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#sashiko

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Kake

A while back, @gwenbeads posted about the book “A Stitch in Line: Mathematics and One-Stitch Sashiko” by Katherine Seaton, and it was so relevant to my interests I had to get hold of it. I’ve been working through it ever since, stitching the samplers and playing with the maths.

I’m currently paused at the end of chapter 8 as I wait for new thread (Retors d’Alsace!!!) to arrive for the next sampler. Here’s a photo of all my samplers so far, done on my hand-dyed muslin scraps; my plan is to patchwork them all together into a hanging once I’ve finished.

Gwen’s review of the book is in a paywalled journal, but she’s put a link to free copies (of the review, not the book) here: mathstodon.xyz/@gwenbeads/1140

Seventeen small-to-medium square and rectangular pieces of cotton fabric dyed in shades of pink, purple, and blue, laid out on a cutting mat. Hitomezashi designs have been stitched on them in coordinating colours: crosses, squares, and fractal-looking designs, some regular and some random.
#MathArt#MathsArt#Embroidery
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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱

@bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing Further process pictures of the thrilling development of this #sashiko patch pocket. Doing this on the train to and from a Groningen concert turned out to be a good activity.

The back of #hitomezashi sashiko is supposed to look as neat as the front, with the excess thread tucked between two layers of fabric. I don't have two layers of fabric, but you'll only see the front, anyway. So 🤷

Another picture of the fabric, now with more completed crosses.
A piece of fabric with sashiko-style embroidery on it. Crosses have been made by overlapping thread with existing lines.
The back of the piece of fabric. There's also crosses, but also loose pieces of thread that have been knotted.
#sewing#visiblemending#mending
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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱
A birthday present I got. I wanted a stencil for #sashiko. (I'm bad at drawing grids, especially on fabric.) This was what I got—the local sewing shop apparently recommended it.

You use a hot needle to poke holes into the plastic, then I pinned it to my fabric and used a heat-erase pen to draw dots. I started out going row by row but then thought of a different strategy, as I'm connecting the dots with a ruler, anyway.

Promising results, so far! Though the hot needle poking part was a bit tedious.

#sewing #diy #visiblemending #embroidery @sewing@a.gup.pe
A transparent A4-sized sheet of plastic, with a grid printed on it. Holes have been poked into about a quarter of the sheet on the intersection points of the grid.
A photo of me poking holes into a sheet of transparent plastic with a grid printed on it. A candle sits next to me, for heating the needle.
A piece of fabric with white dots on it, to help with making a grid.
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Ann-Mi

Patched my husband's jeans with some #sashiko style #mending.
I'm interested to see how it holds up in the laundry. Worst case, I'll get to try another type of stitch and see.
I have yet to rinse away the grid guidelines I drew onto it, but they will vanish in water.
I tried to choose a playful color and a pattern that isn't too flashy, but which also provides some strength.

The front of a jeans pocket, on which is a darker jeans patch with a stair-shapped pattern hand- embroidered with green thread.
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Rachel Wright

I'm doing some of my "follow the instructions for a change" #Sashiko, and came upon a bit that I think means I can't do everything that's left without a lot of stopping and starting.

Then I realised I have an actual graph theorist in the house who might see something I'd missed.

So I checked with @ColinTheMathmo, and he did spot something I'd missed, but it confirmed the impossibility.

I'll have to fudge it...

#MathsChat#GraphTheory#HandEmbroidery
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Petra van Cronenburg

@OskarImKeller @Otis_Scops 2/2 almost endlessly with patches, often coloured with indigo, sometimes embroidered with #Sashiko.

If you look for #VisibleMending you find the modern global movement where every method and inspiration is allowed (especially on Instagram are many). It includes also weaving/knitting technics.

Here some nice infos/images of Sashiko #embroidery: bbc.com/culture/article/202310

BBC · The 300-year-old Japanese method of upcyclingBy Bel Jacobs
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Otis Scops aka Crash Course

👍 I just learned something new on the internet.

The way clothes are repaired here in our house has a name, it's called

Sashiko, it is the Japanese art of visible mending.

Just that you know it, and you can be hip as well by using a Japanese word when you show your repaired trousers. 😂

Photo of a person seen on the back. The person is wearing repaired jeans. Various patches are applied and no effort is taken to make the repairs invisible, on the contrary various other-coloured patches are used besides yarn of a totally different colour.

Photo of a person seen on the back. The person is wearing repaired jeans. Various patches are applied and no effort is taken to make the repairs invisible, on the contrary various other-coloured patches are used besides yarn of a totally different colour.
#Repair#sewing#clothing
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Terri K O 🍁

I'm trying to rotate through my lesser used hobbies in 2024, and it's been fun! This month I'm late in choosing one because I was focusing on getting my talk done, but the recording is submitted so I'm breaking out the sashiko. This is a preprinted kit by Olympus from my local yarn store and apparently I didn't make it too far, but I've got an audiobook and a bit of time now!

#sashiko #embroidery #FiberArts @fiberarts

A geometric sashiko pattern reminiscent of bunchberry leaves in groups of four. It's printed on dark blue fabric and only part of it has been stitched with white thread.
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