I finished a cross stitch picture last month, and have been thinking about the 'finishing'. I would like to do a hanging, with a strip of light gold-green silk on the top and bottom, lay this over a layer of padding, and stitch the silk strip with gold thread in a sashiko inspired pattern. (And do a beaded edging, but first things first.) I was thinking something that looks like snowflakes, which is appropriate since it is a winter-Xmas piece.
Are there any free sashiko pattern websites out there? I'm basing my technique on an old Piecework article and it seems quite straight- forward once I get the tracing down, although I might be going a bit over the top.
If you take a look on some of the quilting or Japanese garment sites, you might find something. Also, look for Nancy Shreiber - she is American, local to DC, and pretty famous - if one can be - in the garment/sashiko community. She's had some articles in Threads magazine on such, and other things - in fact - you might try looking at Threads site.
If you can't find something - lmk - I'll look through some of my Asian garment referesnces, and some quilting books. I know there are a handful of books of Sashiko out there - you might find one of them at a library.
Anyhow - lmk if you're not sucessful - I might be able to send you something.
Thanks ellice. I'll check those out. I have a star pattern which might work, but I'd prefer to look at a few options.
By coincidence, if you recall our conversation about handwashing some time ago, I talked to a co-worker today who is designing a clinical skills evaluation for lpn equivalency assessment (i.e. people who have similar degrees from other provinces or countries can be evaluated to see if their skills match lpn competency levels). Yes, not following sterile technique, or handwashing, would be enough to cause them to flunk the assessment.
As a matter of fact, she has a daughter who lost a leg due to nosocomial infection, so in her own words, she's a bit of a bitch over sterile technique. I guess on her fist day of classes she brings in her daughter's first (artificial) leg, bangs it on the table, and thunders "Do you want to live with being the cause of someone losing their leg!" She says it's usually quite effective.
Hope it's of some help. I did a 1-day class with Nancy Shreiber several years ago - and that same month she had the cover feature in Threads. Personally, I'm not much of a sashiko buff, but as they say - I have friends that are....OTOH, Nancy is a fabulously talented seamstress, designer, and teaches classes here in the arts of Japanese clothing, sashiko, etc. As I said, LMK if I can send you something - I can check some of my books and see what I have.
I do remember that. It's such a drilled in your head thing here - especially for exams. OTOH, it's so important to know when to be gloving, etc.
OUCH. Poor woman and daughter. But no doubt that is quite effective. It's been interesting working in the ER here. I do a lot of IV starts and blood draws (procedure here to get the bloods for the labs when you set up the IV line). For medic procedures you always, always, always, glove when you're finally at the sticking the patient point - yet I've worked with some nurses who don't glove at all, which is okay - as long as you don't ever touch the catheter (even with gloves). OTOH, I had to leave the room with one patient as an older (very nice) nurse, new to the Peds ER, came in and wanted to do the IV herself - and she had a hard time - had way too much catheter hanging out there - and then she gets the same age, cranky nurse to help her - and they're both screwing around. Personally - I had already said to her - just pull it out, and go somewhere else as this is hurting the patient, and the vein's blown. I couldn't believe it was so careless with the cleanliness issue. (Oh, the catheter on modern IV sets is the little plastic tube - teeny thing - that stays in you. There's a needle inside, and once in the needle is retracted and just the plastic sleeve stays - less painful for patient, etc).
But, at least everyone does seem to do a lot of handwashing.
Thanks ellice. This is likly the only sashiko piece I'm ever going to make, and is not going to be large, so I didn't want to spend anything on books or patterns. I'll look around a bit more. As I said I have a star pattern which might do - I might sit down this weekend and try drafting out a snowflake pattern using it as a base. If that doesn't work I might send out a distress call in your general direction.
Let's just say she's on a mission. Another problem she has been encountering with students who don't change their gloves. Protects the student nurse OK, but doesn't do much for the patient.
OK. I'm sure your star redrafted will work - you've got the talent ;^)
Ah, my pet peeve. Food service workers that wear gloves, then go do something non-food like - such as take money at cash register, pick-up stuff from floor, etc. and then don't change them. Yuck. For med folks - the gloves are really for their protection - but still who wears them after one use. Heck, I can't wait to peel out of them as soon as done with whatever. It's hard to imagine going from one patient to another without taking them off - in the hospital it's pretty standard that you just take them off - there are trash cans right by the door, etc.. Mostly these are to protect both practitioner and patient from transmitting stuff through wounds, fluid, etc. Sterile gloves, another thing altogether. I think my friend in nursing school said that they had a lot of kids who couldn't pass the sterile gloving technique.
