Wayland Winter Farmers' Market

Farm Fiber Day #1

Sunday, January 21, 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Farm Fiber Day is back! Join us on January 21st and again on March 3rd

from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM. We will have over 50 fiber vendors, with some of your

favorite Saturday food vendors joining us as well. Just like our Saturday market,

you'll find vendors indoors and outdoors. Look for yarn, roving, fleeces, spinning

fiber, finished items (socks, hats, woven scarves and table linens, felted objects).

We will have visiting sheep, vendors spinning on wheels and

drop spindles, and sock making machine demonstrations.

Vendors are located outdoors under cover, in greenhouses, under tents

and indoors spread throughout the lower level of Russell's Garden Center.



Looking for hot coffee or kombucha?

Visit Flores de Café and Luluna Kombucha.

Feeling hungry?

Lunch is available from The Hyve and Say Cheese Food Truck.

Help with dinner? (more time for knitting)

Frozen prepared food are available from Lilac Hedge Farm and Valicenti Pasta Farm.

Sign up for the Wayland Winter Farmers' Market email.

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Maps will be available at the Information desk in the Plant Shop.

Feel free to print them at home in advance or view it from your phone to save paper.

Map details are subject to change, we will have the latest version when you arrive.

We are delighted to have Shetland born knitwear designer Gudrun Johnston join us

with her new book Grand Shetland Adventure Knits, which she wrote with longtime friend and collaborator, Mary Jane Mucklestone.

Our thanks to Lucky Lane Farm (Ouessant sheep), Pillar House Farm (Ouessant Sheep) and Prado de Lana Sheep Farm for bringing their sheep to Farm Fiber Day.

Ouessant Sheep are considered one of the world's smallest domestic sheep breeds. Native to the Breton Isles off the coast of Brittany, France, these sheep with their delightful and inquisitive personalities have been exclusively bred in the

United States at Breton Meadow Farms in Lincoln, MA since 2008.

Raised primarily for their luxurious fleece which range in three natural colors:

black, brown, and white. They make wonderful pets due to their small size with

ewes weighing an average of 35 pounds and rams 50 pounds.

Jim Grant from Good Karma Yarn and Soap will be cranking socks

with his special machine. Come witness the magic!

Come one, come all! Learn the art of felting with Blue Heron Farm.

This drop in activity is ongoing throughout the day.

Artisan Yarns from Hampden Hills Alpacas

Our yarn is spun for us in Peru and is the softest alpaca yarn you’ll ever feel.

We then hand dye in small batches in solid, tonal and hand painted colorways. 

It is perfect for making baby clothing or blankets, as it is very soft to the touch.

We will also handwoven items made by Erica Jansons for sale.

Baaaystate Blanket

The wool that goes into the making of the Baaaystate Blanket all comes from Massachusetts farms.

They will have the Blanket will be available in multiple sizes, and there will be additional iitems made from the fabric, plus handspun yarn, knitted, felted and woven items and Farm & Fiber themed earrings.

Baah Boots

Wool fiber is a renewable, sustainable and 100% biodegradable resourse, which sheep love to give away!  

Felt is a nonwoven fabric that is extremely durable and makes the best material for footwear - it is warm, hygenic, breathable and therapeutic. Elena Anderson makes unique, many one-of-a-kind items, and she takes custom orders.

BaahBOOTS are made of all natural sheep wool fiber that comes from local US family farms, where sheep are treated like pets. 

Biltmore Wool Barn

Our alpaca is from our herd on Cape Cod.

Look for 100% alpaca yarn both natural and dyed, plus alpaca/silk and BFL silk roving.

All hand dyes and processed on our farm.

Bloom Woolen Yarns

Bloom creates high-quality yarns made in small batches from wool grown, spun and dyed in and around the Western Massachusetts Fibershed. 

Our offerings include yarns ranging from Sock Yarn to Rug Yarn and many weights

in between.

We use our wool to make sponges, dish cloths, felt and other craft materials from

Massachusettss waste wool.

Blue Heron Farm

The 30-acre farm has a CSA in Grande Isle, Vermont. We continue our dream of growing a diversified family farm with produce, grazing sheep for fiber and meat, sweet cows for raw milk and beef, poultry for eggs and meat, apprenticeships, and therapeutic/educational programs. 

We are bringing our organic wool yarn from our own sheep that is naturally dyed, wool dryer balls, roving, needle felting kits and USDA certified organic lamb meat.

Bobolink Yarns

I have fresh, new lines of yarn and kits for 2024 that I am very excited to share with

Farm Fiber Day shoppers!

My yarn comes from Vermont flocks and is creatively hand-dyed.

