Slowstitch Week 37 Home 

When I was a young woman I sometimes took 3-day-3-night bus rides, reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings all the way. When the bus stopped for breaks I had to pull myself out of wonderful Middle Earth to deal with the noise and flatness of this or that gas station and bathroom line-up. Very strange. I could hardly wait to pick up my book again. When my children came along, I introduced them to Middle Earth too, and all of them love/d them as much as I do. May your new home be, indeed, a cure for weariness, fear and sadness. 💚

Storytelling AND stitching! What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon! Thank you so much for sharing your stories

I loved your slow stitching, and your story's were wonderful. Thank you.

Congrats on making it home Kathryn. I hope the three of you will thrive and be happy in your new abode. ❤

Thank you Kathryn for another lovely video, I do enjoy your stories. I wouldn’t panic if you stopped your channel but I would miss you very much. All the very best for your new home, love and thanks from Cathy ❤

Welcome home sweet family. So glad you and Stella and Fred Fred are reunited and starting to settle into your space. I know it will be as beautiful as you soon enough. I love your stitched house. ❤

It must have been quite a thing to wake up in a new place , but I'm glad you got back with your pets. They'll soon make your new house into a home I'm sure. As well as all your crafting, quilting and sewing things too. Sending peaceful, good wishes Kathryn x

I’m feeling gratitude for finding you. I love your stories and genuineness. The sewing is a bonus. Hugs.

Welcome home and may it be a place of peace and healing. Bravo to your Uncle Ralph for his careful lessons in boating with his young niece. What joy and pride he surely felt watching you take on the sea with sail and witnessing your confidence and skill. Those moments of exhilaration in our accomplishments stay with us forever. Well done you! ❤

I'm glad you're settling in. Thank you for wonky-ness! I love to quilt, but sometimes "the rules" stress me terribly. For me, wonky-ness means flexibility, creativity, artistic license, and FUN! ❤

Here’s to many happy times for you, Stella and FredFred in your new home! It’s not surprising that tales from your childhood got you emotional. I’m a wreck sometimes when I speak of happy times but simultaneously remember that people I loved are no longer here. As to you forgetting feather stitch, you should see me every time I try to do blanket stitch. My language is not lady like. ☺️ Take care. 🧡

Welcome home! Thank you for being willing to be human. i think our memories are the most valuable things we own. Take comfort you'll never starve as long as you have a fishing pole😂

I so enjoyed listening to your memories and watching you stitch. I was given a bucket of lovely farm apples, so I was peeling apples when I heard you say, "look up". I finished my apples and then fetched my slow stitching to work along with you.

Such a precious memory of sailing and the confidence of your uncle Ralph!

I hope you, Fredfred and Stella are all home safely and the packing up and journey weren’t too awful. You made a beautiful little home and I have no doubt in time you’ll make your new home just right for you. You’ll sail out of this creek too. X

May your new home feel as safe, snug, and comfortable as your sweet stitched home. I so enjoyed all the talk about sailing, fishing, and flowers. Here in the center of the US, my gardening friends and I talk about "volunteers" often.

❤ your new home!

I love this week’s project Kathryn 🐸 I always check in on Wonky Wednesday so I was prepared with my block and the embellishing is pure joy. My home has a bird perched on the roof! I truly admire how you are brave enough to show us everything, warts and all - you wear your heart on your sleeve and that’s why we love you. Many blessings to you in your new home 💜 Cath

Home….my favorite place to be. I pray that all who enter here feel safe and well loved. 💖💖💖

God’s blessings, healing and peace to you. Enjoy Fred,Fred and Stella!❤

He must have been incredibly proud of you for getting the boat in and out. I can imagine how overjoyed I would be to have my nieces and nephews learning something from me that I love. I can imagine his pride and happiness. What a wonderful memory 💙

your New House, simple but meaningful to you i think stitching to us heal us on our path to new beginning's. So happy you are with your Fur Baby's and start a new chapter and journey in some beautiful stories. Love your wonky house. Home is where your HEART is. Sending you Aroha (Love) and Blessings to you and Stella, Fred Fred xx🥰😘

