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tinyStudio Creative Life magazine is an indie publication with the goal of sharing the stories of the people in our fiber community, beautifully supported in a gorgeously designed publication. This is your place to share your voice, your discoveries, experiences, passions.. your unique story.

Please read through the following and see if your story will fit into one of our Issues. Keep in mind that while tinyStudio has themed issues, it is just a gentle underlying theme rather than a driving force in the creation of each issue, so if you have ideas that do not fit a specific theme do send them in to Suzy, there is always room for greater variety outside of the issue theme!

Scroll down for Upcoming Issue themes or keep reading for our ongoing open submissions.

Ongoing: Regular Features

Artists Studio Tour

Do you have a share-worthy studio? It doesn’t need to be the Louvre! Maybe you have a cozy space where you are surrounded by inspiration, some clever space-saving storage ideas, a room you share with others for workshops or lessons, or a corner of the house that is especially delightful to work in. Do you have some fun or unique decorating ideas? Please submit some photos and a brief description. (There is only one Artists Studio Feature per issue, but we may also feature Artists Studios in our monthly newsletter or blogpost).

Things to Love

This regular feature is a three to four page image spread to show off your fiber art! It includes live links to your website or social media, and is a wonderful opportunity to share your favourite pieces, yarns, dyed fiber, stitching, macrame, weaving.. whatever your fiber art is, we would love to share the love! Submit your images and/or your website, shop, or Instagram with a brief description of what you do!

For Your Tiny Studio

Do you create products to sell? Check our upcoming themes and send us what you have made that could both fit the theme and become an inspiring decor or studio item for other fiber artists. We would love to share your ‘for sale’ items along with a link to your shop.

Or – have you found something that makes your studio life easier? Fiber or yarn storage, boxes, hooks, and hangers, space savers and organisers, inspirational decor… Please drop us a line with a link so we can share your discovery in the magazine! We will add your name and link it to your page or social media alongside the item as our thank you for sharing the good stuff!

Learning Lab

In this section we love to share your tips and tricks, things such as tool hacks, technique tricks, new ideas or innovations, anything you might have discovered that will make fiber crafting easier, more fun, or easier! Anything around 500-700 words with one or two images would be ideal.

‘Other’ Regular Features

You will find projects and tutorials in each issue, so if you have one you would like to share please let us know!

If you are a farmer or a fiber producer anywhere in the world, I would love to hear from you too, it is a wonderful thing to know where our materials originate and how the fiber animals are raised and cared for.


Upcoming Issues: Themes

I want to make it easy to submit a proposal, so even if your idea doesn’t fit exactly into any of the sections below, that doesn’t mean it won’t fit in any of these issues! It just means maybe I didn’t think of it yet 🙂 This is a community-driven publication and I want it to include YOUR voice, so send me a description of your idea using the form below, or email me at info@fiberygoodness.com if you wish to add images to your message, I will get back to you as soon as I can!

I have chosen some ideas and concepts to base future issues around. tinyStudio Creative Life magazine uses these themes as a gentle focus rather than a prescriptive direction! If you are inspired by any of these ideas to submit an article idea please do so at any time up to the Submission Closing date!

February 2024 Issue 22: Birds

Nature is such a wonderful source of inspiration on so many levels. We saw this in the beautiful ‘Florals’ Issue (14) with the range of stunning colours, forms, and combinations the world of flowers brings us as artists. In this issue we will be looking at the world of our feathered earth cohabiters, their grace, beauty, their charm and their elegance. It will be exciting to consider the great diversity among our birdlife, and the personalities they bring to our gardens, forest, and oceans. The majestic Albatross or the tiny finch, they all have an important place in their environments.

So what inspiration can we borrow from the world of birds? What about their aerial perspective, their view of the world is so different from our land-bound one. The miracle of flight and ability to soar, how do these things translate into yarn, embroidery, or weavings? Can we create a yarn or fabric as light and airy as a feather? Something floaty and delicate? What does that look like to you? How would you express flight in a weaving or a knit, could it be in the lines of the design, swooping through the fabric, or the movement through a yarn? Send us your recipes or stories of your flight inspired creations!

