Fiber in the Boro

Date: 10/20/2012
Time: 10:00 AM TO 5:00 PM

Lane Agri-Park community center and livestock barn
315 John R Rice Blvd
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

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Event Description:

Second annual Fiber in the Boro, Middle Tennessee’s Fall Fiber Festival, to be held October 19-20, 2012

Fiber in the Boro, Murfreesboro’s biggest fiber festival, will be held on October 19 and 20 th at the UT-TSU Rutherford County Extension, Lane Agri-Park Complex.

This year, classes will be held all day Friday and an evening fiber market, from 5 to 8 p.m., will let shoppers get a head-start on Saturday!

The next day, Saturday, October 20, will be a full festival day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with more classes and a market with more than 40 vendors with fibery goods.

Knitters, spinners, fans of sheep and alpacas, and families alike will find something fun at the event held in the Community Center. Local artists will demonstrate carding fiber, spinning and weaving and we’ll have activities for children.

The festival admission is free. More than forty businesses will sell yarn, fiber, finished textiles, fiber equipment, handmade soap and other delights. Vendors include independent dyers (yarnies) who will bring all the colors of the spectrum, alpaca and llama farmers, knitting shops, silk dyers and more.

A complete list of vendors and their websites can be found at www.fiberintheboro.com.

Fiber in the Boro will also offer classes on the 19th and 20th (for a fee) in textile skills such as spinning, knitting, locker hooking, felting, crocheting and quilting. The classes are from two to three hours long. Registration is available now on the festival website.

Lane Agri-Park is at 315 John R Rice Blvd in Murfreesboro, TN, an easy exit off I-24. Directions are on the UT-TSU Rutherford County Web Site: https://utextension.tennessee.edu/rutherford/Pages/default.aspx

The festival replaces the fiber corner traditionally found at Cannonsburgh’s Harvest Days, continuing the fiber tradition in a new location on a new date.




Directions:
Lane Agri-Park is at 315 John R Rice Blvd in Murfreesboro, TN, an easy exit off I-24. Directions are on the UT-TSU Rutherford County Web Site: https://utextension.tennessee.edu/rutherford/Pages/default.aspx

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