tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41245591562451315842024-03-16T09:39:25.115+00:00sashiko and other stitchingMy patchwork, quilting, sashiko, kimono and costuming life (plus a few other things!) - check here for all my latest news (and occasional nonsense)Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.comBlogger1600125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-11768527712786783592024-01-01T18:10:00.001+00:002024-01-01T18:10:06.043+00:00Happy New Year 2024 - and new project ideas<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi99La-MUHZn_0MRUaBeLFTW4Ax_Ma1_0fW5pQ0U5dUyyN_HwgGAzvV6_lXrrNAmwTdZwmWNZ4pyEX_y9LZozlLgASNKwvegQ3kbt3isXNnTG0DOrLCNZK9UAELUWpbvWghl4TK3P4GIHHRkQmnIEzbD9wqXG9cfLNmZ9TvupQHdICNyl9HH2cxpq1lm-8/s4032/D109253E-5818-4947-A491-BD8360E4C03E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi99La-MUHZn_0MRUaBeLFTW4Ax_Ma1_0fW5pQ0U5dUyyN_HwgGAzvV6_lXrrNAmwTdZwmWNZ4pyEX_y9LZozlLgASNKwvegQ3kbt3isXNnTG0DOrLCNZK9UAELUWpbvWghl4TK3P4GIHHRkQmnIEzbD9wqXG9cfLNmZ9TvupQHdICNyl9HH2cxpq1lm-8/w400-h300/D109253E-5818-4947-A491-BD8360E4C03E.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I haven't posted on Blogger for a while. Compared with Facebook, it is more fiddly to do, and to add photos, plus with all the work of maintaining more than half a dozen Facebook groups, and my website news letters leaves me with now much time over for writing up more here. But it is always easier to find things later on a blog, and it is a very handy place to host photos etc.!<br /><br />Rather than trying to do a huge recap, I'll just jump in where I'm at now. <br /><br />I have been thinking about the idea of a temperature quilt in sashiko ever since once of my former Stockton sashiko students mentioned it. Today, I added a fabric pack to my website's 'Twelve Days of Christmas' special sales event that I've put together for a sashiko temperature quilt. Since I was sorting out fabrics for myself, I figured I might as well do packs for sale! <br /><p class="eCUCF_" data-hook="description" style="text-align: left;"></p><p>I chose <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/kofu-tsumugi-temperature-fq-pack">twelve Kofu Tsumugi fat quarters</a> shading through from cool blues to warm reds and purples, via greens and yellow, to make my version of a 'temperature quilt' in sashiko - using one 3 1/2in square per day, the fabric representing the daytime high temperature, and the sashiko thread shading in colours to represent the night time low temperature. Using one fabric colour for three degrees, there are enough colours to allow for a variation of 36ºC, but if you live in a place with less variation, like I do, you could use one colour per 2ºC increment instead. More about that in a moment!<br /><br />How do you work out the colours for a temperature quilt? You could record the daily high and low temperature yourself (that's the most work!), or take the information from online weather forecast sites like <u><a href="https://www.accuweather.com/" target="_blank">accuweather.com</a></u> which has historical temperature records for many locations worldwide. <u><a href="https://temperature-blanket.com/" target="_blank">temperature-blanket.com</a></u> is very helpful, including more links to historical temperature records but also having visualisation tools where you can choose colours (from knitting yarn swatches), temperature increments, and a blanket/quilt generator so you can get an impression of how your quilt is going to look. Of course, if you think the temperature range where you live isn't very dramatic (ours isn't!), you can always use a different location. I'm planning to make mine using the temperatures from Shōnai, Japan, where I used to live, which is warmer in summer than Perthshire, but slightly colder in winter.<br /><br />Colours I chose are (cold to hot) - deep blue purple 2508, indigo blue 2008, teal blue 2507, light blue (slate blue) 2506, dark green 2004, green 2505, light grey (taupe) 2501, mustard yellow 2007, russet 2503, brick red 2002, deep red 2003, and bright purple 2513. Depending on the temperature variation where you live, you may need a little extra of some colours.<br /></p><p>If you live somewhere with a very wide variation in daytime temperatures or you want to use one fabric per 2ºC increment, you could extend the number of fabrics with a second 'extender' assortment, with various greys and a softer pink and lilac. Since Olympus brought out the new shades in the Kofu Tsumugi range last year, it is possible to have enough shades to do this.<br /></p><p>Kofu Tsumugi is a richly coloured yarn dyed tsumugi cotton fabric from Olympus Thread Mfg. Co., good for sashiko, patchwork, bag making and other projects. It is the same fabric used for <u><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/olympus-sashiko-panels" target="_blank">my pre printed sashiko panels</a></u>. The coloured warp and black weft gives this fabric a deep colour, with little slubs to add texture and character. The weave is loose enough to easily stitch sashiko with fine or medium sashiko threads but close enough to be able to do quite fine patchwork piecing. Ideal for wearables, furoshiki wrapping cloths etc. I've used it again and again. It was the fabric I used for the kasuri and sashiko kamon crest sampler I made for Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match over 15 years ago, which shows it is good for fine piecing as well as for sashiko.<br /><br />Next, which blocks to choose? I wanted fairly simple ones. I don't think there's much chance of me stitching one block per day, and I'll probably be doing them in batches, but I liked the idea of cycling through seven different designs - one for each day of the week. I wanted simple designs that would work nicely on the smaller 3 1/2in square format, but still look like there was enough variety to give interest. I'll probably mix them up a bit more, so I don't have two squares next to each other for example, but these are the seven I've chosen (photos edited from my blocks for Sashiko 365).<br /><br />To make the maths easy and have the designs fit nicely, I am using a mixture of imperial and metric for the marking.<br /></p><p> 1) On a 1cm grid - <br /></p><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6z0mBIM82YX9n_hikY5YrAzaeqhU66eFoSUsjQffrGNH_4bL7B8scU9eREktaBJlV5W_1oe4TTRej9a9gCxESyhFYScOyfOxKU128qfnDnvtps6rpn-Ew3eImrdUQG_DwH4-XWkP0Ca2GU3jPPrUgBx4qA5uEc0DzaV74xWmEXzWpkYnfcJFZ8RlpuQ/s1149/F2F8F382-BEE6-4211-8536-90707A471107.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="1118" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6z0mBIM82YX9n_hikY5YrAzaeqhU66eFoSUsjQffrGNH_4bL7B8scU9eREktaBJlV5W_1oe4TTRej9a9gCxESyhFYScOyfOxKU128qfnDnvtps6rpn-Ew3eImrdUQG_DwH4-XWkP0Ca2GU3jPPrUgBx4qA5uEc0DzaV74xWmEXzWpkYnfcJFZ8RlpuQ/w389-h400/F2F8F382-BEE6-4211-8536-90707A471107.jpeg" width="389" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>2) On a 1.5cm grid (this is a quarter of the original design over 8cm, so each section will end up with three stitches rather than 2).<br /></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqsKGyHsWsErqxu5zcPImq_ikTXUy_1mt5nYoiWqdlyI45Td5YoNNEOOp33umvyYH9uECwaPGQbIYnjnprbg80wWqEIIMvr9xONxVnU0-u_G3xqNQy0v6zENA4s7_Z1zLfdw11-iPEMMg1iIv3myUhTeMTGEddcRyKFIKAO-WP22BLtMRtk0V-dodxXA/s613/C7B3ECDF-90A3-47BC-985C-77FE3CA1F534.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqsKGyHsWsErqxu5zcPImq_ikTXUy_1mt5nYoiWqdlyI45Td5YoNNEOOp33umvyYH9uECwaPGQbIYnjnprbg80wWqEIIMvr9xONxVnU0-u_G3xqNQy0v6zENA4s7_Z1zLfdw11-iPEMMg1iIv3myUhTeMTGEddcRyKFIKAO-WP22BLtMRtk0V-dodxXA/w399-h400/C7B3ECDF-90A3-47BC-985C-77FE3CA1F534.jpeg" width="399" /></a></div></div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>3) On a 2cm grid, so slightly smaller than here, which is on a 1in (2.5cm)grid.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWTW2q1LEd7AlHKSZLmSTGq06LWoSQsHYvLhlreOopwa_CC9wlMRkYnQW8jtkXR4Ob_Mbi9w8bMtAiTZZQ04nBiCcitn_CrUe7KtxUN4DO_0ysVDXZwsbXzDtNzeIzCO9XOr0oxgjSRmfsImL4FnchfOtL5jn00LZkGzL28KSOl-iCfe9a20zOjTNRww/s1306/C2E5B590-192F-40A3-8A14-B693D17872C6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="1306" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWTW2q1LEd7AlHKSZLmSTGq06LWoSQsHYvLhlreOopwa_CC9wlMRkYnQW8jtkXR4Ob_Mbi9w8bMtAiTZZQ04nBiCcitn_CrUe7KtxUN4DO_0ysVDXZwsbXzDtNzeIzCO9XOr0oxgjSRmfsImL4FnchfOtL5jn00LZkGzL28KSOl-iCfe9a20zOjTNRww/w400-h381/C2E5B590-192F-40A3-8A14-B693D17872C6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div> </div><div>4) On a 1/2in grid, so finished motif is 2 1/2in across.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PK7rZNuc8b54jj_M-wbk7b_daRB6E-3qdnCCnF9tMa8MJKwWwqodGVRS5vgORIJBgD_ylzBeHmm6BQULQY1QJl9LkPOXpx04A2PxoxoxgNg58HntP2oYtoGC3yYrbiGJzco0afsTvyI4lf6-lFxPGR09PmX_LXt0SKvG6Kq_QyEFYs4rQaFkoqKJnUs/s949/18753530-9BD4-4BD5-9A3B-C292BF426E55.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="949" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PK7rZNuc8b54jj_M-wbk7b_daRB6E-3qdnCCnF9tMa8MJKwWwqodGVRS5vgORIJBgD_ylzBeHmm6BQULQY1QJl9LkPOXpx04A2PxoxoxgNg58HntP2oYtoGC3yYrbiGJzco0afsTvyI4lf6-lFxPGR09PmX_LXt0SKvG6Kq_QyEFYs4rQaFkoqKJnUs/w400-h400/18753530-9BD4-4BD5-9A3B-C292BF426E55.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div> </div><div>5) Using a 6cm circle and a 3cm grid.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpy3mReyak0bgw51XmcEt87ZkDPmBOCYU6MXgrL9kIwLM8Jp-9u5wiYjyUh0r7NZjTKSDdpDOHUcWHT-m8ejpDW1vA3dzsaQxHO7P4TW-kG2snU72PV9kpUeMeSKNWE_NQuAydcCHLPswDjwvstUxTqPZUHHvjwYu6GQggyveAZtbF-jSM9aiDxM5RC8Y/s1431/089ADB4B-B598-4D6E-9A67-821E5A84B82F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1431" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpy3mReyak0bgw51XmcEt87ZkDPmBOCYU6MXgrL9kIwLM8Jp-9u5wiYjyUh0r7NZjTKSDdpDOHUcWHT-m8ejpDW1vA3dzsaQxHO7P4TW-kG2snU72PV9kpUeMeSKNWE_NQuAydcCHLPswDjwvstUxTqPZUHHvjwYu6GQggyveAZtbF-jSM9aiDxM5RC8Y/w400-h395/089ADB4B-B598-4D6E-9A67-821E5A84B82F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div>6) On a 1.5cm x 3cm grid. This asanoha (hemp leaf) motif is on a 2cm x 4cm grid. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzbIwN93spx1XipiY5-xJfRmuJyD1LL7_J4xmUKOJa_2alAW-YcczbZbpu0YeHuIoCrbZg1rHC5m9eKCAwXD_7uh-lRgrbkLquCLLV68wkeRH7YPodb3wEWcq41dIwfJgk7joe10CpZRzsdOGLDAuRAoTYBdY65qvoXx7lmg8iJ67PlEZYdPUy3ZUg7s/s1307/4B839EDB-B565-4FA3-AA9A-37B706C8DD00.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="1307" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzbIwN93spx1XipiY5-xJfRmuJyD1LL7_J4xmUKOJa_2alAW-YcczbZbpu0YeHuIoCrbZg1rHC5m9eKCAwXD_7uh-lRgrbkLquCLLV68wkeRH7YPodb3wEWcq41dIwfJgk7joe10CpZRzsdOGLDAuRAoTYBdY65qvoXx7lmg8iJ67PlEZYdPUy3ZUg7s/w400-h396/4B839EDB-B565-4FA3-AA9A-37B706C8DD00.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div> </div><div>7) The other version of shippō (seven treasures), using the 6cm circle and 3cm grid again.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJA_agYGRP03op2p5POnCkHnLXAPa2jhRt6Oz9qFMGPokzNFXoQj2Xlq-PMMfG-5RgpZyLQ10l36BIcdhOAsEk58uYWnMirE9J7Fg8s64d2u03JywWCyHB3Lca9uOLK0ztV_gXW6XI6Tb9zlmZjWQdsElFII1IZvI3SexrZDQCUwkrhAUuF4_9QMcq_pU/s1407/2F7DA8C1-3E02-43D0-A79C-B835BA605D73.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="1407" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJA_agYGRP03op2p5POnCkHnLXAPa2jhRt6Oz9qFMGPokzNFXoQj2Xlq-PMMfG-5RgpZyLQ10l36BIcdhOAsEk58uYWnMirE9J7Fg8s64d2u03JywWCyHB3Lca9uOLK0ztV_gXW6XI6Tb9zlmZjWQdsElFII1IZvI3SexrZDQCUwkrhAUuF4_9QMcq_pU/w400-h360/2F7DA8C1-3E02-43D0-A79C-B835BA605D73.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br />Other than the changes to grid and circle stize, I will be stitching these the same as in Sashiko 365, but I will be using medium sashiko thread to get the colour range I want for the shading. Planned colours are <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-thread-100m">100m sashiko thread</a> in #112 turquoise, #108 light blue, #101 antique white, #115 creamy white, #102 cream, #106 yellow ochre, #111 golden yellow. Between #102 and #106, I'll include <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/a7-mellow-yellow-40m-medium-sashiko-thread" target="_blank">#A7 mellow yellow</a>. <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/a4-baby-40m-medium-sashiko-thread">#A4 baby blue</a> might also make a good transition between #101 and #112.<br /><br />I will try to post some photos once I have a few squares stitched. <br /><p></p></div>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-7273689279063087432023-09-19T13:26:00.004+01:002023-09-19T13:48:58.385+01:00About time I started blogging again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVwuxnBmyOt4Xc0iVIesljDyT-3RfmE_sSp1nGxqOxWPT7EnKEz3ZFZJzbxBHPpDsxRaGWwsMhTLUNzGVPrmAon514N5nwLCFvqSKUG8v89cCtCPcKIiVEMq5DewFBSy_cVTtJNaf4CV2RWzdWRWSwdz8Al0g7oAybsmThXmTOfyYV4vIx9KBkAqJkmU/s850/H-1103_Honeycomb%20coloured.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/w400-h400/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Sorry for the long absence! I seem to be so busy with so much other online stuff these days. Keeping my website <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com">www.susanbriscoe.com</a>
up to date and running a mail order business takes a lot of time, and a
lot of the material I probably would have used here previously ends up
in the form of my website newsletters - so that's one copy and paste job
I could do to 'feed the blog' a lot more. If you want to be kept up to
date with news, it is best to join my newsletter.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I'm also very
busy with the sashiko, kogin, and boro inspired groups I run on
Facebook, plus a dolls house group, the Welsh quilts group, and the
World Textile Day group on FB... and then there's Instagram, where I'm
always forgetting to post photos! <br /><br />My plan is to start using my
blog for step by step photos of sashiko pieces I'm stitching, plus
getting back to the sashiko sampler quilt project.<br /><br />The most recent panel I've finished is <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/search-results?q=honeycomb" target="_blank">'Honeycomb'</a>, one of the Olympus 'la bouquetière' hanafukin sashiko sampler series. Although I arranged my thread colours slightly differently from the kit version (above), I chose similar colours (see the step by step photos below). I was thinking of chocolate honeycomb candy, horrible gooey, crunchy stuff that my dad used to love! Olympus also made the pink and lilac version below.<br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4gPxud484yox6RuRnc4UCM-uJXqB5-pVdxP9cfXbndG5OgwWX0EyJ3Gvbot9moST5Ck_0S8dqyOuXXJs8r_PbwZacfnKOh6ZmCl9d88N2GtNoIsMZgMraeGevaeIl1O75AITB7WyAPSQs3RWHuLyuJoYYXilMn0nOS0RJyqZko_qRhkiDiVq2eKSemg/s1500/SK-430%20Honeycomb%20kit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="850" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVwuxnBmyOt4Xc0iVIesljDyT-3RfmE_sSp1nGxqOxWPT7EnKEz3ZFZJzbxBHPpDsxRaGWwsMhTLUNzGVPrmAon514N5nwLCFvqSKUG8v89cCtCPcKIiVEMq5DewFBSy_cVTtJNaf4CV2RWzdWRWSwdz8Al0g7oAybsmThXmTOfyYV4vIx9KBkAqJkmU/w400-h400/H-1103_Honeycomb%20coloured.JPG" width="400" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">You can really play around with different colour and thread combinations on these panels. <br /><br />The number in the black dot on the packet tells you how many 20m skeins you would need to stitch the panel in just one colour... of course, you need to allow a little more when you start playing around with different colours!<br /></div><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiy9lXLxzXk9jhPjDkwJEgV4pA1jOBljtz2sHc1x58rkS5LQO-QPDwU5EdyupUswrlkH1O0wJ9FbgyvG4AASs0D9fv11csOlyoaSLthCSukHh8B0xF49UIQOMcBd2CWQ7lr0HNaB-oSyw2_5VWrkH-lTob4zl5FQke_iKHGHS6W6vXu_kvVgPBUw6u3A/w400-h400/H-1103_honeycomb%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7aNtXiAuqWHxE_6VbPP-M7rKlWwAg97AsM7kM6SraYqFHHr7pq7KrLz1UAiNRL3_TyDoI-drNh0nhd4qpp6oujEgrGgive3WmttcLrxXgGuvA6dxcpwUsiRSJANyERdSxUfxdZPjHEm8imvcV9rCts6hHHH8EPAkFNMT3h4YbDLmhVrzFLpHJRSSd4Jk/s1500/H-1103_Honeycomb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7aNtXiAuqWHxE_6VbPP-M7rKlWwAg97AsM7kM6SraYqFHHr7pq7KrLz1UAiNRL3_TyDoI-drNh0nhd4qpp6oujEgrGgive3WmttcLrxXgGuvA6dxcpwUsiRSJANyERdSxUfxdZPjHEm8imvcV9rCts6hHHH8EPAkFNMT3h4YbDLmhVrzFLpHJRSSd4Jk/w400-h400/H-1103_Honeycomb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>What is a hanafukin? Find the answer <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/olympus-sashiko-sampler-squares" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />They all have instructions on how to stitch them, in Japanese, with very good diagrams. Sometimes when I'm stitching these, I use a different stitch sequence to get the thread colour effect I want. This is how I stitched the panel (below).<br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaHkm0dfG0AZ2csq4rks9Aw7RLpdtgu_8DCNa064P0kEVjx1dSpBVpC_H073tMZwH4alrJIE1eGIEI-X37YT86xJdY4JImv4fSt6YWzN_zwVPw0VhOSCr0fPyzCHflwIabaUfzW7LzQoeHFYylbCs-YJ9Vcl2vLs3A5gTDaphuEgsXrB7qd_ZYmTbkyA/s3185/IMG_2466.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2101" data-original-width="3185" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaHkm0dfG0AZ2csq4rks9Aw7RLpdtgu_8DCNa064P0kEVjx1dSpBVpC_H073tMZwH4alrJIE1eGIEI-X37YT86xJdY4JImv4fSt6YWzN_zwVPw0VhOSCr0fPyzCHflwIabaUfzW7LzQoeHFYylbCs-YJ9Vcl2vLs3A5gTDaphuEgsXrB7qd_ZYmTbkyA/w400-h264/IMG_2466.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4F-Ki5HFNLVFjq65imrau4-7gEc3PS0jmTrrJQ9qc2c2MAcD-KFvvMbkq0FNjSA7yXcHGvUx1wkQ-DrduWyffrG7G0lRCefSj18DLNhAYJHt6zOZN8tfeRBOH-QC3oOhLFUr8mnKMixxpjniTwehOfsJnJ840aSfRR6SLuebyOrMpn3eNBlgjjJsuiso/s3555/IMG_2467.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPbzeRkb8KRhprMwH-sRbExtTE3Rq9_JPaa2JokOy4U8QqaC2N0Y7kKSkLlqQq_WYhFibAntsvqiu5udSiAb29vCaL0rY17AlZbCps7GYpkOLGK2vMNZeZJyv5DOT8jzpX13PZEryZvibq55nEueOFCEcmuv0eSwfKdQmIpTpoPuioDUhOVJhadoXXC4/w400-h400/IMG_2470.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCIQsSNaHFjYX31ET14Q2kYJeQme3f4vAz9x9Q2IgBq2l9Vf9dD_Nvu1odF16nuVm2wvMYpLv54UDiy51RsHnp3Xp07KgYrD3L-kn6slU58vmL2mcPU5bQ0GSS5rYfBxTdrzVfGME1Gw2SN6ZpbvSoWogyUU5mUQ5f_nLN2BeJ6kRolQTn0bqNQo42Tk/s3709/IMG_2477.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2009" data-original-width="3709" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCIQsSNaHFjYX31ET14Q2kYJeQme3f4vAz9x9Q2IgBq2l9Vf9dD_Nvu1odF16nuVm2wvMYpLv54UDiy51RsHnp3Xp07KgYrD3L-kn6slU58vmL2mcPU5bQ0GSS5rYfBxTdrzVfGME1Gw2SN6ZpbvSoWogyUU5mUQ5f_nLN2BeJ6kRolQTn0bqNQo42Tk/w400-h216/IMG_2477.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This is how the border section looks from the back, when the first rows have been stitched.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Fingers crossed everything will settle down. I don't have the energy levels that I used to but I'm still getting lots done. I had a lot of problems with post herpetic neuralgia after shingles in October 2021, and in October 2022, I ended up with the first of two fractured vertebrae, thanks to a combination of long term steroids and two accidents involving large amounts of heavy fabric bolts. But all is much better now.<br /><br />These days, I mostly take photos of work on my phone, and it can be a fiddle to put those onto the blog. Google, in its wisdom, axed the Blogger app a few years ago, so I have to upload photos by using the website edit feature on either the phone or iPad. They usually end up in the wrong order...! But with abit of tweaking, they will make sense. So I will add some in a moment.<br /><br />Anyway, good to be back here!<br /><p></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-83878873076468147312022-02-16T12:27:00.002+00:002022-02-16T12:27:30.341+00:00Making drawstring loops for a Japanese style bag<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTVOwZMx_zFE63i1z-_U_bWiYqXRbv6kQaUuNUF5DdQa-lwjhaOPTUDSPd1d_Cig_UpwhLMwaS9hfOEGkELtVF4kfvCQ-odlrVVqyfd1EI_AULP-Vc2WDpxW5N-wiCEPEdgbc3gUk8XokzTb_SMcXX6WwidwQidE6NX2QQxjHC8HusgnwbBSqxKJId=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="320" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTVOwZMx_zFE63i1z-_U_bWiYqXRbv6kQaUuNUF5DdQa-lwjhaOPTUDSPd1d_Cig_UpwhLMwaS9hfOEGkELtVF4kfvCQ-odlrVVqyfd1EI_AULP-Vc2WDpxW5N-wiCEPEdgbc3gUk8XokzTb_SMcXX6WwidwQidE6NX2QQxjHC8HusgnwbBSqxKJId=w400-h284" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Many traditional Japanese komebukuro (rice bags) or kinchaku (drawstring bags) have a series of cord loops around the top, instead of having a drawstring channel. I have several antique bags in my collection with this kind of finish. These loops are very easy to make, but you do need a good strong cord to make the loops - a fine synthetic chainette or the 'Asian' cord sold for making decorative knotwork is ideal (now available from my online store). </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYFgw6DWJUzzWceAVZM3GMWV5jx0HzxK5HHU3SdTGRJQVFlZJpfi93nqGOPVgP6qLSTvMX1SNVc00t5mmtBBJ3ga1MyrM_15pP0EjygZoff5l09PeYdgn380CJ2D7i4cmBXpmJ2CXNuzdcFMoxkZyiw2JR-jPKcyTATf7y-uVhOrdkCOfN4c_u_lSz=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz83jXXih3hT0fPS4T6WHQhOLH06xDeVZIlqsilXgT0EgSt1rFJCB-rDjCtF0MBY217VGBTf6K8FQOhvmc8jqNPf9cdDageyS8jy3aGkHU6o01qiADWBV79wfKzdABdxDADut3DPRkNgUgtG89g7K7GVJVZrkpNNaltfTCKpP36END8vwXXzxo3BoL=s966" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="966" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz83jXXih3hT0fPS4T6WHQhOLH06xDeVZIlqsilXgT0EgSt1rFJCB-rDjCtF0MBY217VGBTf6K8FQOhvmc8jqNPf9cdDageyS8jy3aGkHU6o01qiADWBV79wfKzdABdxDADut3DPRkNgUgtG89g7K7GVJVZrkpNNaltfTCKpP36END8vwXXzxo3BoL=w400-h214" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Tie a double knot in the end of the fine cord and thread a large, sharp needle with it.<span> </span>To start sewing the
