CLASSES & demos

What’s a fibre fest without a chance to see a fun demo or learn a new skill? The first class descriptions are now listed below.

Registrations are now open.

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2025 CLASSES:

Felting custom designs on fabric

Instructor: Lynsie Forster

• Registration Required: Click HERE to register (on our Faking Sanity website)

• Time: 11:15 am - 1:45 pm in Classroom 1 (behind the curtain) at the Peace Fibre Fest on April 27

• Cost: $50 - includes all supplies (felting mat, felting needles, background felt cloth, and all wool)

• Materials Required: None (but you may want to bring a thimble or two from home)

• Pre-requisites: N/A

• Description: Learn about the tools and materials required for felting, as well as different ways to felt. Then, try your hand at felting your own design on a piece of felted wool cloth. All materials including the felt background, felting needles, felting pad/mat, all the wool you need, as well as a hoop to display your felting in are included in the class. At the end, you can frame and hang it, or use it flat as a coaster or trivet, and start planning your next project!

finger knit a cozy lap blanket

Instructor: Connie Potratz (CC’s Creations)

• Registration Required: Click HERE to register (on our Faking Sanity website)

• Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm in Classroom 3 (behind the curtain) at the Peace Fibre Fest on April 27

• Cost: $75 - includes 3 balls of Bernat Blanket Big yarn

• Materials Required: N/A

• Pre-requisites: N/A

• Description: Connie of CC's Creations will be teaching this fun class where you will learn to manually knit a blanket with just your hands and 3 balls of jumbo yarn. At the end of the class, you will have your very own, squishy lap blanket to take home and snuggle in!

  
  
  

macrame a wall hanging

Instructor: Rhian Pardy

• Registration Required: Click HERE to register (on our Faking Sanity website)

• Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm in Classroom 2 (behind the curtain) at the Peace Fibre Fest on April 27

• Cost: $100 (includes design, materials and all tools required for the class - can add fairy lights for $5 more)

• Materials Required: None, but can bring scissors to avoid waiting for shared classroom supplies

• Pre-requisites: N/A

• Description: Rhian is coming to teach this fun class for a beautiful macrame wall hanging. The class includes all the supplies you'll need, as well as a colour option (Rhian will email you regarding your colour choice), and scissors to borrow. Learn about the structure, the knots, the supplies, and start a new craft! At the end you’ll have a beautiful wall hanging of feathers hanging off a moon.

  
  
  

CROCHET AMIGURUMI

Instructor: Jackie Moore

• Registration Required: Click HERE to register (on our Faking Sanity website)

• Time: 11:!5 am - 1:45 pm in Classroom 3 (behind the curtain) at the Peace Fibre Fest on April 27

• Cost: $40 - includes original pattern by Jackie and all yarn and notions required

• Materials Required: A 3.5mm crochet hook

• Pre-requisites: Must know how to single crochet and slip stitch

• Description: Jackie of Amidorable Crochet designed an adorable jellyfish for this class that can be made into a keychain. You’ll learn how to crochet in the round and shape these awesome little creatures, as well as how to stuff and put them together, and finish them off to ensure maximum cuteness!

  
  
  

Drop Spindle Spinning

Instructor: Mary Tylosky

• Registration Required: Click HERE to register (on our Faking Sanity website)

• Time: 11:15 am - 1:45 pm in Classroom 2 (behind the curtain) at the Peace Fibre Fest on April 27

• Cost: $75 - includes 50g of wool, an info booklet and several breed samples, and use of spindle during class

• Materials: Bring a small towel to put on the floor in front of you, so the spindle doesn’t break if/when you drop it

• Pre-requisites: None

• Description:

  Faking Sanity will be providing spindles you can borrow for the class, and Mary will have a reference leaflet with various wool samples for you to take home. All you need is a desire to learn to spin! If you want to keep the yarn you’ve spun on the class spindle and keep going, you can purchase it after the class, and never put it down again! This class has sold out every year and is always one of our most requested classes. Learn about different types of spindles, and the benefits of each, along with the basics of spinning.

past class examples:

Instructor: Cheryl Peebles

Are you interested in weaving, but want to try it before committing to a big loom purchases? This class is perfect for you! Learn 4 basic tapestry techniques (diagonals, blending or hatching, interlocking and dots/bars/checks). Using these techniques, you’ll create geometric images on your cloth, suitable as a wall hanging, or sewn up into your own woven passport wallet! Cheryl also sells weaving supplies, so if you love the class, check out her booth afterwards.

fix your knits class

Instructor: Jocelyn Shuman

Mistakes happen! It’s a fact of life and it’s no different in knitting. Rather than ripping out your hard work to fix the mistake that you made a dozen rows ago, learn how to fix the mistake on the fly!

This class will cover a variety of techniques to fix errors in your knitting without having to just rip back all the way. You’ll learn how to pick up dropped stitches on the needles (even several rows later), how to fix errors in lace and cable patterns, as well as correcting mistakes and pulls or runs in a finished project. Bring any projects you have with mistakes or issues that you have questions about, and Jocelyn will include as many of those issues in the class as she can as well.