It was not until I developed a severe and sight threatening condition that I began to appreciate listening to someone reading. No struggling with huge magnifiers, coloured papers, accessibility programmes on the computer. You read well and empathically. Your voice is both kind and engaging. I very much enjoyed listening to what you read. Thank you. Over the last 2 years I have begun to quilt, triggered by my mother giving me her Singer 201k, bought for her from new as a 21st birthday present by my father. She was developing dementia and could no longer thread it. It’s my pride and joy, the sound of my childhood and I love it with a passion. It’s a fantastic flat stitcher and an ideal quilting machine, in the table that was bought for it some years afterwards. I have done the “baby quilt training” and have completed one double bed quilt for my son. I also make toys, bags and dolls on it. I looked at your Channel because I’m always keeping my eyes open for British youtubers, but I’ve discovered that when I’m unwell (often), or sad, if I watch the Last Homely House I feel better, and I don’t have to get up and rush around, which is my usual way of managing sadness. So thanks, really, for offering me a bit of peace in a busy and complicated world. And I bet if it works like that for me, it probably does for lots of other people too! 💖
They are like looking through a kaleidoscope but as beautiful as they are I think life is just too short to make a large quilt from such tiny and expensive pieces . If any quilt maker ever completed one, and I’m sure there are such quilt makers, then they’ve created a family heirloom.x
Absolutely gorgeous! The tiny pieces would make me nuts too :) but boy it's would be such an amazing finished quilt. I couldn't do it either. The fabric waste would break my heart lol.
I made these Paper Pieces and bought the Millfori book and taught me how to use these various - Willie Hammerstein did this and Taught a great but complicated quilt! Sandra Myer!
I too was working on LaPassacaglia. I had to put it aside for one of our daughter’s wedding quilt which I made entirely from silk dupioni. Now a baby quilt for our son and then another wedding quilt. I don’t know when I’ll get back to LaPass! I love all of your fabric choices and combinations! You’re very lucky to have that Liberty fabric and I can understand not wanting to cut it up in that way. What you have made are beautiful treasures!
Those are absolutely amazing Kate! And deserve to be finished. I know you don't have time right now especially, but someday please finish them and display them proudly. Then you don't have to ever touch another project like that again. lol
I love the Millefiori quilts, and I'd love to make one, tiny pieces or not. But the amount of fabric that goes into it, if you're doing it the right way and fuzzy cut the heck out of it, is insane. Hereabouts, quilting cotton costs 20 Euros a meter at least, and, honestly, I don't want to spend hundreds of Euros on fabrics of which I use so little. But still, what a gorgeous quilt, and how wonderful are your three medaillons!
Beautiful, but I agree that those glorious Liberty prints are rather dear for this type of piecing. Still, they make exquisite kaleidoscopes! Beautiful.
I’ve bought templates and a few small border type fabrics to make something in the Lucy Boston style of EPP. It uses slightly larger lozenge shaped pieces along with hexies to make intricate patterns. Keep looking at and “patting” the fabric, but haven’t started yet! Your pieces are lovely.
Kate I looked up the millefiori book…and found she now has 5 or 6 of them! Wowee!! I love the elegance of fussy cut quilts, but those teeny pieces and acute angles would also send me over the edge! The three medallions you made are gorgeous. I really enjoyed learning about Liberty and these designs. I’m also a lawyer who sews, beads, knits and quilts etc to soothe my spirit and stimulate my love of color and art. So I especially appreciated the introduction to this accomplished and inspiring Dutch fiber artist. 🎉🎉🎉
It's a sort of kaleidoscope effect. My sister in law does another type and ask she rearranges the bits, it totally changes the colors and effects. Patience isn't my strong suit so I never tried. These pieces you did will look lovely framed or as a pillow top or even an applique on the front of one of your dresses or the back of a jacket. Thank you for the explanations!
Kate, I’ve been told I have a lot of patience, but this would drive me to drink. ! I give you a lot of credit for getting this much done. Amazing. Tallahassee, Florida
Oh Kate! What a lovely way to start my day! Thank you ever so much. What a fascinating woman she was and extraordinary quilts she made. I agree with Becky that you should frame your quilt blocks. They are just lovely. Thank you for the reading as well. I am rather fond of being read to. Just like Willyne, you have enriched our lives beyond measure. Have a happy day.
I am so happy I stumbled on to this video! Thanks for reading the intro. Listening to the description of her studio took me back to my very first dedicated sewing room. It had 3 large windows set high with large sills. I could open them and get a lovely breeze as they were in the shade of a large silver leaf maple. My sweet cat, Sunny, would sit on a sill and observe me as I sewed. Thanks for the memories!
You have done absolutely beautiful work! I agree the Liberty prints are gorgeous for fussy cutting. Fussy cutting is so beautiful but leaves behind the scrappiest of scraps!
