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Fiber Twist 2007 Vendors
Deadline is May 3, 2008!
            
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Vendors and Participating Organizations at the 2007 Fiber Twist Marketplace
Barberic Farm
Eric and Barbara Goodchild
Shelburne, MA
E-mail: goodchil(at)rcn(dot)com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Barberic Farm is owned by Barbara and Eric Goodchild of Shelburne. They raise Romney sheep for their lovely wool and mild meat in the beautiful hills of Shelburne, MA. Naturally colored, heavily skirted, clean fleeces are their specialty, with colors ranging from almost black, to rich, deep brown, to pretty grays, and creamy white.
This year at the Fiber Twist the Goodchilds will have a selection of their naturally colored raw fleeces and washed roving for sale, felting kits for making felted balls or flat felt, lambswool felted boas, washable sheep skins, their own cherry/birch top-whorl drop spindles, handmade wool handbags, needle-felted imaginary and fantasy creatures, and handknit scarves and hats in handspun and commercially spun yarns, some hand-dyed.
Botanical Shades
Jody McKenzie
1084 Main St.
Waldoboro, ME
207-832-4303
E-mail: jodymckenzie (at) roadrunner (dot) com
Payment Methods: MC/Vias/Cash/Personal checks with valid I.D.
For the past two years, Botanical Shades natural dye studio was part of Fiber Twist Open Farms/Studios. Jody recently relocated her studio to mid-coast Maine, and she will be now join the Marketplace.
Botanical Shades features an array of natural fiber ÔgreenspunÓ yarns and fleece dyed exclusively in natureÕs colors. Jody uses only locally raised fleece from New England farms and the islands off the coast of Maine. Only natural dye extracts and non-toxic mordants are used to color the yarns and fleece. The results are yarns and spinning fibers that resonate the richness of natural tones, are soft and lustrous, as well as environmentally friendly. Also available will be Earthues Natural Dye Extracts, including and an Introductory Natural Dyeing Kit and an Indigo Kit.
Chee Chee Mamook Farm
Northfield, MA
www.cheecheemamook.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Having raised a variety of fiber animals on our farm, we are able to offer you an array of unique knitted products or yarns for the "do-it-yourselfers!" For those looking for gifts, we have hand knitted items from our own handspun yarns including scarves, hats, socks, shawls, lap blankets, slippers, headbands, ponchettes, wrist warmers and more. These are made from alpaca, llama, mohair, suri alpaca, Icelandic sheep, baby camel and other natural fibers! Definitely not something you will find in stores! You are bound to find something perfect for that special someone who has everything!
For crafts we have handspun yarns of alpaca, llama, baby camel, angora, mohair, yak and merino, just to name a few! We also have alpaca fiber felt sheets approximately 36" x 48". These are perfect for making vests, purses and more! Visit our website to view a sampling of what we have to offer in our fiber listings! We look forward to having you visit us on this fun-filled fiber event day!
Greenwood Hill Farm
59 Brigham Street
Hubbardston, MA 01452
www.greenwoodhillfarm.com
Payment Methods:< MC/Visa/Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Andrea Colyer brings to the Marketplace wonderful merino yarns from her own flock of registered Merinos and fine-wool black sheep. Color blends are achieved by blending natural fleece colors without the use of dyes. Also featured are patterns, kits and needles, machine-washable sheep skins, sweaters, mittens, hats and shawls.
Jager Farm Icelandics
Haydenville, MA
413-268-3086
www.jager-icelandics.com
E-mail: barbara(at)jager-icelandics(dot)com
Payment Methods: Cash/Business check/Personal check with valid I.D.
Barbara Webb brings her exotic and colorful Icelandic fiber products, ranging from fresh, fall shorn fleeces, to rovings, on to Icelandic yarns; lace, DK and worsted, all from her Icelandic flock in Haydenville. Natural colors in white from bright snow to antique linen, tans, rich moorit browns, and a range of grays from soft fog to charcoal and slate. Also custom dyed color work done right on the farm; yarns are dyed to a rich spectrum, both kettle dyed solids and unique variegated, from vivid to subtle; always unusual. Lace weight yarns have become a local favorite, as have the Jager Farm Lamb fleeces.
We are passionate about our Icelandic fiber products and hope you will be as well.
