A New Fiberygoodness Course!

A New Fiberygoodness Course!

It is my pleasure to offer you a new Fiberygoodness online course! This course comprises of a combination of downloadable (printable) workbook, video content, and live classes. In this course we will create custom looms and weave pattern pieces for no-cut sewing projects. You choose your pattern, Suzy will help you make it! The concept behind a Custom Pattern Loom is to weave fabric that is already in the shape of the pattern pieces needed for a sewing project, such as

Issue 21 is Here!

Issue 21 is Here!

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

The story behind ‘Hasse Simonsdochter’: A city trip with a mannequin

The story behind ‘Hasse Simonsdochter’: A city trip with a mannequin

by Ineke De Brouwer We have a wonderful guest blogpost from Ineke de Brouwer to share with you this time, a follow on from the amazing article she wrote about one of her creative weavings for Issue 11 of tinyStudio magazine. The article featured the shawl that Ineke made, inspired by stories and places that have influenced her, and we wanted to share the background in more depth than we could fit into the magazine! Biggest thanks to Ineke for

But what do you do with it?

I am sure many of us art yarn spinners have heard the same thing.. its beautiful, but what do you do with it? Sometimes is not even so complimentary, statements such as ‘its unusable’ and ‘theres nothing you can make with that’, directed at a lovely lockspun yarn simply because its bulky, and theres 30 meters of it.. So here is my post today, some examples of a few things that you CAN do with art yarns, and these are

Weaving in Circles

Weaving in Circles

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