Japanese quilts sashiko

In yesterday’s post, I described 3 different traditional crafts that share one common thread, the running stitch : Kantha, Boro and Sashiko. Kantha and Boro are traditional patchwork from Ind…

My daughter, Rachel , DM'd me over the weekend about " 24 Days of Sashiko " with sashiko.lab , so of course I went to take a look and was im...

Learn how to create sashiko stitches, the decorative, handmade stitches that are the essence of Japanese Boro fabric-making and repairing.

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My mom was a hand quilter, which makes it logical that after watching her enjoy it for so many years, I’d come to appreciate handwork, too. The slow pace, the gentle and rhythmic stitching, …

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I love boro stitching. I love the feel of pulling thread through cloth. I love the 'rule-less-ness' of it, and the minimalism of it. I love picking bits of cloth for their colours and textures and then stitching them together until I have a new big piece of fabric. Scrap fabrics, a needle, some thread, that's it.

So having finished my latest Dropcloth sampler, and with no quilts to bind, I needed a handwork project to work on during QuiltCon lectur...