Houston Fiber Fest is two months away! Are you getting excited? We are. You have two months to make twiddlemuffs! Each twiddlemuff gets you an entry into the raffle for a fabulous prize. What prize you say? A yarny-good stuff prize! If you can’t make a twiddlemuff, you can also buy raffle tickets. The twiddlemuffs will go to Amazing Place, an adult daycare for people with Alzheimers/dementia. The money raised will go to the Alzheimer’s Association. Win-win!!!

Another way to help is join Team Houston Fiber Fest in the Longest Day Challenge. We will be crafting on June 21st at the Fiber Lounge to show support for those taking care of people with Alzheimer’s. Ask your friends/family/co-workers/your rich uncle Louie/your crazy aunt Marge/strangers on the street (I jest…no really, any help is great) to help by donating to Team Houston Fiber Fest 2019. Here is the link.

See y’all on the Longest Day/June 21st at Houston Fiber Fest!

Check out this Twiddlemuff pattern or visit our CHARITY page for more suggestions.

All With Love
Amanda Hope Yarn
Blue Mule Fiber
Bluebonnet Hills Alpaca Ranch
Brazen Stitchery
Butterfly Girl Designs, L.L.C.
Chicken Coop Dyeworks
Cloth & String
Diana Couture
FeistyFenn Fibers
Foggy Hollow Ranch
Gilding Lillies
Gothfarm Yarn
Gritty Knits
Handspun Hope/True Vineyard Ministries, Inc.
Have Wool We Will Travel
Hill Country Weavers
Hummers Homestead Alpacas
Independence Fiber Mill
Inner Loop Dyeworks
Inskein Yarns
Kimarie’s Knit Knacks
The Knitting Artist
Knitting Buddha
Knotwork
Kyla’s Lab: Textile Arts & Accessories
Lazy Cat Yarn
Lone Wolf Fibers
Lost City Knits
Lucky Ewe Yarn
Marathon Basin Wool Mill
McKnittey
The Modern Skein
Mohair & More
Night Owl Fibers
Noti Yarns, LLC
Paisley Ducky
Panorama Fiber Arts
Quixotic Fibers
Rancho Inca Alpacas
Rhinestones And More
Round Table Yarns
Savvy Skeins
Shipwrecked Sheep
Sky Loom Weavers
South Texas Angora Goats/Fibers and Yarn
Stellar Needlecraft
Suzoo’s Wool Works / The Sheepwalk
TeenyButton Studio
Threads & Ewe
Tumbleweed Yarn
Undead Yarn
Vondrak Yarns LLC
WC Mercantile
Wild Dahlia
Windmill Crest Farms
Yarn Carnival
Yarn Store Boutique
Yarn Weave & Co
Yarnia
Yarnorama
You’re So Crafty

We have a good news / bad news situation to announce. We are sorry to report that one of our previously scheduled classes for Friday, June 21, (“Criss Cross Applesauce Stitches” with Sony Hartley) has been cancelled. On the upside, we’re happy to announce that the open time slot will be used to enhance the crochet class lineup for HFF 2019.

Anita Wilburn Darras will present “It’s Reversible! Double-Ended Crochet” on Friday, June 21, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. The intriguing technique is a twist on Tunisian crochet that is ideal for showing off two colors of yarn. Take a look at Anita’s photo of a reversible cowl worked in double-ended crochet plus the full class description on the Classes page.

We’ve heard your feedback – you want the class tickets on sale as soon as possible, so we have moved up the on-sale date. They will be available starting on Friday, March 15 at 9:00 am on Eventbrite.

LINKS:
Class tickets here
Cat Bordhi Saturday night talk tickets here

Houston Fiber Fest is pleased to announce that headlining teacher Cat Bordhi will present a talk on one of her favorite subjects during this summer’s festival.

Bordhi has been traveling to Perú since 2013 on a series of journeys that she calls intimate and transformational. During these travels, Bordhi has spent time with Peruvian knitters whose textile traditions extend back in time for thousands of years. She says, “Peruvian culture is a kaleidoscope of sensuous colors, smells, music, food, flowers, animals, and the constant communion of human warmth.” Her talk aims to reveal something of the remarkable spatial intelligence that she’s discovered in Peruvian knitters of all ages, through the stories of the individuals she has knit with on her travels. But be warned, Bordhi adds that, “attending this talk may make you long to go to Perú.”

This special event takes place on Saturday evening of the festival, June 22, 2019, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., after the vendor hall and the classrooms have closed for the day. Tickets are just $10 per person and will go on sale at the same time as tickets for HFF 2019 classes.