Fiber Retreat
Briarwood Retreat Center
February 18-20, 2011
Argyle, Texas
Each year in February, FancyFibers sponsors a retreat getaway at the Briarwood Retreat Center in Argyle, Texas. The Winter Fiber Fun retreat is limited to 50 people, and is open to anyone who enjoys any sort of fiber-related craft. Spinners, knitters, crocheters, felters, dyers, and weavers, with needles, hooks, flatbeds, circular sock machines, jars of colored magic, and looms come together to relax, revitalize and play!
The Briarwood Retreat Center in Argyle, Texas, has been the venue for the retreat since it began in 2009. This is a beautiful facility nestled in a peaceful, wooded landscape.
Quail Run Lodge is our main gathering area. With a fireplace at each end, it is both spacious and cozy.
The Retreat Center offers lodging in either motel-style rooms, or in “bunkhouses” with comfortable single beds.
Our meals are prepared by the very talented camp chefs who can accommodate most any special dining need. The food is good and plentiful, and eaten in the beautiful Shalom Center dining hall.
In addition to visiting with old friends, making new ones, relaxing, and practicing your favorite fiber craft, there are several optional activities that you can choose to participate in (or not). Examples of activities we have offered in the past include dyeing roving and yarn, cardboard weaving, knitting socks and hats, making jewelry, felting, and blending fiber on a drum carder. The activities are different each year, but always a lot of fun!
Vendors are also a part of the Retreat, offering the discriminating fiber artist a dazzling array of beautiful fibers and fiber craft accessories.
We hope that YOU will join us at the next Winter Fiber Fun Retreat. To ensure that you receive registration information, sign up for the Fancy Fibers newsletter here. Registration generally opens in October.
Hi Susan. I am an angora owner who occasionally breeds, actually. Not a full-time breeder. My angoras are residents of my fiber farm, along with my alpacas, goats, and sheep. All that having been said, I do occasionally have a litter and need to place babies. The best way to find out whether I have kits to place would be to subscribe to my newsletter (from my home page). I’ll post a note there before I tell anyone else! Thanks for your inquiry!
One of the women on Ravelry’s Angora group said you were an angora breeder. Sometime in the next few months I’d like to get an angora. It would be a pet and a wooler and live in the house where I have other rabbits including 2 Jersey Woolies. I’m a knitter and just learning to spin. I’m not interested in an angora with papers because I have no interest in showing or breeding the rabbit.
My sister and I both have noted this retreat date because we’re interested. She knits but is currently into weaving.