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Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com
November 2014
This project will unfold over the next 12 months. The shell design is inspired by a traditional Sashiko pattern. The shells will be filled with designs inspired by blackwork, open work and lacey backgrounds. A sampler to try different patterns in tiny bits. You can use your own canvas and stitch the outline from January 2014 Stitchguide. Here is the order of the shells.
Sashiko Sampler
an original Needlepoint project from Blue Dogwood Designs
November - Monogram corners and border.
You can start this project with this instruction and monthly
stitchguide free to download.
If you would like the canvas marked and ready to go, order here:
https://bluedogwooddesigns.com/featured_item/sashiko/
I am using Zweigart Vintage Blue 18 count canvas, which
has a washed overdye look. Some of the canvas will show as the design continues.
Finished size is 8.25 in x 7.5 in on 18 count.
Fibers are from Valdani - they have 6 ply silk and 3 ply
cotton, sold in small balls. Check your local needlepoint store.
Have fun with this stitchguide or modify on your own.
Step by step Threads needed: Shell 24 M42 3 ply cotton Shell 25 M42 3 ply cotton Border 5 ply of O526 silk - green colorway for top half 5 ply of V16 silk - purple colorway for bottom half
Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com
Shell #24
Alphabet is 5 high. Most are 4 wide but a couple are 5 wide
Print out this page and use the blank box to sketch out your
letters in pencil. Top of first letter is 2 threads below shell
outline.
Stitch the monogram first. O526 6 ply silk - use 2 ply
Note - the date below is 6 threads high.
Print this page out and practice your letters here with pencil.
Step 1: Red stitches are a
simple cross. Use 2 ply of the
M42 cotton.
This makes a simple cross stitch
over one thread.
Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com
Shell #25
THE DATE IS 6 THREADS HIGH Monogram was 5 high.
Step 2: use 3 ply of
O562
Tent stitches every other
that are offset. Work
this vertically from the
top down in a vertical
column - start on the
long outside edge.
Compensate around your
simple cross initials.
The green is 3 ply of O562 cotton.
Red stitches are 2 ply of
M42 cotton for this simple
cross over 1 thread. You can
see the stitched sample that
there is a light section of the
thread on ours. If you like,
you can cut a section of
your thread that is more
evenly colored.
Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com
Border Best, My best friends are stitchers, Kay @ Blue Dogwood Designs Questions? Email me at [email protected]
See the diagram of the corner and the direction of the stitches. There is a cross stitch in the corner.
Look closely - there is one thread that separates shell border and this outside outline. It will be most important at top right corner where the pattern goes to the edge. See on the bottom, it does not bump right up to the bottom of the shell arcs. Start with 5 ply V16 at the Start Here spot. Think of that start spot as "9 o'clock" and work down, across and up to the "3 o'clock" - stitch the purple line border. Then take 5 ply of O526 silk at "9 o'clock" and work up, across and down to the "3 o'clock" top portion
to stitch the green line border.
See the diagram of the corner and the direction of the stitches.
***Remember to watch that border spacing leaving 1 thread...