Our community and region abounds with resources for textile and fiber artists. Following is a listing of area guilds, education centers, volunteer groups, shops, museums, and shows. If you know of other area resources that should be added, please contact us.
Fiber Art Guilds and Groups
Fibershed Heartland (Serving Southwest Wisconsin & Northwest Illinois)
Janesville Fiber Art Group, (Janesville, WI)
Lodi Valley Quilt Guild (Lodi, WI)
Madison Area Embroiderers Guild (Embroiderers Guild of America- Madison Chapter)
Moonspinners of Northwest Illinois Spinning & Weaving Guild (Freeport, IL)
Prairie Lakes Quilters (Sun Prairie, WI)
Rock Valley Quilters Guild (Janesville, WI)
Education Centers
Art Classes at The Union (Madison, WI)
The Clearing Folk School (Ellison Bay, WI)
Driftless Folk School (Viroqua, WI)
Duluth Folk School (Duluth, MN)
Ely Folk School (Ely, MN)
La La Sew - Sewing Lessons for Kids (Madison, WI)
MSCR (Madison, WI)
North House Folk School (Grand Marais, MN)
Shake Rag Alley (Mineral Point, WI)
Sievers School of Fiber Arts (Washington Island, WI)
Textile Center (Minneapolis, MN)
Volunteer and Service Groups
Boomerang Bags Dane County (Middleton, WI)
Boomerang Bags Madison (Madison, WI)
Days For Girls (Dane County, WI)
Project Linus (Madison, WI)
RSVP (Madison, WI)
Museums and Galleries
John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI)
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery (Madison, WI)
Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend, WI)
Wisconsin Museum of the Quilts and Fiber Arts (Cedarburg, WI)
Shops
Artist And Craftsman (Madison, WI)
Blue Bar Quilts (Middleton, WI)
The Electric Needle (Madison, WI)
Eli's Art Supplies (Madison, WI)
Flaxen Fleece (Sauk City, WI)
Hello Art Hatchery (Stoughton, WI)
Hook & Shuttle (Palmyra, WI)
JJ Stitches (Sun Prairie, WI)
Kaleidoscope Fibers (Cambridge, WI)
The Sow’s Ear (Verona, WI)
Lynns (Madison, WI)
Mill House Quilts (Sun Prairie, WI)
Sew Hungry Hippie (McFarland, WI)
Sheeping Beauty Fiber Arts (Hartford, WI)
Spry Whimsy Fiber Arts (Stoughton, WI)
Sunset Yarn (Madison, WI)
Susan's Fiber (Columbus, WI)
Local and Regional Shows and Events
Great Lakes Fiber Show - May (Wooster, Ohio)
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show - September (Madison, WI)
Green Castle Wool Show - April (Greencastle, IN)
Illiana Fiber Festival - May (Crown Point, IN)
Madison Knitters Guild Knit-In - May/June (Madison, WI)
Michigan Fiber Festival - August (Allegan, MI)
Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair - April (Cedarville, IL)
Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival - September (Jefferson, WI)
Winter Quilt Show - February (West Bend, WI)
Other Resources
Loose Ends Project (a nonprofit operating worldwide, matching volunteer handwork finishers with projects people have left unfinished due to death or disability)