Fiber Arts Adventure Camp (for ADULTS) ADD ON to Camp

Want to enhance your Camp experience January 2 - 5, 2025? Upgrade with these workshops that will be included with the rest of your camp experience.

• Dye Workshops: Participate in either the "Dye Your Fiber" workshop on Thursday or the "Dye Your Yarn" workshop on Friday with the Vice Pigmentologist. This workshop includes the fiber or yarn and all the materials needed to create your own creation.
  • Want to make more than 1? No worries. There will be more available for purchase.
• 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.

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."