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- Hi, my name is Lisa Solomon.

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I'm a mixed media artist that lives here in the Bay Area

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and in this class we're gonna go over

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a really cool embroidery technique.

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It's a traditional Japanese one called Sashiko.

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It has a couple of different ways you can utilize it.

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There's a decorative aspect

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so you can use it to sort of put some embellishment

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onto a pillow or onto a shirt.

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It also has a utilitarian aspect.

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There's a whole tradition in Japan called boro

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where you use Sashiko to mend things.

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You use little scraps of fabric

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and you patch things together.

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So in this class we're gonna do both a decorative aspect,

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I'm gonna show you how to generate your own patterns

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based on traditional Japanese patterns

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but you can also make up your own designs

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and we're gonna mend some jeans as well.