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09/12/2026

Save the Date—Winterfest is back! Mark your calendars for Winterfest on Jan 30-31, 2027. Two days of classes, seminars, and community, all from home.🧶
The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival’s Virtual Winterfest returns January 30-31, 2027, with two cozy days of fiber arts classes, agricultural seminars, and community—all from the comfort of home.
No winter travel required. Just gather your favorite project, pour yourself something warm, and join fiber friends from near and far for a weekend of learning, making, and connection.
More details—and our full lineup—will be coming soon. For now, mark your calendar and start planning your coziest seat!
📅 January 30-31, 2027
💻 Online from wherever you are
🐑 Pajamas optional, enthusiasm encouraged

09/11/2026

Want to meet the fluffiest, softest, and most spectacular farm friends at this year’s Fall Fiber Festival!

If you love fine wool, bouncy curls, or majestic long coats, our animal exhibits are packed with incredible breeds you won’t want to miss.

Come get up close, learn from local handlers, and discover the amazing animals behind your favorite cozy yarns.

Sheep Breeds will include: Shetland, Finn, Romeldale/CVM, Tunis, Cotswold, Scottish Blackface, and Merino. Goat Breeds will include: Angora, and Cashmere. As well as Angora Rabbits and Llamas.

Bring the whole family, snap some photos, and see the magic of fiber arts right at the source.

09/11/2026

09/09/2026

Amazing.

Do you love? 💗💗
Irish crochet gown, c 1905-10, by Dunlevy of Cincinnati. The bodice finely worked with butterfly and floral motifs, pendant tassels, rosettes to the rear waist, the trained skirt with delicate roundels and larger-scale flowering plants.

09/08/2026

We are a week into September and I have to admit my home already looks and smells like Fall 🍁😍🍂

I’ve been looking into new stitches to use for my fall projects and came across a whole slew of fun stitches to try. Take a look and see if you’re inspired to try any of these as well!
🔗in the comments 👇🏻

Which ones will make it on your list?

09/05/2026

When ya gotta, ya gotta.

08/27/2026

Noted 🧶

08/25/2026

After experiencing firsthand just how much time, effort, and skill goes into making a single garment, content creator Macy Gilliam encourages others to support brands that make an effort to fairly compensate their employees.

She also hopes her journey inspires people to make things with their own hands. Or, at the very least, to develop a newfound appreciation for the things they might otherwise take for granted because of modern-day convenience.

“I think that we are so separated from the way that things are made that we are incapable of actually appreciating them. So this is my way of reconnecting with the way things are made.”

06/13/2026

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Mary Streaker, one of the founders of the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. Mary passed away yesterday, just two months shy of her 95th birthday.
Mary's influence on our Festival, the Howard County Fairgrounds, and countless individuals cannot be overstated. She was a teacher, mentor, artist, leader, volunteer, and friend whose passion for education, creativity, and community helped shape the Festival we know today.
Many of us were fortunate to know Mary personally. Even in recent years, she continued to attend Festival meetings when she was able, reconnecting with the volunteers and friends who had worked alongside her for decades. Her wisdom, enthusiasm, and deep commitment to preserving and celebrating the fiber arts inspired generations of volunteers, exhibitors, artists, and fairgoers.
Mary's legacy lives on through the Home Arts Department, the Fine Arts and Photo Competitions, and the many traditions she helped establish and nurture. The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival exists today in part because of the vision, dedication, and countless hours of service that Mary and her fellow founders invested so many years ago.
On behalf of the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival community, we extend our heartfelt condolences to Mary's family, friends, students, and all who were touched by her remarkable life. We are grateful for her contributions, her friendship, and the enduring example she set for all of us.
Mary will be deeply missed and fondly remembered.
Visitation will be held at Haight Funeral Home, Sykesville, Maryland, on June 17 from 2:00–4:00 p.m. and 6:00–8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held on June 18 at 10:00 a.m., followed by a Celebration of Life luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Howard County Fairgrounds Dining Hall.