A visit from Chris English at The Last Homely House!

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I so enjoyed this visit from Chris English a few weeks ago. It was such a pleasure getting to know him a bit more and learning all about the fascinating ways in which he works with fabric. He is a very individual and creative quilter - I felt so inspired after he had left! As I explain in the video, Anna and I filmed so much, that we have enough to make a couple of videos for my Patrons as well - the first of which will be posted this coming Friday (7th of June) so keep an eye out for that, if you are sat on the Patreon end of The Lime Green Sofa!
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Thank you so much for watching!
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Kate
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@jillclark6076 Месяц назад

He seems like a lovely man. ❤❤❤

@candaceewalt9043 14 дней назад

Very exciting. I like the energy that Chris brings to quilting.

@marshawilliamson8602 4 дня назад

Joy…beginning to end. Pure joy!🌸🐝

@christypayne8615 3 месяца назад

💜👵🇺🇲 I've been going to a quilting group for ~3 yrs (and been knitting crocheting)- but am always inspired AWAY from the norm- though i appreciate that beauty and skill- you miss kate to a degee quilting your colors on a TABLE in front of you and your guest with his lovely amalgamations have given me the courage to dare my own path- ❤ xox kit

@BrendaStaresnick 2 дня назад

..hey from Texas..getting ideas galore..been quilting..among others stuff..since 1976! Great show w/Chris!

@janicekauffman6489 3 месяца назад

Why is there not a like button here? Loved this video and I can't like it. Thank you Kate, Chris and Anna!!

@lauraleecreations3217 Месяц назад

Wow what a great collaboration! Such a fun video! Him looking threw your fabric made me happy!!!❤❤❤❤

@stephanieloffler8566 3 месяца назад

Dear Kate, dear Chris, really loved your video and the little chat about quilting and fabrics. I like that Chris actually represents the original Patchwork to me. Using what you have and what you like and just "make it work" for you. For some quilters you have to use the most expensive materials to have a proper quilt and that is not my thought of quilting. I want to bei thoughtful about my materials, use what I have and also upcycle material that would be tossed by others (e.g. little scraps). So Chris is a great inspiration for me - Just as you are as well, Kate ❤ The little bear paws at the end are adorable. They remind me of cornflowers. Regarrds from Germany Stephanie

@vickijones6739 3 месяца назад

This video excited me to the max. I felt I was on the same level of excitement as the two of you. I don't have a digging partner anymore she passed away. But when I saw your excitement at things he brought and thing you showed him that you had in your stash that level of joy that came over him, came over me also. I was smiling and in my mind I was digging in that stash with the two of you. I had so much fun. It was a downer for me when the video ended and there I was sitting in my home alone. I was truly aware of hour your fun was affecting me. I was so shocked at the joy I was feeling with you two having all the fun. I think it really was an out of body experience! And I really did enjoy it.

@aprilscraftroom 2 месяца назад

What a great visit. I love that Chris isn't afraid to experiment - I've signed up on the wait list - I can't wait!

@sharonwilson8208 3 месяца назад

My goodness, I see so many fabrics I've used, or have gotten, but haven't made anything yet. That's so fun to see what my fabrics can be, especially the scraps left over. I could listen to both of you all day. I'm glad I have my coffee cup, sitting across the table from you both.😊❤

@aileencoutts6320 3 месяца назад

It is an absolute joy to see someone so uninhibited by boundaries. His artistic quilting ideas are brilliant. The world needs more people like Kate and Chris.

@Westernwilson 3 месяца назад

Wow, love that fabric of Chris'!! Hope he does another run for those of us who did not know about his Kickstarter campaign! His work is so joyful. And Kate I am green with envy over your beautiful gift from Brandon Mably. Such fun ahead!

@ConnieAcree 3 месяца назад

I love the strip in the middle of your bear paw. It sets it off. Thank you for sharing. God bless. I miss your beautiful cats.

@lynette. 3 месяца назад

So glad you bought Chris for a more in depth discussion was so interesting at quilt show chat.

