many weaving and spinning classes and students finishing out 2025 at Saori Santa Cruz

 Meet my life size Gnome (tomten) that i knit years ago. he comes out durning the winter solstice holidays and this year he is weaving with the other students in the classroom.

jiera turned her first weaving  from her first class into a bag ,she brought to show 

 ruby did a all day zen day 

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 meet Inga and Amy first time saori weaving or any weaving! they had a blast!

Kim came for a 4 hour learn to thread a  saori ready made warp class

 

she can thread comfortably at the saori threading holder  on the table (not bent over on the loom.)

 amy and Inga trying on my loopy scarves 

 Inga's wonerful weaving 

 twisting fringes 

kims threaded the harnesses and reed we checked no mistakes! yea she now will take her inside set home and hang it on her saori loom.

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Linda is back for refreshing on winding a warp making her own saori ready made warp  using the Kenzo table top unit ,spinning, winding a ball from a skein, how to use a  niddy noddy, 

her car is always a joy to see her bike and then warping frame her spinolution fire fly wheen !

the SPINOLUTION FIREFLY WHEEL HERE

 the saori Kenzo  table top beaming and threading system kenzo system here

taking home her ready made  warp she made to thread and then put on her ch60 saori loom 

 

the indispensable  Ashford 6 cond holder non catching feeding yarn system ASHFORD CONE HOLDER HERE

learning how to wind a ball from a skein 

 linda bought a ashford ball winder and a umbrella swift  go here ashford wood ball winder

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 i had a learn to spin on a spindle student Gabrielle 

 i showed her how to ply after spinning a few yards of singles  on 2 different  turkish spindles 

my favorite hand card clemes and clemes carders in my etsy shop here

 her first skein. 

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finished another hand spun hand woven loop scarf this one is called ocean 

Love these cuddly scarves  i am addicted !!

 

this  loopy scarf is called  ocean, is  for sale in my etsy shop saori loopy scarf here

If you are intrested in saori weaving classes or to learn  how to spin classes individual or  a group

call me .my  number is in the photos  below .the phone number is not text friendly ) so you can use email .(  my saorisantacruz website is 16 years old ) and i can not update it so all the class times and class fees are different [email protected] to contact me directly by email too

Peaceful weaving in the santa cruz mountains redwoods 

Jill N Sanders

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