CENTERING WITH FIBER: Sewing your hand woven fabic garment class at Saori Santa Cruz.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Sewing your hand woven fabic garment class at Saori Santa Cruz.

No fear in cutting out your Saori handwoven fabric! Schedule a time to come to the studio for a class and or sewing intensive!Denise came Last week with choices of her fabulous Saori hand wovens to sew!

deciding on differnt design options

my white wool sparkling ice palace ruana here looks great on her!

so do other designs

the sewing studio is all ready!
First garment we decided to sew is a beautiful overshot silk warp weaving Denise calls " old love letters"
it is exquisite ! wonderful weaving Denise!

piecing ,pining, pressing, sewing…..

until… Denise has finished her one arm stole it looks stunning!

she is very happy and we used every inch of her silk warp cotton and silk weft weaving!

now to chose the second fabric …..

A black silk warp and saori silk fabric strips and black silk weft too! a wonderful weaving a almost ethnic feel!

cutting pining sewing

more pining , sewing , piecing, designing...

BASTED! try on ….. we like it!!!!

next day , day 2 pockets and sewing it up and finishing the seams and sewing the hems!

untill … Denise's new jacket is finished!

with pockets!

I wish the mylar shiney gold threads showed in the photos! THE POCKETS ARE GREAT!

what a fun two day Denise!

you new jacket and one arm stole look amazing!

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Molli is back and a new student Joan too!

molli bought a wx60 loom and is learning how to thread a warp, and joan is buying a new saori loom and wanted to thread as well

I think we may be having a early Autumn this year, the mornings are a bit crisp but very lovely.

JOAN is weaving!

here is mollys white warp!

threaded away from the loom and hung on the loom!

Joan threaded her loom to take it home!

winding bobbins with the Saori built in bobbin winder

back home at molli's she set up the loom for her Nanna too! set up ready to weave in these lovey light filled room . they are going to share the
saori WX60 LOOM info HERE

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AND THE the faster GOLDEN WHORL POLLYWOG SPINOLUTION WHEEL ARRIVED!

want to take it for a spin? make an appointmnet and stop by the studio! or order it from Etsy shop I have in stock ready to take home!

SPINOLUTION POLLOYWOG WHEEL here

I am planning to spin cotton on it!

i love my machine washable and dryable bulky VERY soft COTTON on cone in my etsy shop here SOFT COTTON YARNS ON CONES
a all year round wonderful yarn for blanket, hats, and to add textured to saori yardage ! never stiff or ropey!