Fiber Arts Contest

Fiber Arts Contest 2024

Our Fiber Arts Contest is a wonderful opportunity for fiber artists to share their beautiful creations and have them on display for Festival-goers. We welcome garments, accessories, household and decorative items and other projects that spark your imagination. The judges will be looking at craftspersonship and technique, aesthetics, originality and complexity.

Festival Theme 2024 – International Year of Camelids

The Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival and the Vermont Fibershed appreciate the different species of camelids that provide fiber, meat and milk in many countries. The larger of the camelids also work as livestock guardians and transporters of people and cargo.

In Vermont, we are most familiar with llamas and alpacas – both of which thrive here and provide amazingly soft and warm fiber.

Fiber Arts Contest Entry Forms

Each contest entry must be accompanied by TWO copies of the contest entry card.
Each person who enters the contest must provide ONE copy of the Contest Summary Form.
Click on the form names below to open PDF files.

Fiber Arts Contest Entry Card
Please provide two copies per entry

Fiber Arts Contest Summary Form
Please provide one summary form per person

Fiber Arts Contest Rules

1. Contest entries must be received before noon on Friday, Oct 4. Judging will take place on Friday afternoon to allow us to open the contest to the public as soon as the Festival opens on Saturday.
2. Contest entries may be mailed to Jane Woodhouse, PO Box 29, Peacham VT 05862 and must be received by Saturday, Sept 28.
3. Contest entries may be delivered to Tunbridge Fairgrounds on Friday morning, Oct 4, between 9am and noon.
4. VSWF will make every effort to display and care for the contest entries, but assumes no responsibility for damaged, lost or stolen items.
5. Entries must be picked up after 3pm on Sunday, Oct 6 at Floral Hall.
6. If you wish to have your entry mailed back to you, it must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope or box.

Fiber Arts Contest Categories:

Handspun Yarn

Cash prize for skein made with at least 70% camelid fiber from a producer within your fibershed.
Donated by Vermont Fibershed

Any yarn weight is accepted. Yarn must consist of at least 50% animal fiber and can be natural or dyed colors. Each handspun skein must contain a minimum of 2 oz of fiber for dk, worsted or bulky weight, 1 oz for lace, fingering or sport weight. Each skein must be 1-1/2 to 2 yards in circumference, wound neatly and tied in at least two places. Skeins will be judged on consistency of spinning and plying, appropriate hand and overall quality.

Category 1 – Fine plied yarn 
Category 2 – Medium plied yarn 
Category 3 – Bulky single 
Category 4 – Novelty yarn 

Please give us the name of the breed, fiber content and name of fiber producer or farm. 

Sweaters – Knit and Crochet

Category 1– Commercial yarn
Category 2– Handspun yarn

Wearable Accessories – Knit and Crochet

Show us your knit and crocheted gloves, mittens, cowls, scarves, shawls, hats, leg warmers, socks, etc. 

Category 1 – Commercial yarn 
Category 2 – Handspun yarn 
**Combination entries must specify Category 1 or 2 to be judged.

Household or Decorative Items – Knit and Crochet

Use your imagination! Table runners, pillows, wall hangings…show us what sparks your knit and crochet creativity!

Category 1 – Commercial yarn 
Category 2 – Handspun yarn 
** Combination entries must must specify Category 1 or 2 to be judged.

Felting

Enter your felted wool creations. Two or three dimensional works of wooly art are limited only by your creative genius!

Category 1 – Wet felted 
Category 2 – Needle felted
Category 3 – Handwoven, knitted or crocheted and felted 
** Combination entries must must specify Category 1, 2 or 3 to be judged.

Handwovens

Show us your handcrafted fiber projects!

Category 1 – Garments 
Category 2 – Wearable accessories
Category 3 – Rugs, blankets and other non-garment items

Hooked and Braided Rugs

Category 1 – Hooked rug
Category 2 – Braided rug

Baskets

This category is for wool gathering baskets and vessels using traditional and non-traditional materials.

Category 1 – Traditional basket materials
Category 2 – Non-traditional basket materials

The Next (Wooly) Generation (for fiber lovers 12 and under)

Show off your fiber creations! Knit or crochet clothes for your dolls, a blanket for your dog, a hat or dishtowel, a wooly felted creature, felted soap or what ever your marvelous imagination can come up with using animal fiber as your medium. Even a handspun skein of yarn.  The contest is not judged and every entry wins a prize!