Wow, what a week! We had a live broadcast this week to wish Suzy a fond farewell as she gets ready to depart for New Zealand and during the broadcast, we announced the new online spin sessions that are starting next month as well as a brand new set of recipe cards inspired by the late, Dr. Maya Angelou. In case you missed the broadcast, you can always catch up by watching the recorded version.
This week we have another ‘tool tip’ for you, and just for fun have included a simple little project you might like to make too!
Arlene here! I went on a BIG trip and it feels like I was gone for just ages. My husband is heading for a milestone birthday and one of the items on his bucket list was going to Alaska. So, at the end of July, we left for our tour (one week on land and one week on sea). What does this have to do with “fibery goodness”? Well, a lot…cause, naturally, I found some!
Good fiber, the yummy stuff that your hands are just itching to spin on sight, its the colours, the softness, the textures, the locks, the clouds, the crimp.. We know it when we see it, right? 🙂 This week we wanted to share some of that with you, the eye candy produced by the specially selected FiberyGoodness.com fiber sponsors! And its not only eye candy because they are also offering great discounts to Golden Fleece students! For this post I
It is interesting to note that many fiber artists, including many of those taking the Golden Fleece Creativity Certificate course, are also in business AS fiber artists. For many people it is a natural progression, from passion to expansion to excess product, often selling locally at markets, but even more often selling fibers and yarns online. And yes, this online market world is a big place! Easy to get lost in the crowd, to feel a bit overwhelmed. What do
This week we are starting a new blog feature, ‘ask Suzy’, in which we will offer handy tool tips or tricks, and answer (as best we can) any questions that you send in about fiber related tools and equipment. The most recent question to hit my inbox was someone enquiring about the difference between the fiber prepared on a hackle and drum carded roving, with the focus on ‘which tool should I buy’. My best answer to this, is that
This week we had a really fun live spin session, me (Suzy) and a group of the loveliest spinners from all over the globe, Belgium, The USA, Australia, and me in the Netherlands. We overcame timezone differences, unknown technical requirements, and gathered together to spin the Randomizer! These spin groups are awesome, our own chance to gather up and chat, show our current spinning projects, share our stories and spin up a storm, all from a comfortable proximity to our
I love yellow….but yellow is a color of contradiction. Here is a yellow inspired riddle from Iran: “What is purple in the earth, red in the market, and yellow on the table?”
A few weeks ago I made a blogpost about learning styles, and asked the question ‘what is your learning style?. The responses both here and on Facebook were pretty clear, most people involved in fiber arts are visual learners, we like to see things, pictures, videos, live demos… its really good to actually see the theories in practice. Leslie also commented on the post that she likes to enrich that with social interaction. I thought that was a really interesting
A few weeks ago in a weekly email that we sent to our first group of participants in the Journey to the Golden Fleece, we included an image of a painting of a knight and a lady. At that time, they were working on Module 4 of the course which is the “Love” module. We asked people to send us their interpretations of what they saw as the story the painting was conveying. We did not say at the time what