• Perfect for everywhere: this beautiful studded clutch made by @thanksimadethem with kraft-tex in Greenery 💚 Swipe through to see how Bianca styled her gorgeous bag! kraft-tex is a rugged paper that looks, feels, and wears like leather, but sews, cuts, and washes just like fabric ✂️ Available at ctpub.com 🛍 📸: @thanksimadethem
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    Perfect for everywhere: this beautiful studded clutch made by @thanksimadethem with kraft-tex in Greenery 💚 Swipe through to see how Bianca styled her gorgeous bag! kraft-tex is a rugged paper that looks, feels, and wears like leather, but sews, cuts, and washes just like fabric ✂️ Available at ctpub.com 🛍 📸: @thanksimadethem
  • Use floss like a boss! Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art has hand stitching ideas for you! Create one-of-a-kind embroidery art using simple techniques! With @aimee_littledear’s help, you’ll move beyond the pattern to reflect your artistic self—making hoop framed embroidery art, decorative keepsakes, pillows, patches, charms, and fabric scrapbooks. Create artwork you’ll display in every room of the house! Mix and match motifs and personalize wall art with lettering and numbers. With 20 projects to personalize, Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art will intrigue both beginners and seasoned embroiderers.
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    Use floss like a boss! Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art has hand stitching ideas for you! Create one-of-a-kind embroidery art using simple techniques! With @aimee_littledear’s help, you’ll move beyond the pattern to reflect your artistic self—making hoop framed embroidery art, decorative keepsakes, pillows, patches, charms, and fabric scrapbooks. Create artwork you’ll display in every room of the house! Mix and match motifs and personalize wall art with lettering and numbers. With 20 projects to personalize, Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art will intrigue both beginners and seasoned embroiderers.
  • Well, that wraps it up for our takeover of the C&T Publishing Instagram account. Thank you so much for joining us on this three-day look into our new book Boro & Sashiko – Harmonious Imperfection. There are other projects in the book including another garment, some home décor pieces, and a kit roll you are going to have to have for your own. But, for now, we leave you with some behind the scenes shots of our process. Jason spends so much time behind the camera, Shannon takes every opportunity to catch him in his creative groove. Here, in the first two photos, Jason is cutting out the pieces to one of the projects we showed in an earlier post. Can you tell which one it is? Comment below if you recognize the fabric. The last photo is Jason drawing out the abstract lotus flower moyouzashi pattern we created for our modern quilt interpretation of a large boro textile. From concept to research to our implementation of the techniques of boro and sashiko in such a way as to honor the Japanese people who created the original textiles, this book has been a journey for us. We not only found a deep connection to the original people who made the textiles we studied, but we found a renewed connection to our own ancestors who mended and patched their own garments and accessories. We hope you enjoy our book as much as we enjoyed creating it. We ain’t done yet! There is more to come in the future through books and workshops. The more we learn, the more we will create and pass on to you. Thank you again for joining us… until next time… STITCH ON!! – S&J Psstt… you can preorder our book from C&T Publishing or from our website. Just sayin’… - @shibaguyz
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    Well, that wraps it up for our takeover of the C&T Publishing Instagram account. Thank you so much for joining us on this three-day look into our new book Boro & Sashiko – Harmonious Imperfection. There are other projects in the book including another garment, some home décor pieces, and a kit roll you are going to have to have for your own. But, for now, we leave you with some behind the scenes shots of our process. Jason spends so much time behind the camera, Shannon takes every opportunity to catch him in his creative groove. Here, in the first two photos, Jason is cutting out the pieces to one of the projects we showed in an earlier post. Can you tell which one it is? Comment below if you recognize the fabric. The last photo is Jason drawing out the abstract lotus flower moyouzashi pattern we created for our modern quilt interpretation of a large boro textile. From concept to research to our implementation of the techniques of boro and sashiko in such a way as to honor the Japanese people who created the original textiles, this book has been a journey for us. We not only found a deep connection to the original people who made the textiles we studied, but we found a renewed connection to our own ancestors who mended and patched their own garments and accessories. We hope you enjoy our book as much as we enjoyed creating it. We ain’t done yet! There is more to come in the future through books and workshops. The more we learn, the more we will create and pass on to you. Thank you again for joining us… until next time… STITCH ON!! – S&J Psstt… you can preorder our book from C&T Publishing or from our website. Just sayin’… - @shibaguyz
  • When we saw the huge panels of boro textiles for the first time, we knew we wanted to pay homage to those but to also give a nod to what we saw as an almost modern form of applique patchwork quilting. The result were this quilt and the wall hanging. The first photo you see here is of our quilt that we used an abstract of the concept of boro applique patchwork to create a scene from our lives. The Lotus Pond Throw represents one of our favorite places to visit here in the University of Washington Arboretum. There is this little pond with lotus flowers floating in it that we often sit by and relax after a frenetic walk with the Shibakidz. There is a little wooden deck of sorts that extends over the water and it is covered by lush trees making it the ideal calming spot. The @michaelmillerfabrics and linear moyouzashi stitching with our @aurifilthread 12 wt thread represents the wooden deck and the deep indigo blue of the Cotton Couture fabric is the water with our version floating lotus flowers. Next up is the Sashiko Sampler Wall Hanging. We have always loved Japanese textile and scroll wall hangings, so we wanted to give a nod to those with this wall hanging. The @cherrywoodfabrics provides the canvas and we used those wide-open spaces of boro abstraction style patches as a showcase for intricate hitomezashi and moyouzashi stitches. This sampler gives you a chance to show off your stitching from your very first offset crosses to the more advanced hemp leaf and linked seven treasures patterns. We even reserved an entire panel for woven sashiko stitches. Yup… woven. This is a truly modern incarnation of sashiko that combines hitomezashi with needle weaving. The result is an effect that even you won’t believe once it is finished. Again, as with all of our projects, every chart is included for cutting and laying out the patches as well as where to find the individual stitch charts in the book. Follow our lead or strike out on your own to create a one-of-a-kind piece of functional art for your home. - @shibaguyz
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    When we saw the huge panels of boro textiles for the first time, we knew we wanted to pay homage to those but to also give a nod to what we saw as an almost modern form of applique patchwork quilting. The result were this quilt and the wall hanging. The first photo you see here is of our quilt that we used an abstract of the concept of boro applique patchwork to create a scene from our lives. The Lotus Pond Throw represents one of our favorite places to visit here in the University of Washington Arboretum. There is this little pond with lotus flowers floating in it that we often sit by and relax after a frenetic walk with the Shibakidz. There is a little wooden deck of sorts that extends over the water and it is covered by lush trees making it the ideal calming spot. The @michaelmillerfabrics and linear moyouzashi stitching with our @aurifilthread 12 wt thread represents the wooden deck and the deep indigo blue of the Cotton Couture fabric is the water with our version floating lotus flowers. Next up is the Sashiko Sampler Wall Hanging. We have always loved Japanese textile and scroll wall hangings, so we wanted to give a nod to those with this wall hanging. The @cherrywoodfabrics provides the canvas and we used those wide-open spaces of boro abstraction style patches as a showcase for intricate hitomezashi and moyouzashi stitches. This sampler gives you a chance to show off your stitching from your very first offset crosses to the more advanced hemp leaf and linked seven treasures patterns. We even reserved an entire panel for woven sashiko stitches. Yup… woven. This is a truly modern incarnation of sashiko that combines hitomezashi with needle weaving. The result is an effect that even you won’t believe once it is finished. Again, as with all of our projects, every chart is included for cutting and laying out the patches as well as where to find the individual stitch charts in the book. Follow our lead or strike out on your own to create a one-of-a-kind piece of functional art for your home. - @shibaguyz
