Stitch Meditation Scrolls 

Wow! This just popped up in my recommendations - I’ve never seen anything like it before and I’m absolutely blown away! I have lots of hobbies but sewing is my biggest relaxation, however you often have to stop to look at the pattern or check your progress, so you can’t completely lose yourself. It looks like this would be a wonderful meditative process (I’ve tried meditation but my brain won’t shut up). It’s not often you come across something completely different so I’m really lucky this popped up, thank you for sharing. I’ve subscribed and I’ll be working my way through your videos (hoping for one on your beautiful rice bag!) I just looked and there is - beautiful!

The scroll made from your Dad’s beautiful silk shirts was so moving, how very precious it must be to you. Thank you for sharing ❤

Love this idea. I have panic/anxiety and just started slow stitching, although I’ve done everything from embroidery, cross stitch, needlepoint, quilting, crocheting, knitting, you name it. Those are always towards a project that has a beginning and an end. I love this meditation spool idea. Only 3 months into the slow stitching, and it’s better than therapy, AS ARE your videos. It feels like I’m sitting in the room with you, just having a chat and stitching away with no pressure to follow the rules or pattern.❤❤❤

I love your sense of humor, found myself laughing because you talk, occasionally to your “stuff” like I do…everything is precious and beautiful, so I feel that it’s part of this life! I’ve been a seamstress most of my life, sewed all my clothes in high school, then graduated to more craft sewing, quilting small projects, silk ribbon embroidery, etc., but I’ve never seen this wonderful use of scraps and stitching with different colors, by hand, and rolling them on various wooden objects…how resourceful and frugal using leftover thread and fabrics! This has given me some needed encouragement and enthusiasm to move myself into “project” mode! I’ve been dormant for a long while now, but I’m tired of being tired and unmotivated! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas and I think I’m going to pull out my scrap basket and thread ❤🎉😊

Я из России,🇷🇺 не понимаю даже на каком языке вы говорите, но слушаю ваш голос, вижу ваши красивые руки и мне нравятся ваши свитки❤ Прочитала все комментарии под видео ( спасибо Ютубу за перевод). У вас потрясающие подписчики🌿🌸Спасибо!!!!

Thanks for keeping me company on this rainy Sunday morning while I knit and have a coffee in a quiet house before everyone wakes up.

I love the idea of using loved ones clothing for the scrolls.

This is completely new to me!!! How amazing!!!!!

You are a kind and lovely soul to do this and take the time to share and show others how truly relaxing and creative it can be at the same time. I loved the story about all your fathers shirts being given a new life. That was a very healing thing to do to keep him close to you in time and memories also. Thank you for sharing all of your ideas and talking to us out here in the unknown, as its like sitting and listening to a dear friend and relaxing at the same time. i love your talents. Its all perfect.

Im SHOUTING,IM SHOUTING, I love this idea of saving scraps. I have some lovely large cotton reel’s that were in my father’s sewing machine as he was a tailor in the 50/60. I have always wondered what to do with them. I love just holding them, but now I know thanks to you. I was a dress maker when I left school in 1960. So my life has always been filled with all sorts of craft. My daughter and granddaughter have never shown any interest. But I have a great grand daughter who is showing a lot of interest in any sort of crafts. 👏🏻 I am fairly new to your channel, and loving every minute. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Crafty hugs Lesley 💝🇦🇺

This just came up in my feed and I love it! I wish I knew about this 40 years ago when I started sewing!….. I had a sudden image of me doing the charity shops for clothes for my colouring, washing them and tearing them into strips to make these scrolls, then making a loose shirt and sewing these strips on the sleeves, hemline and pocket! So many ideas! Thankyou.

Thank you so much for sharing your process and the darned sheets. That connection to the past through the darning is very moving. Lately it has become more known to me the hardship that women had down through the ages. Bless them and their resilience. Bless you for appreciating and acknowledging them in your work.

collaging! you are the opposite of pretentious. I am stitching at work and watching you make scrolls. I'm sorry for the loss of your dad and love that you have a scroll of him. LOVE it.

