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Make & Mend: The Japanese Art of Sashiko Embroidery-15 Beautiful Visible Mending Projects
Make and Mend is an exquisite, full-colour guide to sashiko, a simple Japanese stitching technique that uses stunning patterns to decorate or repair clothing, accessories and home textiles - requiring no special equipment other than a sewing needle and some thread!
Sashiko is traditionally used to mend and repair clothing and textiles, but it can just as easily be used to create beautiful, decorative projects for the home. With 15 projects applying a modern, on-trend aesthetic to this ancient craft, Make and Mend shows readers how to apply sashiko stitching to a variety of craft projects, such as repairing torn jeans, altering a hem, and making decorative pillows, napkins, a tablecloth, and a totebag.
Sashiko is traditionally used to mend and repair clothing and textiles, but it can just as easily be used to create beautiful, decorative projects for the home. With 15 projects applying a modern, on-trend aesthetic to this ancient craft, Make and Mend shows readers how to apply sashiko stitching to a variety of craft projects, such as repairing torn jeans, altering a hem, and making decorative pillows, napkins, a tablecloth, and a totebag.
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260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2019
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October 24, 2019
This is a cute, little book- and I mean that quite literally as it's only 19 x 16cm in size.
The instructions are clear. Multiple options are explained for marking / pattern transfer so you can suit yourself or the project or the materials.
The projects are divided between make and mend. The make projects range in size and difficulty from tiny wardrobe scent sachets to large floor cushions, and includes turmeric dyeing. The mend section covers patching, darning, relining collars and cuffs, applique, and needle weaving (note: they are all visible mends which may not be to everyone's taste).
In the back pages are 18 sashiko style patterns, and a further set of diagrams and instructions for marking them out and stitching them.
A nice introduction to sashiko, but the book also goes beyond this one technique.
The instructions are clear. Multiple options are explained for marking / pattern transfer so you can suit yourself or the project or the materials.
The projects are divided between make and mend. The make projects range in size and difficulty from tiny wardrobe scent sachets to large floor cushions, and includes turmeric dyeing. The mend section covers patching, darning, relining collars and cuffs, applique, and needle weaving (note: they are all visible mends which may not be to everyone's taste).
In the back pages are 18 sashiko style patterns, and a further set of diagrams and instructions for marking them out and stitching them.
A nice introduction to sashiko, but the book also goes beyond this one technique.
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