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Want to learn to reinforce worn clothes, patch tears, stitch a wall hanging, or decorate your own small half-moon pouch? In “Sashiko 101,” participants will learn the basics of sashiko, a type of traditional Japanese embroidery used to reinforce cloth, and will leave the workshop with their own decorated small half-moon zippered pouch.

Sarah will provide all participants with a starter kit consisting of pre-cut indigo fabric, black zipper, white sashiko thread, needle, needle threader, pins, and assorted extra patches of fabric for future decoration and mending, and will teach the basics of sashiko step-by-step. Participants will have time to decorate their fabric or patch their clothes, and enjoy learning a new craft in community.

Note: This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration is limited to 20 participants.

Sarah Matsui is an interdisciplinary writer and the winner of the Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest, the Fractured Lit Contest, and the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Award. Her first book, Learning From Counternarratives in Teach For America, was featured in NPR Code Switch, Jacobin Magazine, and Rethinking Schools Magazine’s “Our Picks for Books for Social Justice Teaching: Policy.” Her poems and essays have appeared in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, The Southern Review, The Seventh Wave, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Pleiades. She is currently a 2024-2025 resident with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.