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Upcoming events

    • 13 Jun 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    The Gentle Art of Tatting Lace

    Sally Biggers


    This program will introduce tatting, giving a brief history, examining the materials used and how they have changed over time. Additionally participants will learn to create the basic stitches as rings and chains. Supplies will be provided and visual media shared.


    Sally Biggers began tatting in the mid-1970's learning from books and publications. Charles Kuralt's "On The Road Segment" in the late '70's inspired her and more crafters to take up and preserve this fiber art. The advent of the Internet helped her and others to make both connections and find patterns. She has created many tatted items, been part of tatting groups including coordinating one in Black Mountain for more than 10 years, taught tatting in its various forms, designed original patterns, interpreted patterns both old and new and participated in conferences around North America. She works with an on-line international community of tatters to creatively put tatting into a global perspective.

    • 11 Jul 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Eco-printing Botanical Art

    Denise Arcuri


    The presentation will explain the eco-printing process, a trunk show of fabric samples showing results of different combinations of technique and mordants as well as finished products using eco-printed fabric.

    Denise is a life long garment sewer that has expanded into naturally dyeing and printing the fabric she uses.

    • 25 Jul 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center

    If you are going just to shop, no registration is necessary.

    Sign up for shifts to help set up, sell, break down.

    Volunteer

    Donations for the WNCFHG booth at the Anything Fiber sale may be received anytime from July 1-July 22.

    If you are not able to hold onto your donations until then, please donate them to another local charity like Local Cloth to help artists who suffered losses to Helene. 

    The Anything Fiber Sale is a yard sale for fiber people. We all have piles of unloved fabric, "bought it because it was pretty" yarns, obscure tools that we forgot we had, looms that need a new home, duplicates of knitting needles, fleece that doesn't seem to get spun, right? 

    So, really clean out that closet of your surplus yarns, spinning fibers, materials and tools, and donate them to the Guild! No finished goods unless they are appropriate to use in other fiber techniques (i.e., hand-spun yarns, dyed yardage). No rotted or smelly fibers, please!

    Bring donations to the July meeting. Or you can leave your donation in the designated boxes on the large covered porch at 103 Campbell Drive, Flat Rock, NC 28-731, or contact Cheryl Motheral-Lynn (phone 919-600-1531). Andrea Croskery (828-565-1396) in Haywood County, will also accept donations.

    Pick up can also be arranged depending on the location. 


    Location: AB Tech's spacious Conference Center 

    The Mission Health/AB Tech Conference Center is located at 16 Fernihurst Drive, off Victoria Drive on AB Tech's Asheville Campus. There is a Fire/Loading Zone as you approach the building and there is access from the parking garage behind the building. Access is all on one level (unless you are parked upstairs and then there is an elevator.)

    • 8 Aug 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Annual Retreat & Potluck

     Lunch, Learn & Link-up

    Following our regular meeting and "Show & Tell," we will spend time doing fun fiber things and then enjoy our potluck luncheon. Watch this space for more details.

    • 11 Sep 2026
    • 9:00 AM
    • 20 Sep 2026
    • 9:00 PM
    • WNC Ag Center

    The Mountain State Fair is an excellent place for us to

    strut our stuff!

    There are two opportunities for involvement:

    Submit your work!

    (Deadline to Submit form 11:55 pm 8/28/26)

    Categories and Guidelines here (pgs. )

    Entry form here

    Volunteer

    For the Drop in & Weave: Choose the date, then choose time and task.

    Wednesday, Sept.9 is to help with setting up the display.

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    • 12 Sep 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Needle Felt Painting

    Claudia Lemacks

    Claudia has enjoyed a life-long love of fiber and fabric, She has made clothing, costumes, toys and made alterations since her teens. She also put her hand to embroidery, beading, appliqué, needlepoint and macramé. Her current love is working with wool. She makes an assortment of felted critters and paints with wool, (pictures to frame). Claudia has been sharing her love of wool with other fiber lovers for the past 6 years. She especially loves to teach beginner needle felting. In her class you will leave with a finished creation and a new addiction!





