Been waiting on a Dye Course with Natalie?

Well here it is! The news I know many people have been waiting for! We are very excited to announce that applications are now open for the fantastic new Dye Secrets course with Natalie Redding and FiberyGoodness! We have teamed up to offer you this exclusive content course for the first time, live and interactive from the comfort of your own dye kitchen! And here is Natalie herself to tell you a little about it! Along with Natalies livestream presentations,

Majacraft Fusion Engine Drum Carder: A WoolWench Review

Imagine this; big luscious handfuls of your favourite fibers, silks and sparkles, spreading them out with your fingertips to loft them up.. the little pops as the fibers let go of each other and the locks spread into crimpy cotton candy puffs.. And then.. then! Feeling them bounce up gently against your palm as you lay them onto the beautiful wood-grained feed tray of this brand new carder, and next… silence and surprise, and here I can’t say ‘as you

Marsala…

The 2015 Pantone Color of the Year:  Masala! I confess, I love writing these color posts.  It is really fun and a good excuse to fall down the Pinterest rabbit hole all in the name of research!! Last week, Pantone released their Fall 2015 color report which I immediately downloaded and studied.  While that was fun, it was even more fun that evening to geek out with another fiber pal on the phone by discussing in detail our collective thoughts

Stories!

We are into the second year of running the Journey to the Golden Fleece course now, and there have been some amazing experiences and rewards to both Arlene and I during this time. We have been blessed with the opportunity to share in the process and creative activities of the course participants, and been allowed to discover insights and learn about them in quite profound ways. Today I would like to share with you a story that one of the participants

SideTracktion

I like to think we all get this. Doesnt matter if not, because I can pretend to myself very well that ‘everyone’ gets sidetracked, its not unique, I am not the only one who struggles with it… SIGH Well last week Arlene posted about being stuck -v – resting. She very rightly pointed out that we need to take breaks, to rest, to allow ourselves the time and space to get over being stuck and move on revitalised. Well in

Resting

Last week in a weekly email to one of our Journey to the Golden Fleece Groups, I wrote about being stuck.  I wrote about that to that group because many of them are approaching making their final project in the course.  It’s a time that lends itself to being stuck.  Ask me how I know? I’m sort of one of them…as I wrote to them, I had made a project with the yarns I created as we were writing the

A Very Special Module 8 Project

Wow, last week’s broadcast of the first round of graduation projects from the Journey to the Golden Fleece was so much fun!  I hope you have had a chance to check it out and/or to download the PDF which contains all the projects with the write ups from the artists. All the projects were fantastic and we decided that we will, from time to time, feature some of these awesome creations.  I’m going to kick this off with the cool

Our First Graduation Ceremony!

We had our first graduation ceremony for the participants in the Journey to the Golden Fleece last night and it was a so much fun! For those of us who could not join us for the live event, here is the recorded version. Here is the link to get the full PDF download of the portfolio of projects.  It includes a few last minute additions that we weren’t able to get into the live presentation on time so be sure

Live Graduation Event Details and Holiday Inspiration

We are so excited that this week we will be airing our first live graduation celebration for a number of our Journey to the Golden Fleece participants!  Yup, that’s right…Thursday night, 7 PM EST on live on Youtube.  If you are a newsletter subscriber, you will get the link emailed to you or you can check back here where we will also post the link.  Post graduation, the graduates will be receiving their certificates and badges.  UPDATED:  THE EVENT HAS