I offer lustrous longwool fingering yarn, non-superwash art-dyed sock yarn, upcycled wool, and plush worsted yarn with pattern support and creative inspiration.

Boondoggle Farm

Finnsheep are mid-sized sheep with clean legs and head, and are naturally polled with short tails. They are very personable and easy to handle. Finn wool ranges from fine to medium with an average 5-6” staple and high luster. We shear twice yearly and our fleeces are highly sought by hand spinners. We offer breeding stock, fiber animals, and pets. Shop for Finnsheep yarn, knitting kits and handwoven scarve

Bosworth Spindles

Wood artisan Jonathan Bosworth has been making beautiful tools for spinners for 40 years. His drop spindles are known for their superb spin and balance. A variety of woods provide a wide range of available colors and weights. We offer a wide variety of handmade tools including shuttles, niddy-noddies, bobbins for Journey Wheels, and carrying bags for our charkhas. Sheila Bosworth will mesmerize you with her drop spindle skills!

ColeMama Creations

I'm Nicole, and I'm a fiber artist, farmer, food lover, nature wanderer, wife, and mother of 2 homeschooled nature loving children, living on the eastern coast of Connecticut.

My design philosophy is simple - it's rooted in a desire to fuse the practical with the artistic. I seek to create vessels that are unique, beautiful, and can stand up to the needs of everyday life.



Crista Jaeckel

Unique hand block printed and hand painted project bags sewn using the highest quality materials.

These bags are often one of a kind statement pieces that come in differnet sizes to suit your project. Notion pouches will keep all your notions organized inside your project bag.



Dirty Water DyeWorks

Stephanie offers hand-dyed yarn, knitting kits and yarn bundles. Her table is always overflowing with samples to help you decide which knitting kit you want to purchase.



Do you have your own pattern? She can

help you find the appropriate yarn for your project.

Dorchester Farms

Ken Abert from Dorchester Farms is making the trip from Provincetown to bring us his colorful hand dyed wool, roving and yarn.

New this year: handwoven items including tea towels, scarves, placemats, napkins and table runners.

Englishman Bay Handmade

Handmade products started from a small flock of local sheep and finished by local New England craftsmen and craftswomen.

Pick up kits to make your own sheep and alpaca ornaments.

"My extended family owns a farm in Maine. The wool in my products come from those sheep and other local farms and mills

I make sheep ornaments, dryer balls and wool rocks. I work with local artists to create the blankets." - Alicia Monks

Fantastic Farm Yarns

I offer hand spun, hand dyed yarn and roving, as well as carded batts from locally grown fiber. I focus on showcasing the beauty of natural fiber with an artistic approach to color and texture.

My goal is to make products that inspire creativity in the crafter.

The majority of my fiber is sourced from small New England Farms

Flores de Café

The coffee you purchase has gone from the tree to the final product in days: 

hand-picking the beans and roasting all happens on our small farm. 



Forever in Fiber

Luxury fibers for spinning/felting including cashmere, yak, camel, alpaca, mink and silk blends.

Angora fiber and wool roving from my own animals as well as other New England Farms.

Handspun yarns from the above fibers and handknit and woven items (scarves/rugs) from my own handspun yarn.

Good Karma Yarn and Soap

Amy and Jim Grant of Good Karma Yarn and Soap have opened a store in their new hometown of Bridgton, Maine. 

They continue to make yarn and soap, and offer Sox School classes. 

Watch Jim demonstrate how to make a pair of socks using a Circular Sock Machine. 

They will bring worsted, sport and sock weight yarn, as well as spinning batts/roving, hats, socks and patterns

Pick up yarn to make yourself a Color Blurz Striped Pullover.

Great Bay Wool Works

Great Bay Wool Works offers lustrous undyed and naturally dyed yarn from their award winning floick of Romney and Natural Colored sheep. Our fleeces have won many awards!

Look for tote bags, project bags and knitting patterns. We have a keen interest in sharing our farming knowledge to those interestsed in the working landscape of small farms in New England. Our farm is located in Durham, New Hampshire.

Hilltop Farm & Fiber Arts

All products barehand dyed by Lisa with natural dyes I have grown or ethically sourced through sustainable businesses.

All natural dye material are grown on my farm in Lanesborough utilizing organic production methods.

Iris Creek Farm

"We are a small family farm in the quite corner of Connecticut raising Leicester Longwool sheep as well as a menagerie of barnyard friends.

It is the sheep themselves that have inspired the products from the farm. The Leicester Longwool and Teeswater have a unique fleece that is long, strong, and lustrous. You will see their beautiful tendril locks in the hand made fiber art and the luster it holds in the yarns." - Keri Boucher

Home grown yarn, hand dyed locks, felted wool collars, hand spun yarn.