Beautiful sailing story , I used to fish for mackerel off the end of north pier ( blackpool ) with my dad when I was little. Today I'm on holiday in Wales and sat fishing with him. Beautiful memories ❤

Dearest Kathryn, thank you for so bravely leaving in the bit about being unable to access how to do the feather stitch. I find it so easy sometimes to blame oneself in the midst of such frustration. Next time I’ll smile and remember that it happens to us all, even k3n. Your valiant courage an inspiration. xo 🏠♥📬

May God Bless 🙏 your new home with happiness and love 🌈💕🏡

Welcome home. Your voice tells me you are doing good. Have a happy day ❤

A lovely idea and fondest wishes for your new home 🏡

Glad you had safe travels glad you're back with us😊

I feel much better knowing you might be back by now. It's a traumatic experience, and it's all healing ahead. We are all living vicariously thru you. Happy Home!

Welcome home Stella and Fred! I know you'll settle in well together and find so much to explore.

I make patchwork blocks for quilting but I never thought of adding stitches to the blocks. I have been doing embroidery for many years. Thank you for your video...I'm now going to add stitchery to all my blocks.

'Wonky Home' - lovely SlowStich Home - sublime ...

Happy you are home safe...onwards and upwards K3N xx

Love your little house. Welcome home. I am glad that Fred Fred and Stella are home with you. Pray for God's blessings, healing and peace. Many thanks for sharing. x Blessings x Mariana UK xx P.S. I love the sea as well xx

Dear Kathryn, everything you say is interesting - boiler, cooker, whatever it is, you can tell us if you want to... Really enjoyed your beach hut reminiscences, remembering bathers, camping and seashore smells from my own childhood summers. I loved hearing the pride in your voice when you told us about navigating out of the creek under sail. The taste of fresh-caught mackerel! And eaten off melamine plates! Gardening comments also very welcome. All these things make links between us all. And I have often thought about why women (in my experience) often tell each other about the things they have done that day - the washing up, the laundry, getting a stain out, and so on, and in some detail. I have the idea that it gives us a sense of being visible, of existing and of not being alone in our scratting about at home trying to make things clean/tidy/pleasing to us. I think this is because I have always felt the need to do this kind of thing when I have been mostly in the house on my own. Your biodiverse lawn - something to be celebrated, perhaps? Sending an extra hug as you spend your first week in your new home.

Hope you slept well, with a bed full of Stella and Fred-Fred ❤❤❤. I loved your story about learning your skills from your dad. I wonder if it is our age, because my dad did the same thing. He was a long-distance lorry driver and loved tinkering with engines so I also learned how to take out a mini engine (they were put in crosswise!), change a tire and rope a load amongst other things 😂 I still try to figure out how to do things for myself and I thank my dad for never thinking a girl couldn't or shouldn't know how to do those things.

I was always taught, ‘pass the port to the left’. This made little sense as we weren’t gentry and didn’t have occasions where the gents were left to their cigars and port 😂 However, I’ve never forgotten it. Always amazing what the brain remembers from childhood.

Welcome home lovely. Well done! I loved your stories about your Uncle Ralph and fishing at sea. My lovely boating Uncle was called Uncle Clack. He could whistle us home from around the bays at Ngunguru where my paternal family came from . My favorite cousin, Brent and I would go out fishing in the dingy . We used long lines too. My favorite childhood photo, a black and white box brownie photo, is of Brent and I after fishing. We were 9. I have a huge straw hat on and my red spotted rompers with a white peasant blouse. Brent is bare chested and very brown and has tucked from the belt of his shorts about eight fish we caught that day. I remember thinking how wonderful he was. My hero. It's been a long time since I have been to the sea and I miss the smell of the ocean and the cry of gulls. I am a very keen gardener and still struggle out for half an hour to an hour most days to work in the garden. I used to have a large vege garden in raised beds. Now I just grow herbs and in summer salad greens, tomato's and cucumbers. I have a tiny lawn. Well, two tiny lawns really that I call my pocket handkerchiefs . The lawn daisies are flowering at present, because Spring has arrived.the lawn will soon be decorated with yellow and white "confetti" which are tiny, fallen blossoms from my frangipani tree. By the way I live in Cambridge very near to Hobbiton. It is gorgeous. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand. Xxx

