[MR] For the fiber arts folks and woolaholics

[Karen Summerfelt-Hume]

Greetings all,

     Coming to Crown Tourney?  Like any of the various fiber arts or interested in fiber sources - on the hoof?  Well then - you're in luck!  The weekend of Crown Tourney, May 7th and 8th, is also the weekend of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival - one of the premier wool festivals in the US.
      Located at the Howard County Fairgrounds on MD rte 144 - just off of I-70 west of Baltimore City - the Sheep and Wool Festival offers everything from the live animal (sheep, goats, rabbits, Llama's, Alpaca's, etc.) to hides, fleece's, tools, books, bags of unprocessed wool, spun wool, and assorted odds and ends including herbs, seeds, soaps and recipe books. Knitting needles to niddy-noddies.  Sheep shears to shepherd's crooks.  Even a sheep dog trial.
       There is no entrance fee for the festival and it is roughly an hour and a half south west of the Crown Tourney site.  For more information on the Sheep and Wool Festival go to www.sheepandwool.org  or call them at 410-531-3647.  They also have a mailing list you can sign up for at the festival.
      Oh - travel light, wear comfy walking shoes and try not to spend everything in your checkbook!!  Feel free to share this information with anyone who might be interested.

Chagan Khulan
Bright Hills

"The possibilities are endless, the limitations are in your mind"