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Living Cloth…and unexpected joys
I’ve been with my husband, Dave, for over 45 years. Yes, a long time. A bit of luck superior planning. As the years move on, and I’m a slow learner, I realise that we loose friends, family, health,...
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Weaving, not knitting, a jumper
Knitting creates wonderful and comfortable clothes. I’m a rather slow knitter and very dependent on patterns. So I’m always looking for ways to make my weaving work better for me in that department....
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The Making of a Saori Garment
Back from Japan and so much to write I don’t know how to approach it all. So I thought I’d start with making a garment at Saori no Mori in Osaka with Hiromi. She is the resident staff designer with...
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A week of weaverly wonder – Sturt Winter School
Sturt Winter School in Mittagong And yet again…Sturt’s total weave textile five day winter school is over. A wonderful mix of participants and an emerging Saori inspired woven textile community. This...
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Heathering the Squid
I’m back to the squid design again on a cloth that I really wasn’t comfortable weaving at first until I heathered the yarns. The warp was a clumsy mix of blues and striping effects in tans. A good...
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More Winter Clothes
There are times when cloth rolls off the looms and others where they are either in stasis or pending. This week caught some rolling off. This cloth is from ‘Be Bold, embrace the hi-vis and ugly...
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Easy to Weave, Easy to Stitch
Perhaps this is a post that doesn’t need to be written up. But this little easy garment is one of the most made in Curiousweaver Studio. It’s for when you want a change from a scarf, something quick,...
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Into confirmed uncertainty
I’m lucky. I’ve had many times in my life that I could pretend that life isn’t so uncertain even though it really is. Lets not take it for granted like I have on so many occasions. Now with the coming...
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Using a zero waste pattern vs Saori style
Making your own clothing is a joy and weaving the fabric for them is times two. Recently I’ve been enamored of Liz Haywood‘s zero waste patterns. Liz is from the Clare Valley in South Australia. I...
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A Beginners’ Beguiling ways
I’ve probably posted about the joy of being a beginner here before but I’ve realised that they can have such an advantage in SAORI weaving because of their innocence perhaps. My number one beginner is...
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