Save the date
Jan 29 & 30, 2027
The Community Collective
12401 S Post Oak Road
Houston, TX 77045
Meet us
Houston Fiber Festival is a 501c3 organization led by a board of directors and supported by our wonderful founders, sponsors, and grant organizations. Our board is a mix of vendors, a guild president, a dyer, shop owners, and a merch-maker. It's a bunch of people who bring creativity and operational skills. If you would like to become involved in the planning of the festival,
please reach out to our Executive Director.
We'd love to meet you!
Heather Robins. Board President. Howdy! I’m the dyer, maker, designer, artist and everything else behind Heathered Handmades. I'm also a dog mom to my fluffy mutt Bear, proud plant hoarder, and superhero enthusiast. Most importantly, I am passionate about doing what is right and what is good. Crafting has a long history of giving voice to marginalized groups and human rights issues when words weren't enough.
Katie Hoffman. Board Member. Owner of Scout & Skein, a local yarn shop in the Winter Street Studios, Katie builds communities centered on yarn, friendships, and creative opportunities through a series of in-person meetups and her shop. She has a strong dedication to sustainability and creativity.
Terri Schlather. Board Member. Terri is the owner behind Doolittle Yarnery, a fiber art brand born deep in the heart of Texas that provides unique knitting and crochet accoutrement. Terri’s days are spent in the world of Enterprise Software working with Fortune 100 companies, but her nights are filled with her family including her adult daughter and her dogs, and her love for knitting. She embraced yarn as a craft medium in 2019 and hasn’t looked back since, diving into the fiber community and knitting everywhere she goes. She brings a successful and pragmatic business background as well as a love for the fiber community to the HFF team.
Grace Talevera. Board Member. Grace Talavera has been crocheting since she was seven years old and knitting since she was fifteen. For her, fiber arts have always been more than a hobby — they're relaxing, therapeutic, and a way to express herself.
Sparrow Kelly. Board Member. Sparrow is a queer fiber artist who has called Texas home for over 20 years. She is an active member and leader in multiple arts guilds in the Houston area. An avid knitter, crocheter, weaver, embroiderer, and beader, she has also dabbled in pretty much every other art form she could find starting at the age of 3. Sparrow is passionate about building community, doing what's right, and resisting fascism in all its forms - especially in the small actions of everyday life. You can find her on Instagram @sparrowmade_
Kelli Soika. Executive Director. With over fifteen years of experience with nonprofit and community administration, Kelli enjoys working with arts organizations to help them live out their creative dreams. She has lived in Austin and Boulder, Colorado, but has decided that Houston is home where she and her family have helped found the first cohousing community in all of Texas. In her free time, Kelli volunteers with Child Advocates, is a master naturalist, and enjoys spending time with her husband and three daughters. executivedirector@houstonfiberfest.com
Our story
A Homegrown Arts Festival
The Houston Fiber Fest is a beloved event in every fiber artist's calendar! Started as an offshoot of the Knit at Night Guild (KANG) in 2015, the festival quickly grew to an annual tradition in Houston. In 2026, the three wonderful "burning hearts" keeping the festival going decided to step down and offered the structure to a new group of leaders who were ready and eager to keep the festival alive!
A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting fiber arts in the greater Houston area the festival offers local fiber enthusiasts an opportunity to celebrate the crafts they love — knitting, crochet, spinning, and weaving.
