October 2022 Vendor Program

FIBER FESTIVAL OCTOBER 2022

October 28, 29, 30

Meet the Vendor: Rachel Moberg of Crafted by Locals

Some Historic Socks by Erika Lindgren

10 Fun Facts about Socks

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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, Jennefer Marker (Mentor Program), Jean Story, Danielle Lefor Wallace, Candice Smith Customer Team -(anything that happens publicly in WAFA) - Erika Lindgren, Heather Campbell, Molly Richter (craft-along), MAry Dillon, Katelyn Dunn, Candice Smith, Jessica Holt Pack, Amy Olshewski Bowling Marketing Team - Terra Mia Kat Bierkens, Raven Reynolds (social Media) 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 ~Kat Bierkens Ellen Zawada Tedi Jansen

Vendor Index Pages 4-8 Vendor Schedule Pages 6-11 An Interview with Rachel Moberg Page 12 Some Historic Socks Page 18 10 Fun Facts About Socks Pages 22-23

Mending photos from Natural Cycles Farm

Palette of the Month

Batt from Stitched by Momma Witch

Romney from 3L&S Farm

Photo by Chylie Sweeney of Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock

Batt from Nistock Farm Yarn from Lucky Silver Fiber Arts

Combed Top from D n D Fibers

Index of Vendors 2 B Ewe 3L & S Farms Aker Fiber Farm AriBo Arts Catchpenny Crafts Cedar View Farm Clear Sky Fiber Arts Compass Moon Creations Crafted by Locals Create Yarnworks Curly C'ewes D n D Fibers Esther's Place Ewe2me2u Ewenique Astrid Esquisite E Yarns and Rovings Fairily Fiber Fun Faith Hope Love Studio Flannel Cakes Fiber Four Hearts Farm Mainely Fiber Fresh Lotus Designs Greenwood Fiber Works Gritty Knits Harvest Hill Acres Hidden Pastures Luxury Fibers Jehovah Jireh Farm and Fibers Jubuilee Farms Knitspin Lair of the Llama Leaf Livestock Wool Co Lucky Silver Fiber Arts Macedo's Mini Acre

Index of Vendors Marge Sundholm McKnitty Yarns Merino Y Vino Mulch and More Crafts Nistock Farms Opalessence Fiber Studio Puddin Ridge Studio Rachel M Post Rusty Spur Shaggy Bear Sheridan Flats Sherwood Fiber Arts Spinaway Farm SpinGlitz StarKnits Stitched by Mama Witch Susans Fiber Shop The Rosefield The Rusted Flamingo The Spinner's Stash Timber and Twine TLD Design True Creations Woodturning Whirlwind Ranch Wild Hare Windsor Farms Windy Acres Fiber Mill Wine and Woolyl Wool-E Farml Woven Dimensionsl Yarn by Katel Yarn Travel

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Wool-E Farm

7:30 AM

8:30 AM

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

True Creations Woodturning

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Mulch and More Crafts

8:30 AM

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Aker Fiber Farm

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

Marge Sundholm Designs

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

Four Hearts Farm Mainely Fiber

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Whirlwind Ranch, Inc

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Woven Dimensions

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Greenwood Fiberworks

11:30 AM 12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Shaggy Bear Farms

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

Puddin Ridge Fibers

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

Opalessence Fiber Studio

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

Wine and Wooly Design

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

Stitched by Mama Witch

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Curly C'ewes

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Clear Sky Fiber Arts

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

AriBo Arts

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

Sherwood Fiber Arts

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

7:00PM

Exquisite E Yarns and Rovings

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

Ewenique Astrid

5:00PM

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

Knitspin

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

Crafted By Locals

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

8:00PM

9:00 PM

McKnitty Yarns

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

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Merino y Vino

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7:00 AM

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Harvest Hill Acres

7:30 AM

8:30 AM

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10:30 AM

Windy Acres Fiber Mill

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

D n D Fibers

8:30 AM

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Cedar View Farm

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

The Spinner's Stash

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

Ewe2me2u

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Macedo's Mini Acre

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gritty Knits

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Esther's Place

11:30 AM 12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Nistock Farms

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

Kostelaz Creations

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

Leaf Livestock Wool Co

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

3L&S Farms

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

Lucky Silver Fiber Arts

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Lair of the Llama

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Rusty Spur Ranch and Creations

