Autumn Fiber Festival

10/29/2026

Returning Autumn Fiber Festival vendors—this reminder is for you! 🧶

Applications from previous vendors for the 2027 Autumn Fiber Festival are due Monday, November 2.

If you’d like to join us again next year, please return your completed application by the deadline. Already sent yours? Thank you!

We’re grateful for the creativity and talent you bring to the festival and look forward to another wonderful year together.

Questions or need another copy of the application? Send us a message!

10/22/2026

🍁🧶 THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER WONDERFUL AUTUMN FIBER FESTIVAL! ❤️

What a wonderful weekend! As we wrap up another Autumn Fiber Festival, we want to express our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped make this year's event a success!

❤️ To everyone who attended — Thank you for coming out, shopping, learning, and supporting our talented vendors and small businesses. We love seeing familiar faces and welcoming new ones each year!

🧶 To our amazing vendors — You are the heart of this festival! Thank you for sharing your creativity, beautiful products, and passion for the fiber arts. Special thanks to those who generously donated raffle items and shared their talents through demonstrations.

🌟 To our generous sponsors — Your support helps make this event possible, and we are truly grateful!

🙌 To our volunteers, 4-H members and families, planning committee, and behind-the-scenes crew — Thank you for the countless hours spent planning, preparing, setting up, welcoming guests, helping vendors, selling raffle tickets, making announcements, taking photographs, putting out signs, and cleaning up. Every contribution matters!

🍽️ To our kitchen crew, food truck, coffee providers, and all those delicious treats — Thank you for keeping everyone well-fed and happy throughout the weekend!

🍂 To the Richland County Fairgrounds staff and everyone who helped spread the word — Thank you for your support and assistance!

And to anyone we may have unintentionally missed, please know how much we appreciate you!

It truly takes a community to put on an event like this. The friendships, creativity, generosity, and shared love of fiber arts are what make the Autumn Fiber Festival so special.

❤️ From all of us at the Autumn Fiber Festival, THANK YOU! We couldn't do it without you!

🍁 Until next year!

10/19/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our Autumn Fiber Festival raffle basket winners!

🧺 Basket #1 — Julie Fulton

🧺 Basket #2 - Patricia Flora

🧺 Basket #3 - Kathy Canon

🧺 Basket #4 - Korene Holifield

🧺 Basket #5 - Lindsey Scholidon

🧺 Basket #6 - Nina Johnson

Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets and to our generous vendors who donated items for the baskets. Your support benefits the Richland County Jr. Fair Alpacas 4-H group! 🍂🧶

10/18/2026

🍂 Join us TODAY for the final day of the Autumn Fiber Festival!

🕚 Sunday, October 18 | 11 AM–4 PM
📍 Richland County Fairgrounds, Arts & Crafts Building, Mansfield, Ohio

🎁 Get a head start on your Christmas shopping! Find unique handmade gifts, cozy accessories, and treasures for the fiber lovers on your list—or choose yarn and supplies to make something special yourself.

Meet the makers, explore colorful vendor booths, and watch talented fiber artists demonstrate spinning, weaving, rug hooking, needle felting, fiber blending, and more!

🧶 See the demonstration schedule for times and booth locations. Entries marked “Saturday Only” won’t take place today. Enjoy ongoing spinning demonstrations throughout the building, too!

🎟️ Support the Richland County Jr Fair Alpacas 4-H group with raffle tickets for baskets of wonderful fiber goodies donated by our vendors.

Bring a friend and spend part of your Sunday surrounded by creativity. We’d love to see you! 🧡

10/17/2026

Today’s the day—the Autumn Fiber Festival is open! 🧶🍂

Join us for a weekend of fiber, creativity, and community. Shop 40+ vendors, enjoy live demonstrations, meet fiber animals, and browse handmade goods and supplies.

📍 Arts & Crafts Building, Richland County Fairgrounds
750 N. Home Road, Mansfield, Ohio
🕙 Today 10–5 | Sunday 11–4
🎟️ Free admission and parking

We can’t wait to see you!

10/16/2026

🍂 The Autumn Fiber Festival starts tomorrow! Here’s a look back at last year’s fiber-filled fun—and a taste of what’s waiting for you this weekend.

Shop more than 40 vendors, enjoy live demonstrations, and find inspiration for your next project!

📍 Richland County Fairgrounds, Arts & Crafts Building, Mansfield, Ohio
🧶 Saturday, October 17: 10–5
🧶 Sunday, October 18: 11–4
🍁 Free admission & parking

Bring a fiber-loving friend!

10/15/2026

Meet the Makers: Alpaca Meadows 🦙🧶

At Alpaca Meadows in Mansfield, Ohio, our love of fiber begins with the animals! We raise alpacas and Angora goats, and enjoy sharing the warmth, beauty, and creative possibilities of their fiber through our Farm Store, classes, and handmade creations.

This weekend, we’re bringing a little of the farm to the Autumn Fiber Festival! Browse alpaca yarn, roving and fiber, cozy socks, handmade accessories, needle felting and crochet kits, and handmade felted treasures. Whether you’re a fiber artist or simply love something soft and special, stop by and say hello!

📍 You’ll find the Alpaca Meadows booth right inside the door!
Richland County Fairgrounds, Arts & Crafts Building
🍂 Saturday, October 17 | 10 am–5 pm
🍂 Sunday, October 18 | 11 am–4 pm

Our Farm Store will be open too from 12pm-4pm ! Our Farm Store will be open too—just 10 minutes from the fairgrounds! Make both stops part of your fiber-filled weekend. 🦙🧶

We’d love to see you at the festival and the Farm Store! 🧡

10/15/2026

Meet Erin, the artist behind Hinkston Handmade! Dyeing since 2007 and a full-time indie dyer since 2015, Erin specializes in self-striping yarns, along with non-striping yarns and spinning fibers. Everything is hand-dyed in small batches using professional dyes in her home studio in rural Kentucky.

Erin finds inspiration everywhere—from funky shoes and a colorful skirt to a line of poetry or the quiet beauty of nature. Combining colorway recipes with an intuitive, artistic approach, she creates colors that evoke a feeling or tell a story. Sometimes, she even names the individual stripes!

Stop by Hinkston Handmade at the Autumn Fiber Festival this weekend to explore Erin’s colorful creations and find inspiration for your next fiber project.

10/15/2026

Past and present members of the Richland County Jr. Fair Alpacas group will be selling raffle tickets for wonderful baskets filled with fiber products donated by Autumn Fiber Festival vendors. Come out and support this hardworking group!

Our 4-H kids lend a hand throughout the weekend—helping vendors, welcoming visitors, supporting the raffle, and assisting with setup and cleanup. We’re grateful for their energy and willingness to pitch in wherever needed!

The countdown is almost there to Autumn Fiber Festival... 👀

2️⃣ DAYS until almost 50 Vendors fill the Arts and Crafts building with amazing products, demos, live animals, food, and more!!

Don't miss out on the excitement and all of our fun breeders, members, and alumni. 🍁

10/14/2026

🍂 Vendor Spotlight : Shepherd's Custom Woodworking, LLC🍂

We're glad to welcome back David Shepherd of Shepherd's Custom Woodworking, LLC from North Fairfield, Ohio. His booth full of Wooden Fiber Tools, Weaving Tools, All Types of Drop Spindles, Fiber Preparation Tools is a can't-miss!

👉 Autumn Fiber Festival, October 18–19 in Mansfield, Ohio!
https://autumnfiberfestival.com