Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Slow Stitch-Meditative Scrolls

 Good Morning,

  I am still stitching on the third slow stitch bag. This one has taken a lot of time do to the smaller stitches. I had cut out already for 12 bags from my own hand dyes. This is starting to become a bit daunting. After this bag I will change the slow stitches to larger to speed up the process. I never should have cut out so many but my thought at the time was to begin using up my hand dyes to share with friends.

  Being my husband's care giver I have enjoyed working on these bags as we are very home bound now

   I follow a fiber artist and slow stitch instructor on You Tube. She lives in Europe and I have really enjoyed and learned from her. She has been sharing about meditative slow stitch scrolls that I am getting set up to do. This is an older video of hers but really explains the meditation of this process

Here is her video.


  I looked in my craft room stash and I found a bag of vintage wooden thread spools and also one larger weaving spool-of course I did haha   The last quilt I had put together used a cotton backing that was wide enough to have no seams, so I found a left over piece of it-just perfect for this set up. I have a bit more fabric left for a couple more small spools

My Mom was into making handmade bags of all sorts-this one is perfect to hold this project


This is some of the smaller spools I added to the bag, and found these civil war reproduction quilt fabrics that I have loved but not used much of-so thinking I may use these on the large spool I never did get around to making a civil war era quilt This year would probably be a good one to do that as we celebrate our country's 250th birthday.



I was happy to find this large spool in my stash-as looking around online they are very expensive now-These spools are now ready to start slow stitching on


In her video she mentions a book and author-and I have book-it is a good one.



   Hoping this blog will work-have missed all my friends here

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    1. Thank you-glad you could comment here

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    2. My Mom was quite the seamstress she could sew anything-even my father's suits

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  2. Kathy, thanks for the email to share this new blog address. I hope that it will work out. Yiur slow stitch project is interesting as was the video.

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    1. I am sooo hoping this one works out too-so far the comments are working. I am glad you liked the video I really like this fiber artist-she does two new videos each week I have learned a lot from her and these scrolls were calling me haha I never got o making a civil war quilt and I had gathered lots of reproduction quilt fabrics for the project. I just dug out a few and see how they look on the large scroll-I am thinking I will need to use white thread as the fabrics are busy prints

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  3. Great you are back again. Sad you are so homebound. We are, too. Ingo has issues with his hand and me with my back... ack!

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    1. Hi Iris, sorry for the health concerns-No fun hugs hoping this will finally post-I still have trouble with comments posting

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  4. So nice you are busy slow stitching. That is something I am interested in. A friend of mine does the scrolls.
    Cathy

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    1. good morning, I have enjoyed the slow stitching need a break from the bags I am making for a bit loving the scrolls

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  5. Hi Kathy. The slow stitching would be daunting for that many bags. The youtube is very interesting.

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    1. Ni Nicole I do not know what I was thinking when I cut out that many bags to make haha I wanted to start using up my hand dyed yardage-which I cut from for the linings of the bag. Once the one I am working on is completed and mailed off I will take a break from it and slow stitch on the scroll project I think I will enjoy that

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