A Combined Class Experience
Sashiko Mat: Table as Sanctuary
Nature’s Geometry: Hanafukin Flower Cloth
Note: Rachel will teach two techniques in one class instead of repeating a class.
Rachel Barclay
Stitcher, Mender, Teacher, Patcher, Sewist, Day-Tripper |
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Morning Session Class Description
Sashiko Mat: Table as Sanctuary
When we gather at a table whether for sustenance, purpose, or celebration, we bring our mindset and our memories to create an intentional space. We will explore a trio of Sashiko patterns to decorate horizontal surfaces with mindful, geometric hand stitching created at the Lake.
Hand stitching is for everyone and all skill levels are welcome! We will each work at our own pace and choose patterns to suit our comfort level and design aesthetic. Select from a variety of traditional hitomezashi (one stitch) and moyozashi (pattern stitch) Sashiko patterns; horizontal rows, linked steps, tiny plus signs, seven treasures, blue ocean waves, or squares and diamonds.
All tools and materials will be provided. Please bring good reading glasses.
Experience Level – All hand stitching levels welcome!
Supply List:
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
When we gather at a table whether for sustenance, purpose, or celebration, we bring our mindset and our memories to create an intentional space. We will explore a trio of Sashiko patterns to decorate horizontal surfaces with mindful, geometric hand stitching created at the Lake.
Hand stitching is for everyone and all skill levels are welcome! We will each work at our own pace and choose patterns to suit our comfort level and design aesthetic. Select from a variety of traditional hitomezashi (one stitch) and moyozashi (pattern stitch) Sashiko patterns; horizontal rows, linked steps, tiny plus signs, seven treasures, blue ocean waves, or squares and diamonds.
All tools and materials will be provided. Please bring good reading glasses.
Experience Level – All hand stitching levels welcome!
Supply List:
- You may want to bring a favorite pair of scissors or snips, thimble if you use one, and reading glasses.
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
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Afternoon Session Class Description
Nature’s Geometry: Hanafukin Flower Cloth
In this next level Sashiko hand stitching workshop, we will contemplate the abstraction and geometry of the natural world. We’ll continue on our handwork journey with a new set of patterns and hand sewing techniques to create a Hanafukin Flower Cloth. Sashiko lore teaches that these essential textiles were used to pass down skills and patterns through the generations.
With a Japanese Kitchen Cloth as our canvas, we will draw grids, layout patterns, and employ the “small stabs” to elevate the humble cotton into a decorative, utilitarian home good. Choose from hitomezashi (one stitch) patterns; flower stitch, woven tortoise, persimmon blossom, mountain form. Choose from moyazashi (pattern stitch) large hanazashi, triangle scales, wild grasses. Choose floral motifs; asanoha, bamboo, bellflower, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum fan, gingko, maple, peony, and plum blossom. While engaged in stitching, we’ll discuss the symbolism and seasonal aspects of Sashiko patterns and design motifs.
In addition to employing Sashiko’s running stitch, we will learn how to move our needle between the cloth’s layers, how to bury knots, and how to begin and end stitching without any knots at all.
All tools and materials will be provided. Please bring good reading glasses.
Experience Level – All hand stitching levels welcome! Some basic slow stitching, visible mending, OR Sashiko experience helpful.
Supply List:
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
About Rachel: Rachel Barclay studied Textiles, Installation Sculpture, Printmaking, and Elementary Education in San Francisco and Long Beach, California. Throughout her journey as a creator, educator, and parent, she has focused on making functional sewn and embellished garments, and mixed media textile objects. After learning Sashiko and Visible Mending with Jessica Marquez of Miniature Rhino, Rachel embraced the hand-work practice as an act of mindfulness, empowerment, beauty, and sustainability. She continues to learn and study online with Kazue Yoshikawa of Sashiko Lab in Kyoto, Japan. Rachel shares her joy of hand-stitching with adults and children, alike, teaching workshops in Sashiko Basics, Sashiko Embroidered Tea Towels and Table Runners, Visible Mending and Garment Embellishment. Rachel stitches, mends, sews, reads teen fiction, journals, walks, forages for natural dye materials and healing plants, and takes day trips to nearby cities for coffee and culture. She lives in a small Connecticut town alongside her woodworking spouse and their two young adult offspring. Follow her creative process on Instagram @rachelharrietteb
In this next level Sashiko hand stitching workshop, we will contemplate the abstraction and geometry of the natural world. We’ll continue on our handwork journey with a new set of patterns and hand sewing techniques to create a Hanafukin Flower Cloth. Sashiko lore teaches that these essential textiles were used to pass down skills and patterns through the generations.
With a Japanese Kitchen Cloth as our canvas, we will draw grids, layout patterns, and employ the “small stabs” to elevate the humble cotton into a decorative, utilitarian home good. Choose from hitomezashi (one stitch) patterns; flower stitch, woven tortoise, persimmon blossom, mountain form. Choose from moyazashi (pattern stitch) large hanazashi, triangle scales, wild grasses. Choose floral motifs; asanoha, bamboo, bellflower, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum fan, gingko, maple, peony, and plum blossom. While engaged in stitching, we’ll discuss the symbolism and seasonal aspects of Sashiko patterns and design motifs.
In addition to employing Sashiko’s running stitch, we will learn how to move our needle between the cloth’s layers, how to bury knots, and how to begin and end stitching without any knots at all.
All tools and materials will be provided. Please bring good reading glasses.
Experience Level – All hand stitching levels welcome! Some basic slow stitching, visible mending, OR Sashiko experience helpful.
Supply List:
- You may want to bring a favorite pair of scissors or snips, thimble if you use one, and reading glasses.
Your kit fee will be due to the teacher at the start of class. It is easier if you bring cash in the exact amount of the fee.
About Rachel: Rachel Barclay studied Textiles, Installation Sculpture, Printmaking, and Elementary Education in San Francisco and Long Beach, California. Throughout her journey as a creator, educator, and parent, she has focused on making functional sewn and embellished garments, and mixed media textile objects. After learning Sashiko and Visible Mending with Jessica Marquez of Miniature Rhino, Rachel embraced the hand-work practice as an act of mindfulness, empowerment, beauty, and sustainability. She continues to learn and study online with Kazue Yoshikawa of Sashiko Lab in Kyoto, Japan. Rachel shares her joy of hand-stitching with adults and children, alike, teaching workshops in Sashiko Basics, Sashiko Embroidered Tea Towels and Table Runners, Visible Mending and Garment Embellishment. Rachel stitches, mends, sews, reads teen fiction, journals, walks, forages for natural dye materials and healing plants, and takes day trips to nearby cities for coffee and culture. She lives in a small Connecticut town alongside her woodworking spouse and their two young adult offspring. Follow her creative process on Instagram @rachelharrietteb