“Preparing for Shetland Wool Week” with Joan Sheridan

Just how do you prepare to get the most out of attending a fiber festival? How do you do that when the event is partway around the world on islands in the North Sea? Joan will present her plan for getting the most out of fiber festivals and how that applies to traveling to attend Shetland Wool Week. Learn about planning, timing, travel, lodging, dining, registering for classes and so much more. Joan attended SWW in 2024 and has insight that you will find interesting and helpful.

Joan Sheridan is a knitter, weaver, spinner, fiber explorer and, since 2000, owner of Heritage Spinning and Weaving in Lake Orion, Michigan. Trained as an educator and curriculum developer by the United States Army, Joan is a natural teacher. For ten years she volunteered in the textile conservation department at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where she combined her passion for textiles with her fascination with history. She now does conservation work from her home studio. Joan has taught and presented at conferences, for guilds and shops, and on tour in Norway, and has had articles and patterns published in several magazines. Her more than 70 original knitting patterns can be found on Ravelry. She specializes in building solid foundations for knitters and weavers so they can take their skills and soar.

Published in Handwoven, Little Looms, Piecework, Farm and Fiber Knits (web only), Ashford’s Wheel magazine, Spin-Off, Alpaca magazine.