2026 Festival Workshops
When you sign up for a workshop, festival admission is included. Just let the gate staff know which class you’re taking when you arrive.
Each workshop has a minimum age for students to register, specified by our instructors. If you are registering a student under age 18, double check that their age is allowed in the workshop you selected!
Workshop signups have closed so that we can have time to prepare for the festival. See you there!
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Sculpting with Wool: Creating an Adorable Needle Felted Donkey with Monique Mullis
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In this workshop, students will discover the satisfying art of needle felting by creating a charming donkey companion. Participants will learn to transform loose wool into a structured 3D figure through a guided, step-by-step process. The instructor will demonstrate essential techniques for shaping the body and adding expressive details like floppy ears and a fuzzy mane.
Beyond the project, students will gain a solid understanding of felting tools as well as receive fun and easy tips to ensure success every time. By the end of the session, attendees will be proficient in basic sculptural felting and leave with a finished handmade donkey and the confidence to continue crafting at home.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday June 6, 1pm-4pm
Skill Level
This session is perfectly paced for absolute beginners, yet offers enough professional tips and advanced troubleshooting to help experienced felters refine their technique.
Materials Fee
Materials Fee: $0 (Included in registration)
All supplies and tools needed to complete the project during class will be included. Additionally, to encourage continued practice, students will receive a take-away kit that includes a felting pad, specialized needles, and enough additional wool to create a second donkey friend at home.
Students Should Bring
No student provided materials are needed.
About the Instructor
Monique Mullis is a retired Colorado State Park Ranger and the co-owner of The Felted Dog. A self-taught needle felter for over fourteen years, Monique draws deep inspiration from nature, often infusing her 3D wool creatures with a signature touch of whimsy. Over the years, she has designed unique felting kits and perfected a variety of "fiber hacks" as well as developed specialized felting tools designed to ensure a successful project for every student, every time.
For over a decade, Monique has shared her expertise as a traveling instructor and vendor at premier events across the country, including the Estes Park Wool Market, the Texas Fleece and Fiber Festival, Eureka Fiber in the Ozarks and more. When she isn't on the road, she teaches monthly workshops at her storefront and maker’s space in Pueblo, Colorado. While she loves perfecting her own fiber art, Monique’s true passion lies in empowering others with the skills and tools they need to confidently create their own woolly masterpieces.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
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Learn How to Knit Socks with Andrea Wong
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Learn to knit cozy, custom-fit socks from the top down in this beginner-friendly class. We will cover the traditional cuff-down method, including a stretchy cast-on, creating the heel flap and gusset, turning the heel, and finishing with a seamless Kitchener stitch toe. Perfect for confident beginners, this class sets you up for future knitting adventures and socks for all your loved ones.
This workshop is open to students age 16+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Sunday June 7, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
Basic knitting, purling, knitting in the round, and decreases (SSK and K2tog)
Materials Fee
$5.00 for the pattern
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
• 1 skein of fingering weight/sock yarn to obtain gauge (optional). If you want to just practice, you can bring thicker yarns and adequate needles for it. Gauge: 28.0 sts = 4 inches. Please check your gauge before you start knitting the sock to save time later. • Needles: Size US #2 set of 4 double pointed needles (2.75 mm) OR needle of preference (two circular needles same size or magic loop)
• Notions: Tapestry needle, stitch markers, scissors.
About the Instructor
In the past 23 years Andrea has taught thousands of knitters in the USA and abroad to use the Portuguese Style of Knitting, either personally, through her 3 published DVDs, or her book “Portuguese Style of Knitting – History, Traditions and Techniques”.
As the foremost expert on the subject, she teaches knitting at venues throughout the country and abroad, has been published in a variety of knitting magazines, TV programs, and books and is the lead designer for her business, Andrea Wong Knits. She continues to travel the world researching and developing her style of knitting, and bringing that knowledge to knitters worldwide.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Temari - Japanese Hand Embroidered Balls with Kelly Bonny
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In this workshop participants will learn about the Japanese art of Temari including its history and how to create these beautiful, hand-embroidered balls. Students will learn how a Temari is setup and readied for design work. They will be able to dive right into stitching the design work on a ball and leave the class with their own Temari ball.
