Making Conversation

Live-ish @ Flock Fiber Festival - "When did you become a maker?" pt. 1


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As you might have heard, Flock Fiber Festival's inaugural weekend went off without a dropped stitch. ;) What an energy in that place. Just a lovely fiber festival in an old airplane hanger filled with an incredible community of makers and the best wifi that Seattle's Parks department can provide.  ;)
We sat down with some of the vendors and recorded meet and greets, in hopes of bringing a little Flock to those who could not make it or wanted to know more about the vendors that brought all their artistic beauty to year one. 
Stay tuned for part 2 and the full meet & greet videos coming to the Making app soon.  Watch this episode on YouTube!

  1. Rachelle of Moondrake Co. - An indie dyed yarn company, comprises a tantalizing array of colors and fibers. A Canadian now living a creative life in Oklahoma. A proud Asian maker, who loves knitting/crocheting/sewing. She is always interested in finding new materials and trendy colors for her dye work.
  2. Bethany and Rhys of Woolberry Fiber Co. - We are a family-owned yarn company specializing in hand-dyed yarns sourced from ethical farming practices. Bethany and Rhys run the business together along with our team of yarn assistants at our studio in the Denver metro area. 
  3. Britt of The Makers of Color Collective and KnotBadBritt -  Britt Garber is the crochet designer behind KnotBadBritt. She focuses on crochet shawls with impeccable drape and unique construction. Unable to ignore the lack of diversity in the fiber industry, she was driven to establish the Makers Of Color Collective, which serves as a directory of black, brown, indigenous, and melanated people in the fiber industry. The Collective is a donation-funded resource hosted on her website that allows individuals to discover new ways of diversifying their craft.
  4. Kim of Indigodragonfly - Indigodragonfly yarns offers our individual and unique takes on traditional yarn dyeing, refusing to be a cog in the cookie-cutter yarn industry. We specialize in luxury yarns with an emphasis on finding the best yarns as well as developing custom yarns with our global-wide mill partners to bring you products no one else has. 
  5. Veronica from Miss Babs -  Babs and the Miss Babs Team have been dyeing beautiful yarns in our studio in the mountains of eastern Tennessee since 2005. Miss Babs offers a wide variety of yarn bases from lace to chunky in a stunning range of colorways. For us, creating color is curiosity, joy, artistic expression, and often a quest to find that precise just-right hue. 
  6. Courtney from Silly Goose Yarns - We're about spreading joy and wonder through our playful, unexpected approach to creating and naming our products. With a mischievous twinkle in our eye, we infuse every skein of yarn with a playful spirit that inspires and intrigues makers of all levels, encouraging them to approach their craft with the same sense of unexpected delight. 

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