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I am very pleased to announce that Whispering Pines Farm will be conducting our second On Site (not a virtual event) Shetland Sheep Rooing Clinic on Sunday, May 18, 2025 from 2-4 pm.  This is a unique opportunity to learn about rooing Shetland Sheep, watch a demonstration of me rooing a ewe and then enjoy helping me roo my sheep. If you have always wanted to try to roo a sheep this is a great opportunity for you!  You will get hands on time rooing ewes.  If you have never heard of rooing, but are intrigued, here is a Youtube...

May Event - Shepherd's Market Fiber Festival I will have a booth at the Shepherd's Wool Market in Rush, New York in May.  This is the next festival on my schedule.  It is a nice one day event with local vendors of all sorts connected to fiber crafting. My booth at Shepherd's Market 2024 I bring the entire range of Majacraft Spinning Wheels for people to try.   All the Majacraft Wheels They are set up around the booth - the Aura, Rose, Suzie, Luna and Little Gem.  Experienced spinners like to spin on them with all sorts of different fiber...

We will be at three Fiber Festivals this autumn.  Our booth will feature the entire lineup of Majacraft wheels, all set up and ready for you to try.  I also bring my demo carder and fiber prep tools for demonstration and sampling.  And of course there will be wool from our lovely flock of soft shetland sheep.  Please stop by and say hello!   September 16th, 2023 EA Rink, 41 Riley Street, East Aurora NY  14052 **************************** September 23-24 Sheep and Goat Building, Booth #45 392 Old Schuylerville Road Greenwich NY  12834 ************************** Also known as Rhinebeck Building C Booth...

I have created a new category on the website under the Majacraft section, it is called "Discounted Items".  So I thought I would explain what that is about in this blog post. The items on this page all have minor damage that doesn't impact the performance of the wheels.  In most cases, they were gently preowned wheels which were returned to me for various reasons.  During the time (usually fairly short) of their pre-ownership, they sustained damage such as dents or minor dings in the wood.  I have stockpiled these over the last year or so with the intention of...