3:00 PM

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The Rosefield

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

TLD DESIGN CENTER & GALLERY

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

7:00PM

Timber and Twine at Small Acre Farm

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

StarKnits

5:00PM

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

Flannel Cakes Fiber

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

Sheridan Flats

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

8:00PM

9:00 PM

SpinGlitz

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

9:30 PM

Faith Hope Love Studio

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9:00 AM

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Jubilee Farm

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

Yarn Travel

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Wild Hare Fiber Studio

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Rusted Flamingo

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Fairily Fiber Fun

11:30 AM 12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Hidden Pastures Luxury Fiber Farm

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

Susans Fiber Shop

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rachel M Post

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

Yarn By Kate

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

Create Yarnworks

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Windsor Farms Rabbitry

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

Spinaway Farm

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Jehovah Jireh Farm and Fibers

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

Fresh Lotus Design

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

7:00PM

2 B Ewe

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

Catchpenny Crafts

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Crafted by Locals

An Interview with Rachel Moberg

by TeDi Jansen

How did your business get started?

Hard to say exactly when my business started! When I was a little girl I learned to spin and then once I learned to weave, I took rag rugs, table runners, scarves. shawls and towels that I had woven and sold them at a nearby craft market. I had this dream of someday having a little business. I think I always thought of it as something I would do on the the side though! I never thought I would be almost full time with it! Because I was weaving and spinning, dyeing seemed like a great thing to learn so a few years ago I flew out to Colorado Springs and spend time learning from Peggy Doney who graciously let me stay with her while she taught me about dyeing each day until my eyes would glaze over in the evenings! Now I find that I have a constant need for knitted samples of my new colorways so this is causing me to expand my knitting skills as well and I'm really enjoying it! I don't think I will ever be bored when I'm old!

Does your business have a guiding mission or purpose?

The real reason I started learning fiber crafts was because I wanted to know how to provide functional and sustainable clothing and household items for myself and my family. Being able to create things that have value and that will last is important to me. There is a reward in creating something yourself. You don't get the same satisfaction if you purchase that item from the discount store down the road!

Crafted by Locals

An Interview with Rachel Moberg

It's so relaxing to sit down at your spinning wheel and make yarn or sit at your loom and get into the rhythm of throwing the shuttle back and forth while you weave that blanket. It connects you with the past and the future at once.

What Is your favorite colorway that you dye?

I think I'd have to say Sea Glass is one of my favorites. I love anything with blues and greens!

Do you have a favorite fiber or blend?

I love any natural fiber but I particularly like dyeing the bluefaced leicester and silk blend fibers for spinning because its such an easy, relaxing blend to spin with enough crimp to add fluff to your finished yarn but not so much you're fighting against it.

My favorite yarn? Well, I have several favs - I love anything I can get that is grown and processed locally in the U.S. because I love supporting our farmers and ranchers. If I want to splurge, then the yak yarns are my favorite because I love the super rich colors, the soft drape, and the extra warm halo provided by the yak fibers.

Timber and Twine

Socktober Show

SATURDAY OCT 29 7P EDT Join the T&T gals from their farm in colorful Colorado for botanically dyed batts and yarns this month

3L&S Farms Romneys providing Fiber for all those needed projects for either Vendors or Gift Givers! From Raw Fleeces and Locks to Rovings and Yarn!

https://www.3lsfarms.com

Saturday October 29 4:00pm eastern

Saturday October 29 1:00 pm eastern Welcome to a "spooktacular" alpaca fiber sale! This month's sale will feature alpaca fleeces, rovings and batts, along with yarn and dryer balls created from our herd of huacaya and suri alpacas. Some special needle felting kits created by Grandson, Ethan available as well.

www.macedosminiacres.com

www.SpinGlitz.com

Some Historic Socks

by Erika Lindgren AriBo Arts Really, Socks of the Roman Empire Let’s dig down into some historic socks. This is one of my favorite topics, history and textiles, specifically archaeological evidence. One fact to keep in mind is that we don’t know everything and what we know changes over time as new discoveries are made or old evidence is reexamined. In addition, throughout most of prehistory and history, socks were made from organic materials. Once those materials are in the ground, they decompose. If you bury a sock and a shoe, the sock is more delicate, and traces of it will vanish much faster than the shoe. So we are lucky for the socky finds we do have. Usually they occur in extremely dry areas or in waterlogged areas.