  • We’re going to start day 3 of our C&T Publishing Instagram Takeover with our Kimono inspired long jacket from our book Boro & Sashiko – Harmonious Imperfection available for pre-order right now! This jacket was the piece we knew we had to create for this book. We had a bolt of this @michaelmillerfabrics Cotton Couture in Jet Black that we knew was destined to become something spectacular and a long jacket inspired by a traditional Kimono silhouette was just what we were dreaming of. Add several miles of that stunning @aurifilthread 12 wt from our FAB Sashiko Essentials thread collection and the result was even more stunning than we expected. As designers, we sometimes have thoughts in our heads, but we aren’t exactly sure how to make them come to life, but this piece grew in a very organic way. Like our other garments, our Kimono Inspired Jacket is sized for small through 5X and has all of the hallmarks of a traditional Kimono with flags on the sleeves and sweeping length. We kept this design simple with easy to cut and fit pieces and used that gorgeous blank canvas of black fabric to really let the Hitomezashi and Moyouzashi stitches shine. Don’t be intimidated by the intricate stitching! Take it a step at a time, work on the individual stitch patterns in the stitch library section of the book, then dive right in. Make one of these for yourself and wear it as an accessory to an evening look or dress up a layered outfit to really give folx something to look at. - @shibaguyz
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    We’re going to start day 3 of our C&T Publishing Instagram Takeover with our Kimono inspired long jacket from our book Boro & Sashiko – Harmonious Imperfection available for pre-order right now! This jacket was the piece we knew we had to create for this book. We had a bolt of this @michaelmillerfabrics Cotton Couture in Jet Black that we knew was destined to become something spectacular and a long jacket inspired by a traditional Kimono silhouette was just what we were dreaming of. Add several miles of that stunning @aurifilthread 12 wt from our FAB Sashiko Essentials thread collection and the result was even more stunning than we expected. As designers, we sometimes have thoughts in our heads, but we aren’t exactly sure how to make them come to life, but this piece grew in a very organic way. Like our other garments, our Kimono Inspired Jacket is sized for small through 5X and has all of the hallmarks of a traditional Kimono with flags on the sleeves and sweeping length. We kept this design simple with easy to cut and fit pieces and used that gorgeous blank canvas of black fabric to really let the Hitomezashi and Moyouzashi stitches shine. Don’t be intimidated by the intricate stitching! Take it a step at a time, work on the individual stitch patterns in the stitch library section of the book, then dive right in. Make one of these for yourself and wear it as an accessory to an evening look or dress up a layered outfit to really give folx something to look at. - @shibaguyz
  • Yes, we have garments! In fact, there are three garment patterns in this book; two inspired by traditional Japanese garments and one very modern piece. This glorious red wonder you see here is a short jacket called a hanten, based on the actual hanten we studied in preparation for writing this book. For this piece, we took a modern approach to the style of boro patchwork and used red on red fabric with red and variegated red threads. The generous fit through the body and full sleeve make this such a comfy garment to wear and the shorter sleeves mean you won’t be dragging them across your work as you move through your day. We designed this jacket to the proportions of the traditional Japanese worker’s garment but used a softer fabric and sizing from small through 5X to make it an accessible piece for everyday wear. We picked red… SUCH a gorgeous red… and doubled the fabric for a little more structure… but you do you and customize the color and density to your heart’s desire. Full pattern and instructions are in the book! The fabric is @robertkaufman Brussels Washer Linen (if you haven’t worked with his yet… do!) and the thread (like all of the thread in our book) is Aurifil 12 wt from our @aurifilthread FAB Sashiko Essentials collection available on our website as Shibaguyz.com. - @shibaguyz
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    Yes, we have garments! In fact, there are three garment patterns in this book; two inspired by traditional Japanese garments and one very modern piece. This glorious red wonder you see here is a short jacket called a hanten, based on the actual hanten we studied in preparation for writing this book. For this piece, we took a modern approach to the style of boro patchwork and used red on red fabric with red and variegated red threads. The generous fit through the body and full sleeve make this such a comfy garment to wear and the shorter sleeves mean you won’t be dragging them across your work as you move through your day. We designed this jacket to the proportions of the traditional Japanese worker’s garment but used a softer fabric and sizing from small through 5X to make it an accessible piece for everyday wear. We picked red… SUCH a gorgeous red… and doubled the fabric for a little more structure… but you do you and customize the color and density to your heart’s desire. Full pattern and instructions are in the book! The fabric is @robertkaufman Brussels Washer Linen (if you haven’t worked with his yet… do!) and the thread (like all of the thread in our book) is Aurifil 12 wt from our @aurifilthread FAB Sashiko Essentials collection available on our website as Shibaguyz.com. - @shibaguyz