During the Farm Tour, Jan has invited several friends to join  her:

~Karen Rose of  Rose Bud Ranch and Fiber Studio in Port Townsend will be there selling  fleeces and custom spun and dyed yarn made from her llamas and alpacas.  These yarns are incredibly sophisticated and you won't find them in your local yarn shop!   This year Karen will also be demonstrating triangle looms.

 
~For anyone who appreciates hand-weaving, Ann Norton will be at Jacob's Fleece selling woven items for you and your home.

~Mary Gese will be bringing her mixed media art and jewelry

~To satisfy your inner being, there will be a couple of vegetable growers also at Jan's farm.  Mary Brackney from  Wildwood Farms will be there with her many varieties of jams and jellies.  Good luck choosing! 

New this year will be Victoria Stewart from Rancho Verano (Summer Ranch) who raises salsa ingredients and makes wonderful goat's milk soap.  And on Sunday, Jan will be joined by Todd Stephens from Mill Brook Clay Works.  You can preview his work at            http://www.millbrookclayworks.com   

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Compass Rose Farm is a beautiful 40 acre farm located in the Snow Creek valley.  Kateen Fenter and her Mother, Bev, have owned the property in partnership with the Jefferson County Land Trust since 2007.  To see what they started with, check out this article in the Port Townsend Leader.
In the few short years they have worked the land, they have established an extensive market garden, an apiary, a flock of Icelandic sheep and llamas, a flock of chickens and in 2009 harvested 2500 bales of hay.

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that is shared with two horses and a llama.  Barry has had extensive experience processing wool in Australia and on the East Coast of the United States.  He has used that experience to develop his own wool carding business.  Visitors to his farm will have the opportunity to view his equipment (he will be giving demos during the Farm Tour) and to learn more about how raw fleece is turned into beautiful dyed roving.  He will have a wide variety of roving available for purchase during the Tour.


Janice Speck from Port Townsend will be there selling her imaginative flat felted accessories.  She uses merino wool in both batts and roving to create scarves, jewelry and wall hangings that are then embellished with needle felting.  You can see her work at her shop on Etsy.

 Beth and Kevin Hansen of Chimacum will also be at Taylored Fiber Farm during the Farm Tour.  Kevin has developed an electric spinner and you will have an opportunity to be the
 first one in your guild to purchase one of these beautiful, wooden and reasonably priced spinners.  You can preview these e-spinners on their website:  www.hansencrafts.com


Frances Clements Fawcett will be at Taylored Fibers with her unique felted creations.  She makes them from retired sweaters and calls them 2nd Ewes Felted Art Ware.   She also hand-dyes silk scarves.  You can preview her work at fcfcreations.com .



This year, the Taylors are also welcoming Amelia Read Garripoli  to give two classes at their farm during the tour.  Amelia is an instructor, author and blogger known as "Ask the Bellwether.  If you are interested in either of her classes, please contact her directly to register.  Space is limited. 
(360) 582-0697 or poetread@gmail.com

Saturday:  Wheel Mechanics
Free hands-on class, 1 hour, offered at 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm

Let's take a look at how our wheels work -- Irish tension, scotch tension, Double drive.  How is a spinning wheel maintained, and how do we use all of the options of our wheels.  We'll tune and test our wheels.  Spinners should be able to spin a basic single, and will need to bring a working wheel.  The instructor can provide some wheels for use in class, but you need to contact her.

Sunday:  Learn to Spin on Spindles
Class Fee: $20.00 includes fiber, spindle, and booklet.  3 hours, offered at 1:00 pm.  Class limited to 12 students.

You will be surrounded by fiber.  The Farm tour is the perfect opportunity to dive in and learn to spin!  We'll take locally produced roving and learn to make yarn on one of the simplest of spinning tools, the top whorl spindle.  You'll complete your very first skein of yarn in this class, and have fiber, spindle, and booklet to continue on your own yarn-making journey.

Ranie Keithahn designs colorful greeting cards and fabric squares for quilting.  She will join the Taylors on Saturday only.  To learn more about her work go to 
                                            http://www.raniekeithahn.com/


Kim Thomson who creates felted dolls, felted vessels and felted wall pieces  will be at
Taylored Fibers on Sunday.