Come play with wool! We will have samples of wool from raw to knit garment to show the full process. There will be spinning wheels on hand to learn and practice hand spinning and supplies ready to learn the basics of knitting as well. If you are a beginner spinner or knitter or just curious how wool is processed this is the class for you. 

Susan Stillinger’s interest in wool started when she learned to knit at age 10 and to spin a few years after that. Thirty years later, she and her daughter started their own spinner’s flock with twin Merino ewes, adding other fine wool sheep along the way. She has taught beginning spinners as a docent at an 1840s living history museum in Illinois. She moved to Vermont in 2015 to be able to spend more time with sheep and fiber arts. Susan sells her yarn and knitted items locally and on Etsy under Cozy Hollow Farm.

Kristen Gallagher is co-owner of Aurora Spinnery, a small batch fiber mill in Berlin. She has owned sheep for over ten years and started processing their wool completely by hand from raw to sweater with the early fleeces. She and her husband Loren now process their own merino wool fiber, as well as custom process wool from other farms. For this class, Aurora Spinnery will process Orchard Valley's shetland sheep wool into roving for students to use on spinning wheels.

Cost: $50-$200 sliding scale
10 participants maximum.

Email gracefarm@ovws.org with any questions