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Holly Shaltz, Fiberist
PO Box 136
Boyne City MI
49712 USA
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Fiber groups are sprinkled all over northern lower and easter upper Michigan. I'll list information for each on this page as it becomes available. If you know of groups in this region (say, anything north of Bay City and east of Manistique, I'll be glad to list contact info and normal meeting day / time.

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Shaltz Farm is the small farm my husband, Zack, and I always dreamed of owning. Established in 1997, we raise registered Shetland Sheep till 2017 and had chickens for eggs and meat, feeder pigs, a small market garden, and a culinary, medicinal, and tea herb garden. We are dedicated to sustainable farming practices, and are chemical free on our land.

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Stonehedge Fiber Mill is run by my very good friend Debbie McDermott. She dyes, washes, picks, cards, and also machine-spins a wide variety of handspinning fibers at her cottage carding business. She also has developed a new line of worsted-weight machine-spun knitting yarns, called Shepherd's Wool, make of merino top for unbelievably soft, cushy, and warm projects.

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Stonehedge Fiber Milling Equipment is the website for Chuck McDermott's newly designed and wonderfully effective carding machine. I'm much impressed with the quality of roving coming out of this machine, as seen at Stonehedge Fiber Mill.

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Ron Parker's Fiber Home offers a great service to fiberholics with access to the Internet. Links include the Fiber List of Lists, and information about Ron's list (and my personal favorite), Fibernet, now 17 years on the Internet and still going strong. Fiber guilds, processors, festivals, workshops, you name it--if it's about fiber, Ron has it on his page.

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Heritage Spinning and Weaving is a new fiber store in Michigan owned and operated by my good friend, Joan Sheridan. Joan has put together a wonderful store and a great collection of classes for fiber enthusiasts. A warm and friendly atmosphere, a pot of coffee and hot water for tea, a place to sit back and soak in the fiber--what more could one ask from a well-stocked fiber store?

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Northern Michigan Lamb and Wool Festival is the newest and one of the friendliest fiber festivals in Michigan. If MFF is a bit too big and busy for you, or you live in Northern Michigan and just can't drive a day to get to MFF, try NML&WF! Located at the Ogemaw fairgrounds south of West Branch, the most beautiful fairgrounds I've seen, 2008 is the 9th year for this great festival. It's held in September each year on the weekend of the last Saturday.

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Tim's Rudimentary Treadle Reducer is an amazing resource for weavers! It will take a given tieup that uses more treadles than you have, and attempt to reduce the number of treadles needed to weave it, sometimes arranging things so that you're pressing two treadles at once. I am most impressed, and glad to link to this important site.

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The Spinning Wheel Sleuth is a newsletter published by Florence Feldman-Wood, and also a marvelous website full of information about spinning wheels. If you've a love of the history of spinning tools, particularly North American ones, this is the site for you!

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Michigan Fiber Festival is a wonderful fiber event for both new and experienced fiberists. There's shows and displays for all kinds of fiber animals, from angora rabbits to llamas; classes and workshops and demonstrations on every aspect of using fiber; and well over 100 vendors, selling everything from felting needles to vitamins for sheep. It's held in August each year.

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Get Knitting is a website I recently found that's a fabulous resource for hand and machine knitters. On the handknitting side there are dozens of pages with basic information like conversion charts of inches to centimeters, needle sizes, garment sizes, basic techniques, designing helps, common abbreviations, and so much more it's impossible to list it all. The site appears to be British or possibly in Australia or New Zealand as the abbreviations listed were more British than American, but that just adds to its usefulness to American handknitters.

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PRO Chemical and Dye sells all kinds of dyes for fiberists, along with fixatives, equipment, fabrics, books, etc. When they stopped carrying my favorite dyes, Ciba Kiton, they allowed me to buy it in bulk, at a great price. They really went out of their way to make me a happy customer, and I'm far from being one of the biggest they have. I'm very happy to commend them for their service. And I'm even happier to say they carry these dyes again! They are the absolute best for the Printer's Primary colors of Cyan and Magenta in my experience.

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The Silkworker is the business of Carol Weymar (she wrote Spinning Silk Caps for my Tutorials). She specializes in dyeing silk tops and caps in incredibly luscious, rich colors, in both vivid and subtle combinations. I get color inspiration just by looking at her work! And she may make a convert to silk out of me yet. I spun up some of her top, and was amazed at how much easier it was to spin than any silk top, dyed or otherwise, that I've used before.

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SierraSpun Fibers is the home page of Glenna Stansifer, a gifted fiberist who has, among other goodies on her site, full instructions on crockpot dyeing. This is a tutorial not to be missed--the resulting yarns are gorgeous! She also has extensive fiber-related links to explore, and a great free pattern for a stash-busting afghan that's really lovely.

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