This workshop is open to students age 12+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Friday June 5, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
All levels
Materials Fee
$15 to cover ball, yarn, sewing/metallic/embroidery thread, needle, and case
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
All provided by instructor
About the Instructor
Kelly Bonny lived in Tokyo, Japan, where she studied Temari under her Master Sensei, Neelu. She earned her Intermediate and Advanced certifications while in Japan. Since returning back to the United States in 2019, she has continued learning from her Sensei. In the Spring of 2021, she submitted 5 advanced balls chosen by her Sensei to the Japan Temari Association. She received her Teaching Certification in July 2021 and she can now be called Sensei. She finds Temari to be a very beautiful art, which brings her great joy in teaching, discovering new techniques and tricks, creating designs, using new color schemes.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Beaded Crochet Rope Bracelet with Melissa Oswald & Nicole Ball
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Do you want to elevate your crochet game? In this class, we will use beads and beading cords to crochet beautiful jewelry designs. You will learn how to thread beads, create designs, crochet with beads, and finish your jewelry creations. By the end of class, you will have started your journey into beaded crochet jewelry.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Friday June 5, 1pm-4pm
Skill Level
Beginner. Students should be familiar with both the chain and single crochet stitches and be comfortable working in the round.
Materials Fee
$25 for 50gm beads in 2 colors, spool of s-lon, clasp and threading needle
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
• Size 1.60mm or 1.75mm steel crochet hook
• locking stitch markers
• scissors (optional)
• a bent tip tapestry needle (optional)
About the Instructor
Founded in 2017, TexasStitchChicks started as two friends passionate about creating adorable crochet amigurumi. Today, we’ve grown into a trusted name in the fiber arts community—designing original patterns, teaching hands-on classes, providing technical editing, and crafting high-quality samples.
We’re proud to have partnered with leading brands such as Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers, KnitPal, Miss Babs, Crafts Americana, and Stolen Stitches, bringing creative projects to life.
Our expertise has also been showcased through teaching engagements with the Crochet Guild of America and at numerous fiber festivals across the country.
Whether you’re looking for unique patterns, professional editing, or expert instruction, TexasStitchChicks is your go-to resource for all things crochet.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Introduction to Lacemaking with a Tatting Shuttle with Amelia Chesley
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Students in this workshop will learn and practice the basics of shuttle tatting, including an overview of shuttle types, key terminology, how to wind shuttles, how to read patterns, and the basic techniques of tatting: the double stitch, rings, picots, chains, and joins. Together, we will begin working on a simple lace pattern for either a diamond motif or a basic lace edging.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Sunday June 7th, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
All beginners are welcome. A moderate level of hand dexterity is required.
Materials Fee
$15 will cover a beginner shuttle and 2 balls of size 10 cotton tatting thread.
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
A notebook for documenting your learning is encouraged, but not required.
No other materials are required, but if you'd like to bring any cotton thread (size 10-80) that you happen to have, you are welcome to.
About the Instructor
Amelia Chesley has worked as a graphic designer, web developer, librarian, editorial assistant, and university professor. She has a never-ending passion for fiber arts and sometimes gets to teach spinning, tatting, and various other fibercrafts at Fiber Creek in Prescott, AZ. She love sharing the joy of making things by hand.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Tanning Sheep Hides with Jay Begay
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Join us for a 2 day immersion into the traditional art of tanning sheep/goat hide by hand. In this intimate and experiential class, students will tan one sheep or goat skin from start to finish.
The art of hide tanning is a cross-cultural human legacy, one with an ancient heritage that spans across continents and lineages. Besides full hands-on experience, we will spend time discussing history, methodology, and Navajo traditional approaches. Students will leave with an understanding of how to bring to life beautiful hand-tanned hides in their own small home-tanning set-ups.
Hide tanning is a physically demanding craft, so be prepared for two full days of very active and fun learning! We are going to learn as much as possible and our days will be packed with richness.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Friday, June 5th and Saturday, June 6th from 9am to 5pm daily (with a break for lunch)
Skill Level
All levels are welcomed.
Material Fee
$150, students will be able to keep the sheep hide that they tanned.
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
Rubber gloves, 10 gallon tub, pumice stone, knife.
About the Instructor
Jay Begay originates from the community of Rocky Ridge in Northeastern Arizona. Jay's childhood was spent with his late Paternal Grandmother tending to the flock of sheep and goats. It was from his Grandma that he acquired these skills required to continue the pastoral ways. Today he continues to raise Navajo-Churro sheep and Angora Goats. Jay enjoys working with fiber and sharing his knowledge. Join Jay in this rare opportunity to learn the skills that were passed on from his late Paternal Grandmother.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Images Courtesy of Leney Breeden
Corner-to-Corner Crochet with Melissa Oswald & Nicole Ball
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Ever wondered how those pixel-perfect crochet designs come to life? In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll learn the basics of Corner-to-Corner (C2C) crochet, how to read charts, and how to change colors to create a playful tablet cover featuring a turtle. C2C is a fun and versatile technique that builds fabric diagonally, making it perfect for graphic designs and personalized projects. By the end of class, you’ll have one panel completed (or nearly so), a solid grasp of C2C fundamentals, and the confidence to finish your turtle tablet cover at home. Whether you’re new to charted crochet or just looking to add a playful skill to your toolkit, this class will leave you hooked on pixel-perfect stitching.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday June 6, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
Beginner, Students should be familiar with both the chain and double crochet stitches.
