#sashiko

[pl4-tonic]

Oh hell yeah, mending method unlocked!!!!!

[shokunin72]

My favorite entertainment is expressed through sashiko art🪡🎨

at 2025🪡

[foxandferngoods]

This well-loved Levi’s pearl snap belonged to a friend and had already lived years of adventures before it found its way to my worktable. Rather than hiding its history, I wanted each repair to honor it.

The hem was reconstructed. The sleeves reinforced. Worn seams stabilized. Small holes carefully patched. Every stitch was placed with the hope that this shirt could keep wandering for many years to come 🌿

[cenobitic-anchorite]

the endless cycle of ADHD bullshit means I guess we do sashiko now

[forestkodama]

This was a fun mend. I like how the sashiko pattern looks like a bandage.

My partner picked the color scheme for the repair on his shirt, so blame him :P

[bitethetablet]

made from a piece off of some hemmed jeans

[plasma-in-ink]

Festival Lights

Survival.

In this world of wonder, survival is - ever is - worth celebrating.

One cannot, however, fully appreciate resilience of life without the threat of death. Facing the endless oblivion, we feel our heart beat in defiance.

And so, we celebrate it together - lanterns amid the dark - to guide our way to healing our wounds…

And facing our challenges anew.

~~~

I'm presently at chapter 66, July 2026, waiting for the next round of beta edits from my dad, and I just felt like posting one of my other art pieces. This is actually the second art piece that I made for this fanfic, and it's probably the least obviously pokemon-related of the bunch - and perhaps the most abstract, at least so far. I felt that this was a good natural lull, a time skip between the dangers of the pokemon world and recovering from it. The whole arc that's coming up is an interlude leading into finally tackling the plot of the game in its actual order.

The canvas was, originally, the teaching sample for a masking project. The lanterns were originally tulips, an orange layer that was masked with tape and a stencil. I did two more layers this way, and then pulled the stencil away. I was a very inexperienced teacher, so I soon discovered that doing this after the paint has dried is not ideal, but it did work.

I didn't like the teaching sample as-is, but I didn't want to throw it away. So, when I started doing the fanarts, it was a natural candidate to transform. I added the hands and river and used traditional sashiko patterns to add texture and meaning to the piece. It was on impulse, but it turned out super well. The hands are intended to be Cyllene's, and the yukata references her Spheal-print outfit in her concept art and the festival scene. I really stretched that one illustration in the PLA credits, but that's what we do with fanfic - we take our little scraps and then write entire stories out of them. I think that's beautiful.

The lanterns emerge from darkness, with the one in her hands the brightest of all.

I love this one so much that I actually have it hanging where I can see it every time I look up from my desk! I might keep it there, even when I reorganize my apartment.

~~~

The Fanfiction itself:

I Begin at the End

Captain Cyllene, of the Galaxy Expedition Team Survey Corps, is brought through time to be the protagonist of Pokemon DPPt/BDSP, and must deal with a world very different from everything that she knows... and yet, was also born of her legacy.

[shokunin72]

【巡-JUN-】

In Japanese, the kanji 「巡」 (JUN) means to journey, to circulate, or to make a continuous cycle.

As the needle journeys through the fabric, time quietly moves forward, and I hope this piece will one day find its way to someone.

These thoughts stayed with me throughout the making of this work. 🪡

From the body of the bag to the shoulder strap, every stitch has been hand-sewn using the traditional Japanese stitching technique known as Sashiko.

Created over countless hours, this is a one-of-a-kind piece.

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刺し子の針が布の上を巡る。本体からショルダーに至るまで、一針一針すべて手刺しで刺し子を施しています。表面全体を埋め尽くす刺し子は、膨大な時間をかけて完成した一点物です。身に纏う布のアートとして制作しています。【SIZE】本体：幅41cm、高さ33cm、マチ10cm持ち手：75cm