The Hudson Valley Fiber Arts Network is a listing directory, marketing & news resource to promote and celebrate the diversity & creativity of the fiber arts community of the greater Hudson Valley region - from New York City to the Canadian border, along the I-87 and Hudson River corridor and surrounding areas.
HUDSON VALLEY FIBER ARTS HAPPENINGS
THANK YOU TO OUR LISTING-SPONSORS
Thistle Hill Weavers. Rabbit Goody, Cherry Valley, NY, Weaver and weaving instructor. www.thistlehillweavers.com ; Complete listing in INSTRUCTORS section.
Patchwork Pastures Farm, Hyde Park, NY. Corriedale sheep, fleece, yarn, and breeding stock. Gifts such as wool quilting and penny rugs. Instruction in how to use wool in creative ways. Complete listing in FIBER PRODUCERS section.
Alpacatrax, LLC, Elyse and Joshua Arnow, Pound Ridge, NY, (Farm located in southern Columbia County, NY). Soft, Luxurious farm-raised alpaca and sheep fleeces, yarns, roving, and finished products. www.alpacatrax.com; Complete listing in FIBER PRODUCERS/FARMERS section.
Knit One Needlepoint Too, Monticello, NY, a full-service needlepoint shop. www.k1n2.com; Complete listing in SHOPS section.
Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery, An intentionally curated yarn & fiber shop, with products tailored for knitters, crocheters, weavers, dyers, spinners, felters and stitchers of all kinds. Offering minimally processed fiber products from US companies, farms, mills and dyers. www.rabbitrowyarns.com. Complete listing in SHOPS section.
Lehigh Valley Fiber Festival. Contact persons: Hedge Becker & Allison Mackenzie, Fogelsville, PA. Festival held in September in Allentown, PA . www.lvfiberfest.com. Complete listing in CLASSES/EVENTS/FESTIVALS section.
CNY Fiber Artists and Producers, Inc. Sponsors of the CNY Fiber Arts Festival held in June in Frankfort, NY. www.cnyfiberarts.org. Complete listing in CLASSES/EVENTS/FESTIVALS section.
Elmendorph Hand Spinners Guild, Red Hook, NY.
The Guild generally meets on the third Saturday of the month at the Elmendorph Inn in Red Hook, NY (with some occasional exceptions), 10 am to 3 pm. These workdays are open to the public.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/420934583230666. Complete listing in GUILDS, LIBRARIES, ORGANIZATIONS section.
Woodstock Weavers Guild meet the second Tuesdays of the month 10 am in Port Ewen, NY. woodstockweavers.org
Complete listing in GUILDS, LIBRARIES, ORGANIZATIONS section.
Ulster County Handspinners Guild. The guild meets the second Thursday of every month 7 pm in Kingston, NY.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/UlsterCountyHandspinnersGuild
Complete listing in GUILDS, LIBRARIES, ORGANIZATIONS section.
Contact details on the listing pages.
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CLASSIFIED AD
In celebration of Women's History Month, the City of Kingston, NY, Woodstock Weavers, and the Arts Society of Kingston will host a special event, "All Was Done by Hand: Home Production of Nineteenth Century Textiles," at Kingston City Hall on Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Kingston City Hall is located at 420 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401.
The textile showcase is one among many programs scheduled at City Hall Kingston celebrating the legacy of Sojourner Truth. The goal is to bring awareness of the textile work of the period and its contemporary practice.
Highlighting the role of textile work in the 19th century and its evolution into modern craft practices, the "All Was Done By Hand" event will feature demonstrations of various textile techniques and a "Fleece to Shawl" showcase illustrating the transformation of raw wool into a woven shawl through carding, spinning, and weaving.
Demonstrations from Woodstock Weavers, Elmendorph Hand Spinners, Wiltwyck Quilters Group, DCSWGA Rug Hooking Group, Ulster Hand Spinners, New England Lace Group, and independent artisans from throughout the Hudson Valley will include weaving on a variety of looms, spinning yarn and wool processing, basket making, embroidery, quilting, rug hooking, and lacemaking.
The event will also feature educational materials that detail the history and significance of in-home textile production and the role it played in women's work, especially during the period of Sojourner Truth's life. In addition to "All Was Done By Hand" event, the bronze statue, "Sojourner Truth: First Step to Freedom," depicting Sojourner Truth by sculptor Trina Greene, and on loan from SUNY New Paltz, will be on display on the first floor and the FREEDOM! exhibition featuring local artists will be on display on the ground floor.