Journey Wheel
Jonathan and Sheila Bosworth
29 Main St
Acton, MA 01720
(978) 264-0584
www.journeywheel.com
Payment Methods: MC/Visa/AMEX/Discover/Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Well-known in the Commonwealth, Jonathan and Sheila Bosworth are once again featured in the Fiber Twist Marketplace. Renowned for their innovative Journey Wheels and charkhas, the Bosworths also will have an array of their own acclaimed top-whorl drop spindles in four sizes. Jonathan and Sheila will be happy to demonstrate these spinning tools for you. Also on hand: accessories for their charkhas and wheels including extra spindles and bobbins, carry-bags for Journey Wheels and charkhas, as well as boat shuttles and niddy noddies in two sizes, magazines and instructional DVDs and videos, and wood care products.
Kangaroo Dyer
Greenfield, MA
www.kangaroodyer.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Gail Callahan is the Kangaroo Dyer. When her sons were young, she looked for a symbol to represent her goals as an artist and a mother. She observed that the mother kangaroo had the best of both worlds-joeys in her pouch and both hands free to be creative. Beginning as the Kangaroo Weaver, Gail has now turned her attentions to hand dyeing. Gail is the only Kangaroo in pastoral Western Massachusetts happily dyeing luxurious and unusual yarns. Many of her yarns are in the Valley Yarn collection at Webs in Northampton or at www.yarn.com.
At the Fiber Twist she will have an assortment of yarns from the Webs collection as well as her private collection. There will be some patterns available for the yarns purchased. Also available will be hand dyed silk scarves priced just right for the small holiday gifts you will need. There will also be a demonstration of needle felting, and the kits and fleece will be available at the booth and at the demonstration.
Kristin Nicholas Designs
Leyden, MA
www.kristinnicholas.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Renowned knitwear designer Kristin Nicholas offers her own books on fiber arts, including Kids Embroidery, Colorful Stitchery, Knitting for Baby, and her newest book (hot off the presses!) Kristin Knits. Also featured are stitchery kits, homegrown sheep postcards and postcards of beautiful yarns, and Kristin's own line of yarn in delicious colors, named "Julia" after her daughter. To see yarn colors, books and stitchery kits before the Fiber Twist, please visit Kristin's colorful, creative website.
Leslie Wind Shawl Pins
Rockport, MA
www.lesliewind.com
www.follycovefiberfreaks.blogspot.com
Leslie Wind focuses some of her line of sterling and bronze shawl pins on lace knitters. One of many available designs, her unique tab closure holds invisibly yet securely and is lightweight enough to not distort the garment. Some pins have the added use of holding your eyeglasses. She offers shawl pin making workshops using simple tools and no soldering for those wishing to make pins to compliment their knitted garments.
Lynn Watson Fisher, Designs in Fiber
Colrain, MA
e-mail: lafisher(at)mtdata(dot)com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal checks with valid I.D.
Working mainly in wool and cotton, Lynn offers a wide variety of decorative and functional pieces including woven, knitted and felted works among others. Unusual handspun, hand-dyed yarns, some using natural dyes.
Northern Woolies
Greenfield, MA
www.northernwoolies.com
Payment Methods: MC/Visa/Cash
Northern Woolies, at 24 Miles Street, is Greenfield's own charming LYS (local yarn shop). We offer a wide variety of natural and man-made fibers in a beautiful light filled setting. New yarns come in on a regular basis from well known companies such as Berroco, Brown Sheep, Classic Elite, Reynolds, Russi, etc., and we also pride ourselves in promoting smaller local companies, such as Green Mountain Spinnery, as well as the work of talented regional spinners and fiber artists. A changing assortment of trunk shows, books, baskets and knitting supplies keeps the shop exciting and fun.
The strength of a small yarn shop is service and at Northern Woolies customers are not afraid to ask for help because they get it. We have a variety of fun knitting, crocheting and spinning classes, as well as other events. This year we'll offer rug hooking as well! We also have workshops and knitting socials. At the Fiber Twist we will have products from the shop including knitting kits as well as hats by Mary Brennan and Anne Harding.
Sheep Frills
Ashby, MA
www.thecooperage.com
Payment methods: MC/Visa/Discover/Cash/Personal Checks
Susan Bates brings to the Fiber Twist Marketplace her own 100% herbal moth chaser, ceramic sheep pins and ornaments, hand-knitted wool socks, hats, and sweaters, and Tibetan silk yarn direct from Nepal.
Sojourner Design
Florence, MA
www.sojournersheep.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Checks with valid I.D.