I know of only person I have ever met who would love doing a whole quilt entirely by hand she sat on her hand made wooden rocker and cut and sewed by hand hour after hour
I hope you will be able to complete your quilt but if not I hope after all that intricate work you use the rosettes to hang on the wall and not reduced to just potholders! Good luck!
I really enjoyed this. I am 54, live in America, have just begun sewing in any capacity just over a year ago, and am now quite brazenly embarking on my first E.P.P. piece. It won’t be used for a quilt, but rather as an accent piece on a bag, using a tutorial from Minki Kim, who i just adore. Hoping i can have a good result, even with my small experience.
I have enough fabric to open up a quilt store as my husband says. When I purchased this book I was nearly finished with another quilt top. As I went through the book I dropped everything I had been working on and started this quilt. I have counted 38 UFOs most of them are hand appliqué tops but this is what I want to make and finish first. Absolutely love all the different cogwheels I see on social media platforms. Thanks for filming!
Kate, you are an amazing woman also! You are so clever and your talents never cease to amaze me! I absolutely adore your Mandela pieces, may I suggest that maybe you could either appliqué them to a plain square background and put them into a lovely frame and hang it in your sewing area, or even use one as a centre piece (appliquéd to a square) for a quilt made with your beautiful Liberty fabrics. ❤ I just love watching your channel and seeing all the beautiful things you make. “Thank You” for sharing your skills and talents with us all. ❤ from Australia 🇦🇺 😊
It’s amazing that Willyne could do all that tiny sewing while being a distinguished lawyer. It’s making me think I have not always used my time wisely! 🙂 Even the three pieces you did Kate would have driven me (in your words) around the bend. I enjoyed your reading her introduction. Nice to know women like her exist in the world.
I sit here on a lovely, snowy Maine morning and am overwhelmed at the beauty, creativity and generativity of the quilt artist and you, yourself. Your overflowing well of energy and inspiration and authenticity have been a balm to my soul during a hard time after losing my beloved dad at 94 several months ago. My always wavering spark of creative energy really ebbed away, and all my art materials looked meaningless and pointless. All of that finally is lifting, and its been in large part to you and a few other wonderful blogging women whose own lives, struggles, creativity and joys have kept the embers warm. Thanks, Kate. You touch lives in ways that make such a difference.
That is so lovely Donna. I understand your pain so much, and nothing can compensate for losing someone so close. I really hope your find comfort in the beautiful fabric and other craft supplies that are just waiting for you to add your touch and turn them into something lovely with your clever hands. it is a very healing process! Take care, and thank you, love Kate xxx
I think that is a lovely idea! With all the work that had been done, you'd want to be able to use it somewhere. I really like the idea of framing them.
You are so incredibly inspiring, Kate!! Like many others, I stumbled on your channel via searching for EPP tutorials and am now happily subscribed! 😄 And you bet this book is winging its way to me (along with more Liberty fabric ... which I'm not supposed to indulge in ... because I have waaaay too much of it for my own good, already 🙈). It's all your fault. Thank you so much for all you do. Cheers! ~ Kristin 💞 💞 💞
That was interesting. I especially liked the part at the end when you read from the book and showed pictures of her work. I agree using Liberty fabrics would not be cost effective. But the small pieces you made were beautiful!💙
These are cloth mosaics, stunningly intricate. I respect her creativity and dedication. Thanks for sharing. While I can admire her hard work and the beautiful results, omystars, I understand why you didn’t continue. 😊
What a joy that you had to select Liberty fabric? When I was in London many years ago I pasted the shop and didn't realize about the fabric. I have made cards from paper piecing.
I am fairly new to the channel and not binge watching exactly, but watching and listening to whatever comes to the top of my feed ... this was today 8/8/2024. Fascinating use of fabric as well as her story and your reading was enthralling ... I hoped there was a memoir but found only the quilt books. You and Anna have inspired me to quilt. I am playing with cotton percale from the stash of bedding I have been saving for I don't know what. After I get a little experience I plan to buy some of the Spoonflower fabric - that is a find - thank you and Anna! I am in the US (Montana) so easier than buying Liberty for me - I think. You and Willyne would have been great friends, I believe! Also, you would be an awesome audiobook reader!
Absolutely stunning, the fabrics are fabulous. I enjoy English paper piecing and have made two Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts, and even made a tiny one, with 1/2 inch hexagons, for my dolls.
I just found your channel. It’s lovely. I’m a quilter and music teacher in Florida. However my ancestry traces back to Northumbria- specifically the Fosters/Foresters from Bamburgh castle. (Great x? Grandfather) Anyhow I’m enchanted by your voice and your skill as a quilter. Carry on!
