MAFA is grateful to our Makers Meetup Supporters
New for 2025
Join us at the Makers Meetup in the Marketplace, Thursday and Friday afternoon, and all-day Saturday.
Relax with fiber friends, shop the vendor booths, check out the exhibits, work on projects, take a break from Weekend Classes, join in make-and-take projects, and see fiber arts demos. It’s all at the new Makers Meetup.
Feel free to bring your spinning wheel or spindle, loom, knitting, crochet, stitching, or any other portable fiber art to work on at the meetup.
Questions? Want to help with the Meetup? Interested in leading a make-and-take activity, or doing a fiber arts demo, whether weaving, spinning, sock machine, knitting, crochet, etc? Email Makers Meetup Host Gigi Matthews at meetup@mafafiber.org.
Find information on Weekend Classes on Friday and Saturday HERE.
Marketplace and Makers Meetup Fiber Arts Demos
| Time | Demo | Vendor | Booth # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Great wheel spinning demos, and there will be plenty of fiber on hand to give spinning on the great wheel a try. | Wheelers Chairs | Vendor Booth 4 |
| Ongoing | Slow-stitch embroidery on Nuno felting. | Neal Howard, Hencefoth Yarns | Vendor Booth 5 |
| Ongoing | Knitting techniques. | Christa Hobson, Aisling Yarns | Vendor Booth 27 |
| Ongoing | Will be demonstrating rug braiding techniques off and on throughout the day. | Marjorie Corrow, Braider’s Circle | Vendor Booth 13 |
| Ongoing | Weaving on a Saori or other small loom. | Flora Daniels, Flora’s Fiber Farrago | Vendor Booth 25 |
| Ongoing | FUZZY BUNNIES!!! | Lorraine and Pete Hanson, THE Fuzzy Ear | Vendor Booth 15 |
| Ongoing | Demos of Purrington Looms and tools. | Bruce Bannerman, Purrington Looms | Vendor Booth 17 |
| Ongoing | Drop spindle demos. | Heather Kennedy, Zen Fiber Arts | Vendor Booth 28 |
| Friday, June 27 | |||
| Noon | Art batt carding. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| 1:00 pm | How to use locks with needle or hook. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 2:00 pm | Stranded knitting. | Tracy Aichele | Makers Meetup |
| 3:00 pm | Freestyle weaving. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| 4:00 pm | How to use locks in weaving and wet felting. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 6:30-7:30 pm | Book Signing – Susan Kesler-Simpson, Summer and Winter Simply and Weaving Hand Towels Simply. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| 6:30-7:30pm | Book Signing – Tom Knisely. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| 7:30-8:30 pm | Book Signing – Cindy Conner, Homegrown Flax and Cotton. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| Saturday, June 28 | |||
| 11:00 am | Make & take circular weavings. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| Noon | Color fiber blending. | Dia Robinson, Twisted Urban Fiber Arts | Makers Meetup |
| 1:00 pm | Talk: All about buttons! | Jennifer Lackovic, Button Babes | Makers Meetup |
| 2:00 pm | How to use locks in yarnmaking. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 3:00 pm | Color fiber blending. | Dia Robinson, Twisted Urban Fiber Arts | Makers Meetup |
| 4:00 pm | Windings (small woven artworks.) | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |