Wayland Winter Farmers' Market

Farm Fiber Day #1

Sunday, January 19, 2025

10:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Farm Fiber Day is back! Join us on January 19th and again on March 9th

from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM at Russell's Garden Center.

We have over 45 fiber vendors and many food and beverage options.

A map of our indoor/outdoor vendor layout will be available later this week.

Look for yarn, roving, fleeces, spinning fiber and finished items.

We will have visiting sheep, vendors spinning on wheels, drop spindles, and

charkas, and there will be a sock making machine demonstration.

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, juice or kombucha?

Visit Flores de Café and Fully Rooted.

Feeling hungry?

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

Something sweet? Rancatore's Ice Cream, Fråulein's Bakery

and Great Harvest Bread can help you out.

Help with dinner? (more time for knitting)

Frozen prepared food are available from Lilac Hedge Farm.

Have you seen our new 'farmfiberday' Instagram account?

Our new logo was created by Jessica Loy. Instagram: @jloydesign

Do you enjoy local food? Sign up for the Wayland Winter Farmers' Market email.

Our thanks to Lucky Lane Farm (Ouessant sheep), Pillar House Farm

(Ouessant Sheep) 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 Erlbacher Knitting Machine. Come witness the magic!

Jim offers individual classes in sock making at their store in Bridgton, Maine.

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

This drop-in activity is ongoing throughout the day.

A Hundred Ravens

We’ve gone from a few bins of yarn at the Wayland Farmer’s Market to attending fiber shows all over the country, but along the way our focus has been the same as it was in the beginning. Yarn we love, colors we love, and every skein dyed by hand with the exact same care and attention to quality on our hundred thousandth skein as we took on our tenth.

We will have hand dyed yarn in unique saturated colors, knit and crochet kits, project bags, mini skeins and gradient yarn cakes.

Aaronap Cellars

Aaronap Cellars is a micro-winery located in Westford, MA. They focus on producing small volume, innovative, artisanal wines from the best vineyards and orchards in New England and beyond.

Artisan Yarns from Hampden Hills Alpacas

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

Alpaca is perfect for making baby clothing or blankets, as it is very soft to the touch. Alpaca wicks up moisture, quickly evaporating it, leaving the wearer warm and dry."

Baaaystate Blanket/Worcester County Sheep Association

In November 2007, inspired by CT and RI, we met to discuss a wool blanket project for Massachus with contributors from all over the state. The Blanket will be available in multiple sizes, with 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 resource.  

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.

Baah Boots 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.



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."

Boston Area Spinners and Dyers

Founded in 1970 to exchange knowledge and ideas related to spinning and dyeing. BASD meets monthly, September to May to learn from members and special guests and hosts multiple members-only workshops, with experienced teachers from all over. Stop by to watch their skills in action and ask questions. There are members of all ages: newbies to those who have been there from the start!

Bosworth Spindles

Wood artisan Jonathan Bosworth has been making beautiful tools for spinners with his wife Sheila for over 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.

They will bring a wide variety of handmade tools including shuttles, niddy-noddies, bobbins for Journey Wheels, and carrying bags for our charkhas.

Take this opportunity to try your hand at charkha spinning!

ColeMama Creations

"I'm Nicole, and I'm a fiber artist, farmer, food lover, nature wanderer and mother of two 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."

These dyed rope containers make a sturdy and beautiful knitting project holder.

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.

Easy Acre Gnomestead

The first fiber animal I brought home was an angora buckling. Then we obtained a starter flock of sheep from a conservation grant. We now focus our efforts on supporting the conservation efforts of our critically endangered Gulf Coast Native sheep. We are members of the Livestock Conservancy and producers for the Shave 'em to Save 'em program. 

Englishman Bay Handmade

Englishman Bay Handmade started in 2017. All my items are handmad in New England.

The natural colored wool comes from my family’s farm. The coastal Maine farm has been in my family for generations and has always had sheep.

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

Traditionally grown and harvested – for coffee lovers. Hand-picked beans are processed, roasted and packaged right on the farm preserving the natural taste, aroma, and body of our coffee.

Instead of the machines used at large plantations, our skilled workers wait for the right weather conditions and then select only ripe red beans from our coffee plants.

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.

Freddy's Farm Shetland Sheep

​Freddy's Farm is a small family farm in Bolton MA. We have been breeding and showing Shetland sheep for almost 20 years!  Our farm started off as a 4-H project, and has bloomed into a full-time small business. My sister Via and I show our lambs at local shows starting in May, and continue throughout the summer.

Fully Rooted

Fully Rooted is a raw cold-pressed juice company in Rhode Island which brings awareness, health and vitality to the consumer one glass of juice at a time.

The body is capable of not only healing itself but also can prevent health conditions as well with proper balance and nutrition of mind, body and spirit!"

Juice, juice shots and kombucha.

https://fullyrooted.com/shop/

Good Karma Yarn and Soap

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

They continue to make yarn and soap, woven items and offer Sox School classes. Watch Jim demonstrate how to make a pair of socks using a Circular Sock Machine.

