When it comes to ingenuity, no one can top our fiber crafting members. UntouchableFace shared her handmade hackle with us on the fiber boards and it looks great! Building your own equipment not only saves you lots of money, but it gives you extra pride when you make something using supplies and equipment you [...]

Shibori is a Japanese term for a family of dyeing techniques in which the artist binds, stitches, folds, twists, or compresses fabric to create different patterns in the fabric. The most familiar of these techniques is tie dye, but there are many other types of shibori dyeing. Awesome member and frequent fiber board contributor, Ptarmic [...]

This week on Fiber Thursday we have another ingenious handmade tool - Astormorray’s handmade tensioned Lazy Kate! When she spent her budget on a lovely new wheel, but still knew she wanted a Lazy Kate, Astormorray put her crafty wood working skills to use and built one! Way to go Astormorray! Thanks for sharing [...]

When you are a Craftster who longs to try loom weaving, but you don’t have access to a loom, what can you do? If you’re Subloke you do your research, grab what you’ve got, and build yourself a loom out of pvc pipe, some wood, some stuffing and dye, and you create something beautiful! HUGE [...]

Randomly Spotted on the Galactic Interweb…

Can you guess who made the gorgeous golden yellow fiber for this beautiful weaving? I bet you can’t! No really, try to guess. OK, I will tell you….

Spiders!

Like many people I am a bit nervous about spiders. Although they are nature’s top weavers, and are quite beautiful in [...]

Randomly Spotted on the Galactic Interweb…
Many of us fantasize about raising fiber animals for spinning and fiber arts, or having a little hobby farm full of cute animals. What does it really take to transition from city life to a more sustainable small farm? It sounds very romantic, but it’s also a lot of work. [...]

We’re starting a new recurring article here on the ol’ Craftster blog: CrafTATstic Crafty Tattoos. Lots of Craftsters like to wear their love of crafting on their sleeve… or… any other body part, really! There are tons of fabulous crafty tats floating around and we’re going to show them some love and maybe [...]