Designing and sewing clothing from Saori weaving

Robin has been asking me for several months to have a  Saori sewing day class with some of her finished Saori yaradage and pieces but I  was to swamped,  yesterday we finely had a whole day to play and sew and drape and here are Robins new Saori tops! Saori Santa Cruz studio classes

measuring and cutting 

From  Saori hand woven yaradage,  to top.

 sewing

 pinning  and layout

 Trying it on and pinning a few times it is looking sooooo good.

 HER NEW TOP .  So very happy.

  EXPERIMENTING WITH MUSLINS 

loosely followed this new Saori book

I do not read Japanese but the diagrams were easy to follow. I have this new saori book it for sale My etsy shop

 Second decision we are making  a vest.
Here is Robin deciding on which of her Saori fabrics to use a few
weeks prior

Well into her next piece of  cutting flipping and piecing and playing......

and sewing

and trying on

more sewing

looking great!

  All done , absolutely gorgeous  and the colors are so rich.

Robin did not want to cut the the loose wefts in the front I love that look, good idea !

Cleaning up I found some scraps, so I thought of a pocket .I pinned it on , one last detail .Robin is going to sew it  on at home.

Peaceful weaving...and sewing in the redwoods

Jill Nickolene

my web site www.saorisantacruz

my ETSY shop

A email I recieved from Robin.......

Saori weaving with 3 and 5 year olds

What do super heros and birthdays have to do with Saori weaving? Take a look and see.
Children as young as 3 can weave on the Saori piccolo looms. This week end two saori looms and I went to a costume birthday party and what fun ........

  This one is still to young to weave but teething on a shuttle would be a start.

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 This 5 year old ( above photo) took to weaving and would not stop  for at least 2 hours, no bouncy castles, or pizza, face painting or cake could draw her away from the loom! The piñata finely lured her away, and she came back with her plastic bag  with goodies, and jelly bellies etc. clutched in one hand and the shuttle in another ready to keep weaving!

 I wish I had taken more photos of super heros weaving, it was such a great day, and many of the children were drawn naturally to the looms, and for very first time weavers did very well, but more importantly had  loads of fun.

Peaceful Weaving

JILL

 WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM

my Etsy shop