I am thrilled to announce that I will be vending for the first time at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival! Now in its 51st year, this fiber festival features over 250 vendors, live music, lots of workshops and demonstrations, live animals and so much more.
Saturday May 4th: 8:30 AM - 6 PM
Sunday, May 5th: 8:30 AM - 5 PM
A community tradition continues! After last year’s event was cancelled due to torrential rains, we are delighted to return once again to my local fiber show. There is nothing like doing an event with some of my favorite vendors with friends and neighbors stopping by to say hello!
KCFF connects the large community of artisans and fiber enthusiasts in our area while offering an opportunity to showcase their work and share their passions with neighbors. Our goal is to raise awareness of both historic and contemporary approaches to the fiber arts. We invite people to join in, indulge their curiosity, and encourage an appreciation for the wide variety of fiber arts techniques, both historical and modern, that our artisans have perfected.
We will be returning once again to what some folks consider THE FIBER EVENT OF THE YEAR. Yes, the crowds are insane, but the yarn! The glorious displays of fiber art and creativity. It is truly a knitwear design fashion show (I am talking about the attendees)! I’ll have a wide variety of shawl pins, brooches, stitch markers, spinning wheel orifice hooks, not to mention jewelry and home decor items.
35th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival
Festival Theme 2023 – Our Fiber Communities
Fiber crafters are connected on many levels. We meet online and at festivals, community centers, yarn shops and in our homes with friends and family. We are connected to the community of farmers, processers and makers. The Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival and the Vermont Fibershed value and honor the rich tapestry of fiber communities.
I’m having a holiday sale! Everything is 20% off in my Etsy shop through December 3rd! So treat yourself and those you love, shop handmade and support small businesses!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BialoPadinDesigns
Spend the day with natural fiber artists, crocheters, dyers, filters, knitters, quilters, spinners and weavers in this Brooklyn based annual fiber festival. As part of this full day event, I will be one of the vendors in a marketplace for independent fiber artists from the trip-state area. There will also be demonstrations, and art exhibit and more!
After a 2 year Covid-related hiatus, I am excited to report that the 2022 Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival will once again be in person. I’ll be in a new spot (under the eaves of the main building). I am looking forward to seeing everyone in person!!
I’ll be a vendor at Brooklyn Pop-Up’s curated retail event in front of the Brooklyn Museum. The event will feature contemporary fashion, accessories, home goods, beauty and jewelry vendors (that’ll include me!!!) as well as artists and artisans distillers. There will be music as well.
Shop Handmade! As part of a collaboration with the Grand Bazaar organizers, I’ll be one of the 20+ members of the New York Handmade Collective selling at this well known and beloved market.
Fiber enthusiasts are coming together at the Mallary Complex on the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds for the annual Fiber Festival of New England to promote the use of wool and other natural fibers and related products to the general public! Bialo Padin Designs will be a first time vendor, selling handmade jewelry, accessories and tools, including shawl pins and my patented cable needles.
Bialo Padin Designs is looking forward to returning to the festival in person!! We will be located in the B Building, booth 32.
This year's event will be a combination of on-site and online. Join us in person at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds to visit and shop with our vendors, attend our Sheep & Goat Shows, shop the Fleece Sale, visit the Breed & Camelid Barns, view a fiber competition or two, and enjoy a variety of author talks. Workshops, Demos, and Breed Talks will be held online. Some offerings require advance registration.
This is the 10th anniversary of the Kings County Fiber Festival! The festival embraces both fiber artists and the resource providers that make their work possible. Hosted on the grounds of the Old Stone House of Brooklyn - originally built in 1699 as the Vechte family farm - the Kings County Fiber Festival includes crocheters, dyers, felters, knitters, quilters, spinners, and weavers, as well as artists creating design works that incorporate fiber as an integral material. The festival’s goal is to raise awareness of both historic and contemporary approaches to the fiber arts.
The Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival will be virtual again this year. Take a look at the festival’s website for a list of vendors and events: https://vtsheepandwoolfest.com .
I will be hosting a half Zoom session/ demo on Saturday, October 2nd, at Noon, and would love to see you there! My “virtual booth” on the festival’s website has information about my business, a special offer for festival participants, and the zoom link. My virtual booth: https://vtsheepandwoolfest.com/bialo-padin-designs/
You can find a wide variety of shawl pins, my patented cable needles, as well as handmade jewelry on my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/BialoPadinDesigns
In partnership with Knitty City, a beloved yarn shop located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I will be doing a pop up show in front of the shop. It will be one of a series of fund-raising pop up events in honor of Pearl Chen, to benefit Moms Demand Action, which is a grassroots movement fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence. I will be selling my handmade jewelry, accessories and tools, including a wide variety of shawl pins and cable needles.
