**NEW**The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook 20th Anniversary Limited Edition: Limited Collector's Edition with 12 New Patterns

Sashiko is deceptively simple to look at, just a running stitch, repeated in pattern across fabric, and yet the results can be extraordinary. This 20th anniversary edition of The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook brings together the book's long running pattern library, over 100 traditional designs, with a brand new chapter of 12 further patterns and one new project added especially to mark the milestone.

Written by Susan Briscoe, it starts with the origins of sashiko and its history as a way to reinforce and warm clothing, before moving into a proper getting started section on choosing fabric and thread and marking a pattern before you stitch. Ten project chapters follow, built around household items, and the book closes with a gallery of work from contemporary Japanese textile artists of the Yuza Sashiko Guild.

How it is structured

The book opens with sashiko's history and cultural background, then a getting started section covering materials, marking and the stitching technique itself. From there it works through ten project chapters for the home, a pattern library of step by step marking and stitching instructions that forms the bulk of the book, a gallery of contemporary work, and the new anniversary chapter with its 12 additional patterns and project.

What is inside

Over 100 traditional sashiko patterns, plus 12 new patterns and one new project added for this anniversary edition. Guidance on fabric and thread choice, marking patterns, and the stitching technique. Ten project chapters for household items. A gallery of work by contemporary Japanese textile artists from the Yuza Sashiko Guild.

Perfect for

Stitchers who already love embroidery, quilting or patchwork and want to add sashiko to what they can do, and complete beginners too, since the getting started section is written to take you from choosing materials through to your first stitches. It also suits anyone who already owns an earlier edition and wants the new patterns in this one.

A hardback worth holding onto, with patterns you will likely be working through for years rather than one project and done.