Fashion Runway..........................................

Saturday night rolls around and the big event is The Fashion Show!

Oh, yes--we are ready for the fashion show--

here are some of the evening's featured fashions in

the "Formal" entries.  I'm hoping that the featured

fashions will appear in an upcoming CHT newsletter.

Judge's choice award goes to Olga's stunning

Wrap Skirt/sweater in Nuno felt

Take a look at these woven ribbons--awesome!

Just for the young and slim body is this

piece by Mary Shin--quite the stopper!

Here it is on the model during the show

Another one of the stopper pieces from Mary Shin was

this intriguing skirt

And on the runway!

This lovely beauty was woven by 

Cate Buchanan "Sunset Stripe Slipover"

Looked by comfortable to wear

This is just two of the shawls that were worn 

"Shades of Gray" by Tracy Kaestner

Best of Show award from judge

Michele Belson

Charlene Kolb presented this "Two Sisters"

jacket with accessory trim 

Charlene Kolb wove "Bands of Gold"

to win an award

Lovely presentation as a cape

"Remembrance" felted by Cammie Beierle

Looks so soft and wearable

Chalene Kolb with "Midnight Magic"

detail of above

Nancy Summers exhibited this lovely

"Play Days Blouse"

Sounds like a winner of a play day!

Carol Moseley loves to keep her hands busy

Looks to be a million circles on this interesting 

wearable "Effervescence"

Olga's nuno felted dress and accessory is a show

stopper!

How does she do it?  She calls it "Nuno Felted Dress"

Liz Arthur's

Handspun vest

Meg loves purple--can't you tell?

This blouse "Purple Pinwheel"

showcases diagonal placement of fabric

Another winner!  Sally Gelbaugh's

"Confetti Topper"

A table of winners!  All very wearable!

Wedding dress by Yohanna Klingensmith

"Noa's Wedding Dress" closed out the show.

one of the things I like to do

after the formal fashion show is roam around and visit with those who

aren't in the 'formal' fashion show--I call it "fashion show after the

fashion show!"

Weaver Scraps!

It was that time of the year when 

weavers unite!  Our bi-annual state conference is always

a delight--an opportunity to learn from each other.

The next few blog posts will be showing off weavers' work and ideas.

First up,

what do you do with handwoven fabric?  How about covering buttons

with those small scraps?  The black and white is a lovely scarf, perfect

for man's wear.

How about a woven luggage tag?  Great idea!

and sets your piece off from others.

An apron is always appropriate--this one is worn by vendors

to spot the proper person to pay for that purchase you 

want to make.

An ipad cover!  oh yea!  

Here is the lovely scarf that was given as a door prize............

wish I had won!  This just a few ideas that work with

handwoven fabric.

Picking Their Brains!

Not only do we go to conferences to learn from each other, but we

are there to 'pick the brains' of our instructors, enjoy their work,

and relish in their enthusiasm for their art.

The instructors exhibit is one of the highlights--usually, you are only

able to attend 3-4 classes during the four day conference, so we

can view the work of other instructors.

This is Michael Rohde, "Acoma" tapestry in wool using natural dyes

Another Michael piece--look closely!  Do you see the face?

That is self portrait of the artist "Contemplation"--wool tapestry

with natural dyes--ingenious work!

Rosalie Neilson was showing, "Red Sky Crow" in Rep weave

Close-up of detail

Rosalie Neilson's rep weave 

"Green Grows My Garden"

detail

Rosalie Neilson's Rep weave

"Ascending Tiles"

Jana Vander Lee's silk tapestry, Navajo blanket warp set

"Gateway to the Dawn"

Deb McClintock--Natural dye shaft switching technique

Michael Rohde's tapestry "Indra's Net"

dyed with indigo

Eileen Hallman use of natural brown cotton warp,

handspun cotton singles weft--

"Zanshi Khadi:  Harmony"

Lynn Williams

"untitled" Silk fusion

Lynn Williams "Water Market"

silk fusion

Anastasia Azure

"Astral Aegean" dyed fishing line, plastic lacing,

enameled wire, brass, faceted topaz

Woven wire by Anastasia

Connie Elliott's Arashi shibori technique,

wrapped, dyed, wrapped and dyed again, then 

clamped on border--good use of indigo vat.

Connie and her core group did 175 Arashi napkins for

the keynote dinner--a real privilege to receive one of these

beauties!

A Light Bulb Went Off.........................

Holy Smokes!  When I browse through my web reading list, I came across Melody Johnson's blog!  I love her work!  So colorful!  Delightful to look at!  And this time, the page hit me full in the face.............

several years ago, I did fabric swaps with other fiberists--we could do any design with our fabric--some dyed, some printed, some stamped, etc.  Any manipulation was acceptable--which means I have so many fabric swatches and I didn't know how to use them.

I did make a quilt using some of my natural dyed fabrics--loved the background fabric and wanted to use it.

This was a sampler quilt--each block using a

different technique

I enjoyed making the string star block

The background fabric was sheep!!

I made too many flying geese and didn't want to leave

them out--backing was a perfect way to use them.

Here are my bins with hand dyed fabrics

Some with manipulation techniques

such a wide variety that I can use!

............................I made some garments with the fabric squares but still have plenty left to create with.
Here are some ideas from Pinterest!