Saturday, March 29, 2025

10:00 AM- 3:00 PM

Class Fee: $125 / WMQFA Members (with member code); $150 / Non Members

Workshop Description:

Each participant will receive a Japanese artisan apron sewn into a bag body. The bag will be a cross-body style. We will spend time on “Chiku Chiku” (big running stitches) to complete a long sash and pockets. Takako will also talk about Japanese fabrics and how they were used.  

There will be some machine sewing to be done at home to assemble the bag after the workshop.

The kit fee is included in the class fee. The kit includes one prepared apron bag, sewn sash, Sashiko thread, needle, kaya, and Boro fabrics.

Recommended skill level for participants: basic hand-sewing skills 

Age level of participants: Adults

$140/$115 WMQFA Members with Code

Saturday, May 20, 2023

9:00am to 2:00pm

In this five-hour workshop, led by Akiko Ike, an internationally-recognized fiber artist and teacher from Niigata, Japan, each participant will have an opportunity to make one casual cloth bag, designed by Ike, using Japanese artisan apron. The apron is a strong canvas-like material. Akiko will teach “Chiku Chiku” stitches using special Sashiko thread dyed in Niigata, Japan. Depending on how you decide to finish the bag, there may be some sewing to be done at home outside the workshop.

“Chiku Chiku” is an onomatopoeic word Ike uses to describe the sound her needle makes as she stitches.