Category: Sewing
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Exploring SAORI garment construction
Enjoy weaving then stitching up a garment to your size.
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Winter weaves and pre-wounds in wool
I’ve been weaving a few jackets for winter and started with a pre-wound green wool. The wool pre-wounds are very nice because they save time and also provide a good array of different yarns. The weft was all wool and some silk. The green wool sets , that came through in the northern winter, worked really…
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Stitching things together
Seems cathartic that I’m gravitating towards stitching and sewing at the moment. I’ve been sorting through my collection of clothing blocks that I’ve drafted though the years. To me they are like photos of my family. Blocks which capture the changing shape and size of bodies important to me. There are blocks from size 000…
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Saori Snippit
Making clothes from your own woven cloth is the most amazing feeling. This week Dianne completed her first garment from a coloured pre-wound warp. The teal warp became infused with lavender purples, corals and greys to make a totally unique and beautifully draping top. It took about 2 hours to cut into and stitch up…
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Couture Ablaze
This is the final destination of the journey for Summer Ablaze with Reds fabric and it’s overdye process. A garment inspired by the new Saori clothing book, Fuku no Katachi ni Suri, p. 68. – available here. I say inspired because there is a little work with modeling on the figure which helps develop a…
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Simply So SAORI
With the arrival of the new Japanese Saori clothing book – Fuku no Katachi ni Suru – I quickly turned my first Saori influenced cloth, which had been hanging around waiting for its big moment, into a lovely wearable. I’ve hung this cloth up at workshops, not expecting anyone to see the twill pattern lines…
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Zero Waste Pattern Cutting
I have to share my discovery of this great book. Although the title hints at the overused ‘S’ word, and ignites my cynicism about it containing more tips for us to buy and dump more things under the guise of saving the planet, I was pleasantly surprised. This book offers real encouragement and hope in the world of fashion…
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Sew Saori
I’m now wearing my first Saori garment after my Saori Japan visit. It’s a simple constructed ‘shrug’ style created from an approx. 260cm x 40 cm length which I stitched into a circle leaving one of the fringes on the outside, then stitched along one length leaving room for ‘armholes’.
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Colouring the underworld for babies
With so many babies being born in Australia’s baby boom I’ve taken to jazzing up singlets so the little ones feel connected to the textile world from the get go. I used to buy the pale coloured singlets and do bullion roses on them. This looked great but the roses are a bit lumpy for…