loops at the top of your bag, take the needle and cord up between the lining and the outer fabric at the top edge of the bag. Push the needle through the fabric, to
come out about 3mm (an eighth of an inch) below the top of the edge <i>on the outside of the bag. </i>Pull the cord through the fabric - it may need a bit of a wiggle!<span> </span>Stitch back through the top edge of the bag
in the centre of the next chirimen strip, from front to back.<span> </span>Bring the needle back under the long cord
loop you have just made(from the back to the front) and stitch through the
fabric again, this time from back to front – as if making a blanket stitch, and then a reverse blanket stitch, b<span></span>ring the needle up through
the loop you have just stitched and tighten up the stitch.<span> </span>Make another long loop and continue around
the top of your bag.<span> </span>The loops should
lie almost flat along the top edge.<span>
</span>Secure the last loop in place but do not bring the needle through to the
right side at the end of the stitch.<span>
</span>Take the remainder of the cord through to in between the bag outer and lining, and secure it with a double knot.<span> </span></span></span></span><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA0Igb_bLikh1BlQjwmkfbhRh9hxgdjeJjH8DPbuOl8Zkz88zfYnVKsgTbwt9EZLOxEfT0chj4YWhC4yquGmDLcXDQRTKm46tLBtHQ7BHnzsIPfR00az7Bx9oPUDGkZngovSCkd9fXc3XbQqqEILId4XjGNrcVbKIjdXAQO6BtD5OeHQhvJAhpiWrv=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA0Igb_bLikh1BlQjwmkfbhRh9hxgdjeJjH8DPbuOl8Zkz88zfYnVKsgTbwt9EZLOxEfT0chj4YWhC4yquGmDLcXDQRTKm46tLBtHQ7BHnzsIPfR00az7Bx9oPUDGkZngovSCkd9fXc3XbQqqEILId4XjGNrcVbKIjdXAQO6BtD5OeHQhvJAhpiWrv=w196-h400" width="196" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvwQjQHfhJI9h0IfGzb5PlfQqRfjsJvNSYeZU9CJFesSNIeQUPumbnbYNXe2fX79gbj1VET0MZ3JbfyQE0z1aajnQr_OeCaDbFbOylIV41sLBTMIeSbK_z8qdL7olX0X5FHi08CcczJAHYwUolGjS-C1Q_9-2PEDSRI7mtCUyN1gSxD2fSv1mrMPQB=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="765" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvwQjQHfhJI9h0IfGzb5PlfQqRfjsJvNSYeZU9CJFesSNIeQUPumbnbYNXe2fX79gbj1VET0MZ3JbfyQE0z1aajnQr_OeCaDbFbOylIV41sLBTMIeSbK_z8qdL7olX0X5FHi08CcczJAHYwUolGjS-C1Q_9-2PEDSRI7mtCUyN1gSxD2fSv1mrMPQB=w204-h400" width="204" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdj7K0hSE1A8EfrFQRQyHuw1sXz-jHV50DH7MOSWDGrfHch2AfbqXB1ujELkWwMiEBOAjYVzI7IUKM01lUNJ27I9KY_n-lU3iQzN5rSYmdbkzfzujJ_4lc6xiTF_i_CMXUk35IzE7700sGWja7bU1-z8_bIqyFpUjVtNxILylgCgpKA0LA0xTvMwe=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="749" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdj7K0hSE1A8EfrFQRQyHuw1sXz-jHV50DH7MOSWDGrfHch2AfbqXB1ujELkWwMiEBOAjYVzI7IUKM01lUNJ27I9KY_n-lU3iQzN5rSYmdbkzfzujJ_4lc6xiTF_i_CMXUk35IzE7700sGWja7bU1-z8_bIqyFpUjVtNxILylgCgpKA0LA0xTvMwe=w200-h400" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG7XpSU_HGJvcEcwGxLFde5xYv2G6PGGNgVj1noxdvpXkOHrB3gFjv90r1vQRtC1-17V-gxANzwA2Gf4SYafydVQ2xMK1Ys4pdxSJc2ntE31P6ml9f84tL-UN_JqReaf_jkw56foIMvA3L2ISU9yRNROS-fs0MYOynAgNbHQvjwjtG-XZxDIO1s4O2=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="746" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG7XpSU_HGJvcEcwGxLFde5xYv2G6PGGNgVj1noxdvpXkOHrB3gFjv90r1vQRtC1-17V-gxANzwA2Gf4SYafydVQ2xMK1Ys4pdxSJc2ntE31P6ml9f84tL-UN_JqReaf_jkw56foIMvA3L2ISU9yRNROS-fs0MYOynAgNbHQvjwjtG-XZxDIO1s4O2=w199-h400" width="199" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>
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{margin-bottom:0cm;}</style> These are some of the fine cords I'm listing on the website today. The cords are polyester, very strong and won't break easily. The <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/xl-sashiko-needle-by-olympus-thread-mfg-co">XL sashiko needle from Olympus</a> is ideal for stitching these cords through the fabric. I also have thicker cords suitable for drawstrings. The perfect finishing touch for your Japanese style drawstring bag! <br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEf8VRb-YBpF7jYslP4EjOxTrNV1rOUai1jfeC7GkxWcN-cd7BDbYa1_M0KdNqRFlEBb2O07f0lHDr3X89mYhMmwtIpD1TidzLSt_BH-roQ7-AQU3fI-Thg9qua0MBGyazQV6TciduAStQJwZgM8rNdpwco4biTLY-IZmsZEpaDcJkqfMgASfpPa9A=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1083" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEf8VRb-YBpF7jYslP4EjOxTrNV1rOUai1jfeC7GkxWcN-cd7BDbYa1_M0KdNqRFlEBb2O07f0lHDr3X89mYhMmwtIpD1TidzLSt_BH-roQ7-AQU3fI-Thg9qua0MBGyazQV6TciduAStQJwZgM8rNdpwco4biTLY-IZmsZEpaDcJkqfMgASfpPa9A=w289-h400" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz-R-9Esti_Go1n-5ZQf4yh5WrPGmHGn043weKEufrzoXb2ccMYeE2Ke57hI0hCUS3oM4FlYZo4ag0m8ewWlHFkhcPks6gvvhccntH9_xrHBUZiZmlxwo9ilbSqHqJHTZ6n9K5z_MXGBwd5F4ZneLjCaJ7DOg2Qw9TL_-T_v8oxQ1Q6zS63OZwB5Qi=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1083" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz-R-9Esti_Go1n-5ZQf4yh5WrPGmHGn043weKEufrzoXb2ccMYeE2Ke57hI0hCUS3oM4FlYZo4ag0m8ewWlHFkhcPks6gvvhccntH9_xrHBUZiZmlxwo9ilbSqHqJHTZ6n9K5z_MXGBwd5F4ZneLjCaJ7DOg2Qw9TL_-T_v8oxQ1Q6zS63OZwB5Qi=w289-h400" width="289" /></a></div><br />Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-81323838083788727542022-02-01T10:31:00.001+00:002022-02-01T10:31:19.155+00:00Back after a long time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWGjboSwsg7922toIV--Dt86NfUSFGWtmcSIP3rKGr8YUjg-_oq5AobjZ9PT3rsK8XcarCZ3ELy9arFeCpLnE6-v6Tllxs3vg1w7I-7xeR1bZMfu7nlBX9X_-a9DRpnLUXDRtDki0FGlcEzPZcW_xnmC-JzEbCLN6Gs8M6L2elNaO2Cah32dMhILj1=s1489" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="1153" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWGjboSwsg7922toIV--Dt86NfUSFGWtmcSIP3rKGr8YUjg-_oq5AobjZ9PT3rsK8XcarCZ3ELy9arFeCpLnE6-v6Tllxs3vg1w7I-7xeR1bZMfu7nlBX9X_-a9DRpnLUXDRtDki0FGlcEzPZcW_xnmC-JzEbCLN6Gs8M6L2elNaO2Cah32dMhILj1=w310-h400" width="310" /></a></div><p> I haven't been posting here while I've been getting the Relapsing Polychondritis under control. I now really understand the '<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illness-explained-like-never-before#3" target="_blank">spoon theory</a>' re energy and fatigue that I've heard about from friends with ME, MS, Fibromyalgia, and other long term conditions! So I haven't got as much done in terms of new quilts - my sashiko sampler quilt along ground to a halt once I'd got several sets of blocks made, but I WILL resume it soon. Healthwise, I'm now taking Methotrexate, and I'm tapering off the Prednisolone, so most days I feel almost like the old me. I don't have the energy levels though, so can't get quite as much done. I did manage to do quite a few <a href="http://www.worldtextileday.co.uk">World Textile Days</a> last year and plan to be at all of them in 2022 (except the very first one). <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com">My online store</a> keeps me busy too, and I'm working on a new book - which will have to stay under wraps for now!<br /></p><p>So the stunning quilt in the photos isn't mine, but by Katherine Dugmore, who is a member of one of the Facebook groups I belong to. She used just three blocks from my book 'Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match' - Mitsu Tomoe (triple comma), 'Irori', and ?? (I can't spot which one this is!)<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikh9NapgQFYFQEsJnMUn86xjeDYWmQZtVY_tM1itNUbJUgy1EQJl9Bt_J70RG-alCzzxRcZ4V0EOXG8L4qEyzTqFnnYulNK4We1D5fpK97n6nTu7HLvgVWDMcvVjMAh9tgv2eZXS6UECjxlsMnLSZ8-OhIB0QRsifg7HWCJkGc5Kd2pan0AQbUphY2=s1585" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="1585" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikh9NapgQFYFQEsJnMUn86xjeDYWmQZtVY_tM1itNUbJUgy1EQJl9Bt_J70RG-alCzzxRcZ4V0EOXG8L4qEyzTqFnnYulNK4We1D5fpK97n6nTu7HLvgVWDMcvVjMAh9tgv2eZXS6UECjxlsMnLSZ8-OhIB0QRsifg7HWCJkGc5Kd2pan0AQbUphY2=s320" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ_5ZUGF_PevBaICzW3dBNidDCyeKglqOhUEM47Vq3JRWSHEsKt8Fzg8wYI_owi1Jz-mMefEixmBOAiaSrF_Kvjc5-RFmEaYXsjj6R1YGpiB3zsO8xOO0QR76EeNQ98JKR840BVGIIqWZrIP-y55n5XkADmjcOl8Yu0rZ5_IkL3PGTAPnrV-qDKPbE=s1236" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="1213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ_5ZUGF_PevBaICzW3dBNidDCyeKglqOhUEM47Vq3JRWSHEsKt8Fzg8wYI_owi1Jz-mMefEixmBOAiaSrF_Kvjc5-RFmEaYXsjj6R1YGpiB3zsO8xOO0QR76EeNQ98JKR840BVGIIqWZrIP-y55n5XkADmjcOl8Yu0rZ5_IkL3PGTAPnrV-qDKPbE=s320" width="314" /></a></div><p><br />... maybe this, modified?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWypPl6uRr4jfYNPgkwxFQK9zhy7MIkPb5ppT0b34l_HepLnNCOKgwPy0O44BXm2YtjGeCkedw9qqfrgcpMC0jkWQAaFSi-Cpw5mqqm7TzSghiqowL570z0Q1Fu5wlQuoHd4OeFkR_wJI1ayeea2oZChFo1bOmDwbN5p3Wcrmui73LSL5_BgbCzc8k=s1449" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1415" data-original-width="1449" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWypPl6uRr4jfYNPgkwxFQK9zhy7MIkPb5ppT0b34l_HepLnNCOKgwPy0O44BXm2YtjGeCkedw9qqfrgcpMC0jkWQAaFSi-Cpw5mqqm7TzSghiqowL570z0Q1Fu5wlQuoHd4OeFkR_wJI1ayeea2oZChFo1bOmDwbN5p3Wcrmui73LSL5_BgbCzc8k=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Katherine gave me permission to share the photo of her work in progress and wrote -<br /><br /><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"><i>I
had real trouble trying to find the striped fabric that would tie in
with the galaxy fabric. Then decided the central block should look sun
like so the mitsu tomoe worked really well. </i><br /><br /></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en">
I LOVED the blocks in her fabric choices, and the directonal speckled
print looks fabulous for the 'irori' blocks - a great choice. It is hard to believe that there are only three blocks and four fabrics in this quilt, because the fabrics give it such variety, especially in the irori blocks.<br /></span><br /><i><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en">The
patterned fabrics are all Crafty Cotton, the plain purple I was given
and they are all 100% cotton. The 'irori block is Rainbow Glitter for
the stripes and the planets in the centre Space 1 Multi, the tomoe
block has the Space 6 Multi with plain purple squares. There are only 4
fabrics in the quilt at the moment. All the patterned fabrics were
bought online from Abakhan fabrics hobby and home.<br /></span></span></i><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"><br />Quilting hasn't been decided yet, but I could see this working with so many ideas. This is how I quilted my original Irori quilt (which was years between piecing the top and quilting it - you can't rush these things!)<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI8xekH2hKfgSy2BZJwEstpv7b5Yxk0AQcvnGGGr52YN3mUT3fc1YquEtWRe4L_5hGoxfQlTILAfGKLeiRp66r-qs_lSGfu9jYzovEnsa_2jiRiVICmif3QJgrlK3I6DB3ESXP_YSRRte9diUjtuqdCn-yOjNJpMCcSlIuE8nSuXp4D6NuycI7CAFm=s695" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="517" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI8xekH2hKfgSy2BZJwEstpv7b5Yxk0AQcvnGGGr52YN3mUT3fc1YquEtWRe4L_5hGoxfQlTILAfGKLeiRp66r-qs_lSGfu9jYzovEnsa_2jiRiVICmif3QJgrlK3I6DB3ESXP_YSRRte9diUjtuqdCn-yOjNJpMCcSlIuE8nSuXp4D6NuycI7CAFm=s320" width="238" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBb3kIfcAT1jKK0XrDwZPJoVXZ0cq3ZZS-f2ISIv5X0HV85I0VEP5XtLx9XvgboRYPGDBWsKDdQ_Ien9A4LpJtRZV1P3SzIDuOkjSOyiXq-OSgBM19OlF-O2eFJWMIr-KCoyvof5HT3mvpTsxDYLjYJNgL5MSm1bFDmHM16AOhJEMr5zaTKRHvMOHj=s1569" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1569" data-original-width="1569" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBb3kIfcAT1jKK0XrDwZPJoVXZ0cq3ZZS-f2ISIv5X0HV85I0VEP5XtLx9XvgboRYPGDBWsKDdQ_Ien9A4LpJtRZV1P3SzIDuOkjSOyiXq-OSgBM19OlF-O2eFJWMIr-KCoyvof5HT3mvpTsxDYLjYJNgL5MSm1bFDmHM16AOhJEMr5zaTKRHvMOHj=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span>I can't wait to see how Katherine completes her quilt! It is going to be her son's 21st birthday present. Lucky guy!<br /><br />I've got rainbow effects on the brain at the moment. Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. have launched some fabulous new <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/new-arrivals">100m sashiko thread colours</a> <i>today</i>, and my stock is on its way right now, possibly arriving as early as Friday - I've got my fingers crossed that there won't be any delays this time.<br /><br /><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql b0tq1wua a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn hrzyx87i jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy8lg_ZPbhkUsRWt-3dxpreI8sA2WM76fUWFHjPN4FETefK8Ei23q7wgWpK5olrqbCBpF2J-2eFFj0mcamSaVpZ8qHYHAC-unc1yFvORbZZFM-yT_J-EN12gO8zQAiv_jqa04ayAEF6sMFKnwFpS6lPUmX5-ZNUy9Aoz5y5uEFlV4uVcwkup_1c8XC=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="1024" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy8lg_ZPbhkUsRWt-3dxpreI8sA2WM76fUWFHjPN4FETefK8Ei23q7wgWpK5olrqbCBpF2J-2eFFj0mcamSaVpZ8qHYHAC-unc1yFvORbZZFM-yT_J-EN12gO8zQAiv_jqa04ayAEF6sMFKnwFpS6lPUmX5-ZNUy9Aoz5y5uEFlV4uVcwkup_1c8XC=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />I'm most excited about this thread, which I designed for Olympus. It is a true rainbow thread, and the colours are in the correct progression. I can't wait to stitch with it!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxj41rWHhVwcn3gvSiYcI1D1fdJ08hKMsuiusQsKpgufMo8w3Ice9PuSd9NiQUWbtikrEHTetFdGgATm95LbL8GvokuX2j7eeYwD3F7Kd1tO2EzJ9iWjfcSYqYy-yKFpbAJI_-7g3AKuKiYtpPQwHgME9WpVZutMxN2b1s--uvEtbPodRUhBaKkI4K=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxj41rWHhVwcn3gvSiYcI1D1fdJ08hKMsuiusQsKpgufMo8w3Ice9PuSd9NiQUWbtikrEHTetFdGgATm95LbL8GvokuX2j7eeYwD3F7Kd1tO2EzJ9iWjfcSYqYy-yKFpbAJI_-7g3AKuKiYtpPQwHgME9WpVZutMxN2b1s--uvEtbPodRUhBaKkI4K=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjs_2rzuAiQXQgXSsY6d3ec9DgI1bs1bMJftYdwqCuu6eUH4W2iz0ZKiVQbhUiqwF_EzFvsWxxZwKk2pQT4CE5k6ldoomiSMUPK6YUF48ElR_kceCgrfQv6HJ0P4xo03uKtdoT-sv6nfJ78xpI0x0QEueP2e9vVwrYhkFDW0_86eCHvzKmAP4Bh2IH=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjs_2rzuAiQXQgXSsY6d3ec9DgI1bs1bMJftYdwqCuu6eUH4W2iz0ZKiVQbhUiqwF_EzFvsWxxZwKk2pQT4CE5k6ldoomiSMUPK6YUF48ElR_kceCgrfQv6HJ0P4xo03uKtdoT-sv6nfJ78xpI0x0QEueP2e9vVwrYhkFDW0_86eCHvzKmAP4Bh2IH=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />So you can probably see why I have rainbows on the brain today!<br />Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-20612218945025656922021-05-12T15:48:00.001+01:002021-05-12T15:48:19.819+01:00First blog post after a long time!<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8G64Sa58oIbBuvjc4pw5JFQOpLKb0OVdba7Mfas1vuuFq164eXW86oLdkkRuhjaRKVDjJy4vbXlrampAajIpEYhz8TFzJp3-Rku3n4ZBcauHAdy5zTtJujKiKw6GEf9M1W5RYWG6EXIU/s274/Photo+on+24-04-2016+at+18.46+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8G64Sa58oIbBuvjc4pw5JFQOpLKb0OVdba7Mfas1vuuFq164eXW86oLdkkRuhjaRKVDjJy4vbXlrampAajIpEYhz8TFzJp3-Rku3n4ZBcauHAdy5zTtJujKiKw6GEf9M1W5RYWG6EXIU/s0/Photo+on+24-04-2016+at+18.46+%25232.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>Sorry I haven't been posting here for a while. I'm hoping to get things back on track soon.<br /><br />Those of you who also follow my artist page on Facebook might have seen from some recent posts that I haven't been well on and off since September 2020. Actually, it has been going on for much longer than that - the photo above shows an episcleritic flare up in my right eye back in April 2016, and I had the first one in October 2015, when I was on a <a href="http://susanbriscoe.blogspot.com/2015/10/north-country-quilt-design-in-yorkshire.html">North Country quilting course</a> with Lilian Hedley. I didn't go into the details at the time, but I was unable to do much on the course because my vision was quite badly affected. Each time, these eye flares had to be treated with steroids, and responded to that. I had another really big flare that lasted almost a month over Christmas and New Year.<br /><br />On Good Friday a few weeks ago, I started feeling a bit odd and ended up with what my GP and NHS 111 assumed was an ear infection - but it wasn't. I ended up in hospital on 21st April, almost 3 weeks later, where I was diagnosed with Relapsing Polychondritis, a progressive auto immune diesease which is quite rare. <br /><br />I have updated my website 'about me' page with some information about this, so please use the links there to read more about it (if you like) - <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/about">https://www.susanbriscoe.com/about<br /><br /></a>At the moment, I am being treated with steroids, which is helping. It is a progressive disease and I will be able to less in future and take a bit more care of myself! So more work from home and less travel to teach or do shows looks likely. <br /></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-87480558055182646112020-11-03T09:45:00.004+00:002020-11-03T09:45:47.501+00:00Selecting sashiko thread colours<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2D2ckdTcx0A6K3YiBFehb7J0Ar3Qva3x7N3_rcmWr3LMT5zAVCllQPnoiizLaYJA1UoVEiFJ3FPoa_6ps4s70JqOhR9R7Y1I41wKOyCj7nKTYAsV3rUZLvlmfW7-2uLRenharJpY0S0/s2048/00D28993-7851-41F0-B630-2E04B9FBFEEF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2D2ckdTcx0A6K3YiBFehb7J0Ar3Qva3x7N3_rcmWr3LMT5zAVCllQPnoiizLaYJA1UoVEiFJ3FPoa_6ps4s70JqOhR9R7Y1I41wKOyCj7nKTYAsV3rUZLvlmfW7-2uLRenharJpY0S0/s320/00D28993-7851-41F0-B630-2E04B9FBFEEF.jpeg" /></a></div><p><br />Sometimes a sashiko panel works equally well with different colour combinations, but choosing which to go for can be tricky! I went through this process recently, to help some customers choose colours for the Seasons Greetings panels in green and dark indigo blue, by 'auditioning' different thread colours and taking some photos. The first photo (above) shows the green panel with 20m #51 (shaded green) and #26. Although #51 has parts that are almost the same as the green fabric, they are a slightly different colour and a very slightly lighter value, while the sea green, light sea green, white and shading sections would show up really well. These are 6ply medium sashiko threads, and for this panel I would stitch with them singly, not doubled, as that would be too thick. Each 'pine needle' has two rows of staggered stitches, so you stitch out from the branch and back again (very well thought out), and a doubled medium thread would make the pine needles much thicker than in real life.<br /><br />Then I looked at the possibilities in the 370m fine sashiko thread range, which is 4ply thread. These would all show up against the green panel, because they are different green colours, but the value of #11 jade green is probably a little too close to the green fabric, so it might not show up as well. The dark green #15 would show up well and look like a very natural pine colour. #8 bright mid green, between #11 and #15, looked quite vivid against the green fabric, but looked good against the indigo blue. The all looked good against the indigo, and the contrast with #11 and #8 was much better. I think those colours would work well on the indigo, but maybe not so much on the green. I can't make up my mind about the varigated shade #F, which might work for the green but I think the dark section wouldn't show up so well on the indigo. The 370m shaded threads have very long 'pitch' or colour change compared to the 20m threads, so several adjacent needles would end up the same shade and colour, which might give a slightly clumped effect to the needles. Althoug it is a 4ply, I think using it doubled might be too thick for the pine needles, but I would need to experiment to be sure. Either used single or double, I think one skein would probably be enough for the tree.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_daYABARCzbgtt16Z4dD2i-eIqBh3eymSTwGcwOThncMzzMZBipHyfQqIrLM7exeYtwK6Y8oZ4vDJwUJ2yT4kN913lvMufxJudoJLcERg2pMTZRGHa1iKdH0jPMnFEc45IRoGq3oS6BE/s2048/49CEC600-9747-4F97-8113-0104AEE83024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_daYABARCzbgtt16Z4dD2i-eIqBh3eymSTwGcwOThncMzzMZBipHyfQqIrLM7exeYtwK6Y8oZ4vDJwUJ2yT4kN913lvMufxJudoJLcERg2pMTZRGHa1iKdH0jPMnFEc45IRoGq3oS6BE/s320/49CEC600-9747-4F97-8113-0104AEE83024.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Next, we have the 100m #107 light green 6ply medium. This is a slightly different green from the background fabric, and slightly lighter. It would make a subtle contrast, but isn't a natural green for a pine tree (but does that matter?)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjON85QpnZabCD0c7RNU1ipgvXsQ1U2X9GhvLWysRiYmVHsuFo84AIROyekGcds7RH1Wj_M-ScW_Z95seC9Yp8Y7rvnv_FsalUChBiQdr3lrd_gVI4sDPaOrHpqoQtn_uXA9fWByLfhsTs/s2048/80B00246-EF4D-426C-A165-E59ACADBB7B8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjON85QpnZabCD0c7RNU1ipgvXsQ1U2X9GhvLWysRiYmVHsuFo84AIROyekGcds7RH1Wj_M-ScW_Z95seC9Yp8Y7rvnv_FsalUChBiQdr3lrd_gVI4sDPaOrHpqoQtn_uXA9fWByLfhsTs/s320/80B00246-EF4D-426C-A165-E59ACADBB7B8.jpeg" /></a></div><br />20m #07 mid green (at the top in the next photo) is a different green again, maybe a bit more like the colour of a real pine needle, but perhaps doesn't show up strongly enough against the background. It would work well on the indigo blue. Unfortunately this colour isn't produced in 100m skeins (yet!), but it is available in 80m fine 3ply thread balls, as shade #207, and would suit being used doubled.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxok4r9O9n_Q3KI9O32aTnmYanc-3ZHBO8hs3DErF7bMb30f2wJcCYjPayJ1wa7aqfzJqTDtCYSHK77lCnmmZrhRdvTX7cXcBINYbxiCjS1oYTk2OI6fjQMZ5BgB6e8B7w6IfDA51fqb4/s2048/953DEA10-12FB-4B2E-BBCC-93F88EF7D023.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxok4r9O9n_Q3KI9O32aTnmYanc-3ZHBO8hs3DErF7bMb30f2wJcCYjPayJ1wa7aqfzJqTDtCYSHK77lCnmmZrhRdvTX7cXcBINYbxiCjS1oYTk2OI6fjQMZ5BgB6e8B7w6IfDA51fqb4/s320/953DEA10-12FB-4B2E-BBCC-93F88EF7D023.jpeg" /></a></div><br />The vivid green 20m #26 makes a good contrast.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5LwO0aMrkefNeX2M63jgOJ-RInZmGVPnOBo87CgNM4IVdbnBEf3k-NpdgdlJn3TxKKoxu2TvhSFIe8XLVO9uVOLm5azhId1tLdguBZ3D17Qew6FHupws1Qu_fAzUhBucBWK3M_lYAo9I/s2048/4499ADE6-400D-43D6-AA6A-AC2B2A934C4A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5LwO0aMrkefNeX2M63jgOJ-RInZmGVPnOBo87CgNM4IVdbnBEf3k-NpdgdlJn3TxKKoxu2TvhSFIe8XLVO9uVOLm5azhId1tLdguBZ3D17Qew6FHupws1Qu_fAzUhBucBWK3M_lYAo9I/s320/4499ADE6-400D-43D6-AA6A-AC2B2A934C4A.jpeg" /></a></div><br />So does #77, which would introduce touches of blue into the greens, and look very vibrant.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZIvv3qCOS4ccwsYJUefq1-3hLgbDMO9DmI64F7SOvS5TYrdknB7OXhUNhuRE-H15R3DXH2MQ993bVw7RIghWdXUNb7ltnBc7grNFbNzb3ZTPUYiCrEdA0z9KlKpMWkIQ4mjCfddazQCY/s2048/91581F72-FE8C-4E17-94C9-44818ED932D6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZIvv3qCOS4ccwsYJUefq1-3hLgbDMO9DmI64F7SOvS5TYrdknB7OXhUNhuRE-H15R3DXH2MQ993bVw7RIghWdXUNb7ltnBc7grNFbNzb3ZTPUYiCrEdA0z9KlKpMWkIQ4mjCfddazQCY/s320/91581F72-FE8C-4E17-94C9-44818ED932D6.jpeg" /></a></div><br />Here are all the threads above shown with the green and indigo blue panels. It is a tough choice, and your Christmas decor plans would also influence which colours you use.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5OlRPmEfL8FhpAU8QYTQ5AM8NshTWmtyNbqp7AwVPF31AxXmUj9Po8lxvL12ZkfSHegxY7GxI-xkLeufTkNBIqL0LjmYlEJNgk1giMgRI0HLY0jCgGXUpspETd-GNDuGic-jNxaOOOw/s2048/AF560EDC-80E1-4246-943F-3CB9C1251263.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5OlRPmEfL8FhpAU8QYTQ5AM8NshTWmtyNbqp7AwVPF31AxXmUj9Po8lxvL12ZkfSHegxY7GxI-xkLeufTkNBIqL0LjmYlEJNgk1giMgRI0HLY0jCgGXUpspETd-GNDuGic-jNxaOOOw/s320/AF560EDC-80E1-4246-943F-3CB9C1251263.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I have been thinking about using a different colour for the branches. These are all 100m threads. For some of the greens, #106 yellow ochre would be a good coordinate, and I think the darker greens would look good with #114 brown, which is perhaps the most realistic colour. I think white or cream would look lovely for the pine needles on either panel, perhaps with #113 light grey for the branches. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipy7knp_5C4iWRrT_g56yl6zlSvCMRUNN9w4b-tXzHUyl7DSylLUAgYeh2_VUhlUXKHjoKY42CwIg1zb084xkaSWiyUctB4N6-nuilglw9QvdyqGf6t8rNWyJeiimmPS2m9XSI_j44tA/s2048/B7FAFAA9-F77D-455A-8208-24D3BBE6963B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipy7knp_5C4iWRrT_g56yl6zlSvCMRUNN9w4b-tXzHUyl7DSylLUAgYeh2_VUhlUXKHjoKY42CwIg1zb084xkaSWiyUctB4N6-nuilglw9QvdyqGf6t8rNWyJeiimmPS2m9XSI_j44tA/s320/B7FAFAA9-F77D-455A-8208-24D3BBE6963B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><p>There are so many options. Who says your tree has to be a 'natural' colour? There are also some blues which look very much like pine, such as 20m #72. All these thread colours are available from my website. I'll have to make my mind up soon, because I need to start stitching!<br /></p><p></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-62900892521912881342020-10-14T11:54:00.002+01:002020-10-14T12:05:36.491+01:00Sashiko for Halloween<div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbWtg7hzDcf1fQy4udxXL-mMntQdZ4gcmBn_036heesbDXD32JKKrIzyPk4hNWdTURvxdHqVEiNSQYFP_5IYlgnGUcF_7cMwO5XBNTZt_GTU61iDWad22AwyFGsEwopW7vl5YqiQAyJE/s2048/0D3D402E-3776-4C04-B94F-B671B60291F6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbWtg7hzDcf1fQy4udxXL-mMntQdZ4gcmBn_036heesbDXD32JKKrIzyPk4hNWdTURvxdHqVEiNSQYFP_5IYlgnGUcF_7cMwO5XBNTZt_GTU61iDWad22AwyFGsEwopW7vl5YqiQAyJE/s320/0D3D402E-3776-4C04-B94F-B671B60291F6.jpeg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">I've had fun over the last couple of evenings stitching the black version of the Halloween hanafukin sampler panel from Olympus Thread Mfg. Co., using an assortment of thread colours in typical Halloween shades - oranges, greys, white, with a touch of green for the 'grass' and the pumpkin leaf. It is <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/h-9023-halloween-black-sashiko-hanafukin-kit" target="_blank">available as a kit in black</a> with the 20m thread bundle in my online shop, and there's also a <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/h-1023-halloween-white-sashiko-hanafukin-kit" target="_blank">white kit version</a>. The white kit has black thread instead of white in the bundle. There's plenty of thread to give you some options about which colour to use for which part of the design.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzD7EJKJQzPn6CTpnrJEOZACE1yWq49Hc2xGEapEoQv6G5g8hFU6RkmPiHVV6ek7V5KZPGXKTEHS0KFAUCJU2jSuE_zz2RgS0bsfqkYZpGxyA_vsh9oixzm5IFTiWEtLPfkYYYpn-16I/s2048/95006E41-F03F-4F85-BD8A-99B4E73BA38B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzD7EJKJQzPn6CTpnrJEOZACE1yWq49Hc2xGEapEoQv6G5g8hFU6RkmPiHVV6ek7V5KZPGXKTEHS0KFAUCJU2jSuE_zz2RgS0bsfqkYZpGxyA_vsh9oixzm5IFTiWEtLPfkYYYpn-16I/s320/95006E41-F03F-4F85-BD8A-99B4E73BA38B.jpeg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0SpRIb7CG1dMYbkcRELv2a9s_DxKd6gKP5mIWTC3A3Upt529893YrcPpNex7E6fO0h9dEc8SoSK_lc3UFP1nh7xloPUE0QEQtLcNvqmThTiuba0NZiODBLi1SbFFFN91YIZl-xcrDW4/s2048/0D05CF05-7F6A-4E3F-AFAA-3EA167A2A099.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0SpRIb7CG1dMYbkcRELv2a9s_DxKd6gKP5mIWTC3A3Upt529893YrcPpNex7E6fO0h9dEc8SoSK_lc3UFP1nh7xloPUE0QEQtLcNvqmThTiuba0NZiODBLi1SbFFFN91YIZl-xcrDW4/s320/0D05CF05-7F6A-4E3F-AFAA-3EA167A2A099.jpeg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br />I'm going to use the varigated thread to stitch around the outer border. The bat's eyes and the dot on the 'i' in 'Trick' are French knots. I wouldn't normally use French knots with sashiko, because a) they're not hardwearing enough compared to the running stitch and b) they are not traditional, but this isn't a traditional piece and it will only be used at Halloween, so I don't think it matters. You could even use two tiny beads for the bat's eyes if you wanted a bit of sparkle.<br /><br />The centre of the panel was stitched through one layer, but I'm going to stitch the border through both fabric layers. Because there are so many starts and stops in this design, unlike in a traditional sashiko design, I didn't want to start and finish without a knot (which would make the stitches at the beginning and end of each line twice as thick), so this will hide the knots on the back.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFuv-HQncAQMb_1IF_4Yr5bc85-SwIIC9kjdJwL0tgq4LxhCG2p-tw85IQQXmnBQJuSFMgUjxF6MEv0EI2oWSrdHOix09twKXNaEjU7vnu5ESZzIfWy7HTI8jG6MoWbNYVeWosYvGW8k/s2048/C8AD1360-4DDE-4E9B-8724-5EB4F2CE5FB2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFuv-HQncAQMb_1IF_4Yr5bc85-SwIIC9kjdJwL0tgq4LxhCG2p-tw85IQQXmnBQJuSFMgUjxF6MEv0EI2oWSrdHOix09twKXNaEjU7vnu5ESZzIfWy7HTI8jG6MoWbNYVeWosYvGW8k/s320/C8AD1360-4DDE-4E9B-8724-5EB4F2CE5FB2.jpeg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">I stitched the pumpkin with a doubled persimmon orange thread for the outline - I wanted it to look ver solid - keeping the bright orange for the mouth and eyes (stitched singly), which hopefully makes it look a bit like they are lit up from inside. The cat was stitched in a single strand of shaded grey thread, with the eyes in green. If this was the white sampler, I would have used black for the cat, but I felt that using grey on black kept the sense of it being a black cat. The whiskers are light grey.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXcBxjb7XsieXdWypVQ1_lXOTk_bXXfwrG7i1g7ERUYc5BE7-a39IwbjSShzjyNGSH2Wv7Ii-vyVVcWjGP1YBIFz3A3xnrVpHh6-wcuEBj-OSaYystr7aAp4bXRw8rVGsjm5ZvAx0DIRU/s2048/621F6786-26CA-415B-9D85-63227D08C91B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXcBxjb7XsieXdWypVQ1_lXOTk_bXXfwrG7i1g7ERUYc5BE7-a39IwbjSShzjyNGSH2Wv7Ii-vyVVcWjGP1YBIFz3A3xnrVpHh6-wcuEBj-OSaYystr7aAp4bXRw8rVGsjm5ZvAx0DIRU/s320/621F6786-26CA-415B-9D85-63227D08C91B.jpeg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The back of the cat motif.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupeE-JTFsh3eeMWSDTiwkMwGy4hMT9Ofljhz6hKaC5ZQnkjBcTWzlbpVpXPV1JW8RfsX3UJUrHTa_feXidll67YIQov2MLV_M5owaXcMy-C5E3y-2VQLZiXvFWHLbiZSzJMUJl92fPi0/s2048/919F6450-9F13-41F9-AD67-4384AE444E23.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupeE-JTFsh3eeMWSDTiwkMwGy4hMT9Ofljhz6hKaC5ZQnkjBcTWzlbpVpXPV1JW8RfsX3UJUrHTa_feXidll67YIQov2MLV_M5owaXcMy-C5E3y-2VQLZiXvFWHLbiZSzJMUJl92fPi0/s320/919F6450-9F13-41F9-AD67-4384AE444E23.jpeg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pumpkin from the back.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCup6x7TxddhpCx3mfDVloY7OC7K7b1BVIXKxyG5NctshleNqk02CNkUa6Prelr29D0PIE0aOL_cq9f9Zcwh8bZ0MNaVzJtVbHY9WzJvFmzOZ2roxXmpxjgYC-Uy0zk6KjgT09cPWcZo/s2048/E47BAEC5-7F18-439B-80E0-0EF85688F634.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCup6x7TxddhpCx3mfDVloY7OC7K7b1BVIXKxyG5NctshleNqk02CNkUa6Prelr29D0PIE0aOL_cq9f9Zcwh8bZ0MNaVzJtVbHY9WzJvFmzOZ2roxXmpxjgYC-Uy0zk6KjgT09cPWcZo/s320/E47BAEC5-7F18-439B-80E0-0EF85688F634.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The haunted house is stitched with the same shaded grey as the cat, but doubled, with the windows in single bright orange.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBF4br8K8wX7xFeFGNM3k4i7_jlRqP0bwkikTYXPzVhq_VYNSf-hmepE8KYc6lzPFDTBjEerRF5H0tO3JTQGKdnXhRqIHPxfydLNDG40p0jRXyhAFfziL63zonhV6XNIVV9EcnwU9i_s/s2048/F6FA29C6-B3F0-4F5A-8A47-4B5B137CFFD4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBF4br8K8wX7xFeFGNM3k4i7_jlRqP0bwkikTYXPzVhq_VYNSf-hmepE8KYc6lzPFDTBjEerRF5H0tO3JTQGKdnXhRqIHPxfydLNDG40p0jRXyhAFfziL63zonhV6XNIVV9EcnwU9i_s/s320/F6FA29C6-B3F0-4F5A-8A47-4B5B137CFFD4.jpeg" /></a></div><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifKqfx78cbhIR2i-DeqP8fopi73vf-V44iT_VxCOiq9A_y0CR3SxUnIWjuC07cZoFUNTGVpJaLBk2OOnCRjdQPHicGQiK9bquscunnzR4ZkUHlC4ZrncfgaXCJXwC7Ts8Zci_NK4ZLUc8/s320/74C0A636-235D-408B-A0D5-F40F47372D77.jpeg" /></div><br />I wanted the ghost to seem less solid and a bit more 'ghostly', so it is all stitched with a single thread.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOb0aUFf6jMXWxlsZ_dmqYMZqMLjjcfh8GkYi9ioTLeVCiIGmrZH-mYHLUO02oSSfrJ3-r2Lmo4mSuDzoopfPFhmcFcXVv1LoVX9yZCYWTg01H03zL9MRLgLAJrTtY90OTCHx8uHVj7k/s2048/BFBAA0EB-FFEA-4421-938D-7AFE8A77831F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRya6mO6zHrhrNxmZOJPmiS3POkqZWbjSz80cKsiodzv7XXQr58t1RSHOQEf2Jt7YZOjtbU1OrwdtfOR_bbbRg3vRm6aopdtlTaYOCLmlUGVouHIEJb_e8yr9srdfKj94jpk1AVTaxlPU/s320/52FC5824-9756-48B3-85F5-34E952A00632.jpeg" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">To finish off the hanafukin, I will pin the two layers together with the right side facing outwards and sttich around the square outer frame through both layers, then fold in the edges and slip stitch stitch around the panel to give it a knife edge or butted finish. This gives much flatter, neater corners than sewing around the panel right sides together and 'bagging out' through a gap in the side.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRya6mO6zHrhrNxmZOJPmiS3POkqZWbjSz80cKsiodzv7XXQr58t1RSHOQEf2Jt7YZOjtbU1OrwdtfOR_bbbRg3vRm6aopdtlTaYOCLmlUGVouHIEJb_e8yr9srdfKj94jpk1AVTaxlPU/s2048/52FC5824-9756-48B3-85F5-34E952A00632.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRqdoZs6CDHi34D_FdEN5vWaPOWU2EoqIwyyWDryUZ_awe2Ik8vLBrOvBDiJeDVg9Y57zVAUTBrOz2Ih8LxIzfeJVIYFoBDfLgILQdulBakjXbOY8TLXZWD5XQBEsMl4iuVJLbKyCMC4/s2016/butted+corners+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRqdoZs6CDHi34D_FdEN5vWaPOWU2EoqIwyyWDryUZ_awe2Ik8vLBrOvBDiJeDVg9Y57zVAUTBrOz2Ih8LxIzfeJVIYFoBDfLgILQdulBakjXbOY8TLXZWD5XQBEsMl4iuVJLbKyCMC4/s320/butted+corners+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilDj0lWUIMKQ0iZkuLLIlxXnVEtMe_ZZZDTILkG2fQPZ6xonmKn2-QfznEC7MlODqbEC2gUlqiqr9sjtDet_V4GibkqeY2ejuZxv1p_hN_dTxPelTgnqccRuTPb_dSCb9lHpzE-Oj_XU/s2016/Butted+corners+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilDj0lWUIMKQ0iZkuLLIlxXnVEtMe_ZZZDTILkG2fQPZ6xonmKn2-QfznEC7MlODqbEC2gUlqiqr9sjtDet_V4GibkqeY2ejuZxv1p_hN_dTxPelTgnqccRuTPb_dSCb9lHpzE-Oj_XU/s320/Butted+corners+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">I would have loved this Halloween hanafukin when I was a child. Every year, I used to dress up with my friends and our mums would help us make lanterns - always from swedes, never pumpkins in those days (I'd never even <i>seen</i> a pumpkin until I was about 9 years old!) My friends' mum was great at doing funny Halloween make up, like giving us green faces. One year, my friend used a polystrene head under her arm as a headless ghost. We used to go round the neighbours's houses for pennies, and put them in my Barnardo's charity collection box at the end of the evening - we didn't think about collecting for ourselves. In the north of England in the 1970s, we didn't say 'trick or treat', but recited this rhyme -<br /><br /><i>The sky is blue</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>The grass is green</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Please spare a penny</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>For Halloween!</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Games involving dressing up were a big feature of life when I was a child. Alas, I don't have any photos of our Halloween extravaganzas, but here is a photo of another dressing up occasion! I'm the shortest one.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqYJy3LoUXmMr5Xb_a_01POFTRanxnfPzdbxy1EYh_qg9_IgNzlKQsPkm0DuiaRaX98NLEIud-c3mGSCENQf0WY6XAbWfrgQBQkqrSkiABgficm3L-tPNUo2Z-iWXkfv4aRLZAagsTbRE/s1664/17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1168" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqYJy3LoUXmMr5Xb_a_01POFTRanxnfPzdbxy1EYh_qg9_IgNzlKQsPkm0DuiaRaX98NLEIud-c3mGSCENQf0WY6XAbWfrgQBQkqrSkiABgficm3L-tPNUo2Z-iWXkfv4aRLZAagsTbRE/w281-h400/17.jpg" width="281" /></a></i></div><i><br /> </i><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-56750699848595074432020-09-29T12:19:00.001+01:002020-09-29T12:19:04.425+01:00Link to today’s Sewing Street sashiko show<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktOdWhEAWEYZBCGfCdDdaVp8fD3HMIWAlEsPKJVTPvPiSSXRf5vAsHt8rl7Ylpq_hbYRY58b4_Rp7oJ5lBRjpjafPhBueITKXVr_XqY3h7hnjINk9eFHDXA0oQffb_n9Wn60SRB19p_E/s2048/335629F1-5E6D-4CBC-B05F-3997FAB4C715.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktOdWhEAWEYZBCGfCdDdaVp8fD3HMIWAlEsPKJVTPvPiSSXRf5vAsHt8rl7Ylpq_hbYRY58b4_Rp7oJ5lBRjpjafPhBueITKXVr_XqY3h7hnjINk9eFHDXA0oQffb_n9Wn60SRB19p_E/w400-h300/335629F1-5E6D-4CBC-B05F-3997FAB4C715.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><br />Link to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmkxpENJ52Y&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2YoBzPr7hgryzJ89MTjUD0CLxYuPrzFc2CJBnDgidcapTox7kgj_KgxS4">today’s Sewing Street TV</a> sashiko show. I’m on the second and fourth hours.<p></p><p>I rushed to see on some of the borders yesterday after doing Sunday lunch at my mum’s, using my vintage 1970s (not my 153QE in the photo), but I only had the standard foot with me and had to rely on moving the needle slightly to the right to compensate and get a quarter inch seam... but I didn’t move it quite far enough! So a fraction too much fabric ended up in the seam allowances in the centre, so the outer borders were too long. I’ll have to take them off and shorten them, aka fudge the top a bit. Should have checked my seam allowances were spot on when I started!<br /><br />It was lots of fun to be back in the studio and I'm going to be back for a show on Monday 9th November where we will do a TV launch of The Book of Boro, and probably a bit more with the sashiko sampler stitch along (another blog post on that coming up soon too).<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><p></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-18937591127474365152020-09-27T17:48:00.002+01:002020-09-27T17:48:48.763+01:00Sewing Street TV tomorrow!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMykFrLJWJ1g4oEBwYPqpyj9UVT3ZlQInJ4D5yejp-RyOVUKdRkdFYC1THEfDWyMOgc-jXBTySabdJDUeOOTPLQLrngpEEt0YndLqh-6F9TCsu75eU2X4q2sGgI4DuS2Gbh787yne6dI/s2048/37672F34-3306-45B7-BBB9-6017E165D624.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMykFrLJWJ1g4oEBwYPqpyj9UVT3ZlQInJ4D5yejp-RyOVUKdRkdFYC1THEfDWyMOgc-jXBTySabdJDUeOOTPLQLrngpEEt0YndLqh-6F9TCsu75eU2X4q2sGgI4DuS2Gbh787yne6dI/s320/37672F34-3306-45B7-BBB9-6017E165D624.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> I’m on Sewing Street TV tomorrow with the sashiko sampler stitch along projects. This is how far the assembly has got for the first one (not pressed yet!)<p></p><div>My shows are at 9 and 11am, on Sky 670 and Freeview 74 (UK), and the shows will be on YouTube almost immediately too. I’ll post the YouTube link as soon as I have it.</div><div><br /></div><div>You will be able to buy my panels and the sashiko threads I use from the show, but they are all available on my website as well www.susanbriscoe.com</div><div><br /></div><div>I’ll be looking at lots of ideas for stitching the panels as well as for making up some sampler quilts.</div><div><br /></div>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-49624448402374599222020-09-21T18:20:00.005+01:002020-09-21T18:20:41.270+01:00Sashiko sampler stitch along - more thoughts on colours...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2oxJswF16ZmTu-BAMWwkW-Vc7255I_hrzAIXK6HhKnpVHBSV_b3ouMG6sYO1N_LVjXQSqXVtBXD3pOiHAygLQ8S1TRe99Z4-debt2RE6Lx_J7oUVzQ8IC6pybT49vvelOlH5NlsdrDr8/s2048/4DC7DD96-B582-45D0-8868-50B74E6E7C02.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2oxJswF16ZmTu-BAMWwkW-Vc7255I_hrzAIXK6HhKnpVHBSV_b3ouMG6sYO1N_LVjXQSqXVtBXD3pOiHAygLQ8S1TRe99Z4-debt2RE6Lx_J7oUVzQ8IC6pybT49vvelOlH5NlsdrDr8/w400-h300/4DC7DD96-B582-45D0-8868-50B74E6E7C02.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>I have been busy stitching several different versions of many of my blocks, before I deal with separate posts on the more complex ones and group the easier ones (mainly the geometrics) together for other posts. First, I need to update you on my next Sewing Street TV show, which has been moved from Monday 14th September to Monday 28th September, to allow more time for the show stock to arrive from Japan. I will be on at 9 and 11am for a full hour each time, on Sky 670 and Freeview 74, and of course the show will also be on YouTube - I will post a link to that as soon as I can after the live show.</p><p>The three cranes shown above are from my first block set (all the kamon blocks) on black, my second block set (kamon and geometrics from the first panel set on russet), and a third version on green (all the blocks from both sets - 32 large and 32 small blocks!) To remind you of the coordinating colours, here are photos of the print fabrics and threads for all three sets - </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6BoIw-Ol5FWdXm2vt_5waiSFhtDrkqMh8Du8maFaDoD-zOLrqTLy8FwV3PczRpxfyvqURg6RXPhnMCGNiW1YEmbAKEzbDbLQeYMI3GQxAamuq9I3dM-5iN5sylrAfKSaFtrpLDGbO9g/s2048/D1B9DE3D-DD6C-4C8F-BAD4-13894F97C317.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6BoIw-Ol5FWdXm2vt_5waiSFhtDrkqMh8Du8maFaDoD-zOLrqTLy8FwV3PczRpxfyvqURg6RXPhnMCGNiW1YEmbAKEzbDbLQeYMI3GQxAamuq9I3dM-5iN5sylrAfKSaFtrpLDGbO9g/w400-h300/D1B9DE3D-DD6C-4C8F-BAD4-13894F97C317.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4PpwAdpahiAHLIwYwDBVQTuGwLbUxlUNp_OaMfE3D8iB1wsg5SK6mXZHIf5iK_d5N1Rg0-bBUpWCjO4ybfB8jk_UPzKw_MdpjOdiBIXnF1LBKFKFsB7X7iXuW9_6maQIq7WwqS6SEI4/s2048/7636DEE5-11B6-4058-BDBF-6F984AF1BA67.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4PpwAdpahiAHLIwYwDBVQTuGwLbUxlUNp_OaMfE3D8iB1wsg5SK6mXZHIf5iK_d5N1Rg0-bBUpWCjO4ybfB8jk_UPzKw_MdpjOdiBIXnF1LBKFKFsB7X7iXuW9_6maQIq7WwqS6SEI4/w400-h300/7636DEE5-11B6-4058-BDBF-6F984AF1BA67.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjImNv6wiac3JujofMTmlbthJExkTefLywsDHwhcS5gR6rUUfsnIfbajEYdnkabcauVMPDtIEIuD9NXJczcUcHHXiJfrGM_FnY_qmJsw1L1PgwApov2DEeS8Q_hsl-03sAJlyvWyzLMcM/s2048/0083131C-D4E1-48D8-B90C-BE963FBF7FFA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjImNv6wiac3JujofMTmlbthJExkTefLywsDHwhcS5gR6rUUfsnIfbajEYdnkabcauVMPDtIEIuD9NXJczcUcHHXiJfrGM_FnY_qmJsw1L1PgwApov2DEeS8Q_hsl-03sAJlyvWyzLMcM/w300-h400/0083131C-D4E1-48D8-B90C-BE963FBF7FFA.