How to Stitch the Honeycomb Hitomezashi Sashiko Cloth

 Another of the beautiful sashiko designs with multiple hitomezashi designs. This one is called Honeycomb.  The instructions that come with it are in Japanese so I hope this this blog will help. It does have good diagram instructions in the package which are also helpful

Many of us enjoy stitching the 12" x 12" ready to stitch preprinted sashiko sampler designs made by Olympus, Japan. We just aren't sure what they are for! Recently new ones came available and the header on them calls them Hana-fukin, so I looked it up.

Hana-fukin is the name for a useful household cloth.  It could be a tea towel or dish cloth, or a clean square of cloth to put under a meal, or use in the center of a table, or to cover a bowl of fruit or eggs, or to cover cooling cookies or cake....