A quick word on construction. Before knitting was invented, socks appear to have been made using a method similar to what we now call nalbinding. Before nalbinding (single needle looped method construction or sometimes called knotless netting) archaeologists think felted wool and other animal hair was used to make foot covering, often still attached to the animal hide. These were in addition to shoes/boots. Evidence of woven foot coverings comes after nalbinding but before knitting. Sprang (a form of weaving that consists entirely of twisted warp threads) may also have been used, but evidence has not yet been found for early examples.

One of the earliest socks found as of today was at an Egyptian archaeological dig in the early part of the 20 th century. It was a child’s sock (left foot only). The sock appears to have been made during the Roman occupation of Egypt, 200-499 C.E. though some recent testing may indicate a slightly earlier date of 100 C.E. How do we know it was for the child’s left foot?

Because it’s small and it’s a split toe sock, similar in style to a Japanese tabi sock (see Fun Facts about Socks elsewhere in this program). The big toehas a separate chamber from the remaining toe, allowing a thonged sandal to be worn over the sock. This sock is striped with at least 6 different colors. It is wool and the yarn (which appears to be 2-ply) was dyed before construction. It’s unknown if the yarn was dyed before or after spinning. In the last few years, non-invasive spectral testing has helped determine the dyes used on the yarn. These were madder, weld, and woad (I saw one description list indigo instead of woad, but indigo was a

Some Historic Socks continued luxury dye imported from India and less likely to have been used for this). But how did the sock end up with at least 6 different colors? Yarn of different colors was plied together to get the various shades- Z plying was used. The plied yarn was then nalbinded into the split toe sock. This is a toe up sock. It is now held in the British Museum. Textile;Sock Also from Egypt, dating 250-420 C.E., is a pair of adult split toe socks that were unearthed in a burial ground. You may have seen these socks, they are bright red. They were found in a 19 th century archaeological dig. Also constructed through nalbinding, they were made with a 3 ply wool. They are now held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Pair of Socks There is also an excellent example in the National Museum of Scotland in their World Culture Collection of a colorful striped wool sock from the Egyptian Coptic period (300-600 C.E.). Their website has numerous close-up photos. Sock (nms.ac.uk) At another edge of the Roman Empire we have additional evidence of socks. The first is in written form unearthed near Hadrian’s wall. The famous Vindolanda tablets are an amazing glimpse into the goings on of a Roman fort and settlement over several centuries. These wooden “letters” include announcements of birthday celebrations (which may contain the first actual handwriting by a woman in Britain), daily minutia, and letters from home to soldiers stationed there. One damaged tablet (346) reads, “I have sent(?) you . . . pairs of socks from Sattua, two pairs of sandals and two pairs of underpants, two pairs of sandals [perhaps an additional pair added to the care package from someone else]." Vindolanda Tablets Also from Vindolanda there is child’s sock/bootie that has been discovered. It appears to have been woven with the sole seamed to the upper. child's woolen sock Footwear has revealed women and children as well as soldiers living at Vindolanda. People living almost in Scotland were less likely to be wearing sandals, so no split toe socks were needed. If you explore the Vindolanda exhibit, you’ll see the plethora of shoes and boots that have been recovered that the socks would have gone over.

So socks have been around for a long while and they varied. They were practical, but could also be pretty. What do you think an archaeologist would say if they dug up one of your handknit socks in a thousand years?

LIVE Friday at 6pm eastern AriBo Arts is Iowa fiber artist Erika Lindgren.