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>I haven't rejected the red and gold 'Victorian' block set, but I wanted to start stitching on the green panels asap, so jumped ahead to that one! I sometimes feel that the green colourway gets a bit overlooked - indigo blue is the most popular, followed by the other colours, but green is always at the end. It is lovely soft green and looks fantastic with this vintage chintz furnishing fabric and I wanted to try stitching with the softer blues, pinks and purples. There isn't actually any yellow ochre in the print, but I didn't want to be restricted to using cream or green for the rice sheaf design, and there are actually not so many green threads that really look right with this multicoloured fabric, so I wanted to use it for the gingko leaves as well.<br /></p><p>I thought you might like to see how I dealt with the cranes on each colour. On black, I used red for the top of the cranes' head, with golden yellow for its beak, and shaded grey for the tail, the back of the wing and the neck. Real cranes have black feathers as well as white, and although of course the background fabric is black, I wanted to indicate the different coloured plumage through my sashiko thread too. I've used a mixture of doubled and single threads as well.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKBCePaJGO69JDyA6hHKRpHwNaoRBX6QgjU5zuPpHXlB5B1bNy0Gbw4GCJ-VS4ENq0nqV1OQA2YVyoZzx07bvVu9rnIE0nuRzSYSvcdyEcj_DrDy3jcwYWhMwsbSqaLsUJ69lC-eEk_c/s2048/D75481B1-0EA7-406E-84AE-127D394400F0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKBCePaJGO69JDyA6hHKRpHwNaoRBX6QgjU5zuPpHXlB5B1bNy0Gbw4GCJ-VS4ENq0nqV1OQA2YVyoZzx07bvVu9rnIE0nuRzSYSvcdyEcj_DrDy3jcwYWhMwsbSqaLsUJ69lC-eEk_c/w400-h300/D75481B1-0EA7-406E-84AE-127D394400F0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>For my russet sampler, I don't have a red thread in my palette, because I'm using threads that coordinate with the fabric print. The closest I have is this peach shade. I don't have any yellow either, but the persimmon orange made a good alternative. I tried stitching the beak outline doubled this time, because I thought the persimmon might blend into the background fabric a bit too much.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4QZC2l7QOc0DhzIenntq0AEMjcEeRGFKzFXDdPw79W5fpDRYYZ0H6f3Au4d_rzq56MG2JqlsV4hSTypWB2wF4SYMidJ_nGcfGn5iK2JfgSikdCjqr5a4iPBC7Sg0Ylnaxgjriu0f1Y4/s2048/E7497B9F-D4D7-4722-B61A-24A9C0E8D1F6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4QZC2l7QOc0DhzIenntq0AEMjcEeRGFKzFXDdPw79W5fpDRYYZ0H6f3Au4d_rzq56MG2JqlsV4hSTypWB2wF4SYMidJ_nGcfGn5iK2JfgSikdCjqr5a4iPBC7Sg0Ylnaxgjriu0f1Y4/w400-h300/E7497B9F-D4D7-4722-B61A-24A9C0E8D1F6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>For the green fabric colourway, I used a pinkish purple for the top of the head and the yellow ochre for the beak, this time stitching all of the beak with a doubled thread. I used purple for the 'black' wing and tail feathers. It doesn't have a strong contrast with the green at the moment, because the value of the green fabric and the purple thread is probably a bit too close, but once I have hand quilted around the crane's outline, it will add a bit more definition - the same goes for the varigated grey on the russet as well.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXe4au1fFpXFRskvZq7esbjbfWdjbi7T0Fxp8mIhVRlmp0sFC5HXGtyZSffxLllv7Vlp_-nqqK132_fnjzIDyITiuD0_Koeucxcb3EIoPMRhGM1jabWWbu3utyRyyt6zF0vz-O21tpWU/s2048/61F57C81-33D3-45B0-A2E4-EFE2B9B1325F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXe4au1fFpXFRskvZq7esbjbfWdjbi7T0Fxp8mIhVRlmp0sFC5HXGtyZSffxLllv7Vlp_-nqqK132_fnjzIDyITiuD0_Koeucxcb3EIoPMRhGM1jabWWbu3utyRyyt6zF0vz-O21tpWU/w400-h300/61F57C81-33D3-45B0-A2E4-EFE2B9B1325F.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's all three blocks together. I didn't stitch this block first because it was my favourite block in particular, but because I managed to decide on the thread colours quite quickly for the green block. The russet is on the right in both photos, even though it looks a bit more like the brick red colourway in the second one.<br /> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiuvUmFUQjcgrLdmK6bOobsaJpo_4sXF63PuOY7Tpef7SqL-272ocHvph1DbPwFEWjkLY82whRCjvLESIqLoAu3g6cLe_3EdZVDXpxYCDsNf7IGZiBzHMnWDVTTjkfJtnBH5Aghjc39o/s2048/B75720AE-05DD-4362-B63D-C7ABCD7839B6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="2048" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiuvUmFUQjcgrLdmK6bOobsaJpo_4sXF63PuOY7Tpef7SqL-272ocHvph1DbPwFEWjkLY82whRCjvLESIqLoAu3g6cLe_3EdZVDXpxYCDsNf7IGZiBzHMnWDVTTjkfJtnBH5Aghjc39o/w400-h258/B75720AE-05DD-4362-B63D-C7ABCD7839B6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVu_hhnGSe_EwOB-9AQnES8kIlczWftIUUbedq-dztInpMqjxPYX3yHYaX71F_R_PR1MCaxH-PJVEHNjJ7wbCOYefCg_wvsru8jYL_bULKTYG_Du_jBU3mwI63-PH0_2wkAqN8JNdhoIo/s2048/5B1BCEBA-B29C-463B-96A9-5BE5551C5260.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2048" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVu_hhnGSe_EwOB-9AQnES8kIlczWftIUUbedq-dztInpMqjxPYX3yHYaX71F_R_PR1MCaxH-PJVEHNjJ7wbCOYefCg_wvsru8jYL_bULKTYG_Du_jBU3mwI63-PH0_2wkAqN8JNdhoIo/w400-h253/5B1BCEBA-B29C-463B-96A9-5BE5551C5260.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Another block that I would put into the 'fiddly but worth it' category (!) is the rice sheaf kamon. On black, I used the golden yellow and stitched the cord around the sheaves alternating between red and white, celebratory colours in Japan. I have taken step by step photos of how to do this colour alternation and will put those in a future tutorial. On the green, I used doubled cream thread for the same cord, with the yellow ochre for the sheaves.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKd050WlNozWH-awfhftQdJjgxjGPOzGxELAEjUOSuPB1y9O4jvG-1LI0p02Ltm-Wt5ta5w-pvmcchKc2NVNVxefZYOFksODoq_cxISZsKTKenPwoPrqH1tmT6j8qQZtyEJ9P6acR_0ys/s2048/76370E28-473B-4AEF-A8BB-B2455F60FF84.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKd050WlNozWH-awfhftQdJjgxjGPOzGxELAEjUOSuPB1y9O4jvG-1LI0p02Ltm-Wt5ta5w-pvmcchKc2NVNVxefZYOFksODoq_cxISZsKTKenPwoPrqH1tmT6j8qQZtyEJ9P6acR_0ys/w400-h300/76370E28-473B-4AEF-A8BB-B2455F60FF84.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The waves kamon actually uses the same shaded blues/tuquoise thread for all three blocks. I just love that thread! It is paired with white on the black fabric, but with cream on the other two. The green version looks different again because I didn't extend the cream beyond the 'crest' of the waves to go right around the design, but stitched that part in the varigated thread instead. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlccBDCTGLQwYYxSTAluypTozY8QFRxVV8tJZRzMw5vYz7XkmkaFGEkKbcN_aVs6NOzRiDFSEujdqzEv-zr0UKVbd690GFca3RC5yjHPEzyxtLgb7dRakgfhPSAb4fZQKvDlbb5bAp7Ec/s2048/3FF8B659-B4B9-4810-A77C-1457D8074B2C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlccBDCTGLQwYYxSTAluypTozY8QFRxVV8tJZRzMw5vYz7XkmkaFGEkKbcN_aVs6NOzRiDFSEujdqzEv-zr0UKVbd690GFca3RC5yjHPEzyxtLgb7dRakgfhPSAb4fZQKvDlbb5bAp7Ec/w400-h305/3FF8B659-B4B9-4810-A77C-1457D8074B2C.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once again, when there is wadding (batting) and extra quilting added, it will throw the edge of the wave kamon into greater contrast. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUaDCrxHXdy2VVGTwgLUdmH5zpnI2bv5aeXhhkzzcY0DaTHRtEy-cyqATZ53GErHIPKOQQ_iuDWboVbTiC_LBWQjG_1DvI7w_eKdTiluDOZbXB1BBSu5DlBo5OuBTd-Pc_4LJ1zIk0p0/s2048/B69F22EC-B351-49D5-BF63-E48196EC8990.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="2048" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUaDCrxHXdy2VVGTwgLUdmH5zpnI2bv5aeXhhkzzcY0DaTHRtEy-cyqATZ53GErHIPKOQQ_iuDWboVbTiC_LBWQjG_1DvI7w_eKdTiluDOZbXB1BBSu5DlBo5OuBTd-Pc_4LJ1zIk0p0/w400-h224/B69F22EC-B351-49D5-BF63-E48196EC8990.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div><p></p><p>So far, the only geometric blocks I've stitched have been from the russet set, where I drew a circle on each block and only stitched within the circle (see previous post) turning a square sashiko design into a circular one. Again, the circle edge will be defined better once there is wadding and extra quilting. On both these blocks, I haven't washed away the stitch markings yet. The two black geometric blocks with the same designs were stitched for another project I haven't made up just yet. I've used bright blue and turquoise on the russet, which are closer in value to the background than the yellow ochre and ochre/green varigated thread I've used on the black.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1zOz-Utk3JiD92uK2i0GxfwqLwUT2QSwIjbVcN-igTu1kwa1D9JyskYnZLCpE0_bMcI_Vcu2Z5-dflC7-XJSEmeESaWkLcAUBUtTtSPzJhhuz4K5LD_yWqyS2yMetXfGRvnPp131wKU/s2048/C8E7D365-3D59-48FE-BFBD-DF4ACD379BEA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1zOz-Utk3JiD92uK2i0GxfwqLwUT2QSwIjbVcN-igTu1kwa1D9JyskYnZLCpE0_bMcI_Vcu2Z5-dflC7-XJSEmeESaWkLcAUBUtTtSPzJhhuz4K5LD_yWqyS2yMetXfGRvnPp131wKU/w400-h266/C8E7D365-3D59-48FE-BFBD-DF4ACD379BEA.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWrS72hrAtTEQ2GARWz4x6Z71Ik00GYQudjiskuDvbbXSRayJYAQIeBi6QW7eZAcCHQ0PUXUvcsxNlxfXlzlpxjFhUqBNhvu6y19AnjnNj3ZVJNfWKSDcDJ8WlrWaLgSLphVFZD2ml_I/s2048/85A8FC74-557C-4EC0-984A-97D23A5CE7EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWrS72hrAtTEQ2GARWz4x6Z71Ik00GYQudjiskuDvbbXSRayJYAQIeBi6QW7eZAcCHQ0PUXUvcsxNlxfXlzlpxjFhUqBNhvu6y19AnjnNj3ZVJNfWKSDcDJ8WlrWaLgSLphVFZD2ml_I/w400-h228/85A8FC74-557C-4EC0-984A-97D23A5CE7EE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br />My general thoughts on stitching the blocks in colour so far? <br /><br />1) Often, you need to compromise slightly on the exact thread colour you want, because that shade may not be available in sashiko thread.</p><p>2) Just about any colour (other than black) shows up well against black.</p><p>3) I have to think a lot more carefully about thread colour on the mid value fabric colours, like russet and green, than on the darker black or indigo, or the light grey (taupe) or light blue.<br /><br />4) It helps if you can accept non naturalistic colour and motif combinations! I may have some strangely coloured flowers...<br /><br />It is an adventure and I'm enjoying experimenting with different colours.<br /><br />On the TV show, I am going to give some basic techinique demos to go with all the blocks, and will also be reading you through the block and strip sizes for the quilt, so have a notebook to hand when you watch!<br /></p><p></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-15513573464708208482020-09-18T11:18:00.000+01:002020-09-18T11:18:03.042+01:00New QH sashiko panels in stock online<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh109-seasons-greetings-christmas-sashiko-panel-green" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="946" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkVhyU8RsmDaLmPXoBxmVdWJcY9LFhZ_wM5UUY1SgoilpmUTAgLF1U8ehVScFY0oQE32_AVx_3xCXdHHhNLFIrDYgkrDZG2kMtEWSrE89mkxWcNK10RQbdkyBiS0MGSIpHg7MmRNFwaI/w296-h320/HF1118-14OG_Seasons+Greetings+gr.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><p></p><p>These are some of the gorgeous new panels that arrived this week from QH Textiles. They are designed by Hitomi Fujita and printed in Japan. Now listed in <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/large-sashiko-panels" target="_blank">my online shop</a>, click each photo to go to the individual panel listing for more info. They have been selling like hot cakes ('Maiko Bloom' has just sold out) and I hope to be able to get more, but I'm not 100% sure how much the manufacturers have in stock now - I've just heard that they wouldn't be able to get any more of the 'Season's Greetings' panels to me in time for Christmas this year, once I sell out of these.<br /><br />I'm planning to stitch the green version of the lovely 'Season's Greetings' panel for myself. Although Christmas is not the major midwinter holiday in Japan that it is in many other countries - the big Japanese holiday is New Year - it is celebrated by many people and there are amazing Christmas decorations all over the place, especially in shopping malls. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh101w-waterfall-sashiko-panel-indigo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1487" data-original-width="663" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk_tFBalhdr5TVqiVBolwAvwRer4EgwACY0bX7ptRS1nSfEdaSpi1069eXDnLIzZcdFZdhW5nULuJg89JYwq_-ksS1Hox-qFnCUzqbcBhP6cmWxcgazJkXjvO62QrCkLg6LbI15Jbx3x8/w178-h400/Wagara-Sashikopanel-Waterfall-Navy_720x.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh101a-autumn-sky-sashiko-panel-indigo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="664" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7OkBn79TlKRwq32tt08I1Z3ZdYfVmna3NVPt2BaarGfJprBO5s6jWLyfZ-VvklmvwypQNAM3JLWilV7_Kzn3-2STQyge_RMzNFP4TuIK65hTWkG10xIuUijj7gK-ikgu2YkZZmAjjFu4/w185-h400/Wagara-Sashikopanel-Autumn-sky.jpg" width="185" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh105n-noshi-gift-sashiko-panel-indigo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuuL3jev0G_hhmez5Orgvhd4iS3Ta0D8i0UyBThomqpNc9LC_SkqQCAon7KoGIBht9a1_avKbGfS2eyw9NPEA0tHrvmzyB3uusATwhWc5_fKYcInCM2ldKrB9xka-uOGcKo7tV1elR_5E/w181-h400/QH+HF1117-01NV+noshi.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh-maiko-bloom-sashiko-panel-indigo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="461" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitda7KdS4qLKTIW8l1zsK81J3x3mSUa7Dd-d3JRnJXenvI3ocuFw_6IazBUyqYDYCVSBYWuvotZzw71NXqqEn6OvGBYFBPtFfSBUgws-d8rG5rVs-g5ZqUubmOvCQby68dOh6VxrZ6vxI/w180-h400/QH+HF1117-01NV+Maiko+Bloom.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh108-seasons-greetings-christmas-sashiko-panel-indigo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="946" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdTzunOj0TVyzdjbmmThE64pcolpkumxrCm_ypWllWIn6ViJMohfuugscSfHyPllta_XY62h3Q_4SiHQ1qUY0S05mDZZvOJNUNIV1la2TIeo1tcdyrvcRQDZXNRecd6JYSFZQcqbvhs8c/s320/HF1118-11NV_seasons+greetings+bl.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/qh107-seasons-greetings-christmas-sashiko-panel-red" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="946" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9zaxJNlXUgJ6q1L-FswMvTGx43NOx1GwlhVh-pY7G3yMECVMC1tf7hq_wEgFsrCp6PuGTOfv7eDN1UfYIDr8iAvYz67ywTtVhpGKBoiaIsrU_ndP3CdZU4MP0YUVMUfFAi8sSUMFIbE/s320/HF1118-13RD_seasons+greetings+rd.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The 'Wagara' ('Japanese') panel below has a LOT of stitching in it, and could be made up into a lot of Christmas presents - if you can bear to give it away. I love the way the designer has floated various family crests over geometric backgrounds for the 10in squares, and the other panels would make great 'stand alone' designs too. <br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYeni8AIESDR12W13gJfUPX2FTmXvKZE7DjJqAGqlT3xSVveU8dqONs1hWqIP3QqJhhW8FptrEfdSXuRP06BoSZN8-ExhPkCYXmdb8vVIqztvOMWDOC1uM0e5F7zK8oMoJteqNzh-zDY/s1417/QH+HF1115_Navy+Wagara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYeni8AIESDR12W13gJfUPX2FTmXvKZE7DjJqAGqlT3xSVveU8dqONs1hWqIP3QqJhhW8FptrEfdSXuRP06BoSZN8-ExhPkCYXmdb8vVIqztvOMWDOC1uM0e5F7zK8oMoJteqNzh-zDY/s320/QH+HF1115_Navy+Wagara.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>The next set of panels are smaller 12in (30cm) approx 'hanafukin' size, printed on 'greige' (natural unbleached) Sarashi cotton. Designed by Ky Fujita and only just released. I want to stitch the Art Nouveau 'Purity' lily panel with bright orange for the lilies though, to look like the wild flower lilies on Mount Chokai!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/kf2020-17-water-lily-designer-hanafukin-panel" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-xqRk_WNteonnfJocTtO4AvzEJA7YJwB9gM4WAmrT0DAuC1AUlwzxW-F_4GloS7JCjIj1ECus1yn_M6vA91ZmBgZBzWen6ObHxWkdZ0EFkY8eXBx_XrKuU-A0Xr97Q6EOUUnO-_fI3Qw/s320/QH+Water-Lily.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/kf2020-14-serenity-designer-hanafukin-panel" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1VastC1hbNUU2Pg0Q97RIEiln89OMAFDItT6y3V881sI-sZdhp_uxyJsh-C04lu1qawp28L2vJW20IrRUuvP_GE9OBlSHdBC27q1m6Jt3D2A2oU-OlgIC4Gf3zYPQ6j4MHBS_Y4Jot8/s320/QH+Serenity.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif-0HEcobuE8MzEo8qoZrkn2HDKWZuye-ItV7U-jOaC3eyYIn7UiYO11vh1mzypICfNzjWMhiWh11WnJnQn3lempCWPlCcoj1wB4Z3xvakoZtT0uBChohxRk6t4-p7hMACh1rbPOIEka8/s2048/1C94DBF5-5021-471E-B8B5-EE076406480D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif-0HEcobuE8MzEo8qoZrkn2HDKWZuye-ItV7U-jOaC3eyYIn7UiYO11vh1mzypICfNzjWMhiWh11WnJnQn3lempCWPlCcoj1wB4Z3xvakoZtT0uBChohxRk6t4-p7hMACh1rbPOIEka8/w410-h307/1C94DBF5-5021-471E-B8B5-EE076406480D.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><p></p><p>I have finished stitching the first set of blocks for my sashiko sampler stitch along, using the ink black versions of my <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/olympus-sashiko-panels" target="_blank">sashiko panels</a> (A2009 and C2009) and an assortment of bright colours from the <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-thread-20m" target="_blank">20m sashiko thread range</a>, which were chosen to coordinate with Philip Jacob's <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/black-ming-cotton-print-silk-road-collection-by-the-half-metre" target="_blank">'Black Ming Embroidery' </a>fabric from the new 'Silk Road' range. I set out all the thread possibilities above, but I didn't use the full range I had selected! I used the following shades (from left to right) - <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-multicoloured">#72</a>, <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-plain-colour" target="_blank">#6</a>, <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-shaded-to-white">#51</a>, <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-plain-colour" target="_blank">#1</a>,<a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-plain-colour">#16</a>, <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-plain-colour" target="_blank">#21 & #12</a>, plus <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-multicoloured" target="_blank">#73</a> instead of <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-shaded-to-white">#53</a> (the lilac tones in #73 were great for the wisteria block below and the pinks worked for the small cherry blossom block too) and <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/20m-sashiko-thread-multicoloured">#76</a> (also chosen to give me lilac, purple and blue for the iris and Chinese bellflower blocks). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzL8TZvpgSMS2eVFybLEX2_66vO9XtvxKIxq-ThAG8T9AskHrigUaiQf7qw89zVoC5-1jZXJ9bKqdTNhGXBt0et05wyjliSOxaql8Im6EWfil_pA5KZ9Lb_j1-6FEwSVK1kT6d6Usj-4/s1112/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="1112" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzL8TZvpgSMS2eVFybLEX2_66vO9XtvxKIxq-ThAG8T9AskHrigUaiQf7qw89zVoC5-1jZXJ9bKqdTNhGXBt0et05wyjliSOxaql8Im6EWfil_pA5KZ9Lb_j1-6FEwSVK1kT6d6Usj-4/w410-h403/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJCmp0XzbWTqh_sgsyc6lvQfN40RZUd0xVxbjX77CmX21LmZRpCAfgGUuu6sZXTgQq6DjyVVgLJZ-ruCv-fqLb6b2wNVDSlSM-Lg-tUqB6uz2iom_9ahuqh3S-eMnCfw7FOa678yOZSQ/s2048/6A4FCA11-3445-4EF2-8483-D4039C0B1C95.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="2048" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJCmp0XzbWTqh_sgsyc6lvQfN40RZUd0xVxbjX77CmX21LmZRpCAfgGUuu6sZXTgQq6DjyVVgLJZ-ruCv-fqLb6b2wNVDSlSM-Lg-tUqB6uz2iom_9ahuqh3S-eMnCfw7FOa678yOZSQ/w410-h354/6A4FCA11-3445-4EF2-8483-D4039C0B1C95.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">So, in the end, I only used ten skeins instead of 15, as I added <a href="So, in the end, I only used ten skeins instead of 15, as I added #96, shaded neutral grey">#96</a>, shaded neutral grey, because I needed a colour for the branches on the plum, moon and snowflake kamon below. My first choice, #12 dark red, did not work at all - it was far too close to the parts of #76 I selected to stitch plum blossoms. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGrdlc4fyOVtDEfm1z_Gl4FNK6DcVydvGhF6-WvQ7lwzvf5AoMLqcRW88nFsnB5YshkDqRUQ_ZdghhH01xmeDDNv9WUI5g-l_4EDpmcoBybK8wPvDf6tIwCaQIGGiaJbibjil-s8eNEs/s2048/15920D5B-3A5B-4F60-9B00-F1CCCDBFD405.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1843" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGrdlc4fyOVtDEfm1z_Gl4FNK6DcVydvGhF6-WvQ7lwzvf5AoMLqcRW88nFsnB5YshkDqRUQ_ZdghhH01xmeDDNv9WUI5g-l_4EDpmcoBybK8wPvDf6tIwCaQIGGiaJbibjil-s8eNEs/w369-h410/15920D5B-3A5B-4F60-9B00-F1CCCDBFD405.jpeg" width="369" /> </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">I unpicked the #12 thread really carefully (easy to do by snipping the starting and finishing knots) and managed to reuse the salvaged thread along with #21 and #76 to stitch the <i>komezashi</i> (rice stitch) variations <i>hitomezashi</i> (one stitch sashiko) smaller blocks! The photo below shows the sashiko stitch marks after unpicking. Some of the white print has rubbed off a little, but there was enough to see to mark over the lines again with a <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/clover-white-marking-pen-fine">Clover White Marking Pen (fine)</a>.