| 14th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair Saturday, April 17, 2010 9 am to 5 pm
at the Jane Addams Community Center 430 W. Washington Street Cedarville, Illinois USA (815) 541-0897 Page last updated Sunday, March 14, 2010
A celebration of fiber and the fiber arts with workshops, demonstrations of spinning and weaving, vendors offering fibers for spinning plus finished yarn, dyes, books, gifts, equipment, handmade soap and baskets. Also supplies for spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, dyeing, tatting and crochet.
Admission is $2 for adults and free for children under 12.
Finding Your Way on This Site This site is all one page. One very, very long page. You can read every word, or you can click to go to the section that interests you the most:
Brochure Mailing List (for attendees) Jane Addams and the Importance of Fiber Arts How to Get on The Vendor Waiting List Restaurants, Lodging, Maps, Etc. Just How is Fiber/Fibre Spelled, Anyway?
Are you on our mailing list? Brochures for the 2010 show will be mailed at the end of February. To receive a brochure about this year's show please send your name and mailing address to Suzy Beggin, P.O. Box 54, Stockton, IL 61085 or e-mail Suzy@SuzyBeggin.com. Be sure to send your street address, we don't send bulk e-mails. Our brochure is a good old-fashioned paper brochure that will be delivered by your local mail carrier to the mailbox at the end of your driveway.
Below is a list of our confirmed 2010 vendors. Vendors are added as their applications arrive, so check back again often!
Remember that you don't have to wait for the show to talk to our vendors, feel free to contact them anytime to ask about their supplies or place an order. Many of our vendors will let you place an order now and pick it up at the show - saving you the shipping costs. Please let them know you got their e-mail and website address from the Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair website.
Note: You will have trouble reading the class list if you are using Firefox. This page is best viewed in Explorer.
Jane Addams and the Importance of Fiber Arts Cedarville, a picturesque little village in northwest Illinois, was the birthplace of Jane Addams (1860-1935), the social worker and humanitarian who founded Hull-House in Chicago and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Much of her time was spent improving the lives of Chicago's immigrant population, and she also advocated world peace and stood up for the rights of women, children and workers. Our event space, the Jane Addams Community Center, is named in her honor.
Like most Victorian women, Jane Addams was a knitter. Many of her hand-knit items were given away to friends, and some of her knitted work is on display at the Cedarville Area Historical Society Museum.
Miss Addams also saw the value in the lost arts of spinning and weaving, and invited spinners and weavers to demonstrate their "old world skills" at the labor museum in Hull-House. In her work Newer Ideal of Peace (1907), Miss Addams notes the companionship that is created between spinners, even from vastly different backgrounds. Over one hundred years later, modern spinners will recognize that the same spirit still holds true today:
We have made an effort at Hull-House to recover something of the early industries from an immigrant neighborhood, and in a little exhibit called a labor museum, we have placed in historic sequence and order methods of spinning and weaving from a dozen nationalities in Asia Minor and Europe. The result has been a striking exhibition of the unity and similarity of the earlier industrial processes. Within the narrow confines of one room, the Syrian, the Greek, the Italian, the Russian, the Norwegian, the Dutch, and the Irish find that the differences in their spinning have been merely putting the distaff upon a frame or placing the old handspindle in a horizontal position. A group of women representing vast differences in religion, in language, in tradition, and in nationality, exhibit practically no difference in the daily arts by which, for a thousand generations, they have clothed their families. When American women come to visit them, the quickest method, in fact almost the only one, of establishing a genuine companionship with them, is through this same industry.
Vendor packets were mailed on January 22, 2010. Packets were mailed to:
The good news is we have a popular, well-attended show, and many of our vendors say it's one of their favorites. The bad news is we always have more interested vendors than we have room for, and unfortunately that means we have to turn vendors away each year.
Vendor booths will be assigned in this order:
Vendor confirmations will be mailed in March, but you can check the Vendor List on this page at any time to confirm that your application has been received. I usually update this website every two or three weeks after the vendor packets are mailed, so don't panic if your name isn't immediately added to the list.
How to Get on The Waiting List Waiting List names are not removed except at your request, or if we contact you and don't receive any response for two years. So if you are put on the Waiting List this year you will retain your Waiting List position next year and in future years. Click here to see the Waiting List.
