Recently I visited Happy Chick Farm on Highland Road in Gibsons. Johanna had sheared the sheep the previous week and the fleeces were hanging on the fence. I came home with three bags full of the fleeces which Heidi and Lee generously donated to the Fibreshed. They were delighted that the wool from their sheep […]
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Grown and Sewn Close to Home
April 10th was a beautiful sunny day for the Sunshine Coast Fibreshed’s “Grown and Sewn Close to Home” event at the FibreWorks Studio & Gallery in Madeira Park. Fibre farmers and processors, artists, teachers and fibre art enthusiasts gathered together to meet, network and learn from each other. There were displays of local fibres and […]
Read MoreVideo for “Grown and Sewn Close to Home” Event
On April 10 our Fibreshed hosted its first big event at Yvonne’s FibreWorks Studio & Gallery. “Grown and Sewn Close to Home” was a wonderful day of learning, networking and fun (details will be upcoming in a blog). Ron McInnis of Imaginary Image made this beautiful video that captures the heart and soul of the […]
Read MoreThe Lower Mainland Sheep Producers Association’s Wool’n Ewe A-Fair (LMSPA)
I returned home from our amazing road trip to California with one last fibre mission to accomplish – to attend the annual Lower Mainland Sheep Producers Association’s Wool ‘n Ewe A-Fair held at the Cloverdale Fair Grounds on October 10, 2015. Merrily and Lynda had returned home two days before and I stayed back to […]
Read MoreGrow Your Jeans – California Road Trip, October 3
After two long days of I5 driving we were welcomed by the Zen Monks and volunteers of the Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center at Muir Beach, CA. We had the most amazing vegetarian meals three times a day all grown and prepared at Green Gulch. We enjoyed quiet meditation sessions in the Zazen (Zen […]
Read MoreSoft as Silk
Sammi the llama is guard and protector of Round Table Farm’s flock of Icelandic sheep. This spring Sammi was sheared at the same time as the sheep and his wool was available for our first Fleece Sale at the FibreWorks Studio & Gallery (see blog May 11, 2015). Deanna, Merrily and Lynda D. shared his […]
Read MoreFibreshed’s First Fleece Sale
The commitment to a Sunshine Coast Fibreshed began 3½ years ago with an article in ‘Weaving Today’ on Rebecca Burgess and her quest to bring together farmers, spinners, knitters, weavers, dyers and clothing makers within 150 miles of her Northern California home. Her commitment to caring about “how do we clothe ourselves?” was echoed from […]
Read MoreThe Icelandic Fleece Project – Part 1 (An Overview)
In October of 2014 our Fibreshed team had the great pleasure of witnessing the first shearing of the small flock of Icelandic sheep at Leila Bee’s Round Table Farms. See our blog of November 10, 2014 for the video Ron McInnis generously filmed and edited for the Fibreshed. Needless to say the arrival of our […]
Read MoreComing Full Circle – the Fibre Circle
It is with great fulfillment that I share this latest blog with you as we approach 2015. Personally, my focused interest has been on the search for local fibre and I’ve spent the year looking for a local source of wool other than our Olivia and the products from her fleece featured at our Fibres […]
Read MoreFibre Circle Video
The raw fleeces sheared from the Icelandic sheep (see blog November 10) became the focus of a newly formed Fibre Circle hosted and facilitated by Yvonne Stowell at the FibreWorks Studio and Gallery. We met for two days to learn how to skirt, wash, comb, card and spin this beautiful fibre. (See the upcoming blog […]
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