What I learned in Sashiko class I also applied to BLOTTO
block raffle. The guild offered a free day of Sashiko lessons with Beverly Gibson
and Scottie Blumke who are VERY good at Sashiko. That decided me. I would have
to buy more BLOTTO solids. I chose a sky blue and copied some of the branching
maple section of the print fabric, enlarged it unscientifically (I eyeballed it) and prepared to
do the Sashiko embroidery.
When I finished, the branches didn't look right, so I
couched tan floss outlines with brown quadrupled sewing thread. Then I wove my own fabric for the stems with the sewing thread. That is not
cheating, right? Technically it is embroidery or surface embellishment, not a
new fabric. See the close-up? I chose to weave unevenly, sort of
higgledy-piggledy to give the branch more of a bark quality.
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