Design Resource

"Threads" magazine may be familiar to many of you, especially if you do sew wearables.  I don't often buy this magazine, but I always check it out and pick it up if there is something I feel I could use in that particular issue.  The most recent issue, November 2007, has a few articles that are quite adaptable to sewing with handwovens or knitted pieces for that matter.  There is a vest pattern which is made from a rectangle 72" x 27".  It has to be cut in 2 places to give it it's shape, but it is quite interesting and worth trying.  I do have a couple of extra pieces of handwoven fabric that have been patiently waiting for some time to be developed into a unique wearable and this could be it.  I need to measure the pieces and see if there is indeed enough handwoven or if I would need to add some commercial fabric to the mix.  Either way it would be worth a try. The 'Threads" vest is shown with a fringe which my fabric does not have, so I guess that would mean another trip to Mokuba for fringing materials.  That would be such a hardship--NOT!!

There is also a pattern review and illustrations of other patterns with details of the brand of pattern and the exact name of each one.  Many of them would easily work for handwovens. I picked up my copy at Shoppers.  Give it a look see.