Silvia has been busy weaving for the last 4 or 5 months, but most of her pieces have found new homes with friends and family as gifts. She brought a few yards of her Saori hand woven fabric to sewing class. I had her pre washed, line dried it before the class.
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She came in to show me a fantastic Saori neck piece in greens she wove a few months ago..
We started right away deciding what styles she would like. Trying on some of my finished Saori pieces helped
Then we measured to see how much fabric she actually had and what was doable style .
On to measuring and discussing where certain areas would look nice and then we started cutting out . She wanted an exaggerated assymetrical hem on one side so we did it. ...
Here we pin basted and she tryed on her vest to see how it would look ( this vest is adapated from the Saori beginning simple sewing pattern book)
Saori red sewing book
" I love it" Now to sew it together.
Because we changed quite a few things design wise we tried on and adjusted pinned adjusted again till the feel and the look was fitted to her satisfaction . The process was organic and fun.
IT IS ALMOST DONE! But Wait we had few small scraps left so I suggested we use them for pockets, she agreed so we made them different on each of the side fronts. She suggested a triangle.
…..so we cut and placed them and checked out her hand placment and fit . deciding on a frayed edge. she sewed the pockets on
The vest turned out to have a ethnic feeling . It is so exciting to see it all come together . All from her heart with the freedom and fun and using the unique Saori philosphy of no mistakes..
I recieved such a nice email from Silvia …..
" Jill your sewing class was such a pleasure. With your professional approach it was just so joyful and easy going to produce my first SAORI jacket, which I am so proud of!!!
Thank you so much for doing this wonderful way of teaching and sharing!
You are definately the best teacher I could have ever found!! What a very gifted person you are!!"
peaceful weaving and sewing in the redwoods
jill Nickolene
This blog is so inspiring. The photos of Silvia in her new vest are lovely!
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