Sashiko Embroidery


unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery

Actually I don’t want to talk only about Sashiko embroidery but about Sashiko embroidery on paper – I just prefer to embroider on paper ;-))

I discovered Sashiko embroidery one day when surfing the internet and found the results just beautiful!
The basic principle (as far as I understood) is that Sashiko embroidery is mostly a shape filling embroidery and the lines are worked as ‘dashed lines’ where the spaces between the dashes are about half as long as the dashes themselves (simply check the tutorials (for ‘real’ Sashiko embroidery) in the links, they explained it better).

 

unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery
Then I saw one day that our toilet paper (top left on the picture) doesn’t only have a nice pattern but that I can use the pressure points for a Sashiko embroidery by using alternately the left and the right side of the points as needle entry points.
Therefore I trace-pricked the pattern on paper (bottom right on the picture) and embroidered it in two colours.
I find that you can’t see any more on the result that it is made by ‘cheating’ from toilet paper ;-))

 

unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery Here a look at the backside.
I will glue it on a card and send as a greeting card.
To people who use different toilet paper ;-))

 


Links:
Sashiko Tutorial
How to do Sashiko Stitching

Google image search result for ‘sashiko’

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