One of my favorite places to spend time is at the Winterthur Museum about two hours away from me in Delaware. I have visited many times during the winter (I like the Christmas display) and this year I also got to go with Suzy when she was here in April. As luck would have it, a couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go when the Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light exhibition was starting. This was
Oh my! I can’t tell you how much Arlene and I have been enjoying the postings from the S3 (Sketch Spin Scribe) students over these last weeks.. WOW! What wonderful spin experiences people have been sharing, and really stunning yarns, and they keep coming! When Arlene and I developed the Journey to the Golden Fleece course, our focus was on developing creativity, helping people get out of a spinning rut and opening up possibilities through a journey of discovery. It is
Publisher’s Notes: This Featured Artist post is near and dear to my heart for a number of reasons. Karen Pardee of Serendipity Saori Studio is a fiber hero of mine AND she lives in a part of the United States that is both beautiful as well as an area where I have roots and am connected. I know that you will enjoy reading about Karen and what led her to study and embrace Saori. It is with great pleasure that
Oh, the Tour de Fleece, how I love that part of the summer! And, sadly, another Tour de Fleece has come and gone but it was not without a lot of Fibery Goodness involved. Our team was hosted by the Hostess with the Mostess, Jan Massie of Just 4 Ewe Studio. Since it was our first year having our own team, we were delighted to have over 50 members and in true Fibery Goodness fashion, our team spanned the globe!
Publisher’s Notes: One of the most wonderful aspects of interacting with students through our online courses at Fibergoodness.com is meeting new people from all over the globe who are kindred spirits. I love welcoming new fiber artist friends into my life! Over the past 18 months, I have had the pleasure to get to know Lise Condis of Tre Liz, a new friend with incredible drive and talent who lives in Greece. Lise does it all…dyes, spins, knits and creates
Welcome to the world of “S3” aka “Sketch Spin Scribe”! We are very excited to bring you a new course, one we have been working hard on for almost a year! And finally we can reveal the contents, its all about the spinning, and its all about the stories.. We have combined our love for tales, our passion for discovery, and our unending desire to make yarn, and created this course. We hope this will be something of a legacy for all
Arlene here….we are going to be migrating the Spin Artiste content over the Fibery Goodness. As part of the transition, I will be posting just three more interviews over at Spinartiste.com that will be also cross posted here. Then, on a go forward basis, all Spin Artiste style content will be a permanent part of Fibery Goodness. Now, let’s get onto the good stuff! Publisher’s Notes: This week I’m so pleased to feature Holly Madison of Blue Barn Fiber!
I am sure many of us art yarn spinners have heard the same thing.. its beautiful, but what do you do with it? Sometimes is not even so complimentary, statements such as ‘its unusable’ and ‘theres nothing you can make with that’, directed at a lovely lockspun yarn simply because its bulky, and theres 30 meters of it.. So here is my post today, some examples of a few things that you CAN do with art yarns, and these are
This week we would like to share something with you! Perhaps you already know about our Fiberygoodness Yarn Recipe series (for sale in our shop), these are spin techniques largely developed by myself (Woolwench/Suzy) and Arlene (the awesome SpinArtiste). They have included quite a variety of spin recipes and one of my favourites has been Arlenes ‘Helix’ yarn, a method of integrating locks into a ply. I love including the concept and activity of weaving into everything I do 🙂 Well
Last week Arlene posted about being stuck and working through some of the creative slumps we all get into sometimes. So this week we thought I should follow this up with a little look at something else that happens with all of us during our creative lives, and that is change. I think this is something that can help cause those many WIPs to come about, you know, you start a project, and for whatever reason it gets put aside.