Listening to you "rabbit" on was meditative in and of itself. The little comedic interludes, the heartfelt tribute to your father that held the weight of years of love, the art, the joy of creation for the sake of creation...Thank you for all of this.

for you to rescue and so lovingly save these old darns on the sheets is just such a lovely thing… I just love this. I have several pair of sheets that were my grandmothers long before I came along 60 years ago plus!… And I probably need to do somethinglovely like this so that they won’t be just toss aside when I’m gone, but treasured as these are. Very lovely.😊

Your videos are like Bob Ross painting videos, but for sewing ❤

This is a beautiful mindful practice. I wish I saved some of my parent’s clothes. Thank you for sharing the memories of your father 💕🙏🏻

Brilliant! Those of us that work with our hands meditate with our hands as well. Thank you for sharing this.

Love your Meditation rolls with snaps- they are great ! I’m inspired to try this!

I absolutely love this!!! Thank you for sharing, you’re wonderful to listen to and watch.

I have been waiting for 10 years to find something to do with my beloved Bills Hawaiian shirts. I have a large empty spool and I think one of these is the answer . I’ll let you know 😀

This appeared out of nowhere and was so peaceful and meditative to watch. It reminded me of how enjoyable plain basting is and I loved the colours, simplicity and creativity of the scrolls. Thank you so much, watching this was a wee gift to myself.

How I like your creativity and your vision of beauty!🌹

Shouting out: IT IS LOVELY! all of them. This whole video. It’s all so lovely. Visiting here is just lovely. I’m so itchy to start a collection of scraps and nests and make my own lovely The sheets scroll is a true treasure. Real and true life turned art. I love that intensely

Sick as a dog currently and was looking for something to calm me down/distract me and this popped up on my feed, and let me tell you I’ve never been more grateful! Your work is so inspiring for my own stash of tiny scraps. It reminds me a lot of the work my mom used to do to keep her hands busy. And your voice is so lovely and calm! I’m sorry if this wasn’t coherent, but I wanted to say thank you so much for uploading this. You made my night so much easier

48 more minutes of pure joy! Thank you.

They should be left to a textile museum -- the record of a life.

Talking about twining and aching hands - my mother showed me a different way which is much less painful. We did it with the 2 of us together, each holding either end of the piece to be twined. She would twist one way and I would twist the other until it started to buckle and twist. Then we would thread it through the handle of some large sewing scissors without letting go, let it hang halfway along it and bring the 2 ends we were holding together, again without letting go. The scissors would hang down as a weight and it would spin because of the tension in the twisted piece. When it stopped spinning you had a beautiful twined cord! We used 1 strand at a time but I’m sure you could do the same thing with more than one … worth a try!

Ваши руки дают спокойствие!!! Уверенность!!! Любовь!!! Все очень хорошо!!!

How extraordinary that roll of harvested darns!! So smart of you to capture those moments of repair in this roll - I love it so! It is a testament to all the hard work our sisters have done to make a house a happy home. Thank you for sharing it with us! 🫶😃

I was blessed by RU-vid with this video suggestion. I have never heard of meditation stitching but this is fascinating! I spent a lovely forty odd minutes relaxing and mesmerized by your work and voice. The spools of odd bits of stitched fabric are beautiful to just look at. I can’t wait to start some of my own. Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I can’t wait to see more of them and your work! ❤❤❤

What a great way to use up snips and schnoodles!!! Thank you for sharing this with us💖

This is absolutely stunning and such a soulful inspirational project. Also your voice is so soothing, a meditation in itself. Your father's shirt scroll was so moving. Everything about this was just perfection and the perfect video for this season of light! Thank you so much for sharing this!

I love everything you do and thoroughly enjoy listening to you........I have to admit that most on here get on my nerves after a while but not you. Thanks so much for sharing.......I'll be here listening.