Just love those pieces you made, but can imagine how fiddly those can be. I would never have gotten that far. Thanks for the reading, very interesting.
such tiny pieces turned into beauty....I have only made one quilt when I was unemployed & a friend who recycled clothing gave me a bag of beautiful silk ties which I unpicked for it...luckily they were the big wide ties:) Thanks for sharing that lovely story
I have only recently stumbled across your TH-cam channel and have been binge watching your videos. It was seeing Agatha's quilt hanging up that really caught my attention. It's beautiful. Your La Pass blocks are stunning too but I can understand why you decided not to continue making the quilt. A friend of mine loaned me the book but I decided that the quilt is just too fiddly for me to attempt. She is currently about half-way through making the same quilt - she's (jokingly?) told her son that, if she pops her clogs before it's finished, he is to pass it to me to complete!!
Oh my goodness.....you have so much patience Kate. I love the Liberty Fabrics. You do beautiful work. Watching you and having my morning coffee in Minnesota. 😃😍☕️
What a gorgeous quilt book! I love living vicariously through you. I enjoy the history of quilts. Ken Burns collects and did a documentary on here in the states. It was fascinating!
So glad I found this video as it made me recognize the fact that I would never follow thru with making this type of quilt. I have thought about it for the last few years and almost bought the templates. I don't have the patience for it. I found your channel a week or so ago and have been binge watching ever since. Love love Liberty fabric.
I think experimenting with one of the mandalas is the way to go - then you can find out if you love or hate it - I didn't hate it - I just knew it was time to call it a day! I might add more - especially the green one which is begging to be completed! ha ha!!! xxx
I watched this video earlier this week and looked up this book and ordered it! Just got it in the mail and I love it! It’s been a few years since I’ve bought a new quilting book, as I have a lot already. This is the way I like to piece and quilt; I can rarely stick to just 4 or 5 fabrics. Thank you for you video series! You are calming and inspiring!
I like the portability of the project. Take it with you and work on it whenever. Of course, I've never actually done something with pieces so small. I would probably scale it up a tad. I have that problem wherein I like to see the finished product! Not much of a process person but I have actually done some paper piecing if you can believe it. It is nice to sew wherever you are without a machine. I like that best. Great way to start my Monday watching you Kate!
I am exactly the opposite! I love the process - not so bothered about the finish! isn't that funny! but I'm glad the world can hold us both! and all the millions of other creative souls! go us!!! xxx
That was incredible! I agree; a little to fiddle-y for me, but so inspiring. I love when you read to us! I sing in a community chorus with a friend who quilts, and last week she brought a selection of her Liberty fabric. So lovely to touch!
I made a top of La Pass., but I was so sick of it by the time I finished, it is still in storage! All those little triangles! Glad I made it, but I won't repeat it. I plan on hand quilting it this winter, if I can. I love your videos!
What you have made is amazing. You are so creative, all the things you make. Love watching all of it!! Thank you for sharing. Greatings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ❤
Luscious Liberty!! The one finished mandala would be fantastic Appliquéd on some silk and turned into a cushion or framed to be on constant display. This kind of work appeals to me also. I’m still working on a project where the smallest pieces finish to 1/2” square. Nuts, right?! Strangely satisfying. I’ll put a pic on my IG page. Have you ever tried Inklingo? Invented by Linda Franz of Canada. Extremely accurate work can be produced. Oh golly, I’ve written a book in the comments. Lol. Sorry. Today’s video stirred something in me. You continue to inspire, Kate. Thank you.
Nuts - yes - the ink-thing sounds intriguing - what! another thing for me to try ! get thee behind me Cyn!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i'm checking it out right now though!) ha ha!!! xxx I'll check your IG xxx
The Last Homely House East of the Sea I’ll get the pic up in a day or two. I’ve been a tad under the weather. Now that’s a strange saying; I wonder who came up with it?!
Love your videos thank you for them I just thought how good all your patches would look in frames to put in the hallway to look like an art gallery effect You make some beutiful quilts I saw your video yesterday of your mothers quilts they are amazing what a lot of work she has put into them I loved her colour matching its very pretty Best wishes Lynda I am just a beginner at this but i really enjoy watching how you work at everything
🥰💕Absolutely beautiful!!! I would make each of the mandalas into a pillow or frame them & put into your Pink Room as decoration. I always begin & end a project in a special chosen place (same when I read a new book) so that I have a special memory of the place I began & completed my project. It could be a beach, a car ride to a special place, a sunrise or sunset. When my project is complete all the memories are attached to my special project. I always like to share that with my fiber friends. Most projects are started on a vacation. It also helps me keep track of how long I have working on that project. Lovely video! Great inspiration! I have only completed 2 mandalas like yours, now I’m going to frame them. So much “fussy cutting”. I have 2 special Black & white quilts I’m working on. One is a Grandmother Flower Garden 🌺 🌸 & a yo-yo quilt. I would love to see you do a video on those two ideas. I’m binge watching all your lovely videos maybe you have already done those quilts. If not I would love to see you do a video on that. Thanks Happy quilting! 🥰💕🧶🧵👍👍
Very interesting. Her quilts are amazing and your pieces are beautiful, so intricate. Definitely don’t have the patience or the skill to do this though. Thanks for sharing this.
