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 MoreFibreshed at the Yurts
Fibreshed has set up a display table at Fibreworks Studio and Gallery in Madeira Park, BC. The natural colours from the 2019 Fibreshed dye garden are featured, along with colours from local lichens and mushrooms. On the shelves are items for sale, including batts, skeins, shawls, hats, buttons, ants . . . […]
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 MoreSeedy Saturday at the Creek
Good folk gathered at the Community Hall in Roberts Creek, BC, to celebrate farming and to sell garden seeds and products made from the bounty of the earth. The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed was happy to welcome locals, visitors, friends, Fibreshed folk, and members of the Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild to our colourful corner. […]
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 MoreSheep Shearing at Fibreshed Day – April 8, 2018
Thanks to Alexis Bach, who hosted this event at her FibreWorks Studio and Gallery in Madeira Park BC, it has been a successful third annual Fibreshed Day! Paige, a trained sheep herding dog, gets attention from Reg. Mojo appears to be relaxing at the sheep spa … his top brown BFL coat almost off. Johanna […]
Read MoreSheep Parade at Fibreshed Day – April 8, 2018
Rodney and Mojo arrive at the FibreWorks yurts in Madeira Park for the third annual Sunshine Coast Fibreshed Day … Once on solid terra, they take a moment to get grounded. Johanna, their shearer and Wendy, their shepherdess sheep whisper calming sounds. The parade begins with Wendy leading Mojo and Reg (wannabe shepherd) leading Rodney. […]
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 […]
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