I won a prize!

I can hardly believe how excited I was to find that both of the things that I submitted to the Ventura County Fair won either 1st place or Best of Show. The tallis won Best of Show. It is a pure silk Tallis and a pure silk bag, all hand woven. It also has a double hand pickup atturah make of silk and wool. The wool is woven with double pick up to create hebrew letters for the tallis blessing. It really turned out beautifully. Unfortunately the displayed it in a case with the bag on top of the tallis rather than the tallis on top of the bag. You can see the pattern I used in both the bag and the tallis. It looks like stars! Then I used had woven stars in the corners. The Jacket was nicely displayed. The pattern shows well and the size and shape was comfortable. 

It's a shape that this picture does not give you a good look of the jacket. I will have to take some more pictures that have the proper color. But you can tell that the weaving and sewing was well done and shows up well. I could hardly believe that it had the 1st on it when I found it! In any case, it is nice to see that people think my work is good and well worth it's effort. Now I am relaxing and looking forward to seeing what happens next!!!

It's another summer Friday!

It's another summer Friday! I finished the white cloth that I have been making. It has an interesting double diamond pattern. I washed it and now I am drying it in the back yard. Now I am relaxing at home and worrying about what to make for dinner. I hate the fact that summer is almost over and I will soon be working at school again. I dropped by the school yesterday because the power was cut off.  Seems that the power company was rewiring the power grid here at Thousand Oaks. Now I am getting ready to sit and go to work on the latest cloth. This Sunday I will be weaving at the Ventura fair in the afternoon. I'll try to get some pictures of the newest cloth in a couple of hours and add it here. Then I think I am going to go to work on some more scarves.  

Fabrics

I have been working on making lots of new fabrics. They are blends of rayon and silk and wool with blended dyes. I am trying to make several yards of these so that there is enough to make clothing of either dresses or skirts. One of the biggest problems is make widths of useful form. Even if I set up the original width size of 48", after washing and drying the cloth always shrinks. I usually end up with only 38" to 40" in width.  The shrink is not a surprise, but I often wish that I could better control it. In any case, the fibers should produce interesting clothing. 

Wow, It works. Here's some more!!!!

This is item two!! THis is a tallis I recently finished and is on it's way to the person who asked for one. I double wove the Atturah. I am also working on learning to take pictures of my work. I don't think I did as good a job at lighting as I could have done.  Anyway, today I am starting to work on some new cloth that I hope to make into a skirt.

Well, enough of the blog work and off to the loom I go!!

First Page

Well, here we go! Believe it or not, this was the first public thing I ever walked the runway. At least it was clothing that I weave by my self and did the sewing by myself. I have gobs to learn. Most important it demonstrates that I want to share the work I am doing. I'll have to follow this up with more work regularly!