March 2023 WAFA Show Program

MEET THE TEAM

Withoutourteam,noneofthis wouldbepossible!

FounderEllen Zawada; OwnerofWoolandFiberArtsLLC

Wool and Fiber Arts Show Program

Editor in Chief

Graphic Design

Ellen Zawada

Vendor Team - Heather Campbell, Lorna Violet (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 - Raven Reynolds (social Media) Ellen Zawada, Tedi Jansen

Inclusivity Team - Liza Q Wirtz, Alaura Pittman, TeDi Jansen, Vidya Gopalakrishna Travis, Maddy McLendon

Education TeamTeDi Jansen, Alanna Wilcox

Tedi Jansen

Vendor Schedule

Pages 4-9

An Interview with Christina Locke

Page 11-12

Angora Rabbits Photo Show

Page 20-21

Palette of the Month

Pages 38

Vendor Guide

Page 39-45

Zephyr Creek Farm

Photo by Katelyn Dunn of Dunn Spunn

Fiber Gnome

JessieJavete Fiber Arts

Stitched by Momma Witch

Schedule Friday's 24th 24th

FIBER FESTIVAL

Windy

Bent

Wavellite

Iron

Spinners

Sherwood

Compass

SpinGlitz

Willow

AriBo Arts

Macedo's

Calico

Camas Prairie Fiber and Yarns

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Schedule Saturday's 25th 25th

FIBER FESTIVAL

Forget me Knot Farm & Fiber

Marge Sundholm Designs

Yarn By Kate

Clear Sky Fiber Arts

Illinois Wool & Fiber Mill

Stitched By Mama Witch

Opalessence Fiber Studio

TurboFluffed Creations LLC

2 B Ewe

Hidden Pastures Luxury Fiber Farm

Leaf Livestock Wool Co

Faith Hope Love Studio

Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock

FiberGnome

Lair of the Llama

FIBER FESTIVAL

25th 25th

Stephino

samantha

Terra

The

Curly

White

Wine

LEAF LIVESTOCK

NATURAL COLORED SHEEP

www.leaflivestock.com

Hello from Leaf Livestock Wool Co., a lamb and wool farm, located in Northwest Illinois. We raise beautiful Natural Colored Columbia /Rambouillet sheep, Polypays, Merinos and Columbias. I would love for everyone to enjoy the finest spinning fiber and yarn that I am privileged to grow and use for creating. They physical and emotional rewards that accompany raising sustainable lovely wool go far beyond the beauty of the final product! Please join me for the March homegrown wool sale..

LIVE Saturday at 3:00 pm eastern

FAITH HOPE LOVE STUDIO

by TeDi Jansen

Wastheresomeonewhoinspiredyou inyourfiberartsjourney?

Whatisyourbusiness goal/mission?

I believe that art should be functional and should serve a purpose Art doesn't just have to be something that you look at on a wall.Artcanbesomethingthatgets shown off to the world in beautiful pieces (ie a scarf, sweater, woven pieces etc) I like making art that otherpeoplecanuseandthathasa purpose.

Honestly not really I wanted to learn how to spin andtherehavebeenpeoplethatIdefinitelylookup to along the way Karen has been one of those people but there's not been any one particular person and honestly. I saw something that I might loveandIwantedtodoitsoIlearnedhowtodoit.I didn't have an example or anybody to look at that could teach me I just wanted to learn and wanted tomakethebestthatIpossiblycould

Howdidyoulearnyour craft?

Ihavelearnedfrommany differentplaces I'velearned fromsomeclasses,videos,a

Doyouhaveanimals?

I do not have fiber animals. I have two cats and two dogs but I would never want to spin their fiber. Unfortunately my body has limitations and therefore I am not able to have the sheep that I have alwaysdreamedofhaving.

lot of people in person, and just friends who wanted to help me refine my craft A lot of the stuff that I learned just by doing what I love I learnedveryquicklythatIwasanaturalatspinning and even dying to quite an extent and I've just perfected those skills over the years. I have had some formal education in dying from different various sources but ultimately it was something that came after I had already been applying my skillsonaregularbasis TheclassesandstuffthatI took just helped me with formulation to some degree but most of it I was already doing properly to begin with so it just added to my knowledge base

Howlonghaveyoubeeninbusiness?

