Once again, Alice Field from Foxhill Farm won the top prizes in the Fleece Competition at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival in October. 

In addition to being declared champion in the White Fleece and Colored Fleece categories, for the second year in a row she 

achieved the status of Supreme Champion for the entire competition.

Sue Warden proudly admires the ribbon display at the farm's booth.

 Mill-spun yarn, locks and Farm cards," says Katie O'Donnell from

Littles Creek Farm in Marshfield.

"We began breeding Shetland sheep in 2010 and never turned back. 

Our farm is a labor of love between mother and daughter (Carol and Montana Airey). 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."

- Wild Air Farm  website

The farm will bring raw fleeces, roving and handspun. 

Buchanan Fiber Company offers many fiber items that are unique. Sarah Buchanan works with milkweed, essentially unheard of in the

world of spinning. The company is featured in an article in the 

current issue of Spin Off magazine, "Monarchs, Milkweed, and You".

"I will have Rambouillet/milkweed batts, and dyed milkweed packs

for blending with other fiber, cotton punis, and hand dyed cotton

 sliver,  CVM/Cormo roving, and handmade resin tahklis and bowls."  

The Wayland Winter Farmers' Market Needle Gauge/Stitch Gauge 

made for  us by Katrinkles in Rhode Island is back in stock. 

This tool can  be purchased at any  register at Russell's.

While roaming through the New York Sheep & Wool Festival in 

October, we discovered Marcia MacDonald and her beautiful 

  Lana Plantae Yarns, "We have been using natural dyes for 

twenty years and have strived to learn the process correctly to  achieve lasting color in our yarns." The farm is located in Buxton, Maine.

Cloverworks Farm Blueface Leicester

"We will have yarn from our flock, patterns, raw wool, roving, pelts,

dog treats made from lamb liver and frozen lamb meat,"  says Katie Sullivan, whose farms is in Irasburg, VT, close to the Canadian border.

Purple Hummingbird Woolens

Johanna Richardson (left) creates handmade woolens for the 

whole family: socks, wristers, leg warmers, felted vests*, hats, 

mittens and slippers, silk scarves and felted playmats. 

(* the editor of this newsletter would be lost without her custom made 

felted vest ordered at the Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair in May.)

Watch Jonathan Bosworth demonstrate cotton spinning on his charkha , while Sheila Bosworth  demonstrates how to create yarn on a drop spindle.  Bosworth Spindles will be available for purchase.

Gail Callahan, AKA The Kangaroo Dyer makes colorful hand dyed yarn and  silk scarves. She also created The Color Grid.

Boondoggle Farm is located in Putney, Vermont.  We  met at the Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival .   "We raise registered Finnsheep and  

will bring Finn yarn, woven items, roving and  our Finn Sport Hat kits.

  Each kit has 3 patterns to choose from with 5 mini skeins to

  make one hat. Natural colored and naturally dyed."

Jim Grant from Good Karma Farm demonstrates how to use his 

sock-making machine, while shoppers admire the farm's yarn (below).

Subito Farm - Meaghan, Cindy and Sarah

"We're a family of artisans. Cindy spins, knits, designs, felts, cranks,

machine knits and punch hooks. Her daughter Sarah knits, cranks, machine knits and designs. Meaghan, Cindy's second daughter needle felts our very popular catnip mice and beautifully detailed earrings."

Windy Hill Farm is located in Lakeville. Carol and Richard Tripp  

create homegrown, hand-dyed, hands-on wool and blended 

yarn, handwoven items (below) , hand knits and roving for 

spinning and felting.

We welcome back Dorothy Benedict from Windy Hamlet/Pan Terra.

Wonderful to have you and your Icelandic yarn back in Wayland.

Iris Creek Farm  (above) and Maple Frost Farm (below) share space together when they go to shows because they both raise Leicester Longwool sheep, which is on the Priority list of the Livestock Breed Conservancy. Both Keri Boucher and Kim Mastrianni participate in the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em program.

Winterberry Farm bunnies delight all ages. Jill Horton-Lyons reports that she will have "fleece in many forms" including raw, washed,

 dyed, roving and yarn . Two Angora rabbits will be for sale, sheets 

of carded wool for wet felting, hand spindles and threading hooks.

"I make hand-dyed yarn in a variety of weights and seasonal colors," says Kera Murphy of Campfire Knits. "I bring sample swatches or garments so that customers can visualize the colorways and feel 

how the yarn works up when knitted or crocheted."

Find out how your purchase gives back to the community.

Do you have a quilt that you started ages ago, but haven't had the

time to complete?   Dragonfly Longarm Quilting Services can help 

 you with that. Margo can also create a custom quilt for you.

Hampson Farms in Shirley is busy calving now. Thank you for 

taking the time to join us with your wool batts for quilters.

"The natural qualities of fleece make fleece batting the ideal

 choice. The crimp gives the batting a natural loft and airiness that allows the fibers to spring and stay plush."

The Wayside Quilters Guild  is a Sudbury based group founded in 1985. "We range from true beginners, to experienced instructors, brought together by a shared love of quilting and a desire to learn. The guild 

is the place to ask questions, share tips, and nerd-out over a new technique." The guild will display a quilt that they are raffling 

at a later date. Tickets will be for sale.

Friends in Fiber

 Jan Lashua and Peg Critser bring hand dyed combed top, 

including cashmere, yak, camel, mink and silk blends, a British 

five-breeds combed top collection for a spinner's study, 

Angora fiber and hand knits. 

 in various weights and fibers, but primarily Merino wool," says 

 owner  Kel Bachus. "We will also have project bags,  stitch 

markers, and knitting and crochet patterns."

"SAORI weaving  is an art of weaving by hand that is dedicated to 

free expression and self-development for everyone, regardless of physical or mental ability, age, or artistic aptitude," said Mihoko   Wakabayashi of SAORI Worcester.  

"We will have scarves, pouches, card cases, tops,

 vests, tunics, hats, jackets, t-shirts with handwoven appliqué."

  

Rag Hill Farm: handspun yarn, dyed locks, art batts, quilted 

 and chicken shaped potholders, needle felting kits, wool hats, 

 fabric fridge magnets and quilts.

 

Bring your knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, drop spindle or 

spinning wheel and  join your friends in the 

3rd Floor Fiber Lounge  from 10 to 3 .

If you are unable to find seating to enjoy your food and 

beverages downstairs, please feel free to use this space, too.

  Dirty Water DyeWorks  will have a selection of hand dyed yarn,

select knitting kits and patterns, gradient and multi-colored yarn bundles.  Stop by to see their new samples.

  

 

Don't miss the mohair socks, yarn, apparel and throws from

Moonshine Design at Keldaby Farm, which is located in Colrain.

"Our flock includes purebred Romneys, as well as  Teeswater , 

Bluefaced Leicester and Border Leicester Crosses. We blend our 

wool through cross-breeding, right on the sheep, not at a mill.  

Photo courtesy of Maine Adult Education.

 Butternut  opened their own bakery in Arlington last year.

We thank them for continuing to visit us in Wayland.

Lunch options include  Mandy's Wicked Good Chowdah,
Bread Obsession artisan bread. Not pictured,

 and not to  be missed, are the baguettes.

  Mill River Winery is located in Rowley. 

 

C & C Lobsters and Fish

Bergeron Maple Farm

Maple syrup, maple candy, maple cream and granulated maple sugar.

Lilac Hedge Farm

Joni's Cannolis

 Saturday, March 7 - 10 AM to 2 PM

 

 Farm Fiber Day #2

Sunday, March 1 -  10 AM to 3 PM