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And the Jury met…
Jury Committee 2012: Faith, Laura, Jim, Becky, Emma, Dee, Suzanne and Astrig's behind the camera Last week we all met at Emma’s and argued strongly for the classes we thought you’d love. It was a...
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Needlepoint Tapestries
Don’t you just love taking a trip mid-week? We left Tuesday afternoon to speak at Pecha Kucha about the Campground and Fiber College thanks to an invitation from Five River Arts in Brunswick. One of...
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From our window in Searsport
Hi Everybody…we’re enjoying a bright day of sunshine (after months days of variably rainy weather) and it feels marvelous…hope things are as good in your world. The Campground has been so busy that...
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Borrowing from the Pickled Hedgehog Blog
We all know that artists have the ability to push the world into better directions. Crochet is an art that is coming back into vogue (did you see the great crocheted shawl designing classes offered...
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Jackie Ottino Graf…colors with twigs and leaves and flowers and such
We’re lucky to have Jackie living on the coast of Maine. She came by way of Western Massachusetts and is raising her family of three young children in the next town over from Searsport. Jackie...
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BIG, BIG, BIG
We’ve never done it before! We have a few opening for classes that have been paid for but a couple of attendees have had life get in their way…so we want to make lemonade out of lemons. Write a...
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Happy Paths to Fiber College 2013
Happy New Year Everyone! Emma’s been holding down the fort while Astrig’s been playing in Southern Spain and Morocco…but we’re all settled back in and we’ve just launched the call for instructors. If...
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Hearts to You
As much fun as you can have without making a mess of the kitchen table! Playing with Picasa’s photo editing tools
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Spinning Wheel Clinic
New for 2013…Gary, Bill and David will be hosting a spinning wheel clinic on Saturday and Sunday…broken part? question? spare parts? Bring your wheel and for a fair fee these wonderful men will try...
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Classes are Posted!
47 amazing classes and the best demonstration schedule we’ve ever had…classes are now open for registration! Won’t you join us at the beach and celebrate your wooly passions!
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Artist Interview: Daina Taimina
Daina has a joie de vivre that is contagious. She exudes an understated excitement of discovery that imparts confidence in her students and draws everyone into a conversation that seamlessly...
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Anna Low Interview
We love Anna of Purplebean Bindery fame. She’s creative, intelligent, un-bound by convention and always willing to share her ideas and experience. Anna’s colors and ideas are fresh and the books she...
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Artist Interview: Bonni Backe
Bonni Backe is a new and very welcome addition to our teaching roster this year. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of class jurying…whenever an instructor application comes in with an unfamiliar name,...
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Susan Tobey White Painted a Fiber College Poster!
The new posters are printed…in shops around Fiber College…could you bring them around your world too?
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Free Classes at Fiber College
New Road Banner…a collaborative effort of Marty Elkin’s Needle Felt, Susan Tobey White’s painting and Steven’s engineering. Free classes! Comment here or send us an e-mail to create@fibercollege.org...
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Caryn Johnson Won!
Caryn won the great wheel generously built and donated to Fiber College by Gary Kitchen and Bill Forbes. Inspired by our desire to keep traditional crafts alive and offer scholarships to students...
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The Survey Results are Coming in
No one could refute that Fiber College is an organic festival that grows, shifts and morphs with the input of fiber folks who “get it.” Get what? Get that e want to be the best educational gathering on...
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Survey Results~ part two
In the past decade there has been an explosion of fiber festivals and gatherings around the United States and Canada. Since the very beginning, we’ve built Fiber College on three very specific goals:...
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Survey Results~ part three
Fiber College is always the week after Labor Day in Searsport Maine…the geographical center of the Maine coastline. In 2006 we started by offering 37 classes from Friday afternoon until Sunday...
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Late Fall Blues
Photo by Cheryl Gammon…dip a yellow skein (dyed with golden rod) in blue and you get Joanna’s gorgeous green Many of you know that Fiber College sponsors an artist in residence series during the summer...
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