This is a group of fiber enthusiasts from Southeastern Minnesota who embrace many crafts such as spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, tatting, crocheting, quilting, hand-dyeing and more. We are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. The group started as a weaver’s guild but soon grew to more fiber crafts because most of us cannot just have one obsession. Several of the founding members still attend regularly. We meet monthly at to share recently completed projects and to enjoy presentations by a guest speaker. We also have 8 focus groups that meet on a regular basis. Visit our great web site at www.zumbroriverfiberartsguild.com
In August we also enjoy a pot luck meeting at a local park primarily so that we can experiment with different dye pots or make/take projects that might be messy. We enjoy an all-day fiber fun play day several times a year where we bring our projects and work on them with like-minded company.
Many of the members knit or crochet Chemo Caps as a service project which are distributed to the Mayo Clinic for their oncology patients. The yarn is provided by Join the Journey and over 6000 caps have been donated. We also support Ronald McDonald, and the Transplant House in Rochester with mittens and scarves for visiting patients and their families.
On display is our 2025 Blue and Yellow Challenge. Blue and yellow were chosen to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Blue for the “river” in our name and gold to celebrate our “golden” anniversary. Some stretched themselves to embrace technical challenges and learn new techniques. We welcome all levels of expertise so please come and join us.