Well, I've often suspected the food service industry is a tribute to the resiliancy of our gastrointestinal systems.
One thing I've heard about the hospitals here is that they have been having an increasing problem with people using their phones to photograph staff who aren't handwashing. Now you might regard that as a problem or not. The person who told me regarded it as an invasion of privacy.
Meanwhile .... I'm finishing up another project. I've done the short/ long stitching on the iris for my jewellry bag - I'm going to have to take a walk down to the LNS this weekend to get some matching thread for the tie and finish the finishing. 8-) It's going to be a good weekend. Dora
Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I had a case a couple weeks ago where the hospital took his cell phone away after he used the camera to take a picture of his incision to show his employer why he wouldn't be in any time soon. He couldn't figure out why they took his phone away and neither could I.
It didn't register with me that there was any problem other than they didn't want him taking evidence pictures of how bad it looked after it got infected, but they took it away before the infection became obvious.
Interesting. Thing is, you aren't supposed to have your cell phone even on in hospitals, surgery centers, etc around here. They can interfere with some of the equipment, so there are big signs posted around.
Definitely photographing would bust some privacy issues - which with the newer medical privacy act in place are quite strict.
Sounds like some nice stitching - I'm looking forward to seeing it. We're of course doing hockey tonight (DH is reffin' the CAPS Alumni game - big thing for fan appreciation night - then we can go to the room (locker) for post game liquid replenishment with the boys). Tomorrow - the last game of the season - at 1 in the afternoon. Then Sunday - well, I'm hopeful the weather warms back up (it's been in the 40s again) and do some yard stuff. But, I did stitch a bit yesterday - and am going to do that now. Working on the Drawb Thread "Be Kind and True" Sampler that I adapted to do as a wedding piece. I'm at the lettering - and have to redraft out the words. Would like to finish in the next week or so, get it to the framer and give it for the 1 year Anniversary (May 6). At least we actually gave them a wedding present - this is an extra.
Look up " Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)" which was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996.
Privacy regulations are very strict in the healthcare arena - a backlash from before. This is why when you visit a new doctor you have to sign the HIPAA sheet, they send out stuff, etc.
Healthcare workers get fired, reprimanded and annually trained about this. We have to be really careful on ambulance stuff to never give out over the radio anything identifying - it's just gender and age - about a patient. Not to leave the hospital with runsheets with names that go anywhere beyond the secure system files (electronic), etc. If I'm taking a copy of some EKGs for example - we tear off any id info. Can't even talk about cases without names, - you never know who might hear you describing a situation that is their friend, neighbor, family.
So, the photo thing could be privacy of others in the background. The other part being that use of cell phones - that means being other than off - is forbidden in most hospitals, and med centers. Some have cell phone use lounges or areas outside. They interfere with a bunch of equipment, so, that's more likely the thing. And was he taking snaps of other things?
The original context would have been with respect to student hospital clerk knowledge of policy and procedure particularly in emergency and walk-in clinics. The curriculum discusses privacy with regards to what the students say, but not always with regards to what a visitor to the hospital may do. And people always seem to think it's their right to take their phone where they please.
No gardening here - it has snowed here since April 1, and we're finally supposed to get some sun tomorrow. The temperature is supposed to rise about 10C, so it is going to be too mucky to do anything. I probably won't be cleaning off the beds until May - there's another cold snap forecast for late in the month. Of course it's good weather for finishing things off.
Apropos handwashing. I have a friend who is a medical doctor, and she once told me about one of the exams she took. The way it was set up, was that the students would enter the exam room from one end, and exit at the other. Presumably this was so they wouldn't be able to communicate with each other during the exam. In the room was various patients, and what they were supposed to do was examine each one, in order to diagnose them. A very hands on process. My friend was not the first one to go in, there were a few that had gone in before her. So she comes in, and the examiner tells her: "examine this patient, and give a diagnosis". So she did. She finishes her examination of the first patient, gives the diagnosis, and then asks "where can I wash my hands?". Very surprised and flustered examinators had to admit there was no washbasin in the room, and no way for her to wash her hands. And she was the first one to point this out. For all the remaining patients in the room she was simply asked: "*look* at this patient,
*look* at that patient", as she naturally couldn't touch any of the patients making up the remaining cases. She passed, I don't know about the others, who failed to express the need both for their own and the patients sake, that they should wash their hands.
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