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga8Q5FoWegtGBrOBJo7vwI0Aeh3yWvgKFQqSaR8sdeTWIFZ4O28WA3_eFNyNkg_ZX9YHzKSV73Ye8aENQVDtlcMpjbbdt2MgaERd_wSskxccj637nj7B0vqH_IGLOHsdYLvenH2psCXg/s2048/95F1DDEC-B2EF-47E1-AB7B-9C5A369F866E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1925" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga8Q5FoWegtGBrOBJo7vwI0Aeh3yWvgKFQqSaR8sdeTWIFZ4O28WA3_eFNyNkg_ZX9YHzKSV73Ye8aENQVDtlcMpjbbdt2MgaERd_wSskxccj637nj7B0vqH_IGLOHsdYLvenH2psCXg/w386-h410/95F1DDEC-B2EF-47E1-AB7B-9C5A369F866E.jpeg" width="386" /> </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">I used the sashiko thread singly to stitch the branch. There was enough contrast with the black background to show this up well. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvujMtxoElBdC_c4wGRCsYuVOZywRs5XoqhbaEmOM0MbbKfu8JPDqTKIvh7isO4ae2JVsGLwJndRxCNzMye_C9kL1E2D_T6309NYgMg362BHmavLtq2EHDG54aLR9Ff1tJ3ne9QLjYVtY/s2048/044E0A85-EB8C-48B8-8E3F-61E4D69F3A10.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvujMtxoElBdC_c4wGRCsYuVOZywRs5XoqhbaEmOM0MbbKfu8JPDqTKIvh7isO4ae2JVsGLwJndRxCNzMye_C9kL1E2D_T6309NYgMg362BHmavLtq2EHDG54aLR9Ff1tJ3ne9QLjYVtY/w410-h410/044E0A85-EB8C-48B8-8E3F-61E4D69F3A10.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">These are the <i>hitomezashi</i> blocks. The first set of running stitches (vertical) were done in #12 dark red, and the second set (horizontal) with #21 bright pink on all the blocks. They are very close in light/dark value, so it gives the stitching a little extra interest. I used #76 for the diagonal stitches on the second, third and fourth blocks. I will be writing separate blog posts, with step by step photos and some video clips, for ALL the blocks later, so you'll be able to see exactly how to stitch these if you haven't tried <i>hitomezashi </i>already.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl3FcbEmp67f3ShAkRL5RodENB8HdeW5nZozaooyd8Rw6MijGi4Na9IP1kzINUqLyaZb8Fo6T2yeL3DxetWZrar39R5e5oWKEvjsHKDULh6s_bMjjXUhpwZh4VrxH8Ez5dFMmu2Brpw3A/s2048/47DF525E-EBBA-4B0F-90BF-274748D3ECDB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1881" data-original-width="2048" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl3FcbEmp67f3ShAkRL5RodENB8HdeW5nZozaooyd8Rw6MijGi4Na9IP1kzINUqLyaZb8Fo6T2yeL3DxetWZrar39R5e5oWKEvjsHKDULh6s_bMjjXUhpwZh4VrxH8Ez5dFMmu2Brpw3A/w410-h376/47DF525E-EBBA-4B0F-90BF-274748D3ECDB.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are the other two blocks where I used #96 grey - the crane and the pine tree. As cranes have black feathers as well as white, it was a way of suggesting the different plumage. Although I could have used a brown thread to represent branches and tree trunks, there are no browns in the coordinating print and I didn't want to introduce any earth tones in this sampler, keeping to the bright, clear colours instead. I don't often use such bright colours in my work, so it was a fun challenge working outside my usual comfort zone! <br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr649ZxYhoGtR0uAdFgocv5doFqU3TJo57plMTj9r9_jux5iXXSEefyFpox0suQxNvGlALmWl9ws_kMDIA5gdPh-Jv8qX-7XbRzp7R2WShoH4USPStQ2kKFDEnroXVUQmrF6OX8XLVQu8/s1773/230BCCD0-10E5-45CC-9E68-A7FCEDD14F32.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="1773" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr649ZxYhoGtR0uAdFgocv5doFqU3TJo57plMTj9r9_jux5iXXSEefyFpox0suQxNvGlALmWl9ws_kMDIA5gdPh-Jv8qX-7XbRzp7R2WShoH4USPStQ2kKFDEnroXVUQmrF6OX8XLVQu8/w410-h410/230BCCD0-10E5-45CC-9E68-A7FCEDD14F32.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6EGITHbgGkPspmdo2luPsCo70Akx21a9FF_bz3-QO0_pjmZl3fsH4WSmUII_D16MnyifzzrdD__3HEdzio9cO4dfMHp_eAACeKSk1Z2WEQUGwV7hss19KcugOvGlnuQiztrf4vufofY/s2048/E2F71B9F-6E11-4872-939A-CDE11BD90E6A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6EGITHbgGkPspmdo2luPsCo70Akx21a9FF_bz3-QO0_pjmZl3fsH4WSmUII_D16MnyifzzrdD__3HEdzio9cO4dfMHp_eAACeKSk1Z2WEQUGwV7hss19KcugOvGlnuQiztrf4vufofY/w410-h410/E2F71B9F-6E11-4872-939A-CDE11BD90E6A.jpeg" width="410" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;">It is much easier to stitch anything as smaller pieces of fabric rather than a big panel - so much easier to handle for sashiko or any other stitching - so I cut up my sashiko panels before starting to stitch. Any fabric that is easy for stitching sashiko will have a lower thread count than patchwork cottons and therefore more tendency to fray while you are stitching. Ever since I made my earliest sashiko pieces, I have always 'overlocked' or zigzagged the fabric edges on every piece before I start stitching. I don't use my overlocker for this, I just use a 'fauxlock' stitch on my Bernina 153QE - number 16 - narrowed to about 3.5 and lengthened to 3. Before I had this machine, I just used a narrow zigzag. So long as the stitching is right over the edge it will stop fraying, and it needs to be narrow enough to disappear into the quarter inch seam allowance when the pieces are sewn together as patchwork.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQbodeqj57of9H7_xxYYj_6gORD36bXOhdAISgjpYw595sed13-dPRjNSJ5PikhiCEGfX37EfiJffGttVyyCp_qd12I-aQJEK5GTVmpnMyk0a5lXoRDu9007stmW6UF5lw_Shtz2siko/s2048/1C736062-AC54-4B2E-82F5-0A9C8F2B3E52.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQbodeqj57of9H7_xxYYj_6gORD36bXOhdAISgjpYw595sed13-dPRjNSJ5PikhiCEGfX37EfiJffGttVyyCp_qd12I-aQJEK5GTVmpnMyk0a5lXoRDu9007stmW6UF5lw_Shtz2siko/w410-h307/1C736062-AC54-4B2E-82F5-0A9C8F2B3E52.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNWHwfDXhBA3QpGgiwjTuzpWsms2klFM9OqidWmSQ6eTw3k1EO8zA3od-JrUvmsAdJOdFcAiAtCfCFzXAZp_swSzTGxO1EHMgBgDJrgAVdcb6lY7HkpZ_BPGh3-UjWbrkF_Tf_QUhDTp4/s2048/9D12435A-365E-4BB8-8C5B-649104977BBF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNWHwfDXhBA3QpGgiwjTuzpWsms2klFM9OqidWmSQ6eTw3k1EO8zA3od-JrUvmsAdJOdFcAiAtCfCFzXAZp_swSzTGxO1EHMgBgDJrgAVdcb6lY7HkpZ_BPGh3-UjWbrkF_Tf_QUhDTp4/w410-h307/9D12435A-365E-4BB8-8C5B-649104977BBF.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><br />I find the basic machine foot is just fine for stitching over the edge. I stitch one side of each block, then move on to the next block, like 'chain piecing' patchwork, rather than stitching all four sides of each block and turning the stitching at the corners, because I find the latter tends to make the corners bunch up very slightly. So, stitch the first side of the first block, then the first side of the second block, and so on, then repeat for the second, third and fourth sides. I will add a photo showing the blocks chain pieced together when I fauxlock the next batch for the next sampler - they end up looking like block bunting until they are cut apart.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfLvnF4U7c86w3TLi_FEDbWFwc3nlluU7QQe9sAz3EkUz7LL1wbhe2MlDqU0eCJi5fGgL-1jxPJR2cZlDTsCEWr0n3WWPpjmElhwsg5F05Qo_7ipmKqad7QALL1_16YK_41aNa4PZd8c/s2048/36429A21-9F4E-40F7-92D2-76F7F5D37843.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfLvnF4U7c86w3TLi_FEDbWFwc3nlluU7QQe9sAz3EkUz7LL1wbhe2MlDqU0eCJi5fGgL-1jxPJR2cZlDTsCEWr0n3WWPpjmElhwsg5F05Qo_7ipmKqad7QALL1_16YK_41aNa4PZd8c/w410-h307/36429A21-9F4E-40F7-92D2-76F7F5D37843.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have finished all the sashiko on the blocks for the first sampler and will be writing up posts for those soon, but I also started stitching sashiko for the second sampler (I was away a few weekends ago and knew I'd finish off the black blocks so I prepped the next set!) The next sampler will combine kamon crests and geometric blocks. I could have stitched the geometric blocks as full squares of pattern, which I will do for another sampler -<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuJrWQvnFC3CJj33H9_o5iZC4bGbyhoKxv743cDSrtJak2SCuysEiXwieQ2NM16cmJ7siAeK2iC6nmN-72fUZE4yIeKS9jmLn58nQNubR12ydaqjxtZqr2qbsUGcy4vqgo1uTxjl8fU0/s1104/Victorian+sashiko+quilt+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1104" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuJrWQvnFC3CJj33H9_o5iZC4bGbyhoKxv743cDSrtJak2SCuysEiXwieQ2NM16cmJ7siAeK2iC6nmN-72fUZE4yIeKS9jmLn58nQNubR12ydaqjxtZqr2qbsUGcy4vqgo1uTxjl8fU0/w410-h410/Victorian+sashiko+quilt+2.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><p>But for this sampler, using the russet brown panels, I wanted to try out a different look. The russet panels were a limited edition colour of the <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/copy-of-olympus-sashiko-panel-geometric" target="_blank">kamon crest</a> and <a href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/russet-geometric-olympus-sashiko-panel" target="_blank">geometric</a> panels published in 2019, so I didn't have the option of using either two kamon or two geometric panels, unless I combined them with standard colours from the 2020 range. I will combine two different panel colours in a future sampler, but for this one, I wanted to use just the russet panels, but to do something a little different with the geometric ones.<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsV_ViTtJnVA3PHzxQ9R4kT93r9NRfM98tp3g83R65DdNuMXbtYq4IZqNu9t50eD_oweKA-l3y746gzSU7-Gma456AvifQNse3KcWLeKe4P8NK3oTNu_NA8S3KxlWWhFrux5GJV2mBRFY/s2048/IMG_2712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsV_ViTtJnVA3PHzxQ9R4kT93r9NRfM98tp3g83R65DdNuMXbtYq4IZqNu9t50eD_oweKA-l3y746gzSU7-Gma456AvifQNse3KcWLeKe4P8NK3oTNu_NA8S3KxlWWhFrux5GJV2mBRFY/w384-h512/IMG_2712.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to turn the geometric panels into circular designs, in a similar style to the way Japanese printmaker Hokusai showed the new geometric patterns in his 'Shingata Komoncho' (New Forms of Design) pattern book in the 1820s. This is so easy to do and I think it will look great on the sampler to have both the kamon crests and the geometric designs in circles. I used an 8in circle template to draw a circle on each geometric block. If you don't have a circle template, you could use a plate or any other circular item for this. Check it is centred on the block by measuring the relationship between the circle and the edge of the block at the top, bottom and side edges, and slide the circle template around until each measurement is the same. If you are drawing your patterns on the blocks yourself and not using the printed panels, I would recommend drawing the patterns as an all over design, then marking the circles the same way.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVG37-uAL1hZe17z_xr1-W4oHTXBgZysv-_t8WupD1lisGSD28H91FdiE-fAb6RvsT7P7ySBnhmxyAPPsJLIscRzk4EHeMyrniv822VYXHhj5dVwHkl8VKRW-cq19ZZTqLmS_fXjJQugc/s2048/6DF3D4F7-012E-4E3E-8D90-9473688B3A7C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVG37-uAL1hZe17z_xr1-W4oHTXBgZysv-_t8WupD1lisGSD28H91FdiE-fAb6RvsT7P7ySBnhmxyAPPsJLIscRzk4EHeMyrniv822VYXHhj5dVwHkl8VKRW-cq19ZZTqLmS_fXjJQugc/w384-h512/6DF3D4F7-012E-4E3E-8D90-9473688B3A7C.jpeg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfNSC8iTB7BhS8pQU0i9MBc3DDs5S7jQBMh9lUV1yJ2RvyMtr3D4sCDPOesANdV9bXmB5twIZrTj0mdIK3WHNfkUincnDAE7MzpDbS41U-zOeX7jIB3Je5Pe-Ihn0Hfcwh2YLbTT868U/s2048/60B4E7D0-F207-467E-BDE7-912D7C0152E0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfNSC8iTB7BhS8pQU0i9MBc3DDs5S7jQBMh9lUV1yJ2RvyMtr3D4sCDPOesANdV9bXmB5twIZrTj0mdIK3WHNfkUincnDAE7MzpDbS41U-zOeX7jIB3Je5Pe-Ihn0Hfcwh2YLbTT868U/w410-h307/60B4E7D0-F207-467E-BDE7-912D7C0152E0.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><p></p><p>Draw around the circle (I used the Clover White Marking Pen (fine)), and stitch only the parts of the sashiko design that are inside the circle. I used two different <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4124559156245131584/4648568273603330562" target="_blank">20m sashiko threads</a> for each block - #17 turquoise and #27 bright mid blue. #27 is almost exactly the same as my coordinating fabric's background colour and the intense blue is quite dark against the russet Kofu Tsumugi fabric, which I thought would give quite a subtle effect, despite #27 looking very bold as a skein of thread. #17 was used to add extra interest to each block, hinting at how the sashiko pattern is stitched and creating a secondary pattern too. Here are <i>yamagata</i> (mountain shape) and <i>kagome</i> (bamboo basket) stitched.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_T4ve21Zt4kJSBhAY_AgIa3gWlUOQk8rU0YYKFFxEEJUsw1_5n82_Y21nP-ioalJoNSdQpKtItTEhLPFl-qwHJCzWSThCijX-vRNXIogc_XhvwC_u59fLAJ5WaEXHoqjMU9pOQgUQrGA/s2048/12631F9D-826D-498E-8AD3-0427BE19CF80.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_T4ve21Zt4kJSBhAY_AgIa3gWlUOQk8rU0YYKFFxEEJUsw1_5n82_Y21nP-ioalJoNSdQpKtItTEhLPFl-qwHJCzWSThCijX-vRNXIogc_XhvwC_u59fLAJ5WaEXHoqjMU9pOQgUQrGA/w410-h410/12631F9D-826D-498E-8AD3-0427BE19CF80.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKwi55gdy6B63F6ABIUSxK0RAAfECuaEhkDj3LaWwj4_igdUHzY4KvAlVSUOonRy6OQahhMuh8m2blrEsIva4Rf_pF5EBk5qTWIYIxUE1eS-3xKBr_M5aKSCqT9gcILQ1qJNkX3v0SrI/s1773/F99E7868-5EDD-4E23-AD00-F98735F3FC8C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="1773" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKwi55gdy6B63F6ABIUSxK0RAAfECuaEhkDj3LaWwj4_igdUHzY4KvAlVSUOonRy6OQahhMuh8m2blrEsIva4Rf_pF5EBk5qTWIYIxUE1eS-3xKBr_M5aKSCqT9gcILQ1qJNkX3v0SrI/w410-h410/F99E7868-5EDD-4E23-AD00-F98735F3FC8C.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><p>Once the blocks are washed to remove the printed pattern, you are left with the sashiko design appearing to float on the background. In the finished quilt, I will hand quilt the circle again around each area of sashiko, which will add definition to the shape.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyoYkn5TqTnRi4O0I2Qvs7plxPMWAdKxP8W346PkMm3je_rCbRHgB5HcbOkE-3JKQJ95Rqza-nxnMPeheDc8g8crJBdwZIg8PzA6qIC9LO7BvHEfiys5GhBeH1aV3NfzWge8lCUnSiQs/s2048/43D49615-B592-4596-83C5-ED2D36FB7C44.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyoYkn5TqTnRi4O0I2Qvs7plxPMWAdKxP8W346PkMm3je_rCbRHgB5HcbOkE-3JKQJ95Rqza-nxnMPeheDc8g8crJBdwZIg8PzA6qIC9LO7BvHEfiys5GhBeH1aV3NfzWge8lCUnSiQs/w410-h410/43D49615-B592-4596-83C5-ED2D36FB7C44.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><p></p><p>Sorry - this photo is slightly blurry!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66Sli5RHCgrQo6mqSS-flLMNrEd8QwNO0AnG7MhTnfTtpa6pOJfWRxHL-tLG5u4d6Ioso6FJVS3deYrcV6ExbLhYj6wtRUrrhJpHq50HHe0B4AIiRCyuZDjg4q-fdXTXVsSUFX-AS5NE/s2048/B7A87F27-75A7-4AB6-824A-EA00574C67AA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66Sli5RHCgrQo6mqSS-flLMNrEd8QwNO0AnG7MhTnfTtpa6pOJfWRxHL-tLG5u4d6Ioso6FJVS3deYrcV6ExbLhYj6wtRUrrhJpHq50HHe0B4AIiRCyuZDjg4q-fdXTXVsSUFX-AS5NE/w410-h410/B7A87F27-75A7-4AB6-824A-EA00574C67AA.jpeg" width="410" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I am using some panels which were printed last year (the samples of the panels which I kept for reference) and some which are newly printed, I have noticed a slight colour difference between the two. However, alternating between the two sets of blocks in the sampler layout will balance this out visually. The original 2019 black kamon panel from last year is shown at the top of each photo below, and the 2020 panel at the bottom. Both designs newly printed would be a perfect match. I have a few of the 'old' panel colours left on sale, and the difference is most pronounced with the black and light grey (taupe) colourways. I will make sure the colours match on any panels ordered at the same time - unless you request otherwise!<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkTjYEdIkhEsPDkGOYlnTju04Av5-pZcHP95cCSigT6o7vsRwmBSxvahy9L1QB3IflHnE5dPMnCuXB0ng-3z2Jypkvx2Xd6E195_bmHclQdaPUTKFIGY-sAGiPqvsR8DlIbFlYEh7RZ0/s2048/22DC769E-9D4D-4DE2-9842-670D85A782C1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkTjYEdIkhEsPDkGOYlnTju04Av5-pZcHP95cCSigT6o7vsRwmBSxvahy9L1QB3IflHnE5dPMnCuXB0ng-3z2Jypkvx2Xd6E195_bmHclQdaPUTKFIGY-sAGiPqvsR8DlIbFlYEh7RZ0/w384-h512/22DC769E-9D4D-4DE2-9842-670D85A782C1.jpeg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1Zs2cIKzfxde4l4rLsAvsq3Rkd8fXbZSqWPgd7rHVyBJMkjwXaGwAR5QWYxR_xBbxEN7CX4pk9bdtJ31R1epzw1ajOsUiqt65azMppi9cH1jcOvhomZ7K6rRV92f5cy2JoEFO9kfKr0/s2048/EC24AEB3-D0D1-4A5B-A2B8-8A20DEB2CAFA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1Zs2cIKzfxde4l4rLsAvsq3Rkd8fXbZSqWPgd7rHVyBJMkjwXaGwAR5QWYxR_xBbxEN7CX4pk9bdtJ31R1epzw1ajOsUiqt65azMppi9cH1jcOvhomZ7K6rRV92f5cy2JoEFO9kfKr0/w384-h512/EC24AEB3-D0D1-4A5B-A2B8-8A20DEB2CAFA.jpeg" width="384" /></a></div><br />So, please prepare your panels and we will be ready to start stitching asap! I am going to post about how I stitched each block, and I think I will alternate posts between geometric and kamon crests, because I know some people may be beginners so stitching the geometrics first is best, while there will be other stitchers following this stitch along who already more experienced with sashiko and wanting to stitch the kamon crests first. And there will be some samplers that are all kamon and others that are all geometric... so many possibilities!<br />Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-44944434859982898862020-08-15T12:13:00.000+01:002020-08-15T12:13:04.305+01:00Reiko Domon's kamon crests sashiko & applique sampler<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDqNceYKCDaXU5fIWIJs0eeBq9zrN3lUJPmcc2aS9N6fZAwEmKr1jc6KzdL8XobogeQy_mKE1n-ZehY8jcycamO1-VO0nMY8vZ9vmagukUgjMAg1vc0s5kN53WK1BA5QvSbjNso5GSaQ/s600/Reiko+Domon+sashiko+sampler+quilt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDqNceYKCDaXU5fIWIJs0eeBq9zrN3lUJPmcc2aS9N6fZAwEmKr1jc6KzdL8XobogeQy_mKE1n-ZehY8jcycamO1-VO0nMY8vZ9vmagukUgjMAg1vc0s5kN53WK1BA5QvSbjNso5GSaQ/s0/Reiko+Domon+sashiko+sampler+quilt.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> I've been having a glitch with my website email newsletter this morning, as the links don't work when I send it - although everything seems to work fine when I check the newsletter preview! So here's the main ones. <br /><br /><i>Reiko Domon, leader of Yuza Sashiko Guild, has been causing quite a stir with her sashiko and applique quilt (photo above) made using my <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/copy-of-olympus-sashiko-panel-geometric" href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/copy-of-olympus-sashiko-panel-geometric" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2019 limited edition kamon crest panel in the russet colourway</span></a>, and we reached over 1000 members in <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.facebook.com/susanbriscoe.co.uk/" href="https://www.facebook.com/susanbriscoe.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook Facebook group</span></a> this week.<br /><br />You can see Reiko sensei's applique technique <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.facebook.com/shoichi.konno.7/videos/1648507998632125/" href="https://www.facebook.com/shoichi.konno.7/videos/1648507998632125/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">in this video clip</span></a>. Many thanks to Shoichi Konno for making the video. It is basically a variation on needleturn applique, with the sashiko stitched first, using <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/white-fine-sashiko-thread-370m-skein" href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/white-fine-sashiko-thread-370m-skein" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">370m fine white sashiko thread</span></a>, which is the traditional 4-ply thread used by Yuza Sashiko Guild. For the applique, she has used a mixture of patchwork fabrics and vintage kimono silks. The hitomezashi (one stitch sashiko) patterns in the rectangular central column aren't traditional ones - they look very similar to the modern sashiko patterns from the <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/hibi-no-sashiko-komono-sashiko-book-from-olympus" href="https://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/hibi-no-sashiko-komono-sashiko-book-from-olympus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">new Olympus sashiko book</span></a>. There are also some photos of Reiko's quilt as work in progress on <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.instagram.com/shoichikonno/" href="https://www.instagram.com/shoichikonno/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shoichi's Instagram</span></a> (plus many photos of the countryside around Yuza-machi and on the slopes of Mount Chokai).</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>So far, I haven't included applique with my sashiko, although I love applique techniques too. I want to try this next! I hope Reiko sense's quilt inspires you as much as me.<br /><br />Happy Stitching!<br /><br />Susan</i></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-754034960545352352020-08-07T12:00:00.004+01:002020-08-07T12:01:46.794+01:00Looking at kamon (family crests) once again<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvPRc1zvRV-Yhba2Y4XQp3Fr1aqPgUc-Hs-IRHy8lPWc_n_-Bz7xfEiX98XdQ1xS-P4V0BhP7U4ov_JhhT20ghscNHusTHohxofm8h2pyEV59dFmh0g14WbiCrP2yZhzIhbh9fmC6vHo/s4608/P1160004.