CENTERING WITH FIBER

Saturday, April 23, 2022

WEAVING A NEW SAORI WRAP/RUANA SEWING IN A UNIQUE WAY SAORI SANTA CRUZ

I had a saori wool mauve wool ready made warp it was 200x 6. It was to narrow for a warp soo i decided to add 50 exta warps so this is what i did

you see the ready made warp, and the cones of wool I am using to warp an additional 50 warp ends so i can make my weaving wider

I adore my saori free standing warping frame saori warping frame click here

then i beamed on my KENZO TABLE TOP BEAMING THREADING UNIT CLICK HERE

THREADING THE 200 THREAD READY MADE WARP ON THE 60 HARNESSES

then the 50 warps i wound i threaded on the piccolo harnesses

I PUT MY SAORI PICCOLO LOOM BEHIND THE SAORI CH60 LOOM

THE 50 ADDITIONAL WARPS ( SUPPLEMENTARY WARPS ) ON THE PICCOLO LOOM

DISPURSING THE PICCOLO WARP AS I THREADED THE CH60 LOOM REED!

HERE IS THE SET UP I CALL IT MY SAORI LOOM TRAIN WITH THE PICCOLO AS THE CABOSE !!!

HERE YOU CAN SEE THE SAORI MAUVE READY MADE WARP ON THE CH60 LOOM

tied on and tensioned the warp on the ch60 loom the piccolo loom pushed back .

as i weave i advance the warp the piccolo loom inches forward! it works beautifully ! i love thinking up new ways to use saori looms!

IT'S WORKING

SAORI LOOMS IN MY ESTY SHOP HERE

the end of the piccolo warp right up to the end of the ch60 loom

see the last few feet took the reed off piccolo to use up every last bit.

video of the unfurling off the cloth beam

soaked and now cut and sewed together for the ruana

wraping extra fringes using the the indispensable cone yarn holder ASHFORD 6 CONE AMAZING YARN HOLDER THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD

FRINGES DONE!

sewing my signature back neck gusset in and needle felted

lined with black silk organza

my finished ruana! what do you think???

student Katie trying on my new ruana..

A STUDENT WHO CAME FOR SEWING INTESIVE TRYING ON MY FINISHED RUANA

THANK YOU KATIE FOR TRYING ON AND MODELING MY JUST FINISHED RUANA

JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS weaving and spining in my studio in the California santa cruz mountains

WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM

Classes in learning spin yarn Saorisantacruz in Felton California

Since I reopened my well ventilated open air studio in January of this year I have enjoyed seeing new and returning students schedule classes in weaving and learning to spin and sewing handwovens.

Janice Taught herself to spin using utube etc because of covid but she never had a in person classes.

She and I had fun learning new techniques and hand positioning , carding fleece , she left with new knowledge feeling more cofindent .

SPINOLUTION ECHO WHEEL GO HERE

learning to drum card LOUET DRUM CARDERS GO HERE

SPINOLUTION FIREFLY E SPINNER

Janice's finished yarn

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Natalie hasd been busy since our first class 2 months ago. she has spun up these two skeins and even more on bobbins. however her inherited Ashford travler wheel had issues, one of which i solved with a new foot man to treadle leather which helped a lot. and watched her hands carefully to correct some drawing fibers out …she loves merino BUT she is still learning and 100% merino fiber is not the best fiber to learn to spin on.