The 2012 Festival Poster

Lila is our poster girl this year. The Falmouth Outlook picked a shot of Blossom as their cover girl. We won't tell Lila ;-).

2012 Wool Festival

The vendors this year are:

• Alpacas at Wolf Run Ridge
• Bluebonnets and Bluegrass Alpaca Farm
• Dog Trot Weavers and Spinners
• Flat Creek Wool and Pottery
• HeartFelt Baskets & Gifts
• Kentucky Blue Fiber Co.
• Knitted to a T
• Lunabud Knits
• McDaniel Fiber Arts
• Punkin's Patch
• Sam's Icelandic Sheep Farm, llc
• Sistermaide
• Teetor Totter Alpacas
• Weaving Memories
• Wishfox Dyeworks

We'll be demonstrating:

• wheel spinning
• drop spindling
• knitting
• crocheting
• weaving on a cardboard tapestry loom
• wet felting
• carding
• combing
• needle felting
• spinning and knitting with silk hankies
• weaving on a triangle loom
• fiber harvest and animal care
• sheep shearing
• working stock dog demonstrations

And there will be all sorts of goodies for sale including:

Raw, washed, processed fleeces from all breeds of fiber animals, including sheep, alpacas, goats, llamas, rabbits... Dyed roving and yarn, natural yarns. Spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting tools. Woven rugs, wet felted and needle felted finished goods, pottery, photography, note cards, Christmas items, sheep and crafting novelties.

Something for everyone :-).

The Spinning Bunny

Nancy Barnett, Barakel Farms, Alton, Missouri, spinning yarn directly from her angora rabbit.

Sheep Shearing

MVP Nathan Bradford, carrying down the next sheep for the shearing demonstrations.



Shearer George Buerer has been shearing sheep at the festival (and around the country) for many years.



A pretty little Shetland.





Gary Figgins, providing the play by play.

The Sheep Dog Demonstrations

What are these sheep and all the people looking at?



A couple of working Border Collies.





Alan Miller of Miller's Border Collies did amazing herding demonstrations throughout the weekend.



With help from Sonny (left) and Oak (right).

More Festival

It's Festival Time!

Here are just a few pictures from Friday. What a nice day! The weather's perfect, the wool tent is full of beautiful things to see and buy and the scenic drive through northern Kentucky this year is outstanding.

She's spinning directly from this angora bunny.