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvPRc1zvRV-Yhba2Y4XQp3Fr1aqPgUc-Hs-IRHy8lPWc_n_-Bz7xfEiX98XdQ1xS-P4V0BhP7U4ov_JhhT20ghscNHusTHohxofm8h2pyEV59dFmh0g14WbiCrP2yZhzIhbh9fmC6vHo/w512-h384/P1160004.JPG" width="512" /></a></p><p> Kamon, Japanese (family) crests are a wonderful design resource that I have used a lot for sashiko. I wrote an earlier blog post about them <a href="http://susanbriscoe.blogspot.com/2011/04/kamon-crests-roundup.html">here</a>, but since then I've taken many more photos of kamon on trips back to Japan, so here are a few. The one above, from a temple in Kyoto, is a variation on the <i>tomoe</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe"> comma kamon</a>, with four commas, while the one below has three. The simplified triple version of <i>mitsu tomoe</i> is one of the crests included on my 2019 sashiko kamon panel for Olympus Thread Mfg. Co.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaw4D1R60nMwu6Im9TDXt3SeHsRQy2LLFaVZDfDTj7kNLcbDxyA19e6TCm3JGpE77HamFzsWWk57ByyDzeP73lnJS6GrTGLirB6rMwx9eU1YzdyEOBzn2LGRSE15iLRH_uxGlYNaoXpkw/s4608/P1130993.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaw4D1R60nMwu6Im9TDXt3SeHsRQy2LLFaVZDfDTj7kNLcbDxyA19e6TCm3JGpE77HamFzsWWk57ByyDzeP73lnJS6GrTGLirB6rMwx9eU1YzdyEOBzn2LGRSE15iLRH_uxGlYNaoXpkw/w512-h384/P1130993.JPG" width="512" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvQ0gitRpYyiaQTOmGHAaZW85KQpxCw64jToYke_otOdmNwAFDup0Zgn4JreXn0O1_G_kB2VTsLw1MZYpi0qa3f3xJ5q6EKBWBSxR7uL2jmdXyobf5gDXjJVW65jsHdehpUEAcH_cf04/s4608/P1150989.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvQ0gitRpYyiaQTOmGHAaZW85KQpxCw64jToYke_otOdmNwAFDup0Zgn4JreXn0O1_G_kB2VTsLw1MZYpi0qa3f3xJ5q6EKBWBSxR7uL2jmdXyobf5gDXjJVW65jsHdehpUEAcH_cf04/w512-h384/P1150989.JPG" width="512" /></a></div>As well as families having their own crests, temples, shrines and companies do too. The one above is from the offertory box at Kōtoku-in temple in Kamakura, the temple where the Great Buddha of Kamakura is located. It combines Chinese bellflowers with bamboo leaves.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyq5ruYS6LqmbSr8BFkEoshQHHr3aHLCI-YQW2oaKxn2spL58xy4M25rZlDS8MTk3-AkTIZoTUlmeYbyKf6rNrc2-siGxZdsLD6NqWd7rIhHcMiiRKxfF634j6THtOU9XUkHPO0mWj9Q/s2048/P1150985.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyq5ruYS6LqmbSr8BFkEoshQHHr3aHLCI-YQW2oaKxn2spL58xy4M25rZlDS8MTk3-AkTIZoTUlmeYbyKf6rNrc2-siGxZdsLD6NqWd7rIhHcMiiRKxfF634j6THtOU9XUkHPO0mWj9Q/s640/P1150985.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOFZ1yA-gA0i3E47ooyyVfY7JkLDATnDyUosvKJg_jkhzhmboudczH1yQmCpWxSaa1SVKxSEAn2My-W18UBZJYT-n2_MPZwkjgb3E8eb75D1FyVjQF9-c3OB_BDNstLDkitKHx2mpHtmU/s4608/P1150740.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOFZ1yA-gA0i3E47ooyyVfY7JkLDATnDyUosvKJg_jkhzhmboudczH1yQmCpWxSaa1SVKxSEAn2My-W18UBZJYT-n2_MPZwkjgb3E8eb75D1FyVjQF9-c3OB_BDNstLDkitKHx2mpHtmU/w512-h384/P1150740.JPG" width="512" /></a></div>This striking version of the Tokugawa <i>kiri </i>paulownia crest is from the doors into the main enclosure at Meiji Jingu shrine, Tokyo.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7vr-4WYPqvB4PWCKDiC79zVJLcK3qI5Soperqs36f3pVK-siROdq6eQT4dzsAR75pf6WlKiWfAY4dlPj638EE2AU_JVTpqVHYVQ9kO-JXMPpZr2qZxE82YKaaoeorgDkiGjcUwpDNXI/s2048/P1150739.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7vr-4WYPqvB4PWCKDiC79zVJLcK3qI5Soperqs36f3pVK-siROdq6eQT4dzsAR75pf6WlKiWfAY4dlPj638EE2AU_JVTpqVHYVQ9kO-JXMPpZr2qZxE82YKaaoeorgDkiGjcUwpDNXI/w384-h512/P1150739.jpg" width="384" /></a></div>This splendid variation of the chrysanthemum kamon is on the opposite door. Although it looks a little like the Imperial kamon, it has a different number of petals. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeDPHQk72PFB6GNuuWJQgxP8vohjSSegxQ-k5gmkr84nsv3yWTAneqxzd-fRUbSEOLCCx4RXeHaliok0aEbCv1kPevP8FPcnvQzSVAWX_ORveH2sGgC-hU2yseQiAVk2cEI1aAPpm7q4/s4608/P1150734.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeDPHQk72PFB6GNuuWJQgxP8vohjSSegxQ-k5gmkr84nsv3yWTAneqxzd-fRUbSEOLCCx4RXeHaliok0aEbCv1kPevP8FPcnvQzSVAWX_ORveH2sGgC-hU2yseQiAVk2cEI1aAPpm7q4/w512-h384/P1150734.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><br />This lovely antique <i>tsutsugaki </i>(rice paste resist) furoshiki wrapping cloth from my friend Chie Ikeda's collection has a triple ivy leaf kamon, the same one I have on an antique sashiko furoshiki, surrounded by the <i>takarazakushi</i> or collection of treasures motifs.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxmF0JcHtv2Rw70d2kFCa2O7FN1HsmNWfHG8c0nNqBtnkyCABkSHv7GmZkNQDoyz7hE2gYSS-OCHfEHPuSFPTevzmMBsxF6_nN52TH8Q-mo-crIohV2DVQyb4wn6z_wzaWu7qnqYSXts/s2048/P1140692.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxmF0JcHtv2Rw70d2kFCa2O7FN1HsmNWfHG8c0nNqBtnkyCABkSHv7GmZkNQDoyz7hE2gYSS-OCHfEHPuSFPTevzmMBsxF6_nN52TH8Q-mo-crIohV2DVQyb4wn6z_wzaWu7qnqYSXts/w384-h512/P1140692.jpg" width="384" /></a></div>It is the same as the kamon used by the Aoyama family, who owned a magnificent mansion in Yuza-machi (there are some pictures of the house in <a href="http://susanbriscoe.blogspot.com/2014/05/saturday-around-yuza-machi.html">this blog post</a>). This <i>noren</i> door curtain is from that house.<br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDPBNGpCAvN4ner9zIXt2Ks1CTEENaIgPfICM6oUVo15Q7au5GnBVDUcA1cqwkULitAsd5NAA3w4rJp7rWJZIplL6z621NkoYO2RTzdZPrMaqMd4wcfQaAgxuVODna7SSw88JrBHvdCk/s2048/P1060545.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDPBNGpCAvN4ner9zIXt2Ks1CTEENaIgPfICM6oUVo15Q7au5GnBVDUcA1cqwkULitAsd5NAA3w4rJp7rWJZIplL6z621NkoYO2RTzdZPrMaqMd4wcfQaAgxuVODna7SSw88JrBHvdCk/w384-h512/P1060545.jpg" width="384" /> </a>This shop shutter in Asakusa, Tokyo, has the tachibana citrus flower crest, one of the smaller crests on my 2019 kamon panel.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDPBNGpCAvN4ner9zIXt2Ks1CTEENaIgPfICM6oUVo15Q7au5GnBVDUcA1cqwkULitAsd5NAA3w4rJp7rWJZIplL6z621NkoYO2RTzdZPrMaqMd4wcfQaAgxuVODna7SSw88JrBHvdCk/s2048/P1060545.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuHixtjGzjHBeLUofflOlPmeQ-fK4Qq2bYR5XJeIZZ9geDOi9fZdBlXwya-K3XAs5Y2PQPQ4Jm95O-TJ36uFTgh1ooM0o2Oy5wPivnazpUiMiJw1CD7uT7PNbkhogiBvqs6MHNmCW8vw/s4608/P1140056.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuHixtjGzjHBeLUofflOlPmeQ-fK4Qq2bYR5XJeIZZ9geDOi9fZdBlXwya-K3XAs5Y2PQPQ4Jm95O-TJ36uFTgh1ooM0o2Oy5wPivnazpUiMiJw1CD7uT7PNbkhogiBvqs6MHNmCW8vw/w512-h384/P1140056.JPG" width="512" /></a></div>Kamon are such bold designs, and they suit sashiko really well. I will be posting photos of my first sashiko stitch along kamon crest blocks very soon!<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><p></p>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-85397913172157001132020-07-29T11:42:00.000+01:002020-07-29T11:42:07.569+01:00My sashiko stitch along sampler quilt - what's it all about?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaj8Lb-hiPFOPFH-Rk_UnIC2o1413YQicNs0LEY4GBJvYPMZkOHhgiVrU6PDn3BFvHV42FPGjCwpQwNMXVgIj7LDntuuneZqK6KPS9GJBwlE5KsuMlYTk8hf3uwXGkqIfM4yXwVJbS5zY/s1112/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="1112" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaj8Lb-hiPFOPFH-Rk_UnIC2o1413YQicNs0LEY4GBJvYPMZkOHhgiVrU6PDn3BFvHV42FPGjCwpQwNMXVgIj7LDntuuneZqK6KPS9GJBwlE5KsuMlYTk8hf3uwXGkqIfM4yXwVJbS5zY/w400-h394/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+.jpg" width="400" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The sashiko sampler quilts I made for 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook' and 'Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match have always been popular, and I have used a sampler format for the longer sashiko courses I've taught over many years. When Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. initially asked me to design some pre-printed sashiko panels for them, I immediately thought that the panels would be great for a sampler quilt format, but I wanted to wait to start mine until the second panel set came out in June 2020, so I would have sixteen large geometric and sixteen kamon crest 9 1/2in blocks to play with, plus thirty two smaller 4 1/2in square blocks. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now the new panels (coded C and D) are available, I have designed a brand new sashiko sampler quilt, which blends my love of the traditional British medallion or 'frame' patchwork with sashiko, with the sashiko thread colours coordinated around the print fabric used for the central panel and cornerstones. Like the panels, I wanted this design to be flexible, so I've come up with several different centre and border options, so the patchwork ranges from a fairly easy version (shown above), which uses striped fabric for the outer border and centre sashing, to a more complex design with multiple narrow borders around the centre and a 'cracked ice' design in applique on the outer border (scroll down for this diagram). Each quilt uses two panels - two kamon crest designs, two geometric designs, or one of each kind - in the same colour or two different colours. The design could also be adapted to replace the long outer borders squares pieced from two more panels, so you could use four panels and have all the designs in one quilt (this is going to be my fourth version). There are many, many possibilities. This blog post introduces you to the designs and the materials you will need.<br /><br /><u>How to join in</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All you need to do is keep following the instructions as I post them on this blog. There's no need to sign up to take part and, best of all, it is FREE! You will need either the printed panels or some other way of marking up the sashiko designs (most of the patterns are in my books, and of course you could choose alternative patterns from those too). For those who are marking up their own panels, I'll post some info about sashiko marking.<br /><br />What you do need to do now is to start gathering your materials together. The printed panels, sashiko threads and border fabrics are available on my website, <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com">www.susanbriscoe.com</a>, along with some of the printed fabrics I am using (to be added shortly). As I should have been at Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham this weekend, with the show opening on Thursday 30th July and running until Sunday 2nd August, I will be having FREE UK SHIPPING from my website for the duration of the show, and £3.20 off all the international shipping rates. As (inevitably) the live exhibition has been cancelled for this year, Festival of Quilts are running a virtual version of the show on their website called '<a href="https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/beyond-the-festival-of-quilts/">Beyond the Festival of Quilts'</a>, so do check it out. Stuart Hillard will be announcing the <a href="https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/competition-categories-prizes/">winners of the virtual quilt competition</a> live on Thursday 30th at 12.00 noon, and there are live workshops online, plus a traders' gallery. I'm sure many other traders will be offering 'show specials' online, so have a browse and check out their own websites too.<br /><br />I'm still stitching my first set of panels, so I will start posting the tutorials in a few day's time. You will be able to dip in and out of them as you wish, and can work through the stitch along at your own pace. The tutorials will be left up permanently on this blog, so you will be able to return to them any time you like (so long as Google doesn't decide to delete Blogger!) I also have a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/538304493444581/">Facebook group</a> called 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook', which you are most welcome to join, where members will be able to share photos of their stitch along progress.<br /><br />Towards the end of the stitch along, I will be adding a pdf pattern to my website, including all the patchwork quilt variations in the one pattern. For customers buying their sashiko panels from my website, I will be supplying a discount code so this pattern will be free. Information about the pattern release will be added here, on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/susanbriscoe.co.uk/">Facebook artist page</a> and in my website newsletter (you can sign up by sending me an email via the <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/contact">contact form</a>). <br /><u></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>About the sashiko designs</u><br /><br />Many of the kamon crests were based on those I stitched for 'Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match', although many have been tweaked a little over the years, as I've come up with slight improvements to the stitching, mainly through teaching the designs repeatedly in workshops. We also included some kamon on the 2020 panels that were featured either in the 'Motifs' chapter of 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook', or have been used for kits or class samples. The new panels include kanji characters for the seasons - spring (haru), summer (natsu), autumn (aki) and winter (fuyu), in that order - plus four variations on hitomezashi (one stitch sashiko) patterns. All the panels measure 110cm wide x 60cm.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx8XCSKi52Xds7lo5iWAoE1PEBg-_Mi7e-Bq5eBvok8T38kE3AqHfEriUl0JsMi04veDMZERXS6_x11N8TWXwHsd43CFIJMrFjFJvqx4Vrh5_nIoQqArIKtrOsIoKpoeztQLnN4nOMIw/s2048/P1040324.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx8XCSKi52Xds7lo5iWAoE1PEBg-_Mi7e-Bq5eBvok8T38kE3AqHfEriUl0JsMi04veDMZERXS6_x11N8TWXwHsd43CFIJMrFjFJvqx4Vrh5_nIoQqArIKtrOsIoKpoeztQLnN4nOMIw/w375-h500/P1040324.jpg" width="375" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh58e0mwxXJitkH6GvYLV30x4SvIzamwJXS6HIzDWvaKwvs6NsGgPFvUfuEu4ZKEYXIB6jd1-1H9DDnxMUB2IxFkBPPOd49ueMv4JsAKoYdLSuqmWDRviwp6HQBVbYcxTcOMXVMN5StE/s641/olympus+slate+blue+kamon+panel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh58e0mwxXJitkH6GvYLV30x4SvIzamwJXS6HIzDWvaKwvs6NsGgPFvUfuEu4ZKEYXIB6jd1-1H9DDnxMUB2IxFkBPPOd49ueMv4JsAKoYdLSuqmWDRviwp6HQBVbYcxTcOMXVMN5StE/w244-h400/olympus+slate+blue+kamon+panel.jpg" width="244" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxx8XCSKi52Xds7lo5iWAoE1PEBg-_Mi7e-Bq5eBvok8T38kE3AqHfEriUl0JsMi04veDMZERXS6_x11N8TWXwHsd43CFIJMrFjFJvqx4Vrh5_nIoQqArIKtrOsIoKpoeztQLnN4nOMIw/s2048/P1040324.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDs6vIxehk_BS_s5BBNcztOskAT-WhKJ_dan5lyNPxiRKwfBZPERMI3xabE5BBfuccPj8I1R776WrHghl56QqhmZmGVP_niMXsRvWhgaqYiQqzD9FV1_ZvVRXx1s7M0h0gOr7S_f0C5Y/s1500/D2008+panel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDs6vIxehk_BS_s5BBNcztOskAT-WhKJ_dan5lyNPxiRKwfBZPERMI3xabE5BBfuccPj8I1R776WrHghl56QqhmZmGVP_niMXsRvWhgaqYiQqzD9FV1_ZvVRXx1s7M0h0gOr7S_f0C5Y/s320/D2008+panel.jpg" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJeUwPW489QDS0owPkpjrfw0BpHTZVYlygA0UAZkjsuoohE8gxG3nU1SmEgEHq7KUk5UrcnViMm1mpxxjepXr1P5XMP9-TbWLgR68CDREZB9vmxef3lrMAUhi6qIYJqAb30I7HbVVJxM/s533/D2008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJeUwPW489QDS0owPkpjrfw0BpHTZVYlygA0UAZkjsuoohE8gxG3nU1SmEgEHq7KUk5UrcnViMm1mpxxjepXr1P5XMP9-TbWLgR68CDREZB9vmxef3lrMAUhi6qIYJqAb30I7HbVVJxM/s320/D2008.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDs6vIxehk_BS_s5BBNcztOskAT-WhKJ_dan5lyNPxiRKwfBZPERMI3xabE5BBfuccPj8I1R776WrHghl56QqhmZmGVP_niMXsRvWhgaqYiQqzD9FV1_ZvVRXx1s7M0h0gOr7S_f0C5Y/s1500/D2008+panel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The geometric designs were from traditional patterns in 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook', and the new C panel series includes old geometric square sashiko designs from Sakata city for the 4 1/2in blocks. The A series (2019) features some of the flower and leaf motifs I originally drew from traditional Japanese designs for coasters and smaller projects (these were also included in the Sourcebook).<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaj8Lb-hiPFOPFH-Rk_UnIC2o1413YQicNs0LEY4GBJvYPMZkOHhgiVrU6PDn3BFvHV42FPGjCwpQwNMXVgIj7LDntuuneZqK6KPS9GJBwlE5KsuMlYTk8hf3uwXGkqIfM4yXwVJbS5zY/s1112/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7rQmhAwFHR0NeWSbTj1oYyG0PlxIenjfG4zy-hz1ZF_EV3poGHKUvM0qQiP2Jhyphenhyphen_PF6l4EBq_P4M8WwK5ByrDpJRCUL3hcCcBxXhuSAkaJQz_OjyOKYdFwFxS7skwC6wgzyxuK4MeSQ/s2048/P1040329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7rQmhAwFHR0NeWSbTj1oYyG0PlxIenjfG4zy-hz1ZF_EV3poGHKUvM0qQiP2Jhyphenhyphen_PF6l4EBq_P4M8WwK5ByrDpJRCUL3hcCcBxXhuSAkaJQz_OjyOKYdFwFxS7skwC6wgzyxuK4MeSQ/w375-h500/P1040329.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Many antique medallion quilts feature specially printed centre panels as a large square, circle, oval or octagon, and a large scale fabric print makes a great substitute for one of these. It would also be a good place to use a cushion panel or a large scale Japanese printed panel. With a half metre of 42 - 43in wide fabric, there's enough for a 15 1/2in centre panel, plus four 9 1/2in cornerstones. With slightly wider 54in wide furnishing fabric, I should be able to just about squeeze out four applique circles too, for the most challenging version of the patchwork (shown below) - 3/4 yard of 42in wide fabric would be ample for this detail.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuJrWQvnFC3CJj33H9_o5iZC4bGbyhoKxv743cDSrtJak2SCuysEiXwieQ2NM16cmJ7siAeK2iC6nmN-72fUZE4yIeKS9jmLn58nQNubR12ydaqjxtZqr2qbsUGcy4vqgo1uTxjl8fU0/s1104/Victorian+sashiko+quilt+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1104" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuJrWQvnFC3CJj33H9_o5iZC4bGbyhoKxv743cDSrtJak2SCuysEiXwieQ2NM16cmJ7siAeK2iC6nmN-72fUZE4yIeKS9jmLn58nQNubR12ydaqjxtZqr2qbsUGcy4vqgo1uTxjl8fU0/w400-h400/Victorian+sashiko+quilt+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>I am planning to make the quilt with several different fabric and panel combinations, starting with the easiest patchwork design (at the start of this post) and finishing with the most complex one (above, with applique details), using a different combination of sashiko panels, feature fabric and border designs each time. The panels are available in six different 'regular' colours, hand printed in Japan on Kofu Tsumugi (a lovely fabric for both sashiko and patchwork, woven with a coloured warp and black weft) - ink black, indigo blue, light blue (slate), light grey (taupe), dark green, and deep red - which are all available from my online shop. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I still have some of last autumn's 'special limited edition' A and B panels, in mustard yellow, brick red and russet too. As the special edition colours are running out now, these could be combined with a different panel colour for the second one, either choosing a closely related shade, such as deep red with brick red or light grey (taupe) with mustard yellow - or going for a more dramatic contrast like mustard yellow and ink black, as shown below. The 'checkerboard' sashiko panel effect is also a good idea if you are combining a panel you bought last year with one of the 2020 series, as there may be a tiny colour variation in the fabric. Another option, if you love the limited edition colours, would be to get the kamon crest designs as a pre-printed panel and draw a selection of geometric panels yourself, using the designs from 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook' and 'Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match', as I have the same plain fabrics in stock - <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/kofu-tsumugi" target="_blank">Kofu Tsumugi</a> - as precuts and yardage.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZnDeJsShbT6UaYOAfqxR3aDZBuqGLCystH9TIUinOK9uysnyacD7ri6Kj53pccdG5hgmfE6jA1D_ojPqkCxcFyZPvzdYOl3KOkT_XTwRxfmNMKlpBgW2X4qBfpEdCC1ZVb7YckoNkZ8/s1100/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+alt+blocks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1087" data-original-width="1100" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZnDeJsShbT6UaYOAfqxR3aDZBuqGLCystH9TIUinOK9uysnyacD7ri6Kj53pccdG5hgmfE6jA1D_ojPqkCxcFyZPvzdYOl3KOkT_XTwRxfmNMKlpBgW2X4qBfpEdCC1ZVb7YckoNkZ8/w400-h395/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+alt+blocks.jpg" width="400" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>Thread and fabric combinations</u><br /><br />So far, I have put together three combinations for my sashiko sampler quilts. As sashiko thread is available in so many beautiful colours, I thought it would be fun to stitch the sashiko in colours that coordinate with the fabric prints, using threads from the 6ply <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-thread-20m">20m medium sashiko thread range</a>. The panels were designed to be stitched with this thread, used as a single strand or doubled, as is more traditional in sashiko. The kamon crest designs work best with either a combination of doubled and single thread, or single thread throughout, as some parts are more detailed and doubled thread might look a bit too chunky. I have been using single medium thread (6ply) for leaves, leaf veins, flower stamens etc. with doubled thread for some flower petals, which also gives an interesting effect with the shaded threads (I'll post photos of some of my panels soon). The <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-thread-fine-80m">80m fine (3ply) sashiko thread range</a> could also be used doubled (a single strand would look a little too fine I think), and this range has a handy <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/miniskeins-fine-20m-x-20-sashiko-thread-pack">miniskeins pack</a>, with 20 x 10m skeins of thread, useful if just a touch of colour is needed. