#sashiko inspired

[jaykellem]

Sashiko inspired hand quilting. Very happy with how this is progressing

[swallowsummer]

Kids trouser mend. The second knee took a surprisingly long time to go.

Pattern marking made ridiculously easy by my birthday stencils and a pot of what looks suspiciously like toothpaste. Washes off though. Since I have no idea what it actually is, and hence how to get more of it/make it, I have already started rationing it.

[algae-artist]

Some current WIPs

Some jeans for a friend

Patching up holes and upsizing a really cool pair of children’s pants I thrifted

[teethingtbutch]

My girlfriend accidentally ripped the crotch of her shorts running around playing with her little cousins. I did a sashiko-inspired internal patch, using visible mending principles but using muted colours as ... any eye-catching design will be right over the girlcrotch for this one.

It was very fiddly and I used a tissue to draw on the pattern, then pulled it off the garment after sewing! That's what the little flecks of white left over are.

[littlehousebigsociety]

I was reading a book on darning. Apparently the way I darn socks isn't an "official" technique 😂 although it shares some aspects with English darning. Whatever. I hated most of the techniques in the book 🤣 but it still indirectly inspired me to try combining sashiko with square darning.

This pair of pants tore a small hole in the knee ages ago. I've had them in my mending pile while I waited for inspiration to strike. Basically I ran random stitching vertical and horizontal, not trying for regular length of stitches or distance between lines, except in the very center where I picked up extra lines and then wove them from the opposite direction in a square darn.

Supplies: Olympus 100% cotton sashiko thread in navy (103), and a small metal mixing bowl for a darning "mushroom"

Work in progress, below. While the vertical lines were easy to keep straight by following the lines in the denim, horizontal proved impossible without drawing guidelines (in brown). (Not widely approved of, I'm sure, but kids super-washable Crayola fine tip markers are great for this imo. 👍 So far they've always washed out for me.)

The hole, from the reverse, because I always forget to take "before" photos:

My only regret is that I didn't put an additional piece of denim behind the hole as reinforcement. That may or may not backfire on me. However, so far I'm very please with the outcome. I washed them, everything held up, and the patch is comfortable when wearing.

[artistsforsocialjustice]

Sashiko-inspired sakura blossom visible mending

[swallowsummer]

These combats are now officially a sashiko stitch sampler, with six different patterns and counting.

[swallowsummer]

Steps for a kumiko (lattice) pattern, on a large patch.

Confession: I should have stopped mending these trousers by now. They weren’t even that good to start with. Now I’m just doing it to preserve the existing mends. One more large patch and some seam reinforcement to go!