Work In Progress Wednesday

New start - Kogin Stitch A Long

I’m really excited about this new project. Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I have agreed to each stitch a kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) 

We are working on patterns from this book, which is available from Amazon. Since this is a Japanese stitching technique, Toki suggested we use the Japanese theme of the Four Seasons. She chose four patterns from this book and chose main and supporting colors for us.  Each of the patterns have two variations to choose from and we will also each decide on our own threads. The finished project will be a wall hanging.

I am stitching from stash and not buying new materials in an attempt to downsize what I have.  This piece of green kogin fabric is the right size for a set of wooden dowels I have, so that’s perfect. I will use a mixture of kogin threads and sashiko threads and have all the colors I need, so that is also good. I basted the fabric to divide the fabric sections for the four seasons and the top and bottom dowels. I have begun the Spring section with a variegated green sashiko thread from Olympus, and plan to have more to show next week. If you have this book, the chart for the spring design is C1 on page 92.

Christmas Treasures afghan progress

I completed three more squares, leaving two more plus the fringing to completely finish the afghan.

 

I am really liking my new stitch group project.  This week I added the summertime Mt. Fuji and am now couching down some thread/string stuff to be some wispy clouds. This is the Shizuoka view of Mt. Fuji, showing the Hoei Crater on the right, in case you are wondering.