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Click Here for a Downloadable, Printable PDF Floorplan of The 2008 Fiber Twist Indoor Vendors' Marketplace. You will need Adobe Reader, available free for both Mac and PC at www.adobe.com/, to view and print this map!
Vendors' Marketplace hours are 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 25, 2008.
Vendors and Participating Organizations at the 2008 Fiber Twist Marketplace
NOTE: Members of the Quabbin Chapter of the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists are marked (ATHA).
This page, listings, and information are subject to change without notice.
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 (white, gray, dark brown) raw fleeces, commercially-prepared roving, and washed locks for sale. They will carry 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.
A former long-time resident of Franklin County, Jody recently relocated her studio to mid-coast Maine, and we're thrilled to have her back at the Fiber Twist with her gorgeous dyed yarns!
Botanical Shades features an array of natural fiber "greenspun" yarns and fleece dyed exclusively in nature's 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. This year, Jody has added knitting patterns, natural dyed Tagua nut buttons, and handwoven scarves, throws and baby blankets.
Suzanne Webber of Brook's Bend Farm will offer naturally-colored Shetland fibers: yarns, rovings, and washed fleeces. She'll also sell simple gift items.
Nancy Jewett is owner/designer of Fluff and Peachy Bean Designs, a rug hooking business operated out of her home in Pittsford, VT. The studio/shop is open Tuesday through Saturday by chance or appointment.
The shop carries Nancy's hand-dyed wool fabric along with bolts of wool fabric for use in rug hooking, quilting, penny rugs, and fashion sewing. You will find Nancy's whimsical, hand-drawn original designs come in a variety of categories such as critters, characters, pretties, celebrations, seasons, and holidays. Among the rug hooking supplies of hooks, frames, dyes, and scissors is a line of Woolie Organizers designed and handmade by Nancy. The line includes Worm Beds, Rug Bags, Snippet Keepers, and frame covers.
Nancy's extensive dyeing experience has helped many rug hookers with custom dyeing needs. Nancy always enjoys helping and introducing rug hooking to all.
Barbara Parry of Foxfire Fiber and Designs at Springdelle Farm features her own hand-dyed yarns from her award-winning Cormo/Border Leicester flock, handspinning fibers in roving and batts, raw fleeces (limited availability), and patterns and kits developed especially for her yarns. She also offers hand-crafted knitting needles and spindles from Grafton Fibers, and notecards with images from Springdelle Farm, and knitting books.
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. New this year are roving sample packs!
Jager Farm Icelandics are passionate about their Icelandic fiber products and
hope you will be as well.
Well-known in the Commonwealth, Jonathan and Sheila Bosworth return to the Fiber Twist Marketplace, their fourth year with the festival. Renowned for their innovative Journey Wheels (now in both single and double treadle) and charkhas, the Bosworths also will have an array of their own acclaimed top-whorl drop spindles in four sizes and in various woods. 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.
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, Gail will feature sock yarns and sock kits, merino roving, and random skeins of yarn of varied fiber content, all in her signature jewel-like colorways!
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 and homegrown postcards of Kristin's creations. To see her books before the Fiber Twist, please visit Kristin's colorful, creative website.
Leslie Wind returns to the Fiber Twist with her beautiful jewelry designs! Leslie focuses some of her line of unique 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.
Leslie also features cable needle necklaces, assorted earrings and necklaces, and sheep-themed tack pins and necklaces.
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.
Traditional hooking with rug wool yarn. Rug sales, lessons, repairs, rug wool and hand-dyed yarns.
While Bob Ramirez raises and, yes, coddles their flock of lovely Angora goats, his wife Cynthia Herbert works with the lustrously soft mohair the goats produce. Cynthia dyes all their yarn (some is hand spun, most is spun at Putney's Green Mountain Spinnery) then weaves it into fabulous scarves, Mobius shawls, ruanas, Hapi meditation wraps and throws. In addition, Moonshine Design will offer many knitted items as well as yarns, roving and dyed locks. This will be Moonshine Design's first time at the Marketplace.
For those who missed previous years' Fiber Twist farm tours, Keldaby will be open for visitors Sunday, October 26th, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There is a map on the Keldaby website, www.keldaby.com.
Brad Peters is known in Franklin County for his photo cards and matted photographs. His images feature local scenes, nature images, animals, and fiber-producing animals from area farms.
