2024 U.S. Fiber Arts Festivals
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January
January 19 – 20: Oxford Fiber Festival, Oxford, Mississippi
January 27: Yarni Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana
February
February 2 - 3: Yellow Rose on the Coast, Port Aransas, Texas
February 2 – 4: Delmarva Wool & Fiber Expo, Ocean City, Maryland
February 4: New England Farm & Fiber Festival, Boston, Massachusetts
February 15 - 18: Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat, Tacoma, Washington
February 18: Tina Turner Knits - Fiber Arts Festival, Henrietta, New York
March
March 2: Shepherds Market, Iowa City, Iowa
March 5 - 10: Bandera Fiber & Arts Week + Festival, Bandera, Texas
March 6 – 10: Carolina Fiber Fest, Raleigh, North Carolina
March 8 - 9: Jay County Fiber Arts Festival, Portland, Indiana
March 9: Western Illinois Fiber Fest, Macomb, Illinois
March 15 – 16: Eureka! Fiber in the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
March 16: Illinois Fiber Festival, Champaign, Illinois
March 22 – 23: Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival, Dickson, Tennessee
March 22 -23: Ozark Highlands Sheep & Fiber Festival, Glenallen, Missouri
March 23: 39th Annual Market Day & Fiber Fair, Bowling Green, Ohio
April
April 5 - 7: Arizona Fiber Festival, Camp Verde, Arizona
April 6: 28th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair, Cedarville, Illinois
April 10 - 13: Interweave Maker Festivals Loveland, Loveland, Colorado
April 12 – 13: Greencastle Wool Show, Greencastle, Indiana
April 12 - 13: Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2024, Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 13: 38th Annual Southern Illinois Sheep & Craft Festival, Waterloo, Illinois
April 19 - 21: Fiber Witch Festival, Salem, Massachusetts
April 19 - 21: Next Level Knitting Conference, Online by TKGA (The Knitting Guild Association)
April 20 - 21: Fiber Expo, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20 - 21: YarnCon, Chicago, Illinois
April 26 - 28: Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival, Ellijay, Georgia
April 26 – 27: Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair, Farmington, Utah
April 26 - 27: Yellow Rose Fiber Fiesta, Seguin, Texas
April 26 – 28: Midwest Fiber Festival, St. Louis, Missouri
April 27: Frederick Fiber Fest, Frederick, Maryland
April 27: CT Sheep, Wool, & Fiber Festival, North Haven, Connecticut
April 27: Nauvoo Fiber Arts Festival, Nauvoo, Illinois
April 27 – 28: Wisconsin Alpaca & Fiber Fest, Madison, Wisconsin
May
May 4 – 5: Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, West Friendship, Maryland
May 4 – 5: Birchwood Fiber Festival, Birchwood, Tennessee
May 10 – 12: Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival, Lake Elmo, Minnesota
May 11: Shepherd's Wool Market, Rush, New York
May 11 – 12: NH Sheep & Wool Festival, Deerfield, New Hampshire
May 18 – 19: Kentucky Sheep & Fiber Festival, Lexington, Kentucky
May 18 - 19: Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering, Edgewood, New Mexico
May 18 - 19: Illiana Fiber Festival, Crown Point, Indiana
May 18 - 19: Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival, Hughesville, Pennsylvania
May 25 – 26: Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair, Cummington,
Massachusetts
May 25 – 26: The Great Lakes Fiber Show, Wooster, Ohio
May 31 - June 1: Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival, Franklin, Indiana
May 31 - June 1: Knit-In, Madison, Wisconsin
June
June 1: St. Cloud Spin Fest & Fiber Fair, St. Cloud, Minnesota
June 1 - 2: Fiber Fusion Northwest, Monroe, Washington
June 1 - 2: Maine Fiber Frolic, Windsor, Maine
June 1 - 2: Flag Wool & Fiber Festival, Flagstaff, Arizona
June 6 - 9: Estes Park Wool Market, Estes Park, Colorado
June 7 -8: Blue Ridge Fiber Fest, Sparta, North Carolina
June 8: Worldwide Knit in Public Day, Worldwide
June 8: Knit the Bridge, Boyne Falls, Michigan
June 8: Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair, Newark, Ohio
June 8 - 9: CNY Fiber Artists & Producers, Bouckville, New York
June 22 -23 : Westwind Fiber Arts Festival, Yorktown, Indiana
June : Houston Fiber Fest, Cypress, Texas - This festival will resume in 2025.
