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Winooski Fiber Fair

  • Champlain Mill 20 Winooski Falls Way Winooski United States (map)

Join us for a day of fiber fun, featuring vendors offering a variety of high quality fiber goods, community mandala-making, local non-profit guests offering fiber-related education and activities, and a raffle to support the Heritage Winooski Mill Museum!

Activities and fiber artists selling goods will be set up outside the Champlain Mill next to the Farmer’s Market.

Come inside the Mill Museum to see a new Community Fiber Arts Exhibition featuring Story Quilts and Community Blankets created by participants in two collaborative community art projects: our Stitch Together knitting group at AALV and our Story Quilt project with the Winooski Senior Center and Heineberg Community Senior Center.

Guests providing activities & demonstrations:

Mill Museum -Mandala Community Weaving activity|
Billings Farm & Museum -Wool demonstrations & drop-in craft
Ethan Allen Homestead -Flax demonstrations
Fleming Museum of Art - Info on new Quilt exhibition 
Rokeby Museum - Underground Railroad weaving activity

VT Textiles Raffle in the museum gallery! Featuring textile goods from VT businesses and artisans! Support Mill Museum programming while bidding on a wide range of amazing local products. Tickets can be purchased during the Fiber Fair and pre-view dates (August 29-30).  Drawing at 1:45pm on Sept. 1st.  Winners do not have to be present at drawing.  

Donor list is growing! Here are some of our contributors so far. We will post a list of raffle items soon.
Bee’s Wrap
Billing’s Farm & Museum
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
Fourbital Factory
Green Mountain Spinnery
Must Love Yarn
Rokeby Museum
Skida
US Sherpa
Vermont Green Football Club
Vermont Hats

Earlier Event: August 29
Community Fiber Arts Exhibition
Later Event: October 20
Onion Fest