This past week Jenny Dole came to the studio with Jon and Kristen to spend the day lets see what went on…..
Jenny's most recent weaving comming off the loom .
most of it is Jenny's own hand spun yarns too!
Look at those amazing selvages Jenny wove .. I am still trying to make freedom slevages!!! old habits die hard.. 40 plus years of aiming for perfect selvages is hard to break but I am getting there!
Lee learned to "write" braille to suprise jenny ( it is not easy, right to left backwards) with a stylus and a grid for jenny to read . he wrote in braille what I had writen about her attached to a piece of her wall hanging in my gallery that he bought me last year for our wedding anniversary .
She was thrilled and touched. thank you Lee . The thoughfulness was big time and so special!
Here is Kristen one of Jenny's aides holding up her last piece at the top of the steps. these are 2 years of Jenny's weaving.
Jon scoped out my
stonewear bobbins and boat shuttle earings and loved them! (for sale in my etsy shop)
Hey they look great on him! I wear mine every day!
Inside I set up the saori threading holder for jon to thread new
300x30 cotton ready made warp here for jenny to keep weaving!! We discussed what options for the rest of the day of her weaving visit and suggested to I make a jacket for her to wear since she does demo's so often! It was agreed on! so I set the sewing station up out side and I got to work.
while I cut and sewed jon moved his warp threading EASILY outside too and finished dressing her
SAORI WX60 LOOM HERE
ALL DONE ! 33 YARDS OF WEAVING FUN FUN AWAITS JENNY!
KRISTEN TOOK A BREAK AND WOVE ON MY GARDEN WEAVING LOOM SPHERES as i cut and sewed Jenny's jacket.
….and then I need a fitting so Kristen obliged ...
the jacket turned out just darling ! opps time was running out and we were running late so i sent the jacket home with instructions on how to twist the fringes etc.
... and the director of the special services that pays Kristen to aide Jenny came over to jenny's apartment a few day later and tryed on the jacket and fell in love with it! Thank you Kristen for sending me the photo!
It was a marvelous day! ...and now Jenny can wear her own weaving !!!
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I am so immensely proud of my studet Georganne !
These pillows and runner were woven by her and now she is selling in a local gallery in Capitola CA ! Way to go Georganne
Congratulations on such beautiful work and getting accepted into the local shop Georganne!
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The studio was ready for Conner and Leah to come and try out looms last Sunday.
I snapped a few quick photos of leah trying on one of my Saori garments !
What a wonderful couple. she spins, and they raise southdown sheep and goats and shetlands! they loved the saori looms!!!
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I am carding batts prepping for the the TOUR DE FLEECE weave to spin a long in my Ravelry group
TDF HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT AND JOIN IN THE FUN!
(if you are not member of Ravelry join up! so much more fun than face book!)
art yarn batts
All of the fibers were raw fibers , dyed carded and spun by me, no commerical prepped fibers at all!
my Clemes and clemes
burnishing brush is awesome get twice the amount of fibers on your batts!
Green vintage bus from a miss marple "murder at the vicarage episode" as a inspiration in greens
my teeswater fleece that i scoured last week it turned out beautifully!
to schedule a spinning and weaving classes….
Peace through fibers
From the redwood mountains of northern California
Jill Nickolene Sanders
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