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
Welcome to a new issue of tinyStudio magazine, and we are turning 21 this time! To celebrate this coming of age, we are actually looking into the past a little, exploring some of our spinning history, starting with a DIY project for making a medieval spindle. I love all those beautiful ancient images of the women in their long robes, strolling along with their distaffs poised and their spindle in hand, gathering weight with the yarn they are creating. In
We are starting something new and a little different with tinyStudio Creative Life magazine! You may have heard that 2020 IS the year we are going to paper print with our beloved magazine. I am hoping that this can happen as soon as Issue 7, and I will be opening up subscriptions in early March, I am very excited to be able to do this and the deeper I get into shaping this big move, the more I am certain
The Majacraft Pioneer, in my opinion it just doesn’t get all the attention it deserves, often overshadowed by its stunning sister wheels Aura, Rose, and Suzie. But the humble Pioneer, what a dream she is to spin on! She might not have the curvaceous lines of the Aura, or the classy classic style of the Suzie and Rose, but she really knows how to get a yarn spun and contains all the components that are every bit as good as
Hello Fiber Folks!!! I am so happy to be writing this post to present a fiber arts and hand spinning program that we’ve been putting together over the course of the past few months. Bren Boone of Snerb Yarn and Fiber has accepted our invitation to be our first Fiber Artist in Residence and today I get to roll it all out to you! Our brand new Fiber Artist Residence program is something Suzy and I have been tinkering on
We have a big announcement today! The FiberyGoodness Majacraft e-store is open!! I am sure many of you know we have a history with Majacraft from right back at the very Fiberygoodness beginning. Together we designed and developed the Circular looms for the Golden Fleece course, looms which have become very popular indeed! We have loved seeing this craft take off and the development of the circle weaving Facebook Group too! And of course even before this Suzy (me!) had been happily
It’s time to let a big cat out of the bag…Fibery Goodness is now an official Majacraft dealer!!! We could not be more pleased nor more proud. Most of you reading this know that from the outset of Fibery Goodness, we have had a cherished relationship with the fine folks at Majacraft. It seemed after our long engagement, it was time to get married…:-) In the next few weeks, we will continue the remodeling of our website to also expand
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
This might not be ‘strictly’ a tool tip, or perhaps its a tool tip that also doubles as a spin tip.. or maybe the other way around.. and if I carry on this way I will get myself as tangled as an autowrap around a delta orifice!
We are thrilled to see that many course participants now have their Golden Fleece Circular Looms in their hands and are already beginning with the fun that is weaving in circles! If you haven’t yet received yours and are expecting it, don’t worry, its not long to wait now. One of the reasons we love these looms so much, and also Majacraft who produces them, is that each and every one of these has had so much personal care and attention, first