About

This class will cover sashiko techniques and applications using traditional and contemporary designs. Sylvia will also demonstrate her appliqué methods for easily forming appliqué shapes such as birds and flowers.  

If you also took Sylvia's Cyanotype Workshop, on Saturday August 12th, you will find these appliqués complement your cyanotype fabrics.   You can register for the Cyanotype Workshop here.

You have the opportunity to take one or both of the workshops that Sylvia will be offering the weekend of August 12th and 13th.

If you take both workshops you will  create the fabric design on the first day and combine it with sashiko on the second. Take away enough fabric to develop a quilt top or clothing and the skills to easily create your own fabric at home.By the end of the workshop you will have enough fabric to develop a quilt top.

Sylvia Pippen is a contemporary quilt designer, author, and teacher who combines cyanotype prints, hand sashiko and appliqués in her glowing quilts.  She comes to the Pacific Northwest from Hawaii.  Her love of the ocean, tropical plants, and gardens are reflected in her stunning quilts.

Material fee: $10 for a kit that includes white sashiko thread, sashiko needle, transfer paper, indigo cotton, packet of Sylvia’s favorite sashiko designs.

Students should bring these to class: 

• A check or money order for $10 made out to Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network.
  
• A sack lunch 
  
• A thimble if you use one
  
• Thread conditioner such as Thread Heaven or beeswax (available in class)
  
• White chalk marking pencil
  
• Stylus or ball point pen for design transfer
  
• Masking tape
  

Optional: 1/2 yard or fat quarters of solid or mottled indigo blue cotton for sashiko.  Your kit includes fabric but you may want to have some from your own stash.