Wishing you peace, love and joy in your new home ❤X

Blessings on your new home xx

Blessings your new home , and makes that home your home ❤🥰🥰

A little bit of port left in the bottle. That's how I remember 😉

What a sweet looking house. This has brought lots of emotions today. My brother just moved to a new home last month in the mountains near me (a real fixer-upper). He had to evacuate last night because of the terrible wildfires here in Southern California. The winds have shifted somewhat so he went back this afternoon. It’s just another example of how fragile “home” is sometimes.

No worries on forgetting feather stitch, it is sometimes hard to remember things when you are going down memory lane. I hope you and your fur babies are all settled and happy in your new home.❤

Thank you, and hugs. ❤❤

Perhaps your neighbour has a post box so that people don't need to come into the garden and forget to close the gate, enabling his dog to escape... Hope you settle into your new home. Hugs and best wishes. Thank you for sharing all your little stories and stitching inspiration.

Thanks, Kathryn. ❤ from Australia

I wish you all the best in your new home opening the door to new chances 🥰

By the time you read this you may have taken Stella for her first walk in your new woodland! Will you butter Fred Fred's paws? Now THAT would be a video...😂 Does it even work? Anhoo, welcome home. Love your little stitched house and can't wait for your new home tour. Mary x

love your channel k3n and I owe you for a great deal .

Good luck in your new home x

I have an excess of hobbies but the main 2 are sewing and gardening, so I appreciate the garden talk! I've been lowering my food growing footprint and raising my wildlife support footprint steadily over the years. I've got a stack of native wildflower seed packets waiting for the weather to turn cool and wet. I'm in the US, in the pacific northwest, which has some similarities to much of England's climate. You have the native yellow rattle! That's an excellent way to naturally reduce your grass. You truly can garden anywhere. I'm envious of the culture of gardening in the UK!

Welcome home 💚💚💚

Welcome Home! ❤️🏡 I thought about you most of the weekend. It has been a while since I've embroidered so I bought myself one of those kits with all the different stitches as a refresher. So, I thought about you while doing it and prayed for your move that all went smoothly and everyone was kept safe from harm or injury. Blessings. ❤

Wishing you many peaceful, calm times in your new home, which I'm sure you'll make into something uniquely you. From t'other side of the world...❤

I was planning to do blanket stitch around the door to imitate stones - had a complete blank - took me three starts 😂 so I did chuckle at your attempts with vine stitch

Love the wonky zigzags on the roof😁 And wish you all the best in your new home and your new life. I am sure you will grow with your new life with the company of Stella and Fred Fred❤

Dearest K3n❤😊 welcome home!!Am sure that Stella and Fred fred will enjoy making it their own too-" May the path rise up to greet you,and the wind be always at your back!" ,as you travel this part of life's journey,Blessings.xx Julia, Brisbane.

Hello, K3n. I so enjoyed your story about boating with your Uncle Ralph. I have similar memories of my younger days on Martha’s Vineyard (an island off Massachusetts, US), where my dad was born and raised. He and my uncle built a small summer home for us on an inlet, and I remember eating meals with the smell of the sea filling the days and nights. We lived in New York, on Long Island, just a short walk to the ocean, but being on vacation in MV was even more special. My brother and I spent many happy summer days boating and fishing, digging for quahogs (clams), and catching crabs to sell on the side of the road. Once, we even sold them to a police officer, who we thought was pulling over to give us a ticket for not having a permit. He was very excited to get fresh crabs for 50 cents each! Haha And those sweet memories make me emotional, too, now that I’ve lived long enough to have substantial losses in my life. By the way, the Feather Stitch is my favorite stitch. I have used it many, many times, and I always have to stop and think about it before I begin! Your house block is lovely.

