Love the flying geese. Thank you.

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K3n thankyou for this beautiful exploration of boro, for the opportunity to reflect in every way on how we might draw fragments together….whether these are cloth fragments or the fragments of self and of memory that are left when there has been loss. I am often struck by the healing that occurs in the mending of cloth for myself and when I have had the honour to mend old cloths for others. I cared for my mother for 15 years and I often had an image of assisting her to conserve the fragile fabric of her life as she gradually declined. At the same time, she still had agency and a strong spirit. I have a precious memory from 8 years ago of she and I joyfully assembling a kantha inspired quilt from family garments to welcome her great grandson to the world . 🧡X

I love the feel and smell of books. I do own a tablet, bought when my arthriris flared and could no longer hold a book for any length of time. I use our local library as muchas possible. I am truly enjoying your videos especially listening to your monologue. You have helped me get through a long hiatus of no creating.

Beautiful video, thank you. Today I learned what "boro" is, along with sashiko. I adore slow stitching...found a place to rest and create.

Beautiful! This is a favorite in your wonky Wednesday series. Love it!!

Everything you say makes sense to me. Stitching heals my brokenness - like stitching my heart back together. I have a quilt I pieced when my Dad was dying, I sat beside him and sewed it. I keep it folded up because it can be painful. He suffered in the end. I appreciate boro. And you ❤

As someone who has traditionally quilted for many years and consequently has a stash I could never use up in the years left to me, I love the idea of divesting myself of most of it and then making up random bundles with the rest. This project has shown me that you can rely then on your own creativity to make something rather than necessarily following a set design. Just see where your pieces of fabric, cloth and floss take you! The thought of sewing like that after all these years is actually very exciting as I never believed I could create something from my own head. Thank you Kathryn, I see now it’s never too late to start to “do me” and feel I’ve accomplished something and with little rather than lots. ❤

Hello an amazing channel 💖. Started late completed Wk 1&2 . Hope to catch up. Love the sayings: process not the final... just be U! 🙏

Thank you Sue ❤

This one surprised me - I like it! It reminds me of our local indigenous peoples' patterns which I don't know if they represent geese, although they are plentiful here in the west. I always tended to think of arrows. Then again, the same shapes have always been used world-wide. I especially like the monochromatic logs. Thank you K3N and hurrah for the scissors.

Welcome home/back!! Oh I do hope you will share your tales about your travels!! Susan, thank you so much for blessing Kathryn with some new scissors! ✂️❤Blessings 😊

Yes, yes. James Cromwell! So good and understated, playing that character, wasn’t he? He played a good villian, too, on occasion. I’m so looking forward to stitching my Bento bag! Thank you. Hope the show and meeting of co-chairs went well. I so appreciated your taking all of us on your show tour. xoxo

Welcome Home with your 'new scissors '. So sweet of your friend to gift them to you.

That's lovely.

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Welcome 🏡 home..your thirteen acres and us your subscribers and wonky friends. I enjoyed your tour of the Exhibition..of course I am partial to your exhibit. Great block to Welcome you home.

Wonderful new scissors, since they look the same as the old ones I hope you marked the old ones so you know which ones are ok to use on paper ( which will dull the best scissors) I’d hate for you to use the new ones on paper. 😂😂 Happy you are back home, hope your exhibition went well.

Lovely! I’m so behind- I haven’t even started! Too much on my plate right now- but I never miss your videos. I’d watch everyday if you were there. You’re inspiring and relaxing and somehow have convinced me that life can be simple and less hectic if we choose. I choose that everyday- but I still don’t just do what I choose. Life still intrudes on my time. Are we ever really in control? We can control how or when we participate I suppose - learning how to do you stuff. Thanks for validating my thoughts.

So many log cabin designs…..so much fun. Thank you. 💖💖💖

I have to say I'm ambivalent about "cultural appropriation". Having, from early childhood, been exposed to multiple cultures which have influenced me in a variety of ways, I do things (and not just handwork) which incorporate elements of a tapestry from many of them. I'm conscious of the influences, and do this with respect and affection; but do I feel a need to justify myself or apologise for it? Not for a moment. People have been influenced by other cultures for millennia. All that's changed is social media and the thought police (and actually, the latter's not new either - only they are heard by more people due to modern technologies).

Welcome home Kathryn! I am playing catch up after a massive bolt of lightening took out the internet...for many, many days. Only the second time we have had lightening in the 18 years that I've lived here...and no storm or rain. Just 3 HUGE claps of thunder and zzzzzap! So now I'm having a k3n binge and loving it! This one is gorgeous - the dark colours are so dramatic. How on earth do you choose which full sized log cabin quilt to make when the permutations are so vast? Aaaah - this is how obsessions are born. Love it! 💟

Welcome back, Kathryn! I find this pattern really, really interesting, but I must admit that it sounded a bit trickier than the previous ones, maybe because I am not used to piecing. I’ll have to watch it again, because you know I love these wonky Wednesdays 😊 Enjoy your time with Joey 🩵🩷💙🩶💜🤍🧡❤️💛🤎💚

Welcome home!! Lovely block this week. Im so glad its called Wonky Wednesday. Im sure mine will be in the true spirit of this day. Hugs ❤

Stunning. Love the use of black.

