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You use a hot needle to poke holes into the plastic, then I pinned it to my fabric and used a heat-erase pen to draw dots. I started out going row by row but then thought of a different strategy, as I'm connecting the dots with a ruler, anyway.
Promising results, so far! Though the hot needle poking part was a bit tedious.
#sewing #diy #visiblemending #embroidery @sewing@a.gup.pe
@bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing And now with the actual grid. Pretty happy with these results! Now to decide what sashiko pattern to go for. This is going to be a breast patch pocket on a jumpsuit I'm trying to make prettier.
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl@bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing A little progress pic of the #sashiko pattern. Going for a hitomezashi pattern, a specific type of sashiko. See for an explanation: https://www.athreadedneedle.com/blogs/blogs/what-is-hitomezashi-and-how-to-do-it
@bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing Further process pictures of the thrilling development of this #sashiko patch pocket. Doing this on the train to and from a Groningen concert turned out to be a good activity.
The back of #hitomezashi sashiko is supposed to look as neat as the front, with the excess thread tucked between two layers of fabric. I don't have two layers of fabric, but you'll only see the front, anyway. So 
@bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing Tagging #hitomezashi made me find out about @HitomezashiBot. How cool! I'd seen their website before but I didn't know they were on Mastodon, too.
Hitomezashi patterns can be randomly generated like this, but that does make actually putting them on fabric harder, I'm thinking!
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl @bammerlaan@pixey.org @sewing @HitomezashiBot Since all hitomezashi is all just a binary on/off pattern extended as a dashed line, transferring a pattern from the bot output shouldn’t real be that much harder than from any other source, you just need to follow along the edges.
@Alien_Sunset Ah, yes, true. The thing with the pattern I'm currently using is that it's so regular that I don't need to transfer any pattern, I can just start on the grid as-is. But you're absolutely right that it's not any harder than patterns that do need to be transferred.
Final update of the #hitomezashi #sashiko pattern I was making for this patch pocket. Now the next thing to do is actually making the patch pocket and attaching it.
