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Friday, August 20, 2021

The Saori WX60 folding wood loom goes home with a student Saori Santa Cruz

 Hanks first adventure was 2 years ago with the Saori piccolo loom . He decided to move up to the saori wx60 folding loom which has almost 24" weaving width. he came to the studio to pick it up along with a bench .




SAORI WOOD FOLDING WX60 LOOM IN STOCK HERE 


 betsy came down with hank . here he is trying out the loom and bench. 



i wound a 10 yard warp in white  cotton for him 


beam on,thread comfortably AWAY FROM THE LOOM WITH THE 

KENZO TABLE TOP BEAMING AND THREADING SYSTEM here




I INSTALLED ON THE WX60  EXTRA'S on Hanks loom
INSTEAD OF USING YOUR FOOT TO KICK THE BREAK RELEASE THIS IS A HAND LEVER 


AND THE CLOTH ADVANCE LEVER ( YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GRASP THE CLOTH BEAM TO ADVANCE WINDING CLOTH BEAM LEVER HERE




covid safe classes have resumed again outside 
contact me link to my email etc here 

peaceful weaving in the redwood mountains 
Jill Nickolene Sanders





Learn to prep wool,spin,and weave clases at Saori Santa Cruz studio

 Sisters came for for a full day at the studio for learn to spin, card, and weave classes.

Ashley and Jen are sisters and there spouses gave them a gift for a  full day of fiber fun classes .

we started out learning to spin on the drop spindle 





then they each got to card on the drum carder 

 

ASHFORD WILDCARDER HERE  IT IS  a small  enough carder  to be portable and yet produce thick narrow batts because it has longer tines.






 learning to card on CLEMES AND CLEMES HAND CARDERS HERE



 THEN SPINNING THERE BATTS ON THE DROP SPINDLES





 

LEARNING TO PLY ON THE SPINOLUTION ECHO WHEEL




THE SPINNOLUTION BULLFROG HERE



 AND NOW IT'S TIME TO WEAVE USING THE YARNS THEY JUST  SPUN 




  

SAORI CH60 LOOM HERE  (Myfavorite saori loom)







 Two brand new never spun or wove before successes taking home their lovely hanging  tied on a branch





 Twisting fringes Battery fringe twister here 




for information on classes and my email link WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM

peaceful weaving in the redwood mountains 
Jill Nickolene Sanders












Wednesday, August 4, 2021

July my month to card batts and spin yarn for 21 days with Tour De Fleece

 Get ready…..  YEP I AM SPINNER ! LOTS OF COLOR FROM MY BATTS AND SPINNING FOR THE TOUR DE FLEECE 2021! ENJOY! working backwards because Blogger changed all the cool stuff and now it is hot mess , i wish they would fix it!







 had to do a skein of rubber duckie yarn this year!



could not have done these amazing yarrn with out my SPINOLUTION FIREFLY WHEEL















 the spinolution 64 oz flyer AMAZING 











 core spinning with wire! when i took it off the bobbin i wrapped it around a umbrella!




















 I COULD NOT MAKE THESE BATTS WITHOUT MY CLEMES AND CLEMES BURNISHING BRUSH   info about the clemnes and clemes burnishing brush 







































peaceful spinning in the santa cruz mountails
Jill Nickolene Sanders