Chidori Tsunagi Sashiko Pattern PDF | Stick and Stitch, Visible Mending | Linked Plovers | Water Soluble Printable | Instant Download

✦ Chidori Tsunagi (Linked Plovers): Japanese Sashiko Pattern ✦

A printable, true-scale PDF for two crossing families of wavy running-stitch lines, linked into one continuous field.

Chidori, the plover, is a small shorebird long paired with waves (nami ni chidori) in Japanese textile design: flying steady through rough seas, read as perseverance through hardship, its cry heard as "chiyo," a pun on a thousand generations. Chidori Tsunagi carries that into a grid of interlocking curves, one line running top to bottom, another side to side, linking at every crossing.

WHAT YOU GET (instant download):

• Cover with difficulty + motif overview

• Full-page stitching template at true 1:1 scale, with a two-pass stitch-path guide

• Step-by-step marking, stitching & finishing guide

• Clean transfer template for water-soluble stabilizer

• US Letter AND A4 versions

DETAILS:

• Skill level: Beginner, one continuous curved running stitch, two easy passes

• Time: approx. 2 hrs for a 10x10 in piece

• Thread: approx. 10 m for a 10x10 in piece (buy a little extra)

• You'll need: cotton or linen, sashiko thread, a long needle, a removable marker or water-soluble stabilizer for dark fabric

HOW IT WORKS:

• Print at 100% and check the 1-inch square

• On light fabric, trace at a window or lightbox; on dark fabric, use water-soluble stabilizer

• Stitch the vertical curves first, top to bottom, then the horizontal curves, left to right, crossing without doubling stitches

★ Save with the set: the Sashiko 5-Pattern Bundle gives you more designs at a lower price per pattern.

For personal use only; please don't resell or redistribute. Digital download, nothing is shipped.

You'll get 2 files: one for US Letter, one for A4.

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