I took this video to the breakfast table to show my son. He’s a retired US Air Force meteorologist. He stopped eating and couldn’t take his eyes off it while you were going through all the temperatures until the end. He never closed his mouth. I don’t think a meteorologist has ever seen the weather in quite this way. I was of course entertained by just watching his face. This is beautiful work and should really find its way into a time capsule one day. I plan to start one of my own. We live in the Deep South in Mississippi. I will have to intersperse it with lightning strikes and choose a special color combination for hurricanes. I’ll use larger beads for hail and perhaps some longer stitches for wind. Still thinking about how to do tornadoes. Thank you so much for this. Truly beautiful and inspiring. I had no idea people were doing this. Brilliant idea. Art as the imitation of nature in its truest form!😅

I loved watching how you made this book. It turned out so beautifully. You chose such lovely colors for the cover. The whole book is just a tactile and visual wonderland. And I learned that you’re a twin!!!!

How long do you leave the material in the tea? Also how many tea bags do you use?

So many inspiring ideas to 'borrow'. Lovely little journal.

Yes this was interesting and enjoyable Sarah. I feel very privileged to have been allowed to see your year of drawing thank you. I'm not sure I could handle it every day but maybe I could manage a couple of times a week or maybe a short timed session each morning or something. I will try. Love Vera in Northern Ireland ❤

This is so lovely! Thank you!

My grandma, a seamstress, the most important person in my life, would have had a few things to say to me as I start this wonderful craft. I can hear her words in my head❤️. However she would have also appreciated the feel and creative process and would have had a great experience with this. Thank you so much for drawing me closer to her as I return to hand (slow) stitching. I learned Embroidery from her. Now I will apply those techniques in a revised way. So beautiful

Thank you very much, Sarah. A wonderful demonstration -- and what amazing results! 💐 Carol

I have just watched this for the 2nd time and the trees are still amazing, but this time I paid close attention to the inspiring bag making and now I'm thinking I'll use the pecans from my own yard! Hooray!

I think that this would be a lovely way of putting together samplers, and using the book to review what I learned. I love the idea! Your delightful book with the sweet ribbon tie reminds me of the Victorian era. 💞 It is a worthwhile project to create.

These are absolutely stunning and I’ll be making my own projects thanks to your tutorial! Thanks so much! ❤❤❤

You can also use red onion skins

Oh what a treat this is!

Absolutely lovely ❤thank you, thoroughly enjoyed this video ❤

Hi Sarah love your channels. I wonder do you think chamomile tea bags would work? I 'm going to try this today!

Can you show how you added the felt backing to your embroidered pages.

Your talents absolutely boggle my mind! Thank you for sharing

Please name the flowers you used, with your accent I'm not recognizing any of them....I'm from Michigan, USA.

Me encanta lo que hacer, combinaciones, colores, etc. que pea que no subtitules en español😢😢

Caroline, it is wonderful to see how happy and joyful this type of stitching makes you. I am so inspired to use your technique with painting the fabric first, would you have an alternative to the inktense medium? It is lovely to see the synergy between you and Sarah, your both so incredibly talented, and you seemed the most relaxed I have ever seen you, I would love to see more videos like this, as I'm sure your other subscribers would. You have opened up a whole new world of free style stitching without having to add fabrics as a base, which can get frustrating at times. Being able to use just thread, beads and shells on the painted background makes me feel like the possibilities are endless. Thank-you Caroline for sharing this technique with us all, your perception of the actual image was 100% better than the original. I love the spontaneity of your pieces! Any advice about using other mediums would be much appreciated, the inktense are definitely on my wish list, but I also loved the water colour background with beads that Sarah showed, is that a technique you use also? I would love to see a video of that. I'm so excited to get started now. It feels like a whole new world has opened up with all the ideas i have. ❤ Sending big hugs to you both from down under. Xx

Yummy fabric, I love them all.🥰🙃🥰

Seems like an award should be in order. Splendid art !

A little slow stitch book will be perfect for the bits of lace and tiny flower material i saved while I sewed for my daughter as she grew up. I was saving the bits for a little girl grandaughter quilt. 8 grandsons no grandaughters later you have given me inspiration to use the bits up as a coffee table slow stitch book . Thank you.

