WAFA November Show Program

WAFA Virtual FIBER FESTIVAL November 22, 23, 24

LIVE http://facebook.com/woolandfiberart

MEET THE TEAM Without our team, none of this would be possible!

Founder Ellen Zawada; Owner of Wool and Fiber Arts LLC Vendor Team - Heather Campbell, Lorna Violet (Mentor Program), Jean Story, Danielle Lefor Wallace Customer Team -(anything that happens publicly in WAFA) - Erika Lindgren, Heather Campbell, Lizette Hopkins (craft-along), Mary Dillon, Katelyn Dunn, Jessica Holt Pack, Amy Olshewski Bowling Marketing Team - Raven Reynolds (social Media) Ellen Zawada, Tedi Jansen Inclusivity Team - Liza Q. Wirtz, Alaura Pittman, TeDi Jansen, Vidya Gopalakrishna Travis, Maddy McLendon Education Team TeDi Jansen, Alanna Wilcox

Wool and Fiber Arts Show Program Editor in Chief Graphic Design Ellen Zawada Tedi Jansen

Vendor Schedule Pages 4-8 Vendor Interview with Chylie Sweeney Page 10-11 Gifts & Down Breeds Market Page 35-36 Vendor Guide Page 37-43

Southeast Ohio Fiberworks

Palette of the Month

Alk & Me

Leaf Livestock

AriBo Arts

Photo by Carolyn Greenwood

Ross Farm Mercantile Opalessence Fiber

WOOL AND FIBER ARTS

FIBER FESTIVAL s ' y a d i Fr ule d e h 22nd Sc EST/PST

Vendor

Category

Location

11:00 am/8:00 am Cedar Hill Fiber Farm

Farm - Wool & Goats Kentucky

11:30 am/8:30 am AriBo Arts

Batts & Rolags

Iowa

12:00 pm/9:00 am True Creations Woodturning

Toolmaker

New York

12:30 pm/9:30 am Ewe2me2u

Indie Dyer

Illinois

1:00 pm/10:00 am Zen Fiber Arts

Indie Dyer

Maryland

1:30 pm/10:30 am Spindle and Spoon Homestead Farm - Rabbits

Louisiana

2:00 pm/11:00 am Wine and Wooly Design

Indie Dyer

Washington

2:30 pm/11:30 am GrilliantCreatives

Indie Dyer

Indiana

3:00 pm/12:00 pm Wunderful Pines Farm

Farm - Multi Species Michigan

3:30 pm/12:30 pm Hens-N-Chicks-FiberArts

Indie Dyer

Michigan

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

Hidden Pastures Luxury Fiber

Farm - Southdown

New Jersey

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

Wool-E Farm

Farm - Romney

Michigan

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

Mulch and More Crafts

Indie Dyer

Michigan

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

Jehovah Jireh Farm and Fibers Indie Dyer

Michigan

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

Ross Farm Mercantile

Farm - Sheep

Ohio

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

alk&me fiber art studio

Indie Dyer

Ohio

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

Annie Morton Designs

Project Bags

Tennessee

s

WOOL AND FIBER ARTS

FIBER FESTIVAL

's y a d i Fr le 22nd u d e h Sc

EST/PST

Vendor

Category

Location

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

The Little Shepherdesses

Idaho

Farm - Sheep

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

Knitspin

Illinois

Indie Dyer

8:30 pm/5:30 pm

Liongate Farm llc

Oregon

Farm - BFL

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WOOL AND FIBER ARTS

's FIBER FESTIVAL y a d r u t Sa dule e h 23rd c S Vendor

Category

Location

11:00 am/8:00 am Crafted by Locals

IIndie Dyer

Texas

11:30 am/8:30 am Triple F Hobby Farm LLC

Farm - Alpaca & Shetland

Michigan

12:00 pm/9:00 am Leaf Livestock Wool Co

Farm - Sheep

Illinois

12:30 pm/9:30 am Atomic Fiber Studio

Indie Dyer

Oregon

1:00 pm/10:00 am Purly Shell Fiber Arts LLC

Local Yarn Store

Washington

1:30 pm/10:30 am Macedo's Mini Acre

Farm - camelids

California

2:00 pm/11:00 am Blue Savannah

Indie Dyer

Idaho

2:30 pm/11:30 am Southeast Ohio Fiberworks Indie Dyer

Ohio

3:00 pm/12:00 pm Frivolous Ewe

Farm - Sheep

Illinois

3:30 pm/12:30 pm Rusty Spur Ranch

Indie Dyer

Idaho

EST/PST

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

Opalessence

Weaver

Pennsylvania

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

Wild Hair Studio

Farm - Romeldale

Tennessee

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

Lair of the Llama

Indie Dyer

Michigan

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

FiberGnome

Project Bags

Virginia

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

Iron Wheel Farms LLC

Farm - Finn

Michigan

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

Greenwood Fiberworks

Indie Dyer

Utah

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

SpinGlitz

Batts & Rolags

California

WOOL AND FIBER ARTS

FIBER FESTIVAL

s ' y a d Satur ule 23rd d Sche EST/PST

Vendor

Category

Location

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

Timber and Twine

Farm - Wool & Goats

Colorado

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

Fresh Lotus Design

Indie Dyer

Michigan

8:30 pm/5:30 pm

