Fiber Arts Weekend
March 28 @ 12:00 pm - March 30 @ 12:00 pm
$220.00 – $505.00
Fiber Arts Weekend
March 28th – March 30th, 2025
Create, Connect, Nourish – Where Art, Wellness, and Community Meet.
Enfield Shaker Museum
447 NH Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748
Join us for a weekend of creativity, connection, and well-being!
Our Fiber Arts Weekend is a celebration of community, where all abilities are welcome to explore the world of fiber arts. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned crafter, you’ll find a supportive space to learn, create, and grow.
We’ll offer a variety of fiber arts activities, from knitting to weaving and felting, so you can explore new skills or refine your craft. But it’s not just about creating art—this weekend is also about nourishing your body and mind. Enjoy healthy food options throughout the day, and take time to unwind with mindfulness exercises and wellness activities designed to help you feel your best.
Bring your friends, make new ones, and leave feeling inspired, rejuvenated, and connected.
Schedule:
Friday March 28th-
12:00 pm – Check-in at Enfield Shaker Museum
2:00 pm – Tour at Junction Fiber Mill (drive yourself)
4:00 pm – Workshop Options
- Soup Bowl Cozies with Mary Ellen Rigby
- Embroidered Lavender Sachet with June Albright
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Practice Mending: A World of Clothes Made & Scraps Saved with Multi-media Artist Brece Honeycutt
Saturday March 29th-
8:30 – 9:50 am – Breakfast
10:00 am – Workshop Options
- Creative Mending with Jennifer Duff
- Introduction to Knitting Two Colors with Donna Kay
- Fiber Market & Social Crafting
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Workshop Options
- Finishing up Creative Mending with Jennifer Duff
- Mosaic Knitting with Donna Kay
- Woolly Flower Needle Felting with Mallory Zondag (4 hour workshop)
3:00 pm – Workshop Options
- Woolly Flower Needle Felting with Mallory Zondag (continued)
- Knit a Shaker Dishcloth with Carolyn Smith
- Explore Tapestry Weaving with Becky Powell
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Practicing Real Self-Care for Wellness: A Peaceful Fiber Arts Exploration with Susan Quinlan
Sunday March 30th –
8:30 – 9:50 am – Breakfast
10:00 am – Workshop Options
- 10:00 – 12:00 noon – Fiber Market & Social Crafting
- 10:00 – 11:00 am – Chair Yoga for Crafters with Sharon Comeau
12:00 pm – Check-out from Enfield Shaker Museum
Workshop Descriptions:
*Once you register for the weekend, you will receive a google form to reserve a spot in your chosen classes.
Soup Bowl Cozies with Mary Ellen Rigby
Join us for a fun and creative workshop where you’ll learn to make your very own bowl cozy! Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or a beginner, this class is designed for all skill levels. Bowl cozies are perfect for keeping your hands safe from hot bowls, and they make great gifts or personal items for your kitchen. You will learn basic sewing techniques, get step-by-step instructions from Mary Ellen and receive a pattern to make another one in the future. All fabric, thread, and tools are included in the workshop fee. Bring your creativity and leave with a practical, adorable addition to your kitchen or a thoughtful handmade gift for a friend. Some experience with a sewing machine is highly recommended.
Instructor Bio:
Mary Ellen Rigby learned to sew as a youngster in a 4-H group in her hometown. She has been learning, sewing and collecting fabric ever since. Mary Ellen is a member of a fiber arts crafting group in the Upper Valley. She is also currently a volunteer at Enfield Shaker Museum and President of the museum’s Board of Trustees.
Embroidered Lavender Sachet with June Albright
A lavender embroidered sachet workshop is a relaxing and creative experience where participants learn to make their own fragrant sachets. Using embroidery techniques, they will decorate small squares of linen with intricate designs, inspired by lavender flowers. Once the embroidery is complete, the sachets are filled with dried lavender buds, creating a soothing and aromatic keepsake. The workshop provides a calm and enjoyable atmosphere, allowing participants to unwind while learning a new craft and leaving with a beautifully handmade item that carries both personal creativity and the calming scent of lavender.
