Friday Fun!

We had a great day at the festival. Tomorrow should be even better. Come on out!

While You Wait

The Wool Festival's program cover sheep this year is Tavia, a Jacob sheep from Equinox Farm in Cynthiana.  Jacob sheep are black and white or occasionally a "lilac" gray/brown and white spotted sheep.  They are multi-horned and must have at least two horns, but can have up to six.  Tavia has four.  

While not proven that the breed actually traces back to Jacob's spotted sheep from the Bible, they were named Jacob's sheep because of their resemblance to the sheep from the story of Jacob removing the spotted sheep from his father-in-law's flock.

Jacob sheep are prized for their soft, colorful fleeces which can be separated out to create black and white yarn or blended to create multiple shades of gray depending on how much of each color you use.  Tavia's spring shearing will be on display in the Wool Tent.

While you are waiting for the festival to get here, here's a fun way to spend some time.  Click the puzzle to play :-).

Enjoy!

2017 Wool Tent Vendors

A Yarn Well Spun/Rhapsody in Hue

Alpacas at Wolf Run Ridge Crowley's Mill - Informational Booth and Fiber Processing Pick Up Deep Dyed Yarns by lunabudknits

Dog Trot Weavers and Spinners

Eagle Bend Alpacas Ewe Fluffy Ewe

Flour Creek Wool HeartFelt Fleece and Fiber

Jessica's Creations

Kreations by Phyllis

Mustard Seed Art Studios

Punkin's Patch

Rock and String Creations Shepherd's Custom Woodworking

Tring Farm

Weaving Memories

Woolywood Crafts by Michelle and Jeff Brown

We will once again have a tent full of educational and inspiring demonstrations including spinning with wheels and drop spindles, weaving, crochet, hand carding and combing, fiber and color blending, needle felting and more.

The festival is October 6th, 7th and 8th this year.  Come join us!

2016 Wool Tent Vendors

We have several exciting new vendors this year!

A Yarn Well Spun

Alpacas at Wolf Run Ridge

Dog Trot Weavers and Spinners

Eagle Bend Alpacas

Flour Creek Wool

Jessica's Creations

Kreations by Phyllis

Lunabud Knits

Neeleys Knits

Punkin's Patch

Rock and String Creations

Teetor Totter Alpacas

Weaving Memories

Woolywood Crafts by Michelle and Jeff Brown

Mustard Seed Art Studios

Hippie-Doodle Fibers

The festival is October 7th, 8th and 9th this year.  Come see us!

Sheep Shearing And Sheep Herding

Allen Miller and  Sonny demonstrating how invaluable a good Border Collie can be.

Gary Figgins, shearing a beautiful Shetland sheep.

Shearing and herding demonstrations go on throughout the day today.  Always a highlight of the Kentucky Wool Festival.

Just A Taste

The weather was a bit frightful, but the crowds were surprisingly good and there was plenty to keep you distracted. Don your wool sweaters and galoshes and come on out!

Bring Out Your Wool!

Good new, bad news.  Bad news is there is some rain in the forecast for this weekend (as of Wednesday afternoon).  No one really likes rain, although we sure have needed some.  The good news is the temps will be in wool wearing range.  Looking forward to seeing all sorts of wool sweaters, shawls, hats and scarves this weekend!