Lambtown Festival

Join us at the for our 38th annual celebration of all things sheep, lamb, and wool.

Schedule of Events:

Time
9:00AM
Gates open

Workshops - sunday all day workshops
9:00AM
Level up your fiber arts skills in one of our workshops! Pre-registration is required.

Workshops – Sunday Morning Workshops
9:00AM
Level up your fiber arts skills in one of our workshops! Pre-registration is required.

10:00AM

Communtiy Events
Wooly Adventures

Wooly Adventures hosts sheep-themed crafts and beginning fiber arts projects for the young and the young at heart. Discover how wool is transformed into yarn, cloth, or felt with one of our make and takes or by weaving on our community looms. Free to all and fun for ages four to ninety-four.    

Competiton
Sheep to shawl competition fairgorunds division
Teams of eight competitors card, spin, ply, and weave fleece into a shawl while the clock is ticking. Will all of the teams complete a shawl in time? Join us to watch this growing spectator sport. Shelia January will determine the winner of the Fairgrounds Division before crowning a Grand Champion. Judging begins around 3PM.

Demonstration
Sheep show
How do you tell a good sheep from a bad one? What makes a sheep a champion? Judge Maria Rooney will offer her insight in the show ring. Learn about the qualities shepherds look for to improve their flocks as primitive, meat, and modern wool breeds show off their best in the ring. Watch for the finale when two sheep are selected as Supreme Champions over all the sheep in the show.

11:00AM

Demonstration
Sheep shearing demo
You know that fresh feeling you get after haircut? Sheep feel the same way. Watch professional shearer Matt Gilbert demonstrate how to safely relieve a few lucky ewes of their luscious locks.

12:00pm

Demonstration
Sheep dog demo

A shepherd is only as good as their sheep dog. Watch as handlers from the Redwood Empire Sheep Dog Association work with their collies, shepherds, and other stock dogs to bring, fetch, hold, and drive sheep in these field trials.

1:30pm
Workshops

Level up your fiber arts skills in one of our workshops! Pre-registration is required.

2:00pm

Community Event

LGBTQIA+ Meetup

The LGBTQIA+ meetup is an opportunity for queer crafters to come together and share in the love of our community and crafts and is hosted by yelley. Join us for an informal gathering!

2:00pm
Demonstration
Sheep dog demo
A shepherd is only as good as their sheep dog. Watch as handlers from the Redwood Empire Sheep Dog Association work with their collies, shepherds, and other stock dogs to bring, fetch, hold, and drive sheep in these field trials.

3:00pm
Competition

Sheep to Shawl Judging

Teams of eight competitors card, spin, ply, and weave fleece into a shawl while the clock is ticking. Will all of the teams complete a shawl in time? Join us to watch this growing spectator sport. Shelia January will determine the winner of the Fairgrounds Division before crowning a Grand Champion. Judging begins around 3PM.

3:00pm
Sheep shearing Demo
You know that fresh feeling you get after haircut? Sheep feel the same way. Watch professional shearer Matt Gilbert demonstrate how to safely relieve a few lucky ewes of their luscious locks

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