Hug A Sheep!
The first, annual Hug A Sheep (HAS) Day will be on Saturday, October 30, 2010. There will be an Open House and Fiber Festival (complete with vendors, demonstrations and a needle felting class!) at Bluff Country Shetlands in Houston, MN. from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. "The Crazy Sheep Lady" of Punkin's Patch will also be hosting a HAS Day Open House in Cynthiana, KY. We hope that others will jump on the bandwagon and share the joys of sheep and shepherding with others by hosting Open Houses or other events to promote our wonderful, woolly friends!
Feel free to vote for the sheep that you'd most like to hug at the Open House in the Bluff Country ~ see the poll added to the side bar on this blog. I will be offering photos taken at the Open House and Fiber Festival for those who chose to Hug A Sheep. I will also be teaching a beginning needle felting class, at two o'clock and will have needle felting kits available for those who want to take one home and make their own fluffy sheep or soap in a blanket. There will also be wool carding, spinning, knitting, felting and weaving demonstrations as well as a variety of wool items to show some of the wonderful things that can be made with the fleece from a sheep. Learn about how a sheep is sheared (it's just like getting a haircut!) and how to process the wool into usable items of clothing or works of art.
There will also be vendors on site, offering wool related articles ~ from raw fleece to roving to homespun yarns or knitted or felted items. Be the first to purchase my homemade, goat milk soap or add a colorful lamb or even a beautiful chicken to your existing flock ~ or start your very own flock!
You'll have the opportunity to sign up for beginning spinning, knitting, felting or soap making classes. Enjoy the process of turning wool into family heirlooms or treasured gifts. Those in attendance at the Open House will also have the chance to win a sheep figurine by voting for or suggesting a name for the new, home-based Fiber and Goat Milk Soap business that the Shepherdess will be operating from Bluff Country Shetlands.
Meet the dogs, cats, mille fleur bantam cochin chickens, blue laced red Wyandotte chickens, and of course the delightful Shetland Sheep that make Bluff Country Shetlands (and Backyard Chickens!) a wonderful place to live ~ to learn ~ and to visit.
DREAM says...
"I sure hope you can make it to our HAS (Hug A Sheep) Open House and Fall Fiber Festival! Just think...you might even get your picture taken with ME!
Donations of (uncarved) pumpkins and animal crackers are welcome and appreciated"...
Dream!
Please forgive her.
She gets a bit carried away...
For more information on the Hug A Sheep Day Open House and Fall Fiber Festival email me at nkmajik@acegroup.cc or call me at: (507) 896-2487
For more information on the Hug A Sheep Day Open House and Fall Fiber Festival email me at nkmajik@acegroup.cc or call me at: (507) 896-2487
Darn Darn Darn, if I were going to be home I would have been the first one in line. Hug a sheep cuddle a chicken,finger some yarn, whatever. Unfortunately I will be in MO for a dog show. If you do this again though I sure will come.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to celebrate by hugging my own woollies, since having an open house won't work here on that date - nor can I travel to MN or KY! I hope you have a huge turnout.
ReplyDeletePSSST, Hey everybody, don't tell Dream, as she does get jealous easily, but I voted for Storm Warning. He is the very softest of them all to hug!!! I'm a little biased towards the ram lambs this year. You can hug handsome little black Razz, too, IF you can get close to him (fat chance!)
ReplyDeleteTerry