Monthly Archives: March 2012

Thank you

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I am just back from the Creative Stitches & Sewing Show in Victoria BC and want to say thank you to all of you who came to our booth and gave some faces to who I am writing!  So, for your purchasing, and the fun we have talking and joking and showing you things, and for confirming there are real live people outside of this room :-) , thank you!  I am looking forward to seeing you again at the May 4, 5, 6 Victoria Quilt Guild Show.

What is a blog entry without  pictures? I wish I had taken pictures of the booth, but I forgot to pack the camera. I will take it to the Creative Sewing & Crafting show in Abbotsford (Tradex Conference Centre) the 23, 24th and bring back pictures then.  For now, the best I can do is a few sashiko projects you haven’t seen yet.

Sashiko and Dogwood by Val WojtulaThis picture was sent to me by Val Wojtula who teaches sashiko in BC, Canada. She designed it and made the hanging, and I expect she teaches it.  You can find her contact information in Resources in the top menu bar.

July 27. I am adding this into this earlier post because I want the pictures to be together.  We were in Sun Peaks for the Quilting in the Mountains Festival earlier in July and this version of Val’s dogwood and sashiko quilt design was hanging in the show.  I love the use of the background yarn dyed fabric!  (I took a picture to the quilters info and will put it right after the picture)

…back to the original post now :-)

Julie Burn's sashiko and applique table topper

This one is a combination of a Sylvia Pippen sashiko and applique pattern (Coreopsis) and a traditional sashiko design (Paving Stones) designed and stitched by Julie Burns. She will be with us at the Tradex Creative Stitches Show March 23,24. Hurray!

To everybody we met in Victoria, thank you again.

Susan

Six Sashiko Circles Runner Project

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Our next e-mail sashiko teaching project from A Threaded Needle

This large runner (it could also be used for a bed footer) is going to be our next  e-mail sashiko project.  Some of you have done this with us before.  It works like this: you sign up to get our newsletter at www.athreadedneedle.com and that gets you the information you need to sign up and for buying your materials for the project.

Then you get a series of e-mails (these are free) with step by step photo directions for making the project as we all make it together.  This is a bigger project than some we’ve done, so I would guess there will be about eight e-mails over about eight weeks, the first to show piecing the runner top, then one each showing the sashiko stitching for each new sashiko  circle, then one more to show putting it all together.

This is a good way to learn sashiko stitching. Its also a good way to be part of a group if you live in a rural area.

When the project is done your name will remain on our general e-mail list so you will know when we do another project, but we don’t send weekly, let alone daily e-mails! I try for monthly, but that doesn’t always happen either.

Did I give a start date? How about early April?  But if you are interested sign up for the newsletter now so you get on the sign up list and get the supply list.

This will be fun!

Cheers,

Susan