I never get tired of doing these scrolls in all sizes. I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves doing them, I find they are so relaxing to just pickup anytime and add a few stitches. x

Как мило! Спасибо вам за такую чудесную идею! 🙏👍❤😍

Magical and wonderful! Thanks, Thanks! ❤

This is wonderful! I too value stitch and fabrics. I love old bits and think of the travels it's been on. I love your "darns." It's always amazed me how essential things were cared for. Truly a "Stitch in time saves nine." Thank you so much for sharing and your "block tip"

I love your approach to textiles I’ve inherited my grandmothers unfinished projects,embroidery threads,knitting etc and have been looking for a way for me to make my own connection and add myself to her story for my own daughter to inherit. I think I have found it 🙂

I love your stitch meditation scrolls.The roll of darns is amazing.A wonderful piece of social history ❤️

I have done a few medium size spools of meditation stitch rolls and have started a much larger one after finding a few huge wooden bobbins at a local antique store. I love putting stitches into the rolls. I usually close mine with a button with a strip of cloth or sari attached under it, then wrapped around the spool and the button, or just the strip wrapped around the spool and tucked under itself (no button). Your collection of sheet mends is wonderful! One of the things that reoccurs to me often while I stitch is the connection I have with women who stitched before me over the millennia. We are bound by a common act in an age when most people toss the old (socks or sheets, for example) and replace it with new, when we don’t need to know how to mend or even stitch by hand or machine. I love feeling connected to stitchers past and present! Thank you for sharing your stitch meditation rolls with us. It was a very fun, inspiring, and satisfying journey. ❤

Your voice in this video is so lovely. I love this video so much for so many reasons. I feel like I'm in your living room sharing time just listening. Thank you!

Я не знаю английского языка, к сожалению, но очень понятна технология. Завораживает шитье, кусочки тканей, катушки, шпильки, коробочки. Мне приятно, что Вы тоже пользуетесь старыми вещами. Спасибо за идеи, подписываюсь 👏👍🕊

Your voice is so relaxing

Я - русская, просто завороженно наблюдаю за этими волшебными руками!! Восторг!! Срочно начинаю заниматься стежкой.Как это здорово!😍

Your delivery is fantastic! Meditative in its own right. Thank you for taking the time to be so thorough in how you do your scrolls. I’ve started my own since watching your videos. This particular video with the darned sheets is my favorite so far. The love in those stitches. Thanks again.

🌱oh dear lady...that darning scroll brought tears to my eyes...the honouring their care combined with your patient epp...thank you 🎨🧵🪡🌷

Какая замечательная идея!!Релакс+ красота , которую мы имеем в результате.Я в восторге!!❤Спасибо!!

Just found you today. You might be my new addiction ❤️

Lovely video, I did one many years ago, in mixed media, but yours are truly beautiful and consistent...thank you I'm now re motivated ❤❤❤❤

This video is like having someone in the sewing room with me !! It was recommended by Sew stitching with sew salvage, so decided to do a quiet while and listen. Never to old to learn something new !!

Какая прелесть!!! Это так мило! Подписка! Я шью домашние тапочки из старых пальто, у меня целая корзинка обрезков (там и трикотаж, и хлопок)... Супер-идея! Использовать личные памятные вещи семьи! Всех благ!

I really appreciate the videos. Very calming before or at the end of a crazy day.

Ваше творчество, Ваши работы такие уютные они вызывают у меня ностальгию по детству, воспоминания о бабушке рукодельнице. Помню, как я гордилась, получая а руки лоскутики, нитки и иголку, мне было 2-3 года. Спасибо Вам! ❤ Это чудесно и мило.

