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Upcoming events

    • 14 Feb 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    February Meeting and Pot Luck

    Winter Project Show & Tell

    After the business meeting and our regular Show and Tell, we will feature Winter Projects.  We'll have time to socialize and enjoy a potluck luncheon.

    Join us and catch up with fiber friends after the winter break.

    • 14 Mar 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Everything you always wanted to know about flax*

    (*But were afraid to ask)

    Pam Rumney

    Pam Rumney takes us the through the process of how to grow, process, spin, and dye flax/linen.

    Pam spent her early life in Milwaukee, WI. Her career includes public school teaching arts. She also spent 6 years at the Dept. of the Interior as a teacher for the Cherokee Nation Jr./Sr. including fiber arts/weaving, metal arts/jewelry making and ceramics. She has also taught for the Dept of Defense for the Army and Air Force including a couple of years in South Korea. After retirement, Pam continued teaching. and served as a House Docent and 18th C. interpreter of processing flax, spinning to linen thread and making 18th C. garments at Londontown Historic Site and Gardens in Edgewater, MD. She currently mentors a small group of students of weaving at Sund City Carolina Lakes, SC, a 55+ community.




    • 11 Apr 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC

    Coverlets

    Susan Leveille

    • 2 May 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Historic Johnson Farm, Hendersonville NC
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    Weaving Transparencies and Theo Moorman

    Cheryl White

    Adding images to weaving has always been a fascination for many weavers. Through examples and a Power Point presentation, we will explore transparent weavings, with a shorter survey of Theo Moorman. technique. Both provide a way to place images on cloth.


    Cheryl has been weaving for almost 50 years with a strong emphasis on "useful" cloth. Research has provided a link to her weaving ancestors in Norwich, England, and historical drafts are her current area of focus. She markets her woven garments and home accessories through her label "Shepherds Delight" and is a co-owner of Georgia Yarn Company. Cheryl teaches and shares with her guild, and through workshops and classes at her studio.

    • 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 "Sit & Share"

    & Potluck

    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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Past events

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
14 Oct 2023 Monthly Meeting
9 Sep 2023 Monthly Meeting
8 Sep 2023 Volunteer--Mountain State Fair
12 Aug 2023 Annual Retreat
8 Jul 2023 Photographing Your Work
8 Jul 2023 Monthly Meeting
10 Jun 2023 Monthly Meeting
6 May 2023 Monthly Meeting
8 Apr 2023 Monthly Meeting
11 Mar 2023 Monthly Meeting
11 Feb 2023 Monthly Meeting
12 Nov 2022 Monthly Meeting
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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