Instructor Bio:
Creative Mending with Jennifer Duff
Learn to use the Swiss darning technique on knits! Visible Mending is a great way to preserve your knits while showing off your skills and adding a pop of color.
Learn basic stitches and choosing materials before practicing Swiss darning over thinning areas or stocking web darning over holes. Skill level: Some basic sewing or knitting experience is helpful but not required.
If you have garments in need of repair please bring them and as time allows we can go over and explore solutions or work on them with your new skills. If you do not, swatches are provided to everyone.
Instructor Bio:
Introduction to Knitting Two Colors with Donna Kay
Conquer your fear of knitting with 2 colors! In this workshop you will learn how easy it is to learn the technique you need to knit the beautiful designs you have been afraid to try! Learn an easy method for “tangle free” stranded (2 color) knitting. We will be working on a hat in class.
Instructor Bio:
Donna Kay is a knitting instructor and designer as well as an accomplished hand spinner. Known for her patient teaching manner, she delights in sharing her knowledge and passion for folk traditions with her students. Donna has worked with Interweave Knits, Harrisville Designs, John C Campbell Folk School, PLY, Spin Off and her company, Tree of Life Designs. You may find her on Ravelry as treeoflife and on Instagram as treeoflifeknitter.
Mosaic Knitting with Donna Kay
Mosaic knitting is a simple but effective color work technique that utilizes one color at a time to create contrasting color designs. The patterns are created using slip stitches – no stranding to worry about! The stitch patterns can be knit flat or in the round using stockinette stitch, garter or a combination of both. You will knit a small stitch sampler to learn how to work the patterns and read the charts and leave with a pattern for finger-less mitts. No previous experience with knitting with colors is necessary!
Instructor Bio:
Donna Kay is a knitting instructor and designer as well as an accomplished hand spinner. Known for her patient teaching manner, she delights in sharing her knowledge and passion for folk traditions with her students. Donna has worked with Interweave Knits, Harrisville Designs, John C Campbell Folk School, PLY, Spin Off and her company, Tree of Life Designs. You may find her on Ravelry as treeoflife and on Instagram as treeoflifeknitter.
Woolly Flower Wet Needle Felting with Mallory Zondag
Learn the ancient and awesome art of wet felting while creating your own unique woolly flowers during this four hour workshop. Using wool roving, hot water, olive oil soap and your own two hands, you can transform wool into sculpt-able felt fabric. You will learn how to wet felt, how to create organic forms and how to make multi layered felt to build up multiple sets of petals to create your own lovely piece floral fiber art!
Instructor Bio:
Mallory Zondag is a mixed-media fiber artist and artist educator. Her experience with textiles while in art school led her to create both independent and community sculpture through a variety of fiber art mediums. She explores deeply personal and connective universal stories through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching, seeking to bring the ephemeral into physical being. The growth and decay of the natural world, the duality of discomfort and attraction we feel towards it, and humanity’s place within this dichotomy informs her dimensional textures and sculptural pieces.
Explore Tapestry Weaving with Becky Powell
Knit a Shaker Dishcloth with Carolyn Smith
Instructor Bio:
Carolyn Smith, a self-taught knitter, has decades of experience knitting, teaching knitting, and loving yarn of all kinds. She is currently Acting-Director at Enfield Shaker Museum and has long been interested in how the Shakers used and produced textiles.
Fiber Market & Social Crafting
Browse a curated selection of high-quality yarns, fibers, and handmade goods from Upper Valley vendors, like 5 Sisters Farm and Norwich Knits. From skeins to unique tools, and kits, there’s something for every fiber lover. Get inspired, stock up on supplies, or find that perfect piece to start your next project.
Want a chance to reduce your stash? Sign-up for a space at our fiber market and bring your overstock to sell. Or you can bring your unused or leftover stock of fiber to the community bin for everyone to share materials in future projects!
Join fellow students for relaxed, social crafting with your current craft. Whether you’re working on a unfinished project from the weekend or personal ones, you’ll find a welcoming space to chat, share tips, and enjoy the creative energy of others.