Liberty fabrics have been my longtime companions. My introduction was a silk 'kerchif , a gift. Then I found a lawn cotton sundress in blue small pattern. My salvation in hot August heat. As you said the designs are sophisticated and one doesn't tire off them. Then I discovered a quilt supplier online marketing Liberty fabrics in the USA.For the work, the joy of of making the quilt and the heirloom it beomes the price justifies the means.
Dear Kate, I really love your videos about the liberty fabrics. When you're talking about the fabrics, you're starting to smile all over your face and I understand why you love them. I was impressed about the fiddly mandalas you made and I would love to be as good in English Paper piecing as you are. xoxo from Germany, Stephanie
Beautiful work Kate. I take the pattern pieces and enlarge them on the photo copier, when a quilt pattern doesn't suit. greetings from Melbourne Australia.
Wow those are amazing and beautiful! However, I’m sure I would go mental trying to make it. Thanks for showing us. I have been yearning for a close up look at it since I saw it on your wall. It really is gorgeous. Don’t you wonder “What was I thinking?” It seemed like a good idea. Lol.
How beautiful! I have wanted to try this. It is so beautiful. But, I don’t think that it will ever happen. Such a talented lady. I love the mandalas you made. They would be gorgeous in frames. ♥️☕️🐱
there is a time for everything - and that time came - and is now in the past! I'm ok with that - I love looking at them and remembering the time I made them! xxx
Beautiful. Since they will be unfinished , you could make them into framed pictures and hang them on the wall, give out as presents or sell them in your shop. They are be very pretty. Thank you for sharing.
yes - that is the fate for the larger one - I think - no attempt to conceal the unfinished edges - just mounted on black (maybe) as an unfinished piece - I'm fine with not finishing things - (as you will have seen if you follow along!) its all about process! xxx
Thanks for showing you projects. I don't think I had the patients to do it but it was very interesting especially the reading about the life of the lady
Wow, your medallions are Amazing! Most beautiful kaleidoscopes. I wouldn't want to do all those little pieces either. I'm working on a Grandmother's flower garden in hexi's and sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get that done. Great work!
Who doesn’t love watching Kate and listening to her... my favourite xx🇦🇺
Same here
TRue! Anytime!.❤️Sandi Myer
I don’t watch half the time. I’m sewing and just listening. She was a lovely voice and spirit.
Those milliefore was too much for all of those- details and long seeing was disciplined beyond my will and trust that long- so beautiful -ecstasy
It was not until I developed a severe and sight threatening condition that I began to appreciate listening to someone reading. No struggling with huge magnifiers, coloured papers, accessibility programmes on the computer. You read well and empathically. Your voice is both kind and engaging. I very much enjoyed listening to what you read. Thank you. Over the last 2 years I have begun to quilt, triggered by my mother giving me her Singer 201k, bought for her from new as a 21st birthday present by my father. She was developing dementia and could no longer thread it. It’s my pride and joy, the sound of my childhood and I love it with a passion. It’s a fantastic flat stitcher and an ideal quilting machine, in the table that was bought for it some years afterwards. I have done the “baby quilt training” and have completed one double bed quilt for my son. I also make toys, bags and dolls on it. I looked at your Channel because I’m always keeping my eyes open for British youtubers, but I’ve discovered that when I’m unwell (often), or sad, if I watch the Last Homely House I feel better, and I don’t have to get up and rush around, which is my usual way of managing sadness. So thanks, really, for offering me a bit of peace in a busy and complicated world. And I bet if it works like that for me, it probably does for lots of other people too! 💖
La Passacaglia- great !from Willie Hammerstein and learned these triangles a five block pAper pieces- in Milliefori!
They are like looking through a kaleidoscope but as beautiful as they are I think life is just too short to make a large quilt from such tiny and expensive pieces . If any quilt maker ever completed one, and I’m sure there are such quilt makers, then they’ve created a family heirloom.x
Absolutely gorgeous! The tiny pieces would make me nuts too :) but boy it's would be such an amazing finished quilt. I couldn't do it either. The fabric waste would break my heart lol.
I made these Paper Pieces and bought the Millfori book and taught me how to use these various - Willie Hammerstein did this and Taught a great but complicated quilt! Sandra Myer!
I too was working on LaPassacaglia. I had to put it aside for one of our daughter’s wedding quilt which I made entirely from silk dupioni. Now a baby quilt for our son and then another wedding quilt. I don’t know when I’ll get back to LaPass! I love all of your fabric choices and combinations! You’re very lucky to have that Liberty fabric and I can understand not wanting to cut it up in that way. What you have made are beautiful treasures!
