Embark on a creative journey with the 4 x 4 x4 Challenge. Using a 4 inch square design of your choice, work using 4 stitches you have never employed before and 4 threads that are completely new to you. You won’t want to miss the chance to explore texture and unleash your artistic spirit. Using a ground fabric of your choice: Linen, Aida, Canvas, or Congress Cloth, create a design of your choosing: four squares, diagonal lines, or what you think is interesting.

There is no registration form or fee for this program. You will source your own fabric and threads.

This project was introduced in November. In January, we will check in on how our projects are going. Sarah will be available to answer questions.

Our teacher, Jan Kamrath, is a MN State Fair award-winning stitcher. The sashiko piece she submitted this past year to the Fair was a blue ribbon winner. We are pleased that she has agreed to provide us with the instruction to create a piece utilizing this technique.

Sashiko means “little stabs” and Boro means “rags”.

Per Wikipedia:

Sashiko was first used in the Edo period (1603 – 1867) for practical purposes. It was a means of strengthening homespun clothes, attach patches to reinforce areas of wear and to piece old clothes together to create new garments. Sashiko is also used to create quilts and embroidery samplers utilizing a running stitch in repetitive, most often, geometric patterns.

Boro (also during the Edo period) referred to materials typically used to create clothing from the cheapest type of material – cotton, linen and hemp that was woven by peasant farmers.

Registration form

For those of us that have never gotten around to making a name tag, or those that would like a new one, this is an opportunity to learn a new stitch and design a tag that identifies you. 

More details and registration form coming soon.

More details and registration form coming soon.

More details and registration form coming soon.

More details and registration form coming soon.

More details coming soon.