Natalie Coe is an eco-poet and social justice advocate living in coastal North Carolina. For nearly twenty years she taught science at a small liberal arts college in Vermont. During the summers she taught a fiber arts course as part of a farm intensive experience. She holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UNC Wilmington. She has published in multiple scientific journals and books, her topics including obese mice, nature and culture, beech trees, and most recently, bell hooks. Her literary work is published or forthcoming in Story South, About Place, The Rumpus and Her Words. If not writing, she is in her garden or knitting or dyeing and spinning fibers of all kinds!
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EXPERIENCES
Show Date
Fri 4 Sep 2026 3:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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| Title Short | Knitting as a Spiritual Practice |
| Venue | Studio |
| Experience Description | This fiber-filled workshop, for all levels of crafters, will first and foremost be fun. We’ll explore what it is that draws us to make stuff out of yarn– a.k.a. Friday night Knitting Club meets The Knitting Sutra– We will consider how when we pick up our needles, we have a chance to not only create something new physically, but create internal space in our lives for joy (and more yarn). Knitting can be a spiritual practice, a mantra. A prayer shawl can be a powerful antidote (and super fuzzy-warm). Let’s make some loop-de-loops!
We will consider all sorts of fibers (from plants and animals) and learn about The Livestock Conservancy (rare sheep breeds here in North Carolina) and more about our own fibershed and what does it mean to “knit local”?
Plenty of needles, yarn, and instruction will be provided. We will practice mindful knitting and consider how we can continue to knit for good. Feel free to bring a project you are working on if you’d like, but we will ask you to share and “oohh” and “aahhh” at it for a bit. Don’t feel sheepish if this is all new to you. Come join the flock!
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