Those are absolutely amazing Kate! And deserve to be finished. I know you don't have time right now especially, but someday please finish them and display them proudly. Then you don't have to ever touch another project like that again. lol
I know this woman has to exist . How beautiful to know she was an inspiration to so many and now me. Made my day. Thanks so much.
They’re stunning and a great idea to put them on the wall. They would look beautiful in a frame.
I love the Millefiori quilts, and I'd love to make one, tiny pieces or not. But the amount of fabric that goes into it, if you're doing it the right way and fuzzy cut the heck out of it, is insane. Hereabouts, quilting cotton costs 20 Euros a meter at least, and, honestly, I don't want to spend hundreds of Euros on fabrics of which I use so little. But still, what a gorgeous quilt, and how wonderful are your three medaillons!
It was lovely finding your channel Kate. Thank you for your honesty.
They are all just BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Beautiful, but I agree that those glorious Liberty prints are rather dear for this type of piecing. Still, they make exquisite kaleidoscopes! Beautiful.
I’ve bought templates and a few small border type fabrics to make something in the Lucy Boston style of EPP. It uses slightly larger lozenge shaped pieces along with hexies to make intricate patterns. Keep looking at and “patting” the fabric, but haven’t started yet! Your pieces are lovely.
You always make my world brighter. You, my friend, are a great teacher and a lovely human.
Your three pieces would be lovely framed!! They simply lovely!! The fabrics exceptional!❤
Such outrageously beautiful work you do ❤❤❤❤❤
Kate I looked up the millefiori book…and found she now has 5 or 6 of them! Wowee!! I love the elegance of fussy cut quilts, but those teeny pieces and acute angles would also send me over the edge! The three medallions you made are gorgeous. I really enjoyed learning about Liberty and these designs.
I’m also a lawyer who sews, beads, knits and quilts etc to soothe my spirit and stimulate my love of color and art. So I especially appreciated the introduction to this accomplished and inspiring Dutch fiber artist. 🎉🎉🎉
It's a sort of kaleidoscope effect. My sister in law does another type and ask she rearranges the bits, it totally changes the colors and effects. Patience isn't my strong suit so I never tried. These pieces you did will look lovely framed or as a pillow top or even an applique on the front of one of your dresses or the back of a jacket. Thank you for the explanations!
You are so very talented. That project would scare me to death. You keep amazing me with your many wonderful layers
Kate, I’ve been told I have a lot of patience, but this would drive me to drink. ! I give you a lot of credit for getting this much done. Amazing. Tallahassee, Florida
Oh Kate! What a lovely way to start my day! Thank you ever so much. What a fascinating woman she was and extraordinary quilts she made. I agree with Becky that you should frame your quilt blocks. They are just lovely. Thank you for the reading as well. I am rather fond of being read to. Just like Willyne, you have enriched our lives beyond measure. Have a happy day.
oh! thank you xxxx
I am so happy I stumbled on to this video! Thanks for reading the intro. Listening to the description of her studio took me back to my very first dedicated sewing room. It had 3 large windows set high with large sills. I could open them and get a lovely breeze as they were in the shade of a large silver leaf maple. My sweet cat, Sunny, would sit on a sill and observe me as I sewed. Thanks for the memories!
You have done absolutely beautiful work! I agree the Liberty prints are gorgeous for fussy cutting. Fussy cutting is so beautiful but leaves behind the scrappiest of scraps!
These are the most beautiful pieces I have seen with EPP. I do love Tula Pink but the Liberty desigbs are something else.
Imagine having the stamina and perseverance to work in law for 42 years and make those intricate quilts. Boggles my mind!!
Those pieces are absolutely beautiful
I know of only person I have ever met who would love doing a whole quilt entirely by hand
she sat on her hand made wooden rocker and cut and sewed by hand hour after hour
Willyne.
An absolutely wonderful SHARE!
Thankyou!
The rosettes are beautiful! I am just starting this journey and hope to make a quilt. Worst case I will end up with fascinating potholders
I hope you will be able to complete your quilt but if not I hope after all that intricate work you use the rosettes to hang on the wall and not reduced to just potholders! Good luck!
I really enjoyed this. I am 54, live in America, have just begun sewing in any capacity just over a year ago, and am now quite brazenly embarking on my first E.P.P. piece. It won’t be used for a quilt, but rather as an accent piece on a bag, using a tutorial from Minki Kim, who i just adore. Hoping i can have a good result, even with my small experience.
I have enough fabric to open up a quilt store as my husband says. When I purchased this book I was nearly finished with another quilt top. As I went through the book I dropped everything I had been working on and started this quilt. I have counted 38 UFOs most of them are hand appliqué tops but this is what I want to make and finish first. Absolutely love all the different cogwheels I see on social media platforms. Thanks for filming!
