CENTERING WITH FIBER: Saori weaving classes

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Saori weaving classes

More student's Saori weaving and some sewing the last couple of days in the studio …..

Remember Eileen 's drop dead gorgeous warp? eileen"s warp in this blog She is back to weaving it and it is utterly fantastic don't you think? I adore those colors!

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Meet Debbie she was givin a 32" rigid heddle loom as a gift and needed help weaving on it. so she brought it up to the studio for some pointers.

It is really big! I had never seen a 32" rigid heddle loom ! I showed her some tricks to help control the heavy wide heddle.

some of her stick shuttles were a yard long, so I showed her how to wind a bobbin with a saori desk mount bobbin winder and bobbins and boat shuttle, now that was much eaiser to handle! so that is what she is going to do from now on , and bought a shuttle and bobbins and a winder to put to rest those LONG stick shuttles.

before she left i suggested she might want to try a saori loom for comparisom since she was a new weaver. Wow did she like it!

I suggested to Debbie to go home and pratice weaving on her rigid heddle loom and come back when she wanted to learn some new skills, which she will. She is way more confindent …

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Teaching a very WEE ones to sew, my heart is sooo full of joy!

My long time sewing student almost finished sewing her cute sewing machine cover and serger cover in class.

Here they are in her sewing studio, they are so cute. She chose great fabric!

it makes her studio so cheery, what a great idea! Cozies for her sewing machines!

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I finely found time to wind a warp ,thread and dressed my saori loom for a new etherial piece.

saori warping frames are so easy to use, and they fold up in a second flat!

Because of the thin nature of this warp yarn I wound the bout on to a skein winder instead of chaining it off.

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Eileen wove more today on her lovely warp.

Roberta arrived durning our class with her daughter. She came to pick up her saori loom and we had a delightful visit while as Eileen wove.

Whats this? it is a Saori Auto Bobbin Winding Guide very cool invention by Kenzo Jo, the creator of the saori looms.

Eileen loves creating her own unique yarns . Here she combines 4 colors of cones of yarns using the saori cone winder adapter
she choses yarns then creates her own unique custom yarn cone to use in her saori weaving. The wooden cone winder adapter slips on the saori bobbin winder that is mounted on every saori loom. Simply put on an empty cardbord cone and start winding your own one of a kind cone of yarn.