CENTERING WITH FIBER

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Days 5, 6 Emily's Saori weaving retreat at Saori Santa Cruz

Day 5 and 6 peddle to the metal to finish the weaving so that Emily can sew her Saori tops!

and so Antoinette can weave her vest!!

Antoinette wore her cool jacket that she made at home last month to the class to share ...

weaving out on the teaching deck as the sun comes out..

a lot of weaving pprogressing

AND EMILY FINISHED!!!!

unfurled from the loom

gorgeous!

FRINGES TWISTED AND HER WEAVING WAS SOAKED and is DRYING

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LAST DAY 6

Time to cut out her pieces

Antoinette was still weaving her piece.

I really like it!

I did it!

pressing is very important...

pinned ...now sewing

I love it!!!

Jon came by to learn how thread his saori loom with the new warp that he wound at home .

love these colors!

Trying on her first top " it is beyond what I had envisioned,love the layers" yes she loves it!

champagne always is super fun, we toast to a great week Emily!!! thank you Jon for bring the bubbly !

Emily is off to the airport brimming full of many new techniques and new ways to to warp, weave, sew and design from the past week here immersed into Saori weaving .

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then …….

Kori dropped by right as Emily was leaving down the road. Kori SHARED with us her amazing new yardage all the blues are her hand dyed Indigo that she grew and dyed and most of the yarns for weft is hand spun and that she wove on her wx60 saori loom ...

Jon brought Jenny's Saori weaving to show me ( jenny is blind from birth)

I fell in love with it, my DH bought it for me for our anniversary!!! I am so happy!

I can't wait to instal it on my Gallery wall!

Peace at the loom

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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 !