Thank you once again for such a lovely visit. I watch on tv while I stitch so I typically miss my commenting ! However, I’m watching while resting on my iPad and was thrilled to be able to comment this evening When you EVER PULLED your sheet stitching spool 🧵 I nearly fainted ! I have been working for 13 months collecting bits of French vintage / antique sheets and was just gifted last month from my pen pal in France who came by a small shop that had some scraps of sheets not only with lovely darns but even better, all gloriously embroidered with Monograms in red or blue ! She sent me 12 squares for the 12 days of Christmas 🤶 part of my Christmas gift . We have sent 12 gifts to open 1 each day for the 12 days before Christmas!! Well I was gifted 13 this year and this one had a sweet note must be opened upon receiving?!? I’m so very happy! Over the moon with these 12 small very old and wonderfully tattered French sheets all linen 10x 10 inches . One day I was hoping to create a small book with my collection of French sheets, However .. not anymore. I’ve waited so long to create with my small collection. I feel like a child on Christmas morning opening up the very doll I had waited and hoped for all year long. Thank you from my heart 💜 I can’t get started quite yet as I have 3 spools in my bag waiting to be finished before Christmas and sent to the UK , Finland & France ( I’m from the USA. ) These gals have been my pen pals for 4-5 years. I look forward to sending them these as they all include bits and pieces from each they have been sending me not knowing why .. ❤ Many thanks for sharing your time & inspiring videos with so many Merry Christmas 🎄

Love your process and the advice “don’t use materials you don’t enjoy”. 😊 Thanks!

Вау вау!!! Это сокровище! Сколько много труда Вы сделали! Я восхищаюсь Вами❤

Im so grateful for this video. Beautiful, calming and lovingly created scrolls. I agree with everyone who has commented your voice is so very soothing and calming as well. Thank you!❤

Спасибо, за такое милое видео. Ваши ленты восхитительные, уникальные и очень необычные! Я представляю, как бы было красиво иметь манжеты выполненные в такой технике. Для многих видео-блогеров, у кого в кадре только руки (как и у Вас) это был бы незаменимый и узнаваемый аксессуар. Удачи Вам! ❤

The sheet scroll is just soooo amazing! As you said - the hands that have touched that, but also - the stories told while darning, the individual herstories of those women...

My goodness, where did this lovely video come from, ha! I feel inspired, thank you sooo much. I made a quilt out of my dad’s shirts many years ago but still have left over scraps in a box that I just can’t part with….’n now I know what to do with them, yeh!

I was so inspired by your mendings roll! I love seeing where someone has mended something. It is something so special to see. You have such good ideas. Thank you

How exquisite the darns are, I can understand why you we’re so taken with them and how you are caring for them as you have shown us. I have invisibility stitched all my scraps onto my backing fabric and now using random threads from my “ort” pile, starting my stitching. Thank you so much for sharing your process with us all. ❤️🇨🇦

Hello from Canada! What a lovely idea! I've never seen anything like this before. Definitely going to make some. I have a collection of antique spools that would fit the bill perfectly! Thank you for sharing❤

This is absolutely mesmerizing!

This video is so peaceful and fun! I loved seeing the darned sheets at the end too! Thank you so much for the video

Absolutely wonderful, thanks for showing all these treasures. I have bags and bags full of scraps and now I know where they are going! So glad i found your channel!🍀💖

This is genius! I do a lot of quilting and this the perfect way to track the fabrics I use in each quilt. I just finished a quilt and started one of these using the background fabric as the base piece. I then placed little cuttings of each of the other fabrics I used in the quilt on top of the base piece. I secured them with basting spray until I was able to stitch them down. I wrapped it around a peg style clothesline and tied with a thin strip of fabric used in the quilt. I hand journaled on the back of the base piece who the quilt was for and when I finished it. I'm calling these my scrappy quilt journals. I've been looking for a way to document each quilt in a more tactile manner and this is perfect and so much fun! Thank you for this great idea and tute!!!!!!

I loved this idea of yours and the role of darned pieces was really interesting! Thankyou and have a lovely evening.❤

so precious. thank you for sharing. they are so beautiful.

I have planned a meditation scroll for over a year now and I’m glad I waited. Your video has been quite helpful in getting me started. I just cut out my foundation cloth and looking through my scraps basket. Thank you for doing this.

I really enjoy your voice conveying a sense of calm, as well as the wonderful projects you create.

Your voice is wonderfully warm and comforting.🙏🥰

Gosh - thanks for sharing this. You popped up into my suggestions, and I am so glad I stopped by to watch.