June 28 - 30: The Black Sheep Gathering, Albany, Oregon
July
July 11 - 17: Handweavers Guild of America’s Convergence, Wichita, Kansas
July 19 - 21: Wine Country Yarn Hop, Sonoma - Mendocino Counties - Ukiah, California
July 19 - 21: Third Annual Finnegan's Run Sweater Retreat, Fredericksburg, Virginia
July 20 - 21: Fiber U, Lebanon, Missouri
July 20 – 21: Copper K Fiber Festival, Whitehall, Montana
July 20 - 28, Chicago Yarn Crawl, Chicago, Illinois
July 22 - 28: Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat, Washington, Maine
July 29 - August 4: Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat, Washington, Maine
July 31 - August 3: Maker Festivals, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
August
August 1 - 4: Expanding and Exploring the Future World of our Fiber Traditions, Billings, Montana
August 3 – 4: Fiber Arts Festival, West Fargo, North Dakota
August 3 – 4: Fiberfest Eureka, Eureka, Montana
August 9 – 10: Southern Comforts Fiber Market, Charlotte, North Carolina
August 9 - 11: Flock Fiber Festival, Seattle, Washington
August 14 – 18: Michigan Fiber Festival, Allegan, Michigan
August 22 - 28: Texas Yarn Trail, Southeast Texas Area
August 23 – 25: Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival, Green Tree, Pennsylvania
August 31 - September 1: Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering, Edgewood, New Mexico
August 31 - September 1: Sierra Vista Fiber Festival, Sierra Vista, Arizona
September
September 6 – 8: Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival, Jefferson, Wisconsin
September 7 - 8: Salida Fiber Festival, Salida, Colorado
September 7 - 8: Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival, New Milford, Pennsylvania
September 7 - 8: Natural Fiber Fair, Arcata, California
September 14: Western New York Fiber Arts Festival, East Aurora, New York
September 20 - 21: Anson County Fiber Arts Festival, Wadesboro, North Carolina
September 20 – 22: DFW Fiber Fest, Irving, Texas
September 21 - 22: 28th Annual Wool Gathering at Young's Dairy, Yellow Springs, Ohio
September 21 - 22: Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival, Albany, Oregon
September 21 - 22: Lehigh Valley Fiber Festival, Allentown, Pennsylvania
September 22 - 26: Woolly Wisdom Rug Hooking Workshop, Blue Springs, Missouri
September 28, 2024: Tacoma Fiber Fling, Tacoma, Washington
September 28 - 29: Mid-Plains Fiber Fair, York, Nebraska
September 28 - 29: Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival, Berryville, Virginia
October
October 4 - 5: Bloomington Wool & Fiber Festival, Bloomington, Indiana
October 4 - 6: Pacific Northwest Fiber Arts Expo, Port Angeles, Washington
October 5 - 6: Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival, Tunbridge, Vermont
October 5 – 6: Fall Fiber Festival and Montpelier Sheep Dog Trials, Montpelier Station, Virginia
October 5 - 6: Lambtown Festival, Dixon, California
October 5 - 6: Mountain and Valley Wool Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 5 - 6: 2nd Annual Taos Wools Festival, Taos, New Mexico
October 11 - 12: Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival, Camdenton, Missouri
October 12: Joshua Tree Fiber Festival, Joshua Tree, California
October 12: Kings County Fiber Festival, Brooklyn, New York
October 12 - 13: Fiber Expo, Ann Arbor, Michigan
October 18: Indie Untangled - Rhinebeck, Saugerties, New York
October 18 - 19: Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival, Corydon, Indiana
October 18 - 20: Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair, Fletcher, North Carolina
October 19: Minnesota Fiber Festival, Cambridge, Minnesota
October 19 - 20: 11th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival, Mansfield, Ohio
October 19 - 20: New York State Sheep & Wool Festival, Rhinebeck, New York
October 25 - 27: Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival, Kerrville, Texas
October 26: Frederick Fiber Fest, Frederick, Maryland
October 30 - November 3: Fiber Art Show & Sale, Longmont, Colorado
October 31 - November 3: TKGA Retreat, Minneapolis, Minnesota
November
November 1 - 2: Ozark Fiber Fling, Steelville, Missouri
November 2: Alabama Fiber Festival, Brierfield, Alabama
November 2 – 3: The Annual Fiber Festival of New England, West Springfield, Massachusetts
November 8 - 9: NWA Fiber Festival, Fayetteville, Arkansas
November 9 - 10: Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival, West Friendship, Maryland
November 23 – 24: Pennsylvania Fall Fiber Arts Festival, Leesport, Pennsylvania
November 23 - 24: SoCal Fiber Fair, Pomona, California
November 23 - 24: Threads and Fiber Festival, Des Moines, Iowa
November : East Texas Fiber Festival*, Canton, Texas
December
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