Yoga for Crafters
Join Sharon for an all-levels yoga class that will focus on simple exercises—many of which can be done from a chair—which focuses on countering the effects of crafting on the hands, arms, shoulders and hips. We’ll explore how movement might help us focus, create, and bravely send our ideas into the world!
No previous yoga experience is needed. Much of our practice will be done seated in chairs or stools. Modifications will be taught for those who wish to work from the floor or yoga mat.
Instructor Bio:
Sharon Comeau has been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching since 2005. She started as an apprentice under Leslie Carleton’s fine tutelage, and received certification from Yoga Alliance in 2010, after studying with Deb Neubauer and Todd Norian. Sharon came to yoga from her interest in movement, as an athlete and dancer for most of her life. She started with Bikram Yoga, moved to the Upper Valley and in her yoga practice into vinyasa yoga, and her teacher training was in Hatha Yoga, focused on the Anusara School of Yoga. Known for her attention to detail, kind teaching, and heart-centered themes, Sharon is pleased to welcome yogis of all traditions and levels into her classes.
Practice Mending: A World of Clothes Made & Scraps Saved with Brece Honeycutt
Brece Honeycutt’s grandmother stacked and stored her quilts in the attic. One of her favorite pastimes was sneaking to the attic, unfolding the quilts and looking at their patterns and fabrics. She believes this is how she learned color theory. A discarded box of one inch quilt squares, a lesson using the drop spindle, a goldenrod field turned into dye; these happenstances led Honeycutt to construct textiles, research historic texts and produce textures in her sculptures and installations. She will discuss these interwoven occurrences in her evening talk and slideshow.
Presenter Bio:
Brece Honeycutt, a multimedia artist, uses research as a material for her history and nature based works. Honeycutt continues her research documenting the Shaker communal society through residencies, fellowships and writing a manuscript. In 2024, she presented her paper Prismatic Utopia at the Deerfield Forum, A Rich and Varied Palette: Coloring New England’s Past and at the Enfield Shaker Forum, where she received the annual award “for presenter demonstrating the highest standard in new outstanding scholarship.” Her installations have been placed in university campuses, historic houses, inner-city parks and in office buildings, libraries, urban markets and galleries. She enthusiastically collaborates with artists, students, gardeners, poets, and dancers and thanks all of the historians, archivists, librarians and curators for their knowledge and assistance. Honeycutt holds a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University.
Practicing Real-Self Care for Wellness: A Peaceful Fiber Arts Exploration with Susan Quinlan
Join us for an evening of relaxation, creativity, and self-care at the Enfield Shaker Museum Fiber Festival.
Guided by Susan Quinlan, this workshop will explore the true meaning of self-care through thoughtful discussion and a calming mindfulness meditation session.
Participant will engage in hands-on activities, including blending your own herbal teas, creating soothing herbal sachets, and practicing gentle hand relaxation techniques. Discover how the meditative rhythm of fiber arts can bring balance, reduce stress, and foster well-being. Come connect, create, and have fun. You will leave feeling refreshed and inspired.
Instructor Bio:
Susan Quinlan is the Garden Coordinator for Enfield Shaker Museum and manages the 7,000 square foot herb garden. Susan is a retired registered nurse who has been creating and caring for gardens and people for fifty years. She teaches hands-on herb gardening and herbal crafting. Her passion is to create a community that connects plants and people in celebration of the natural world.
Cost:
Single Room Package: $495 for members // $505 non-members
- All meals included (2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, and 2 dinners)
- All classes (material fees included)
- Two nights in a Single Room (1 Queen bed/ensuite bathroom)
Double Room Package: $465 for members per person // $475 non-members per person
- All meals included (2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, and 2 dinners)
- All classes (material fees included)
- Two nights in a Double Room (2 Queen beds/ensuite bathroom)
Meals & Classes Package: $220 for members per person // $230 for non-members per person
- Meals included (1 lunch, and 2 dinners)
- All classes (material fees included)
*All proceeds go to the educational mission of Enfield Shaker Museum.
Coming from a distance? Stay for the weekend in one of our retiring rooms! Accommodations.