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In the Family Activities Tents, parents may join their children in beginning craft activities.

Register online at https://mswf2024.eventbrite.com or download the paper registration form. All online and paper registrations will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis, until classes are filled. Paper registrations received after classes are filled will be returned. If classes are not filled, registration at the Festival may be possible; check at the Family Activities Tents. Parents of children 7 and under must stay with the child during the class.

Class fee: $10 per person.

Storytelling is free and no registration is required.

We are pleased to present the following lineup of Family Activities for the 2024 Festival. Click the title below to view more information.


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FA01 God’s Eye with Barbara Volk

The God's eye is a magical object, cultural and spiritual symbol for the Huichol and Tepehuan Indian ...

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FA02 Card Weaving with Barbara Volk

Learn to make beautiful bands with simple tools. Card weaving is an ingenious system of weaving that ...

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FA03 Needle Felted Hair Ties with Ilene Freedman

Learn to needle felt, working with the sharp barbed needle that transforms wool into endless project ...

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FA04 Lucet Braiding with Barbara Volk

The lucet is a tool used to create a braided cord from a single strand and can make braids which are ...

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FA05 Exploring Simple Spinning with Kellie Nuss

You don’t need a wheel to spin! All over the world, in different places and at different times, pr ...

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FA06 Exploring Simple Spinning with Kellie Nuss

You don’t need a wheel to spin! All over the world, in different places and at different times, pr ...

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FA07 Quick to Crochet with Kellie Nuss

This class will explore the basics of crocheting as you begin a practice piece that can become a bra ...

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FA08 Quick to Knit with Kellie Nuss

Start a lifetime of fun by learning the basics of knitting as you start a bookmark or belt. All supp ...

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FA09 Needle Felting with Renata Maile-Moskowitz

This New Lunar Year calls for the honoring and creation of your very own Fire Dragon! To that end, e ...

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FA10 Needle Felting with Renata Maile-Moskowitz

This New Lunar Year calls for the honoring and creation of your very own Fire Dragon! To that end, e ...

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FA11 Tapestry with Barbara Volk

Learn the traditional art of tapestry weaving on a small loom. All supplies provided. Age 8+. Lim ...

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FA12 Hand Carding with Rhiannon Huscha

Learn several methods to hand card wool, using hand cards, a drum carder and a blending board. Learn ...

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FA13 Felted Beads with Ilene Freedman

Learn to needle felt, working with the sharp barbed needle that transforms wool into endless project ...

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FA14 Felted Beads with Ilene Freedman

Learn to needle felt, working with the sharp barbed needle that transforms wool into endless project ...

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Storytelling For All Ages with Tim Livengood

Updated for 2024 Tim Livengood is a storyteller since way back, learning from vinyl LPs on a record ...

2024 Festival Gear Now Available

A selection of 2024 Festival Merchandise is now available. We have short-sleeved t-shirts, long-sleeved hooded t-shirts, three styles of bags, and two sizes of posters. Click "Read More" for details on how you can get yours!
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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

5 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Henry Clemes is co-founder of the “father and son” fiber arts team @Clemes & Clemes, Inc. based in Pinole, California, Henry has been building innovative and elegant fiber arts equipment and sharing his knowledge about fiber preparation for 50 years. We are pleased to have him back teaching three full-day drum carding classes this year. Although Carding for Color: Tints and Shades has sold out, there are still a few seats available for Exploring the Drum Carder and Carding for Color: Fractals. Registration is available at www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool ... See MoreSee Less

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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

5 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
There are still available seats in some classes! Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival is delighted to welcome Peggy Doney from Colorado Springs, Colorado to the roster of new instructors this spring! Life for Peggy was never the same after taking a spinning class with her neighbor years ago. Before she knew it, Peggy was spinning, knitting, dyeing, and creating silk fusion. Eventually, Peggy became a dyer for Treenway Silk, began exploring her own colorways, and developed her own color recipes through experimentation with gradient, triad, and monochromatic studies. She has a special interest in making accurate, reproducible dye recipes that reflect colors found in nature. Peggy loves to share her enthusiasm and knowledge of dying and has been teaching for several years at gatherings, guilds, and festivals including Taos Wool Festival. Two of her classes have already sold out, but there are still limited seats available in Tints, Tones, and Shades, Oh My! In this class, students will learn about the role of adding white, black, and gray to colors, as well as using different additives to achieve consistent depths of shade. But don’t let color theory intimidate you! Peggy will make sure you leave with lots of beautiful samples, and she is bringing lots of dye jokes and her big box of crayons as reference material! You can learn more about Peggy by following her The 100th Sheep and you can register for her class at www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool ... See MoreSee Less

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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

6 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Teacher Spotlight! There are still limited seats available in some classes! Meet Jill Duarte, one of our amazing instructors at Maryland Sheep and Wool this year. Many of you know her as the co-owner of Hipstrings and a frequent contributor to PLY Magazine, but you might not know Jill also holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Evolutionary Biology! Jill’s background in science and love of fiber arts has informed her business and is reflected in the fiber, yarn, and tools she creates and produces. Jill describes herself as “inordinately fond of short-stapled fibers and fast spinning tools.” Like many of us, she cannot just stop with one fiber pursuit, and she finds herself knitting, spinning, dying, crocheting, weaving, and sometimes felting. As an author and teacher, Jill is dedicated to the resurgence of modern fiber craft that is based on a foundation of technical and historical knowledge. This year Jill is sharing her expertise with several knitting and spinning classes including Fiber Speed Dating, Spinning Short Stapled Fibers , Getting Started on a Supported Spindle, Spinning for Consistency, and Knitting with Handspun Yarn. Although a few of her classes are sold out, a limited number of seats for the remaining classes are still available here: www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool#mdsw #mdsw24 ... See MoreSee Less

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