Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreats at Shepherd's Cross
  • ​Need a day's respite from the challenges of life?                                            
  • Join us for a peaceful, fun, fiber filled learning experience  
  • A three-day class: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm daily
  • Participants may stay until 5:30 pm if additional time is needed
  • Each participant will make & take home several products every day
  • Classes are held here at the farm. 
  • Three Fiber Fest Weekends annually.
  • All class fees are non-refundable. Class fees can be applied to a different course.
  • Scheduled Class Dates:
    • February 11, 12 & 13 of 2027
    • June 17, 18 & 19 of 2027
    • August 12, 13 & 14 of 2027
  • Cost: one day is $99, all 3 days is $297 - materials included  
  • Bring a sack lunch each day; we provide beverages 
              
Day 1: Wet Wool Fiber Processing Day Retreat 
  • Wash - Dye - Wet Felt
  • Students will learn basic wool washing and dying, as well as wet felting
  • Each participant will make & take home a wool ball, a felted trivet, and a 3-D felted project

Day 2: Dry Wool Fiber Processing Day Retreat
  • Drop Spindle - Spin - Card - Pick
  • Students learn how to work with dry fiber in the arts using hand cards, hand picks, swing pick, box pick, drum carder and a blending board as well as use of the drop spindle and spinning wheel
  • Each participant will make and take-home hand spun yarn and rolags, punis or nests

Day 3: Finished Fiber Day Retreat
  • Weaving - Needle Felting
  • Students will learn basic weaving on an inkle loom and needle felting.
  • Each participant will make and take home a woven coaster, a woven sash, a needle felted coaster, a needle felted ornament, and a needle felted 3-D ornament
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