Hand-dyed yarns and carded wool in luscious colors are the mainstay of Sojourner Design at Sojourner Sheep. Diane offers fiber from her own pasture-based flock as well as fiber from local flocks. Her Patriot Ply line of yarn represents Massachusetts sheep and is spun here in Massachusetts.
New this year:
- Patriot Ply II sock yarn: two ply, 85% local wool reinforced with 15% nylon; each skein includes a main color as well as an ounce of a coordinating color for heels, toes, cuffs or your own design.
- Patriot Ply I singles in lots of colors wound in center pull balls. Design your own fiber by choosing your own hues, then knit a sweater or vest with multiple strands.
- New colors of Laceweight Lambie.
- Ready-made vests as well as needlefelting supplies to embellish them.
- Small gift items handcrafted by Sojourner Design.
Stonesthrow Farm
Kat Smith
136 Jack Perry Rd
Wallingford, VT 05773
(802) 446-3325
e-mail: katsmith(at)vermontel(dot)net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Checks with valid I.D.
Kat Smith will be joining the Fiber Twist this year with products from Stonesthrow Farm. She will have wool and mohair products from her varied flock of sheep and angora goats: dyed locks, washed wool and washed mohair, roving blends for handspinning and batts for felting, handspun and limited quantities of machine spun yarn from her own flock. Sheep skins in natural colors are occasionally available. Sheep coats to keep those handspinning fleeces clean on the hoof. Also sheep and sheepdog puppets by Folkmanis. Stop by and say hi while you are at the Twist!
This and That Farm
Danby, VT
Donna Herrick
(802) 293-5492 e-mail: thisthat(at)sover(dot)net
www.thisandthatfarm.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Check/VISA/Mastercard
From their flock of covered sheep, This and That Farm produces a range of award winning fiber -- from fine white Cormo wool to long lustrous Romney cross wool. They offer fleece, rovings, batts and several types of yarns in natural and naturally-dyed colors. The yarns are custom-spun for us by Green Mountain Spinnery, and all dyeing is done here on the farm.
They also sell locker and punch hooking supplies: locker hooks, punch needles, locker backing and monkscloth backing, instructional books as well as hoops and frames for punch hooking.
Twisted Mysteries
Amherst, MA
e-mail: jennyatkins(at)comcast(dot)net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Jenny Atkins' first time at the Fiber Twist! She will be selling handspun yarns with a huge range of textures and colors, from finely spun pure Angora to lumpy bulky wool. Most of her yarns do contain Angora, either blended in or as a ply, to make use of the lovely fiber from her herd of rabbits.
Jenny will also have prime-plucked natural-colored Angora fiber, as well as batts of Angora/Wool blends. And she will bring along some finished knit creations: hats, scarves and bags to sell. To complete the cycle Jenny will bring along some Rabbit Manure -- great for the garden!
Whispering Pines Farm
Colrain, MA
e-mail: wspines(at)aol(dot)com
www.wspinesfiberandherbs.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Carole Adams returns to the Marketplace, offering dyed Leicester wool, Mother Marion Spinning Machines, rug hooking materials and kits, handmade oversized knitting needles, spinning wheel hooks, homemade soaps, catnip-filled cat toys, lavendar products including heating pads, balsam products, handwoven overshot pillows, Halloween black cats made of wool, children's books about wool, woolen pins, and so much more!
Wool and Dye Works
Florence, MA
www.woolanddyeworks.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Wool-gatherers will love this local resource for fiber arts and crafts including rug hooking tools, frames, hoops, cutters, blades, Cushing Dyes, wool fabric & yarn, and new & used books. Diane Welter, at the shop in Florence, specializes in locally grown, locally made and recycled woolens for rug hooking, braiding, appliquŽ, and more. She also offers Dorr wool, June Moon Designs on linen, classes and studio time. Margaret Arraj, Mill River Rugs, creates hand hooked rugs, dyes mohair and wool rug yarns for weaving and hooking. She also offers classes in hooking with rug wool yarn.
Woollies of Shirkshire Farm
Conway, MA
e-mail: woollies(at)worldnet(dot)att(dot)net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Linnie Dugas and Claudia Benoit of Shirkshire Farm return to the Marketplace, and feature the following from their flock of Coopworth sheep: washed, uncarded white fleece, washed and carded white roving, washed and carded brown/gray roving. Linnie and Claudia also offer their own natural-dyed Coopworth rovings, using marigold, bronze fennel, logwood, cutch, sandalwood, brazilwood, osage orange, black walnut, indigo, madder, alkanet, and cochineal beetles.
Questions? Contact the Twister!