1. hobbies and interests
2. arts and crafts
3. knitting

April 26 and 27, 2014
Tri-County Shrine Club
701 Potters Lane
Clarksville, Indiana
Welcome!!!
Welcome to our fourth annual festival. We hope you will enjoy
your weekend with us. We have tried to ensure that everyocne
will find something they take pleasure in with our unique
combination
of
fiber-related
booths,
demonstrations,
competitions, food, games, and musical entertainment.
Grinny Possum Fiber Arts
Everyone has worked extremely hard to keep the admission to
our event free for the public to make certain that this celebration
can be fun for all. So please sometime throughout the day give us
your opinion on how your visit was with us at our information
center.
Have a great time and we all hope to see you again next year!!
Classes – Yarns – Fibers
Spinning-Knitting-Weaving
326 Spring Street
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130
812-284-9400
www.grinnypossum.com
2014 Vendors
Adventures in Yarncraft
Hallie Peckinpaugh
Columbus, Ohio
Hand dyed yarns and fibers
Big Springs Farm & Fiber LLC
Needle Felting Tools, Forms & Fiber
Black & White Cotswold & Crosses
Roving in a Rainbow of colors
Dana & Jack Cormack
812-883-9292
7790 S. Big Springs Road
Pekin, IN 47165
email: [email protected] Website: www.bigspringsfarm.com
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All Wooled Up
Michelle Arszman
Felted wool purses with needle felted designs, gloves, wine
bottle cozies, knitted scarves and wraps.
Alterknit Universe
Sharon Richie
is your best friend. Visit often for questions
about the festival, festival sales, area
information or just to say hi. Someone with a
smile on their face will be glad to help you.
Laconia, Indiana
Finished hand-knits, some raw fleeces, project bags
Arts Council of Southern Indiana
New Albany, Indiana
Featured artist
B & G Farms
Kathleen Goble
The Information Booth
Sheridan, Indiana
Memphis, Indiana
Raw and washed fleeces, locks, spinning fibers for spinning
and felting.
Big Springs Farm and Fiber
Jack and Dana Cormack
Pekin, Indiana
Needle felters, felting forms, felting kits.
Carpool
Lisa Mendez
Chicago, Illinois
Hand dyed yarn and fiber, hand made clothing, hand knit and
crocheted hats, scarves and accessories
Music Schedule
Saturday April 26
Checkered Flag Fibers
Debra Baskill
Enon, OH 45323
Llama/alpaca yarns and rovings, finished goods.
Couch's Little Workshop
Jay and Wilma Couch
Inside
Brooklyn, Indiana
Looms, accessories, warp, books, DVDs finished goods.
Denise's Fleeces
Mike Curtis
Denise and
Morgantown, Indiana
Wool, mohair, alpaca roving, wool fleeces of natural colored sheep
including shetland, jacob, and fine fiber crosses
(cormo/borderleister/romeldale), pencil roving and dyed wool rovings.
Dilly's Impressions
Sue Bartle
 TBA
10:00
 West of Dublin
11:30

David Dwyer
1:00

Michael John Mackey
2:30

Bomar and Ritter
4:30
Clarksville, Indiana
Ceramic buttons and knitting bowls. Knitted and quilted items
French Ridge Pottery
Robbie Gayer
Outside
Tell City, Indiana
Yarn bowels, buttons, mugs all handcrafted out of clay.
 Tim Pearson
10:00
Fiber Ecstasies
 River City Blues Band
11:30
 Leigh Ann Yost
1:00
 Mike Karman and A Girl Named Earl
2:30
 Moonlight Peddlers
4:30
Melinda Gill
Russellville, Kentucky
Hand dyed yarn and fiber, finished knitted products, patterns,
looms, hand spun yarn, knitting and crochet accessories
Music Schedule
The Fiber Room at Baker and Company Llamas
Barb Baker
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Llama and alpaca roving, yarn. Crochet hooks, felted soaps, finished
products.
Sunday April 27
Inside
Follow the Star Studio
 West of Dublin
10:00
 Jeff Guernsey and Tammy Burke
11:30