Lets also look at the diversity of the bird species, the wee New Zealand Piwakawaka with its cheeky and friendly personality, it flits quickly through the forest to follow your path and the insects you stir up as you walk, as it chatters away to you non-stop! Compare that to the grace and smooth elegance of an eagle, fast, alert, deadly! What a contrast! Can you find a way to express this difference in a yarn? Is one ply the cute wee chatter-box zapping around dizzily, and another ply the straight and focused dive of an eagle catching its dinner? This could be a yarn full of drama!

And then we have the colours, so many rich colours! Could silk dyeing be one way to capture them? Do you have a dye technique to share that would inspire others to also capture the beauty of the birds? Or perhaps you have a way to blend them, to re-create the dynamic richness of a bird feather by combining coloured fibre in particular ways. This would be a wonderful addition to this issue!

Of course we can also consider anything else bird related – knit or crochet patterns, macrame, or stitching designs, about birds or for birds!

If these ideas speak to you, we would love to share your stories! We need your proposals in to us with a deadline for completed articles for issue 22 being 5 January 2024

May 2024 Issue 23: Art Nouveau

This issue is all about a particular art and architecture style. Art Nouveau is such a wonderfully expressive style of design, with flowing lines, rich colour palettes, and organic shapes. I really love the work of Alfons Mucha, with the beautiful ladies surrounded by flowing, floral designs. This art style was prevalent between 1890 and 1920, and was characterised by its ornate style and long organic shapes. It was preceded by the Arts and Crafts movement and incorporated many of the same influences from nature. It could be seen in architecture and art of the time, and was a deliberate move away from the traditional styles that often imitated historic art.

For this issue, it would be wonderful to explore this art style as a source of inspiration for fibre art works! Have you ever thought about how you could create a felted piece based on a Mucha painting? Or a yarn that inspired by the earthy palette of so many of his works? Or maybe a yarn construction based on the organic flowing long forms found in art nouveau, something that captures the repeated shapes and patterns found in much of this art.

If you enjoy constructing architectural yarns, think about buildings such as the Gaudi Cathedral in Barcelona, fanatical spires and highly decorated organically shaped windows and openings, what a fantasy building this is and a wonderful challenge to create in yarns!

If you are a dyer, how would you go about selecting colours for an Art Nouveau palette? What colours would you choose and why, and how would you recreate them in a dye pot or a hand painted top?

For knit designers, I would love to see anything you have created that reflects this look too, are there particular stitches you could use to create some of the repeating patterns found in a Mucha painting?

Proposals can be in the form of an email with an introduction to your article idea, and some photos to illustrate it if you have them. These should be in by 1 December at the latest, with an article deadline for this issue at 5 January 2023

August 2024 Issue 23: Creative Spins

In this issue, let’s go FULL ART YARN! I would love to fill the issue with all the textures, arty fiber preps, colour combinations, and spin techniques!  Send in your favourite yarn design – yarn recipes, and how-to’s! Write us a story about why you love to spin art yarns and what your inspirations are. What are some of the limitations when designing an art yarn? How do you manage art yarn spinning on wheels with a smaller orifice, on e-spinners, or on wheels with different tension systems?  Maybe you love to spin to a theme or to tell a story in fiber, what is your design process and how do you translate your inspiration into a spun yarn?

And of course, we really need to add all your ‘made with art yarn’ projects! Maybe you have a pattern to share, or a how-to for creating an item with art yarn? Or you have finished projects you could share with a story about your inspiration and how you made it or designed it?

Another aspect to consider is the ways you can connect traditional techniques in both spinning and projects, with art yarns – have you found fun ways to use your art yarns in traditional crafts? Or perhaps updated a traditional spinning or fiber prep method with alternative fibers or materials?

Please send us ALL the inspiration for the creation and use of art yarns and let’s fill this issue with joy! Deadline for this issue is July 10 2024

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