summer weaving classes at Saori Santa Cruz, and creating fiber batts to spin

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 

 go here weaving in the saori way 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 .

LARGE COTTON CONES IN MY ETSY SHOP HERE

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

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