I knew this project would require a lot of time, so I started early and worked on it a little bit for weeks!
I used a piece of Japanese silk for a base, and stitched along the lines of the pattern with lots of different threads, even a thin gold thread from Japan. But all that work really doesn't show.
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| Sashiko stitching embellishes a piece of Japanese resist-dyed silk. |
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| Close-up of the stitching. |
And from the beginning, I planned for this to be just one block in a sampler quilt I am working on, so it is not quilted and bound.
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| The sashiko-enhanced fabric will be one block of a sampler quilt. |
I enjoyed the hours of hand stitching but I don't think I achieved any great effects. You can read more about the research I did on this technique, and how I made it, and my home blog textileranger.com.
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