@catharineking8640 3 месяца назад

Kaye that is a beautiful quilt behind you!! Chris's creativelly is amazing!.Thank you for sharing.

@redparrot9489 3 месяца назад

This was the funnest video … a couple of quilt nerds having a grand old time and taking us with. What an extraordinary episode. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

@Revsusu1 3 месяца назад

I've been smitten by Chris's work for some time. I'm a person who is irritated by anything in a straight line or same texture. Consequently, my quilts are unique and personally designed. It took awhile to accept this part of myself because I kept fighting with other peoples ideas of what should and shouldn't be. Now, I cherish my work and am so thrilled with my pieces once they are completed. Chris is my inspiration.

@petmomful2260 3 месяца назад

That is just wonderful that you have found what makes you happy and creative.

@vivienclark6653 3 месяца назад

Well done following your own path in creating your own designs with your quilting

@ljshaw8516 3 месяца назад

Smitten by Chris's work is a wonderful way to describe his amazing energy!

@nanapoppag 3 месяца назад

I am not a quilter. I will never be a quilter. I’m more into yarn. But I am absolutely inspired by Chris’s energy and love of what he does. I love quilts though. Just not enough to go down another rabbit hole. Lol

@jocorke6217 3 месяца назад

It was great to meet Chris and learn about him, I found his ideas really interesting and love that he uses different types of fabric. I will definitely be following him on Instagram 😊

@conniehusband1365 3 месяца назад

Mates! I like that! Welcome Chris🤗

@tagliaferrimag 3 месяца назад

I loved this episode, two different characters sharing a commun passion. It was fun to watch because they have different style, but Kate was so curious . Like someone said 2 nerds speaking the same language.

@123uschie 3 месяца назад

What an inspiration Chris is! Great video!

@sarahfriesner7442 2 месяца назад

Great video, I so enjoyed your conversation and Chris’s quilts and fabrics. Brilliant

@sharonvantroyen9686 3 месяца назад

I really enjoy Chris, and his creative spirit! I love his imagination and artistic mind. What a very interesting video. The bear paw is one of my favourite blocks, and I used it, along with a few wildlife panels, on a lap sized quilt for my nephews’ new son. It is a great block, and your colour combinations are fantastic, Kate! Thanks for another fab video!

@annesmith478 3 месяца назад

A fabulous video Kate. What a great guy Chris is, loved every minute . Thank you for inviting Chris to The Last Homely House. Was a bit squishy on the lime green sofa tonight but that's OK.

@kaywischkaemper4259 3 месяца назад

I LOVE your bearclaws Kate they are the right combination of kookie and gorgeous. I hope we get to see you put them together❤

@loritrew4805 3 месяца назад

I've been eagerly awaiting this video. I'm a big fan of Chris English - what a fun guy - and I have some blocks in the #teambearpaw24 project. And I look forward to Kate's videos every time. I'm excited to hear about the subscription box that Chris has in the works!

@peggyboss1925 3 месяца назад

I remember Chris from a previous quilt show and I loved his style. Oh, I’d love to spend a day with the two of you! You’re both so inspiring. I’m a Canadian fan! ❤

@debbiehamilton2340 3 месяца назад

I really love Chris’s style. Great video.

@asimpson3788 3 месяца назад

I just loved every minute of this video! Two fantastic people sharing their enthusiasm for a shared hobby with their own take on it. Brilliant! Thanks for introducing us to Chris! I’m now following him on Instagram too 👍🏼

@darrelllenapayne8813 3 месяца назад

Inspiring. Chris has helped me to better understand that free spiriting designing can really be a stress relief.

@robynennor 3 месяца назад

This was thoroughly enjoyable to watch and I love your bear paw quilt.

@kalico-k5449 3 месяца назад

Ooh! Loved that Chris included a Signature Quilt in one of his group quilts! They were done to raise money for the war effort so, depending on the fabrics, it could either be from WW1 or WW2. X

@bluemermaid616 3 месяца назад

I love the thinking outside of the box

@sueidell1308 Месяц назад

This video inspired me to be more creative in my quilting. Such fun to watch the two of you!