Good Karma 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.

Grateful Tastes

Our mission is to bring delicious hyper 

local New England grown produce from 

all seasons and harvests, to our consumers families and into their homes. 

Each of our versatile, small batch family recipes are crafted with freshly picked, seasonally available produces, certified organic cane sugar, and an all natural & vegan pectin.



We also offer our raw honey, and pure New England maple syrup.

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 are naturally dyed by Lisa using raw dyestuff produced or foraged on the farm utilizing organic practices or with natural dyes ethically sourced through sustainable businesses.

Pick up your own dye kit, yarn, roving, mitts, hats, scarves and shawls.

Lisa has been a vendor at Farm Fiber Days almost from the start!

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.



My botanically dyed collection featuring super-soft merino yarn dyed with plants and botanicals including marigolds, cosmos, walnuts sourced locally and from my own backyard garden.

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 (DK & Lite) line, a variegated yarn made 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."

Don't miss their delightful weekly Junction Fiber Mill Millcast, which airs each Tuesday morning!

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.

SAORI Worcester

SAORI is a studio where people feel safe and comfortable to express their inner creativity regardless their age, sex, abilities and social status. We teach basic weaving skills and encourage students to make unique work that only the person can create at the moment.

We will bring scarves, tops, tunics, jackets, dresses, hats, pouches, handbags and fingerless gloves and t-shirts with appliqué.

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.

Martine Gorlier

I am a fiber artist representing the Ouessant Wool from the Breton Meadow Farm in Lincoln MA.

My New England Fedora Hat Collection is made from the Ouessant Wool.

All accessaries are made using local fibers from New England farms who have Merino and Shetland sheep as well as alpacas.

Meadowfed Lamb

Finnsheep have lustrous, soft fleeces which are lovely for hand-spinning and make strong, soft yarns. The farm will have felted goods, sheep's wool sponges, placemats, coasters and dye material for you to use at home.

The sheep graze between rows of cider apple, chestnut, and heartnut trees and are moved to fresh paddocks daily.

The lamb is delicate but divine - deep, sweet & tender in flavor.

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. The fiber is spun at Green Mountain Spinnery in Vermont.

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

Mother's Kitchen

Our marsala allows anyone to quickly make delicious, authentic, and healthy homemade curries that taste like they have been cooking for hours. Most Indian restaurants pour on the cream and butter to make their food taste better. Homemade Indian curries take time to slowly develop the flavors that make them both delicious and healthy. Frozen Indian masalas (6 types), dry Indian spice mixes (4 types).

At Mother’s Kitchen, we do most of the work, so you can shine.

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 2025! We are making our only visit of the season on Sunday, so stop by and say hello!"

Quill & Quiver

Quill & Quiver Fiber is a yarn company founded by two friends with a shared love of history, craft, and story. We offer small-batches of hand-dyed yarn in color palettes inspired by traditional crafts and the people who keep these heritage skills alive. Our yarn bases are thoughtfully sourced from family-run mills in the U.S. that seek to uphold and support the continuation of the wool industry.

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.

Neil and Jen Kapitulik create hand-spun yarn, dyed roving, dyed locks, art batts, quilted and chicken shaped potholders and bowl cozies.

Rancatore's Ice Cream

We're happy to report that Rancatore's Ice Cream team, Tyler Whitehorn and Joe Rancatore, will be joining us for the third year.

We can't wait to taste their creative, dynamic flavors in 2025. They will join us every other week throughout the season.

Rancatore's has locations in Lexington, Belmont and Newton.

Red Bud Farm

Pam Cole has a Shetland/Romney farm in Bolton, MA. In October she won Champion Fleece in the Primitive category at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival!

Look for her Shetland fleeces and pelts in Wayland, 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 designs, decorated wool dryer balls, and cedar blocks to store with wool.

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.

Stephen Willette

Stephen and Linda Willette join us with handcrafted fiber art tools: looms, weaving tools (shuttles and shed sticks), shawl pins, lucets, naalbinding needles, darning eggs, spindles, yarn bowls, buttons, seam rippers, hair sticks, crochet hooks and tapestry needles.

These tools are meant for all ages to enjoy. Look for the Handheld Mini Loom and get started in no time.

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.

The Indigo Squirrel

We hand dye all of our products with indigo dye and use Japanese Shibori techniques. Each item is unique.

These are visually compelling and extremely tactile.



We are based in Massachusetts.

I am Indigo obsessed, and stitcher, knitter, natural dyer. Anything fiber related- yes, please! Oh, we sell our products too!

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.

Vermont Grand View Farm

"Our historic farm sits high on a hill in the heart of the Green Mountain state.

Our products are handmade here in Vermont. I use wool from my flock of Gotland sheep to bring you home décor that embodies the slow movement.

Each piece begins with a shepherd and months of nurturing her flock of Gotland sheep, ensuring each sheep produces lovely gray wool while maintaining Swedish Gotland characteristics. My inspiration comes from the Scandinavian heritage of my Gotland sheep emphasizing a functional minimalist simplicity while incorporating coziness and warmth."

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!