Mar 28, 2018 | Fiber crush: Stuff I love, yarn spinning
I know I am late to the game. I bought a blending board earlier this year. I have 3 drum carders and some hand cards, I did not see a need for a blending board. That is until I for what ever reason decided I wanted one because if the portability. I had some felting...
Apr 5, 2017 | dyeing fiber and yarn, How to think like an artist, What I am working on, yarn spinning
Check this out. This is my most recent yarn… It was made from this fiber I dyed a couple of weeks ago. The first in the new dye space. So this fiber was a miss mash of mill ends, farm wool, angora from my late great bunnies, and sole roving ends. I could not...
Jan 27, 2016 | Art weaving, How to think like an artist, weaving, yarn spinning
Ask any serious knitter, and they will ALL agree…fiber arts can be a slippery slop into crafting ADHA. Knitting leads to spinning leads to dyeing leads to felting leads to weaving. It seems that there is always a new and more interesting technique just around...
Jan 13, 2016 | Freebies, yarn spinning
This is the second video of this series on how to spin art yarn. If you missed the first video, you can find it here. A couple of weeks ago, Cheryl had posted in my private Facebook group (the UrbanGypZ Fiber Art Collective, join us here) wanted to know how to...
Jan 6, 2016 | Freebies, How to think like an artist, yarn spinning
So, today I have a new video for you. You see I have a new Facebook group for peeps on my email list called the UrbanGypZ Fiber Art Collective. Each week I open up the opportunity to ask me anything…fibery, business, life, anything. Last week Cheryl wanted to...
Jun 24, 2015 | How to think like an artist, yarn spinning
I have not done any art yarn spinning in months. Seriously…months. And it is not that I do not love making yarn, I just got distracted with more profitable areas of my business. But ironically it is my handspan that I felt truly expressed my art the most. I am...