Islay's Terrace

Hand-dyed and hand-spun yarn created in Hudson.

My yarn is created in micro batches of 2-3 skeins. Each skein is individual and spun in a thick and chunky style for an artful handspun style.



New for this year: my botanically dyed collection featuring super-soft merino yarn dyed with plants and botanicals including marigolds from my own garden.

Jagger Spun

Since the Jagger family arrived in Maine in the 1880s, the name has been synonymous with high-quality worsted spun yarns. 

Today, their tradition continues with dyed, heather, and white yarns spun from 100% wool and blends with natural and synthetic fiber – all manufactured in Maine.

We manufacture custom spun products in 500 lbs to 5,000 lbs spinning lot orders to meet our customers’ specific yarn requirements. Jagger Spun maintains ten ranges of yarn with 28-54 shades in stock for each yarn type.

JMR Studio

Jan’s highly-textured and vividly-colored hand-spun & hand-dyed yarns are sought-after by hand-knitters, felters and weavers.

 

Fleeces acquired at sheep & wool festivals are lovingly washed & hand-picked and processed into roving, then they are hand-spun and hand-dyed by Jan for his avid repeat and new customers. Handcrafted wearables include shawls, scarves and

sweaters.

Junction Fiber Mill

In addition to processing fleece for local sheep farms, we spin our own lines of exceptional yarn. We are perhaps best known for our Making Tracks line, a variegated yarn spun from 100% American wool and hand-dyed at the mill in a rainbow of colors. Our Farm Fresh line showcases wool grown in New England. Happy sheep, lush pastures, and endless gratitude can be felt in every skein of yarn that goes out Junction Fiber Mill’s door.

Lineflax & Roving

Cardinale Montano from Lineflax & Roving in West Stockbridge makes open, zipped, and crossbody totes from Greenguard Certified vinyl, 100% USA soured materials, hand sewn in her studio one at a time. 

Reviews that have come to us from past Farm Fiber Day purchasers agree that

they make great project bags for durability and style. Zippered purses are available in a variety of colors as well.

Littles Creek Farm

All products are from our own sheep.

We raise Gotland's and also keep Merinos, Border Leicesters, Lincoln, Alpacas and

Angora rabbits.

We will bring raw fleeces (high-quality and well-skirted), locks, roving (natural and hand-dyed), farm cards and photographs, yarn (natural and hand-dyed), rug yarn, knitted and woven items.

The farm is located in Marshfield, MA.

Lucky Lane Farm/Pillar House Farm

Ouessant sheep, are considered one of the smallest sheep in the world. The

natural Ouessant fleece colors include black, white and brown.

We will bring yarn and roving from our flocks. The farms are nearby in Lincoln, MA.

Maple Frost Farm

Raw Fleeces, Washed Locks, Roving, Yarns, Rug-bumps, and Socks! 

Leicester Longwools are renowned for their luster and it stays with the fiber through washing, combing, spinning, and dying. The glow from these yarns, even the dyed ones, resembles mohair. It's spectacular. The yarns are soft and wonderful to work with. 

Martha's Handcrafts

I am a beekeeper of 14 years, and have won numerous awards from the Worcester County Beekeepers, Spencer (MA) Fair and the Sterling (MA) Fair. 

I keep about 20 hives and have the "Best of Show" honey awards from 2019 and 2022.



I sell only local, raw honey and products,

as well as my own handmade hand cream and lip balm.

Moonshine Design

Here at Keldaby we raise the beautiful, gentle and shyly friendly angora goats that provide Moonshine Design with the cloudsoft and highly lustrous mohair used in our fine selection of hand dyed, hand woven goods.

Wrap yourself in a throw, toss a scarf or shawl around your shoulders or luxuriate in our fabulous ruanas.

Plied Yarns

Unique marled yarns, spun in New Hampshire and dyed in Baltimore.

As we begin the New Year we’re very grateful for you and this creative fiber arts community that we enjoy. Cheers to more hand-dyeing, more color, more new designs, more projects, more mending

and more fun together in 2024!

Prado de Lana Sheep Farm

Prado de Lana Sheep Farm (translation Wool Meadow) raises Romney,  Lincoln Longwool and CVM Romeldale sheep in

the Berkshires. From our organic garden

to our free - range chickens, sheep were the perfect livestock for our family. Our sheep are grass fed on lush pastures in

the heart of Southern Berkshire County, MA. They participate in the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em initiative created by The Livestock Conservancy. Visit their lovely yarn shop in Stockbridge, MA.

Rag Hill Farm

Rag Hill Farm is a family owned and operated fiber art studio located in rural western Massachusetts near the village of Shelburne Falls. The Kapitulik family creates hand-spun yarn, roving, dyed locks, art batts, quilted and chicken shaped potholders, needle felting kits, wool hats, fabric fridge magnets and quilts.

