Welcome to the Fiberygoodness tinyStudio magazine Podcast : “Tales From the Fiber Side”, with your hosts Arlene Thayer yoga teacher, spinner, knitter extraordinaire and all round wise person, and myself Suzy Brown aka Woolwench, passionate fiber artist, and owner publisher of indie magazine tinyStudio Creative Life.

Join us as we dive down fibery rabbitholes to bring you stories from the past; we will share stories about fiber heroes, villains, mythical characters, and events that helped shape the fiber world as we know it.  We will explore the fibery past to inspire you with tales that bring to life the inner worlds of spinners, weavers, tapestry makers, medieval guilds, and patrons of the fiber arts, as well as the other side of fiber; a world in which pirates and privateers smuggle wool across the English channel, risking capture and imprisonment, where womanly wartime spies knit secrets into their projects and send them as coded messages to their allies, where mythical beings monitor your spinning efforts throughout the year and bring judgement on your productivity, and also, well, we will have some fun chatting fluff and fibre!

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Please note: We began our Podcasting with a different format and focus, from Episode 8 onwards we have moved our focus away from education and further into entertainment! Our love of stories and the inspirations they bring have become our biggest podcasting pleasure, we hope you will also enjoy the inspiration these stories may bring!
 

Episode Notes

Episode 8: A Little Seasonal Fibery Cautionary Tale

Arlene suggests further reading with the book “The Old Magic of Christmas”  by Linda Raedisch https://www.amazon.com/Old-Magic-Christmas-Yuletide-Traditions/dp/0738733342/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

Issue 22 of tinyStudio has an article by Anna Landmark in which she takes us through the entire process of spinning, weaving, and sewing an historic dress (similar to those mentioned in the podcast) including details on quantities prepared, spun, and woven for the project. Available as a back issue in the Fiberygoodness Shop

 

Episode 5 Notes: This episode is all about how Arlene and Suzy ‘finish’ their yarns and knit or woven items. There is a video to accompany this podcast in which Suzy demonstrates a method of finishing a singles yarn that works to permanently stabilise the yarn and make it more durable – please view on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/ItevBWY6maQ– or right here!