3rd Annual Local Fiber Festival!

Who doesn’t love a fiber festival?  I look forward to the NY State Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck each October….and the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival each May!  Three years ago a group of  fiber loving women decided to try a small festival in Ridgewood, NJ, and it’s it’s been a success!

There were vendors with great stuff for sale; demonstrations by local guilds that include spinning, weaving, lace making, quilting, embroidery; and classes in knitting, crochet, rug hooking, felting, and natural dyeing.  In hindsight,  I wish I’d signed up for the workshop on rug hooking.  The design for this class was a small sheep, and the beautifully dyed, lightly fulled, wool fabric was lovely.  The little sheep was adorable!  Although I couldn’t take the workshop (because I was too busy demonstrating for my weaving guild) I am ordering the kit from Foxview Needlepoing and Rug Hooking,and hope to figure it out on my own! This is another design that tempted me (well, the sheep anyway!).

It was great to spend the weekend with other local people who love the things I love!