Raja Farm

Don't miss Ellen Raja's unique fiber hats, exquiste thrummed mittens and neck pieces using dyed and natural colored

fiber from her Longwool sheep.

Ellen has been raising sheep on her farm in Lincoln since 1960.

Red Bud Farm

Pam Cole has a Shetland/Romney farm in Bolton, MA.

She will bring Shetland fleeces and pelts

as well as handspun and milled yarn, plus Shetland/Romney/Llama roving and creative batts.

Also available are her beautiful thrummed mittens, felted soap with needle felted designs, and handmade decorated wool dryer balls.

Sassy Black Yarns

My name is Lakisher Hurst. As an avid crocheter, I see the world through yarn-tinted spectacles. I started Sassy Black Yarns with a simple desire to create a small selection of hand-dyed yarns that would offer people beautiful color alternatives with sassy names & colors. The definition of sassy is someone or something that is lively, bold and a little feisty. I specialize in bold, fresh colors of hand dyed yarns for knitters and crocheters alike.

Steven Willette

Craftsmen of heirloom quality Wooden Fiber Art Tools for people who spin, knit, crochet and weave. We offer yarn bowls, looms, support spindles, glass tipped support spindles, lucets, crochet hooks, shawl pins and weaving supplies. We maintain the high standards of quality.

Subito Farm Designs

We are family of artisans. Cindy spins, knits, designs, felts, cranks, machine knits and punch hooks.

We have original knitting patterns, hand dyed yarn, felted jewelry, embroidery kits, and catnip mice. Her daughter Sarah knits, cranks socks, machine knits and designs.

Meaghan's felted jewlery is truly one of a kind, and her embroidery kits contain everything that you need to complete the project.

Tidal Yarns

Hand selected fleeces from New England and Upstate New York, spun into beautiful yarn at New England spinning mills,

dyed at home using plants, bugs, roots, nuts and sustainable botanical extracts.



Patricia Fortinsky will bring her yarn, sweater patterns and small project patterns to make cowls, socks and mittens.

Valicenti Pasta Farm

Fresh pasta and vegetarian, carnivore and gluten-free ravioli are available on the farmers' market menu. 

Pick up meat and vegetable lasagna and pasta sauces:

Pizza Sauce, Red Gravy, Golden Gravy,

Arugula Pistachio Pesto and "alla Norma".

Wild Air Farm

We began breeding Shetland sheep in

2010 and never turned back. 

Our farm started as labor of love between

mother and daughter through 4-H years ago. We strive to produce quality breeding stock with an emphasis on fiber and personality.

The farm is situated in picturesque New England on the old pumpkin patch of the historic Wilder Farm.



We will bring Shetland products, including raw fleeces, batts (natural and acid dyed), roving and hand-spun yarn, millspun yarn, and eco-printed items.

Wind Ridge Farm

Our flock: Romney, Teeswater, Bluefaced Leicester and Border Leicester Crosses. 

We blend our wool through cross-breeding - right on the sheep!Teeswater sheep trace back to the Romans, enhances our fiber's luster, length and strength.The wool is

long and lustrous - an outcome of

selective breeding. The shine, softness and strength of the wool make this a hand-spinner's delight!

Windy Hamlet Farm

I am delighted to be back at the market this year!

I will have natural colored Icelandic yarn in light lopi and worsted. I am looking forward to seeing old friends and making new friends! - Dorothy Benedict

Dorothy Benedict from Windy Hamlet Farm (above) was an member of the first Wool Day (now known as Farm Fiber Day) in 2010.

Also still with us after all these years:

Foxhill Farm

North Brook Farm

Rag Hill Farm

West River Creamery

Windy Hill Farm

Wing & A Prayer Farm

Farmer Tammy White, with the help of her children and community, has been cultivating a home with a heart for fiber animals of all species and breeds in Vermont since 2001. The focus on breed specific fiber, by beloved flocks, keeps her busy year round. Tammy teaches Natural Dyeing, Baking, Soap Making and Farming Workshops. Wing & A Prayer Farm is home to Vermont’s first pure blood Valais Blacknose Sheep.

Upcoming event: March 3

Would you like to learn how to use a drop spindle?

Penny Lacroix will teach a Drop Spindle Spinning class from 1 to 3 PM

on  March 3 during our second Farm Fiber Day.

For additional details: https://pennylacroix.com/product/drop-spindle-workshop-at-the-wayland-farmers-market/

Hat created by Ellen Raja of Raja Farm in Lincoln, MA.

Ellen has been raising sheep on her farm in Lincoln since 1960.