Fiber Arts Adventure Camp - Double Sleeping Room

About this experience

Kick off 2025 with your favorite fiber friends at the Fiber Arts Adventure Camp (for ADULTS!), happening January 2–5, 2025! This exciting event will be held at the La Salle Retreat Center in Glencoe, MO in the St. Louis, MO Region. Join Heather Swan, aka Yarn Queen, along with Katy Turbeville, aka Yarn Enabler, and Dean Turbeville, the Chaos Coordinator of the Yarn Adventure Truck. They will be joined by Q, the Chief Feline of The Foldout Cat, and Helena, Vice Pigmentologist of Oink Pigments. These fiber enthusiasts have crafted a retreat like no other!

EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM...OR FIBER IN THIS CASE 

Book your package by July 31, 2024 and you will receive additional swag that includes Camp Colorways by The Foldout Cat AND Oink Pigments (yarn or fiber - your pick), Fiber Tool Surprise, and Camp Stitch Markers in your Swag Bag.

Throughout the retreat, you'll have the chance to participate in various workshops and classes, recharge after the December rush, and plan your creative projects for 2025. Here's what you can look forward to:

• Project Planning with The Yarn Queen Using her book, Fiber Arts from Start to Finish, Heather will help you plan your 2025 projects. She'll also lead a needle felting activity and offer assistance with your stitching challenges throughout the weekend.
• Embroidery with The Yarn Enabler Katy will guide you in embroidering your retreat swag using yarn scraps. She'll also assist with other workshops and play Stitch Doctor with your projects.
• Wheel Evaluation with The Vice Pigmentologist Helena will discuss the pros and cons of buying antique wheels, navigating Facebook Marketplace, and determine the pros and cons of new versus used when it comes to spinning wheels.

All meals, snacks, and non-alcoholic beverages are included. Our Chaos Coordinator will ensure we're all well-nourished as we nurture our stitching souls.

For an enhanced experience, upgrade to the full camp and enjoy:

• Dye Workshops: Participate in either the "Dye Your Fiber" workshop on Thursday or the "Dye Your Yarn" workshop on Friday with the Vice Pigmentologist.
• Electric Spinning Wheel Exploration: Join Q in exploring various e-wheels, learning their features, and trying them out to see what suits your spinning style.
• To book these workshops, you MUST add it on. Click here to add to your camp experience!

Other fun things happening throughout the retreat:

·       Social Stitching: Variety of places to sit and stitch with your Fiber Friends that are available 24/7.

·       Weaving Hoop Fun w/ Q: Take advantage of Q’s expertise and buy a kit and seat at the table with Q to create a weaving project that is framed out and ready to go! This will require a kit at an additional cost.

·       Tarot Readings with Blue Empress Tarot: Sharon Blue of Blue Empress Tarot will join us on Friday and Saturday afternoon during social stitching time to provide mini tarot readings. Readings are an additional cost.

·       Shopping, Shopping, Shopping! You will have multiple opportunities to shop with Oink Pigments, The Foldout Cat, and Yarn Adventure Truck.

·       Finished Object Parade: Bring your projects you’ve completed in the past and share what you complete throughout the weekend with everyone at the final breakfast.

Camp Swag Package includes a T-shirt, a canvas bag, Fiber Arts from Start to Finish by Heather Swan, and a few surprises you'll discover at the retreat. If you would like to upgrade your T-shirt to a sweatshirt, you can do that as well.

• Want to upgrade your T-Shirt to a Sweatshirt or add a Sweatshirt? Click here to add it to your package.

Accommodation options include private and double sleeping rooms, as well as commuter options. All beds are single, and bathrooms are shared with one other sleeping room. For more details about the La Salle Retreat Center, click here. We will be staying in the East Building, which is ADA compliant and features an older, yet functional elevator for some of the sleeping rooms.

Retreat packages available include:

• Want some privacy? Click here to select Private Sleeping
• Want to share a room? Select THIS OPTION for Sleeping with a Fiber Friend  
• Are you commuting? Click here to select Commuter

Once you have selected your package you will receive a follow-up questionnaire so we get all the details correct! Be on the lookout for that email within 48 hours of booking.

Grab your seat before they are all gone and join us for a fun and rejuvenating retreat as we kick off 2025 with creativity and camaraderie!

Who are your Camp Counselors?

Helena Bristow has been Vice Pigmentologist at Oink Pigments since its inception in 2010. She learned to crochet at age 4, and taught herself to knit when she started graduate school for the first time. She often jokes that “knitting stuck; grad school did not.” Helena has now dropped out of two different graduate programs because she would rather be playing with yarn. Helena can usually be found driving all over the country in her yarn van, to fiber festivals and local yarn stores.

Heather Swan learned to crochet and sew as a young child. Her sewing stuck with her for years and then she picked up some knitting needles over 15 years ago never looking back. She eventually went back to her roots and started to crochet again. And as she has been falling down the fiber arts rabbit hole, she also enjoys spinning and weaving. Heather has coached youth sports since she was a youth and enjoys passing along her knowledge to help others take their interests to the next step. If you enjoy learning and laughing, you will enjoy spending time at the table with Heather picking up a new skill.

Dean Turbeville is your Chaos Coordinator and manager of all things efficiency and logistics. Born and raised in Arkansas, he recently left his job in medicine to travel full-time with Katy on their mobile yarn shop, the Yarn Adventure Truck. In his spare time, he dabbles in astrophotography to take beautiful photos of celestial objects.

Katy Turbeville is your Personal Yarn Enabler. Born and raised in Arkansas, she now travels the country full-time, bringing luxury, hand-dyed yarn to fiber enthusiasts across the US. She is the creative brain behind Yarn Adventure Truck and has been teaching a variety of fiber arts classes for over a decade. Katy also provides consulting services for those looking to start their own mobile yarn business or fiber festival.

Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business the Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of her partners and the help of a fluctuating number of cats. Having spent several past lives in other occupations–including bookseller, lawyer, and professional singer–Q now works fulltime towards earning her living as an artist and a creative. Q teaches infusing her praxis: create from your heart, make what gives you joy, and put beauty into the world. Q also makes and sells one-of-a-kind art batts built from the Foldout Cat's unique Batt Buffet, hand-dyed microbatch yarn and fiber, handspun yarn, finished fiber-arts items, and simple fiber-arts tools. She has taught, vended, or both at fiber events in multiple states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia."