WAFA November Show Program by Wool and Fiber Arts

MEET THE TEAM

Withoutourteam,noneofthis wouldbepossible!

FounderEllen Zawada; OwnerofWoolandFiberArtsLLC

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 TeamTeDi 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

Palette of the Month

AriBo Arts

Ross Farm Mercantile

Photo by Carolyn Greenwood

Alk & Me

Leaf Livestock

Schedule Friday's 22nd 22nd

FIBER FESTIVAL

EST/PST

11:00 am/8:00 am

11:30 am/8:30 am

12:00 pm/9:00 am

12:30 pm/9:30 am

1:00 pm/10:00 am

1:30 pm/10:30 am

2:00 pm/11:00 am

2:30 pm/11:30 am

3:00 pm/12:00 pm

3:30 pm/12:30 pm

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

Vendor

Cedar Hill Fiber Farm

AriBo Arts

True Creations Woodturning

Ewe2me2u

Zen Fiber Arts

Spindle and Spoon Homestead

Wine and Wooly Design

GrilliantCreatives

Wunderful Pines Farm

Hens-N-Chicks-FiberArts

Hidden Pastures Luxury Fiber

Wool-E Farm

Mulch and More Crafts

Jehovah Jireh Farm and Fibers

Ross Farm Mercantile

alk&me fiber art studio

Annie Morton Designs

Category

Farm - Wool & Goats

Batts & Rolags

Toolmaker

Indie Dyer

Farm - Rabbits

Indie Dyer

Farm - Multi Species

Indie Dyer

Farm - Southdown

Farm - Romney

Indie Dyer

Farm - Sheep

Indie Dyer

Project Bags s

EST/PST

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

Vendor

8:30 pm/5:30 pm Category

The Little Shepherdesses

Knitspin

Liongate Farm llc

Schedule Saturday's 23rd 23rd

FIBER FESTIVAL

EST/PST

11:00 am/8:00 am

11:30 am/8:30 am

12:00 pm/9:00 am

12:30 pm/9:30 am

1:00 pm/10:00 am

1:30 pm/10:30 am

2:00 pm/11:00 am

2:30 pm/11:30 am

3:00 pm/12:00 pm

3:30 pm/12:30 pm

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

Vendor

Crafted by Locals

Triple F Hobby Farm LLC

Leaf Livestock Wool Co

Atomic Fiber Studio

Purly Shell Fiber Arts LLC

Macedo's Mini Acre

Blue Savannah

Southeast Ohio Fiberworks

Frivolous Ewe

Rusty Spur Ranch

Opalessence

Wild Hair Studio

Lair of the Llama

FiberGnome

Iron Wheel Farms LLC

Greenwood Fiberworks

SpinGlitz

Category

IIndie Dyer

Farm - Alpaca & Shetland

Farm - Sheep

Indie Dyer

Local Yarn Store

Farm - camelids

Indie Dyer

Farm - Sheep

Indie Dyer

Weaver

Farm - Romeldale

Indie Dyer

Project Bags

Farm - Finn

Indie Dyer

Batts & Rolags

Schedule Saturday's FIBER FESTIVAL

EST/PST

Vendor

23rd 23rd

Category

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

Timber and Twine

Fresh Lotus Design

Emma Creek Fiber and Yarn

8:30 pm/5:30 pm Location Colorado Michigan Alaska

Farm - Wool & Goats

Indie Dyer

Schedule Sunday's 24th 24th

FIBER FESTIVAL

EST/PST

12:00 pm/9:00 am

12:30 pm/9:30 am

1:00 pm/10:00 am

1:30 pm/10:30 am

2:00 pm/11:00 am

2:30 pm/11:30 am

3:00 pm/12:00 pm

3:30 pm/12:30 pm

4:00 pm/1:00 pm

4:30 pm/ 1:30 pm

5:00 pm/2:00 pm

5:30 pm/2:30 pm

6:00 pm/3:00 pm

6:30 pm/3:30 pm

7:00 pm/4:00 pm

7:30 pm/4:30 pm

8:00 pm/5:00 pm

8:30 pm/5:30 pm

Vendor

Fehrenbach Fiber

Esther's Place

Wavellite Creative llc

My Way Acres Farm and Fiber

Merino y Vino

Aoire Maith Fibre Studios

3L&S Farms

Faith Hope Love Studio

Dunn Spunn

Zephyr Creek Farm

Melissa's Yarn Barn

YarnTravel, LLC

Katie's Fiber Connection

CaroleMakes

Illinois Wool & Fiber Mill

Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock

Curly C'ewes

JessieJavete Fiber Arts

Category

Farm - LLama

Indie Dyer

Toolmaker

Farm - Multi

Indie Dyer

Batts & Rolags

Farm - Romney

Indie Dyer

Batts & Rolags

Farm - Romeldale

Indie Dyer

Batts & Rolags

Indie Dyer

Farm - Sheep

Indie Dyer

Batts & Rolags

SpinGlitz

Wunderful Pine Farm

Greenwood Fiberworks

Zephyr Creek Farm

Chylie Sweeney of Sheepishly Made & MCS Livestock

What is your business's mission or goal?

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

How did you learn your craft?

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 handspinning.

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. 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.

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.

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

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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!

RawReturns January 2025

NovemberWinterWonders FBLivesale

Finn batts Little Hat Project kits Little Looms

Fiber Collection Wooden Earrings Weaving Sets

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 emotional rewards that accompany raising lovely sustainable wool goes far beyond the beauty of the final product.

B O O K N O W

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

WAFAYouTube

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Fibers Fehrenbach

LIVE Sunday at 12:00 pm eastern

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

LIVE Sunday at 2:30 pm eastern

LIVE Sunday at 4:00 pm eastern

Gorgeous and functional handmade fiber arts accessories

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