Wed, September 15, 12pm – Sun, November 14, 4pm The gallery is open 12pm to 4pm, Wednesdays through Sundays. Wednesdays 12pm – 4pm: Spinning (drop spindles and wheels welcome!) Thursdays 12pm – 4pm: Fleece (picker, carder, and sorting table will be available!) Fridays 12pm – 4pm : Weaving (portable looms are your best bet: table, inkle, backstrap, even cardboard!) […]
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2021 Hackett Park Fair
The Hackett Park Fair was a successful Fibreshed Team effort…the study group who met for 6 weeks at the Arts Centre shared knowledge, prepped and prepared fibre… ? to our local shepherdesses who grew the fibre…it all came together this weekend.. We were so fortunate to have a competent set up team on the Friday […]
Read MoreArt Crawl Weekend
Thanks all for a FAB Art Crawl weekend! The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed displayed the brilliant colours from local plants, roots, and mushrooms. And displayed techniques to create yarn from fleece . . . spinning. Jeannie and Deanna are making yarn using her treadle wheel while Doreen is spinning on her electric wheel. They will have […]
Read MoreFibreshed Day 2019
The Sunshine Coast fourth annual Fibreshed Day, Landmade, was held April 7 at FibreWorks Studio and Gallery in Madeira Park, B.C. The event was open to the public to showcase local fibre producers, local botanical dyes, and local artisans. Setting up for the day . . . some showers and some sunshine at the Gallery […]
Read MoreActivities at Fibreshed Day – April 8, 2018
The Slow Fashion movement at the third annual Fibreshed Day … a contest to find Fibreshed garments – which fibres are they made from, what dyes have been used for colour, and who has created the final garment? The prize to the winner … a toque made with local fibre dyed by Heather, and spun & knit […]
Read MoreFun Fibreshed Day at the Yurts – April 8, 2018
The third annual Sunshine Coast Fibreshed Day, “Barn to Yarn”, held at Fibreworks Studio & Gallery in Madeira Park, BC had a grounded feeling for participants. They saw, from start to finish … ? fleece being washed, picked, carded, spun into yarn or felted, dyed, and then created by knitting into garments … where the […]
Read MoreFibreshed at the Annual Fibres Plus Sale 2017 – November 24th & 25th
Halls are decked with decorations resembling Christmas and after a long day of set-up, the Fibreshed team is ready for the public to peruse its display. Local fibre is carded and hand-dyed with pokeberry, Japanese indigo, and other local plants giving a lovely variety of colours including yellows, greens, blues, brilliant pinks, and luscious burgundy […]
Read MoreTREADLE Lightly – ANWG 2017, NW Weavers’ Conference
Well the big weekend has finally arrived! ANWG 2017, July 3 at the University of Victoria! The “Teddy Bear Picnic Blanket Project” is about to be put on display for all the world to see, and Lynda, in her special indigo bonnet, can hardly wait to get started with setting up our Guild booth […]
Read MoreInternational Earth Day 2017
April 21, 2017, international Earth Day was celebrated in Roberts Creek, BC by our local Sunshine Coast Fibreshed. The day started out dry with sunshine, always windy at the pier. We set up our colourful Fibreshed display with locally dyed rovings, plants for a Dyers garden and local sheep fleece for garden mulch…. We featured […]
Read MoreSecond Annual Fibreshed Day – Part 2
The Waulking Ceremony Waulking is a traditional Scottish method used to full and soften fabric. The Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers have been gathering local fibre and working on a Community Blanket Project for the past year. We started with La Braun of Happy Chick Farm, Gibsons, BC, here with Shepherdess, Heidi. The woven […]
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