(scroll down for viewing details and link) Backstory: Remember a few months ago I (Suzy) was in New Zealand? And I was visiting at Majacraft? Glynis made mention in their newsletter that we had spent some time in the design room while I was there. One of the outcomes of that was the creation of the circular looms that Arlene (SpinArtiste) and I had been discussing with them for a while, in conjunction with our Golden Fleece course. The OTHER
Why the Golden Fleece?
Myths. Legends. Stories and fairy tales. We grew up with them, we read them to our kids, they entertain us and transport us to different and magical times and places. But you know, I don’t think thats all there is to it. If we go back a very long time, a really really long time, before we had the computers and the interweb, before we had books, before we had written words.. these stories were more than just a moments
Coming up: New Resources and the FiberyGoodness shop
Its Friday, and I hope you are all looking forward to a weekend of much fibery goodness! For myself (Suzy), I would be pretty happy with a day off and some extra time to spend with my fiber and dye stashes. In the meantime though, there are preparations to make, websites to be updated, information to be sent out and fiber kits to be assembled, because… dahdahdahhhh.. we are nearly ready to reopen enrollments for the next Journey to the
Gallery Gazing
This week we are anticipating the release of Module 2 in our Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity course (scheduled for 6 January). We have seen some wonderful yarns coming in as a result of Module One, as people have worked through the materials. So I thought this week was a great time to highlight one of the features on our FiberyGoodness.com website – the Gallery! We are thrilled to see it filling up with some truly amazing, thoughtful, stunning, and creative
Weaving in Circles
We are thrilled to see that many course participants now have their Golden Fleece Circular Looms in their hands and are already beginning with the fun that is weaving in circles! If you haven’t yet received yours and are expecting it, don’t worry, its not long to wait now. One of the reasons we love these looms so much, and also Majacraft who produces them, is that each and every one of these has had so much personal care and attention, first
Module One Yarns
We really did it! You, Arlene, me, here we all are, several weeks into our journey already! I know that there are people at all stages of progress at the moment (and this is just as it should be), with some just beginning to consider their yarn and the design elements they want to include, and others who have already processed, planned, and created their yarns. It is a wonderful experience for us to see the yarn images being posted
Lets Get This Party Started!
Whoohoo! The first blogpost after sending out the first module of the first offering of the Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity course! This is what I stared at (with some large degree of triumphant-ness I must say) on my screen for a few minutes this morning after sending out the mail with the module link: Mailchimp, our bulk email platform. I do like how quirky it is 🙂 And it felt pretty good to be (virtually) high-fived
Getting Ready!
Here we are with a new blog post, an update, a headsup, and a warm up 🙂 What direction are we heading?! First the update, because this is super cool! We have some progress pics of our Majacraft looms currently being made! We will let you know as soon as they are ready to ship, there are quite a lot to be cut out and engraved with our special course logo, but it will be worth the wait, and, for
Counting Down!
Just one more day to launch time! It seems so long to wait! But time is all relative isnt it, when I look back at the time we have spent developing the course and the website, it seems to have been both forever, and no more than a few moments in time 🙂 Today I would like to share with you some of the artwork I have created to go with the course materials. There is a quite specific reason
Meet the Crew!
One of the main areas of focus for Arlene and I during all our course development, is the idea of community and mutual support among fiber artists. In the context of our ‘Heroes Journey’, community is what we think of as our ‘crew’, the people who are willing to cast off with us and sail together into the unknown, ready to face whatever should befall us, back to back, shoulder to shoulder. I don’t believe that creativity thrives in isolation,