The only way to get on the Waiting List is to mail in an application. You do not need to send in any money with the application, but you must send in an application so that we have all of the proper information and can easily contact you when there is an opening. To receive an application please e-mail me your address (mailing address, not your e-mail address).
Directions to Cedarville and the Jane Addams Community Center The Jane Addams Community Center is in historic Cedarville, Illinois, three blocks west of Highway 26. In its previous life the building was an elementary school, and it still has a very 1950s elementary school look to it. Cedarville is located between Freeport, Illinois and Monroe, Wisconsin. It's 125 miles west of Chicago, 125 miles southwest of Milwaukee, and 60 miles south of Madison, Wisconsin - just right for a pleasant day trip through the stateline area!
From East (Chicago; Rockford): Take Route 20 West. At Freeport take 26 North to Cedarville. In Cedarville, turn left at the Mobile Station onto Washington Street. The Jane Addams Center is at 430 W. Washington Street, which will be on your right.
From West (Galena; Dubuque, IA): Take 20 East. At Freeport take 26 North to Cedarville. In Cedarville, turn left at the Mobile Station onto Washington Street. The Jane Addams Center is at 430 W. Washington Street, which will be on your right.
From North (Monroe, WI): Take 26 South into Cedarville. In Cedarville, turn right at the Mobile Station onto Washington Street. The Jane Addams Center is at 430 W. Washington Street, which will be on your right.
From South (Forreston): Take 26 North through Freeport and into Cedarville. In Cedarville, turn left at the Mobile Station onto Washington Street. The Jane Addams Center is at 430 W. Washington Street, which will be on your right.
Restaurants, Lodging, Maps, Etc. For free information on restaurants, lodging, maps and other things to do in Stephenson County, contact the Freeport / Stephenson County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Please tell them you got their name and number off the Fiber Art Fair's web page.
Freeport / Stephenson County Convention & Visitors Bureau 4596 US Route 20 East Freeport, IL 61032 (815) 233-1357 or (800) 369-2955 e-mail stephcvb@aeroinc.net website www.stephenson-county-il.org. Direct link to the hotel page: www.stephenson-county-il.org/visbureau/lodging.htm
There are no hotels or public transportation in Cedarville. Welcome to small town life! The bustling metropolis of Freeport is just four miles south of Cedarville, and you will find a selection of hotels there.
Hotel Note: Many of our guests have stayed at the Baymont Inn in years past, the closest hotel to Cedarville and very conveniently located at the north end of Freeport at the intersection of the Freeport 20 By-Pass and Route 26. You may recognize it from their former name, The Amerihost. They can be contacted at 815-599-8510 or 877-BAYMONT.
Another Hotel Note: Just between you and me, I'd like to suggest that your stay will be more enjoyable if you do NOT stay at the Travelodge in Freeport. They have had some health code violations and some disruptions where the police have been called in. Freeport is a friendly and safe town, and you will have a pleasant and restful night at any one of Freeport's other hotels. But not at the Travelodge. (This is the personal opinion of Suzy Beggin and not an opinion officially endorsed by The Moonspinners of Northwest Illinois or The Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair. But I'm the webmistress here, so I get to say what I want. J ).
The Fiber Art Fair is listed on the following websites listing fiber and craft events. Visit these sites for other exciting fiber events:
Craft Site Directory - "Your guide to arts and crafts on the internet" (www.craftsitedirectory.com) I Can Spin Dot Com - Spinning related events (www.icanspin.com) Wool Festival Dot Com - Wool events (www.woolfestival.com)
We're a member of the Stephenson County Web Ring. Visit other sites in the ring for more fun stuff and information on Stephenson County.
Just How is Fiber/Fibre Spelled, Anyway? For years we had spelled the fiber in Fiber Art Fair the old English way - fibre. We're a laid back, earthy group and decided that "fibre" was just a little too hooty-snooty for us. Starting with the 2006 show, we've been spelling fiber as plain old "fiber," although you might still catch the former spelling in some of our materials. J
The Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair is hosted by the Moonspinners of Northwest Illinois. This website is hosted by Suzy Beggin, Shepherdess. Learn more about me and my sheep at www.SuzyBeggin.com.
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