Making a Sashiko card case with the Hakozashi (箱刺し) pattern

Thank you for watching! Here is the link for the tutorial video of drawing a triangle grid. When I first learned this pattern, the books I had recommended to stitch from the vertical lines, but I do it differently now. It’s because the vertical lines have a lot of loose threads at the back and can pull the fabric or get tangled with other threads while you are stitching. I wanted to stitch the vertical lines at the end. Usually, fabric stretches more diagonally, so we stitch diagonal lines at the end to avoid distorting the fabric, but in this case, the diagonal lines essentially go horizontally, so I don’t think they would distort the fabric much. So my stitch order may be different to what your text book suggests. But I think it’s so much simpler to stitch if you start from the diagonal lines. 00:00 Introduction 00:52 The materials 01:23 Drawing the grid 02:50 Shaping the fabric 03:35 Stitching the pattern 11:4