In conjunction with a public outdoor portraiture exhibition organized by Arts Gowanus, and in collaboration with The Old Stone House, Arts Gowanus has produced an outdoor artist market of local artists.
After over a year of struggles during COVID, the art exhibition and market is meant to celebrate the resilience, strength, and diversity of our amazing Brooklyn community. This project is in collaboration with The Old Stone House and is part of the Arts Gowanus Gallery Dispersed initiative partially funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council.
2020 Virtual New York State Sheep and Wool Festival
Holiday show, showcasing local makers and their unique wares
Holiday show showcasing local makers and their unique wares.
I am excited to be a vendor at the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival, one of the largest annual gatherings of fiber-arts enthusiasts in the US. The festival was first held in 1972. It is attended by knitters, crocheters, handspinners, and growers of natural-fiber-producing livestock. The livestock includes sheep, goats, angora rabbits, llamas, musk oxen and alpacas. It also includes vendors of the materials and tools associated with each. In addition to the myriad vendors and demonstrations of fiber arts activities, the festival features several livestock competitions, sheepdog trials and a sheep to shawl contest.
Once you've purchased all the yarn you can carry, stop by my booth for the accessories you'll need, including penannular brooches, fibulas/safety pins, shawl pins, cable needles, stitch markers and buttons.
I am excited once again to participate in a great local fiber festival. I'll have lots of unique shawl pins, fibulas and penannular brooches so you can secure those gorgeous handmade sweaters, shawls and scarves.
The Kings County Fiber Festival embraces both fiber artists and the resource providers that make their work possible. Hosted on the grounds of the Old Stone House of Brooklyn – originally built in 1699 as the Vechte family farm – the Kings County Fiber Festival includes crocheters, dyers, felters, knitters, quilters, spinners, and weavers, as well as artists creating design works that incorporate fiber as an integral material. The Festival's goal is to raise awareness of both historic and contemporary approaches to the fiber arts.
I am please to be a first-time vendor at the 30th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival in Tunbridge, Vermont. The Festival Marketplace features over 70 vendors offering fleece and yarn, handspinning and fibercrafting equipment and supplies, handcrafted wool items, small ruminant equipment and supplies, fencing materials and local meat and cheese.
I am delighted to be a vendor at the 24th Annual Finger Lakes Fiber Festival. The Festival educates the public about fiber and its sources, promotes small farms, supports fiber artists and fiber-related businesses, and provides a venue for the public to interact with the fiber arts world. By sharing skills and knowledge with the public through demonstrations and workshops, the Finger Lakes Fiber Festival is sowing the seeds for future generations of fiber artists and craftspeople. The festival features great vendors, with everything you need for fiber arts: raw fleece, roving, spinning supplies, needle felting supplies, dyes, yarns, items needed to knit, crochet, weave—and things you won’t know you need until you see them—not to mention unique, one-of-a-kind, handmade finished items!
NY Handmade Collective (NYHC) - formerly known as the Etsy New York Street Team - is partnering once again with NYC's #1 weekly market, Grand Bazaar NYC, to present *THE* Summer Kickoff Event! *Ready Set Summer*, a juried showcase of exceptional goods - handcrafted exclusively by the NYHC artisans and designers from the NYC area.
Come to this special event for a fun summer shopping day and meet over 40 talented multi-disciplined NYHC artisans and designers. Pick-up one-of-a-kind, exclusively handcrafted and locally made goods-from fine art, paper goods and stationery, jewelry and unique fashion, home decor, amazing skincare products, to items for children and pets.
Together with Grand Bazaar NYCs weekly vendors there will be over 180 unique merchants to explore and shop, including delicious artisanal bites to eat! 100% of Grand Bazaar NYC's profits are donated to four local public school, benefiting over 4,000 children.
Come shop with us!
Admission is free.
After attending this festival for decades as a dancer and a performer, I am thrilled to be a vendor for the first time in the Craft Hall. The New England Folk Festival, widely known by the name NEFFA, is an annual folk festival that blends dance, music, crafts, and food from many places and cultures. This year is the 74th annual Festival and I hope that you will join the thousands of dancers, singers and musicians who continue to make this such an extraordinary annual event. And stop by my booth to say hello!
