Things you can stitch when you are home and desperate for things you can stitch!
So just stitch.
Don't be defeated just because you can't go to a sewing store for supplies. You have all sorts of good things to stitch in your house! And don't be shy to try any crazy idea you have. You're in self isolation, when will there ever be a better time to find out what you can really do with a threaded needle?
View full article →New Sashiko Patches & Kokka Fabrics
2020! I wish you all a year of happy stitching and sewing adventures!
This is just a quick little blog to show you some new pre-printed ready to stitch sashiko fabric designs, and some new fabrics that will work well used with them....
5 Ways to transfer a Sashiko design onto fabric (3 of 5 Use the fabric's weave)
This is the most creative idea I have for how to get a sashiko design onto fabric ready for stitching.
Boro Mending
Hand stitching, no matter how basic, makes an object feel valuable.
Understanding the roots, learning the techniques, then expanding the borders is how arts and crafts stay alive, thrive and grow...
Sashiko? Kogin? Hitomezashi? Boro? What are we stitching?
Which one are you stitching?
Sashiko? Kogin? Hitomezashi? Boro?
What all 4 techniques have in common, and how they differ...
View full article →How to boro stitch a patch
If you have been reading my Boro stitching bog posts, by now you may be want to try it out....
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How do you know it's Japanese Boro?
Although Boro is the Japanese name for a type of mending, stitching, reinforcing and extending the life of used fabric, every culture has this practice in it's history. Before cloth was mass produced
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Boro Group on Facebook
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