February 6th: Make your own felt with llama fibers

by Carolyn on Jan. 21, 2010

Wfelting at the summer marketant to learn how to felt at our next market?

Here’s your chance to both learn and try it yourself.   Central Vermont llama farmers will be on hand to show how wool can be felted using basic needle felting and wet felting techniques.

  • Try your hand at painting with llama fibers with the needle felting process.
  • Get your hands wet and soapy and make a felt ball, small bowl, or a mini hat.

Farmers Market vendor, Jan Stuart of Moonlight Llamas in Mont-pelier leads this demo, along with June Taylor of Chocolate Pond Farm in Jericho, and Lindsay Chandler of Northern Vermont Llama Co. in Waterville.

Llama Jose has provided some of the fiber!


Our music this week features Good Old Wagon – American roots music, including blues, rags, and old-time tunes.  Musicians Mark Greenberg and Andy Pitt capture the spirit and style of music that remains just as vital as when it was first recorded in the 1920s and ’30s.

Our new vendors for the February 6th market:

Kind Horn Farm organic icelandic sheep breeders of Vermont offering fibers and grass-fed lamb

Lawson’s Finest is a small batch artisanal microbrewery located in Warren, Vermont. Its beer is custom crafted in tiny batches at a modest production facility tucked in the woods, on the east flank of Lincoln Mountain.  Lawson’s Finest is Vermont’s newest brewery  – run by Sean Lawson, The Beer Guy

Roots Wise Herbals of Morrisville with herbal teas, oils, and salves

Shamrock Farms of Northfield with goat meat

Our other winter market vendors for February 6th are:

Amador Drums & Deborahs Hand-dyed
Amai Bijoux
Applecheek Farm
Ark of Safety, LLC
Blackwell Roots Farm
Butterfly Bakery
Fat Toad Farm
French Metalworks
Garden of 7 Gables
Gaylord Farm
Giving Tree Botanicals
Gizmo’s Pickled Plus
Greenfield Highland Beef
LePage Farm
McGurran Bee Farm
Moonlight llamas
North Branch Vineyards
Pakistani Foods
Ploughgate Creamery
Red Hen Baking Company
Samosaman Natural Foods
Screamin’ Ridge Farm
Sugar Ridge Farm
Syp Brand Pierogies
Toll a Bell Farm

Capital City Farmers Market Winter Dates: First and Third Saturdays December through April,  10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, East State Street and College Ave,  Montpelier

  • February 6  &  20
  • March 6  &  March 20
  • April 3   &  April 17

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See you at the market!