Radio Debut!

Yesterday, Dan and I had a radio interview by a woman who purchased my garment at Minnesota's Sheep and Wool Festival last month.

It was our fist time to have interviewed.
She came to the Minneapolis class since we had 3 students to there.
We talked about what SAORI was of course, she took some pictures (Why pictures on radio? They will post the interview and the pictures in their website! So you are in a different country, you can still check it out!!), and took some sound of weaving.

I didn't know about the website and even though it was a radio interview, I really wanted to get a hair cut before the interview, but it didn't happen.
Now, I regret....
I should have got a hair cut before yesterday.....
This morning, I got a hair cut...ahaha

Anyway, I will post when the on-air is and when they post my interview in their website.

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Our friend Martha who makes gorgeous felted hats told me to be a part of Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival a couple of years back.

This coming Setpember, we are going to be a part of it for the first time.
We are having a vendor space as well as holding SAORI classes.

We offered 2 SAORI classes and now they are both FULL!
It's still June and the festival is in September....
The class organizer asked me to add one more class.
YES, PLEASE!!

This event lasts 3 days (Fri-Sun) and I hear that this event is bigger than the one in Minnesota.

We are looking forward to seeing all the people in Wisconsin and Fiber people in September.

SAORI in IOWA

Dan and I went Adel, Iowa for the first time for "Iowa's Summer Sheep and Wool Festival" last weekend.
It took us over 4 hours to get there.

It was my first time staying in Iowa and it was first time for SAORI to be in Iowa, too!

There were faces from MN Sheep and Wool Festival, were faces from South Dakota Festival as vendors as well as customers I usually see them as vendors at other events.

It was so nice to see those people I know.

It was pouring rain both Saturday and Sunday mornings, but it didn't last all day, so that was good.

I taught one class on Saturday and Dan did on Sunday.

The people who took our classes are very special, because they were the first people tried SAORI in Iowa!!

A grandma and granddaughter took Dan's class told me,

"I was browsing many websites and found about SAORI for the first time a couple of nights before. And then I found out that SAORI was coming to the festival in my State!".

What a coincident!

Many people were surprised to see such a compact SAORI looms.

Thank you for people who stopped by our booth and took our classes.

We will be back next year, so see you next year!!

Fashion Show

I used to be in "SAORI" fashion shows many times in the past.

This time, it wasn't a SAORI fashion show.

It was a part of "Artwear Symposium" that was held two weekends ago at the Textile Center in Minneapolis.

SO, it was the first time for me to be in a "regular?" fashion show.

I made this garment called, "Winter Bunny" for the fashion show.

It's wool with gray local roving in it.

Can you see that I made a matching bracelet?

I used fringes from the woven fabric I wove for the garment.

Thanks for taking my pictues, Kimie!!

It was fun.

A few people gave me some good comments on my piece.

That made me more fun!

There were about 20 people in the fashion show.