She specializes in Oneof-a-Kind batts for spinners and felters as well as unique hand dyed apparel. In addition, she makes other hand processed fiber from small US farms, spindle kits, handspun yarn, stitch markers, fiber themed jewelry, hand-dyed project bags, along with knitted and woven items.

More Palette of the Month

Whirlwind Ranch

Rachel M Post

AriBo Arts

Rachel M Post

AriBo Arts

Lucky Silver Fiber Arts

Leaf Livestock

Yarn by Kate

Puddin Ridge

2 B Ewe Turning sunlight into food and fiber

Sunday October 30 7:00 pm eastern 2 B Ewe Is a local farm and ranch located In the beautiful San Luis Valley. We offer a variety of fine wools as well as long wools and a unique blend of both. Our flock Includes a next to skin soft Merino, a lustrous and long Teeswater, a Finn sheep and CVM cross and the heritage breed Cotswold.

Products available for sale Include fleeces, yarnsm roving and locks.

Our sheep are grazed on our farm and neighboring organic farms.

Through these regenerative techniques 2 B Ewe Is able to ensure a sustainable environment for both our land and animals. Please stop by to see what we have to offer.

Leaf Livestock

www.leaflivestock.com

JOIN US FOR OUR MONTHLY ONLINE PRESENTATION OF OUR HOMEGROWN WOOL PRODUCTS. WE WILL HAVE A VARIETY OF SPINNING FIBERS INCLUDING COMBED TOP, ROVING AND BATTS, YARNS AND WOVEN ITEMS FOR SALE. HOLIDAY SHOPPING STARTS NOW!!

Saturday October 29 3:30 pm eastern

Fairily Fiber Fun Fairily Fiber Fun is a family run small business featuring spinning fibers dyed, undyed, commercial top, locally made roving, small batts, and raw fleeces from local shepherd's. "I love knowing the sheep our wool comes from and seeing how they are raised. it makes spinning their fiber a truly unique experience. Kim is dedicated to connecting the small hobby farms of NE Georgia with handspinners all over the US.

Sunday October 30 2:00 pm eastern

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compiled by Erika Lindgren of Aribo Arts The average US men’s shoe size is around 10.5: the average US women’s shoe size is between 8.5 and 9. Make your socks accordingly if you don’t know the shoe size of the recipient.

Japanese tabi (split toe or thong socks) were first created in the 15 th

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century. Tabi often have a thicker

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sweat glands! The sole

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part of your body. This is one reason why we tend to wear socks, to protect our shoes from

Historically, wearing socks with sandals was fashionable.

all that sweat.

Socks No one knows exactly where the English word “sock” comes from. The Old English word was “socc” which seems to translate as light slipper. It may have derived from “soccus,” a Latin word referring to light low-heeled shoes worn by Roman comic actors. But there is also an ancient Greek word “sykchos” meaning a kind of shoe, which the Roman may have adopted. The Greek word itself was probably borrowed from cultures further to the east of Greece.

EThe word ‘sock’ has cognates in Scots (sok), Dutch (sok), German (Socke), Danish (sok or sokke), Swedish (sock or socka)

The oldest sock found so far by archaeologists is about 1700 years old (see Some Historic Socks).

and Icelandic (sokkur).

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intellectual well-read woman (originally it was a gender-neutral term but became gendered after the first generation of use). It was coined in the 18 th century in England and applied to women (and also men at first) who preferred intellectual discussion over the popular pastime of card playing at evening or afternoon social events.

Their gatherings often included educated people who were no wealthy, and these participants may have worn inexpensive blue worsted wool

A 2016 study found that in the UK, 84 million socks go missing each month.

That averaged out to 1.3 socks lost each month per person in that country. It also means over a thousand lost socks in a lifetime!

stockings- the wealthy would have worn silk. It was first applied to members of the Blue Stockings Society, but later become more generally used.

Eventually bluestocking developed into a derogatory term.

www.nistockfarms.com

SOCKTOBER

Macedo's Mini Acre

Lair of the Llama

Clear Skies Fiber Arts

Yarn by Kate

Ewe2me2u

Woven Dimensions

Wine and Wooly Designs

StarKnits

D n D Fibers