CENTERING WITH FIBER: 3 day Saori Weaving and Sewing Retreat

Friday, November 10, 2017

3 day Saori Weaving and Sewing Retreat

I welcomed Teresa and Jenny , who were each others long time freinds, from out of state for a 3 day work shop last week.

Teresa wanted to learn how to wind a warp and and get threading down really well and then on the last day some sewing of the yardage jenney and she each brought with them into saori garments.

here teresa is twisting her fringes for her scarf she finished while here … lets look at her class is winding the warp for this scarf and threading using the KENZO TABLE TOP WARPING SYSTEM and other things.

she chose her colors of yarns and then off to the warping frame … saori warping frame here

kenzo table top beaming and threading system here

Jenny arrived a few hours latter and started to weave some small wall hangings for her RV.

baskets spilling over with yarns on lovely autumn day….

and the piccolo is ready to weave for her scarf!

SAORI PICCOLO LOOMS HERE

a rare shot of me demostrating a tecnique at the wx60 for jenny.

end of day one~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

day 2 teresa picked out some lovely wool warps for her next warp that she will take home for her Saori CH60 loom here

jenny watching and learning

beautiful!

all done winding a warp

time to place the sections in the dividing rod.

and then beam on on the table top

all done 11 to 12 yards taped and ready to take home on the plane in her luggage .

jenny wanted to watch this time around , not ready to wind her her warps .
she took her two hangings off the loom! she will twist fringes and she chose some branches for them and tomrrow will bring them to show us !

end of day 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

day three is sewing!!!!

fun trying on gaments

and muslins

here are the weavings jenny brought to sew into garments

and her two hangings she just finished !

here are Teresa's fabrics for sewing she brought

she chose the far right and and top pale rose to use and there was not enough of the back with silk pops fabric to do the designs she wanted.

these two have been friends for over 40 years ,they knew each other and met from the husbands early days of their careers when they lived in another state at that time .

piecing sewing draping

teresa made some awesome lined pockets don't you think?

jenny wanted a vest she wanted asymmetrical hems..

teresa's top with a huge collar and hood and patch pockets is done! "just what i wanted, a hood!"

i love it! "it feels sooo good i am going wear it home on the plane"

jenny had less fabric to work with but it was enough for this cute vest she said"it fits my traveling all the time life style and personality , i love it"

jenny needed to leave early the last day , but there was time for one more garment for teresa to make before she caught her plane .

she had tried on a vest i had made from the saori red begining design saori red book here early in the morning … so we decided to to sew that one!

here is her fabric sewen in the saori " draping collar vest"

everything fit in her suitcase and got packed and off she went to the airport!
it was a really wonderful 3 full days of saori immersion!
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some spinning activities

our local guild started having a once a month sponsor a mentor meeting a few months ago ,nothing formal .this month was spinning and so i brought my WHEELS .