I have laryngitis and have totally lost my voice. Since having covid in this is the 3rd time it has happened. It is painful to talk, and I totally sympathise with your struggle. I wish you every success in overcoming it! ❤

This helped

I really appreciate the vintage tutorial but I absolutely do not have the patience for this! My first darn looks so bad! 😂

You haven’t posted in 3 months. Are you giving up on the current project, again?

As someone who used not able to do a single pull up, yeah, try doing something even if it looks pitiful, even if it's not good, do that long enough and you will be able to do it or at the very least get very close to it. Thanks to my hundreds of sad attempts at pull ups, now I can do proper pull ups.

I cant begin to tell you how healing this entire video is for me. Thank you for doing what you do and following YOUR spirit so that i can be brave enough to foliw mine😉

Thank you Cathy. I needed to hear that. From my heart 💕 thanks.

I am retired and enjoy doing only what's absolutely necessary. After years of pressure and demands, I truly enjoy being as non-productive as possible.

Well said, Cathy! I went shopping for blue jeans today. I hate shopping for paints. I came home with nothing. They are so expensive and so cheaply made. It's been a long time since I've bought jeans. I couldn't believe how poor quality they were...and I was looking at name brands too. I'm finishing up my new art studio. Hope to set up and do some oil painting after the first of the year (Jan 2025). I'm looking forward to getting back into creating again.

Heyyyy, you doing okay? Hope you are traveling somewhere nice!

I'm one of the people you mentioned who is self taught and not confident of my skills. I recently made a bunch of stuff for a street fair. I had dozens of people I'd never met before praising my work and it came as quite a shock. One lady who has been sewing for years told me that my sewing was the best she'd seen at the fair so it's comforting to know I'm on the right track.

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“I just can’t” in the western US is something that ditzie chicks say about other ditzie chicks when they look really adorable or say something hilarious. It’s a doting term for ditzes.

I've never noticed the "we" thing you mention. I've only ever encountered "I".

My ambitious project that you have inspired me to actually begin is relining a sleeping bag. It has that thin nylon or polyester net/mesh lining. You know the kind of fabric that snags and tears at the tiniest imperfection in your skin while simultantiously causing you to stew in your own juices? I bought several meters of a mustard yellow cotton flannel at a discount textile store as it was going out of business over a decade ago. I've put this project with all sorts of excuses about skill level, time constriants, and proper equipment. Then, a few months ago when I wad at one of the lowest points in my entire life, I stumbled across your videos. I've been watching in no particular order and seeing you recreate a coat from a collection of photographs and the recent aquisition of a quilting frame set my tipping point. Now, I sew along. I mostly listen to your calm encouragement of playing the long game on projects as I work. I can't wait to be done, but I'm actually enjoying the process for a change instead of seeing an endless parade of impossible steps.

AMEN! AMEN! Well said. Your videos make me smile and are glorious encouragement especially when I sit and stitch along.

I've been watching you for years. Prior to the suspension of the peacock dress recreation. I have seen you grow, and I have seen your persona change. I'm so proud of you, Cathy. I may be a grain of sand, but you're doing incredible work through your passion. Please keep your pride, always.

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you are so pretty....

I have issues finding the want to do anything. So when I do feel like it I do what I can. From August to December is the worst for me.

thank you for your reassuring wisdom

Uhmm I've lost your channel some time ago, and wanted to ask: what happened with the Peacock dress project?

feeling like i need this more than ever in 2024

I took up embroidery for a very simple reason: to be able to do something productive while waiting around. Instead of scrolling on a phone. This little travel pack suits that greatly. I almost know just enough to be able to do that!

Why did this make me cry. Textiles mean so much.

I had a breakdown 23 years ago due to untreated post natal depression and a bad marriage and I even tried to commit suicide. I had counselling and then 11 and a half years ago I was diagnosed with Hodgekins lymphoma no one expected me to cope and were basically waiting for me to have another breakdown but guess what I didn't, the strategies I learnt in my previous counselling helped me big time. I'm 11 years in remission now and have an incredible 2nd husband. For my mental health I know that I need to be creative and be outside in my garden. Enjoy the little things like the smell of the earth after it rains, gardening, be creative, cuddle a loved one or a pet.

It's offtopic, but you are so beautiful! And it so nice to listen how people talking about things they passionate for <3

If someone values information, why would they think it would be free? Madness

I’ve no watched your videos in several months. But searched you out tonight. You look great! Younger! And your voice is incredible. Whatever you doing it’s working. Keep going.

I adore that fabric!

Thank you!Happy sewing!

Well said! I feel as though I jus hacd a sewing lesson with the Queen.

Hang the Mic, you are a terrible actress

I saw a video sometime in the last year where someone said that the time will pass anyway in reference to something taking up a lot of time and it's helped me a lot. If the project takes 5 years so what! The time would have passed anyway and the process was a much the point as the finished thing anyway.

I love yarn and to crochet. If it is crochetable, I want to crochet it. Also I can embroider, cross-stitch, can sew with fabric but in all honesty feel I'm not very good at it. Once I dared to call myself a fiber artist. After all yarn is a fiber and I create projects with it so does that not make me an artist in my own right? The backlash I received was immense, so I stopped publicly saying I am a fiber artist. Though in private, to myself, that is another subject. Oh and those who did not like me using fiber artist to describe myself, that kept on with their criticism till I stopped. I have heard one or two use fiber artist to describe themselves and when describing themselves, they have no problem with using it.

Your videos always have the best timing❤ It was a hard decision but I am relieved that I quit my job to focus on my health for the first time. Burn-Out in your 20s is no joke. All the best ❤

Have you considered getting some help with the embroidery? I’m sure whoever made the original one did not do it all alone and it might relieve some of your stress to have company.

Thank you for sharing this Cathy 😊 savoring the process and being dedicated to quality do get lost these days, and I'm trying to bring that more into my life too. I appreciate the reminder to reflect on that.

Wonderful information! Thank you!

Wow Cathy, your voice is amazing. It was the first thing I noticed!

Absolutely brilliant!!! That is so inspiring!

Perfect timing. I was sitting here on my day off contemplating booting up my laptop because I feel I am "behind" on tasks. Now I will go out on the balcony to catch some autumn sun.

I’m curious why you are doing the embroidery on your velvet coat using cotton thread instead of silk? The silk has such a beautiful sheen to it.

Slowing down is hard but I think I definitely needed the reminder

Your voice is so strong it makes even ME feel confident! <3

This is the first time I hear her beautiful voice full on. What an amazing woman!🎉❤❤❤

Cathy your work is amazing. What do you call the tools that you use to punch out the flowers? I’ve been looking for that and can’t find one.