What is Stick and Stitch?
Stick and stitch is a great way to add your personality to garments, bags, shoes… it’s fabulous for beginners too.
Stick the patch on and stitch the design. Simply follow the dotted line. Wash away the patch with cold water and you are left with a lovely embroidered design.
These designs are based on sashiko, the simplest stitch so any one can do this, regardless of stitching experience.
New to Sashiko & Embroidery?
Have you wanted to learn but not had the confidence. Stick and stitch is the perfect solution. Start simple. Take your gardening shirt or market bag and embroider a flower on it. You will get to see how easy it is and give yourself confidence to try something else until you are ready to sew your dream project.
Give it a go, you may find you are a natural once you get over the beginner fears!
We have lots of help videos from choosing thread, threading your needle, every thing you need to get stitching.
Stick & Stitch :: Inspiration & Project Ideas
A few of the many project ideas to inspire you and get your creative juices flowing, and links to the stick and stitch patches used to create them.
Can I use Stick and Stitch for visible mending?
Yes! Stitck & Stitch and sashiko visible mending were made for each other. And makes it so easy for you.
If the garment you are repairing has contours, like a knee or awkward spot on jeans, the patches are ideal as you can mould it over the hole after baste stitching (or using Pritt Stick) to keep in position the fabric scrap placed behind the hole.
Covering a two large holes in denim. A backing fabric has been attached to the back of the holes. Large stick and stitch Sashiko patch to decorate and join all layers of fabric. This patch of sashiko rings is a template available on Etsy.
Looking at the finished sashiko, the bottom section needed a bit more stitching. So here I have added two individual circles just below the first patch. So a pattern printed on Sulky Stick and Stitch was cut out and placed where needed.
The patches have been stitched, the stick and stitch fabric is just to be rinsed away and the project is complete.