New Store Location
We’re excited to announce that we have moved next door to a larger and bright retail space! Please visit us at 1315 16th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122. We want to thank all the people who have supported the studio in the first two years and gave us the courage to [...]
If you love Whole Foods and you want to support a great Neighborhood center, consider shopping on Feb 3rd at the Franklin Whole Foods Store! 5% of the profits go to benefit RDNC which has been serving art and cultural programs to local youth, adults and elderly since 1980. We volunteer our time on their [...]
Thank you to the students who participated with us in the Wet Felting Workshops hosted by Nicola Brown! We hope you had a lot of fun!
Check out more images on our Urban Fauna Studio Flickr Group. We’re sad to see Nicola go but hopefully she’ll be back around next year to take us further into [...]
Art Paper from Junk Mail
Spindles & Flyers is proud to present a class for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by junk mail. Frank Mikulastik will teach us how to turn unwanted mail and advertising into beautiful paper.
Bring your unwanted colorful junk mail and advertising and the urge to create beauty from trash
There are [...]
We wanted to thank our goody bag sponsors Knitcellaneous by providing some reviews of the lovely yarns they donated to our anniversary sale….written up by the talented Kira K. If you haven’t have had a chance to try these luxury yarns you should click on over to the web store and purchase some today! Perfect [...]
We wanted to take a break from fiber to show you some work our volunteer staff member and fellow fiber Monday attendee Jonathan Aaberg did at Old Jerusalem Cafe…some of you may have even remembered him installing it during our last meeting night.
In Jonathan’s words….
“Here are some photos of the solar skylight chandelier I just [...]
Thank you to all the wonderful people and joined us for WWSIP Day at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. It started out VERY wet and foggy….there was little hope that people would show. Then out of the fog stepped Susan with her brownies and iron determination to spin in public!….then we found Leslee while wandering [...]
We have listed some new classes at the studio for October and November:
October 2nd – Felt Accessories with Nicola Brown – 5 spaces left
October 3rd – Felt Vessels with Nicola Brown – 7 spaces left
October 4th – First Monday Fiber Night
October 9th – Beg. Needle Felt: Felt A Bird – FULL
October 10th – Beg. Wheel Spinning
October [...]
We’ve finished the first installment of our Ireland/UK video podcast! This is the first in a series of mini artist profiles to document our first trip to Ireland and the UK. Visiting fiber artists and mills along the way, we learn about the history of fiber in different regions and the [...]
We’re excited to be celebrating International Day of Felt On October 2nd 2010! To help people discover this craft, we’re giving our customers 20% off all in stock felting books, supplies and dyed wool!
Also that weekend we have a series of day long workshops with our friend and Irish fiber artist Nicola Brown….
Felt Accessories
Fun and [...]
