Carolina FiberFest Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Vendors, Workshops, and Competitions

Carolina FiberFest reached a milestone this past weekend, marking its 20th anniversary with a multi-day celebration at the Jim Graham Building, NC State Fairgrounds, 4285 Trinity Road in Raleigh. The festival ran March 13–14, 2026, with workshops extending the programming across a full three days from March 12 through 14.

The marketplace drew over 75 vendors stocking fiber and yarn for knitters, crocheters, felters, and weavers, making it one of the more substantial shopping floors the Southeast fiber arts calendar has to offer. Whether you were hunting for specific yarn weights, premium fleece, or tools to round out your stash, the vendor floor at the Jim Graham Building covered a wide range of fiber needs.

Beyond the shopping, the festival packed in demonstrations, fleece sales, used equipment sales, a fiber arts competition, and spinning contests. The competitions in particular gave the weekend a sense of stakes beyond browsing, with the fiber arts competition and spinning contests drawing participants looking to test their skills in a community setting.

Workshops ran throughout all three days, from the pre-festival opener on March 12 through the close on March 14, giving attendees the chance to build skills alongside the marketplace and competition activity. Specific workshop topics, instructors, and session times were not detailed in available event materials.

The 20th anniversary marks two decades of Carolina FiberFest establishing itself as a regionally significant gathering for the fiber arts community in North Carolina. For a festival that began small enough to fit inside a single building, reaching 75-plus vendors and a multi-discipline competition program reflects how much the regional fiber arts scene has grown alongside it.