SAORI is out there!

The Alpaca Expo was held in MN the end of this month.
My friend K and I entered our alpaca SAORI woven items to the fiber art contest.
K made a hat (100% MN alpaca) and I made a shawl (100% MN alpaca, too).

Do you know about Alpacas? They are much warmer than wool.
Also, you can use(put on) alpacas instead of wool if you have wool allergy.
Did you know that?
My friend who has an Alpaca farm taught me about it.
Lanolin is the cause for the people who has wool allergy.
Alpacas don't have Lanolin. That's why.

Anyway, we entered and I am sure they are the only SAORI woven items.

We got prizes, First and Second!!
We are so excited to get prizes together.
We entered them because this is one way to tell people that there is a weaving called SAORI in this world.

I hope judges and people came to the expo thought "What is SAORI?" reading our artist statement.

I will post images of our items next month.