Jennifer Kapitulik features crocheted hats in various sizes, woven throws and scarves, fly-tied earrings, hand-dyed handspun yarns, hand-dyed rovings, and woven masks.
Susan Bates returns to the Fiber Twist Marketplace! She'll feature:
Hand-dyed yarns and carded wool in luscious colors are the mainstay of Sojourner Design. 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.
This year, Diane will feature hand-dyed carded wool, hand-dyed light sport-weight yarn in various put-ups (Evol-hue-tion, Two-for-Toes, etc.), hand-dyed laceweight lambswool, and colorful surface design materials.
Kat Smith returns to the Fiber Twist this year with products from Stonesthrow Farm. She will have wool and mohair products from her covered flock of sheep and angora goats: raw fleece, 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. Kat will bring Matilda sheep coats to keep those handspinning fleeces clean on the hoof; order ahead and she'll bring them to the Twist! Also sheep and sheepdog puppets by Folkmanis.
At Swiftriver Farm, they sort their Shetland fleeces by color and use all of them in their natural shades: black, two shades of reddish brown, and white. They also have 4 overdyed colors available: Sumac, Goldenrod, Indigo, and Grass.
Their yarn is blended with bombyx silk to add luster, strength, and warmth. Although the silk content is only 5%, the difference it makes to the look and drape of knitted or woven fabric is tremendous.
Swiftriver Farm Shetland silk yarn is currently available in 2- and 3-ply skeins. They also have kits for sweaters, vests, scarves and hats.
Visit their website for more information: www.swiftriverfarm.com
Donna Herrick of This and That Farm will feature products from her flock of covered Cormo and Cormo-cross sheep. She'll offer naturally-colored and naturally-dyed greenspun yarns, rovings and batts. Yarn contents/weights available are Cormo sport, Cormo-Silk, Bulky singles, and Cormo wool grey blend in 4-ply. Notions include naturally-dyed buttons, knitting patterns, and naturally dyed silk ribbons and threads.
This and That Farm also sells locker and punch hooking supplies: locker hooks, punch needles (Oxford and Craftsman), locker backing and monkscloth backing, instructional books as well as hoops and frames for punch hooking.
Jenny Atkins returns to the Fiber Twist! She will sell handspun yarns from finely spun pure Angora to lumpy bulky wool in both natural and dyed colors. 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 creations: hats, scarves, hair ties, and scented, crocheted Angora balls.
Carole Adams returns to the Marketplace for her fourth year with a wide range of products, including:
We welcome Jill Horton-Lyons of Winterberry Farm to her first appearance at the Marketplace. Formerly, Winterberry Farm was part of previous years' fiber tour. Jill features raw and washed fleeces, dyed fleeces, rovings in natural and dyed colors in varied put-ups, felting kits with instructions and needlefelting add-ons, and fiber from her beautiful Angora rabbits.
Three fiber artists sell their patterns exclusively through this shop they own collectively in Florence MA, a village of Northampton. Look for complete kits and patterns of June Moon Design, from Diane Welter; Mill Village Designs from Joann Gochinsky; and Seek No Further Rugs, from Irene Clark. The shop offers a complete line of supplies for rug hooking, braiding, dying, penny rugs and punch needle and offers times for drop in hooking and braiding. Wool and Dye Works specializes in the sale of recycled wools and supplies to help the environment and make initial and ongoing investments in a fiber art more affordable. Group classes and private lessons are also available.
Sandy Miarecki owns and operates Woolen Memories, a small rug hooking business, out of her home in Ware, MA. The shop is open by chance or appointment; please call ahead. The shop carries bolts of wool and hand-dyed wool for the wide-cut hooker, and also hooks, frames, patterns, linen, dyes, and rug hooking books. Woolen Memories also carries needlepunch kits of some of Sandy's original rug patterns. Sandy is happy to help you or answer any questions you may have!
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 rovings, washed and carded brown/silver rovings. Linnie and Claudia also offer their own natural-dyed Coopworth rovings, using marigold, cosmos, hollyhock, dahlia, tansy, purple basil, bronze fennel, logwood, cutch, sandalwood, brazilwood, osage orange, black walnut, indigo, madder, alkanet, and cochineal beetles.
