Vendor applications are now open!

It’s official! Vendor applications for the 2020 Peace Fibre Fest are now open. You can download the application form here on our Vendor page. If you joined us last year, you’ll see that there is a slight change in how we’re promoting our vendors this year. We’re also changing our internal application review process, so payment for a booth is only due in the new year.

We’ve got a bigger venue this year, so we’re hoping to have lots of new vendors and classes! If you would like to teach a class, please subscribe to our Teaching newsletter, at the very bottom of this page (and at the bottom of every page on the website).

Also, please feel free to email us or use the contact us form if you have any questions. We’d love to hear from you, and can’t wait to start going through all the wonderful applications!

Preparing for a new year!

It may only be September, but we’re starting to plan for our 2nd annual Peace Fibre Fest on April 26, 2020. We’ve already lined up a new venue with 2500 extra sq. ft. of space for vendors, as well as a much bigger area for classes and better parking. We’re so excited about the coming year, so watch this space for news! We’ll have our vendor applications up later this month!

Thanks to everyone who came to our first Fibre Fest!

If you were able to make it out, we hope you had a great time! And if you weren’t able to come, we hope you’ll enjoy these pictures - I didn’t even manage to get my camera out, but thankfully a lovely volunteer took some pictures for us.

Also, whether you made it to the event or not, we’d love to get your feedback. We have a 1 minute survey with a few quick questions that would be very helpful to us over here.

And now, pictures!

The Alberta Yarn Project

Allison Barnes Yarn

Burning Impressions

Cheryl Peebles Studio / Peace Country Spinners & Weavers

CJ Alpacas

Cone Tree Farms

Cozy Up Knits

Danielle - our coffee queen

Faking Sanity

Fresh Fleeces

Gauge, Swatch and Fit Class with Jocelyn

Gingersnap & Mr. Snapthat

Hippy Strings

Imagine Yarn

Knit Free of Dye

Time to relax! Seating provided by Farmhouse Vintage Rantals

A few of our awesome volunteers (the lucky ones got chairs)!

Melanie Hellum’s booth - while she was teaching a class! Oops!

Winding station volunteering

Peaceful Yarns

Ply on the Fly Knitting Demo

Poppy Yarn and Fibre

Riverside Farm

That Yarn Habit

Time for some prize draws!

Tinkerings / River’s Edge Pottery

Two Sticks & Ewe

Ugly Lumber Co

Beginner Reversible Colour Knitting with Bonne

Beginner spinning with Melanie

Gratuitous yarn and fibre pic!

Handmade crochet hooks

These aisles were packed for the first several hours!

Show and Tell and Project Inspiration

Exhausted but thrilled!

Only 10 more days!

Woooooooooo! Only 10 more days before the first ever Peace Fibre Fest! We’re getting so excited! Here’s our layout in case you’re wondering where to find your favourite vendors!

Share the news!

It’s getting so close! Thanks to those of you who have registered for knitting and spinning classes so far - we hope learning new skills will help make the day even better for you!

If you’re wondering how you can help, we’d love to get posters out in other communities where people are close enough to drive, but haven’t necessarily heard about the fibre fest yet. You can download and print our poster here to share in your community. If you’re interested in talking about the fibre fest with media outlets such as your local paper or radio or cable station, you can download and print or email our press release here.

We’d also love for you to join our Peace Fibre Fest make-along (#pffmal) if you haven’t already Help us share the excitement about our vendors by making any item using yarn, fibre, or a pattern from one of this year’s vendors, and be entered into a random draw to win a prize. Bring your finished item to the Fibre Fest, and sign our PFFMAL book at the Faking Sanity booth to get an extra entry into the prize draw. You can share your works in progress on our Ravelry group here, or share on social media using the #pffmal hashtag.

See you in 3 weeks!

Class registrations!

If you’ve been eyeing one of the classes on offer for this year’s Fibre Fest, the registration form is now up here. We’re keeping it simple for this year, so for the classes that do have a fee, it can be paid by cash, Visa or MC at the front desk of the Peace Fibre Fest on the day of the event. Remember to check what materials you need to bring (if any) to get the most out of your class, as well as whether there is any homework to do beforehand.

See you in 33 days!

Just over a month away!

Things are getting exciting here in Dawson Creek! With just over a month until the Fibre Fest, we’re moving into a heavier media and promotional phase right now. Stay tuned for a special contest coming up next week to win a Peace Fibre Fest gift card!

Also, a knitter from Calgary is planning on coming up, and has offered a ride share, so if you’re in the Calgary area, and are thinking of coming to the Fibre Fest. give us a call at Faking Sanity or use the contact us form on the website, and we’ll get you connected!

And demos, too!

We’ve added a few more classes and demos to the day’s activities at the Fibre Fest. Whether you’re wanting an in depth 2 hour class about gauge and fit, or a free 10 minute demo about chain plying, keep checking in on the classes page for new options that might be of interest. Classes and demos are a great way to expand your skills, especially if there are classes or demos that aren’t offered in your area.

We have classes!

Our first 2 instructors have confirmed their classes! Check out the new “Classes” tab on the main navigation bar for details. So far, we have a beginner spinning class and a knitting class all about gauge, swatch and fit, and there are a couple more in the works. We’re hoping to add a few more, as well as a few demos in the next few weeks, and we’ll be adding a registration link for those that require pre-registration. Why not pick up a new skill when you come?

Yarny Stocking Stuffers!

For me, the anticipation for an event starts long before the event itself, which means that I’m already stalking the shops of our vendors to plan out my purchases next April at the Fibre Fest.

Pretty yarn on paper can become pretty yarn in person!

If you’re the same, or know someone else who is, a stocking stuffer to a Fibre Fest is just about the perfect gift! The Peace Fibre Fest now has gift cards available in both $10 and $25 denominations, which can be picked up from now until December 22nd at Faking Sanity if you would like one in time for Christmas.