Common Ground Fair 2012

We want to say thank you to the many people who came to our booth in the Fiber Farm Tent.  We had a very successful weekend including a first place ribbon in the Exposition Building for the framed needle felted art called “Waiting”,  a lighthouse scene.  We appreciate all the positive comments about the needle felted art we displayed.

Draft Horse

As always there seemed to be a constant stream of people eager to try it out at the demonstration table. It is so fun to be approached by new customers who are amazed when they try needle felting for the first time.  Comments often start with I could never do that and immediately change to “This is so easy. ...and Is that really all you have to do?”  

It was such a pleasure to have many happy repeat customers who enjoyed the Thyme Tile Needle Felting Kits they bought last year and came back to choose another project to do.  It is encouraging to hear comments like, “These kits really work”, “I tried a kit last year and once I got started I just kept going”, and   “ I really love your colors”.     We actually sold out of several designs including “Meg”, and the new “Draft Horse”. 

Mary Ann enjoyed spinning a little, watching the draft horse show that took place near our booth, and got information about horse logging and trail building. 

Our natural dyed yarns also attracted comments.   This year we had an exceptionally full display of worsted weight yarns dyed with black eyed susans, queen anne’s lace, jewel weed, madder root, and indigo. Each skein that was dyed with plants was identified with a picture of our sheep by the dye garden in front of our farm store, the Tesseract.

 

Marty is looking forward to Fryeburg Fair October 5, 6, and 7th where she will be dyeing on the porch of the Fiber Building with woad, coriopsis, marigolds, amarynth and more.

We appreciate the way our fiber community pitches in to help with assembling and packaging kits, dyeing, carding, skeining yarn as well as helping at our fiber events.  A special thank you goes to Cheryl, whose Felted Slippers are a hit and assistance with dyeing days is invaluable.  Thanks to Leslie, whose Colorful Baby Sweater Kits sold out (we will make more soon), and Meredith, who  makes beautiful carded batts in awesome color combinations. 

 We still have a few Fiber CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Shares available and welcome you to join our Fiber Community. Our fiber CSA's offer you participation in our fiber community in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, your choice of the fiber from our sheep.

 We look forward to having visitors that we met at the fair and their families and friends come to the farm to see our animals, take a class, or enjoy an afternoon of knitting on any Tuesday at 1pm.  For more information about Classes and the Fiber CSA please go to: www.awrinkleinthymefarm.com.