Kate, you are an amazing woman also! You are so clever and your talents never cease to amaze me! I absolutely adore your Mandela pieces, may I suggest that maybe you could either appliqué them to a plain square background and put them into a lovely frame and hang it in your sewing area, or even use one as a centre piece (appliquéd to a square) for a quilt made with your beautiful Liberty fabrics. ❤ I just love watching your channel and seeing all the beautiful things you make. “Thank You” for sharing your skills and talents with us all. ❤ from Australia 🇦🇺 😊
Wow! A true labor of love! I wouldn't have the patients to do anything so small! TFS Hugs!
It’s amazing that Willyne could do all that tiny sewing while being a distinguished lawyer. It’s making me think I have not always used my time wisely! 🙂 Even the three pieces you did Kate would have driven me (in your words) around the bend. I enjoyed your reading her introduction. Nice to know women like her exist in the world.
I know - some people have the energy of three people! but as i am very fond of saying .... comparison is the thief of joy! xxxx
that's a great saying, and true. @@thelasthomelyhouse
I sit here on a lovely, snowy Maine morning and am overwhelmed at the beauty, creativity and generativity of the quilt artist and you, yourself. Your overflowing well of energy and inspiration and authenticity have been a balm to my soul during a hard time after losing my beloved dad at 94 several months ago. My always wavering spark of creative energy really ebbed away, and all my art materials looked meaningless and pointless. All of that finally is lifting, and its been in large part to you and a few other wonderful blogging women whose own lives, struggles, creativity and joys have kept the embers warm. Thanks, Kate. You touch lives in ways that make such a difference.
That is so lovely Donna. I understand your pain so much, and nothing can compensate for losing someone so close. I really hope your find comfort in the beautiful fabric and other craft supplies that are just waiting for you to add your touch and turn them into something lovely with your clever hands. it is a very healing process! Take care, and thank you, love Kate xxx
You have the most soothing voice . It reminds me of a narrator from nice movies . I truly believe that you could do voice overs . I love listening!❤️
Putting them into lovely frames or even small cushions would not be a waste!! Beautiful creativity!!
I think that is a lovely idea! With all the work that had been done, you'd want to be able to use it somewhere. I really like the idea of framing them.
Cushions covers are a wonderful idea. You would want these on display they are so beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful quilts!
You are so incredibly inspiring, Kate!! Like many others, I stumbled on your channel via searching for EPP tutorials and am now happily subscribed! 😄 And you bet this book is winging its way to me (along with more Liberty fabric ... which I'm not supposed to indulge in ... because I have waaaay too much of it for my own good, already 🙈). It's all your fault. Thank you so much for all you do. Cheers! ~ Kristin 💞 💞 💞
That was interesting. I especially liked the part at the end when you read from the book and showed pictures of her work. I agree using Liberty fabrics would not be cost effective. But the small pieces you made were beautiful!💙
These are cloth mosaics, stunningly intricate. I respect her creativity and dedication. Thanks for sharing. While I can admire her hard work and the beautiful results, omystars, I understand why you didn’t continue. 😊
I am very much enjoying learning about, and seeing, your beautiful Liberty fabrics. Thank you! You’re so talented in so many ways. 🥰
Susan Van Sluyters I totally agree! I have never been aware of the beautiful Liberty fabrics.
Wow! Puts my quilt to shame, thank you for showing it, Vivi would love this
What a joy that you had to select Liberty fabric? When I was in London many years ago I pasted the shop and didn't realize about the fabric. I have made cards from paper piecing.
I am fairly new to the channel and not binge watching exactly, but watching and listening to whatever comes to the top of my feed ... this was today 8/8/2024. Fascinating use of fabric as well as her story and your reading was enthralling ... I hoped there was a memoir but found only the quilt books. You and Anna have inspired me to quilt. I am playing with cotton percale from the stash of bedding I have been saving for I don't know what. After I get a little experience I plan to buy some of the Spoonflower fabric - that is a find - thank you and Anna! I am in the US (Montana) so easier than buying Liberty for me - I think.
You and Willyne would have been great friends, I believe! Also, you would be an awesome audiobook reader!
Having my morning coffee here in Wisconsin and watching this video was so nice Kate. Thank you. Your work is so pretty.
Me too! Yorkshire lass living in Wisconsin. My husband loves watching these videos too. It's like having a long lost friend from home.
Absolutely stunning!!! I admire quilters but am not adapted to the exactness of piecing....I'm exhausted just watching you ....beautiful art
Absolutely stunning, the fabrics are fabulous. I enjoy English paper piecing and have made two Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts, and even made a tiny one, with 1/2 inch hexagons, for my dolls.
I would come to the same conclusion as you...and enjoying them hanging up as is.. perfect and beautiful. Loved the reading! Thank you!
I admire you for the amount of work that is needed for your projects which I enjoy .
it was a good use of some enforced fews time - I was working away from home for a few months and it kept my hands busy! xxx
I just found your channel. It’s lovely. I’m a quilter and music teacher in Florida. However my ancestry traces back to Northumbria- specifically the Fosters/Foresters from Bamburgh castle. (Great x? Grandfather) Anyhow I’m enchanted by your voice and your skill as a quilter. Carry on!
