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Western IL Fiber Fest
March 11, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us Sat., March 11th from 12pm-5pm at the McDonough County 4-H Center for the 1st ever Western IL Fiber Fest! Fiber demonstrations, sales, and activities will be going on throughout the day. Meet fiber farmers and fiber artists, learn about the different animals that produce fiber, and all the different things you can create with it. Raw fiber, carded fiber, batt blends, roving, hand-spun yarns, hand-dyed yarns, felting supplies, felted items & art, crocheted items, knit items, woven items, and much more!
Free admission. Phoenix Food Shack will be serving lunch so come hungry! Stay tuned for list of vendors. We’re hoping Lake Hill Winery can join us for wine tasting too.
Fiber Demonstrations (so far, might be more):
Spinning with an E-Spinner (electric spinning wheel)
Spinning with a traditional spinning wheel
Spinning with a drop spindle
Needle Felting
Spinning with a traditional spinning wheel
Spinning with a drop spindle
Needle Felting
Fiber Activities (so far, might be more):
Bird Nesting Balls – all ages – $8 – fill an iron orb with alpaca fiber and tie a piece of bale twine to the top. When you get home, hang it from your favorite tree and watch the birds stop by to pick up nesting material for their nests!
Make a Felted Picture – ages 10 & up – $10 – use natural fibers to create your own felted masterpiece! You’ll learn the basics of needle felting and use a barbed felting needle to “poke” fiber into a 6×6 piece of alpaca felt to design your own picture. It’s like painting, but with fiber and a needle instead of paint and a paintbrush!
If interested in being a vendor, please email: zeesbox@hotmail.com