Tutorial - How to make a cloth pouch 

My mother told me her tip for threading needles. She said, "Needles have a front and back side. If it won't take the thread on one side, try the other". I love your work. The softness along with the scrappiness is right up my alley. I love NRQ (No Rules Quilting) projects. You've inspired me to make some pouches for my granddaughters. Maybe one or two for myself as well.

"My hands are my tools"... Perfect quote, as are your nails. Much nicer than acrylic fakes!

I’m pulling out my scrap basket and finding so many beautiful pieces to make a pouch as I’m watching you. Thank you for giving me so many ideas. I’m looking forward to watching you again.

I so enjoyed listening to your delightful sense of humour and watching your work. Beautiful work and fabulous ideas. Thank you.

Omg, what can you put in a pouch. How about a little slow stitching kit, scissors,thread needles and a started backing and scraps. Also a link to your channel. 🇨🇦

Hi. Can’t believe how much i enjoyed this. I relate to so much of what you said especially the bit about retrieving bits of fabric from the bins. I thought I was the only mad woman that did that! I can’t bear to see a scrap of fabric being discarded. I look forward to following along with your projects for 2024. Thanks for your videos.

I always thought of basting as temporary stitches that you needed to remove after sewing, but with this invisible basting, you can leave it on and it looks great. I just love your handwork and have a bin of scraps that I have been saving for such a project as this......and especially your meditation scrolls.......THANK YOU for sharing...vivian

Just watched this one again and gathered my little bits and pieces to make my own little pouch. I am enjoying your channel very much and find it very therapeutic. Having been a hopeless perfectionist all my life I have learned that wonky is good and done is more useful than perfect. I cheat and get my brother to thread a bunch of needles for me and use clothes pegs to hold my work until I tack and then sew it. I'm going to tuck some saved cottage garden flower seeds into a pouch for a good friend. Grateful thanks from vera

This is so cool. I can hardly wait to wake up in the morning and make this.

Those little pouches are wonderful. I need to make one right away. It is a must have. The best to you.

I love your videos and watching you work. Your voice is so soothing and calm. I took up slow sticking because of you and I'm in love with it so much. It's so calming and peaceful. Thank you for your videos. They help me so much!! Bless You!!

I’m loving your videos, your voice is very calming and matches your slow stitching. After years of trying to be a perfectionist I can finally relax and just stitch. So thank you I look forward to watching the rest of your channel. ❤😊

I am so glad I stumbled on you channel. I am hooked. I have to try this now. I am a queen of scraps and this project makes my heart sing!! Thank you for sharing and not just fast forwarding through. I love it!

Hi Katherine, I'm so glad I found your channel and I G account, I am watching all your videos whilst knitting an also slow stitching of course. I had started a slow stitch book cover when I first started watching you, I think it was serendipity btw..😀 and I have made a rice bag from a lovely kit, which was along slow stitch lines but I'm definitely going to 'do more me ' in future makes. Please do a studio tour video for us, I would love to see your creative space. Mine is a small bedroom called the Hobbit Hole..my son's nickname for me lol..😉 much love Sue xx

So thrilled to find thread nests, and speaking to inanimate objects, and massive creativity and lovely tutorials. Thank you💫💫💫

I know all about rushing! 😂 I’m sitting here repairing a quilt of mine and listening/watching you sew too. I like how you phrased that your hands were your tools. Mine are too! You did good! ❤

so mad i have to go to work today. just want to stay home and do this!

I can relate to being distracted for hours by little scraps of cloth! There's nothing like the look and feel of second hand fabric. This was so relaxing to watch and the end result is beautiful.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us all. You really do inspire and give a sense of peace while slow stitching. There are many people in this world who could benefit from a little of this right now ❤

Please Kathryn can you teach us how to dye fabrics with eco friendly stuff at home? I have a large mature cottage garden with orchard kitchen garden trees and native hedging so I might be able to find useful materials to use.. Thanks, Vera in Northern Ireland ❤

I am thrilled that you mentioned Jude Hill. I watched her long ago and didn’t remember how to find her. Your work is calming and meditative. Thank you.

William Morris said "Only have around you what is useful and beautiful." and your wonderful pouches tick both boxes. I've been wanting to make a pouch for my crochet hooks...one of those will be perfect, and the first of many. Thank you so much.

I like your long videos because I stitch while watching. And it's like being in a classroom. Though I understand uploading to youtube takes ages in that case. But, I do love to slowly stitch while watching. Thank you for the video. 😊

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Lovely 🥰 piece

Many of us are looking for your ideas. Plus love the idea of using tea to give fabric an aged and create soothing colours. Perhaps a tea dying video too. Just watching and listening to your lovely voice is a joy. 👍🏼💜. 👋🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Enjoyed watching you make this pouch....no apologies for your hands! Mine are gardener hands as well 😊😊

Thank you for all the inspiration, insights, and how-tos! ❤❤❤

My family always does a penny (since we're in US) in a bag or purse, too. A few other nice things to put in pouches are a nice pen or other stationery type thing, a nice little pin or brooch, fashion jewelry/baubles, and lip balm tubes. Clearly we love the pouch gifts 😊

I just found your videos. I love what you do with tiny scraps. You could gift tea in them

Greetings from Oz DownUnder from an expat 😊 Love your videos! Don't apologise for your whittering... there's something utterly charming and relaxing about it. I do it too when I'm crafting, admittedly interspersed with expletives when I have to undo something lol 😅 That tip you gave about the little Clover applique pins was great, I've just ordered some.

First of all, thank you for having shown me in detail your other little pouch. Yes, I’m here and I watched it all. I love to make pouches too. I used them to put my art supplies (markers, pencils, glue...). I’m much messier than you 😂, I stitch my patches and scraps as I go along (I never put pins on it 😂) and many times they end up wonky, but I like it. I loved the suggestion of the pocket inside, because I usually do a smaller one and this way is a great idea. The pouch is lovely and it was a pleasure to see you working 🧡♥️💙💜💗🖤❤️💚💛

When I did basting, I thought of temporary stitches that needed to be removed after sewing, but with the invisible basting it can remain and looks great. I love your handwork and I have a bin of scraps that I have been saving for such projects, especially the meditation scrolls. THANK YOU for sharing......vivian

Ах, дорогая!! Спасибо за канал Такой приятный волнующий голос) Жаль, мы почти не видим тебя, твою улыбку, оригинальную одежду и пр Успехов И спасибо!

Found you by accident, so glad. Your doing all the things i love, i now know another way to use my quilting project scraps. I also had a big natural dyeing session and i can get inspiration for using it

I just watched this vid again ..... Loved it all over again 🇦🇺😎😍

You have beautiful hands and nails. 💐

I run end of thread through wax if I can’t thread needle! The stiffened end helps!

I enjoyed and learn how to make twine from your instructions so I thank you and learn from you, again! It was fun! And I love handsewing if it’s has a goal😂

Lovely cake of lovely soap or lip balm ..i like you keep it up ..

Ohhhh this was such a lovely video! I had never heard of slow stitching before today, but that seems right up my street and the organic process you showed was so beautiful to witness ❤️

Love it!keep on.

Stayed with you from start to finish so enjoyed it. I love the pouch !❤

So enjoyed your calm relaxing video. I fully intend to sit down and have a go at a pouch! I do like slow stitching☺️

It was lovely to wake up and see you had posted this tutorial, I know what I will be doing this afternoon, I’ve been wanting to try this for some time. I think a little sewing kit will be filling mine . As a gift maybe some cinema or theatre tickets could be a surprise or tickets for a quilt show haha

I am really enjoying following along with you, thank you.

Thank you for SIMPLICITY. I DONT HAVE ALOT OF CLOTH SCRAPS BUT ALOT OF WOOL SM ETC

The invisible basting stitch is wonderful, thanks for sharing. I just finished a traveling sewing pouch today which is looking for a project to be tucked inside. As I was thinking of what to do next your video inspired. I make my own vanilla extract and have a batch of bottles going (fermenting) for Christmas 2024 gifts, (they take two years to hit full yumminess). During your video it came to me to make slow stitch pouches for each of those bottles, what a perfect little project to put in my traveling bag over the next year. I look forward to learning how to make the Japanese rice bag. Thanks for sharing your process and beautiful pieces. 🧵 🪡 Also thanks for sharing your process to dye fabric to create a desired change. Lovely 🫶🏼 Looking forward to your future videos.

garden seeds would be nice (in the pouch).

Yes! I talk to inanimate objects constantly, of course!!! Lovely to hear this morning that you live here in France. Thank you for your company and familiar chatting through your process with this little pouch.

I love this!! It just appeals to me........don't know that what others would think but I'd be happy to receive as a gift. TFS.

I would use my pouch for my knitting notions. I also quilt so I do have many scraps of material. It is memorizing watching you stitch. I will be trying this stitching. I’m interested in the tea dying.

Turned out beautiful, would make great tarot or oracle card bag 😍

Lovely tutorial. May I ask what you said that you used to dye Aunt Lily's pillowcase scrap that you said came from your garden? I am having fun using plants for dyes. Just achieved a beautiful color of violet using Pomegranate Arils remains left from juicing. I was surprised as I was expecting a berry color, but to my delight, I got violet. I am soaking acorns now to get your "dingy" look.

I love every video, have learned so much!!!!

Oh my, I’ve never heard a “snap” referred to as a popper. Very interesting to hear different terminology for stitching items. I’m really enjoying your videos and learning so much from you. I agree it is bad luck to give a pouch or wallet to someone empty. I have a room full of fabric and you have encouraged me to try slow stitching. I also like your suggestion to tear or rip fabric instead of cutting it for this.

I am loving your voice, so soothing. I am also planning to join in on the weekly project in '24. In the case of shifty fabric, you might try small clips. They make them for sewing when a pin is not appropriate. You can also use office clips! But due to your diligence, I won't try to line mine with satin or silk! Thank you for your effort in getting us these wonderful videos.