If you intended to have us get creative you truly are innspirational. I think a delicate feminine little slow stitch book is on my must do list.

So lovely. TFS

Thank you Sarah or explaining this. I didn't do dye in a solar jar, but wanted to do so for a long time. I mostly dye in a cooking pot or do steaming. You said it is difficult to get a green. I cooked fresh reed (only the flowers and only the ones that just started blooming and have still that purple glow). It gives a wonderful green from the cooking pot. I tried fabric and paper that I mordanted a few minutes before putting it into the half cooled down and rinsed fluid in the cooking pot. It gave a wonderful light green color.

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Love this! I think i will try one for the coming year. I might have supplies together to start in January. 😊 Love your channels.

Seriously? Sarah, you're already an art teacher, inter alia. Your drawings are lovely and just get lovelier. For a shaky beginner like me, instead of encouraging me, this video just makes me feel discouraged, and that there's no point in my even trying to start. Thanks anyway.

You've combined so many of my loves here. Just discovering tatting. Love everything textile. Beginning to "Junk" treasure journal. Jelli printing. I'm interested in combining the texture of painted fabric and different embroidery and lace styles. Another wonderful video, Sarah!

How was the mirror applied to November? It looks like there's beads all around and a different process than February.

Hi Sarah, I only found your channel yesterday and already I have begun the slow stitched snippet roll, ordered a book for drawing every day and am planning the stitch book! What a great place this is! Thankyou!

Ah now I understand...your cat was actually white originally 😂🌷 I should've said, I have learnt so much from this video. I think I'm going to try the solar dye jar. Thank you so much

So interesting to see the different effects. I could see little faces in some of the patterns 🌷

Exquisite 🌷

You are a very talented artist and I feel inspired to try drawing. I always think that artists are those people who just seem to do it naturally but I think with some practice I could draw well enough to be satisfied but lack the confidence to try. This video has inspired me. Thank you 🌷

Beautiful book! My favorite parts were how you put the ribbons and the cords for the pages. Brilliant!😊

Absolutely gorgeous- each page is so unique with its soft colors, stitches, and fabric pieces. I enjoyed watching the process of turning bits and pieces into something useful and beautiful!! ❤

Hi Sarah, I think your drawings and paintings are lovely, you are a very talented lady. 😊

This was so refreshing. I have tried various journals approaches and just like you been intimidated by the beautiful journal or the standard of work in others on whatever website I am following. I liked that you acknowledged it was hard to maintain to start with. Ordered a cheap 365 journal, chose the one where a reviewer complained the paper was too thin based on your observations and to help me just not care what I do. Fingers crossed

What a wonderful task that your friend set you Sarah.... and you rose to the challenge 👏👏. And it was lovely to see your daily progress, although, no sketches of Jonathan??😅💜

Thank you Sarah. I came across this video when I was feeling rather upset / unsettled and I found your voice and artwork really calming and inspiring. I am stitching every day and finding it really enjoyable but I know it would improve if my drawing skills were better. Maybe I will brave putting pencil/colour to paper and try not to be ashamed of my beginner attempts. Your 365 book is wonderful. And it’s always a joy to see Ginger cat. x

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely drawings. My hubby and I have started sketching outside, we choose different locations local to us and sketch it is improving my skills plus I challenged myself to draw people that don't look like stickmen 😅😊

Question: Once dried, do I need to rinse and/or wash the fabrics, or can they simply be ironed? Really beautiful results!

Fabulous project in every way!

What a great journey. I had a similar experience to you with my first daily sketch book. I only had A3 40cm x 30cm sketch pad. I fitted 3/4 per drawings per page but the size just stressed me out so I abandon it. Recently, inspired by the needle book I made (thanks Sarah), I cut up the sketch pad pages to a size I like and made my own little book. I always paint/draw with a lot of colour but really want to improve my drawing and contrast skills. I'm now sketching using graphite pencil only, flora and fauna, one sketch per page. After watching your video, I'm fascinated to see what journey I will go on.

Such a great accomplishment and learning experience. TFS

Ive really loved your creates and embroidery channel these past few weeks since i discovered you, Sarah! Thank you for making these videos

You’re a very talented woman. Thank you for sharing ❤️🦋