Gifts & Thanks

The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is a non-profit volunteer committee of the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association. We appreciate the following support.

Jane Hyland Memorial Awards

Jane was a talented spinner who valued quality fleeces. Her long involvement with the Festival as a volunteer and participant is honored by her family through the following awards

Fleece Show & Sale

Jane Hyland Memorial: Best Handspinning Natural Colored Fleece - $50

Jane Hyland Memorial: Best Handspinning White Fleece - $50

Skein & Garment Competition

Jane Hyland Memorial: Best Handspun Skein - $25

Jane Hyland Memorial: Best Handspun Article - $25

Sheep to Shawl Competition

Jane Hyland Memorial: Best Spinning Team - $150

Eighth Annual Mamie Francis Blanket Competition

A $5,000 endowment funds a $500 Grand Prize Award in the Mamie Francis Blanket Competition. Mamie was a weaver of small blankets or lap robes. She is remembered by her husband, daughter and three sons with this endowment. This $500 prize was awarded to Joyce Keister in 2010. Contributing $100 each for checks or prizes in this competition are: Harrisville Designs, Interweave Press, Sandy Spring Bank and The Mannings Handweaving School & Supply Center.

The “FREDDIE” Award

2011 marks the 17th annual “Freddie” Award. This cash award goes to the weaver of the most creative handwoven article entered in the Skein & Garment Competition. This award is funded by an endowment from the family and friends of Mary Fredrika Pfeiffer, an avid Festival supporter. The “Freddie” Award continues her encouragement of excellence in handweaving.

Barbara Volk won this honor in 2010.

Pat Brown Memorial Award

To honor an ardent Festival fan, a group of Maryland spinners funded the Pat Brown Memorial Award for the Best Maryland Fleece in the Fleece Show. A Kent Island shepherd and critter lover, Pat Brown was a multi-talented artist.

A permanent plaque is displayed annually at the Fleece Show. In 2010 the Revere pewter cup and cash award were won by Deborah Paper with a Romney Cross fleece.

Dedication

Mary Streaker

Mary Streaker came to be chairman of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in the early 1980s when Charlotte Gardener retired as chair. At that time, Mary lived on the farm next to the Howard County Fairgrounds and was involved in the running of a farm and raising a family. Among her qualifications for leading the Festival were a life-long love of fairs and the power to lead a group of volunteers. In the early years, the Festival was a very small affair; the entire event fit in the main exhibition hall and was held there until the winter when the roof caved in. Rather than stopping the Festival, Mary had the energy and vision to nurture the event and shepherd it along to become the Festival that it is today. Mary put in countless hours of dreaming, planning, and organizing, allowing it to grow and blossom.

She has the natural ability to get along with more people than anyone I know and I have learned much from her example. Mary has pulled many members of the Streaker clan into the Festival over the years. She always said that she was preparing them for a life of service to others. Several of Mary’s grandchildren can be seen working behind the scenes on Festival weekend. Mary served as chairman until the spring of 1992 when she asked me to take over her job. Mary continued to stand by my side and guide me on as the leader of this amazing event. Today Mary runs the photo department at the Festival, is chairman of the home arts department at the Howard County fair, and is an active member of the Howard County fair board as well. I continue to look to Mary for her guidance, wisdom, and strength.

Thank you, Mary, for all the love and care you have given this wonderful event, making it the most successful of its kind anywhere in the world.

Special Thanks

Maryland State Agricultural Fair Board for its continuing financial support

Howard County Fair Board for their ongoing cooperation regarding use of the Howard County Fairgrounds throughout the year. A special thanks to Fairgrounds General Manager Dick Mettee for his patience and hard work

David Ashton and his staff at Ashton Design of Baltimore, Maryland for the catalog cover, poster and Cover Art Competition flyer designs

Howard County Public Information Office and the Howard County Tourism Council for their help and encouragement in promoting the Festival

Howard County Police Department for Traffic Control

Caroline Hussman for the TLC she provides

Mr. Trawitz for donating the Maryland Lamb & Wool Queen’s sheepskin slippers

West Friendship Fire Department for providing First Aid services

The artists who graciously allowed us to use their artwork throughout this catalog

J.T. Hindle for providing his auctioneering services for the Club Lamb Sale

Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum for helping with parking at the Festival

Lowe’s, Westminster for supporting the Festival

Giant, Westminster for supporting the Festival

Weis, Westminster for supporting the Festival

Patrons

Backlog Pottery
Maggie Creshkoff
2068 Jacob Tome Highway
Pt. Deposit, MD 21904
www.backlogpottery.com

Breezy Willow Farm
R. J. Caulder
PO Box 134
West Friendship, MD 21794
www.breezywillowfarm.com

Cloverhill Yarn Shop
75 Mellor Avenue
Catonsville, MD 21228
www.cloverhillyarn.com

Ellyn Cooper Yarn Sonnets
135 Hanover-Versailles
Sprague, CT 06330

Farmers Cooperative
Chester Martin
820 East South Street
Frederick, MD 21701

G & W Sharpening
Stacey Rothrock
1812 Bellew Place
South Plainfiield, NJ 07080
www.madebyewe.etsy.com

Carolyn & Harry Humes
102 Lakelawn Drive
Milford, DE 19963

Caroline Hussman
20401 New Hampshire Avenue
Brinklow, MD 20862

Jennie the Potter
5153 39th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55417

Lonestar Wool & Fur
David Patton
807 Massey Street
Smithfield, NC 27577

Opalessence
Margery Erickson
202 Bankert Road
Hanover, PA 17331

Riverside Farm
14341 North River Road
Pemberville, OH 43450

Willow Brook Farm
Jeanne Asplundh
PO Box 1568
Fort Washington, PA 19034