Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum

Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum exhibitions and educational programs in all fiber arts

06/13/2026

Pieces for a Piece is now on view in our 2nd floor galleries! The show was curated by and and features work by:
April EJ Oh -
Caitlin Parker -
Don't Kyu Kim - .sewing.man
Miran Lee
Yoko Kubota -
Youngmin Lee

These exquisite works return us to the slow language of making. The pull of cloth, the rhythm of repeated stitching, and the quiet persistence of the hand reminds us that wholeness is rarely given--it is patiently built, piece by piece.

🏵Free Family Day - July 18th🏵Join us for free admission and art activities for all ages! Plus a very special guest! Loca...
06/12/2026

🏵Free Family Day - July 18th🏵

Join us for free admission and art activities for all ages! Plus a very special guest! Local artist & illustrator Phoebe Wahl will read and sign her new children's book Story Rug at 11:30 am.

More about Story Rug: "From two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall and beloved artist Phoebe Wahl comes a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the satisfaction of learning a new craft."

See you there 🦋🌻☀️📚✂️🧶🧵🪡🐛🥳

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Summer Natural Dye Workshops at the QFA Museum with ! 🍄June 13 - Local Color WorkshopLearn about local plant color sourc...
06/05/2026

Summer Natural Dye Workshops at the QFA Museum with !

🍄June 13 - Local Color Workshop
Learn about local plant color sources and methods of sustainable foraging! Experiment with the hues of madrona bark, dyers polypore, lichen & various modifiers!

💙July 11 - Indigo Workshop
Discover the history, mystery, and method of dyeing with an indigo fructose vat! Experiment with various dye, resist, and shibori techniques.

✨️Learn from Sulai!
Sulai Lopez is an interdisciplinary artist & educator specializing in natural dyes and utilizing textiles as a means to cultivate connection and creativity within communities. She is currently based in thr PNW where she grows her own dye plants and facilitates art workshops.

🍃Register online at www.qfamuseum.org!

Attention Quilters & Fiber Artists! Tomorrow is the last day to submit your entries for the 2026 International Quilt & F...
06/03/2026

Attention Quilters & Fiber Artists! Tomorrow is the last day to submit your entries for the 2026 International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival. We have received over 200 entries and there's still time to submit yours!

At Play in the Land of Color workshop with trailblazing multimedia artist and designer, Dorothy Bird! 🟡🌈🔵🍏🌸🧶🦋🟣The QFA Mu...
05/29/2026

At Play in the Land of Color workshop with trailblazing multimedia artist and designer, Dorothy Bird! 🟡🌈🔵🍏🌸🧶🦋🟣

The QFA Museum is thrilled to present Bird's retrospective exhibition June 17 - September 13, 2026 in our 3rd floor gallery.

✨️The QFA Museum Store is undergoing a transformation!✨️ We will continue offering unique and high-quality vintage fabri...
05/28/2026

✨️The QFA Museum Store is undergoing a transformation!✨️ We will continue offering unique and high-quality vintage fabrics, quilts, and sewing tools...AND we want to hear what YOU would like to see in the store! More local makers? Kits and materials? Garments? Museum swag? Let us know!! 🥳

✨️The QFA Museum Store is undergoing a transformation✨️We will continue offering unique and high-quality vintage fabrics...
05/28/2026

✨️The QFA Museum Store is undergoing a transformation✨️
We will continue offering unique and high-quality vintage fabrics, quilts, and sewing tools...AND we want to hear what YOU would like to see in the store!

More local makers? Kits and materials? Garments? Museum swag? Let us know in the comments! 🪡🧵

We are thrilled to announce that Kathie R. Kerler will be a judge at this year's International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festi...
05/27/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Kathie R. Kerler will be a judge at this year's International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival!
Kerler has been judging since 2002. She is certified through the National Association of Certified Judges (NACQJ) and has judged over 200 shows at the national and regional level.

Kerler graduatwd from the Institute of London City & Guilds in design and embroidery, and studied at the Lesage School of Needlework in Paris. For seven years she was a contributing editor to American Quilter Magazine. Kerler is a fiber artist herself, and an international award-winning quilter.

More about Kathie Kerler at www.kathiekerler.com and follow her at !

🍃🍁New 1st Floor Exhibition!🌲🌳Beneath the Boughs Terri Shinn On View May 13 - July 26, 2026 For fiber artist Terri Shinn,...
05/21/2026

🍃🍁New 1st Floor Exhibition!🌲🌳
Beneath the Boughs
Terri Shinn
On View May 13 - July 26, 2026

For fiber artist Terri Shinn, trees have become a source of never-ending fascination and inspiration. Besides their wonderful textures and diverse colors, they embody amazing lines and shapes, which Shinn explores and honors in her incredibly detailed vessel series.

Shinn creates fiber layers to mirror the many layers of tree bark. Using hand stitching, machine embroidery, hand-dyed fabrics, needle and wet felting, Shinn produces her intricate studies of nature.

Terri Shinn resides in Snohomish, WA. She is a member of , and a serves on the board of the . Her textile art has been featured in numerous books, regional, national, and international shows.

Help establish the QFA Museum's first ever natural dye garden! Saturday, May 30th from 11am-2pm in the museum's side yar...
05/09/2026

Help establish the QFA Museum's first ever natural dye garden! Saturday, May 30th from 11am-2pm in the museum's side yard🦋

Local textile artist will facilitate a free community work party to get the garden going!

Join us in learning how to plant and care for marigold, indigo, dyers chamomile, coreopsis, and cosmo, all plants that can be used to create a variety of beautiful, natural hues🏵

There will be plant starts for sale so that you can go home & plant your own natural dye garden🌱

The dye garden will be used for ecological education, natural dyeing workshops, and will be a beautiful gathering space for humans and pollinators alike🐝

This is a free event & all are welcome! Please visit www.qfamuseum.org/education to RSVP! This helps us plan ahead ☀️

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La Conner, WA
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