@sharonrhoads2461 3 месяца назад

Love the bearpaws. What a great way to use up all those cabbage scraps.

@debbiegodfrey2359 3 месяца назад

Really enjoyed this visit with Chris. I’ll have to start thinking outside the box! Thank you!

@bettywood5812 3 месяца назад

Great interview! Chris' tats would make interesting fabric. His art is boundless!

@angeladixon4783 3 месяца назад

This is my first time seeing Chris and experiencing his joy for art quilts. Something shifted in my heart and I am seeing quilts in a whole new way and can't wait to start making my own rebel art quilts. I've always done traditional quilts like my mammaw, but have been feeling trapped and bored with the same old things and have been yearning to break out and fly! I am so inspired! Following him on instagram now and you too, Kate. :)

@nanigail395 3 месяца назад

Oh my! Chris, you are an amazing artist. And that bear paw is the pattern of my queen- sized quilt I just finished ( well I need to do the quilting stitch & binding )& you, Kate & now Chris have confirmed for me that I can do it by hand & with straight stitches or slanted ones, with colorful thread❣️ I am so excited 🥰 ( now, my quilt has all cream for the paw & different fall colored fabric for the outer shapes-found the pattern in an old Quilter’s magazine )Thank you for having Chris on, Kate! Both of you are just wonderful 🥰

@charlottepuglisi2893 2 месяца назад

I loved seeing you both have so much fun.

@barbarahansbury2291 3 месяца назад

I remember your visit with Chris I will follow him! Thanks! His work is beautiful

@kathypultorak4778 3 месяца назад

Thank you Kate!! This is such an interesting and inspiring video!! Just The artistic energy between Chris and you is so wonderful that it has my head spinning about projects I could create next!!!

@joanneneufeld8212 Месяц назад

Your bear paw blocks are stunning.

@LizStevens-o6v 3 месяца назад

Very creative chap! Thanks Kate

@lizbiron6694 3 месяца назад

Chris, like you I love upcycling fabric and using different weights of fabrics. I first came across you thanks to Kate, AND YOU VALIDATED WHAT I WAS DOING (just as I had come to think I was doing it all 'wrong'). I am SUCH a fangirl of your work.

@lizadams7662 3 месяца назад

I love chris. His attitude is that of an artist, daring, exciting, dynamic. He's a fiber artist, not a quilter.

@charlenerichardson2623 3 месяца назад

Wow! How refreshingly different!

@deborahcarlisle6807 3 месяца назад

A fabric artist AND a quilter!!

@christinaheesakacowden-wut3809 3 месяца назад

I loved this episode. Chris is great, a unique artist. Kate, you are doing such a great job with lifting up people. You are a people-lifter-upper, lol. You have the wonderful talent to see potential in unusual folk, and you help them to shine their light. You must be an undercover angel, admit it, haha. Love it so much. My heart goes out to you and everybody around you. So thrilled to be part of the community here and the lime-green sofa. Huggs from Fairy Tale Cottage, Schurwald Forest, Germany. P.S. Your sticky board always reminds me of Sesame Street, lol.

@derynporter5287 3 месяца назад

I loved this episode. I find I am a bit bored with ready made sets of fat quarters and blocks of the month and love this free range approach to quilting.

@tamelaschandel1528 3 месяца назад

Love your bear paws Kate.

@SharonMiitchell 3 месяца назад

Loved watching you and Chris

@janeenmcaskill7577 3 месяца назад

I loved your interview with Chris. It made me pull out my stash mountain ❤

@rosalindbranson3803 3 месяца назад

Kate, wow, what an interesting man Chris is. I am always in awe of people who can put their ideas into some reality the rest of us can appreciate. Here’s an idea of mine, perhaps the bear claw pieces you’ve made could become curtains for the LHH cabin. It will make you think of Chris and then cram your brain with more inspired ideas as if it’s not already. 😂😂

@carlaatkins2619 3 месяца назад

Very interesting collaboration and quilt conversion. 🎶💐💖

@maryweir6474 3 месяца назад

Those blocks at the end would look great as curtains for the cabin.

@deborahward4273 3 месяца назад

Love your red and yellow bear paw block, interesting video today..

@gailgaddy5340 3 месяца назад

He is very unique.. I love his style 😊

@chandraisley8389 Месяц назад

I'm sorry for all the messages but i wanted to add i just started quilting and sewing on a machine recently and my first bed sized quilt is kind of a mixed matched thing but im loving how it's going together. I'm happy to see I'm not the only person that does that and even happier it's Chris English that does it that way!!

@jane3683 3 месяца назад

I love color also I say it makes my gypsy soul happy

@rhondagunderm4862 3 месяца назад

Love the colors. Enjoyed Chris and your sharing.

@christineboyce988 3 месяца назад

Fabulous to see two unafraid artists working together. Inspiration.

@LynnH-l9d 3 месяца назад

Chris English is so inspiring. He was awesome. Thank you for introducing him to us again. I’ve seen on your Quilt Festival tours. I would love to have some of his black and white fabric. Great video!

@janlewis567 3 месяца назад

LOVED this video, Kate, and can't wait to see what you make in his quilting style, quite a departure for you. On the other hand, I've never bought new fabric for quilts, always thrift store stuff and clothing, which is what I use for my rag rugs. Adored Chris's quilts when you first introduced us to them at the show - colours, textures, my kind of quilting. I've always admired your technical excellence and the PATIENCE necessary to measure and cut so accurately but I knew I could never manage that! Thanks again ♥

@annetteperks 3 месяца назад

Inspirational I loved meeting Chris via you Kate and love your bear quilt pieces at the end there.

@barbaraherron-mangel1116 3 месяца назад

This is very inspiring! Love all the different types of fabric 😊

@marybeth4002 3 месяца назад

I remember when you first met Chris a few years ago at the quilt show - and then again the most recent quilt show. Chris is so interesting and confident in his own style. I do love all styles of quilt making, however, I also think the quilt community can benefit from a little shaking up and thinking outside the box. It's so important to learn how others interpret their visions of art. Anna, I always love your choices of music that accompany the videos. Hugs across the pond. ❤

@lauraruthruff4741 3 месяца назад

I remember when you chatted with Chris at quilt festival and really enjoyed meeting him and loved his quilts. I really enjoyed today's video and watching the both of you working on some quilt blocks. Kate, you bear paw blocks at the end turned out fabulous!! ❤️❤️❤️

@lauraleeharden8358 3 месяца назад

The bear paw is my favorite block and the first block I ever made.❤

@debbiet9424 3 месяца назад

Oh wow! Hello fellow romfordian! Love this!

@eileensecrest2185 3 месяца назад

Oh Kate, thank you for bringing Chris to the Last Homely House and filming him for us. I remember him from the quilt show and his work is fascinating!

@sharonwilson8208 3 месяца назад

Amazing! I learned to screen print many years ago in my highschool art class. I drew a picture of Mikael Gorbachev. He was doing a flying pirouette. I got all of his muscles, and his hair just so... I fell in love with screen printing. It was horribly expensive. Every year, my art portfolios were set up in the highschool art gallery showing. There were only 10 students from 4 classes...2/class and the grand prize winner. He has painted many murals in our small town. ❤😊 Chris has so many wonderful ideas for his fabric. Absolutely amazing.😊❤

@BeverlyVanderstelt 3 месяца назад

This is sooo fun to watch. Thanks for sharing ❤

@bettylarks8134 3 месяца назад

It was fun meeting Chris and I enjoyed learning how he made his own fabric. I also like your bear paws. I may have to go make my own.

@bonniepreslar4262 Месяц назад

Love the Bear Paw!! 😍

@lorettahenderson8979 3 месяца назад

Chris and Kate arethe dynamic duos ❤

@lizlogan-et1lw 3 месяца назад

I Absolutely agree Loretta this was a fantastic video

@gudrunjensen7853 3 месяца назад

Yay! I can see my bear paw block! Exciting! Love listening to Chris and Kate chatting about fabrics and quilts.