I follow your Wonky Wednesday posts but have not made your projects. However, as last Wednesday and Monday are linked I did make the little home. I’m keeping up with Monday’s projects so had to do this one too. Wishing you all the best settling into your new home. 😊🪡🧵

Welcome Home! I can't wait to see FredFred and Stella! I love your Wonky Home! Looks like a marvelous place to start a new adventure. Hugs ❤

Blessings to you in your new home❤

I'm glad you and the fur babies made it safely back to your new home. I have never done stitching like this and I thoroughly enjoy making this little scrappy house. Thank you

Happy new home... how refreshing that you'd forgotten feather stitch.... now I know It can happen to anyone

I’ve only watched feather stitch done a few dozen times so I can’t help you there, I can’t even picture it in my head currently. However, I can tell you that your state of mind is palpable and I hope as I am watching this, that you are at home in your new space, settling into it and feeling comfortable and most importantly, remembering to breathe. I hope you find new joys. 🙏

Thank you for sharing I enjoyed the video and wish you happiness in your new home.

Welcome home Kathryn, I've been thinking about you all the time you have been away. I have also been rewatching your back catalogue which has made me acutely aware of everything you will be leaving behind. So pleased you have Fred Fred and Stella with you now. Glad you know about Grout Pen. I was about to jump into the comments and shout, "GROUT PEN" but you stole my thunder, still it's a great remedy. Absolutely love Verbena Bonariensis which simply means from Buenos Aires, Argentina. All the best till next time. Jenny(NZ)

A collective sigh of relief to have you back in England and in your own home. Thanks so much for carrying on with wonky house but please don't drive yourself too hard, pause with F & S to enjoy your new adventure.

Nice project Thanks again for sharing!! Going to give it a go. 😊🎉

Oh Kathryn your storytelling from videos beginning to conclusion had me smiling, a bit teary with lump-in-throat at times, and contemplative all mixed together. Loved the fishing stories from your childhood, the gardening section was brilliant, and to hear you speak of LOTR, Samwise, Frodo and Tolkien at the ending was the icing on the cake. What a journey it has been thus far for you, for the viewers like myself and others as we each wend our way on our respective creative projects. I found Marions World early this year, then happily discovered your channel soon after. My world has been all the richer, I am deeply thankful. I'm across the pond, down under as they like to say, but in my mind there is no distance when life brings connections with like-minded others. I appreciate your beautiful ways of teaching and creating.....and all that you so genuinely express on your very unique channel. Be well, take good care, feel the love from your listeners and enjoy your beach times that will feed your soul I'm sure going forward....Yourself, Stella and Fred Fred. 🪡🧵🐟⛵💖

I’ve always thought a new house becomes your home when your pets are with you.

I love the way that we can hear the thread going through the fabric and the needle popping in at every stitch. Are you just recording on your phone or is it a very fancy camera? Thank you very much for making these beautiful videos. I am so inspired and I wish you much happiness, peace, and joy in your new home with your 4 legged friends ❤️

Thankyou ....I hope your new home will live up to all those things....I know my home in Cornwall does that f.or me after living in London for most of my life onwards 😊and upward

Yay I hope the journey went well and that you all settle nicely :) I loved hearing about sailing and fishing. I wonder what was behind the emotion about sailing out of the harbour by yourself, if you want to share 😊

Thanks Kathryn for the lovely wonky home. Welcome to your new home! Your fishing memories resonated a lot with my own history close to the sea, digging for clams as bait and my dad and brother fishing and getting a few small sea bass (is the plural sea basses?), but enough for a delicious dinner. Even though this was a very long time ago (I'm 74), the smell of the sea and the flavour of the fish, are still with me. I understand your nostalgia, especially when moving to a new home. Big hug! ❤

Aren’t our favorite memories in or on the water! Welcome back home.

