The following businesses have donated to the 2010 SIFAF Project:

B & G Farm, natural gray Lincoln and berry wool roving

Blue Acorn Woolens, dark purple and blue wool roving

Blue Note Alpacas, natural white huacaya fiber

Blueball Mountain, shades of blue w/metallic wool roving

Breezy Manor, Irish Moss Romney blend, Wensletdale & angeline

Buerer’s Farm, white Coopworth roving

follow the star studio, alpaca & angora blend fiber

Lee Lee’s, blue w/touch of purple Wensleydale roving

Rooster Run Farm, white Shetland fiber

Trading Post for Fiber Arts, Nemesis Merino cross w/noil and tencel

Ursula’s Alcove, turkey red Merino roving

Wee Sheep Farm, white wool roving

All donations will be added to this running list!

I am a little late in posting, but WHEW! what a great time we had for our 5th annual Southern Indiana FiberArts Festival!!  Our first year for 2 official days - and a crowd of near 1000 over the two days despite chilly temps and drizzle on Friday. 

The soap workshop was particularly popular - we might offer it twice next year, so keep your eyes open for the list sometime in January!

A few new vendors joined us from around the region, some new to festival vending so we definitely had some great things not available anyplace else :)  Spaces are already filling fast for next year, so if you need an application, email fiberexchangeguildATyahooDOTcom and request one,

We have a great project already in the works for SIFAF 2010 ... more details to follow, but i promise it is fun and exciting!!

Gatherings update: Hobknobb Roasting Company Coffeehouse 1st Saturday, 2pm; Grinny Possum Fiber Arts Shop 3rd Sunday, 1pm.

Greetings All!

Apologies for starting this blog then seemingly abandoning, but I have had tech issues that prevent posting, argh.

On to more fun topics: The Fiber Event at Greencastle was a hoot.  No accumulation of snow, so you know it had to be good ;)

   Fiber eXchange Guild was represented by Alternate Universe / Sharon Richie, B & G Farm / Kathleen Goble and follow the star studio / me (victoria smith).  We sold some things, passed out A LOT of flyers and courted a few new vendors.  Many other members were there with thier own booths, including, Fuzzarelly, Blue Acorn Woolens, Big Spings Farm and Fiber, Buerer's Farm and others I will recall later ;)

A highlight of this event that seems to kick off the festival season for the region is visiting with folks you haven't seen all winter, OH, and showing off some fine handmade attire ;)

Handspun and handdyed angora from Fuzzarelly's bunnies plied with silk and knit by, you guessed it, Fuzzarelly ;) PLEASE tell me you see the knitting needles and knit flowers in Fuzzarelly's hair!

Kathleen's Shetland Vest woven by Donna Jo Copeland from locks of one of Kathleen's sheep.

My Dollie Bubbles Hat knit by me from gray  handspun I was gifted by primdollie on Ravelry and my own "bubbles" handspun wool with beads.

Yes, it did rain (and sleet a bit) on day 2, but most have come to expect that of spring events in the midwest ;)

Share your favorite Greencastle story - this or any year!