John Gage
1:00

Ziesemer and Luckett
2:30
Victoria Smith, Kelly Conley Louisville, Kentucky
Hand spun yarns, hand dyed wool, finished items.
Granny's Goodies on the Go
Debi Eichert
Cincinnati, Ohio
Soft serve ice cream, cones, sundays, dipped cones malts &shakes,
banana boats and floats
Gwenyth Glynn Longwools
Outside
 John Schekler
10:00
 Los Luddites
11:30
 Kevin Rees
1:00
 Troubadours of Divine Bliss
2:30
Sheryl Meacham
Sellersburg, Indiana
Wensleydales, Teeswater products
Heart Srings
Stephanie Rudd-Weigleb & Laruen Hadley
Indianapolis, Indiana
All art composed with wood planks and artistic designs made of nails
and string.
Indiana Fiber Producers Association
Pamela Kinnaman
Bloomfield, Indiana
Raw fiber (Shetland, alpaca, mohair).
LunabudKnits
Stephanie Stratton
Nicholasville, Kentucky
Hand-dyed yarns and fibers, Stauch carders, Louet wheels, bags
and patterns.
Material Things
Jinkey Simpson
Carrollton, Kentucky
Original design Hand-cut quilting & appliqué, fiber design on
sportswear, quilted sportswear, quilted table runners & table toppers
Momco
The World’s Finest Fiber…
Patty Schneider
Corydon, Indiana
Rosaries, watches, paracord bracelets.
Patti's Creative Felts
Patti Hodge
Whiteland, Indiana
Alpaca roving, felted hats, scarfs, booties, stools, wet and needle
felting supplies, embelishment fibers.
The Shepherd's Criations Alpaca Farm
Eddie and Gale Etherton
Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Alpaca fiber, yarn, gloves, hats, scarves, stuffed animals, shawls,
felted soap
Alpaca
S & S Camelid Company
Sandra Savage
Moorehead, Kentucky
Alpaca and llama skeins, roving. All natural. 100% USA. Produced
from our Kentucky farm
Starstruck Cat Designs
Jill Carnell
Greenwood, Indiana
Yarn and books, patterns, tools for knitting and crochet, basket
supplies, finished products, rug hooking supplies.
When only the BEST will do.
Sweet Home Spun
JoAnn Adams
Pleasureville, Kentucky
Romney and Romney cross fleece, roving, yarn all from our own
flock. Knitting and spinning supplies, patterns.
S&S Camelid Co.
Teddi Robinson, Author & Jewelry Design
Teddi Robinson and Mary HyattClarksville, Indiana
Books, hand-made jewelry
www.SnSCamelidCo.com
HeartStrings
Three Broke Girls
Allison Doster, Paige Shipley, Danielle Beaver
Hanover, Indiana
Paintings, handmade accessories, earings, necklaces, rings,
Stephanie Rudd-Weigleb
Lauren Hadley
Fiber string artists
paracord, headbands, friendship bracelets, scarfs, ear
warmers, cross stitch, hair wraps.
Twice Inspired
Cherry Scott
Clarksville, Indiana
Handcrafted jewelry, hand knitted finished goods.
Indianapolis, IN
[email protected]
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Friends of the Festival
Hilda Miller
Jennifer Strube
Kelly Conley
John Conley
Jonn Frey Phyllis Croce
Terry Natterman
Julie Schweitzer
Ginger Shirley Ann Merriman
Joyce Nokes Ribble Jerry Merriman
Victoria Smith Kathleen Eve
Scott Meyer
Dawn Spyker
Jennie DiBeneditto WFPK
Shane Corbin Geoffrey Weiss
Town of Clarksville
Willow Pond Farm
Shirley Walter
Crete, Illinois
Home woven Romney Wool products; rugs, tote bags, pillows,
table mats, rovings-natural colors.
Woolbury Community Farms
Wampa Stomp Farm
Ballyhoo Farm
The Good Shepherd Farm
Cox's Creek, Kentucky
Ila Dezarn, Madeline Norman, Mary Wallace
Alpaca yarn and fiber, shetland yarn and fiber, handmade
items from alpaca and sheep, other handmade items including
dog toys and bagd made from recycled feed bags, feather
crafts.
Next year’s festival
April 25 & 26, 2015
Workshops
Saturday April 26
In the Lounge
Warping and weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom by Jay Couch
10:00 to 2:00
Granny Square Games by Debbie Coleman
10:00 to 1:00
Quick Start Spindle Spinning by Victoria Smith
10:00 to 1:00
Bird Felting by Shirley Walter
10:00 to 1:00
Quick Start Knitting by Victoria Smith
2:00 to 6:00
Intro to Crochet for Knitters by Debbie Coleman
2:00 to 6:00
Let’s Make a Hat, Simple yet very Fashionable by Patti Hodge
2:00 to 6:00
Sunday April 27
Beginning Crochet by Debbie Coleman
10:00 to 2:00
Shuttle Tatting by Victoria Smith
10:00 to 2:00
A big Thank-you
to the
Funders and Sponsors
for this year’s festival. Without their help and
support the festival would not be possible.
Town of Clarksville
Arts Council of Southern Indiana
Grinny Possum Fiber Arts
Joyce Nokes Ribble
Tri-County Shrine Club
Thanks!
Spin-In/Art-In
in the shelter
Bring your favorite fiber project and join us in the shelter
for a spin-n/art-in. Listen to the music and enjoy the
company of other like-minded fibery individuals.
Saturday and Sunday
beginning at 1:00 P.M.
Alpacas
Appearance made possible by the
Clark County
Luv-A-Llama 4H Club
Saturday April 26th
Notes
Music Table
CD’s of some of the music acts performing at the festival
will be available at the musician table. Make sure to pick up
a couple of CDs to help support live music. You can also
purchase CDs from the musician during their set. Donations
are also gladly accepted by the musicians.
Please support live music every chance you get.
Next year’s festival will be
April 25 and 26, 2015
If you are a vendor, your application is in your vendor
packet. If you are not a vendor and would like a booth at
next year’s festival, drop by the Information Booth and pick
up an application.
If you are a musical group and would like to play next year,
contact us at [email protected]
If you would like to help with next year’s festival, please
send your name to [email protected]. We can
always use a few good people.