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We have recently arranged with our plastics supplier to produce a limited run of plastic bobbins for the holiday season. If you are interested in some very special and unique bobbins for your Majacraft wheel that will REALLY stand out, then contact your dealer quickly. First in, first […]
As the title of this post suggests, I have indeed been thinking – and I am hoping for a bit of feedback on this too please. So here goes… Bobbins, people often measure bobbins by the weight of yarn they hold. For example, “I can […]
Here is the press release about an exciting project that we have been invited to be a part of – The Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity Course. This has been developed by Arlene Ciroula (SpinArtiste) and Suzy Brown (Woolwench). More news and pictures will follow but I wanted to share this as soon as I could.
Spinartiste.com and Woolwench.com are excited to announce the impending launch of their new co-hosted creative space, www.fiberygoodness.com and its first offering, The Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity Course.
With The Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity Course, we are thrilled to be able to offer an opportunity for fiber enthusiasts to join us on a path of exploration, revitalization, learning and inspiration. This course is designed to provide participants with their own fiber hero journey, to reboot their creativity, work towards finding their own unique creative voice, and to celebrate uniqueness.
We are proud to bring this new and exciting learning opportunity to the fiber community with the support of Majacraft, creators and suppliers of amazing and innovative spinning and fiber preparation tools and equipment. We share their desire to help people be creative!
In conjunction with the launch of the Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity Course, Majacraft will be releasing a custom designed Circle Loom developed especially for this course.
All details on the course and enrollment forms will be available with the launch of www.fiberygoodness.com on November 1, 2013.
With Arlene Thayer at the helm, Spinartiste.com is an online publication focused on making and using artisanal fibers and yarns with a focus on indie fiber artists and is read widely throughout the international fiber community.
Woolwench.com is the online home base of the internationally known fiber artist, Suzy Brown, who holds the Creative Fibres (NZ) Certificate in HandSpinning and possesses an extensive educational background.
We now produce a blending board! Yay! The standard information you will firstly be interested in is the cloth. We have used 72 TPI cloth that measures 210mm (8.3″) wide by 300mm long (11.8″). The kit comes with a blending board – of course! […]
For those who are fans of Facebook and are interested in the new Majacraft Dynamic Heddle Loom, you might be interested in checking out “Manic Dynamic Majacrafters“. This is a page set up by three of our weaving heroes, Donyale Grant, Esther Rodgers and Suzy […]
Lately we have been following the progress in USA of our friend, Michelle Snowden , aka Wooldancer.
Michelle hails from Australia and is teaching her particular brand of woolly goodness – Spin to Wear – to enthusiastic spinners around the country.
She started at Yarnival and has since taught at the SWAY guild in Florida and is due at Madison Wool next.
You can see what Michelle is up to on her personal web site www.wooldancer.com
Arlene Ciroula of Spin Artiste has written an neat article about Michelle on the road with plenty of pictures www.spinartiste.com
Until next time
Andy
As many readers are likely aware, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and Princess Catherine) recently had their first child. New Zealand presented a gift of a merino shawl to the new family. We were very excited to see this news as the […]
So this is what they mean by being behind the 8-ball! Needless to say I have been rather busy recently simply helping to get products into boxes and into the postie’s van. There has been a bunch of news to share so here goes. Majacraft […]
Recently we had the opportunity to engrave another custom wheel, this time a Rose for our friend Anna Josefsson. I was very pleased with how it came out, particularly the little frog on the handle nut! This was the first time we had tried engraving on to the nut and it was very encouraging to see it work so well.
Until next time
Andy
Over the past few days we have had the pleasure of hosting the lovely Joan Ruane, cotton spinning guru from Arizona USA. She has been in NZ teaching some workshops and catching up with friends made during her time living here in the 70s. Joan was […]