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Friday, June 19, 2026

Let's talk about drum carding fiber batts to turn into spun yarn and teaching spinning on the spinolution Echo wheel

 Inga and Amy came to class, Inga wove while i taught Amy how to spin yarn



 











The treadles on spinolution wheels rock side by side they aen’t heel toe like ALL the other treadle wheels .




  



Amy did it! She learned to spinn then ply then niddy noddy off the bobbin into a skein ! 


love to teach on the Echo wheel so sucessful!





Inga was weaving as Amy learned to spin 

















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Susan came last year to learn how to spin and now wan ts to drum card fleeces herself . i had my Duncan electric carder  i decided to sell after years of good service i bought a brother drum carder and so i sold her my duncan.


 susan'[s sister raises sheep gave her 3 fleeces and a alpaca fleece too … we know what she will be doing this summer ! scouring fleece and carding!










 sucess !!!

peaceful weaving and spinning on the redwoods 
JILL N SANDERS


Saturday, May 30, 2026

learn to thread a saori ready made warp class . there were two friends who came to weave! this week too .Spinning on my Spinolution pollywog wheel.

 


 meet Erin and liza what a great few hours they spent saori weaving at the studio last week!








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Michelle wanted to learn hos to thred saori ready made warps away from the loom comfortably  so she spent the day learning .






USING THE SAORI ORIGINAL THREADING HOLDER TO THREAD AT A TABLE TOP HERE SAORI READY MADE WARP 


 JUST WHAT IS A SAORI INSIDE SET? 
ONE LOOM , many in process weavings ! 
it is a kit that allows You To stop weaving what is on your saori loom take it off put it aside and start another weaving in less than 10 -15 mins tops without un threading. SAORI INSIDE SE T HERE

 CHECKING FOR THREADING ERRORS ON THE WX60 LOOM 
 all ready to go home!



look at this cute bag she wove and sewed 


her inside set ready to go home to be hung on the saori loom.







some sharing of one of michelle's  BLUE warp weavings !


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has some time to spin a beautiful dyed braid on my SPINOLUTION POLLYWOG here



 the  amasing pauly winder automatically moves the yarn and guides it on the bobbin.






peaceful weaving and threading and spinning in the redwood mountains
JILL N SANDERS





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