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Monday, November 28, 2011

SAORI homage to 7 yr old weavers

Mid September  I took three saori looms to the education days at the Santa Cruz county fair.
hundreds of mostly 7 yr olds tried weaving for the first time. I decided to  cut up and piece the yardage from there weaving together and I  designed a sleeveless vest with a hood, for a" homage to 7 yr old weavers."
In the true spirt of saori I made the design and  used  saori woven  pieces , honest , letting all that new found fun of weaving with out worrying about  any mistakes spilling  into the garment.
SAORI means no mistakes, so all the learning trials are preverved in this piece.



can you  see if you can find the  woven bits from the  fair photos now in the vest?


cut up and pinned to piece of the saori weaving yardage 




made a paper pattern of a simple design











yes it is hard not to obsess about mistakes, loose hanging yarns, etc. but I did let loose and although it is not one of my finely detailed sewing designs I set out to be true to the saori concept and I  am happy.



hood  back down like a collar it looks really cool on.


I think it will look good with  a black  turtle neck  or jeans.
maybe I will add two front pockets.


update: this hooded vest sold to one of my students  for her 18 yr or daughters birthday gift.

peace in weaving

jill
www.saorisantacruz.com

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Mavens Saori banner meeting

Our local mountain guild, MAVENS OF THE FIBER FOREST, met Tuesday at the studio to play , spin, eat share champagne and use our hand spun to weave a banner for the MAVENS Saori style.








MAVEN ROBIN IS CROCHETING NESTING BOWLS



















I finished the last half of the banner. awaiting finishing now.


MAVEN BRENDA LOVED MY SAORI WOVEN VEST IT LOOKS SO GREAT ON HER WITH THAT SHIRT!
HAPPY THANKS GIVING EVERY ONE


AND  PEACE IN WEAVING

JILL
Saori Santa Cruz

Friday, November 4, 2011

Autumns inspirations for Saori weavings

Coming home from the dentist I stopped and took some photos that inspired me with my  iphone. I immediately thought of Saori weaving's.
Along the road, in the medians in shopping centers etc. inspirations surround us.




 




I have added a few more things to my esty shop saorisantacruz esty shop

I sell  many of the  Gilmakra Swedish weaving  benches that I use in my saori weaving studio.
yes you can use chairs, and stools BUT I got rid of of them  all, they just did not feel right and my students prefer these as well. They are reasonably priced. You can put a cushion on  it ,or not ,or a  lambs wool fleece. There are 3 positions  to raise or lower the seat  easily with 2 wing nuts.  They work equally well with the saori sx60 folding looms and the 60 looms. Also with any other work shop loom you may have. I use the benches as a  convenient clamp for ball winders, swifts, and rigid heddle pegs constantly.








ONE of my  favorite  of the many saori boxed yarn sets is the rainbow cotton set. 18 cones of 180 grams each cone per set. I try and keep these is stock but they sell out quickly.
                                                                    first layers





                                                                  second layer all cotton set





                                       WOOL rainbow set  18 cones  first layer 160 grams per cone






second layer wool set   



                                close up of the wonderful quality of the wool set. esty shop link


              PEACEFUL WEAVING

jill
www.saorisantacruz.com
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Visiting Hakone gardens

Last week the power company did a scheduled mantiance power outage all day so I called my friend maggie and I drove to saratoga to visit Hakone gardens http://www.hakone.com/main.html

Much inspiration. I want to return in the spring when the wisterias is blooming.
 Here are some photos I shot.


















PEACEFUL WEAVING

JILL