I watched earlier and fell asleep listening because it was 4am. Now I can listen and I’m loving it. Definitely want to give this a go. I just finished basting and pinning a summer quilt - pieced top, no batting, sheet for bottom layer. Just right for summer. I love the rhythm of piecing as well. I can’t be sad while sewing. Love the sound of ripping fabric (we say fabric here). Loved the gallery show. Happy you are back! ❤

I’m joining in with the warm welcome home chorus ❤ beautiful block, fabulous and satisfying snippy sound (great gift) and as always it was lovely seeing you pop into my evening. Have a lovely time with your family. Xx

Yay! New scissors 👍🏻

Thank you. 😊

Welcome home Kathryn, so glad to have you back in real time !!!. another lovely project to try, Im still stuck in Kawndi and Japanese rice bag weeks !!xxx

Welcome home Kathryn ❤ loving the geese!

Hope you had a good time in England Kathryn. For me it’s 4:13 am -USA time- see ya later- looks like fun

Hi Kathryn, yes it was me who sent the link to Atsushi's video :) Like Atsushi said, it's a sensitive topic, so I watched the whole video through again before deciding to share it on the Kawandi video. It's wonderful to hear about the thought you gave the subject. I enjoyed watching you experiment with this piece and how its meaning/focus emerged as you went ❤ Its also lovely to read some of the comments sharing stories of grief and crafting. What a community, and what a journey we're on together ❤

Welcome back Kathryn! I have the same scissors, they absolutely make you want to cut all the cloth (eventhough i love the sound of tearing). I am so behind on all the things you make me want to make (what a sentence) and here’s one more!💖🍀

Glad you had a lovely trip back to England Kathryn and now have a shiny new sharp pair of scissors. I try not to use easy iron fabrics as they are chemically treated, I find soaking in vinegar helps to remove and soften making it much nicer to use. Absolutely loving you and the easy way you present it’s like having an old friend round many thanks. x 💐

It's 2:00 am and I should be sleeping, but you have tempted me....USA time zone....see you when I wake up.

Ooo this is lovely...

The song that comes to mind for me is "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton. Made of rags but she wore it so proudly.

Thank you for another enjoyable video. I would love to hear more about the piece you are working on using your dad's hankies. I would love to see a wider shot and you share more details on the work you have done on it. Perhaps a video just on the piece. ❤ Australia

Ok, I finished my piece, and decided to do another. However, I think I like stitching onto a base much better and doing the hidden basting. I find the smaller pieces are a little more difficult to handle this way. But thinking about it, if I were mending a garment, there would be more fabric to grasp and I probably would do better. I found on my finished piece that the larger it grew, the more control I had while stitching. Maybe it just takes practice. I am liking my second piece. Just chattering about my thoughts.🌷🌷🌷

My father always had a handkerchief and a small pocket knife and could solve all my problems, I so miss that!❤

i am much more accustomed to limiting the things i travel with by size or weight than number, this was an interesting exercise. the whole time ive been working in it tho i’ve been thinking of what other small things would complement my little kit and the pouch i think i would put it in 😂 a good lesson to take on my trip next weekend!

I really like the remark about stitching rhythmically. I'll have to try stitching following my heartbeats. ❣️ Thank you for the lovely chats, tangents, dogs and cat, and of course stitching!

In truth, Kathryn, your work is Zen and the Art of Sewing. For those who need an explanation, or who ‘get irritated’ by lack of measurements are quantifiers and will never truly understand the qualitative.

Thank you for this video. I’ve been stitching more than usual after my beagle passed away and my husband is looking at me like “what is your deal?!” However, I know it’s bringing me a processing I couldn’t do on my own - I have to use my hands. My Dad has late stage cancer and we don’t know how much longer he has. Just saying that is surreal but the old issues and triggers for argument don’t exist anymore or at least they’re not worth acknowledging. My heart is sad but cloth and fiber heals me and this exercise is perfect. Thank you for showing us the many ways people use cloth in their lives and for being a comforting voice through tough times.

You are my "go too" channel for usefull sewing projects. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, ideas, talents, and creativity with all of us. From Idaho, USA.

It was fun, not thinking. Yust go with the flow with old cloth. Loved it. Thank you Kathryn 🙏🏼❤️ When I lost my brother in 2020 i made a comfort blanket ( chrochet)with my sister. His colour, waves… that was my manor to remember and to face the lost of my very beloved brother❤️❤️

Just wonderful. Thank you

Hi Kathryn, I have never been a sentimental person. Whether a product of birth or environment. I come from an Air force background where we moved every 2 years and got rid of all that wasn’t necessary. We weren’t destitute but didn’t have much. We are practical people not sentimental. It has been a massive learning curve to realise that I can be both. I got rid of my husbands dads clothing that had been mended and mended because it was old, didn’t even give it a thought that it held memories. I am sad now that I placed absolutely no value on those sort of things. I can see why you have named your channel as ‘cloth tales’, it’s a personal journey of what has been worn on a persons body and the lives they have lead, so many stories. Now I know why I found it a little hard to just get fabric from the op shops in one way as I didn’t have that connection, to me it’s just old cloth. My perspective has changed. Can I say that I love the idea that my new cloth will last a little longer into the future of my family but ….. I’m respectful of the past and the traditions and of preserved fabric and the history of it ( even if I don’t know it). It has made me realised that I can make an emotional connection for my family that honours the past. Maybe I am getting sentimental after all. Cathy A🌻