Happy New Year to Japan & Eastern country & Thank you for all of your support in

Happy New Year to Japan & Eastern country & Thank you for all of your support in 2019 to the rest of the world. First, I would like to thank everyone who keeps following this account regardless of my long (and sometimes heady) post. I hope you would continue in 2020. Next, I would like to thank those who took my workshops and kept stitching. @sharondenner, @na.na_45, @natsuki__ishihara, @carolinegreennyc, and some without Instagram account kept surprising me – that they can really do as I stitch Sashiko. It means that my teaching is valid and anyone can do the Sashiko we do. I started collaborating with some of them (I consider them the artisans), and I am very proud of them as well as myself – this is one way to share the Sashiko to the world. Lastly, I sincerely appreciate those who support me on Patreon. It changed my understanding of what I do – Sashiko. Thanks to the patrons there, I am still writing the stories about Sashiko. ☆
I will not change anything in 2020. I will remain as an idealist who believes in humanity. I understand people only listen to what they want to listen to in this individualism world. However, I would like to try to ask them to listen to what I would like to share. Slowly, but surely, the goal is to share the Sashiko we are passionate about. Family as a priority, the Sashiko comes based on the family – it is how it’s supposed to be. Thank you for everything in 2019, and I hope the same in 2020. ☆
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米国では31日。日本では謹賀新年。毎年のことですが、この瞬間は不思議です。時差を何よりも感じる瞬間です。今年一年振り返ると、沢山の方々のお力添えでここまでこれた一年でした。まずはこの長ったらしい投稿を毎日読んで下さる皆様への感謝。「刺し子を広げる」という大切な（でも困難な）一歩を踏み出すために、販売用作品を形にして下さったの方々への感謝。そして何より、配信を通し、運針会、井戸端会、そしてジャケット制作を通して「刺し子で居場所」を一緒に築いて下さった皆様への感謝。いろいろありましたが、やっぱり最後は心より感謝の気持ちで一杯です。2020年、何も変わりません（笑）たぶん今日と同じことをする一年になると思います。でも、それこそが「居場所を作る事」であると信じて、愚直に亀の歩みですが前に進めたらと思います。本年もどうぞ宜しくお願い致します。
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2019-12-31 15:38:33

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