2024 Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival
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Sep 27 5:00 pm - Sep 29 4:00 pm
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) 890 West Main Street, Berryville, Virginia 22611, United States
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) 890 West Main Street, Berryville, Virginia 22611, United States
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Sep 27 5:00 pm - Sep 29 4:00 pm
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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890 West Main Street, Berryville, Virginia 22611, United States
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Instructor Highlight - Brian Cooley
Brian Cooley’s fiber “story” is a true example of the value of SVFF training classes, after he started coming to SVFF to support his future wife (Festival Chair Bethany). Each year, Bethany would sign Brian up for a class to help fill classes and fill his schedule so he would not be bored, but the one class that really took was crochet. Since that 2-hour course, Brian has... + More
Instructor Highlight - Dorothea Pierce
Dorothea Pierce has been knitting for over fifty years and spinning for over thirty. Her absolute favorite thing to do, EVER, is teach people how to spin and knit. She has taught 3 days spinning workshops, five-minute knitting tutorials, and everything in between. She owns a yarn store in Hardy Virginia (near Roanoke) and hosts the Skein Away Fiber Retreat at Smith Mountain Lake in the spring... + More
Instructor Highlight - Heather Storta
Heather is a TKGA-certified Master Knitter, Tech Editor and Knitting Instructor. She is the VP of Education on the board of directors for TKGA, the editor of TKGA’s monthly K2TOG newsletter, and a Co-Chair Emeritus of the TKGA Master Hand Knitting committee, as well as a member of the Cast On magazine editorial committee. She has been designing knitwear and teaching knitting for well over... + More
Instructor Highlight - Kim Garver
Kim Garver, educator knitting techniques/restorer of vintage sock knitting machines – fifteen years dedicated to teaching others in the fiber community. Qualifications: Fostering skills to enrich lives and learning, through the fiber arts community, is a continuing and integral part of my business. I am an internationally known sock knitting instructor and have a long history of... + More
Instructor Highlight - Jen Parroccini
Jen Parroccini is a designer, grader, and consultant. She works 1:1 with knitters and designers to ensure that garments fit as intended on ALL bodies. As a designer, she gravitates towards lightweight, wearable pieces with fine finishing. Jen lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter, and puppy.
Instructor Highlight - Jolie Elder
Jolie has explored a wide range of needle arts after learning to cross stitch at age four. She designs, teaches, spins, and stunt knits in the Atlanta area where she demystifies the obscure. She has served on the boards of Atlanta Knitting Guild, North Georgia Knitting Guild, Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, and Center for Knit and Crochet. She has published in PLY, Spin-Off, and Cast On. Her... + More
Instructor Highlight - M Theresa Brown
M Theresa Brown is a career artist whose long art career embraces many areas of the Arts. She studied printmaking and color work at East Carolina University which led her to explore the fiber arts. Using many similar skills and accumulated knowledge, she evolved as a hand painter, felter and ecoprinter on natural fibers. She uses natural dyes and low impact synthetic dyes and merges them into... + More
Instructor Highlight - Margo Lehman
Margo Lehman is a visual artist working predominantly in oil and felted wool. A lifelong doodler and crafter, she feels at home in both the worlds of fine art and craft and is happiest when she gets to combine the two. Her artworks, both in paint and in fiber, have been shown throughout the US and have won many awards.
Instructor Highlight - Melissa Weaver Dunning
Melissa Weaver Dunning is a hand-weaver, spinner and knitter with over 40 years of experience working on antique equipment to recreate 18th and 19th century home produced textiles. She began her textile study with Scottish master weaver Norman Kennedy in 1980, and carries on this rich tradition in her own teaching. Melissa is an avid tartan and linen weaver, a compulsive knitter and a lover... + More
Instructor Highlight - Q Wirtz
Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business the Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of her partners and the help of a fluctuating number of cats. Having spent several past lives in other occupations–including bookseller, lawyer, and professional singer–Q now works fulltime towards... + More
Instructor Highlight - Sami Yuhas
Sami Yuhas is the founder of Good Water and Co., a mother-daughter team based in State College, PA, producing waxed canvas, as well as naturally-dyed and hand embroidered project bags and accessories. An instructional designer by day, her passion is the study of “women’s work” and fiber arts and the reproduction and preservation of historical fashion and textile periodicals.... + More
Instructor Highlight - TJ King
TJ, aka the Peahen, is part of the dynamic spinning and spindle making duo The Spanish Peacock. She has been spinning for almost 20 years and finds true joy inspiring and teaching others about the art of spinning with a supported spindle. When she's not spinning she's creating content for her blog, vlog, and podcast.
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2024 Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival
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Berryville, Virginia, United States
Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization for the purpose of providing an outlet for fiber artists/producers in the Shenandoah Valley region and an educational and promotional venue on various aspects of the fiber... + More