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Fun with hitomezashi - the 'one stitch sashiko' that looks like blackwork
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...
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FREE UK shipping in my internet shop (and internationl shipping rates reduced)
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...
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Celebrate Autumn - 10% off on autumnal coloured fabrics
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...
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Exploring Boro at Greenbank Gardens
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...
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Kimono through History - at Dalgarven Mill
There is an excellent exhibition of Japanese kimono on at the moment at Dalgarven Mill, Kilwinning, until 15th December. As kimono are so varied in design and it is very rare every to see two identical...
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Yuza Sashiko Guild - first book in English
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...
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Countdown to Christmas in my internet shop - yukata panels!
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 'Countdown to Christmas' - an Advent calendar of yukata fabrics -...
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Lucky Bags - New Year Sale
I started my 'Solstice thru New Year SALE' on 21st December at www.susanbriscoe.com with some fukubukuro or 'lucky bags'.Do you know the Japanese New Year sale tradtion of the Lucky Bag? You get a...
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Back to the blog!
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...
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The end of Denman College
I was very sad to read about this on Facebook tonight - Denman College is likely to close. I taught a lot of sashiko courses at Denman College, before I moved to Scotland. It will be missed. See more...
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My sashiko stitch along sampler quilt - what's it all about?
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...
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Looking at kamon (family crests) once again
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 here, but since then I've taken many more photos of kamon on...
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Reiko Domon's kamon crests sashiko & applique sampler
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...
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Sashiko sampler stitch along - let’s get started!
I have finished stitching the first set of blocks for my sashiko sampler stitch along, using the ink black versions of my sashiko panels (A2009 and C2009) and an assortment of bright colours from the...
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New QH sashiko panels in stock online
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 my online shop, click each photo to go to the...
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Sashiko sampler stitch along - more thoughts on colours...
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...
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Sewing Street TV tomorrow!
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!)My shows are at 9 and 11am, on Sky 670 and...
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Link to today’s Sewing Street sashiko show
Link to today’s Sewing Street TV sashiko show. I’m on the second and fourth hours.I rushed to see on some of the borders yesterday after doing Sunday lunch at my mum’s, using my vintage 1970s (not my...
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Sashiko for Halloween
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...
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Selecting sashiko thread colours
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...
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First blog post after a long time!
Sorry I haven't been posting here for a while. I'm hoping to get things back on track soon.Those of you who also follow my artist page on Facebook might have seen from some recent posts that I haven't...
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Back after a long time!
I haven't been posting here while I've been getting the Relapsing Polychondritis under control. I now really understand the 'spoon theory' re energy and fatigue that I've heard about from friends with...
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Making drawstring loops for a Japanese style bag
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...
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About time I started blogging again!
Sorry for the long absence! I seem to be so busy with so much other online stuff these days. Keeping my website www.susanbriscoe.com up to date and running a mail order business takes a lot of time,...
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Happy New Year 2024 - and new project ideas
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...
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