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The Royal College of Needlework has an online course that has no problem charging, so why should you have a criticism from people.

Gosh, I’ve only just found you but it seems right that it’s at the start of your next chapter. All exciting stuff. I look forward to watching you reveal what’s next. 🙂

I know this video is over two years old but I know God this video to me ! I’ve been struggling lately and I needed to see those beautiful messages ❤ sometimes I feel so lost in my anxiety it’s an be scary 😢

Bless you! <3 Jeanne in Manhattan

Why are you whispering?

More garden shots, please.

I’m thinking of getting velvet for a pillow covering and doing some embroidery. Maybe use velvet I already have, not purple. Small scale project!

I’m so excited for your new adventures!

I agree with many about your stronger voice and more relaxed demeanour. Look forward to following the journey. I find sewing relaxing but have a busy job and another hobby.

An inspiring message, Cathy. I wonder how few people never have that moment of decision--with or without pills. For me, it was a omentary question. I asked myself who would caare if I simply didn't stop for the train on the tracks in front of me. I didn't come up with an answer. Nor did I stop of my own volition. For some reason, my car slowed itself and stopped several feet back from the c rossing as railcars wizzed past. The point ws brought back to me more pointedly years later as I sat at a traffic light. I was hit head-on by a car going 40 mph. My roommate and I were kept from going through the windshielfr by something we could never really desxribe other than a hand hold us against the seat. Funny thing is, I wsn't thinking about that qustion the second time. I felt great and ife was good. I figured soomeone felt the need to remind me of how fast things could change and take away that enjoyment of life. The lesson was reenforced. I learned it well. Sometimes the Universe has unfinished business with us, I guess. Thank you for sharing your story. Not everyone is willing to admit having such thoughts/feelings. Maybe that's why so many don't ask for help. Keep up your ideos. They have great purpose and effet. Blessings to you always.

"Take care of yourself and the rest will follow." I really needed to hear this today, thank you!😭❤

You & Bernadette are the main reason that I started my journey into trying to sew historical dress!! Thank you for all your hard work! & although I've changed jobs & do not have much time anymore to devote to sewing, I still enjoy watching the videos of those people who love what they do. I have to say that I was disappointed about the decision on the peacock dress, as I felt that you were finally bringing recognition to the craftspeople in India who made it (& giving employment to those who were going to help you), but I understand. Good health & blessings to you.

Just wondering what is wrong with uour voice? Is it FND?

Darning is an art!

Thank you for this video. It's become overtime a safe place to come to when anxiety gets really bad and no one is there to help me with it.

I washed my garden tools. I had wanted to wash them last autumn before storing them for the winter and then when that didn't happen, I intended to wash them before use this spring. Today is the 7th of July 2024, and I finally washed them after moving a heap of compost and transplanting two hostas. Those tools were finally put away clean this afternoon.

I'm not watching in order. My life journey has been topsy turvy for the last three years. My routine is just starting to settle back in to place and my body is still a bit broken, but I'm finally finding answers. These videos make it feel like we are both sitting in a room sipping tea and each stitching on our individual giant projects.

Where is the Peacock Dress?

I like to think of every job I've done as temporary with the goal being that if I do well enough at it, I'll be able to work myself out of a job. Congratulations on your next step.

I'm thourpughly impressed that such a bold and vibrant piece can be accomplished with a bit of felt, some embroidery floss, and only three stitches. One would think it is infinately more complicated.

So happy for you! You sound wonderful, you look wonderful and I hope you get all the rest you need for whatever lies ahead including finishing your beautiful coat.

I always just tell myself "at least I finished. Next time can be better or I'm never going there again and that's all okay." There's a sense of accomplishment with finishing even if it isn't perfect.

Okay. I watched your visit to RSN and got interested in the coat project. However, I was hesitant to subscribe to yet another historical clothing reconstruction channel. Then, you started talking about packing your mobile studio into a vintage trunk, followed shortly by the accordion folding sewing box, and finally commentary about fatherly engineering. I'm hooked. I need to see where you go with all these ideas.

Finding this 1 year after you posted. Summer 2021 I sat on my bed w multiple bottles of pills. I survived. Thank you for making this video. Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable. Your moment when speaking to the corner frame, I think I needed to hear that. Sending you love and light.

i saw on the FR website and the logo of abundant artisant the use of Generated image, ( half of the embroidery cissors and twisted tools are wierd to be honest ) i know small buisness have not money to spend on fancy logo, but it's desapointing to me to see high skills sewist talking about how the craft is important, how your skills are important and using generated images that come from machine learning that stole all the artist work on the internet to build their database . my illustrations were stolen to train gen ai, illustrations i did with the art skills i develloped throught several years. gen ai is also cause ecological damage at very high level. thanks for reading

So proud of you Cathy! It takes a brave woman to make such large changes, I’m happy for you! ~A

Love the way you look at creativity. I was a chef for a number of years and when I was first learning I had to have a detailed recipe. Now I can look at a picture and be inspired to make it. I don’t tend to follow recipes nowadays unless I bake. I am the same with crafts now that I’ve done a lot for so long; however, if it’s something I don’t do often or new that I want to try I have to go step by step until it’s completed.

YAY 😘🍄

I don’t want to live here anymore but I could never take action…. And I am too deep in the suffering to step up for myself…

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It's interesting how Bernadette moves to England and you moved to America... glad you are feeling better ❤ you don't have to talk. I would still watch you.

