More Fun with Spikes!

More Fun with Spikes!

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

To Thwack, or Not To Thwack

To Thwack, or Not To Thwack

I often see discussions on social media about the benefits (or not) of thwacking yarns as part of the ‘finishing’ process. People seem to be quick to condemn, with the idea that it is a terrible way to treat a yarn, or only done to compensate for a ‘badly spun’ yarn. I wanted to bust this myth 🙂 So for Issue 19 of tinyStudio magazine I researched and wrote an article, this was published in May 2023. Felt that since

Issue 19: It’s Magic!

Issue 19: It’s Magic!

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

Spin Together – Pick a Card, Any Card

Spin Together – Pick a Card, Any Card

Today we kicked off the tinyStudio Teams participating in this years Spin Together event! I am proud and excited to have three tinyStudio teams this year, Captained by Helen Keenan, Annette Montgomery, and Su Jolly. Team tinystudio’s are going to be super busy over the next 7 days, spinning and chatting and chatting and spinning, with Zooms, FB Rooms to drop into, and also local gatherings for those who live close enough to do so. With Spin Together in mind,

The Juniper Shawl

The Juniper Shawl

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 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

New Spinner Apprenticeship Update

New Spinner Apprenticeship Update

We have an update for you from our spinning apprentice, Francoise Danoy. Over the last couple of months we have been meeting with Francoise every two weeks to review her spinning and sharing our knowledge . We have been amazed at how quickly she has picked up and run with all our tips and tricks! Here is her latest report! ————————— A few months ago, I was approached by Suzy of tinyStudio to be their recipient of their Artist in

Special Guest Ineke de Brouwer

Special Guest Ineke de Brouwer

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

Issue 9 has landed!

Issue 9 has landed!

I am very proud to bring you our November 2020 Issue of tinyStudio Creative Life Magazine! This has been a crazy month, and I would like to thank Evanita for her support in getting through it, and we did it on time as well! And also a big thank you to Anne for her excellent editing 🙂 I think this is one of our best issues yet! Also a massive thank you to our wonderful Sponsors – Majacraft! We couldn’t

Hand carding with Majacraft

Hand carding with Majacraft

On some of my more recent tinyStudio TV Episodes (sent out to all our lovely magazine subscribers) and also on my YouTube channel, I have been showing my use of the Majacraft Hand Cards and the resulting yarns I have spun after my fleece carding experiments! This post is my review of the Majacraft 96tpi handcards! Being a Majacraft fan, of course I have had them since they came out, and at the time I was not heavily into hand