Sheep In the Shires Yarn Crawl
May
10
to May 11

Sheep In the Shires Yarn Crawl

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May 10 and 11 visit the beautiful Sheep in the Shires Yarn Crawl which covers the south Shires of Vermont to southern Berkshire, and a little over the border in Chatham, NY! We’ll have wonderful yarns, specials exclusive to those that come to our shops that weekend, and a $100 Gift Certificate to lucky winners at each of the shops on the Crawl. You can plan out your weekend to take in time at each of the venues and enjoy the beautiful of the rolling green hills of Southern Vermont and the Berkshires, dotted with farms and small mill towns. There are numerous places to take in a meal or rest your head for the evening throughout this thriving tourist region in New England. Map your own adventure! The last shop on your stop will be where you can submit your ‘punch card’ (available at the first shop you stop at) to be in a raffle for a $100 Gift Certificate.

Our farm will be crawling with lambs! You’ll be able to visit them in the barn and also enjoy Mother’s Day tea + cake.

Our Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours that weekend will be from 11 - 4 on Saturday and Sunday.

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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Jul
12
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Primitive Sheep Needle Felting Workshop with Debbie Trantham
Jul
13
10:00 AM10:00

Primitive Sheep Needle Felting Workshop with Debbie Trantham

Joining us from Candler, NC, Fiber Dreams Santas’ own Debbie Trantham will teach a Primitive Sheep felting class with natural dyed locks.

Debbie has been raising long wool and various heritage breed sheep and livestock for over 25 years on her farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She has been creating her award-winning felted wool sculptures with her hand harvested and dyed locks along the eastern seaboard and will be joining us to teach this traditional art.

We’ll work together on July 13 from 10 - 1 pm to learn the ancient technique of felting wool to create a sculpted sheep, embellishing it with beautiful garden flowers in natural dyed wool locks from the flocks.

There’ll be time for questions and answers and how to transfer these skills to other projects. You’ll go home with a beautiful creation for display or gifting and the skills to create more wool felted ornaments and sculptures.

Dress comfortably for outdoor workshop in barn. Materials + Refreshments included in Workshop Fee.

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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Jul
19
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop
Jul
19
2:30 PM14:30

Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop

egister for a Natural Dye Journal Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Dye Journals help you to remember and learn from your work, as well as showcasing nature’s magnificent gift of pigments. A Journal of your Natural Dye Journey will be a treasure for you throughout your life, and the notes and samples you include will be a lesson to you now and for the future. This workshop is designed to introduce you to a variety of journal examples and samples, providing inspiration as you decide upon your own journal styles.

We will create a method that best suits you for chronicling your work/play, including samples from a couple of dye pots we’ll use that day. Individual discussions will help you best determine how to keep your records. You may bring other samples of natural dyeing if you have dyed before and would like to showcase them in your journal.

Materials will be provided.

Workshop runs Saturday from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop
Jul
20
10:00 AM10:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves. If the weather is too warm to wear long sleeves, bring a long sleeved top to wear over your clothes during part of the soap-making process.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.


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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Jul
26
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop
Jul
26
2:30 PM14:30

Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop

egister for a Natural Dye Journal Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Dye Journals help you to remember and learn from your work, as well as showcasing nature’s magnificent gift of pigments. A Journal of your Natural Dye Journey will be a treasure for you throughout your life, and the notes and samples you include will be a lesson to you now and for the future. This workshop is designed to introduce you to a variety of journal examples and samples, providing inspiration as you decide upon your own journal styles.

We will create a method that best suits you for chronicling your work/play, including samples from a couple of dye pots we’ll use that day. Individual discussions will help you best determine how to keep your records. You may bring other samples of natural dyeing if you have dyed before and would like to showcase them in your journal.

Materials will be provided.

Workshop runs Saturday from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop
Jul
27
10:00 AM10:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves. If the weather is too warm to wear long sleeves, bring a long sleeved top to wear over your clothes during part of the soap-making process.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.


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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Aug
2
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop
Aug
2
2:30 PM14:30

Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop

egister for a Natural Dye Journal Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Dye Journals help you to remember and learn from your work, as well as showcasing nature’s magnificent gift of pigments. A Journal of your Natural Dye Journey will be a treasure for you throughout your life, and the notes and samples you include will be a lesson to you now and for the future. This workshop is designed to introduce you to a variety of journal examples and samples, providing inspiration as you decide upon your own journal styles.

We will create a method that best suits you for chronicling your work/play, including samples from a couple of dye pots we’ll use that day. Individual discussions will help you best determine how to keep your records. You may bring other samples of natural dyeing if you have dyed before and would like to showcase them in your journal.

Materials will be provided.

Workshop runs Saturday from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop
Aug
3
10:00 AM10:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves. If the weather is too warm to wear long sleeves, bring a long sleeved top to wear over your clothes during part of the soap-making process.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.


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