I figure I wove about a yard a day for five weekend days. On one or more evening I had to stop weaving so my parents could go to sleep. I was a woman with a deadline. I had to finish my yardage before my intensive at Saori Worcester. Thanks to Jame, sis, for letting me use her programmable washing machine. The fabric has to be pre-washed for shrinkage prior to sewing otherwise my dress would fit a Kokeshi doll.
Last night I arrived in Worcester and showed my fabric to Mihoko and showed her a few photographs that I pinned in Pinterest that I liked. Particularly, there was one sewn on the bias (diagonal) with some pleating in the front. There is always a moment of right before you take a pair of scissors to the fabric that panic sets in. You sew a straight line on either side of the cutting line and then pause.... After you actually cut the fabric and it doesn't fall apart in a clump of threads then you can start to breathe again.
This is the front of the jumper. The section on the lower left is pleated to the section on the right. The hem is asymmetrical, if you square up both side the bottom is actually straight across, it because it is constructed on the bias it appears longer.
This is the back side of the jumper. I decided not to pleat the back of the jumper because it would take away from the patterning. The neckline is created by folding over the fringe end on the front panel and sewing it to the folded fringe end on the back.
There is some seaming around the right arm hole, but the seam on the left is just the front overlapped the back.
As mentioned above, five yards does not go as far as you would like so, I use the word JUMPER loosely. It is probably more like a tunic since it will need leggings underneath it.
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