Darn it, I gave away a bag of lovely old wooden spools.... but maybe more will come my way by and by. Thanks for this video, very calming. 😸

These little scrolls are very lovely. Quite intriguing, actually. I started my journey back into quilting, sewing, and slow stitching this year by stitching bits and pieces onto cloth. It's very meditative. This is a wonderful video. Thank you very much. ❤❤😊

Praise the Algorithm! I was only minutes in when I subbed. 🎉 I need this project!😊

I love your vlogs and especially your conversations Thank for all you for bringing joy to our days!♥♥

Hello miss, thank you for your videos, theyre very lovely and calming to listen to. I was having a hard time sleeping due to holiday anxiety and found myself endlessly scrolling through meditation videos looking for something when i found this video. Not what i was searching for, but it was far more effective. Your commentary and the visual of slow stitching are hypnotic in a way that had my mind quieting down almost instantly. It reminds me of when my late grandmother would sew up the rips in my toys when i was younger and make up stories about my toys adventures and how they "really" got their rips. Thank you so much for your videos, i hope your holiday has been lovely and full of joy ❤

Your craft is enchanting! This would be a great thing for me to try, even if I can make only one. I’m living in my recliner due to incapacity from injury and arthritis. I mostly knit, but this craft will be a lovely distraction. Thank you for showing us the “how-to’s”.

I agree with the others, this popped up and I am so glad! Your voice is so calming and your comments so fun to hear. I love the idea of these little cloth rolls. Thank you!

This just popped into my feed, love ❤️ love ❤ love ❤ it! Thx for sharing!

Love every second of your slow-stitch videos ❤

Just made my first one! It was sooo satisfying. Probably should be Christmas shopping, baking or wrapping but this was too addictive once I started!

Love these I inherited some floss from my ex husbands Mum when we were married. I also inherited some lovely watercolour paints from a friend. I think making things from these items makes them extra special.

Just absolutely Delightul..Thank you..!

This seems like a nice way to practice some new styles of stitches too. I have been looking for some sort of way to use up some scraps that don't fit other projects. Thank you for the video.

What immediately came to my mind: this is a great way to store your needles when you have huge amounts of them. Since I every now and then need many needles for workshops, I will now make such a long strip, wind it around a bobbing which I bought on a medieval market and store my needles, pins etc. in this way. Thank you sooooo much for this video and idea.

Wonderful! Now I will not throw out all my quilt scraps. I can make piece strips and quilt them. Should be lovely. Thank you so much. Definitely follwing you...

im loving everything about this, thank you x

Such beautiful work! You are very inspirational. Looking forward for what’s to come… thank you for all you do!🥰🥰🥰

I love this idea. It looks like what I have been looking for to help me relax before bed. ❤

Thank you for this video. I have set aside one day on the weekends just for what is becoming my meditation scroll, and it’s such a wonderful mindfulness practice! No pressure. No judgement. Just joy.

È una grande ispirazione. È bellissimo pensare di fare una cosa bella solo per farla. Per stare bene mentre la fai. Senza progetti di vendita o utilizzo. Giusto per fare, rilassarsi. Fare cose belle per stare bene in quel momento. Magico

Boy oh boy! You gave me a new idea to work on. I love embellishing everything lately. Love the idea to use this method to create binding for scrap quilts. I subscribe to your channel. How fun never bored.

I love this! I am a quilter and I think I will try this with my left over bit when I cut out my next project. 😊

You are such an inspiration to me!

This is the Bob Ross of stitching! Relaxing! And when you call to mind a little “mistake” like your thread too short for the button and then it doesn’t matter.. it’s like Bob painting over something and changing it up. I’m just waiting for an analogous “beat the devil out of it” 🤣 Oh! Shoot! You probably won’t know Bob Ross. American educational tv. Back in the day. TOTALLY relaxing!

Your videos are very therapeutic. I love your ideas. Thank you❤️

I feel peaceful watching your videos and listening to your voice. Muchas gracias y abrazos desde España .🌺