'Home is where the heart is' is a saying I think of. Be at home, with Stella and FredFred.

Welcome home & thank you for another wonderful video! What a gorgeous home-peace!

Oh poppet, but they are lovely memories 😢❤

Lovely video, thanks Kathryn and good luck in your new home, I’m glad you have a garden 😊 From Rosy rice bag xx

Home is a wonderful place! I am so grateful to have a place I can call home. Many people nowadays don’t have homes and it’s sad. I love my little home. It is my place of peace and joy and I am looking forward to creating my little wonky home with fabric this week. I love your little wonky home Kathryn. I especially love the flowers growing.

I love how you took a wonky little house and stitched it into a beautiful home. Here’s to your new real life Rivendell … life imitating art imitating art ? Looking forward to a virtual tour when you are settled.

Thank you Katherine ❤

I hope you’ll share your park home with us, though I know that may be a lot to ask. You have been so generous with your time and heart. ❤️❤️❤️

I would love to see a video about ecoprinting/dyeing plants that you'll be growing!

I'm looking forward to some future episode of you and Marion together! May your new home be a refuge and the scene of many new happy memories!

Ah, completed with the wonky house. You're on your way to settling in your home with your fur babies. Life will be good.💙💛💚🧡💙

Thanks

I hope your new home becomes your Rivendell ❤ (I'm an Eowyn 😉) xx

Lovely story of the wonky hut at the sea. Would be a great children’s story book of life at sea.

Welcome home Kathryn and, of course, Stella and Fredfred

I have never found a job that takes the time I think it should when decorating or deep cleaning, it's always longer but very satisfying when finally finished because you can see the difference. I'm sure Stella and Fred Fred will soon make it home for you all. Very glad to know you're home safely. 😊

Welcome home Kathryn, I hope you are beginning to settle in to your new home and that all three of you will be happy and make new memories together. I really love the stories that you tell us, it reminds me of when my youngest son used to ask me to tell him stories and now my grandson likes to hear them. It's really heart warming to be left such precious memories that will stay with us always. Take care and wishing you all the very best in your new home ♥️😘xx

Nothing better than fresh fish (I like trout) pan fried in butter. Haven’t had it in many years as my grandfather was the one who fished. Thanks for bringing back that memory. Your wonky house is quite interesting. Hoping all is well with you, Stella and Fredfred in your new tiny home.

I'm so happy you're HOME safe with Fred Fred and Stella 🤎 ... And I'm sure some wonderful "things" (like love, laughs, good time and happy memories!) will grow from the seeds you planted in front of "Wonky House"... Take good care of the 3 of you, much love and hugs🤎

In 1996, I turned 40 and walked away from a dominate marriage. After two months of signing the papers I went boat hitchhiking - from Seneca Lake (NY) through the canals, up to Montreal. And then I took a bus and caught a boat to Anticosti Island. I would not recommend that these days, but it was completely freeing. I never again had to get permission. Never again looked for approval. Still now I am exploring what I like, who I like… Please yourself and your doggies. Don’t go boat hitchhiking, but do something crazy and fun. ❤ Love your work!

Welcome home, dear Kathryn. ❤

A few years ago I threw a packet of wildflower seeds in an old half-barrel and a lovely tiny flowered aster grew the first year and now it has left the barrel and overtaken a large patch of the yard. I want to remove it but at this time of the year, when the sun is shining it is covered with different types of bees, wood bees, carpenter bees, honey bees, bumblebees, and other insects getting ready for winter so I can’t pull it out. I do prune it a bit so I can still access the rest of the yard. I think it may be invasive, lol. Hope you reached home okay and everyone is settling in. TFS

Kathryn, keep on keeping on! Prayers

Three on the bed in the new home makes me think of a happy kind warm home ❤❤❤ love you much ...maybe you should name your new home ..Rivendale💐💐💐