Illinois Fiber Festival 2025

Coming March, 2025

Hi Illinois Fiber Festival Friends, We are delayed in sending out notifications for our vendor and instructor applications. The location needed to be changed, and we’ve had difficulty gaining information from venues that would be perfect for this event. Thank you to several people who have offered venue suggestions and checked in with us to learn of any updates.

The process feels much like moving this cranky mom into the maternity ward by myself. Sometimes the moms work with me, and sometimes they don’t want anything to do with me.

This gal, for example, took forever to follow her baby and me along the feed bunk. She’s an experienced mom, and she’s made this trek before. I tried and tried to get her to follow… and, some venues took forever to reply to our inquiry. Some of them never replied. Cyndy tried repeatedly and still nothing.

Some venues gave us a hint they may work with us, similar to the hint in this gal’s eye that she may follow. She didn’t, and neither did they.

We had some great suggestions from friends regarding where to look for the facility, and we appreciate you!

Yes, after several trips down the feed bunk, I moved the mom and babe into the nursery. So after several tries and fails we have a new location in a new city on a new date. Friday, October 17 we will announce a move to the new site and new date. We will include the instructor and vendor application link for the Illinois Fiber Festival 2025. Thank you for your patience.

Talk soon, Anne & Cyndy