Saori Santa Cruz Weaving retreat days 3,4

 Day three : Spring at the beach is made even more delightful with adding SAROI weaving!
Emily and Jenifer and I were at the beach early  with the Saori Piccolo looms  happily weaving away listening to the gulls, and waves.

Jennifer brought her spinning wheel and spun with us while we wove.

 Passers by with kids , dogs, young to seniors were totally interested in Saori weaving we had sooo much fun. we had lunch and walked the beach Emily picked up some shells and eucalyptus pods

It was warm and friendly and so much fun to weave at the beach!

we headed back a short  20 minute ride back to the studio in the redwoods  with more outside studio time to finish  beaming on her new warp she wound  and threaded the day before .

 The end of a lovely day 3 ……...



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 Day 4:  Big surprise!  Emily took the piccolo back to her room the night before  to weave AND showed up  at the studio saying" I am having trouble weaving"  I said really all worried ? Then when I  removed the piccolo from the loom  bag there it was  her finished scarf!!! APRIL FOOL on me!!!  yes !A finished scarf  was unfurled and Emily  was giving me a mischievous smile! I was blown away! it is beautiful! She  finished weaving  her amazing  scarf the night before!

what a beauty!

 I showed her how to weave  tabs

we are all ooo and ahhing

Antoinette is threading her warp at the table, Emily is twisting fringes and Eileen is threading her  warp with the threading holder too!

"OH MY this  fringe twister is just  amazing"!!! FRINGE TWISTERS HERE

  we soak and dried her scarf and she wore it warm from the sun.
Shells and pods Emily had picked up the day before at the beach made it into the her scarf too !

 Eileen came to the studio  to thread her 300 x33 yard saori ready made warps with the saori threading holder

  Antoinette  is  weaving to sew a vest..

Back outside in the warm spring weather on the teaching deck 

my first wound warp! i did it!

  Emily brought a awesome sweater she knit and used all her special textured yarns  in  and  this amazing flower pin  she made! she is so talented.

  I said "Emily you can use this shape for a sewn handwoven Saori jacket "!  I hope she does  someday!

 peaceful weaving in the redwood tress (and at the sea)

Jill Nickolene Sanders

WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM

Saori weaving retreat , day 1 and 2

Welcome  to spring at Saori Santa Cruz www.saorisantacruz.com  with weeks of students having fun in the studio in the red wood mountains to the sea catching up on my blogs … starting with ….
Meet Emily … coming from the snowy mountains across the country to come for a infusion of Saori. she has woven traditionally for years, but saw a magazine in the news stand which featured my   "Art of the Vintner jacket"   blog post here  last year in Belle Armoire Magazine and decided it was time to have more fun weaving, and use her design and sewing skills too so !

A fun wound warp  that Emily is threading for a project to have two weaving's in process  this week  ...

 Theading the piccolo loom first day.

  dressing the piccolo loom.

 beaming on.

a happy warp!

   Loom Successfully dressed   and now to weave….

    Emily is Trying on muslin's  that I have made because sometimes we have no clue how pieces will look on us and how  (or even if)  it will fit? she wants to weave a saori top or two ...

 

  ….and she enjoyed trying on some of my finished Saori  clothing  pieces too…...

 How much fabric will be needed for a piece ? I helped her  determine that before we learn to wind a  unique saori warp 5 threads at a time….

Day two ...was a full studio time with 3 other students arriving Donna and Antoinette and Jenifer

 Antoinette  wound her very  first warp!

  Donna tried spinning and weaving

 success!! Yarn!

saori cross holders in place of lease sticks.

 threading away from the loom saori cross holder

 saori thread your heddles away from your loom too  so comfortable.

but as you can see it will be a beautiful warp to weave on!

 The end of a fruitful fun second day a new 8 yard  warp wound , threaded and  almost all beamed on!
with  traditional looms  and warping boards (NOT Saori  equipment) ,this would have been two or three day process or more instead of one day.... saori santa cruz classes
stay tuned for day 3 and 4…..

Peaceful weaving in the redwoods

Jill Nickolene Sanders
WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ

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