This is a Fiberygoodness course in which we will create custom looms and make no-cut sewing projects. You choose your pattern, Suzy will help you make it!
The concept behind a Custom Pattern Loom is to weave fabric that is already in the shape of the pattern pieces needed for a sewing project, such as bags, hats, toys, and accessories. This allows for bespoke woven fabrics specific to the chosen pattern, with the ability to custom design every aspect of the weave, including the direction of the warp and weft, the flow of the weave around the pattern piece, and the placement of color and design elements. Custom, or bespoke Pattern Looms allow for the creation of woven fabrics that match the sewing pattern pieces and eliminate the need to cut your woven fabric in order to create your piece, resulting in a unique and personalized finished product.
Join tutor Suzy Brown in this four week course!
Course enrolments will reopen for the next course starting in November 2024 – be sure to join the newsletter mailing list to hear the day we reopen!
Workbook
You will receive a wonderfully detailed course workbook to download (and print if you like), with comprehensive instructions for choosing your pattern, selecting your yarns, how to make your looms, and creating your project. The workbook also contains Suzy’s tips and tricks for weaving with non-standard loom shapes, and how to stabilise and use your woven pieces to sew up your project.
Video
Alongside the workbook you will also get Suzy’s 45 minute video, enhancing the information in the book, and demonstrating the techniques and methods for creating your pieces. You will have ongoing access to the video for the lifetime of the Fiberygoodness website.
Live Classes
During the four weeks of the course, you will also be invited to attend a live class tutorial with Suzy each week:
Live Session One: Questions, Choices, and Making Plans and Looms
Live Session Two: Warping and Weaving
Live Session Three: Troubleshooting, innovating solutions, completing the weave
Live Session Four: Sewing the pieces together.
These sessions will be recorded and available for three months post course start date, but it is highly recommended that you attend the live classes, which will be scheduled to accommodate as many time zones as possible!
Materials – To participate in this class you will need:
- Foam Board and cutting blade
- Sewing pins
- Scissors
- Yarns – of your choice, and during the first class we will discuss which ones will work best with your project.
- A sewing machine is helpful, but you could hand-stitch with an appropriate project
- Fuseable interfacing
- Lining fabric (such as cotton)
Your Tutor: Suzy Brown
With a University Postgraduate Degree in Education, Suzy (aka Woolwench) has been teaching for over 25 years, both in formal tertiary education settings and, since 2012, in the fiber arts world. Suzy brings her years of experience in curriculum development and a solid understanding of diverse learning styles to her fiber art courses, with easy to follow instruction, sequential and practical steps towards each learning goal, and a relaxed teaching style. Suzy has an ‘explore and adventure’ approach to her classes and loves to work alongside students to make discoveries, as well as share her wide knowledge of fiber, colour, and design gained from decades of ‘making’.
Suzy developed, and currently mentors, the New Zealand Spinners and Weavers Guild (Creative Fibre New Zealand) Certificate in Designer Yarns course (in 2 Modules), as well as publishes the globally read tinyStudio Creative Life magazine. She also has a fun role with Majacraft, producers of fine spinning wheels and fiber tools, helping with research and development of new products, and supporting their business and social media communications.