Materials Fee
N/A
Students Should Bring
• Worsted weight yarn in the following colors: 90 yards white, 55 yards light green, 50 yards dark green, and 5 yards black
• Size 5.00mm (H) crochet hook
• scissors
• a bent tip tapestry needle
• locking stitch markers
About the Instructor
Founded in 2017, TexasStitchChicks started as two friends passionate about creating adorable crochet amigurumi. Today, we’ve grown into a trusted name in the fiber arts community—designing original patterns, teaching hands-on classes, providing technical editing, and crafting high-quality samples.
We’re proud to have partnered with leading brands such as Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers, KnitPal, Miss Babs, Crafts Americana, and Stolen Stitches, bringing creative projects to life.
Our expertise has also been showcased through teaching engagements with the Crochet Guild of America and at numerous fiber festivals across the country.
Whether you’re looking for unique patterns, professional editing, or expert instruction, TexasStitchChicks is your go-to resource for all things crochet.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Pine Needle Basket Making with Cheryl Coronado-Bruton
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In this workshop students will learn about the characteristics of different pine needles and how to prepare them for basket making. The instructor will address the different qualities of a variety of binding materials and how each works in basket making. Participants will learn two or three stitches to be used in creating their baskets. Each Student will be able to complete or nearly complete a small basket.
This workshop is open to students age 12+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday June 6, 9am-4pm (with a break for lunch)
Skill Level
All levels
Materials Fee
$25 to cover prepared pine needles, artificial sinew, darning needle, tapestry needle, cabochon, resource list, instructions, stitch guide and stash bag.
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
Required materials: small scissors, needle nosed pliers, and a thimble.
Optional: Water and a snack.
About the Instructor
Cheryl has been involved with fiber arts since she was nine years old. Her grandmother taught her how to knit and a neighbor taught Cheryl to crochet and sew. During the summer break between her freshman and sophomore years in college Cheryl decided to explore pine needle basket making and enrolled in a class. She loved creating beautiful items from something so basic as pine needles. Cheryl made baskets from 1975 to 1982. While watching her husband rake up pine needles in their yard in 2023 she thought, "what a waste of beautiful needles." She was inspired to start making pine needle baskets again. Cheryl has taught pine needle basket making for 8 years.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Introduction to Amigurumi with Melissa Oswald & Nicole Ball
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You've seen those cute Amigurumi animals everywhere, now is your chance to make one of your own. In this class, you will create an adorable flower with personality. You will learn to: easily work in the round, create and count continuous rounds, increase and decrease, read patterns, add facial features, change colors, and attach pieces. This class is great for a beginner that at a minimum knows how to chain and single crochet.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday, June 6, 1pm-4pm
Skill Level
Students should be familiar with both the chain and single crochet stitches.
Materials Fee
N/A
Students Should Bring
• DK weight yarn in the following colors: 10 yards green, 5 yards brown and 75 yards in the petal color of your choice
• Size 3.00mm (D) crochet hook
• 10mm plastic craft eyes
• polyester fiberfill
• scissors
• a bent tip tapestry needle
• locking stitch markers
About the Instructor
Founded in 2017, TexasStitchChicks started as two friends passionate about creating adorable crochet amigurumi. Today, we’ve grown into a trusted name in the fiber arts community—designing original patterns, teaching hands-on classes, providing technical editing, and crafting high-quality samples.
We’re proud to have partnered with leading brands such as Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers, KnitPal, Miss Babs, Crafts Americana, and Stolen Stitches, bringing creative projects to life.
Our expertise has also been showcased through teaching engagements with the Crochet Guild of America and at numerous fiber festivals across the country.
Whether you’re looking for unique patterns, professional editing, or expert instruction, TexasStitchChicks is your go-to resource for all things crochet.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Learn Stranded Knitting with Andrea Wong
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In this class we will explore how to work with two colors per round. Experience with stranded knitting is helpful but not required.
Participants will learn techniques for knitting and purling while maintaining consistent tension when working with multiple colors. Once everyone feels comfortable managing tension, we will begin purling in the round and then introduce a second color.
For knitters who are feeling more adventurous, we may also experiment with introducing a third or even fourth color.
This workshop is open to students age 16+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday June 6, 9am-4pm (with a break for lunch)
Skill Level
Basic skills: cast on, knit, purl, bind off
Materials Fee
N/A
Students Should Bring
- 16" circular knitting needles in US sizes 7 and double pointed needles same size.
- 2oz each of worsted weight wool yarn of your choice in two contrast colors
- Scissors, stitch markers, tapestry needle.
About the Instructor
In the past 23 years Andrea has taught thousands of knitters in the USA and abroad to use the Portuguese Style of Knitting, either personally, through her 3 published DVDs, or her book “Portuguese Style of Knitting – History, Traditions and Techniques.”
As the foremost expert on the subject, she teaches knitting at venues throughout the country and abroad, has been published in a variety of knitting magazines, TV programs, and books and is the lead designer for her business, Andrea Wong Knits. She continues to travel the world researching and developing her style of knitting, and bringing that knowledge to knitters worldwide.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Learn how to Knit Portuguese Style with Andrea Wong
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Portuguese Style Knitting Basics
Students will learn a different way to knit. It is not the German or English method. The yarn will be fed and tensioned around the neck (or knitting pin), leaving hands free to hold the needles. Stitches are formed by looping tensioned yarn around the needle using the left thumb only. (If the left thumb is a problem, student might use the right thumb instead. It does not matter if student is right or left handed as knitting uses both hands.) This method is much easier in the hands because it takes less maneuvering of needles to accomplish the work, purling is easier than knitting, it is fast and ergonomic.
Once they learn how to knit and purl using the Portuguese Style, we are going to practice all increases and decreases on the swatch the students are working on. As a bonus I will teach a Portuguese cast on and bind off. To reinforce learning of new skills students will receive a pattern to knit a hat.
This workshop is open to students age 16+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Friday June 5, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
Basic skills in knitting: cast on, knit, purl, and bind off preferred.
Materials Fee
$5.00 for a Portuguese Knitting Pin (optional)
Students Should Bring
• 16" circular knitting needles in US sizes 7 or 8
• 4oz of worsted weight wool yarn of your choice in light colors.
I prefer that your yarn color contrast with your needles for easy learning. No novelty yarn, please.
About the Instructor
In the past 23 years Andrea has taught thousands of knitters in the USA and abroad to use the Portuguese Style of Knitting, either personally, through her 3 published DVDs, or her book “Portuguese Style of Knitting – History, Traditions and Techniques”.
As the foremost expert on the subject, she teaches knitting at venues throughout the country and abroad, has been published in a variety of knitting magazines, TV programs, and books and is the lead designer for her business, Andrea Wong Knits. She continues to travel the world researching and developing her style of knitting, and bringing that knowledge to knitters worldwide.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html
Stick Weaving with Margaret Trousdale
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Stick weaving is easy, fun, and ancient. Native Americans used stick weaving to make belts. Participants may choose to make a belt to go with a historical costume, a trivet for the family table, a sleeping pad for their dog or cat, a chair cushion for themselves, a rug at the base of a bed, or a wall hanging to decorate a space at home.
It's a great way to use up leftover yarns. Color patterns will be discussed. Participants will learn how to create the figure eight “wormies” and put them into a spiral design with a bent tapestry needle. For those needing to be more cautious, a plastic tapestry needle will be provided. Students may bring their own symbolic colors as the ancient people did or bring designer colors for their home, a holiday, or gifting. In this three-hour workshop, we’ll weave and make merry, chatting as we go. Participants will take home a project bag with an instruction sheet, a pair of birch weaving sticks, one needle, and a completed or started woven project.
This workshop is open to students age 14+
Festival Admission Included:
Workshop registration includes free admission to the festival. Just let the gate staff know which class you are attending when you arrive.
Date & Time
Saturday June 6, 9am-12pm
Skill Level
Skills Required:
1. Making a knot
2. Winding yarn in a figure-eight
3. Hiding tails
4. Nipping ends
5. Sewing with a tapestry needle.
Materials Fee
$10 will cover for the expense of a pair of birchwood weaving sticks, an instruction sheet, about a skein and a half of yarn, a bent metal tapestry needle, and a project bag.
*The materials fee is included in your registration.
Students Should Bring
Bring your own snipping scissors and an approximate total amount of a skein and a half of at least three different colored yarns, worsted weight. Also, if you have any leftover yarns you don't want, please donate them to the stash exchange table.
About the Instructor
This is Margaret's fourth year teaching stick weaving at the Flag Wool & Fiber Fest. She first learned this at the Southwest Spinners Retreat, 2017. In succeeding years, she taught this at the Nob Hill Yarn Shop and the Taos Wool Festival in New Mexico. For ten years, Margaret was active as a spinning guild member, sharing wool and fiber joy in public demos and sales. For five years, she raised and spun angora rabbit wool. She favors crocheting. She’s a retired public school teacher from California now living in New Mexico, recording her wool and fiber adventures on https://theyarnmarm.blogspot.com/
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
http://www.flagwool.com/workshop-refund-and-cancellation-policy.html