Fiber Festival

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the 3rd annual Fiber Festival. Join us for a day of sheep shearing, fiber vendors, sheep herding demonstrations, and more.

This event is a pay what you will donation day!

Workshop

Join the museum at 10 AM, 1 PM, or 3 PM for an Introduction to Portuguese Knitting Workshop! Each session is an hour and half long and is $15. This workshop will introduce knitters of all levels to an ergonomic style of knitting that lessens small movements of the wrists and simplifies basic stitch styles (such as ribbing) by only working with the yarn in front. This style is goodfor knitting while walking or standing, knitting in the round, garter stitch, ribbing, and long, sometimes monotonous stretches of stockinette. If using multiple knitting pins, it prevents color work from becoming tangled or lacking tension. This is an especially quick style. While it helps with those who have issues with wrist and finger joints, it involves heavy thumb movement and would not be suited to knitters with arthritis in their thumbs.

Participants must bring their own needles and yarn, but it can be any size or style. It must be something the participants are alright with holding around their neck. Participants must know how to cast on and how to perform a knit and purl stitch. Knowing how to “read” your knitting is also helpful.

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Timed Activities

10AM: 1st sheep dog demonstration (in field behind 1820s)

11AM: Sheep shearing demonstration (in front of 1850s barn)

12PM: Heritage Breed Sheep Presentation (in 1850s barn)

1PM: 2nd sheep dog demonstration (in field behind 1820s)

2PM: Sheep shearing demonstration (in front of 1820s barn)

3PM: 3rd sheep dog demonstration (in field behind 1820s)