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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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