Beginning Sashiko with Pattie Klimek

Name: Beginning Sashiko with Pattie Klimek
Start: 2025-03-01T12:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-03-01T15:30:00-08:00
Location: Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles

Schedule

Sat Mar 01 2025 at 12:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles | Berkeley, CA

Learn to do the traditional and beautiful Japanese art of Sashiko. This functional embroidery started as a practical mending stitch for textiles and has become an art. Learn the running stitch technique and how to use Japanese stitchers' patterns, threads, and supplies. We will start on a set of coasters that use the basic patterns that can be adapted to decorate garments, quilts, or decorative projects for the home. We will do the stitching in class and Pattie will give you instructions to follow so you can finish the project at home.
We will start with learning the cloth stitch and half stitch, how to weave in the ends with finishing techniques, how to frame the ornament, and then how to make the perfect hooks for hanging.
MATERIALS:
Pattie will supply 3 separate Sashiko patterns preprinted on cotton/linen cloth and class handouts for a $15.00 kit fee. Please bring cash.
PREREQUISITES:
Some basic sewing skills.
INSTRUCTOR:
Pattie is a traditional hand quilter, hand piecer, and hand embroiderer whose goal is to remind quilters of the Joy of Handwork. To this end, Pattie lectures and teaches at quilt stores and guilds to pass on the techniques once learned from our mothers and grandmothers.
You can register by mail, by email ([email protected]), by phone (510-843-7290), or in the museum shop.