If you need lodging for any of the workshops and events conducted at the Fiber Garden, please visit the LODGING PAGE for Air BnB, hotel, and camping options.
2024 Spring Spinners’ Retreat
Cloquet Forestry Center 175 University Road, Cloquet, MN, United StatesJoin the Fiber Garden and spinning friends for a weekend of spinning at the Cloquet Forest Center (CFC) near Cloquet, MN! The 3,000+ acre property is located 3 miles West of the city of Cloquet, near Duluth. This retreat is an opportunity to gather as a spinning community, working at your own skill level on projects of your choice. Deb will be there to coach, guide, and provide encouragement. There is no agenda for this weekend…just come and enjoy doing … Continue reading →
Weaving – April 2024
Fiber Garden Address will be provided after ticket purchase, Black River Falls, WI, United StatesCome weave with us in rural Wisconsin! We have welcomed many new and experienced weavers here over more than 25 years and we'd like to welcome YOU! Read on for all the details... Multiple weaving classes will be offered concurrently and student starting times will be staggered on the first day. You will be asked to select which workshop you’d like to register for on the registration page. Please view the descriptions on the “Weaving Workshops” page and note that we … Continue reading →
2024 Shetland Sheep-to-Shawl Tour – Request a space
Please visit the tour webpage and carefully review ALL information before requesting to participate. Registration is a two-step process, beginning here. This first quick and easy step is to request a space on the tour by completing the simple form below. Requests are handled first-come, first-served. Space is very limited. This initial step allows the Fiber Garden to review your initial information, make sure travel companions do not get separated, and review single vs. shared lodging requests against our room … Continue reading →
Spinner’s Color Workshop II @ The Clearing
The Clearing Folk School 12171 Garrett Bay Road, Ellison Bay, WI, United StatesEnter our fiber color studio where we will spend the week learning to create and manipulate color during all phases of the yarn design process including preparation, spinning and plying! We will explore how to apply color theory in your yarns and how one color adjustment can change the whole look of your spun yarn. If you have previously taken the Spinner's Color Workshop, this will be "part two" with all new color experiments to add to your design tool … Continue reading →
Rigid Heddle Weaving @ Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Sievers School of Fiber Arts 986 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island, WI, United StatesThis class offers instruction for “beginning and beyond” rigid heddle weavers. Beginners will start with a basic scarf followed by a sampler of pick-up and lace techniques to experience the versatility of the loom. There will be time to weave one or more additional projects you choose to expand your learning even further. Those with experience on the loom will learn rep weave, a double heddle technique. We will begin by weaving a rep runner. Then you’ll design your own … Continue reading →
Weaving – August 2024 CANCELLED
Fiber Garden Address will be provided after ticket purchase, Black River Falls, WI, United StatesCome weave with us in rural Wisconsin! We have welcomed many new and experienced weavers here over more than 25 years and we’d like to welcome YOU! Read on for all the details… This is a four-day class, giving you extra time (vs. three-day workshops) to do more weaving! Multiple weaving classes will be offered concurrently and student starting times will be staggered on the first day. You will be asked to select which workshop you’d like to register for … Continue reading →
Spinners’ Color Lab @ Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Sievers School of Fiber Arts 986 Jackson Harbor Road, Washington Island, WI, United StatesStep into our color laboratory where we will spend our first two days of class as “mad color scientists” mixing and creating dozens of color formulas and dyeing pounds of fiber, yarn, and roving until the studio is overflowing! But what to do with all this color? The second half of the class will immerse us in spinning exercises combining all this color in ways you may never have thought of! Bring along your knitting needles, crochet hooks, or sample … Continue reading →