Events & Activities
Upcoming Events
EVENT: Labor Day Dance
DATE: Saturday, August 31
TIME: 8pm-11pm
ENTRY PRICE: $20
Tickets available at door or in advance
Full bar available
The Fiber Arts: Threads Through Time Show will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Longbranch Improvement Club (LIC), 4312 Key Pen Hwy SW, in Longbranch on Key Peninsula, WA. For seventeen years, this FREE family-friendly event has been a focal event for the Key Peninsula Farm Tour, which is held this year on September 28th and 29th.
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The Festival features approximately two-dozen artists demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their work. Only items made by the artists themselves are available for sale. Inside the historic clubhouse, exhibitors/vendor displays will include a range of artists who utilize both traditional and modern techniques that show the utilitarian and artistic uses of fiber in the creation of quilts, hand-woven baskets, jewelry, wall hangings, dolls, embroidery and wearable art made from silk, wool and alpaca fibers. The LIC will also be offering food for sale and an Antique car show.
Fiber Arts Festival
Saturday, September 28, 10am-4pm
2024 FIBER ARTS FEATURED ARTIST: Dr. Sheryl Low, quilter and appraiser, who resides on the Key Peninsula.
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Sheryl is a retired Professor Emeritus in Physical Therapy from California State University Northridge (CSNU). Her lifelong passion has been quilting. Her quilting interest started in 1977 during her first pregnancy, with the purchase of a Woman’s Day Log Cabin Quilt kit.
Quilts have continued to mark significant and emotional events in her life. She has made many baby quilts, marriage quilts and a series of quilts dealing with her own survival of child abuse and trauma, titled “The Grief Quilt”, “The Anger Quilt”, “Safety in the Trees” and “Ode to Joy”. Quilting has served as an outlet for her emotional journey, her creative needs and also as a link to women of the past and their stories.
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Sheryl is also a quilt appraiser and will be available, by appointment, the two days preceding the show.
Contact sheryllowquilts@gmail.com.
She is also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thelowdownonquilts and on Facebook as Sheryl Low Quilts.
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The Key Peninsula is approximately thirty minutes from Gig Harbor, WA. The Longbranch Improvement Club is approximately sixteen miles down the Key on the Key Peninsula Highway. You may also access the show by boat. There is guest moorage available at the Longbranch Marina, located south of the Improvement Club.
Pickleball & Ping Pong
Every Tuesday from 10am-6pm
Dances & Concerts
Labor Day, Memorial Day, and more!
The LIC traditionally celebrates the beginning of summer with our Memorial Day Dance, and we wrap up the season with our Labor Day Dance.
Friends and neighbors gather to enjoy local bands and touring musicians. The Key Peninsula has connections to a lot of amazing artists, and we give them a warm welcome (not to mention a stage and a microphone) whenever they visit.
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Join us for one of our great musical events throughout the year!