Just love those pieces you made, but can imagine how fiddly those can be. I would never have gotten that far. Thanks for the reading, very interesting.
Wow. That art form is amazing . I never plan on doing it , but I completely respect it !
such tiny pieces turned into beauty....I have only made one quilt when I was unemployed & a friend who recycled clothing gave me a bag of beautiful silk ties which I unpicked for it...luckily they were the big wide ties:) Thanks for sharing that lovely story
I have only recently stumbled across your TH-cam channel and have been binge watching your videos. It was seeing Agatha's quilt hanging up that really caught my attention. It's beautiful. Your La Pass blocks are stunning too but I can understand why you decided not to continue making the quilt. A friend of mine loaned me the book but I decided that the quilt is just too fiddly for me to attempt. She is currently about half-way through making the same quilt - she's (jokingly?) told her son that, if she pops her clogs before it's finished, he is to pass it to me to complete!!
Oh my goodness.....you have so much patience Kate. I love the Liberty Fabrics. You do beautiful work. Watching you and having my morning coffee in Minnesota. 😃😍☕️
enjoy that coffee - I'm drinking mine as I answer comments - its a lovely morning ritual! xxx
What a gorgeous quilt book! I love living vicariously through you. I enjoy the history of quilts. Ken Burns collects and did a documentary on here in the states. It was fascinating!
So glad I found this video as it made me recognize the fact that I would never follow thru with making this type of quilt. I have thought about it for the last few years and almost bought the templates. I don't have the patience for it. I found your channel a week or so ago and have been binge watching ever since. Love love Liberty fabric.
I think experimenting with one of the mandalas is the way to go - then you can find out if you love or hate it - I didn't hate it - I just knew it was time to call it a day! I might add more - especially the green one which is begging to be completed! ha ha!!! xxx
Oh my word, that is absolutely stunning!!!! How I love watching you.
I watched this video earlier this week and looked up this book and ordered it! Just got it in the mail and I love it! It’s been a few years since I’ve bought a new quilting book, as I have a lot already. This is the way I like to piece and quilt; I can rarely stick to just 4 or 5 fabrics. Thank you for you video series! You are calming and inspiring!
Thank you for the reading. I only like a few of her quilts but I loved your reading
As a quilter, I recognize how brilliantly artistic you are, awesome Lady
I think that credit goes to that lovely Dutch woman! what an amazing mind! xxx
Loved the reading about Willyne Hammerstein and seeing your detail work with Liberty fabrics. Beautiful!
Thank you for inspiring me to look at my liberty fabrics differently. I had never thought to use them in this way. Awesome idea
beware though - it is wasteful - sadly xxx
I like the portability of the project. Take it with you and work on it whenever. Of course, I've never actually done something with pieces so small. I would probably scale it up a tad. I have that problem wherein I like to see the finished product! Not much of a process person but I have actually done some paper piecing if you can believe it. It is nice to sew wherever you are without a machine. I like that best. Great way to start my Monday watching you Kate!
I am exactly the opposite! I love the process - not so bothered about the finish! isn't that funny! but I'm glad the world can hold us both! and all the millions of other creative souls! go us!!! xxx
Thank you for sharing this Kate. Also your reading from her book was fascinating. I think shall have to ask for this book for Christmas
These are magical! You should turn them into round scatter cushions so that you can enjoy them everyday!
That was incredible! I agree; a little to fiddle-y for me, but so inspiring. I love when you read to us! I sing in a community chorus with a friend who quilts, and last week she brought a selection of her Liberty fabric. So lovely to touch!
Gorgeous quilting...thank you for sharing. 😍❤️
I made a top of La Pass., but I was so sick of it by the time I finished, it is still in storage! All those little triangles! Glad I made it, but I won't repeat it. I plan on hand quilting it this winter, if I can. I love your videos!
What a beautiful book. I was surprised to hear that she and I share the same birthday. I only wish we shared the same talent!! Thank you for sharing.
Thank your for sharing your Passacaglia medallions. What a wonderful adventure you had with your Liberty Fabric and the templates.
What you have made is amazing. You are so creative, all the things you make. Love watching all of it!! Thank you for sharing. Greatings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ❤
sorry i butchered your countrywoman's name! xxxx
Thank you for reading the life story of that lady, it was very interesting and such lovely work. ☺
Luscious Liberty!! The one finished mandala would be fantastic Appliquéd on some silk and turned into a cushion or framed to be on constant display. This kind of work appeals to me also. I’m still working on a project where the smallest pieces finish to 1/2” square. Nuts, right?! Strangely satisfying. I’ll put a pic on my IG page. Have you ever tried Inklingo? Invented by Linda Franz of Canada. Extremely accurate work can be produced. Oh golly, I’ve written a book in the comments. Lol. Sorry. Today’s video stirred something in me. You continue to inspire, Kate. Thank you.
