Tina is a knitwear designer based in Detroit, Michigan. After studying knitwear design in college, she fell in love with the use of different fibers, colors, and textures to create her own fabric.

By day, she designs on an industrial knitting machine for the sporting goods industry. By night, she spends most of her time creating handknit designs. Tina tries to design wearable pieces for any wardrobe while still creating intriguing designs to keep the process interesting.

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You can find her at:

Tina's website: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/tina-tse

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tina.say.knits/

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CheyOnna is a Colorado based maker, who loves to knit lace and hats. She founded and continues to work closely with The Yarn Mission - an organization dedicated to highlighting people of color.

The Yarn Mission prides itself on being Pro-Black, Pro-Rebel, and Pro-Community for the achievement of Black Liberation.

CheyOnna believes The Yarn Mission paves the way to freedom by allowing a society worth living for to be created.

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Website: http://theyarnmission.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyarnmission/

FB Groups: The Yarn Mission, Black Fiber Society 

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Yoriko is an indie yarn dyer and passionate knitter. Based out of Vancouver, she is one of the owners of Fibre Art Studio. Working alongside four other women, Yoriko is responsible for managing the Etsy shop.

With a background of training in architecture and fashion design, Yoriko approaches her art from both aesthetic and technical standpoints.

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You can find her at:

Kate’s website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/fibreartstudio

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoriko.oki/

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Kate O’Sullivan is a writer, photographer, and host of the Conversations From Our Days podcast. In addition to the podcast, Kate is a writer, and a natural light photographer, specializing in LGBT+ couples and their families.

Located in Edinburgh with her girlfriend and daughter, Kate’s passion is for creating content that helps every person feel safe and seen.

Website: https://www.kateosullivan.org

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kateo_sullivan/

Brooke was seeking something more creatively fulfilling than her day job - and found it with Fully Spun, her hand-dyed yarn company. Her mission is to provide high quality, colorful, beautiful yarn to fiber artists while staying genuine and authentic to what inspires her.

Fully Spun is unique in the way that Brooke hand-dye’s the wool roving and has it spun at a mill. This process creates an effect similar to the fractal method of hand spinning. Her yarn is alo special because every colorway is the translation of a visual or conceptual inspiration.

You can find her at:

Brooke's website: https://fullyspun.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamfullyspun/

This past week I did something scary: I reached out to the Māori artists community and wrote a piece for Toi Māori Aotearoa (a nonprofit supporting the Māori arts and culture - I’ve been donating to them every month) talking about my mahi (work), feelings of displacement and creating something new and beautiful from a mix of different cultures.

This is a community that I’ve always wanted to connect with but stayed away from for the longest time out of the fear of not being “Māori enough” to qualify.

But as I wrote in the article... “Since learning how to design and establishing myself as a designer, I have learned much about my ancestry and where I come from, with this most importantly: I am enough. While I have so much still left to learn, my desire to do so now isn’t out of a need to “prove my Māori-ness” but to enrich my life and, hopefully, empower the Māori community."

The link to the article is here, I would be honored if you took a bit of time out of your day to read it - and to hear your thoughts. A lot of people who’ve read it so far really resonated with the feeling like they are not enough.

So that’s why this is the focus on this week’s episode of the Fibre Muse Podcast: Living a Creative Courageous Life.

This episode is divided into two parts. The first part dives in a bit deeper on my experience reaching out to and writing to Toi Maori Aotearoa, the fears I had to fight against and what I’m experiencing now as a result.

The second part flips the script and focuses on you: how you can start creating courageously. I’m sure just like me, you have big dreams and goals for your crafting. Whether it’s learning a new technique, putting your work out into the world, or wanting to make a connection, there’s that small voice in our heads that want to hold us back. So I’m diving into both the mechanic (the how to’s and practical strategies) and the mindset roadblocks.

Links Mentioned:

Storytime Teller: @creatyveknitstudio

With the next collection of the Fibre Muse Quarterly coming out next Tuesday, you'll be getting an in-depth look into the stories and inspirations for the pieces and learn how each pattern ties into its respective Fibre Muse. Which Fibre Muse are you? Which pattern will you be working on during the Fibre Muse KAL?

Discovery Test

Patterns in the collection:

Atawhai Hat - Giver

Marino Wrap - Dreamer

Kahurangi Cowl - Mystic

Karekare Pullover - Seeker

View the lookbook.

Pre-order the collection for $16.