Fiber Arts Contest 2025
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 2025 – Pattern Designers
The Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival and the Vermont Fibershed recognize that a well-designed pattern can make or break a project. Our theme this year is a nod to those talented designers who imagine, create, test and transfer their patterns ideas into instructions that we can follow for beautiful results.
Whether we purchase patterns, use patterns that were handed down through the years or design our own patterns, we all appreciate the talents of the designers.
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
- Contest entries must be received before noon on Friday, Oct 3. 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.
- Contest entries may be mailed to Jane Woodhouse, PO Box 29, Peacham VT 05862 and must be received by Saturday, Sept 27.
- Contest entries may be delivered to Tunbridge Fairgrounds on Friday morning, Oct 3, between 9am and noon.
- VSWF will make every effort to display and care for the contest entries, but assumes no responsibility for damaged, lost or stolen items.
- Entries must be picked up after 3pm on Sunday, Oct 5 at Floral Hall.
- 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:
2025 Theme
Pattern Designers
Tell us about the pattern designer. We will have prizes for Vermont designers, Designer Alley participants and for those who create their own patterns in both the Sweater and Wearable Accessories categories.
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Handspun Yarn
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!