Clothing Swap
Bring clothing you no longer wear, and take home something new to you!
You are welcome to just take without bringing anything, or take more than you brought - we always have an excess!
Clothing for all ages, genders, and sizes is welcome.
Free event!
Free Workshop: Hand Sewing for Beginners
Free workshops designed to guide participants in learning basic sewing and mending skills. Extend the life of your clothes and household textiles and keep them out of the landfills! This is a volunteer-led collaboration between Fibershed Heartland, Textile Arts Center of Madison, and The Sewing Machine Project. Workshops are free but registration is required through the Textile Arts Center site.
Hand sewing for beginners: Tues Feb 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues Mar 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues April 7 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop
Free workshops designed to guide participants in learning basic sewing and mending skills. Extend the life of your clothes and household textiles and keep them out of the landfills! This is a volunteer-led collaboration between Fibershed Heartland, Textile Arts Center of Madison, and The Sewing Machine Project. Workshops are free but registration is required through the Textile Arts Center site.
Hand sewing for beginners: Tues Feb 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues Mar 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues April 7 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop
Free workshops designed to guide participants in learning basic sewing and mending skills. Extend the life of your clothes and household textiles and keep them out of the landfills! This is a volunteer-led collaboration between Fibershed Heartland, Textile Arts Center of Madison, and The Sewing Machine Project. Workshops are free but registration is required through the Textile Arts Center site.
Hand sewing for beginners: Tues Feb 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues Mar 3 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab Open Workshop: Tues April 7 6-8:30 pm
Mending Lab: Darning and Repairing Knits
Keep your clothes out of the landfill and extend the life of beloved textiles.
In this workshop you will learn three different darning techniques for repairing holes in knit garments like sweaters or socks. You can make these repairs nearly invisible, or use this as an opportunity to add a bit of artistic personality.
Mending Lab: Patching
Keep your clothes out of the landfill and extend the life of beloved textiles.
In this workshop you will learn how to execute a nearly invisible patched repair, sew an exterior patch with Sashiko style stitching, and put in a reverse applique internal patch.
Fiber Arts Supplies Swap
Join us for a Fiber Arts Supplies Swap, aka “stash swap”
FREE Event
Bring yarn, fabric, fleece/roving, books, tools you aren’t using.
Take home something new!
No need to bring something to take something, and no need to take something if you bring something
All are welcome
Organized by Fibershed Heartland, 501(c)(3) non-profit
Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival
Visit the Fibershed Heartland booth!
Classes, Country Store, Sheep Shows, Competitions, and more
Learn more at wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival.com
Field to Frock
Join Midwest Linen Revival for events in and around Madison, WI to build community for the emerging flax fiber movement!
Friday:
Behind the scenes tour of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, one of the world’s largest textile collections
Fun with Color and Dye in the Garden
Saturday
Flax Field Day and Hand processing Demonstration
Hands-on: Mending for Everyone
Spinning Flax to Fiber
Sunday
Coffee Hour with Flax and The Flax Ma’am
Happy Hour Flax-y Lecture-ish and Linen Fashion Show
The Nettle Dress, a film from textile artist Allen Brown
Spring Shearing Weekend
Shearing 3 sheep breeds. Demos each day of this annual fun event.
Buy a fleece to take home!
More information:
https://rainbowfleecefarm.com/
rainbowfleece@gmail.com
Stevenson County Fiber Arts Fair
A one-day gem in our Fibershed!
Fiber workshops, demos, vendors, and silent auction
Cost: $3, children under 12 free
For more information:
scfiberartfair.com
(815) 541-0897
Bread and Roses Potluck & Educational Presentation
Remembering the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, NYC, killing 146, and
honoring the 1912 Textile Mill strike, Laurence MA, uniting low paid immigrant textile workers and resulting in better pay and benefits
Fun Fact: The first woman Labor Secretary was appointed by President Roosevelt after the horrific fire.
Clothing/Textile Swap
Clothing/Textile Swap: Recycle, Repurpose, Repair, Reduce
FREE EVENT
Fitchburg Library, 5530 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg, WI 54711
January 25, 1-4pm
BRING: clothing, shoes, purses, hats, all wearables, etc. Take as much as you want whether you bring something or not!
Hosted by Fibershed Heartland
fibershedheartland@gmail.com
Fiber Arts Supplies Swap
aka “stash swap”
FREE Event
Bring yarn, fabric, fleece, books, tools you aren’t using.
Take home something new!
No need to bring something to take something, and no need to take something if you bring something
All are welcome!
JK Evergreen Ranch & Driftless Woolen Mill Tour
Visit a fiber farm & woolen mill. Meet wool animals. Farm items sold in their shop. Enjoy coffee & snacks with other folks interested in fiber production.
608-234-3423 info@jkevergreenranch.com
Suggest you organize carpooling through the Fibershed listserv: fibershedheartland@gmail.com
Drop-in Mending Workshop
Drop-in Mending Workshop. Bring a piece of clothing with holes, stains, or tears.
Fibershed Heartland folks will guide you through decoratively embellishing or hand mending it to give it new life.
Additional Information: https://neighborhoodhousemadison.org/open-studio-nights/
Free Mending Workshop
Textile Arts Center, Madison & Fibershed Heartland
Free Mending Workshop (Class is full, email TAC to get on wait list)
Teaching help welcome, if you know visible or invisible mending by hand.
Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival
Visit the Fibershed Heartland booth!
Classes, Country Store, Sheep Shows, Competitions, and more
Learn more at wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival.com
Round Barn Fiber Mill Tour
Marge & Jim, Fibershed Heartland members, are giving us a behind the scenes tour where they make roving, batts, cloud, plied yarns, & corespun rug yarn from their heritage Jacob sheep, as well as for other shepherds raising sheep, alpacas, llamas, camels, goats, rabbits, etc.
Mending Workshop
Keep your clothes out of the landfill and extend the life of beloved items. Wearing a piece of clothing for an
additional nine months can reduce the footprint of that item by twenty percent. Bring something that needs
mending and learn tips and tricks for (mostly) invisible or creative visible mending techniques. Everyone is
welcome. No experience necessary.
Annual Bread and Roses Potluck
All are welcome to the annual Bread & Roses potluck, where we remember the anniversary of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike (MA) and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (NY). The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire sparked protests that shaped the labor and workers' safety movements for decades to come. The Bread and Roses strike succeeded in uniting unskilled immigrant workers from many countries speaking many languages.
Bring a dish to pass that represents your heritage...or bread, or roses.
Brief presentation about textile labor's past and present after the meal.
Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival
Visit the Fibershed Heartland booth!
Classes, Country Store, Sheep Shows, Competitions, and more
Learn more at wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival.com