A Saori Weaving, Sewing, Spinning Retreat at Saori Santa Cruz

i am still catching up on my blogs for 2019.
 meet Carol she is came to the studio for a week long emersion Saori retreat to weave and sew saori garments. last october , we also did some spinning.

 day 1 first we nailed down winding a warp, beaming, threading

  THE SAORI WARING FRAME HERE

  her first warp will go on the piccolo loom she will take back to her Air B and B

  Of course i taught her how to use the fablous  Kenzo table top beaming and threading system here

   sucessful she now hangs the warp  that she she just threaded and  wind some bobbins

  she put the piccolo 15 lb loom  in her car and will weave at night durning the week

  DAY 2

  Carol brought enough yardage for a vest from home  so we sewed the the first part of the second day

  she finished her vest  and love it  and then….

  she wanted to spin...

 

 this is the LOUET S10C ART YARN WHEEL HERE

  DAY 3 this is her first scarf finished

 day 3 she  aslo brought back ther piccolo  first scarf she had  finished it  so we warped a second  scarf for the piccolo.

 

using the kenzo system too.

  also everyday she is weaving  on the saori saori ch60 loom here for a jacket

day 4 we went  to a my local spinning group meeting in the morning and she had a blast

 DAY 5 weaving for a jacket

   what fantastic yardage!

  twister fringes Lacis battery fringe twister here

  into the washer JUST TO SOAK AND SPIN  DRY

  Day 6 SEWING HER SAORI JACKET

 

sewing pockets

THE PICCOLO SECOND SCARF " BLUEBERRY" is off the loom too !

 there was a lot fringe twisting for scarves too.

BEAUTIFUL!!!

  this is all that was left of her wool fabric after we sewing her jacket

 TADA

 how cute is this jacket!!

what a fablous week !

peaceful weaving , spinning, sewing in the redwoods 

JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS

MY ETSY SHOP

WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM

catching up blog!!! saori santa cruz classes

Yes 6 month since my last blog! i had  2 joint surgeries and for the first time in 10 years i took some time off and reduced my classes and recovered.  I am back !
i am doing great now recovering   having classes again .
it is time to  catch on my blogs  ( the next 4 blogs actually ) up starting by going  back to fall of 2019  !

  out on the lower teaching deck looms set up for a wonderful  saori weaving group

4 friends  had a wonderful day trying on saori clothing 

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Veronica has a new saori ch60 loom she came to learn how thread the ready made warps

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Brih came  back for some  saori weaving classes and made a simple poncho 

  she was joined  in  the class by with a new student to weaving

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 spinning class basics 

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Debbie has been busy weaving and brought her Saori yardage for a   garment Sewing class.

here is the yardage she brought 

 hand spun alpaca weft

  we got to work deciding on what style to create
 she tried on muslins  that i have in my classes

i measured and determided she had enough to make a jacket 

  so we started cutting and peacing

 she loves it!!!

  then enough to sew a vest

  Peaceful weaving , spinning and sewing in the redwoods of northen california
                                         JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS
MY ETSY SHOP SAORISANTACRUZ

www.saorisantacruz.com