It’s a whole new adventure, and I’m not quite sure how or why it happened, but I appear to have set up my own YouTube channel.
I’m in the process of uploading my Instagram short videos, and yesterday I made a video on starting a new sketchbook, which you can see here.
This one is a little square (ish) concertina folded sketchbook, with seven pages each side, which I’ve filled with collaged illustrations and found poetry cut from an old anthology.
I’ve made it in preparation for a forthcoming course in my Teachable school on making your own sketchbooks (yes?), and very enjoyable it’s been too.
I really like the way these simple folded sketchbooks become circular, where the end is also the beginning, so I’ve created this one on the theme of day and night revolving around each other.
If you saw the beginning of this little book, here’s how it turned out (ignore all the paint on my fingers, it’ll come off eventually):
The text comes from various early twentieth-century poems and I’ve just cut out and rearranged the lines and phrases to create new poems.
Returning to the subject of YouTube, I’ll be keeping teaching and online courses on Teachable but I don’t mind sharing occasional processes and techniques on my YouTube channel.
So my next question is, what would you like to see?
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Dear Karen, I like your new poems, they are really great, thank you for sharing, Ella
thank you Ella, I enjoyed making this one
Hi Karen, I love your little concertina book! Could this same technique work for fabric?
Yes, it could – I’ve done something similar in fabric before. If you want it double sided like the paper version though you’d need to make two and stitch them together back to back, otherwise you’d see each ‘wrong’ side on each right side (if that makes sense). You could easily make it single sided though, basically just a long strip folded back and forth.
Congratulations!
thank you!
I’d love to see some of your daily stitching techniques.
lovely! thanks so much Lynne, I’m in the process of transferring my existing daily stitching Instagram videos to YouTube but I’m sure there will be more.
Very lovely book! I’m excited about your YouTube channel — I’m subscribed!
thank you so much 🤗
“I’m not sure how it happened, but…” is how I ended up with a YouTube channel, too! You remind me that it has been somewhat neglected of late, and I should probably start feeding it again!
ah, I’ll come and find you there… and yes, it was just one of those things that seemed like a really good idea and actually turned out to be quite good fun (so far!)
I’ve not done a video since 2022. Something to think about again!
Hi Karen I\’m loving your YT videos, thanks for setting it up! Regards Adele x
thanks so much Adele, I’m mostly moving existing videos over there for now but will look forward to adding more.
That is fantastic you can imagine all sorts of opposites etc.
thanks so much, yes, exactly – so much potential in this format
I love the idea of the YouTube channel. I especially like videos on how to do various stitches. I’m going to play with the scroll stitch tonight :-).
thanks so much Stephanie, I’ve been moving my existing daily stitch videos from Instagram to YouTube and I’m sure there’ll be more in the future 🙂
Your book is beautiful, I’m a big fan of crafty stuff on you tube. So create whatever you fancy and I’ll watch it!
thanks so much Fiona, I’ll see what I can do 🙂