It has been my pleasure to share my ‘Fun With Spikes’ hackle pattern system available for free here on my website for a couple of years, in the form of a downloadable 50 page workbook plus half hour video with demonstration and instruction. I am pleased to now present to you a Second edition of “Fun With Spikes: How to use a hackle to design unique yarns’, in PRINT, with additional content and images! The new book is now available
This is an issue containing a lot of magic! We will see amazing magic tricks that transform fiber into yarn, yarn into weavings, weavings into clothing.. and much more! Prepare to be astounded and amazed with all the great magical content in this issue! I am very excited to have artists featured in this issue from Japan, Europe, USA, South America, New Zealand, and the UK, and our topics range from spinning, to tools, different kinds of weaving, some fibery
In this blogpost it is my pleasure to share with you the gorgeous fiber preparation work of Debora Galaz, a very talented artist with a fantastic eye for colour! what follows is a photo stream, sharing the process of creating a batt on the drum carder. You can also find more of Debora’s work on her Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/colibri_felting/ and you can find her work for sale on Etsy at colibristudio.etsy.com Whenever I want to create a batt, I look
Witchcraft or Coincidence..? In this blogpost we welcome back Ineke de Brouwer, of ‘Tricky Thread’ in the Netherlands, with a delightful follow-up to her article in Issue 12 in which we featured her stunning ‘Juniper’ Shawl. We love to share in these behind-the-scenes with artists, and it is inspirational to see how Ineke works through the ideas, themes, and constructions to create her gorgeous fibery artworks! The story behind the shawl by Ineke De Brouwer The moment I heard about
The Making of ‘Nehalennia’ – or, The Disappearance of the Mannequin. Every once in a while we love to share a guest post from one of our wonderful tinyStudio Creative Life magazine contributors. This one takes you behind the scenes of the inspirational story shared in Issue 10 ( find it here!)by Ineke De Brouwer of the Netherlands. This post extends the story even further than in the magazine article, and it was too good not to share 🙂 We
Since the very beginning of tinyStudio, I have kept all our current issues available to subscribers only. We LOVE our subscribers, their support is what keeps us going from issue to issue, video podcast to video podcast 🙂 I want to be sure that our subscribers know just how much we appreciate that support. Over time, I decided it would be great to share the magazine to a wider audience, perhaps there were people out there who did not want
I am very proud to bring you our August 2020 Issue of tinyStudio Creative Life Magazine! Our wonderful cover for this issue was provided by Lauren and Kass Hernandez of ‘Crossing Threads’, I love the story this image tells, and it is followed beautifully a feature article that will get you thinking about weaving, their work is dramatic and bold, with incredible detail and textures. In this issue you will find a strong focus on colour, throughout our pages we
Fun With Spikes! Here we go! We are all, in one way or another, finding our way through the global pandemic known as Covid-19. It has been an emotional roller coaster for many of us, and I feel this is a great time to bring you something to distract you from the stresses of lockdown and social distancing. This is something I began mid 2019 after being asked to teach at Majacraft Camp 2020. The theme was ‘Naturals’. Over the
Colours are not just surface decoration, or ways to differentiate between ripe or unripe, clean or muddy, or even edible/inedible. Colour is a noun… colour – the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light. “the lights flickered and changed colour” synonyms: hue, shade, tint, tone, tinge, cast, tincture “the lights flickered and changed colour” Colour is also a verb – change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading