Spinners & Weavers Guild Palmerston North

22/06/2026

Aaaaaaand the star winner of the 2026 Fabulous Fibre Fair member's challenge iiiiiiiissssss....
Rose McKenzie with her fabulous needle-felted giraffe Mother & Child!
Rose is one of our talented needle-felting artisan. Her works have wowed many of us, and continues to do so. Well done Rose, may the great works continue and be an inspiration to all of us!❤️💐🌟

21/06/2026

What a great day Saturday was! What an opportunity to catch up, connect, meet new friends, learn new things and stock up on supplies!
We'd like to thank all our traders and members of the public, thank you for supporting our event. Please continue to support local events, local businesses, handmade products, and support the come back of wool!
And a big thank you to our members, you've worked hard to make this happen. Let's do it again next year!

19/06/2026

2026 Fabulous Fibre Fair is fabulousing fabulously!

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19/06/2026

2026 Fabulous Fibre Fair is about to open! Come join us!

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19/06/2026

Oh we forgot to remind everyone to wear your Lovenote or Ranunculus tomorrow. This is us four years ago.

Remember those days???

19/06/2026

One more sleep til our Fabulous Fibre Fair at the Palmerston North Leisure Centre (10-3)!

Preview of some exceptional raffles: a Little Peggy wheel, an introduction to spinning kit, a blanket, and a wood cut print. In addition, there're a couple of food baskets and of course, the magnificent traders' donations.

Please support us by buying raffle tickets. Tickets will be $2 each, 3 tickets for $5 or 7 tickets for $10.

Winners will be announced at 2 pm so please be there to collect your prizes. If you aren't able to stay, leave tickets with friends or check here for the uncollected prizes!

We're ready to welcome all of you! See you all tomorrow!

19/06/2026

2026 Fabulous Fibre Fair Traders Feature - sources of the raw materials and getting them processed:

Rocky Basin Wool are Sara, Joseph & Brock from Central Hawkes Bay. They offer quality Romney and Corriedale cross fleeces and have a mini fibre mill for wool processing as well.

Raydene Alpaca & Wool - Yvonne & Don from Waipawa are well-known for their luscious Gotland and Alpaca fleeces, also sheep skin rugs, minus the skin-ask Yvonne how.

Kane Carding - Sara & Neil from Dannevirke have been sheep farming for over 20 years. They offer fibres for felting, spinning as well as commission carding services.
https://kanecarding.co.nz/

Waione Wool Saddleblankets and Wool Carding - Lyn & Steve in Aokautere is our very own, local fleece carding service provider, as well as offering finished heavy duty felted products, mainly saddleblankets for the equine enthusiasts out there.
https://woolcarding.co.nz/contact-us/

Shardleigh Farm - offers white & coloured Polwarth and Romney.

19/06/2026

One more sleep!
Be ready and be there!

18/06/2026

2026 Fabulous Fibre Fair Traders Feature - the colourful ones!

Yarn Therapy - Jo from Levin is one of our indie yarn dyers. She has multi-coloured skeins, speckled yarns, luscious blends, and often does limited edition themed yarn colours.
on Instagram and https://yarntherapy.co.nz

WeatherWools - Wendy from Palmy is one of our local indie fibre dyers. She has the most lovely merino-silk blend fibre, dyed with colours that will take you straight to the inspiration of its name.

Pop Yarn from Dannevirke has a wide range of multi-coloured yarn skeins and fibre braids available, all exciting colours!

We can't wait to see what goodies will be available for all to peruse on Saturday!

16/06/2026

Many of us know what a "Spin-in" is, but also lots of us don't. If we search the term "spin-in" in the web, we either get results for gambling or gym spin class. Isn't that crazy?

Our "Solstice Spin-in" is now called Fabulous Fibre Fair for that reason. Although the name has changed, the nature of the gathering has not. The most important is still for us to offer a time and place for our crafters to catch up with one another and support the local crafts traders: coloured sheep breeders, wool and yarn manufacturers and importers, dyers ....

The second important goal is to show case our skills by way of demonstrations - spinning, weaving (loom & tablet), felting, crochet and wool preparation - at this event.

The biggest difference between Solstice Spin-in and Fabulous Fibre Fair is that the event is totally FREE. We'd like to welcome all who have been wondering what we do to come along and see for themselves and have a go. In addition to traders, we have the "White Elephant", where you can grab a wheel, a drum carder, yarn, book for a bargain price. You can also purchase raffle tickets to win some goodies, all are donated by the traders and our members.

In other words, we'd like to WELCOME you to our Fabulous Fibre Fair!