Knitting, sewing, weaving, crochet, macramé, natural dye, mending, spinning - the world of fiber arts is enormous, and we love every corner of it. Check out these resources to get you started on your fiber adventure.
Local Resources
Fabricate Studios
Fabricate Studios is an educational classroom space in West Midtown Atlanta that offers skills-based instruction for children and adults. Regardless of your current skill level, their beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes build on one another to help you reach your goals.
This one-stop-shop offers workshops in sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidery, weaving, and macramé, and has unbeatable children’s programming. Find the workshop for you now!
Currently offering online programming
The Craftivist
The Craftivist is a brick and mortar yarn store at the edge of two historic neighborhoods in Atlanta - Inman Park and the Old Fourth Ward. They focus on providing quality crafts with an emphasis on luxury yarn and fiber, and they provide a place for intown knitters and DIY crafters to connect with other creatives.
They believe anyone can be a craftivist and want to make the world a better place through crafting and inspire others to do the same.
Currently offering online programming
SEFAA
The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance encourages and celebrates creativity one thread at a time by cultivating a vibrant regional fiber arts community while celebrating, supporting, and perpetuating all textile art forms.
Interested in natural dyeing, slow stitching, spinning flax, silk painting, surface design techniques, quilting, sewing, felting, knitting, crochet, needlework, or …? Register for a class or workshop at the SEFAA Center and nourish your creativity.
Currently offering online programming
Fiber Parts
As a small business owner, Jamie wanted to create a place where you can learn about where your fiber comes from; and help build sustainability and support for the local fiber economy. At Fiber Parts, they strive to build relationships with the people who grow our fiber and who we source our materials from because it matters who we work with and the community we build.
All their yarns and fibers are made, milled, and dyed in the US. They will occasionally carry a line of specialty fibers that are not grown in the US as a featured item. They work with small batch fiber farms and mills to source their yarns, focusing on revitalizing heritage craft producers.
Online Education
Let’s be real - there are a million online avenues for fiber arts education. But here are some wonderful ones to get started!
School of Sweet Georgia: The School of SweetGeorgia is an online, membership-based fiber arts school sharing a passion for the yarn and textile arts while creating new dyers, weavers, spinners, and knitters.
Ravelry: Ravelry is an inclusive, friendly website for knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, and dyers. Ravelry provides a personal notebook for fiber artists to keep track of their projects, yarns & fibers, tools, and pattern library, a rich database of patterns and yarns, and a community with thousands of forums and groups to connect with other Ravelers over any interest you could think of.
Mamie’s Schoolhouse: This modular online training program is for anyone serious about learning proper natural dye techniques. The courses draw on the extensive historic record of natural dye practices from around the world, as well as on contemporary science to illuminate the hows and whys of effective natural dyeing.
Fibershed: Presentations, hands-on workshops, symposia, and public-facing events focus on re-enlivening new (yet ancient) connections between biology, place, appropriate technology, and the clothes we wear. During Covid, numerous programs are available online.
Homestead Favorites
Check out some of these fun and exciting leaders in the fiber arts landscape. We endeavor to feature numerous BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices in this space, as they have historically been under-represented in the craft and homestead movements despite being leaders in them.
The Far Woods: Sisters Sonya and Nina Montenegro run a studio in service to reconciliation and restoration. That includes beautiful visible mending to give clothes new and longer life.
Mother of Purl: Lauren is a queen of hand spinning and making funky and fun knitting patterns (as well as hilarious online videos). Be sure to check out her work and her online classes.
ola.bout.handmade: Ola describes himself as a color-crazy, Disney-loving, yarn addict. This crochet and knitwear designer brings bright, bold, fun patterns to his page, with designs available for purchase.
In the Quiet Hours Embroidery: One of our favorite instructors, Sarah makes gorgeous embroidery and offers wonderful, approachable patterns.
High Hog Farm: This local (to Georgians) food & fiber farm demonstrates a small-scale, sustainable approach to fiber including work in spinning and natural dyeing.
Fully Spun: Buy hand-dyed mill-spun yarn full of color that will keep you smiling as you knit, crochet, or weave yourself a rainbow.
Mycopigments: Discover all the natural dyes that mushrooms can produce with our friend Alissa Allen and her amazing dye magic!
Foraged Fibers: Who knew baskets could go wild? Check out some truly adorable baskets made from foraged fibers.