Emma Creek Fiber and Yarn

Indie Dyer

Alaska

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WOOL AND FIBER ARTS

FIBER FESTIVAL s ' y a d n Su dule e 24th h c S EST/PST

Vendor

Category

Location

12:00 pm/9:00 am

Fehrenbach Fiber

Farm - LLama

Michigan

12:30 pm/9:30 am

Esther's Place

Indie Dyer

Illinois

1:00 pm/10:00 am

Wavellite Creative llc

Toolmaker

Wisconsin

1:30 pm/10:30 am

My Way Acres Farm and Fiber

Farm - Multi

Ohio

2:00 pm/11:00 am

Merino y Vino

Indie Dyer

Arizona

2:30 pm/11:30 am

Aoire Maith Fibre Studios

Batts & Rolags

Indiana

3:00 pm/12:00 pm

3L&S Farms

Farm - Romney

Michigan

3:30 pm/12:30 pm

Faith Hope Love Studio

Indie Dyer

Oregon

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

Dunn Spunn

Batts & Rolags

Tennessee

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

Zephyr Creek Farm

Farm - Romeldale

Michigan

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

Melissa's Yarn Barn

Indie Dyer

Iowa

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

YarnTravel, LLC

Batts & Rolags

Florida

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

Katie's Fiber Connection

Indie Dyer

Michigan

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

CaroleMakes

Indie Dyer

Indiana

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

Illinois Wool & Fiber Mill

Farm - Sheep

Illinois

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock Farm - Sheep

Michigan

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

Curly C'ewes

Indie Dyer

Oregon

8:30 pm/5:30 pm

JessieJavete Fiber Arts

Batts & Rolags

California

f o t he Mo e t t e l nth Pa

SpinGlitz

Wunderful Pine Farm

Zen Fiber Arts

Zephyr Creek Farm

Greenwood Fiberworks

Triple F Hobby Farm

Hens-N-Chicks

NOVEMBER VENDOR INTERVIEW

Chylie Sweeney of Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock When and how did your business get started?

The wool side of my business started about four years ago when WAFA was created. I had been needle felting for a couple years and slowly starting using the wool from our sheep for spinning and more felting. In 2021, I joined WAFA as a vendor and have been in WAFA sales since. I've always created my own needle felting kits, and slowly started dyeing the wool from our sheep for What is your business's mission or goal?

handspinning.

My goal is to share a love of wool and sheep while helping others learn about fiber art.

How did you learn your craft?

Like many other crafts I have learned, I use videos to learn the basics. Then I experiment and play with the craft on my own. Needle felting in particular is a craft that you have to play with and learn some of the techniques by practicing.

Do you have fiber animals On our farm, we have a variety of sheep. We crossbreed to create a nice dual-purpose lamb for meat and wool. The breeds on are farm include Dorset, Hampshire, Suffolk, Romney, and Bluefaced Leicester. Many of our ewes are 50% or more Dorset or Suffolk/Hampshire. About three years ago, we crossed in Bluefaced Leicester to increase wool quality. BFL added length, lessened the lanolin, and produced an overall cleaner fleece. We currently have around 80 ewes and breed to have lambs from midDecember through February.

Chylie Sweeney of Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock If

you

raise

or

work

with

the

breed/fiber of the month, tell us about

your

animals,

their

personalities and what it is like to work with the fiber.

November is all about down breeds.

Our

down

breeds

include

Dorset,

Hampshire, and Suffolk. Down breed wool is great for socks, bedding, and everyday use. The raw wool is generally spongy. Our Dorset wool varies in crimp styles from a very tight crimp to more of a French fry look. The tight crimp is my favorite and tends to be cleaner. The dorsets or sheep that are mostly Dorset, tend to have the biggest personalities.

What makes WAFA special for you?

WAFA is a great community! I've met many people and made new friends all over the country. It has been a great place to explore new crafts and watch others learn all about wool and fiber arts.

There are always our special ones that end

up

with

names

and

are

the

friendliest. "Princess" is the current favorite.

She

is

50%

Dorset/50%

Suffolk/Hampshire. She comes up for muzzle and chin scratches.

by TeDi Jansen

ARIBO

Arts

LIVE Friday at 11:30 am eastern

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Creativity! Explore our collection of fibers, batts, yarns, etc. Make this holiday season unforgettable with our handmade wearable art. Can't decide? Gift certificates are available. What can be easier?