14+ years I got started just really small with knitting, spinning,anddyingthenmovedintoeverythingthatI've beendoingforyears

FAITH HOPE LOVE STUDIO

Doyouhaveafavoritebase/ blend/fiber?Whatisspecial aboutit?

IhavesomanydifferentfibersthatIlove. ForblendingIjustlovemyMerinoandmy specialtyfiberslikemysilkandbamboo.I love working with bamboo because it seemslikenotalotofpeopleworkwithit or necessarily understand it and I love educating people on the benefits of mixing and blending other fibers with their base fibers for blending There's a rhyme and a reason to why I use the things that I use in my batts and I think that's what makes them special It's also helpful to be a spinner and know what fiberswouldmakeagoodspinaswellas anicefinishedyarn.Asfarasdyinggoes

I love the super wash Merino for a number of different reasons. It takes the color brilliantly and helps give me all the bright vibrant colors that you don't typically get with Corriedale or other blends That is my go-to fiber especially because most people who are going to usemyfiberaregoingtospinitforthings like socks and other items that are probably going to be washed by whomever they're gifted to Some of my other favorite bases include Merino and silk blends because they add super fun variations with the parts that won't take dye Alsotheyspinupverynicely

I love that I have made so many amazing connections with people I love that I have an outlet to share my creativity with so many other people who are interested in the same things that I am I even love getting in conversations with people who are just learning how to do some of the things that I know how to do and I get to share my knowledge with them I love that WAFA is a communitywherewereallylovetohelpeachotherlearn andgrow.Ilovethesupportandlovethatweshareasa community. I love the fiber arts community in general because everyone in it has always been super kind to me.Itreallyseemslikepeoplearesokindandsupportive whereas in other industries there's a lot of backstabbing or backbiting and people are not willing to always share information for fear that it will ruin their business and the fiberartsreallyisn'tthatway

Isthereanythingelseyou'dliketotellus

aboutyourbusiness?

I am constantly learning growing and evolving I love to share what I have learned through in person classes and onlineclassesaswellasotheroutlets Ihaveanactualretail space set up and I can't wait for people to join me there as wellasonline

Hidden Pastures Luxury

Come for the fiber, stay for the fun! Join us, the Timber and Twine gals, from our little farm in northern Colorado, for little loom weaving sets, botanically dyed batts and some very special fiber tools!

Timber and Twine

English Angora

Satin Angora

French Angora

German Angora

Giant Angora

TheAmazingAngoraRabbit

Photos (pg 20) from Southern Angora Rabbitry

LIVE Sunday at 2:30 pm eastern

AriBo Arts is Iowa fiber artist Erika Lindgren. She specializes in One-of-aKind 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, handdyed project bags, along with knitted and woven items.

Fairily Fiber Fun

Kim is proud to source rare breed wool from local Georgia farms and transforming it into gorgeous, magical rovings, batts, and needle felted landscapes and sheep

www.esthersplacefibers.

Zen Fiber Arts

Compass Moon Creations

Gritty Knits

The Spinners Stash

Dunn Spun

Rovenkos Windy Acress

VENDOR GUIDE

fiber, garments, and jewelry

VENDOR GUIDE

Exquisite E Yarns

VENDOR GUIDE

Fresh Lotus

Jubilee Farms is a small farm located south of Clinton, IL

VENDOR GUIDE

Liongate Farm

Blue Faced Leicester Sheep

Where we create a great day everyday!

Marge Sundholm Designs

VENDOR GUIDE

VENDOR GUIDE

Creating handmade fiber art from the fibers humanely harvested from our animals

White Fireweed Farm

VENDOR GUIDE

Wool-E Farm

We raise Romney sheep for the beautiful wool fiber

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