@marybeth4002 3 месяца назад

That's awesome - you must feel so proud to see your block!

@AndreaGottler-ih9tw 3 месяца назад

Congrats, I was able to spot mine,too. Hooray #teambearpaw24

@VenessaOliver-lb9fw 3 месяца назад

My introduction to Chris was through you Kate, the first time you met him. He helped me understand that it's okay to think outside the box, even when quilting. And I'm very interested in using different weights and types of material. I don't think I will be as radical as he is😁, but I know I will enjoy exploring this path. Thank you and Chris for the video. I hope you, Eileen, cat Rita and the rest of the family are all well, from Esperance, Western Australia💚

@cherylbrown4058 3 месяца назад

Lovely interview…first I’ve really heard of Chris He does some interesting work! Lots of inspiration!

@pegrichard2820 3 месяца назад

I love the colors of your bear paws! Color against color is so much more interesting than color against white. The saturated colors are beautiful.

@sinairaphaele1341 3 месяца назад

❤❤❤Thanks you two.. I dream.. people who love what I love..

@GailK. 3 месяца назад

I love Chris! He quilts like I do creative mending. When my quilts are torn or have thinned spots, I dig into my stash and mend them with different fabrics and embroider them in place. Old quilts should never die. Thanks you Kate for hosting Chris. The more I learn about him the more I’m amazed.

@judyharding6412 3 месяца назад

What an interesting programme, way above my experience, but nether the less inspiring. Love the colours and textures of the different materials. You are both wonders at putting it together and coming up with miracles. Thank you for sharing your talent.

@brendal2438 3 месяца назад

Loved, loved loved this. Soooo interesting and great interview.

@Erin_Wilson_Studios 3 месяца назад

The energy! Wow!

@lindar7099 3 месяца назад

Chris is so free with his quilting…..inspiring

@JohannaVanWinkle 2 месяца назад

Two inspiring quilters!

@lindahutchings5394 Месяц назад

Love the enthusiasm for creating.

@thorarnapalsdottir9556 3 месяца назад

Hi.Kate,You are my go to.Love watching your relaxing videos with my doggy.I get so many ideas..I have loads of fabrics.Bear paw quilt is a good idea.You are with us in our home in Iceland lika a lovely friend.

@nicoeeek.7181 3 месяца назад

What a gem!!! He is so inspiring, loved this!

@craftypat 3 месяца назад

Wonderful episode. Chris is an amazing artist.

@lynnecomb8536 3 месяца назад

Wow! Just Wow! ❤️

@kathlucy603 3 месяца назад

Chris is a wonderfully creative person. Thanks Kate for showing us more of his work.

@pebblecritter 3 месяца назад

I'm SO excited you've had Chris on your show! I love Chris' style because it's so different and organic. I hope you'll be sharing how he showed you to create that lovely deconstructed piece (I think you were going to use his fabric) - I LOVE it!!!! I will pop over to Patreon and take a look - I do so hope you filmed it! Loving your bear paws and thank you again for not only introducing us to Chris but also for sharing his visit with us!! xx

@karenkaren9526 3 месяца назад

I could have watched a lot more of you both. Interesting to see your laid back nature work off of Chris’s sort of hyper active style. Fun 💚💙💜

@jimkey5599 3 месяца назад

Chris is a awesome talent

@susanennor6339 3 месяца назад

Fabulous guest. You both inspire me to create.

@kayherstedt6618 3 месяца назад

What an inspirational video! I saw your visit with Chris at the quilt festival. Such a creative guy! I'm looking forward to the Patreon videos. I'm a novice and never cared for the bear claw much. A new rabbit hole to use up those scraps! 😊

@IRISHLASS273 3 месяца назад

Kate & Chris, thanks for a nice chat. I don't like the bear paw but when I saw the quilt hanging behind you my immediate thought was that's my idea of what a scrap quilt should look like. I also want to make RR designs trash quilt. It's on youtube. Well worth a look. Kate there's no BS on your channel keep it that way.