My Plying Dragons have been keeping me wonderfully busy and it is very gratifying to be shipping them off around the world to help spinners everywhere make a (tail) plying bracelet to ply up their bobbin ends and sample yarns, and in some cases up to 2 ounces of singles! One of my missions, just like with tinyStudio magazine, is to bring joy to our fiber-artist-lives with fun tools that can inspire creativity. I also am really enjoying the whole
Welcome to the first issue of tinystudio for a new year! Let’s start this off with a fun and inspirational issue, which includes some of my favourite fiber artists sharing inspiration and information in a gorgeous eye-candy issue! Take some time to start your fiber art year off with some relaxation reading and immerse yourself in all the fibery goodness of yarn making and project planning. Here is a peek at what you can find in Issue 26: Firstly, after
Welcome to the magical world of plying with dragons! This is a wee project I have been working on since Issue 25 of tinyStudio published back in November. I am pretty excited to share these dragons with you (I was born in the Year of the Dragon!) and I hope you will love the concept and enjoy the tools. For a while now I have been wanting to make some ‘blind boxes’ – which I personally really love! The idea
Here we are with the last issue for 2024 already! This has been a wonderful year for exploring and celebrating art yarns and art yarn artists, with all the wonderful variety of textures and colours you can imagine. I would like to continue with this theme of creative experimentations next year as well, with a particular focus on stories and story telling through our yarn and fibre crafts. In this issue you will enjoy some really stunning fiber work and
I am very pleased to bring you Issue 24 of TinySTUDIO Creative Life magazine! I am excited to be continuing our focus on art yarns and the myriad of things that can be made with them. I hope you will find articles that inspire you to create something unique and special, made with some unusual yarns. In this issue we have yarn making – from the preparation of batts through to gorgeous yarns, with Lora Jones. The vibrant colours throughout
It is my pleasure to offer you a new Fiberygoodness online course! This course comprises of a combination of downloadable (printable) workbook, video content, and live classes. In this course we will create custom looms and weave pattern pieces for no-cut sewing projects. You choose your pattern, Suzy will help you make it! The concept behind a Custom Pattern Loom is to weave fabric that is already in the shape of the pattern pieces needed for a sewing project, such as
Suzy Brown (WoolWench) for tinyStudio Magazine This year I have chosen to focus on art yarns! While still filling tinyStudio magazine with a wonderful range of fiber arts, am I certainly also paying additional attention to the spinning of art yarns and the uses fiber artists are making of these wonderfully expressive yarns. As a long-time spinner of artistic and textured yarns (check out my Gallery of works here) this is a subject very close to my heart. I love
I am very pleased to be bringing you the latest issue of tinyStudio Creative Life magazine, in both print and digital! For 2024 my goal is to focus on art yarns, the spinning of them and also all the various ways to put them to use in our projects, and this issue is full of arty inspiration. Even if you are not a focussed art yarner, there is plenty to keep you entertained and informed as well. In this issue
I have a special post for you this time, from the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador. If you are in the area, or able to travel to this event, I think it would be well worth attending! Discussions on the sustainability of the materials and goods we use and create as fibre artists, as well as the massive contribution we can potentially make to the availability of environmentally friendly and sustainable products, are really important at the moment. We
Let us spread our wings and soar into a new year, filled with inspiration, in a very TinySTUDIO way. This first issue of the year is themed; ‘Birds’, and pays tribute to the endlessly varied colours, characters, and beauty of the avian world. Our day begins with the amazing sounds of the ‘dawn chorus’ as the birds wake up and sing to the rising sun. Louise Cook takes this inspiration and relates it to her Saori weaving practice, there are