I just discovered slow stitch and really enjoyed relaxing watching your little pouch evolve. Fingers crossed I can do one or two.myself. So thank you for the inspiration.

Wow…. Echt zo leukkkkkkk🥰ik zou er Zakdoekjes in doen voor jou nu😇lieve groetjes Joke

I love your scraps! Lots to find and “say me say me!!” Now I can get some from my old clothes- fun and great to see you teach us! Thank you!☺️

Love the start to finish. I wanted to see how you place cloth.

I really enjoyed listening to you I love your lovely work Thank you very much ❤❤❤

You've inspired me - and I'm making one of these as a book wrap for my bullet journal. Thank you for this tutorial!

As someone who works in mm I'll be sure to remember 7,5mm is the ultimate overlap. I do like it precise!😂 Thank you for all your lovely videos!! So enjoyable!!

Thank you k3n for this wonderful tutorial. I love watching your podcasts and feel very inspired to give this a go.

Kathryn this is such a great exercise this week for self awareness. We are always striving for better than or more beautiful than……my way of thinking about this weeks project. Thank you for these teachings. ❣️

I agree. I love to work intuitively and letting the moment dictate what materials I use amd how I create. I don't like kits and following directions. However, ironically I can't cook this way and must follow recipes. I think it's because I am more experienced sewing than cooking.

What a LOVELY tutorial & lovely pouches. Thanku

I love this. Thank you so much. On to the rice bag🎉

Love the colour and fabric mixing - beautiful

Many thanks X

Thanks for the great ideas and excellent instructions❤

Lovely peaceful video, will be getting out my scraps , would love to do a quilt, but might have to leave that till after Christmas 🤣 x

Thank you for a thorough tutorial and for your calmness. I’m stitching along with iron-on hexies while listening/watching you. I have a similar boro-inspired rectangular piece all collaged up,l’ll make a pouch of it, thank you Katherine. Liked & have subscribed. Re ideas to put in pouch for gifting: my friend hinted she likes purple flowers, I’ll put in seed packets of purple flowers. Can’t wait for your next project, Japanese rice bag! Take care. 🌷tess

Lovely, I need to make some. I can’t wait for the rice bag pouch.

Yes!! We have exactly the same in our part of rural France!! The internet I mean!! Wouldn’t swap it though for high speed anything!!

Thank you very much I really enjoyed this video and I’m try to make it.

thanks for the nice video. I can very well imagine starting slowstitching as a new hobby. I really like your work and imagine it would be very pleasant to sew by hand. Its beautyful ❤

Very interesting work 🎉❤ and very beautiful stitching hi friend new subscriber

Great tutorial and I'll have a go at one myself now

I love your choices for fabrics......and your circles for stitching.

If you fold the pocket piece toward the top where you have your twine attached (just toward, not aligned with the very top) then you can run your straight stitch all the way down the side and turn to stitch across the end and then back up the other side without fiddling.

Lovely video. So many ideas. Thank you!

Looks like we have a lot in common. Now, to learn how to do slow stitch! My grandmother embroidered and i remember once she let me practice a couple easy stitches. Now almost 70 years later, i want to learn hand embroidery even though I have a 15 needle embroidery only machine.😊😮😅

I'm going to try to make a pretty pouch for my glasses. You are so wright, I asked for scraps from family, now I have more fabric than I know what to do with. I'm very lucky. Looking forward to the draw string pouch lesson.

Just gorgeous.

These are so wonderful and thank you for sharing your process. I really want to try this.

Absolutely beautiful k3n, thank you so very much. I love your videos, so creative, so gentle, so forgiving. They are really speaking to me and bringing me out of my poorly shell. Not only that, but they are showing me many things, inside and outside of my home that I see beauty in and have gratitude for. Thank you. 🙏🪡🧵

What a beautiful and relaxing video to watch. The little pouches are gorgeous. New subscriber here. Thank you 🌷

Your fabric and color choices are lovely. I'll try this and, as a closure, I'll use my newly made fabric twine which I learned how to make from your other video. Thank you again for sharing.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’m anxious to make one. 💖💖💖

Gorgeous colors in this scrap pile! Love it.

I’m enjoying the mindfulness of the Rambling ☺️… I’m fairly new to Slow stitching…this is very helpful….thank you for taking the time to do this……p.s. I’m thinking of making a pencil case for my granddaughter and a pouch for my friend to hold her crochet needles 😊

Thank you.

Loved this tutorial. You are very easy to listen to. Working on my first pouch. I'm thinking how lovely these would be for gifts. Handmade and personal. Made with love. Thank you for sharing. Mary Suzanne from British Columbia Canada

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I'm going down the rabbit hole ❤️

Love this, thank you. Waving from down under J 🙃🐨🇦🇺

Just found you. Amazing as I’m new to this. Love slow stitching big thank you.

Thinking of making one for my crochet hooks. ❤

Love it. I will make a few of these. Thanks for the video and your techniques

This is delightful. Thank you for such an informative post to teach me a new form of hand work. Love everything about your channel. 😊