Wayland Winter Farmers' Market to Host Farm Fiber Days

From the Wayland Winter Farmers' Market: The Wayland Winter Farmers' Market is off to a lively start. The first of our two Farm Fiber Days is Saturday, January 28th from 10 AM to 2 PM. (The second date is March 4) There will be over 40 food vendors attending alongside more than 20 fiber vendors.

Talented local farmers, who produce yarn, top, roving and finished fiber products from their own animals, will join us. Additional vendors include dyers of locally sourced fiber. Visit angora bunnies from Winterberry Farm and watch spinning wheel demonstrations with Carol Tripp of Windy Hill Farm and sock making machine demonstrations by Subito Farm. Join us in the Fiber Lounge where you can relax and knit or spin from 10 to 1. At 2 PM Alasdair Post-Quinn will teach an "Introduction to Double-Knitting Class". He will also be signing his new book,Double or Nothing: Reversible Knitting for the Adventurous.

The Market takes place at Russell’s Garden Center, 397 Boston Post Road (Rt. 20), Wayland, Massachusetts. Market hours are 10 AM to 2 PM.

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The Market runs through Saturday, March 11.

Photos courtesy of the Wayland Winter Farmers' Market:

(Image 1) Spinning demonstration with Carol and Richard Tripp of Windy Hill Farm.

(Image 2) Rag Hill Farm rolags for spinning.

(Image 3) Sarah Monroe of Subito Farm demonstrating the sock making machine.

(Image 4) Dorothy Benedict of Windy Hamlet Farm with her popular Icelandic wool.

(Image 5) Kelly Corbett from Romney Ridge Farm with her hand dyed yarn.