Providing an event for gathering the fiber community, educating about the fiber arts, and a marketplace for all things fiber related. The Fiber Arts Festival is a relaxed, informal day that everyone in the family can enjoy.
August 2nd & 3rd, 2025
Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 10 to 3
Veterans Memorial Arena, West Fargo is our new location
No admission charge!
Story of the Fiber Arts Festival
It’s our 16th Year
The Fiber Arts Festival was born at Bonanzaville in 2008. The director wanted a special activity for a summer weekend, and Kim Baird and Virginia Dambach immediately started planning a festival to celebrate sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, and everything else that can be done with fiber, yarn and fabric.
The Festival has always been about FUN. We bring together all kinds of fiber people from the region to celebrate our crafts, learn from each other, and enjoy the camaraderie of other fiber people that can be hard to find in our wide open region. Vendors were an important part of the Festival since the beginning, especially as it was more difficult at that time to find local sources for some of the more specialized tools and materials for fiber arts.
Free demonstrations and hands-on activities are a strong focus of the Festival. We want to learn from each other, give artists a space to share our knowledge, and recruit new friends to our crafting community. Classes on special topics were offered for a fee.
In 2011, the Festival moved to Rheault Farm in Fargo, under the auspices of the Fargo Park District. Many activities took place outdoors, and amazingly, the weather was good for all 7 years we were there!
2018 brought us back to West Fargo to a new venue, the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. For the first time, everything fit under one roof, including the restrooms. One air-conditioned roof, which is much appreciated.
Because of the pandemic, no Festival was held in 2020. Everyone was so happy to resume in 2021 that even a power outage on Sunday morning couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm. Luckily, crews repaired the lines within an hour.
2024 marked the 15th Fiber Arts Festival. We had an amazing 1000 people attend! As always, we operate on volunteer power. Without our volunteers, this would not even be a yarn sale. So many people who are passionate about their craft have been delighted to pass it on. Seeing familiar faces, friends new and old, and those who are just discovering the Festival is the highlight of our summers. Observing young people, especially, discover the joys of making things with their hands shows us that our most important goal, having fun with fiber, is being achieved.
Thanks for attending! the Festival couldn’t happen without you.
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Fiber Arts Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
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Providing an event for gathering the fiber community, educating about the fiber arts, and a marketplace for all things fiber related. The Fiber Arts Festival is a relaxed, informal day that everyone in the family can enjoy.
August 2nd & 3rd, 2025
Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 10 to 3
Veterans Memorial Arena, West Fargo is our new location
No admission charge!
Story of the Fiber Arts Festival
It’s our 16th Year
The Fiber Arts Festival was born at Bonanzaville in 2008. The director wanted a special activity for a summer weekend, and Kim Baird and Virginia Dambach immediately started planning a festival to celebrate sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, and everything else that can be done with fiber, yarn and fabric.
The Festival has always been about FUN. We bring together all kinds of fiber people from the region to celebrate our crafts, learn from each other, and enjoy the camaraderie of other fiber people that can be hard to find in our wide open region. Vendors were an important part of the Festival since the beginning, especially as it was more difficult at that time to find local sources for some of the more specialized tools and materials for fiber arts.
Free demonstrations and hands-on activities are a strong focus of the Festival. We want to learn from each other, give artists a space to share our knowledge, and recruit new friends to our crafting community. Classes on special topics were offered for a fee.
In 2011, the Festival moved to Rheault Farm in Fargo, under the auspices of the Fargo Park District. Many activities took place outdoors, and amazingly, the weather was good for all 7 years we were there!
2018 brought us back to West Fargo to a new venue, the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. For the first time, everything fit under one roof, including the restrooms. One air-conditioned roof, which is much appreciated.
Because of the pandemic, no Festival was held in 2020. Everyone was so happy to resume in 2021 that even a power outage on Sunday morning couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm. Luckily, crews repaired the lines within an hour.
2024 marked the 15th Fiber Arts Festival. We had an amazing 1000 people attend! As always, we operate on volunteer power. Without our volunteers, this would not even be a yarn sale. So many people who are passionate about their craft have been delighted to pass it on. Seeing familiar faces, friends new and old, and those who are just discovering the Festival is the highlight of our summers. Observing young people, especially, discover the joys of making things with their hands shows us that our most important goal, having fun with fiber, is being achieved.
Thanks for attending! the Festival couldn’t happen without you.
Fiber Arts Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation