50th Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
Fiber Arts Seminars
Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD: May 3 - 7, 2023
Registration Information & Festival Policies
For information on registration access and closure, the new policy on materials fees, class cancellations, refund policy & more, please visit the Registration Information page.
Dyeing
Dyeing Classes
One Day Classes
- Gardening and Foraging Natural Pigments for Dyes & Paint [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], Pat Brodowski (May 4)
- Natural Dye Rainbow [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], Jackie Ottino (May 3)
Half Day Classes
- Hand Painting Wool Top with Natural Dye Extracts, Jackie Ottino (May 4, morning)
- Hand Painting Yarn with Natural Dye Extracts, Jackie Ottino (May 4, afternoon)
- Indigo Happy Hour (first offering), Jackie Ottino (May 5, morning)
- Indigo Happy Hour (second offering), Jackie Ottino (May 5, afternoon)
Felting
Felting Classes
One Day Classes
- Demystifying Resists in Felt Making, Patti Barker (May 3)
- Felted Journal/Book Cover, Patti Barker (May 4)
- Felted Basket or Bowl, Patti Barker (May 5)
Half Day Classes
- Needle Felted Sunburst, Kristen Walsh (May 3, morning)
- Needle Felted Wave Painting, Kristen Walsh (May 3, afternoon)
- Needle Felted Poppy Field Painting, Kristen Walsh (May 4, morning)
- Faces!, Kristen Walsh (May 4, afternoon)
- Needle Felted Whale, Kristen Walsh (May 5, morning)
- Needle Felted Woodland Sprite, Kristen Walsh (May 5, afternoon)
Fiber Prep
Fiber Prep Classes
One Day Classes
- Exploring the Drum Carder, Henry Clemes (May 3)
- Blending Board Primer, Roy Clemes (May 3)
- Adventures in Drum Carding, Henry Clemes (May 4)
- Color Theory: Carding the Color Wheel, Henry Clemes (May 5)
Knitting
Knitting Classes
One Day Classes
- Easy Reversible Fabrics: All About Sequence Knitting, Cecelia Campochiaro (May 3)
- Circular Yoke Sweater Fit, Kim McBrien Evans (May 3)
- Designing a Colorful Shawl Using Marls, Cecelia Campochiaro (May 4)
- Yarn Optimization: Fiber to Fabric for Knitters, Margaret Radcliffe (May 4)
- Invent Your Own Fabric by Mixing Yarns, Colors, and Sequence Knitting Cecelia Campochiaro, Cecelia Campochiaro (May 5)
Half Day Classes
- Boob Camp: Bust Darts for Every Body, Kim McBrien Evans (May 4, morning)
- Bums and Bellies: Sweater Shaping for Your Body, Kim McBrien Evans (May 4, afternoon)
- Boob Camp 2: Necklines for Every Body, Kim McBrien Evans (May 5, morning)
- Bring out the Best in your Variegated Yarn, Margaret Radcliffe (May 5, morning)
- Lazy Knitter's Guide to Pattern Stitches, Margaret Radcliffe (May 5, afternoon)
- Technicolor Shawls, Kim McBrien Evans (May 5, afternoon)
Spinning
Spinning Classes
Two Day Class
- Start Spinning, Maggie Casey (May 4 and 5)
- Down Wool Wonders, Deb Robson (May 4 and 5)
One Day Classes
- Gotlands, All Over the Map with Deborah Robson, Deb Robson (May 3)
- The Intersection of Fiber Preparation and Color, Jill Duarte (May 3)
- Drop Spindle Spinning, Maggie Casey (May 3)
- Yarnitecture: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want, Jillian Moreno (May 3)
- Ply for Texture and Color, Jillian Moreno (May 4)
- So many different fibers out there, how do I choose?, Jill Duarte (May 5)
Half Day Classes
- Corespinning for Funk and Function, Esther Rodgers (May 3, morning)
- Fractal Explosions: Exploration of Color and Ply, Esther Rodgers (May 3, afternoon)
- Fiber Speed Dating, Jill Duarte (May 4, morning)
- Structural Corespinning, Esther Rodgers (May 4, morning)
- Getting Started with a Supported Spindle, Jill Duarte (May 4, afternoon)
- Tailspinning: the Long and the Short of It!, Esther Rodgers (May 4, afternoon)
- Twisted Together: Crepe, Cables and the Endless Possibilities of Layered Plying, Esther Rodgers (May 5, morning)
- Default Yarn: The Key to Your Spinning [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], Jillian Moreno (May 5, morning)
- Wildplying: Beehives, Bobbles, Crescents and Coils!, Esther Rodgers (May 5, afternoon)
- Fine Wool Sampler: A Three Hour Tour [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], Jillian Moreno (May 5, afternoon)
- Sheep Breeds Walkabout [SOLD OUT - JOIN WAITLIST], Deb Robson (May 6, morning)
About the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is one of the largest festivals of its kind celebrating all things sheep, from hoof to handwoven. Registration, cancellation, refund, lunch, and more policies can be viewed here.
Meet Lessonface, PBC
Lessonface's mission is to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably. Since 2012, we've hosted more than 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers for live music, language, and arts lessons and classes online. We are thrilled to be working with the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival for the registration of these classes.
- More about Lessonface here.