It is encouraging to know that even someone as successful and talented as you has meltdowns too.

"What if your definition of perfect had to do with how much of yourself it is?" That leads me back to when I ask myself, "When I am gone, who is going to care about any of this? Who is going to care about the stories?" I have no heirs. If my siblings don't even want the things my mother made, they certainly won't want anything I have made (except for their wedding quilts and baby things I made when my nieces/nephews were born).

I am so grateful for all of your emotional support videos, for lack of a better term. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Good for you! Best wishes to your successors at Foundations Revealed, and best wishes for you in pursuing other projects!

this is going to be a beautiful coat with wonderful craftsmanship. thank you for sharing this ❤

I always enormously enjoy your free content but I totally understand why everything you share is not free. You're an entrepreneur who has to make a living and to pay for the wages for a lot of people to make their living as well. But even if you weren't an employer, you have spent years and years building up your professional skills and know-how to a top notch, why on earth should you just give it away for free ? I'm a copper jewellery hobbyist (not even a professional!) and I don't give stuff away for free on the very few crafts fairs per year that I attend. Why? Because I've put in hours and hours of work while learning and doing, I pay for the materials, the VAT, the shipping, the packaging... so even if it's just a hobby for me, I expect to get back at least what I've invested in making my items, and then some. So there is no reason for you to feel bad for selling your own and your team's expertise. I wish you all success!

How touching. Remarkable.

Hi, @CathyHay. I'm 5 min into the video and I had to stop the video to comment. I apologise if this might come out as too intrusive, as it's about your voice. I can physically see in your throat muscles the effort you make and I ache with you in empathy. My voice isn't great nor "normal", but it's my voice after 15 years of speech therapy. Of course, this does NOT make me an expert in speech therapy. But I had to take those 15 years because I was born Deaf (actually, I have partial hearing, so technically I would be a hard-of-hearing). I would not have learned to speak otherwise. (But I would have acquired a language anyway, if my parents knew also sign language). Your situation, however, is extremely different: you acquired English since birth and you learned to speak simply by listening to people talking around you and by interacting with other English speakers. So you would not need 15 years to re-educate yourself to use better your vocal chords and your breath to avoid straining your voice, with the help of a licensed speech therapist or an expert in English diction (the ones used by theatral actors or opera singers, for example). But I would suggest you start seeking for this type of help as soon as humanely possible, before your vocal cords get "too used" to this kind of strain or worsen. Please. Before, you had a beautiful voice, and you used it effortlessly, even when it was in a "breathy" period. Now, my empathic sense is screaming at me to tell you "please, rest that voice, go to a speech therapist, do something!". Apologies if this comment upsets you. I promise I won't write anymore comments on your voice. You, however, should promise to yourself: go seek help for your beutiful voice.

Impressive on so many levels.

My goodness, Kathy! Your voice is sounding great! it really seems like a weight has fallen from your shoulders. I can't wait to see what this new era brings to you and i'm delighted that you are taking us along for the ride!

Thank you Cathy for your video. There is something magical about you making a little error as it gives us mere mortals encouragement that we all make slips from time to time. It is really obvious that you are becoming more settled as not only is your voice getting stronger but this little error has not meant the end of the world and you still see the way forward. My great aunt years ago worked in London in a well known fashion house and she always said many a garment had a slight error that no-one ever saw ,it added to it's uniqueness .

Congratulations Cathy,You are sounding so happy and strong as you enter this new phase in your life. I am so glad your visa has finally come through and I wish you all the best as you move forward. I hope you find the peace and contentment you so deserve . I look forward to seeing what creative videos you bring us in the future with your new freedom.

Congratulations!!

Is it me ? Or is your voice better in the U.K. ? Xxx

Rewatching this for my own skirt. Wasn't sure about adding tarlatin to the hem. Talked myself out of it. Then you said it stops the skirt getting caught up around your ankles. Sold! I'm gonna use a thicker canvas, cause im at the hemming part and that's what l already have. Thanks for the heads-up! And also the bit about how to hem such a big curve without warping.

Your voice❤ Mazel tov & thank you

the lighting is good on your video, and your voice much more even than the video where your sister voiced your words. Congrats to you, Cathy Hay. "Chief Operations Officer Christina is taking over from Cathy, and she and our Editor Perin will form a two-person leadership team running the business. The UK-based employees themselves will be the owners of Harman Hay Publications Ltd from here on out." FR posted on Instagram "Cathy is moving to the US, and since FR has reached the point where it can stand on its own two feet, she wants to be able to devote more time to sewing, videos, and the Abundant Artisan." I wish you luck in your future adventures and I pray the US Immigration does Not allow you to 'move to the US" or engage in business in The US. Honestly i felt i had NOT been paying attention to my FR membership when i read FR post on Instagram two days ago, then The Penny Dropped - I have NOT been paying attention from the first day i began to Follow you; then you and Bernadette Banner, and all of your Costume friends - i stopped Following BB couple years ago when you two parted ways, because i thought She was a Fraud. Yesterday after reading FR post, I was lead to information as to WHY you and Bernadette parted ways, ergo i had the wrong Fraud. I was mistaken to continue FR membership after March 2023. I have no interest to continue to Support you or to Follow anything you do, Cathy Hay. 20Jun2024