New and Noteworthy for 2024

Admission Fee
  • 18 and older:
    • $12.50 per person per day when purchased online
    • $15.00 per person per day at the gate
  • Under 18 free
Ticket Sales
  • Online-https://mswf2024.eventbrite.com/. A $2.61 processing fee applies. There will be separate lanes to have eTickets scanned, which we anticipate will move faster than the lanes for people paying at the gate.
  • At the gate-cash or check only. Exact change appreciated. There will be a dedicated exact change lane.
Hours
  • Gates open at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. NO EARLY ADMISSION.
  • Gates open at 7:00 a.m. Sunday to accommodate Breakfast Buffet attendees.
  • Vendors open at 8:30 a.m. both days.
Featured Breed for 2024: Cotswold. Learn all about them in the Breed Display Barn.
Special Saturday morning Meet the Author events in the Main Exhibition Annex: Several childrens’ book authors will be holding storytimes, and there will even be a session of chair yoga with Liza Laird, author of Yoga of Yarn.
Free Fiber Arts Lectures: Join the Chesapeake Fibershed on Saturday at 1:15 p.m. in the rear of the Main Exhibition Annex for “Mend. Make. Do.”, a presentation on why mending matters and a demonstration of mending techniques to help you repair and prolong the life of your clothing, then come to the 4-H Hall on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. to hear Diana Buck speak about the Role of Women in the Viking Age.
New time and location for the auction of shawls from the Sheep-to-Shawl Competition: Visit the Show Ring at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday to bid on these beauties.
Special guests Njörðr’s Wanderers will be joining us again, but will be in a new location, the Breed Display Barn.
Don’t forget our Picnic Area in the Rabbit Barn, where we now have picnic tables in case you need to stop and rest!
While many festivals have switched to digital catalogs, we feel strongly that our print catalog is an important part of our identity and are continuing this long-standing tradition. New this year: there is a deadline for ordering catalogs to be mailed to you. Orders must be received by March 15. There is a $10.00 charge to cover postage and handling. Because of the costs involved with printing the catalogs, we are suggesting a $5.00 donation for catalogs picked up at the Festival. Quantities will be limited; the catalogs will be available in the T-Shirt Sales building while supplies last.

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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