Time for Sushi

As I've mentioned before, I have a sister who is a big fan of sushi. Sometime last year I saw the Sublime Stitching Sushi Bar patterns and immediately thought, "Birthday gift!" I bought some plain white dinner napkins at Target with the intent to stitch them up in time for my sister's birthday. Unfortunately, I didn't leave myself much time to get them finished, and when I took a look at the SS pattern I realized I wouldn't be able to have it sent to me soon enough to get the gift done. So I just drew the pattern myself based on the SS version. I think I got pretty close.


My plan was to use black to outline parts of the drawings as in a sketch and then use some color to fill in a few parts. This was decided partly to save time and partly because I liked the look of it. You'll see lots of back stitch, some long and short stitch, some satin stitch, and a few french knots. I'm especially fond of the rice bowl. I made the rice by using six strands of ecru floss with tight, overlapping seed stitch.


I folded them up and put them back into the original packaging, then used the back side of the little cardboard inserts that came with the package to make a tag and some care instructions. I think they came out pretty nicely, and they were fun to stitch. There are lots more photos, including closeups, on my flickr page.


Stay tuned for an accompanying project tomorrow....