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My original sampler quilts for the two books, shown towards the top of the page, actually used the 4ply fine sashiko thread I stock as <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/fine-sashiko-threads-370m">370m skeins</a>, used doubled, but that would be a lot of left over thread thread, unless you are going to stitch the sashiko panels all in the same colour. However, the 4ply fine makes a great thread for big stitch quilting, so perhaps having a more limited thread colour palette and using it both for the sashiko and the quilting would be another idea. One sashiko panel with eight large and eight small squares can be comfortably stitched with one <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-thread-100m">100m skein of medium sashiko thread</a> too. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are plenty of threads to choose from, so you can get whatever effect you want. I decided to go ultra colourful for my panels! Here are my print fabric, panel, and thread combinations. In the end, I probably won't use every thread I've shown for each quilt, as I am further refining the thread selection as I go. I am trying to make sure that any thread is used in at least two different sashiko blocks.<br /><br />1) Kamon panels B and D in black, with 1/2 metres 'Ming Embroidery' in black, from Philip Jacob's Silk Road collection, a half width of 1.5 metres deep red <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/olympus-kofu-tsumugi-deep-red-2003" target="_blank">Kofu Tsumugi</a>, and 2m of striped Japanese Shima cotton in <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/olympus-striped-shima-momen-cotton-brick-red-aubergine-grey-2720e">shade 2720E</a>. This combination is shown in my drawing at the start of this post. I will be adding the 'Ming Embroidery' fabric to my website in the next day or two, available by the half metre. This is definitely the brightest and most colourful thread selection. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVrk_9KX78g7BAO-pRUXLs7ldrHBdln6SVBnB_WXtXB8IsGlO4KTmnz5yU4u3TfLhJdzdcnpWn8_fjXARDp-fhZwcZfrUIYYXlnHXIVMkS1kbBW0ex-QHd7PzqNBkWKJl9dlOykp1agE/s2048/IMG_2716.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVrk_9KX78g7BAO-pRUXLs7ldrHBdln6SVBnB_WXtXB8IsGlO4KTmnz5yU4u3TfLhJdzdcnpWn8_fjXARDp-fhZwcZfrUIYYXlnHXIVMkS1kbBW0ex-QHd7PzqNBkWKJl9dlOykp1agE/w400-h300/IMG_2716.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2) Kamon panels A and B in russet (special limited edition), with 1/2 metre vintage furnishing fabric, 'Matsue' by Jonelle, with a classical Chinese landscape (I will be adding some of this to my website soon), a plain Kofu Tsumugi cotton fabric for the wide border and centre sashing (possibly 2501, light grey (taupe)), and one of the <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/olympus-striped-cottons?page=2" target="_blank">Japanese striped cottons</a> for the main sashing (I haven't yet decided which!) Lightweight vintage furnishing fabrics are only slightly thicker than ordinary patchwork cottons and almost the same weight as the Kofu Tsumugi used for the sashiko, so they make a great combination. As this fabric doesn't have any pink or red tones, I may use cream for the plum and cherry blossoms instead. 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Once again, the feature fabric is a lightweight vintage furnishing fabric. I only have a couple of pieces of this, found on eBay, with a very Victorian take on Japanese designs. I am still deciding the exact fabric combination for this, but I may use the A and B panel in mustard yellow, as I kept a set for myself when the limited edition colours were launched. I am sold out of panel A in mustard yellow, but still have a few B's, and it would combine very well with the light grey (taupe) as an alternative (I've shown my threads with the mustard yellow panels in first photo and the light grey in the second).<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo72ODGcm-X3CFlVgzrvPhAkfEnHUUkYOi2dj77ABXQUTMLk9334w5muFUV7mSXIA0NLI4CP1Sb2fyTp4-WEfnGFzOjzVmziblvCw8herGkRePthVxmISjbCvkODUNc5IkY6giBKYlSWA/s2048/IMG_2715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo72ODGcm-X3CFlVgzrvPhAkfEnHUUkYOi2dj77ABXQUTMLk9334w5muFUV7mSXIA0NLI4CP1Sb2fyTp4-WEfnGFzOjzVmziblvCw8herGkRePthVxmISjbCvkODUNc5IkY6giBKYlSWA/w375-h500/IMG_2715.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0-OGQL30yfhgOFEUK-t_y6CnulEt6QZ2eC_7cXOvmVhgHxrW_bVASFmN4w3KWmbqwGcKvbBNzVegnIGPU3tZveJQD5bHobRlt_-OXt7ClW30e0IdwuPbBcEz6zxXht2dqFguxMAgcuo/s2048/IMG_2714.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0-OGQL30yfhgOFEUK-t_y6CnulEt6QZ2eC_7cXOvmVhgHxrW_bVASFmN4w3KWmbqwGcKvbBNzVegnIGPU3tZveJQD5bHobRlt_-OXt7ClW30e0IdwuPbBcEz6zxXht2dqFguxMAgcuo/w400-h300/IMG_2714.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>4) Once I've got these tops finished, I want to make a fourth sampler, using one A, B, C and D panel, perhaps using the A and C panels (geometrics) to make the outer long border, and the B and D panels (kamon) for the two inner borders. Perhaps this might be the more traditional one re colour! I have some new Takumi panels which will be added to the website shortly, featuring two stunning dragon designs - I used one to make this cushion recently. The dragon is available on black and indigo blue, and would make a stunning centre panel.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL5nwVZ76aIkZ2ICibt6Cu-TCIiA9cViJXrhZQ0df-xYy4RZTS_Y7OXt0LMT-7qpuJioOQ-GN6qfK4T8iYGz0wGO7V9y7FHGLBM7y-_zvmQ34AdPyNbaAuNVq0PAdMcozy83IO5VD6aI/s2048/IMG_2630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL5nwVZ76aIkZ2ICibt6Cu-TCIiA9cViJXrhZQ0df-xYy4RZTS_Y7OXt0LMT-7qpuJioOQ-GN6qfK4T8iYGz0wGO7V9y7FHGLBM7y-_zvmQ34AdPyNbaAuNVq0PAdMcozy83IO5VD6aI/w375-h500/IMG_2630.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the moment, I am stitching the kamon crest panels for the first sampler, using the really bright colours, and I will post photos of these very soon. I will be using this blog to deliver all the instructions and I hope to be able to add some short videos as well as step by step photos and instructions.<br /><br />Let's have fun stitching sashiko!<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1D8Lco5XRTpA6YA9Cm8w8WMl2L-9aoO-FtFYRGD8hwP6qT5IPxhBblH3p3CoODNKRJnp2lPKAhKSa3Bud-s9FGiNSE_upofBDbT-GGOcOSKywqlAcM_y3Zp2yipOTlHZ8reCMFbyQUfo/s500/japanese+quilt+blocks+cover.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1D8Lco5XRTpA6YA9Cm8w8WMl2L-9aoO-FtFYRGD8hwP6qT5IPxhBblH3p3CoODNKRJnp2lPKAhKSa3Bud-s9FGiNSE_upofBDbT-GGOcOSKywqlAcM_y3Zp2yipOTlHZ8reCMFbyQUfo/w318-h320/japanese+quilt+blocks+cover.bmp" width="318" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZnDeJsShbT6UaYOAfqxR3aDZBuqGLCystH9TIUinOK9uysnyacD7ri6Kj53pccdG5hgmfE6jA1D_ojPqkCxcFyZPvzdYOl3KOkT_XTwRxfmNMKlpBgW2X4qBfpEdCC1ZVb7YckoNkZ8/s1100/sashiko+sampler+stich+along+1+alt+blocks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMbgYqWEd4SVjX8DaxVGAE7NsEcJZIL2tAudQ2uEXUYdau6Yv4DR5KjmTHqpJZgiztuPgbieiav4d0wx36_5ppYW2u67vd2MPqX36dhR0w7tka4UidnQx6TNZW2JwY7mhT7J_BQxp708/s500/ultimate+sashiko+sourcebook+cover.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="387" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMbgYqWEd4SVjX8DaxVGAE7NsEcJZIL2tAudQ2uEXUYdau6Yv4DR5KjmTHqpJZgiztuPgbieiav4d0wx36_5ppYW2u67vd2MPqX36dhR0w7tka4UidnQx6TNZW2JwY7mhT7J_BQxp708/w248-h320/ultimate+sashiko+sourcebook+cover.bmp" width="248" /></a></div>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-54788949904331687062020-07-23T20:57:00.001+01:002020-07-23T20:57:49.378+01:00The end of Denman College<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7UftnwqmUmjSeag5YmeTtAQAkK1LBrHeF33wrgyXEKj15F-hRAPosdPSsPRIzQa1jNz9yFQC5Y2IkSTrmxJGTjANXLPWP8pJJ-iv7sYfzGwBHY4VZfEpQ6Xy7lr-t_KXircnRvKbTiI/s1600/denman+sashiko+Oct+2009+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7UftnwqmUmjSeag5YmeTtAQAkK1LBrHeF33wrgyXEKj15F-hRAPosdPSsPRIzQa1jNz9yFQC5Y2IkSTrmxJGTjANXLPWP8pJJ-iv7sYfzGwBHY4VZfEpQ6Xy7lr-t_KXircnRvKbTiI/w400-h300/denman+sashiko+Oct+2009+001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I was very sad to read about this on Facebook tonight - <a href="https://www.denman.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0vh-rM5SoABl8F2qqflId55M0Wcht9Yv5FIGEncGQZLvO6QG5EeDbcL-g">Denman College is likely to close</a>. <br /><br />I taught a lot of sashiko courses at Denman College, before I moved to Scotland. It will be missed. See more photos from Denman on my blog. Of course, it is also where the <a href="http://susanbriscoe.blogspot.com/search?q=denman+kannon ">Denman Kannon</a> was started.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5no3GYX5iW63N8zAVbU4RPlGODNwYCmjJFCMgCjDU_zfeEO26-OEx8qjk9p9DQ6VVGpdGeu19hBQt8FRKkukjIcRZQUYllzBSDV5kYCQ9mOeAT2yuY6LqukkpAqCTavlNbFubFAoFTr8/s1280/sakata+manchinka+exhibition+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5no3GYX5iW63N8zAVbU4RPlGODNwYCmjJFCMgCjDU_zfeEO26-OEx8qjk9p9DQ6VVGpdGeu19hBQt8FRKkukjIcRZQUYllzBSDV5kYCQ9mOeAT2yuY6LqukkpAqCTavlNbFubFAoFTr8/w300-h400/sakata+manchinka+exhibition+2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMyc2Ot63TG87hmU2EkXmqdmNbibcQ-r-a2CbgMJRDdqeklILHxpUKDYKCjFjiNKjuoU9vK2OzIFYQT5IXWGBsuEyZR73Y_C5PlrNJeb1KYznPZUE4rKSnbJCvH6bznqJJv0klQaKAfM/s1600/quilts+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMyc2Ot63TG87hmU2EkXmqdmNbibcQ-r-a2CbgMJRDdqeklILHxpUKDYKCjFjiNKjuoU9vK2OzIFYQT5IXWGBsuEyZR73Y_C5PlrNJeb1KYznPZUE4rKSnbJCvH6bznqJJv0klQaKAfM/w400-h300/quilts+002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /><br /></div>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-39642403061918206812020-07-17T12:11:00.000+01:002020-07-17T12:11:48.105+01:00Back to the blog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As it has been for everyone, life has been quite frantic and strange for the last few months. Now I have a bit more time to sort out the photos properly, it is time for me to revive my blog. You can still follow my artist page on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/susanbriscoe.co.uk/">Facebook</a> and my photos on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susanbriscoe1/">Instagram</a> of course, but it is always easier to find things retrospectively on my blog - which I will explain later on. We were at Nagoya castle back in January when we first heard about the 'new illness' in Wuhan, so traveled back to the UK wearing masks... and having no idea of how things would change so suddenly.<br />
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At the beginning of March, Yuza Sashiko Guild, along with Reiko sensei's sister and brother in law, came to Scotland for a trip that included teaching and exhibiting at the Scottish Quilting Show at SEC Glasgow and again at Dornoch Fibre Fest, near Inverness. We managed to pack in visits to Edinburgh Castle, the Kelvingrove Museum at Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's House for an Art Lover, Stonehaven and Dunottar Castle (just the outside), Tomatin Distillery and Urqhart castle as well. Quite a trip! <br />
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Reiko sensei taking photos of my antique boro display at SEC, where we shared the exhibition space.<br />
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Yuza Sashiko also launched their first book in English in the UK during the tour (I have <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/the-magic-of-yuza-sashiko">copies for sale online</a>).<br />
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After we waved them off at Edinburgh airport on 16th March, things started to change here very quickly and the UK went into lockdown on 23rd March. Things are still not back to normal and they are not likely to be for a long time.<br />
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<br />As a result of the precautions we are all having to take now due to COVID-19, all my face-to-face teaching and all our shows have been cancelled - all the quilt shows, and all the World Textile Days. This has changed life for me a great deal, as I was used to traveling a lot! Fortunately I set up my <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/shop-online">online store</a> last summer, so getting geared up to sell 100% online hasn't been as hard as it might have been. At the start of lockdown, I made sure I got plenty of threads and materials in stock. At that time, I was concerned about shipping from Japan. I mostly use FedEx, but some of the places I buy from use Japan Post, which has suspended all the economy shipping services. The <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/fine-sashiko-threads-370m">370m fine sashiko threads</a> are shipped by Japan Post, which took quite a lot longer, even for the express post, so I made sure I ordered the complete range this time!<br /><br />
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I have started an online newsletter (you can <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/contact">sign up here</a>) and have been coming up with new products and new combinations of products (like these <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/all-kogin-materials">kogin thread sets</a>, themed after seasonal colours).<br />
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I've also got the <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/master-sashiko-booklet-and-stencil-set">stencil and pattern booklet pack</a> I designed for Today's Quilter in stock, along with many other <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/new-arrivals">new things</a>, including my <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/olympus-sashiko-panels">latest preprinted sashiko panels</a> for Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. (Japan), some fabulous new <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/sashiko-picture-panels">designer hanafukin sashiko panels</a> and lots of new <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/hitomezashi-sashiko-panels">hitomezashi kits and panels</a> too.<br />
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<br />I have been busiest during lockdown stitching boro...<br /><br />
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My next book, The Book of Boro, will be published by David and Charles on 10th November 2020.<br />
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<br />It has 20 projects, large and small, inspired by items from my personal boro collection (I've been collecting for nearly 30 years now, which I find hard to believe!), plus all the techniques you need and, of course, a history section about where boro comes from, how it was made, the boro revival and more. I will be taking advance orders towards the end of the summer.<br /><br />Now that the first and second pages edit are done and I only have the proof to check (when it arrives), I've returned to sashiko. I am just starting on a sashiko sampler stitch along, and will be posting instructions and photos here, as well as on Facebook and Instagram, very soon. It will be free and there is no need to sign up to anything - just get your sashiko supplies together and join in, at your own pace. The idea for the sampler is to use my preprinted sashiko panels, but if you have The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook and Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match, you could mark up your own panels instead. Hopefully I'll get one of the sampler quilt tops completely finished before starting the stitch along. It will be free to join in and you will be able to follow it here or on Facebook, where you can join my sashiko group, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/538304493444581/">The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook</a> (named after my book), to share photos and chat with other stitchers. I also want to do some short video tutorials, which will be on YouTube. Keep checking here for stitch along posts!Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-52446419497045648412019-12-31T08:47:00.001+00:002019-12-31T08:47:19.288+00:00Lucky Bags - New Year Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I started my 'Solstice thru New Year SALE' on 21st December at<span> </span><a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.susanbriscoe.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0JCLuamOBdaj7DtSDVGM9qbi4JLB0dRULFEAtq2ZyyQp-sfNnJlwZ9Z7M&h=AT2_vIuqiEo06t8v4UHalQpYF3ogVc6sWQgaHY7795d9eX8xM05zsPH_WXAxObkLWTjgviCEN7uSmgixMl1DddLq3J9O_2PJ6ClEeArr75_OUlg0DJWfpTjfV__9-Q3AojQYKESfM8joeKfgikd5z-tvboMjb57ZL0oLzYmSmByrctyere1x-fsQ3zoKY5gGq_eNohWVRHcl7HC4f_qIWg0Vex5lTFOeF3L8JPp1QZoXeF4QZkfWGh0cx7dzISjlJKFRtthl1cOXt_qWgdwBtCPC_HxDsy0yx11icI5lnPnhqf6_dhTlhvgVZi0P9TPJn84Zd_WtzRPwQZ5weuIJGbdNuitT_XV7xQS1wh4LtBN1cg76rmBLflXXjgankdWYBfkkpoebjsCTwEDdF4Fb3QQ3mIb3lpHsX8p7HsVmPgOJUCuUKF2kHEqCKH6PwYIK7UgXRsJ8hEQNAScDCjAEMObT-dqL0ng7B7zSk8kJXAkzYHqS6ZxUPzcAgyYFGRfM-js9alt8yO0ikHU8Kxt--V9DMK6Wq5-dyhKWymUTYaS8NpZQzdMJJUDVnqKJy-05SQaZy_Bbjt-bxk3Vtfx5yqh0HFZhQqag-rWvSw0t5uFl0BZVVp7guYHZ_u0vMCyNZXzoZyq9x-IkbrJjQisIWxw" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.susanbriscoe.com </a>with some fukubukuro or 'lucky bags'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Do you know the Japanese New Year sale tradtion of the Lucky Bag? You get a great value discounted selection of goodies, but you can't look inside the bag first - it's a mystery. Lucky bags may be themed by products (stationery, accessories, makeup etc.) and are sold by stores in the New Year sales. It is a big, BIG New Year tradition in Japan!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My lucky bags are themed by technique (sashiko, kogin etc.) and/or a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">keyword or phrase, such as 'wintertime', 'golden' or 'Japanese New Year' to give you a clue as to the products and colour themes of each bag.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been having fun filling these bags and choosing different themes. Although my discount is 'officially' 25%, in reality it is a little more for some of the bags, simply because things like a £10 precut of kogin 18 count cotton fabric and four skeins of thread at £3 each add up to slightly more than £20... There are sashiko, kogin and fabric only bags. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The sale ends on 4th January, so I have enough time to finish sending everything out before I go to Japan.</span>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-42374586668164362942019-12-04T10:21:00.000+00:002019-12-04T10:31:44.524+00:00Countdown to Christmas in my internet shop - yukata panels!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have started the long, long job of listing my cotton yukata fabric panels in my online shop, putting up one new fabric a day as my <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/countdown-to-christmas">'Countdown to Christmas'</a> - an Advent calendar of yukata fabrics - although, I have so many in stock, I can probably keep going well into 2020 with a new fabric a day! Just like the old fashioned Advent calendars we had in the 1960s and 70s, the new fabric 'picture' I'll 'open' every day is quite at random, and there will be many different patterns and colours listed.<br />
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These fabulous <i>chusen</i> hand stencil dyed fabrics are some of my favourite kimono fabrics, as they display such a variety of motifs and patterns, often in quite an innovative way. The wonderful shading effects are unique to this kind of dyeing, where the colours are pooled onto the stencils and pulled through the folded fabric by a vacuum.<br />
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Here are the first eight... Although as it it only December 4th today, they aren't all live on the site just yet. <br />
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The dyeing process means these narrow 36 - 39cm wide fabrics have a repeat of 98 - 105cm, and the patterns mirror image alternately. The earliest ones I have are from c1960 and the most recent date from the early 2000s. The fabric has a similar handle to patchwork cottons, are machine washable, and are ideal for patchwork, quilting, home dec and dressmaking projects where a large scale pattern is required.<br />
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<i>Chusen</i> dyeing is an expensive process, and these fabrics originally retailed for around £150 and upwards for a bolt. As I look out for them in sales, I am able to sell the panels for just £12 per piece, less than the original retail price in Japan. If you order more than one panel of the same fabric, it will come as a continuous length.<br />
