This book has beautiful photo examples of 25 projects and over 200 sashiko designs!
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker, available here. Photo via Hoarder RehabThe best part for me, is that It has 25 DIY sashiko projects with more than 100 color coded patterns and a huge sashiko pattern dictionary. The book has 144 pages of sashiko fun and the pattern dictionary is 54 pages with 4 designs on each page. That's over 200 designs! They designs range from simple to traditional to intricate.
I'd show you the table contents, but all those photos are already in the listing if you want to see what's in the book by it's table of contents.
I'm just going to over the parts that interest me! lol. Like the secret to successful machine stitching using transferring patterns is really interesting, she shares several methods on how to transfer the patterns on to fabric, I haven't tried any of the ways yet, but they seem easy enough. It's probably the only thing I'd use from this book, besides getting inspired by the photos and the pattern dictionary.
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
She shares at least 5 different ways to transfer sashiko patterns to fabrics of all kinds. I lost count after 5. I'll do an update if I try them and let you know how well they work for me. I wish she gave brand names for the pens she uses.
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
Out of all the projects I quickly breezed through in her book and if I had to choose one thing to make from it it would be this tote bag, but I'd most likely make it from boro and free hand the cherry blossoms, so I'm sure mine would look quite different. More like ultra free hand wabi sabi wonky lopsided!
She does give the pattern and dimensions in inches and in cm and there are only 10 steps, so maybe I will try it my way. Eyeballing cut and sew and then free stitching the cherry blossom sashiko.
or maybe I'd have to start off with something easier, like placemats!
We could use some new placemats and I have plenty of boro to do so.
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
Or maybe I should start off with something smaller, like coasters?
There are more photos at our shop of other projects, the larger ones, like duvet cover and a sashiko sampler on room divider screen panels, which I think would make beautiful window coverings, even blackouts. Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
We don't need coasters. I've made some weaving pine needles, when I used to make pine needle baskets, trivets and pin cushions and they look like they'll last forever! Moving on.... or maybe I'll be making placemats?
My other favorite part of this book is the sashiko pattern dictionary. It's quite extensive and appears to start off with the simple ones and moves on to the more elaborate and ends with family crests, but I just browsed, I didn't really read it. I added two photos of the intermediate traditional looking types at the shop.
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
Oops a project snuck in!
Some of the information in the pattern dictionary will suggest which pattern will work better for your projects. I think the one above is for the pillow shams.
Oops a project snuck in!
I just noticed some 2 other photos have appeared that are not from the pattern dictionary, but are 2 other projects, the pillow shams and the table runner. I'll leave them so you can see the other types of projects, just in case they inspire you too!
I wanted to put the photos in order from easiest to more elaborate, but my eyes are failing me on the small photo choices from the upload folder.
I didn't check each project because there are 25 of them, but I saw many patterns like the one above, while browsing the book to take photos.
I don't remember why I took this photo now, but at least it's another example of all the different sashiko patterns.
Saying Goodbye: I hope this books finds a new life with someone who is interested in machine sashiko and wants to bypass all the hand stitching to machine sew and sashiko each project.
Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
I hope this review is helpful to readers. For me, I've been inspired to make some boro sashiko placemats! I'll hand cut, free hand style sashiko and all around hand make mine. I thank this book for it's classic sashiko beauty, motivation and the page on transferring patterns. What about you?
However my free style sashiko is all free hand and looks more like this, lol
This is an example of my free style sashiko. It's starting to look like some constellation or galaxy with a sun and a black hole. This is on a large boro cloth that has mostly kantha stitching and is going to be a furoshiki type farmer's market bag.
This furoshiki boro farmer's market bag is large about 25 inches by 36 inches, so it has hand basting stitches and safety pins to keep the two layers together. This has been my alternative to hoarding project for the past 6 years!
Here's a close up of the kantha stitching. I found a huge tangled up ball of thread with embroidery floss and have been slowly untangling it and using the pieces to stitch on here. I've also been embroidering random designs I see here and there. The designs I find are usually on pottery, so I try them on here to see how they look embroidered.
Back to the last part of this book. There are several examples of sashiko fashion clothes, so it appears to have a little bit of everything sashiko!
The book seems to have mainly home decor fabric projects, but I did see some fashion with sashiko. Like New VTG Sashiko Book Easy Elegant Designs for Decorative Machine Embroidery by Mary Parker with 20 projects and pattern dictionary, available here. Photo via HoarderRehab
"A very thoughtful and well-ordered introduction...A mouth-watering 'gotta try' wealth of designs and information." ---Booklist
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