I woke early a few days this past week before the heat hit the tree house studio to card some art yarn batts for the upcoming Tour DE Fleece spinning marathon i do every year in my RAVELRY group
the race is a take off on the Tour de France tour only we spin everyday during the race. it will start is two weeks! join the group it is way fun! we draw for fiber prizes during the race too!
this was my cooling greens batts with a lot of angelina sparkles of course!
I cardered a gradient batt ….
TADA! this is mostly merino and will be a prize durning
TDF18 in the Ravelry group
these subquant batts are for the tour for me to spin.
over 10 oz of greens
my journey into carding neps … these were black neps in a white BFL contrast
i carded white neps in a back mohair base too … come back duringin july to see how how they spun up durning the race!
temps were climbing sooo i needed to get to my next color way ..
enter my serger scraps from my sewing overlocking maching from my loom bags saved theses from the garbage
they went on my drum carder BURNISHED in with my amazing
CLEMES AND CLEMES BURNISHING BRUSH HERE
96 DEGREES I BETTER KEEP MOVING (we had a 2 day mini heat weave )
time to go inside the main studio and pack shippments .. it was a fun morning carding batts!
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SUMMER WEAVING CLASSES ON THE LOWER TEACHING DECK
the 15 lb saori picolo loom here debbie bought this loom and is taking it home
her dught on the folding wood loom
saori WX60 LOOM HERE
and the saori
ch60 loom here
debbie choosing from the treasures box for her weaving wefts
Ian loves Saori weaving
Saori classes and info click here
kristine wants to come back ! loves it
debbies scarf is started
twisting fringes with
BATTERY FRINGE TWISTER HERE
learning about changing out the inside set
Saori loom's piccolo inside set here
the amazing
SAORI CLIPPING RODS HERE DEBBIE IS LEARNING HOW TO DO THIS
BEAUTIFUL!!!
twisting fringes
debbie starts with the new inside set her pillow top!
all thats left is to lash her saori woven piece to hang on the branch from a selection i have from my property here at the studio
debbies piccolo loom folded safely inside one of my loom bags NO SNAGED WARPS IN TRAVELING
FOLDING FLOOR LOOM BAGS HERE
EASY PEASY TO TRANSPORT !
BACK INSIDE THE STUDIO
trying on some of my saori clothing for sale
SHADOWS OF MIDDELE EARTH SAORI JACKET AND SCARF
WHITE WOOL
RUANA HERE
DEBBIE TRYING ON MY BO JANGLES HOODED VEST
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it is summer time for some white cotton warping!
i love winding warps on the
Saori WARPING FRAME
and threading away from the loom and beaming on a table top not bent over a loom, with
the KENZO BEAMING SYSYEM HERE
the yarns i use for my white cotton warps are 100% cotton natural undyed warp in huge economical cones about 4 lbs each! is is wonderful yarn easy to dye as well , no sizing on this yarn .
this 14 yard beamed and threaded warp is on its way to a student she sent me her inside set so it getting ready to be shipped back to her .
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and i am always updating my exclusive tutorials that i send to my students and buyers as a added value to your purchases from my studio and Etsy shop
this is a glimpse of just a couple of many . this one is for the inside set for the Saori ch60 loom
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my
spinolution firefly in action at a local gathering with freinds last week i love this espinner to death!!
early morning sunlight on my favorite model of saori looms
saori ch60 loom i love all the saori looms but this is my favorite model
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PEACEFUL WEAVING, AND SPINNING IN THE CALIFORNIA REDWOOD MOUNTAINS
Jill N Sanders
WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM
MY ETSY SHOP
