{"id":2381,"date":"2009-06-07T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unikatissima-e.riamore.eu\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T07:47:02","slug":"sashiko-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"Sashiko Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li090607\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Actually I don&#8217;t want to talk only about Sashiko embroidery but about Sashiko embroidery on paper &#8211; I just prefer to <a href=\"?tag=paper+embroidery\">embroider on paper<\/a> ;-))<\/p>\n<p>I discovered Sashiko embroidery one day when surfing the internet and found the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=sashiko\">results<\/a> just beautiful!<br \/>\nThe basic principle (as far as I understood) is that Sashiko embroidery is mostly a shape filling embroidery and the lines are worked as &#8216;dashed lines&#8217; where the spaces between the dashes are about half as long as the dashes themselves (simply check the tutorials (for &#8216;real&#8217; Sashiko embroidery) in the <a href=\"#li090607\">links<\/a>, they explained it better).<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery a.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><br \/>Then I saw one day that our toilet paper (top left on the picture) doesn&#8217;t only have a nice pattern but that I can use the pressure points for a Sashiko embroidery by using alternately the left and the right side of the points as needle entry points.<br \/>\nTherefore I trace-pricked the pattern on paper (bottom right on the picture) and embroidered it in two colours.<br \/>\nI find that you can&#8217;t see any more on the <a href=\"#top\">result<\/a> that it is made by &#8216;cheating&#8217; from toilet paper ;-))<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery b.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/> Here a look at the backside.<br \/>\nI will glue it on a card and send as a greeting card.<br \/>\nTo people who use different toilet paper ;-))<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"li090607\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purlbee.com\/sashiko-tutorial\/\">Sashiko Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_4749224_do-sashiko-stitching.html\">How to do Sashiko Stitching<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=sashiko\">Google image search result for &#8216;sashiko&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entry Actually I don&#8217;t want to talk only about Sashiko embroidery but about Sashiko embroidery on paper &#8211; I just prefer to embroider on paper ;-)) I discovered Sashiko embroidery one day when surfing the internet and found the results just beautiful! The basic principle (as far as I understood) is that Sashiko &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=2381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sashiko Embroidery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,13,19,52,82],"tags":[446,451,131,452,457,473,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}