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Sadly, <i>chusen</i> isn't as fashionable for yukata nowadays as it used to be, and many dyers have switched production to <i>tenugui</i> hand towels, which are having a big revival at the moment. So yukata fabrics like these are becoming harder to find. I've built up a collection of several hundred bolts over the last few years, and will gradually add them to my site.<br />
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Here's a set of quilt blocks I made for a remake of my 'Maru' quilt (above), combining cotton yukata fabrics with tsumugi cotton stripes. By fussy cutting many yukata fabrics, it is possible to get 'plain' fabrics out of some of the background areas where the motifs are more sparse. The smaller cushion panel below was made by improvisational piecing using up the scraps!</div>
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The panels are suited to making up as long scroll-like wallhangings, but they also look gorgeous in quilts. I used them for several projects in my '<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Quilt-Inspirations-easy-make/dp/0715338277/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/257-2397890-3252927?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0715338277&pd_rd_r=8ab83d0e-6c07-4bb5-91e3-d783aa90482f&pd_rd_w=4ETOS&pd_rd_wg=UV32x&pf_rd_p=f4a31d1d-8f61-48f5-b6f4-a22ba06df575&pf_rd_r=81NKCED63FAS0QQJYJ90&psc=1&refRID=81NKCED63FAS0QQJYJ90">Japanese Quilt Inspirations'</a> book. If you are familiar with Kitty Pippen's books, '<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quilting-Japanese-Fabrics-Kitty-Pippen/dp/1564772977/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=kitty+pippen&qid=1575454209&sr=8-2">Quilting with Japanese Fabrics</a>' and '<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asian-Elegance-Quilting-Japanese-Patchwork/dp/156477483X/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/257-2397890-3252927?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=156477483X&pd_rd_r=f6242e4a-0e34-4eb6-bf8a-5975a3c1a5c5&pd_rd_w=7qDag&pd_rd_wg=Vfh7B&pf_rd_p=f4a31d1d-8f61-48f5-b6f4-a22ba06df575&pf_rd_r=H3EHA1E3YEG6S8FMSMVB&psc=1&refRID=H3EHA1E3YEG6S8FMSMVB">Asian Elegance</a>', she used a lot of yukata cottons for her stunning quilts. Patricia Belyea, in '<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/East-Meets-West-Quilts-Explore-Japanese-Inspired-Designs/dp/1419726595/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=patricia+belyea&qid=1575454153&sr=8-1">East Meets West Quilts</a>', also makes beautiful quilts of yukata cottons, in a more improvisational, contemporary style.<br /><br />
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Because these are vintage fabrics, they are not repeatable, and because yukata bolts are rarely more than 11.6m long, they are quite rare fabrics. I won't be able to get the same ones again (although there are one or two where I have managed to buy duplicate bolts!) so if you see one you like, buy it now!Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-54422325646145586642019-11-29T10:37:00.003+00:002019-11-29T10:37:50.233+00:00Yuza Sashiko Guild - first book in English<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reiko Domon posted some photos this morning of the new Yuza Sashiko book, The Magic of Yuza Sashiko, which their guild have just published. I haven't seen it yet but hope to get my copy soon. Yuza Sashiko Guild will be bringing copies for sale when they come to the Scottish Quilting Show at SECC in early March and also at Dornoch Fibre Fest, and we are planning a book signing session at Kaleidoscope books in between those events. I will share more info as I have it. Hopefully I'll get some copies to sell on my website too.<br /><br />They asked me to write a couple of pages for the book, explaining how I got interested in sashiko and kogin, so I've pasted the text for that below.<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US">My links to Yuza Sashiko are down to a
lucky chance. I was a Visual Art and Drama graduate from the University College
of Wales, Aberystwyth, with a vague interest in Japanese art and design. It was
my dream to go to Japan. When I was accepted onto the JET Program in 1991 to
teach English in Japanese schools, I requested to teach in a small town in the
north. I had never heard of sashiko - I thought the summers in the north would
be cooler! I quickly fell in love with Yuza-machi, a town set in such beautiful
countryside.<br />
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My hobbies there didn’t include sashiko or quilting, but I bought some of Eiko
Yoshida’s sashiko books in the local bookstore. I had one small piece of Yuza
sashiko, a gift from my student Kumiko Konno, made by her grandmother. My home
was behind Obiya, the town’s biggest textile and kimono store, where I learned
how to sew kimono, which I needed for my other hobby - tea ceremony. Through my
job and hobbies, I got to know people in my neighborhood. I became interested
in Japanese textiles, kimono, patchwork and quilting. Together with our
homestay student from the USA, Matt Wandell, I explored places around
Yuza-machi. When I returned to the UK, patchwork and quilting became my big
hobby.</span></i></div>
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they are today. Keeping in touch was not easy and my Japanese reading and
writing is terrible. Fortunately, I had several friends who spoke and wrote
English. They kept me in touch with life in Yuza-machi. I was able to return to
Japan for the Millennium New Year holiday. I revisited many places, including
the town library, the town council and the new Yuza Junior High School. Every
office had a beautiful piece of Yuza sashiko on display. I had never seen
anything quite like them before, with many small patterns on one piece. Because
I loved embroidery and hand sewing, I immediately wanted to learn how to stitch
this special sashiko.<br />
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It was still the New Year holiday, so on 3rd or 4th January 2000, I had my
first big encounter with Yuza sashiko patterns through Mayor Onedira. When I
told him I would love to learn Yuza sashiko but didn’t know how, he immediately
got out his mobile phone, explained that his friend’s wife taught sashiko, and
called Chie Ikeda. Half an hour later, I was at her home, surrounded by the
most beautiful pieces of sashiko. I was amazed - it was like a dream! Before I
came home, I had another lesson with Ikeda sensei. She was so patient. My first
attempt at hitomezashi was full of mistakes and I had to unpick and redo it
several times. She gave me a sampler so I could learn more patterns.<br />
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In 2001, there was a big cultural exchange visit from Yuza-machi to Stratford-upon-Avon
in the UK (they are twin towns), with a mini matsuri festival celebrating the annual
traditions of Yuza-machi. Hideo Abe, my friend from Yuza Town Council, contacted
me and said that Reiko Domon, my former next-door neighbor, would attend with
members of her quilt group Peaceful Heart. I arranged an English tea party with
Hathaway Quilters in Stratford where the Japanese quilters did a show and tell
of their work. Domon sensei asked me to make two small quilts including sashiko
for their exhibition, and the start of our long quilting exchange began. Over
the years, I have sent many quilts to their exhibitions, including work by my
sashiko students, and they have loaned many to mine.<br />
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On my next trip to Yuza-machi in 2002 I met Domon sensei, Ikeda sensei and
other sashiko enthusiasts. I made several small pieces of sashiko after my 2000
trip, but now I had more inspirations, understanding how the patterns worked. I
started creating sashiko designs for UK quilt magazines and began teaching
sashiko while working on my Post Graduate Certificate in Education Post
compulsory (a teaching qualification for teaching adults). I also designed kits
for Euro Japan Links Ltd.<br />
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The first UK Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham was held in August 2003.
The president of the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, Janice Gunner, who also
works with Japanese textile techniques, suggested an exhibition of Yuza sashiko
as part of the quilt show. Domon sensei, Chie sensei and other members of
Peaceful Heart (who were becoming sashiko specialists) came to the UK and had the
first big sashiko exhibition here. It was a great success, including antique
and contemporary sashiko, and ‘make and take’ lessons for visitors too,
teaching sashiko ‘from hand to hand’.<br />
<br />
I wrote a patchwork bag book in 2003 and I suggested to my editors that we
should have a big sashiko book in English. So ‘The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook’
(2005) includes all styles of sashiko. Yuza sashiko stitchers contributed many works.
I made small pieces of kogin and Nanbu Hishizashi to illustrate the history chapter,
but I didn’t really know the technique, so in 2006, I had my first kogin lesson
with Keiko Abe in Yuza-machi, and in 2014, through Izumi Sato’s sister-in-law,
I met Yoko Sato in Hirosaki and had another kogin lesson. My kogin obsession
resulted in ‘The Ultimate Kogin Collection’ (2019), but my first sashiko love
will always be Yuza sashiko.<br />
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Yuza Sashiko (Guild) was founded in 2008. They
visited the UK in 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018, each time teaching at one of our
larger quilt shows. I arranged for their work to be shown at many quilt shows
in the UK, including the quilt challenges ‘Treasures of Yamagata’, ‘Dream of
Shonai’ and ‘Maruike-sama (the magical blue pool at Mt Chokai)’, where they
have combined sashiko with patchwork and quilting in innovative ways. It is a
wonderful thing that a traditional technique can be preserved and transformed,
and used as a way of spreading happiness and friendship around the world. Let’s
share Yuza Sashiko and stitch together!<br />
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Ganbatte kudasai! Work hard!<br />
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There is an excellent exhibition of Japanese kimono on at the moment at <a href="https://www.dalgarvenmill.org.uk/costumecollection/">Dalgarven Mill, Kilwinning</a>, until 15th December. As kimono are so varied in design and it is very rare every to see two identical designs together (even for modern kimono), another person's kimono collection is always a 'must see' for fellow kimono collectors like myself. Before we went, I'd seen a few photos online, but somehow had failed to spot the owner and curator of the exhibition - Sue Selwyn, who was one of my original group of sashiko students at The Studio, Loch Lomond, back in 2013, and we were in the same class for our City and Guilds Patchwork and Quilting Diploma class at Gillian Cooper's studio a few years ago. I knew about her kimono collection, but I didn't know how many she had. Sue has a very good eye for design and, since she began collecting about 10 years ago, has assembled a beautiful collection on numerous trips to Japan. The exhibition shows mainly the more formal end of kimono, houmongi and up in formality levels, with a focus of yuzen and embroidery. This kimono, with yuzen dyed aoi (hollyhocks) leaves on a very large scale rinzu silk damask, with embroidered details, is early Showa era (1930s).<br />
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There is plenty of information about each kimono. Some are displayed on tailor's dummies while some of the more fragile ones were hung at the back of the displays. Everything was raised on on staging and well lit, so the details are easy to see. Below, two uchikake, wedding robes - the white one with the cranes and plum blossoms is 1960s while the red one, with peacocks and pine boughs, is 1990s.<br />
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Heisei era houmongi (below) with sparkly lurex in the weave and tsujigahana tie dyed decoration.<br />
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A beautiful example of meisen dyeing (above).<br />
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Late Showa era furisode (left above) and houmongi (right) - the darker furisode has Bingata inspired designs, while the shibori tie dyed houmongi looks like it was originally furisode, but had the sleeves shortened when the original owner married.<br /><br />Late Showa era red bridal furisode, with machine embroidered designs (below).<br />
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The green furisode below is 1960s, while the pink houmongi in front of it is very early Showa era.<br />
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The crested houmongi on the left was stunning.<br />
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This Heisei era houmongi has quite modern embroidery.<br />
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The earliest kimono in the exhibition were late Meiji era. There were many very fine examples of delicate yuzen dyeing.<br />
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Worth a visit if you can get there!<br /><br />The mill has a large costume collection of its own and a complimentary exhibition of export kimono and kimono influenced robes, with parasols and other accessories made for the Western market, was in another gallery upstairs. There are also extensive exhibitions of rural life, including room sets, on the upper floors. <br /><br />This 1/16th scale dolls house was in the kimono gallery. It was completely hand made for the owner and is a modern build, but with great details.<br />
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Last Saturday, I had a creative day with Renfrewshire Embroiderers' Guild, when we 'Explored Japanese Boro' with new versions of my Mt Fuji boro inspired picture in the morning. After lunch, some group members got started with a boro bag panel, but for others, the picture had grown a bit bigger! There was some great use of fabric scraps with various colours and textures, with views of Mt Fuji (and maybe a few other moutains) in various seasons, weathers and times of day. There's a lot more stitching to be added to all these panels, and I'm looking forward to seeing photos of some of the finished works.<br />
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This longer panel, which is going to become a bag, reminds me of glimpsing Mt Fuji in the far distance when flying into Narita airport!</div>
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Greenbank Gardens is not far from Glasgow and is the site of a neo classical mansion. I didn't get to see the actual gardens and it was quite a damp and soggy day. </div>
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We were in the cosy and comfortable Coach House, to the right of the mansion in this panorama. I'd like to visit again, at a time of year when the gardens would be full of flowers.</div>
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My first online 'sale', last weekend's free UK shipping (and reduced overseas rates), was over so quickly, several people didn't spot it - sorry! So I decided to have a special sale to celebrate the autumnal colours, with 10% off all autumn coloured fabrics, running right up until November 17th. You can find all the fabrics grouped together on my website, including the last of the limited edition 'Autumn colours' sashiko panels. <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/">www.susanbriscoe.com</a> <br />
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Although I identify more with Spring time, I love the gorgeous Autumn colours! When I went to work in Japan, I really looked forward to seeing them, but in 1991, they weren't as good as usual, due to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Mireille">Typhoon Mireille</a>. These photos were taken in Yamagata city in mid November 2013. <br />
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The colours here in Perthshire are maybe not quite as dramatic, but are still lovely. A lot of our Autumn colours locally come from our beech trees and hedges, which become a beautiful russet colour.<br />
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Oops - I just found this photo of Glyn holding some hand spun knitting yarns in autumn colours, which reminds me I have a jumper to finish!<br />
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I've had a lot of customers asking if we will be at the Autumn Quilt Festival at Duxford this weekend, but I'm sorry, I'm teaching my sashiko course in Stockton! So I have changed the shipping rates on the website to FREE UK shipping for today, tomorrow and until 10pm on Sunday 17th October 2019, and reduced the international rates by £3 too. Orders will be sent out on Tuesday 29th October.<br /><br />So, have fun shopping online! Here's my website link - <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/">www.susanbriscoe.com</a>Susan Briscoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478005503421741631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124559156245131584.post-18003649219179402292019-10-10T11:56:00.002+01:002019-10-10T11:56:24.997+01:00Fun with hitomezashi - the 'one stitch sashiko' that looks like blackwork<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hitomezashi (one stitch sashiko) is what really drew me in to wanting to learn how to stitch sashiko. I found the small geometric patterns totally fascinating, even more so when I found out that they are created with straight lines going back and forth - not with 'stepped' lines or cross stitches as you might assume. <br />
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I love the way that numerous patterns can be created from one simple grid - a quarter inch (6mm) or a 5mm (a scant quarter inch) works just fine. The smaller grid is better for either a medium thread used singly or a fine thread doubled, as a medium thread doubled looks a bit too chunky on the smaller grid but fine on the quarter inch one. Some patterns, like komezashi (rice stitch, below) look good with a combination of doubled thread (the crosses) and single thread (diagonals).<br />
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Most patterns are simple but some, like igeta (well curb, below), take a bit more concentration! <br />
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You can have a lot of fun making little samplers - the one above was from a class with Heswall Quilters a few years ago.<br />
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All the patterns on my little sampler are done on the same quarter inch grid.<br />
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As are all these samples from one of my workshops. <br />
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Even the basic running stitch, yokogushi (horizontal rows), is a pattern in its own right and forms the foundation for many others. The detail below is from an antique kotatsu table cover from my collection.<br />
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The antique piece above shows several variations on jyuuji tsunagi (linked cross).<br />
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You can combine patterns to make little samplers...<br />
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And there are many variations on the same pattern.<br />
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The not so exciting part is having to draw the grid. But now you can
skip that step. Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. have fabric printed with dots at
5mm intervals, so you can just start stitching straight away! The dots
have the same function as the crossed lines in the grid. After
stitching, they just wash away. I have just added some to my shop, in <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/sashiko-dot-fabric-dark-blue-21-by-the-half-metre">blue</a> (above) and <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/product-page/sashiko-dot-fabric-black-15-by-the-half-metre">black</a>.<br /><br />If you prefer softer fabric, I also have hanafukin cloths with square and isometric dots, in dark blue.</div>
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<br />Or you can go one step further, and get a hanafukin with the whole hitomezashi pattern already marked out for you. It couldn't be easier! <a href="http://www.susanbriscoe.com/other-printed-sashiko-fabrics">Click here</a> to go to my internet shop.<br />
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<br /><br />Whatever you choose, hitomezashi is absorbing and relaxing. I've been told it is great for mindfulness too. Just stitch and relax!<br /><br /><br /><br />
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