Last month I whined about canceling my trip to Japan. Fear not! Ain’t nobody gonna hold me down! I’ve rescheduled and we’ll be heading for the streets of Tokyo IN just one short week away. During the first leg of our trip we’ll be staying in an neighborhood called Shimokitazawa…
The Long and the Short of it
ãƒãƒ³ã‚°ã‚¢ãƒ³ãƒ‰ã‚·ãƒ§ãƒ¼ãƒˆã‚¹ãƒ†ãƒƒãƒ <<< That’s Katakana. It’s one of three Japanese alphabets and used for words that are not originally Japanese but are commonly used. If you could read it, it would say: ‘rongu ando shiyoto sutichi’. That doesn’t help? What if I told you it’s, ‘long and short stitch’. Does…
Needle Exchange: Sashiko Stitching
Hello Everybody! Today we’ll be looking at Sashiko. “Sashiko” means “little stabs”, the verb “sasu” means “to pierce”. This type of needlework is used in traditional Japanese quilting, and utilizes a long running stitch to form the geometric patterns. It seems the earliest use of this method was to reinforce…