along ♥️

Thanks

Hi Kathryn, I absolutely love this project. This is going to be so much fun! Can't wait to see the end result ❤

I really want to try and hide mine in a rock pool. Chances of finding it again….slim! Tides are super strong here! But I’ll give it a go 😊

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Just wedge it in or weigh it down with rocks and see if the sea lets you have it back 😁❤️

I have watched this video multiple times trying to decide what to do. It is very much a primitive project, something I've never really done before. I will try to stay true to the spirit of the prompt. 😊 Thank you for all you do for us! 💕

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

It's my pleasure, I hope you find your own way with it and enjoy the process ❤️

So looking forward to doing this. What an exciting stitching adventure! Thank you ❤

Have to chuckle at you wiping your hands on your leggings. I’m guilty of that but being in Florida I’m in Jean shorts all the time so tend to use those as my apron 😂. My footwear is crocs with socks in the winter and croc flops in the summer.

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

I have clogs and socks in winter and crocs in summer 😂❤️

I love your hands. Capable, strong, good hands.

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Jennifer ❤️

Thank you for the walk. I loved it

So if you do a t-shirt "you do you" I will buy it. I am saying this all the time because of you.

@maureenpeak7751

4 ай бұрын

Hilarious, and I keep finding myself saying “that’ll do pig!” thanks to K3n….

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

😂

Love this and the birds singing

Fun!

Such an exciting adventure. 💖💖💖

I totally agree with you about one mean comment affecting you….i was constantly picked on at high school about my left leg that was bent before I was born…to this day …I’m now 77 …I don’t wear shorts or short skirts…always long skirts, dresses and pants

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

People can be so mean, and it hurts. I am so sorry you had that experience ♥️♥️♥️

ok - i have scoped out my first location in a ravine near where i park for my office job, i am going to wrap a sumac berry bunch in the fabric too as there are a lot of sumac around - it is inevitable that once k3n has provided the permission, i will be caching more than one of these :)

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Sumac is a great plant to use😉❤️

How I loved this presentation, of how you wove the wheel of the year aspects of Equinox and Upcoming Soltice into your outstanding creativity. Quite new myself to Slow Stitching so there has been a lot of binge watching the presentations as I organize my supplies to do some stitching every moment I can. Love all your work, your stories and education as the video goes along. You so inspired me to tea and rust dye fabric, feeling my styles and colours changing to the more muted, antique, natural shades. And I have one more thankyou in this message to you, and that is due to your tutorial on basting with the tiny stitch at front, large stitch on the back, I took to practicing the rhythm of that and have made a few beginner pieces where that is the stitch, creating a pleasing- to- me quilted effect on the front. THANK YOU you are wonderful, I love my new addiction to this fabulous world of Slow Stitching.

@k3n.clothtales

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure and welcome. I can't take credit for using the invisible baste in this kind of stitching, that must go to the wonderful @judehill from whom I learnt it. ❤️

This will be a "bye week" for me, as the thing I'd like to "let go of" is my denial that for now I'm living in a desert! But it will be fun seeing what everyone comes up with!

Can't wait to start! Thanks.

Lovely walk thru the woods. This is going to be an interesting project!

I liked it and the beautiful moss!

Oh that was fun! Made me giggle when you started your mini rants about apostrophes etc. I used to work for a small publisher and I too am rather pedantic about language, often shouting at tv presenters! Trying to accept that language evolves but it’s so hard (My pet hate is ‘ should of’ instead of ‘ should have’. )

@Carol_Sews

4 ай бұрын

I talk to the TV too. I hate when anyone uses a subject pronoun as the object of a preposition. The mistake is everywhere - the news, sports announcers, and TV and movie dialog. Drives me crazy!

@rosywilson3076

4 ай бұрын

Yep I’m a bit pedantic about language too - I blame my Dad! 😂

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Yes! I shout, of is not a verb, you can't 'of' anything 😂

The person who made the nasty comment about your hands has never done anything beautiful with theirs, that's for sure! Thank you for another beautiful video!

Try placing your mat in a vessel & pour boiling water over to straighten lumps, then remove and lay flat

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you I will try that ❤️

Thank you for showing your organic process. This is the Real World k3n show...I love it!

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

So nice of you 😊

I’m behind a bit at present, stuck on the Korean patchwork & planning to try it again for the third time…..groan. I’m finding it very hard to manage the one quarter inch hem - easier with an iron, I suspect. But I loved the look of this week’s project, so I adapted the saying to something more suited for me - “Let it go” & “Let it be”. “Let it go” is buried in one corner of the back yard now, where the soil is a little softer because I once dug a small garden there. On the plus side, I’ve tacked out a fabric patchwork (to slow stitch) as a cover for the journal of these projects, which I have an adaptable hard cover on at present. Your woods are lovely - thank you so much for sharing them with us! 🍀🐾 🐕

I'm so happy that you showed us how to stitch the runic style text. And the walk in the woods was lovely with so many birds singing. We don't have many trees on our windy isle. I will have to find somewhere to tie my bundle down. 🤣 Hope you're enjoying your visit to Blighty.🇬🇧 Mary x

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Mary I am having a lovely time 😊

Thank you for sharing, this is a project. I really am interested in. I can’t wait to get started today.

Wonderful

You always have such wonderful ideas for playing with fabric!!❤ now I want to try this, as well. I probably have enough rust and tea dyed fabrics to last awhile 😂 Thank you also for taking us on your nature walk. I didn't see the cat following. Peace and safety 😊❤

@k3n.clothtales

4 ай бұрын

No he was home asleep on my bed 😁❤️

Thank you for our Monday gift. I did another Kawandi for want of something to do and made the granddaughters little black teddies.

Well I am ready to bury my book and in the last two days we have received a foot of snow! 😊