For more information:
All Was Done By Hand - Women's History Month, Kingston NY
For the poster. Please feel free to share, print out, and post:
All Was Done By Hand Poster
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FIBER ARTS HAPPENINGS FROM OUR SPONSORS
The information in these listings are provided by those that are listed. While these listings are the latest information we have, things can change, and it's possible that some events may be cancelled or postponed. Please check with event organizers before setting out to attend any.
Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery ongoing meetings. Classes and meetings are held in the store, 24 E Market St, Corning, NY, unless otherwise noted.
#StitchCorning happens every Sunday, 1 to 4 pm, where folks bring their projects, enjoy the rocking chairs at the rear of the shop, and become a part of a welcoming community.
From March 2 through April 27, 2025, #StitchCorning will also be available for a Knit-Along of the Cherry Rumble Vest by Baby Cocktails/Thea Coleman.
From the pattern designer: This pattern features simple twists, a few fun cables, ribbing and a touch of lace. Once the hem is complete, the simple vest knits up in no time. The pattern includes notes for either stockinette or texture on the vest, as well as instructions for working it in one or two colors. It also has modifications for body circumference or length, as well as altering shoulder width, neckline, or armholes to suit one's own tastes. The lace instructions are both charted and written. Cherry Rumble is worked from the bottom up in the round, then split into two pieces at armhole. These pieces are worked flat to shoulder and seamed, and then ribbing is picked up along openings and worked in round to end.
Pattern is free when yarn (DK weight) is purchased for this project from Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery.
Mending Circle, Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8 pm.
Bring a love-worn item and one's creativity to delve into the visible mending trend, and collaborate on the best way to address a torn/holey/worn area. Some tools are available to use or try in shop. Even if someone has nothing to mend, they are welcome to bring a project with them. Many of the group use the time and place to knit or crochet.
Upcoming classes and events at Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery.
Twist and Whorl - Fiber Deep Dive class, last two of four sessions. 10 am to noon. All supplies included. Contact shop for individual class availability and fee.
April 5 - Short and Slippery Fiber from Plants, Silks and even Milk.
Sit and Stitch @ Rabbit Row, March 10, 2025, 7 pm, Rochester Knitting Guild's Virtual March Meeting with a presentation by Knitwear Designer, Bristol Ivy. From Rabbit Row: Rabbit Row is a member of the RKG and would like to open my shop for an after hours Sit and Stitch so we can let the larger yarn-loving community know what RKG has going on. We thought a great opportunity to do this would be to offer in-person sit and stitch viewings of the March Zoom meetings through the Guild's member shops.
Circular Weaving on a Hoop Workshop with Betz White, March 15, 10 am to Noon. Students will be taught how to set up a circular weaving on an embroidery hoop then use favorite stash yarns to create basic weaving stitches. No prior weaving experience is needed. $55. Basic materials are included. Students to bring yarns from their stash and scissors.
Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery will be offering a skill building series with Ann Weaver from Plied Yarn Co. Three classes over the weekend of March 29 & 30, 2025. Classes can be taken individually or all three can be taken as a bundle for a discount of $25.
Mini-Mixology: Introduction to Intarsia with Ann Weaver from Plied Yarn Co., March 29, 2025, 9 am to noon. $65.00.
Intarsia, a method of working patches of color, doesn't have to be intimidating, and it doesn't have to create a snarled mess. This workshop will explore intarsia by knitting small, easily manageable squares. These swatch-sized blocks with curved-edge and straight-edge shapes allow one to learn the technique and experiment with color. Students will also have a chance to design their own squares.
Students need to bring US Size 2 needles, straight or circular, any length, and fingering weight yarn in several colors, like scraps. A kit will also be available. If a student prefers a different weight yarn, bring it in several colors and appropriate-sized needles.
Introduction to Brioche with Ann Weaver from Plied Yarn Co., March 29, 2025, 2 to 5 pm. $65. This workshop will teach one-color and two--or avoiding and fixing mistakes in brioche stitch. There will also be a discussion on how colors interact in brioche. The workshop is based on the Rothko Cowl pattern, which showcases the interactions among three colors in brioche stitch.
Contact the shop for a list of materials to bring and homework.
Learn No-Sew Zippers with Ann Weaver from Plied Yarn Co. March 30, 2025, noon to 2 pm. $45. In this workshop, students will learn everything they will need to know to install zippers into sweaters by installing a 6-inch zipper to join two swatches, with no sewing and with the use of a Knit Picker tool to pick up stitches along the zippers and join these zippers to the knitting. Contact the shop for materials that the student needs to bring as well as homework.
Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery will host a public meet-up for Knit for Food Knitathon at the shop, April 5, 2025, 10 am to 6 pm. Knit for Food Knitathon is a 12 hour knitting marathon to raise funds and awareness for food insecurity.100% of funds raised will be equally divided between Feeding America, World Central Kitchen, No Kid Hungry, and Meals on Wheels.
Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdasherywill participate in the Twin Tiers Yarn Crawl, April 26, 2025.
Upcoming Crochet-a-longs at Rabbit Row Yarns & Haberdashery
Water Clover by Isa Catepillan - Summer Crochet-a-Long, April 27 to June 22, 2025.
Learn Tunisian crochet with the Lamia Wrap. May 25 to July 20, 2025.
Upcoming Workshops at Thistle Hill Weavers, Cherry Valley, NY:
Historic Textile Workshop, Reading Historic Weaver's Drafts and Examining Historic Textiles. March 22 & 23,2025. $125. Lunch included. Limited to 10 students.
This is a hands on work shop, a combination of reading and interpreting the weaving recipes left by fancy weavers and vernacular weavers and examining historic coverlets woven using these drafts.
There are so many different short hand methods of recording threading and treadling patterns. We will look at styles that became the backbone of American hand weaving in the colonial revival and styles that are unusual.
Design and Drafting Patterns for Handweavers, Re-scheduled dates - May 10 & 11, 2025. $125. Lunch and all materials included. Limited to 6 students.
This class is a class on why weaving works and how to design patterns using several different weave structures. This is a pencil and paper class not a weaving course.
The class will begin by an understanding the three basic weave structures and their uses. Then a look at the formulas for several familiar pattern weaves: M's and O's, spot weave, twill blocks, float work, summer and winter, and double cloth blocks. Then students will design two and three block patterns of their own in different weave structures.
Rabbit Goody of Thistle Hill Weavers will teach a workshop: Spin Span Spun: Spinning Straw into Gold or Spinning on traditional spinning wheels at Historic Eastfield Village, East Nassau, NY, June 21 & 22, 2025.
This workshop is geared to folks who are already familiar with spinning but want to improve their knowledge of traditional spinning techniques and care of traditional wheels. It is also open to folks who are interested in flax fiber preparation. Part of the class will involve dressing flax fiber for spinning with traditional distaffs. This workshop is an opportunity to get the students' traditional wheels working. The class will go over maintenance, care, and repair of traditional low and great wheels. The goal of the workshop will be to get many traditional wheels in working condition as possible.
The Textile History Forum will be held August 1 - 3, 2025, at The Weaver's Croft and Eaton Hill Textiles, Marshfield, VT. The keynote speaker will be British historian, Michael Nix, author of Norwich Textiles: A Global Story 1750-1840.
The forum is a bi-annual, scholarly, but non-academic meeting to encourage new voices to discuss old materials and process. The forum is still accepting proposals for submissions from academics and non-academics alike. Submissions may include papers, presentations and works-in-progress. Papers are printed in the Forum's Proceedings and dispersed on the day of, so presenters are encouraged to not read their papers, but to discuss the process, raise questions and lead an interactive presentation of their papers.
GUILD NEWS:
Woodstock Weavers Guild meeting, Tues. Mar. 11, 2025, 10 am. New Location: Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St., Port Ewen, NY 12466.
Ulster County Handspinners Guild meeting Thurs. Mar. 13, 2025, 7 pm. Location: the Senior Center in Lake Katrine, 1 Town Hall Drive (Town of Ulster, just off Route 209).
Elmendorph Hand Spinners Guild workshop day, open to the public, Elmendorph Inn, 7562 N. Broadway. Red Hook, NY 12571. Mar. 22, 2025, 10 am to 3 pm.
Woodstock Weavers Guild meeting, Tues. April 8, 2025, 10 am. New Location: Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St., Port Ewen, NY 12466.
Ulster County Handspinners Guild meeting Thurs. April. 10, 2025, 7 pm. Location: the Senior Center in Lake Katrine, 1 Town Hall Drive (Town of Ulster, just off Route 209).
Elmendorph Hand Spinners Guild workshop day, open to the public, Elmendorph Inn, 7562 N. Broadway. Red Hook, NY 12571. April 12, 2025, 10 am to 3 pm.
Other Happenings of Note:
Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Art of Native American, new rotation, ongoing.
Tapestries and woven rugs in Medieval Art and Art of the Arab Lands galleries. Other textiles throughout the museum.
Please note that some of the listed events may have admission, registration or other fees, and may require advanced registration or may already be sold out or cancelled.
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