My Plying Dragons have been keeping me wonderfully busy and it is very gratifying to be shipping them off around the world to help spinners everywhere make a (tail) plying bracelet to ply up their bobbin ends and sample yarns, and in some cases up to 2 ounces of singles! One of my missions, just like with tinyStudio magazine, is to bring joy to our fiber-artist-lives with fun tools that can inspire creativity. I also am really enjoying the whole
Welcome to the magical world of plying with dragons! This is a wee project I have been working on since Issue 25 of tinyStudio published back in November. I am pretty excited to share these dragons with you (I was born in the Year of the Dragon!) and I hope you will love the concept and enjoy the tools. For a while now I have been wanting to make some ‘blind boxes’ – which I personally really love! The idea
Issue 16 is now available! Subscribers will find this magical issue in their email inboxes, and it can also be purchased as a single issue on the website at the end of this blogpost, or head over here: (CURRENT ISSUE PAGE) All new subscribers can login and download Issue 16 as soon as they register, this issue remains in the subscribers only area to download until Issue 17 is published in November 2022. I think this is one of the
Guest Post by Pat Old Traditions around the use of kākahu / korowai. It was said by Mary Zicafoose in the Spring issue of Fibre Art Now, 2017, “That there are certain substances on this planet that carry, store, and record memory. One is natural fibre. Textiles are like holograms; both are dimensionally coded sources of information. They transmit their mystery and magic, generation after generation.” A kākahu, or Māori cloak, possesses that mystery and the meaningful design components are the “coded source of information”. A cloak whose main design
Greetings to all! Welcome to a new year, which I hope will be creative, productive, and inspiring. I am here with some big tinyStudio news for 2022, which will herald some changes. This is quite a long post, but bear with me, there is important information for current print subscribers. I was originally prepared to start print production of tinyStudio magazine, following a very successful two years of digital publishing, back in 2020. As we all know, Covid arrived and
It is with great pleasure that we bring you this update from Franciose Danoy of Aroha Knits, who is working through our Fiberygoodness Spinner Apprenticeship, sponsored by the amazing Daedalus Spinning Wheels! Franciose has been learning about the different ways to spin, to create woolen or worsted yarns with short draws and longdraws. We also worked on plying and the many ways you can twist singles together. Franciose and the Daedalus Starling (Rosie) are a great match and have come
Subscribe to Digital | Already Digital Subscriber | Subscribe to Print Or purchase as a single issue in our shop I am very proud to bring you Issue 13of tinyStudio Creative Life Magazine! Publication date 28 November 2021 In Issue 13 you will find articles, colours, and inspirations along the theme of “oceans”. The ocean is always so invigorating and inspiring, the colours of the water at different times of day and in all kinds of weather, the sounds, the
With Nic White We are happy to bring you a peek into the fiber world of Nic, whose fiber dyeing and creative projects contain his unique sense of style and colour Yarn infatuation began with a simple visit to the local yarn store while staying with my grandmother in Prescott, Arizona. My whole life changed after walking through that door. There were more color combinations than I had ever imagined and the ability to create any shape or type of
We have something new to announce, and ‘new’ is the important word! Fiberygoodness has teamed up with our tinyStudio magazine sponsors Daedalus Spinning Wheels, and come up with a big bodacious plan 🙂 We would like to introduce you to the ‘New Spinner Apprenticeship’! Like many of us in the fiber world, our thoughts often turn to how we can help support our community and keep it active and vibrant, spreading the love for the ancient art of spinning and
We have just launched our eleventh issue of tinyStudio Creative Life magazine! We are thrilled to bring you another packed and inspirational magazine. The underlying theme of this issue is ‘naturally beautiful’. I deliberately left this theme quite open, because it is a subject that could have many different interpretations, and indeed, throughout this issue, we will see many naturally beautiful things! I love that we all see beauty in our own unique ways and find our own expressions of