No erasable marker for Sashiko? No worries! I stitched Sashiko from the back of fabric.

Thank you for watching!
Since I visited Japan, I've been interested in different ways of stitching Sashiko. I bought some bundles of remnant fabric pieces at a Sashiko shop in Hida Takayama, one of the traditional Sashiko area in Japan.
In the bundles, I found a Sashiko stitched piece. When looked at it closely, I noticed some differences to how I normally stitch Sashiko.
People say 'there are no absolute rules for Sashiko" and there seem to be more variety of stitching than I know.
In this video, I tried to stitch a pattern from the back of fabric instead of the front.
Here is the video, I originally showed this material along with other items I brought back from Japan.
• Sashiko supplies and i...
If you want to know the basic tips for stitching Sashiko, this video will help
(these are just tips which are useful to know but you don't have to follow all of them!)
• Very basic Sashiko sti...
00:00 Introduction
02:13 The preparation
03:06 Drawing the pattern
04:42 Stitching
10:34 Reveal time!

[@marijkeschellenbach2680]

This video was a wonderful break from an awful day! Funny that you addressed this since I am in the middle of hand quilting a quilt and noticed that the back side was quite lovely with the smaller stitches. I so enjoy learning new ways of doing things and am definitely going to try this. Thank you for putting a smile on my face after this bad day.💕

[@thegreenwrapper]

I’m sorry to hear that you had a bad day. I hope stitching will make you feel better💕❤️😊🧵🪡

[@Aeneid561]

Wow. I would never have looked at a chrysanthemum pattern and realised I could draw it too, now I know how, thank you!

[@thegreenwrapper]

Yes! Some of those motifs are actually not too hard to draw❤️😊🪡🧵

[@penlennon3576]

Great minds think alike - I was doing this tonight as I couldn't make the marks I wanted on the dark side of denim. So I stitched on the "back". My stitches on the back are always smaller, so the new front had small stitches. But it think it could work sometimes! I love your Clover circle - so useful!

[@thegreenwrapper]

I was also thinking that this might be useful when I stitch on clothes! I think small stitches are very cute but my stitches looked longer than usual when I looked at them from the front😅

[@linr8260]

The stitches look very neat and cute! It's probably worth training from both sides.

[@thegreenwrapper]

Thank you so much❤️ I think it’s useful to know there are so many different ways to stitch Sashiko🪡🧵😊

[@MagdaRantanplan]

I did a piece with the Nowaki pattern a month ago, from the back. (Your reversible bento bag) It worked pretty good, the only thing i did not think of was to turn the pattern itself before putting it on the cloth, so in the end the grasses point to the right instead of the left as i had designed it in the beginning. Not a big deal in this case but in some patterns or designs it might be important to remember.

[@thegreenwrapper]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I happened to have chosen a symmetrical pattern but that’s a really important tip👍 Thanks❤️😊🧵🪡

[@deborahcoffman5742]

Beautiful.

[@thegreenwrapper]

Thank you❤️😊🧵🪡

[@deniseoliver851]

Brilliant thank you!

[@thegreenwrapper]

Thank you😊❤️🪡🧵