LIVE Friday at 12:30 pm eastern

Etsy.GrlliantCreatives

LIVE Friday November 22 at 2:30 pm eastern

LIVE Friday at 8:00 pm eastern

Zoom

BOOK Club

Wool and Fiber Arts Book Club Update!

As we prepare for the busy holiday season, our book club will be taking a break, but we’ll be back in January 2025! Our first books will be: Raw Materials Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years In the Footsteps of Sheep We’d love to hear from you! What other fiber arts-adjacent books would you like to read with us in 2025? Drop your suggestions in the group and help shape our reading list for the year ahead!

Enjoy the holidays, and we’ll see you in January with new reads and inspiring discussions!

Raw Returns January 2025

November WAFA Sale Saturday, November 23rd at 6:30 pm EST

https://Greenwoodfiberworks.com

www.SpinGlitz.com

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Fiber Collection

Weaving Sets

Wooden Earrings

Finn batts

Little Hat Project kits

Little Looms

Macedo’s Alpaca fiber from our ranch is used to create a multitude of products. Rovings and batts for the handspinner, core spun rug yarn and dryer balls are also created in our mill. We've been all about the fiber from our start over 20 years ago. We will have some stunning fleeces that will also be offered up .

LIVE Saturday at 1:30 pm eastern

ILLINOIS GROWN WOOL November 2024 WAFA Vendor: Leaf Livestock Wool Co. is a proud repeat Wool and Fiber Arts Vendor.

Our first show was in July of 2020, and we are so grateful for this community! We raise Merinos, Polypays, and Natural Colored Rambouillet/Columbia crosses and Merino/Targhee crosses. Our lamb pen is a menagerie of sizes, colors and patterns all beautiful. Our sheep, in collaboration with midwest mills, create the finest combed top, roving, varieties of yarn, and rug yarn. I would love for everybody to enjoy the finest spinning fiber and yarn I am privileged to grow and use for creating. The physical and BOOK NOW emotional rewards that accompany raising lovely sustainable wool goes far beyond the beauty of the final product.

LIVE Saturday at 12:00 pm eastern

Sayra’s November sale features chunky art batts, batt samplers, dyed roving & hand felted accessories. Atomic Fiber Studio is known for fearless use of color, layered textures. Art batts & happy speckled yarns. Dyeing wool is pure magic. I spend most days in Wonderland, my studio. My colorful basement wool den. Nestled in Astoria, on the Oregon Coast. I am a dye alchemist, a magician of colors.

LIVE Saturday at 12:30 pm eastern

Luxury yarn and combed top handdyed in Idaho

LIVE Saturday at 2:00 pm eastern

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Fehrenbach Fibers

LIVE Sunday at 12:00 pm eastern

3L&S FARMS Holiday Gift Season Offering Ornaments & Kits in addition to Romney Fleece - Locks- Roving & Yarn. All Collected from our 3L&S Raised Romney Sheep www.3LSFARMS.com

LIVE Sunday at 3:00 pm eastern

www.faithhopelovestudio.com

Zephyr Creek Farm

LIVE Sunday at 4:00 pm eastern

Wavellite Creative creates bead and wire spindles that have a unique way of spinning; “cuz physics”! They also build spinning wheels in addition to making a wide variety of amazing handspun yarn. They have recently expanded into “dangle” storage jewelry that coordinates with their stitch marker sets for your fiber needs!

LIVE Sunday at 1:00 pm eastern

A magical fiber arts studio, with classes, and hand dyed and locally grown fibers and kits.

LIVE Sunday at 12:30 pm eastern

Fine Jacob Wool Products from Ohio's Appalachia

LIVE Sunday at 2:30 pm eastern

Gorgeous and functional handmade fiber arts accessories

LIVE Sunday at 4:00 pm eastern

CaroleMakes is a fabric and fiber small business located in greater Indianapolis.

LIVE Sunday at 6:30 pm eastern

Family owned and operated fullservice fiber mill and farm. Will have Shetland, Scottish Blackface and Leicester Long wool roving from our sheep. Natural and dyed fiber for spinning and felting. Really nice mohair roving, Felted batts, mill morsels and stash bags.

Join us for other specials!

LIVE Sunday at 7:00 pm eastern

Gift Ideas

Triple F Hobby Farm

Mulch & More

Aoire Maith

Triple F Hobby Farm

Zen Fiber Arts

Liongate Farm

Atomic Fiber Studio

AriBo Arts

Opalessence Studio

Ross Farm Mercantile

Down Fiber

Illinois Fiber Mill

Atomic Fiber Studio

Ross Farm Mercantile

3L&S Farms

Zephyr Creek Farm

Aoire Maith

Ross Farm Mercantile

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Fresh Lotus

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Wool-E Farm We raise Romney sheep for the beautiful wool fiber

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Raising Romeldale/ CVM and Teeswater/BFL Sheep in the Thumb.