Nuts - yes - the ink-thing sounds intriguing - what! another thing for me to try ! get thee behind me Cyn!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i'm checking it out right now though!) ha ha!!! xxx I'll check your IG xxx
The Last Homely House East of the Sea I’ll get the pic up in a day or two. I’ve been a tad under the weather. Now that’s a strange saying; I wonder who came up with it?!
Wonderful. I love to hear you read. Thank you so much.
Love your videos thank you for them
I just thought how good all your patches would look in frames to put in the hallway to look like an art gallery effect
You make some beutiful quilts
I saw your video yesterday of your mothers quilts they are amazing what a lot of work she has put into them
I loved her colour matching its very pretty
Best wishes Lynda
I am just a beginner at this but i really enjoy watching how you work at everything
🥰💕Absolutely beautiful!!! I would make each of the mandalas into a pillow or frame them & put into your Pink Room as decoration. I always begin & end a project in a special chosen place (same when I read a new book) so that I have a special memory of the place I began & completed my project. It could be a beach, a car ride to a special place, a sunrise or sunset. When my project is complete all the memories are attached to my special project. I always like to share that with my fiber friends. Most projects are started on a vacation. It also helps me keep track of how long I have working on that project. Lovely video! Great inspiration! I have only completed 2 mandalas like yours, now I’m going to frame them. So much “fussy cutting”. I have 2 special Black & white quilts I’m working on. One is a Grandmother Flower Garden 🌺 🌸 & a yo-yo quilt. I would love to see you do a video on those two ideas. I’m binge watching all your lovely videos maybe you have already done those quilts. If not I would love to see you do a video on that. Thanks Happy quilting! 🥰💕🧶🧵👍👍
Very interesting. Her quilts are amazing and your pieces are beautiful, so intricate. Definitely don’t have the patience or the skill to do this though. Thanks for sharing this.
Liberty fabrics have been my longtime companions. My introduction was a silk 'kerchif , a gift. Then I found a lawn cotton sundress in blue small pattern. My salvation in hot August heat. As you said the designs are sophisticated and one doesn't tire off them. Then I discovered a quilt supplier online marketing Liberty fabrics in the USA.For the work, the joy of of making the quilt and the heirloom it beomes the price justifies the means.
Dear Kate, I really love your videos about the liberty fabrics. When you're talking about the fabrics, you're starting to smile all over your face and I understand why you love them. I was impressed about the fiddly mandalas you made and I would love to be as good in English Paper piecing as you are. xoxo from Germany, Stephanie
Kaye...these paper piecing blocks are absolutely fabulous! I ❤️ liberty too!
Thank you for reading that introduction. You have a very pleasant voice and I was very interested in the information.
Kate those are lovely mandalas Thanks for sharing 🙂
Oh my word! Beautiful work.
Great video Kate,, love that kind of work ,
Beautiful work Kate. I take the pattern pieces and enlarge them on the photo copier, when a quilt pattern doesn't suit. greetings from Melbourne Australia.
Wow those are amazing and beautiful! However, I’m sure I would go mental trying to make it. Thanks for showing us. I have been yearning for a close up look at it since I saw it on your wall. It really is gorgeous. Don’t you wonder “What was I thinking?” It seemed like a good idea. Lol.
How beautiful! I have wanted to try this. It is so beautiful. But, I don’t think that it will ever happen. Such a talented lady. I love the mandalas you made. They would be gorgeous in frames. ♥️☕️🐱
there is a time for everything - and that time came - and is now in the past! I'm ok with that - I love looking at them and remembering the time I made them! xxx
Beautiful. Since they will be unfinished , you could make them into framed pictures and hang them on the wall, give out as presents or sell them in your shop. They are be very pretty. Thank you for sharing.
yes - that is the fate for the larger one - I think - no attempt to conceal the unfinished edges - just mounted on black (maybe) as an unfinished piece - I'm fine with not finishing things - (as you will have seen if you follow along!) its all about process! xxx
Thanks for showing you projects. I don't think I had the patients to do it but it was very interesting especially the reading about the life of the lady
Absolutely amazing. You and this very talented woman. Thank you for sharing. 🌺
Beautifully read. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, your medallions are Amazing! Most beautiful kaleidoscopes. I wouldn't want to do all those little pieces either. I'm working on a Grandmother's flower garden in hexi's and sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get that done. Great work!
Well Kate, I'm thoroughly impressed with this bit of paper piecing. Quite amazing.
Just found this video. You did beautiful work Kate.
Hello from Texas. Yes, really did enjoy hearing you read and hearing what you read. :)
Kate you have much more patience than I. I could never do something that intricate. Beautiful work.
Have a nice day.
Absolutely stunning and exquisite fabric blocks! I totally understand why you did not continue on with this tedious process. TFS, Kate!