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Why it is important to leave some looseness in your sashiko stitching
Why it is important to leave some looseness in your sashiko stitching?
If I come back to this again and again when explaining sashiko stitching, it is because it worries me!
As your stitching progresses you are adding a lot of fat thread in between the threads of the fabric...
How to stitch the Asagao sampler (Kugurizashi Sashiko Style)
This blog will show you how to stitch Asagao, a Kugurizashi Sashiko pattern in english with photographs :-)
The design looks complex, but broken down to a step at a time, it is easy enough to do...
What is Hitomezashi and how to do it
Although these stitching patterns can look challenging, they share the same simplicity as all Sashiko designs.
They are made by stitching simple straight stitches in lines across the fabric. The stitching is done by stitching first all the horizontal lines, then all the vertical lines, then all the diagonal lines. The pattern emerges as the single stitches accumulate.
Skeined sashiko threads & how not to end in a tangled mess!
Skeined sashiko threads & how not to end in a tangled mess!
Here I am all ready to settle in and stitch miles of Sashiko and I realise that every thread I need is going to be a project itself to get off the skein! Argh!
Here is the solve for this frustrating problem:
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