American Country Rugs (ATHA)
Lucille Festa
4743 Rte 315
Pawlet, VT 05761
802-325-2543
E-mail: lucillefesta@hotmail.com
Barberic Farm
Eric and Barbara Goodchild
Shelburne, MA
E-mail: ebgoodchild@hughes.net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Botanical Shades
Jody McKenzie
1084 Main St.
Waldoboro, ME
207-832-4303
E-mail: jodymckenzie@roadrunner.com
Payment Methods: MC/Visa/Cash/Personal checks with valid I.D.
Brook's Bend Farm
Montague, MA
www.brooksbendfarm.com
Payment Methods: TBA
Fluff and Peachy Bean Designs (ATHA)
Nancy Jewett
PO Box 30
Pittsford, VT 05763
(802) 483-2222
E-mail: ndjewett@verizon.net
Foxfire Fiber and Designs at Springdelle Farm
Shelburne, MA
413-625-6121
www.foxfirefiber.com
Payment Methods: MC/Visa/Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Jager Farm Icelandics
Haydenville, MA
413-268-3086
E-mail: barbara@jager-icelandics.com
www.jager-icelandics.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Business check/Personal check with valid I.D.
Journey Wheel
Jonathan and Sheila Bosworth
29 Main St
Acton, MA 01720
(978) 264-0584
www.journeywheel.com
Payment Methods: MC/Visa/Cash/Personal check with valid I.D. Minimum $20 purchase required if using credit card.
Kangaroo Dyer
Greenfield, MA
www.kangaroodyer.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Kristin Nicholas Designs
Leyden, MA
www.kristinnicholas.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Leslie Wind Shawl and Sweater Pins
Rockport, MA
www.lesliewind.com
www.follycovefiberfreaks.blogspot.com
Liziana Creations (ATHA)
Diane O'Brien and Liz O'Brien
Shelburne, MA
E-mail: diana@galaxy.net
Tel: 413-625-9403
www.liziana.com
Lynn Watson Fisher, Designs in Fiber
Colrain, MA
Tel: 413-624-3060
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal checks with valid I.D.
Mill River Rugs (ATHA)
Margaret Arraj
Leeds, MA
E-mail: millriverrugs@yahoo.com
Tel: 413-586-4847
www.millriverrugs.com
Moonshine Design at Keldaby
Colrain, MA
www.keldaby.com
E-mail: keldaby@verizon.net
Tel: 413-624-3090
Payment Methods: Visa, MasterCard, personal checks with valid I.D.
Peters/Ross Creative Photography
Erving, MA
E-mail: petersross@crocker.com
Payment methods: TBA
Rag Hill Farm
Colrain, MA
E-mail: limuw@aol.com
Payment methods: TBA
Sheep Frills
Ashby, MA
www.thecooperage.com
Payment methods: MC/Visa/Discover/Cash/Personal Checks
Sojourner Design
Florence, MA
www.sojournersheep.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Checks with valid I.D.
Stonesthrow Farm
Kat Smith
136 Jack Perry Rd
Wallingford, VT 05773
(802) 446-3325
E-mail: katsmith@vermontel.net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Checks with valid I.D.
Swiftriver Farm
Petersham, MA
www.swiftriverfarm.com
Payment Methods: TBA
This and That Farm
Danby, VT
(802) 293-5492
E-mail: thisthat@sover.net
www.thisandthatfarm.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal Check/VISA/Mastercard
Twisted Mysteries
Amherst, MA
E-mail: jennyatkins@comcast.net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Whispering Pines Farm
Colrain, MA
E-mail: wspines@aol.com
www.wspinesfiberandherbs.com
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
and so much more!
Winterberry Farm
Leverett, MA
www.winterberryfarm.org
Payment Methods: TBA
Wool and Dye Works (ATHA)
Diane Welter, Irene Clark, Joann Gochinsky
Florence, MA
E-mail: diane@woolanddyeworks.com
Tel: 413-587-0300
www.woolanddyeworks.com
Woolen Memories (ATHA)
Sandra Miarecki
20 Glendale Circle
Ware, MA
E-mail: woolenmemories1@verizon.net
Tel: 413-967-4970
www.woolenmemories.net
Payment Methods: TBA
Woollies of Shirkshire Farm
Conway, MA
E-mail: woollies@worldnet.att.net
Payment Methods: Cash/Personal check with valid I.D.
Questions? Contact the Twister!