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Sashiko

Category: <span>Sashiko</span>

If you can sew a running stitch, you can embroider beautiful Sashiko patterns! Try your hand at visible mending – or stitching up a brand new project. The ancient Japanese folk art is perfect a perfect way to practice a meditative slow-stitch and you can learn how with a Sashiko needle, Sashiko thread and fabric. It’s an addicting, portable, take-with-you technique.

Getting Started Stitching Sashiko

Sashiko Placemats

Beginner’s Guide to Sashiko Supplies

Whether a student of historical Japanese Sashiko or a Modern Creative just looking for an easy, enjoyable slow stitching project, Sashiko might be “it”. All you need are simple sashiko...

Sashiko Stitching Complete

How to Sashiko Stitch: A Step-by-Step Guide

Sometimes I want to get a project done really fast, but lately I have picked up a hand stitching project when I want to unwind. The slow, meditative process of...

Knot sashiko bag

Easy Weekend Sashiko Projects

In a fast-paced, plugged-in world, it’s so easy to lose track of how the things we use everyday came to be. Even though today’s versions are largely machine made, human...

More Sashiko

Sashiko Ornaments Set 1

How to Make Sashiko Ornaments

Making Sashiko ornaments is a great way to see what the slow-stitch movement is all about. It's slow stitch, to be sure, but the projects are so small you can…
Knot sashiko bag

Easy Weekend Sashiko Projects

Sashiko stitching is not only beautiful and steeped in tradition, its practice is meditative, so it's almost a form of self-care.
Sashiko Stitching Complete

How to Sashiko Stitch: A Step-by-Step Guide

Sometimes I want to get a project done really fast, but lately I have picked up a hand stitching project when I want to unwind. The slow, meditative process of…
Salish

Spotlight: Sylvia Pippen, Sashiko & Applique Designer

Enter the world of Sylvia Pippen to discover intricate nature-inspired designs of rich color formed with appliqué and sashiko. She learned from the best, her mother Kitty Pippen, who encouraged…
Carol Ziogas: four square sashiko sampler

Spotlight: Carol Ziogas, Textile & Sashiko Artist

Carol Ziogas has been sewing most of her life, and became a self-employed artist at 17! She loves to collect textiles and books about textiles, and discovered a love for…

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