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Join us for our 2nd annual Fiber Study!

Starting in January, we’ll gather together to learn about the wild world of plant fibers! The-Fiber Along is a series of monthly Zoom meetings featuring a different special guest each month sharing their experience of working with plant fibers. Fiber-Along participants work independently on their own projects with their plant fiber of choice, in their craft of choice. You can participate whether you’re learning to grow or process flax, or spin cotton, or knit or weave–as long as it’s 100% plant fiber! Participants are invited to join the Fiber-Along Slack channel to share project notes with the other participants.

The Fiber-Along is an educational, community-building event open to all current NJ Fibershed  members. Not a member? You can join here. We’re offering flexible pay-what-you-can pricing for the program. The registration fee includes the Fiber-Along drawstring tote, fiber plant sample pack with ramie roving and New Jersey-grown cotton and flax, and a blank fiber study note page. Totes will ship in early January.

Meetings will be held on the third Sunday of each month from January – July, from 8 p.m. –  9 p.m. All presentations will be recorded and available to participants for the during of the series.

Schedule of special guests*:

• January 19, Flax               Janell Wysock, PA Flax Project
• February 16, Cotton       Tameka Peoples, Seed2Shirt
• March 16, Ramie             Youngmin Lee
• April 13**, Hemp            Joan Ruane
• May 18,  Piña, Abaca      Lorenza Wong
• June 15, Cotton               Melanie Duarte
• July 20, Flax growing    Joan Mruk
• August 17, Cotton           Better Cotton

*Schedule is subject to change
**Meeting held on the 2nd Sunday due to the Easter holiday