    • 10 Oct 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Wild Mountain Time - Native Dye Plants

    Dede Styles

    Dede will take us through common native plants that contain dye, when to gather them and how to use them.

    About Dede Styles: Put together being raised by a mother who taught me all about native plants, a pet sheep for fiber and a grandmother who was a weaver in the Southern Highlands Craft Guild, and you come up with someone who had to give natural dye a try. After the first dye bath of Queen Anne's Lace I was hooked.




    • 16 Oct 2026
    • 9:00 AM
    • 18 Oct 2026
    • 4:00 PM
    • Where: Interpretive Center, Historic Johnson Farm
    • 15
    Register

    Exploring Double Two-Tie

    Linda Shultz

    October 16-18, 2026

    Double two-tie (D2T) threadings* are incredibly versatile, offering the ability to weave a variety of different structures which can be used in block designs, color play, and texture, on fewer shafts.

    About the Instructor: Linda Schultz has been weaving for over fifty years. She is particularly interested in exploring different weave structures and the interplay of color and structure. She has taught classes and written articles in order to share her discoveries.


    About this Workshop:

    Ability level: Advanced beginner or intermediate. 

    Must be able to: Dress a loom

    Read and follow a weaving draft, including using a liftplan

    Familiar with block weaves and profile drafts

    Optional but helpful - familiar with using weaving software

    Loom Requirements:

    8 shaft loom

    Location

    Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville. NC

    Participants will provide: 

    Pre-warped 8 shaft loom. Shuttles, weft yarn, scissors, tape measure, notebook, pencil and any other materials needed for weaving. 

    Optional items: Participants may also bring a laptop with weaving software - Fiberworks for Mac will be used for demonstrations and can be downloaded and used for free on Mac or Windows.

    Lunch, drinks, snacks as desired. (No lunch provided)

    Instructor will supply: 

    Instructions for preparing looms, PDF handouts, wifs/drafts.


    Additional Cost:

    $5 Payable to the instructor on the first day of the workshop (cash or check).


    Cancellation policy   Refunds can be processed for cancellations until September 14, 2026.
    • 23 Oct 2026
    • 9:00 AM
    • 25 Oct 2026
    • 5:00 PM
    • WNC Ag Center

    SAFF

    If you are going just to shop, no registration is necessary.

    Volunteer to Drop in and Weave below.

     Workshops/classes start Thursday, October 22

    Open to the public:

    Friday, October 23- (9 am – 5 pm)
    Saturday, October 24 – (9 am – 5 pm)
    Sunday, October 25- (9 am – 4 pm)

    The event is located at the WNC Agricultural Center, in Fletcher, NC, across Hwy 280 from the Asheville Regional Airport. (Exit 40 off I-26).

    Admission will be $5/person per day. $10 pass for 3 days. Youth under 13 yrs. old will be free. Bring cash! Only at gate..no early ticket sales.


    Volunteer to Drop in and Weave


    • 14 Nov 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Election of Officers Winter Project Reveal

    plus Potluck

    Join us for our last in person meeting of 2026! We will be electing officers for the coming year, revealing the Winter Project Challenge, and sharing a potluck lunch.  


Past events

29 May 2026 Workshop - Pattern at the Fell of the Cloth: Weft Kasuri
9 May 2026 Community: Fiber Day - Volunteer Opportunity
2 May 2026 Program: Weaving Transparencies and Theo Moorman
11 Apr 2026 Program: Crossnore Weaving Room
14 Mar 2026 Program: Seed to Linen
14 Feb 2026 Program: Winter Project Show & Tell + Potluck
10 Jan 2026 Zoom Meeting: Honeycomb Hybrids
8 Nov 2025 Winter Project Reveal and Pot Luck plus Design Inlay
5 Nov 2025 Crimp and Create
24 Oct 2025 Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF)
11 Oct 2025 Explorations in Double Two-Tie and Beyond
13 Sep 2025 Deep Structure
9 Aug 2025 Annual Retreat and Potluck
26 Jul 2025 Anything Fiber Sale
12 Jul 2025 Program: Wig Making
14 Jun 2025 Program: The Future of Handmade is in Your Hands
17 May 2025 Modular Mitered Knitting
10 May 2025 Fiber Day
3 May 2025 Program: Fiberhouse Collective
12 Apr 2025 Program: Odyssey of Pattern and Color: Northwest India
5 Apr 2025 Crackle, Not Crackle?
8 Mar 2025 Program: Draw Loom Weaving
8 Feb 2025 Program: Winter Project Show & Tell
9 Nov 2024 November Meeting
1 Nov 2024 Crimp and Create
12 Oct 2024 Explorations in Double Two-Tie and Beyond
14 Sep 2024 Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends
6 Sep 2024 Mountain State Fair
10 Aug 2024 Annual Retreat
27 Jul 2024 Anything Fiber Sale
13 Jul 2024 Zoom Meeting: The Fabric of Civilization
22 Jun 2024 Mastering Mosaic Knitting
8 Jun 2024 From Jerusalem To Raleigh
11 May 2024 Fiber Day
13 Apr 2024 RAG Fabric - A Running Thread For 29 Years
9 Mar 2024 Monthly Meeting: Let's Talk About Alpacas!
8 Mar 2024 Sashiko-ori Workshop
10 Feb 2024 Monthly Meeting: Winter Project
11 Nov 2023 Monthly Meeting: Catharine Ellis
14 Oct 2023 Monthly Meeting: Sashiko-Ori
9 Sep 2023 Monthly Meeting: Bobbin Lace
8 Sep 2023 Volunteer--Mountain State Fair
12 Aug 2023 Annual Retreat
8 Jul 2023 Photographing Your Work
8 Jul 2023 Monthly Meeting: Textile Conservation
10 Jun 2023 Monthly Meeting: Fabric Art and Bead Embroidery
6 May 2023 Monthly Meeting: Walt Turpening, Benches, Stools, Chairs
8 Apr 2023 Monthly Meeting: Local Cloth Blue RIdge Blanket Project
11 Mar 2023 Monthly Meeting: Diane Totten, One Weaver's Journey
11 Feb 2023 Monthly Meeting
12 Nov 2022 Monthly Meeting: Willow caskets
8 Oct 2022 Guild Retreat
23 Sep 2022 Extreme Warp Makeover
10 Sep 2022 Tracy Woodard, Covered in Cotton
13 Aug 2022 Monthly Meeting
9 Jul 2022 Monthly Meeting
11 Jun 2022 Monthly Meeting: Brandy Clements
14 May 2022 Monthly Meeting
9 Apr 2022 Monthly Meeting
22 Jan 2022 2022 WNCFHG Show @ Folk Art Center
9 Oct 2021 Nanette Davidson, Production Weaver & Instructor
11 Sep 2021 Eileen Hallman, Weaver, Spinner & Dyer of Cotton with Colors of Indigo
14 Aug 2021 ‘Let’s Get Together” Luncheon
10 Jul 2021 Tien Chiu, Expert Weaver and Color Ninja
12 Jun 2021 Wilma Malcolmson, Shetland Designer
8 May 2021 Celeste Chalasani, the Embroiderer's Guild of America's Director of Education
10 Apr 2021 Linda Cortright, Editor & Publisher, Wild Fibers Magazine
13 Mar 2021 Rabbit Goody, Owner, Designer, and Master Weaver of Thistle Hill Weavers
6 Jun 2020 Blue Ridge Fiber Show Call for Entries
9 May 2020 May Meeting
11 Apr 2020 April Meeting
14 Mar 2020 March Meeting
8 Feb 2020 February Meeting
9 Nov 2019 November Guild Meeting and Program
12 Oct 2019 October Guild Meeting and Program
14 Sep 2019 September Meeting Program
1 Sep 2019 Spinning/Weaving at Hickory Nut Gap Farm
10 Aug 2019 August Meeting
13 Jul 2019 July Meeting
8 Jun 2019 June Guild Meeting
1 Jun 2019 Anything Fiber Sale
11 May 2019 Fiber Day at the Folk Arts Center
11 May 2019 Fiber Feel Day
9 Mar 2019 Monthly Guild Meeting
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