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Eastern Angora Goat and Mohair Association

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Come Join the Fun! Here are some interesting activites going on at the Great Frederick Fairgrounds on the same weekend as our show: Local Farmers Market, Bldg. 12 Parzow (Antiques & Collectibles) Auction, Bldg. 12 African Handcrafts, Bldg. 14 Northeast Texas Longhorn Association Show, Bldg. 18 Western MD Tractor Pullers Assn., Grandstand Check back later for updates... Fun for "Kids" too! We will also be hosting an number of Youth Friendly activites at our EAGMA show! Here are some details: Kool Aid Dyeing Workshop by Melissa Verill is offered for kids ages 7 and up. FELTING FUN FOR CHILDREN by Marlene's Felting Madness. Stop by Marlene's vendor booth and learn how to turn wool into felt. In this free mini-workshop, learn how to use traditional wet felting techniques to create a unique piece of felt. Students will lay out colorful merino roving, wet the fiber with water and soap, and apply friction until a beautiful piece of felt is created. (No age limit.) Beginning Knitting and Crocheting by Mary of Alpacas of Maryland. Want to learn to knit, puzzled by how to cast on or what is "knit one purl two"? Want to do the beautiful patterns and lacy effects of crocheting, wonder how they do that? Then come to Mary's tent. You do not have to any particular age, this is a youth friendly actifiity. Sit amoungst the yarn, fiber and alpacas and learn with Mary. Check back later for further additions to this list!	Mohair based fiber Roving Hand dyed by Persimmon Tree Farm, Greta Dise EAGMA (formerly VAGMA) was founded in 1987 to foster and support, through education and marketing, small Angora goat farming, mohair-based businesses and the acceptance of a non-traditional farm animal, the white and colored Angora Goat.
	Check out our ever growing list of vendors!
Welcome "It's Fiber Optics" Guild of Frederick Come visit your guild friends at our show. They will be demonstrating so many neat things all to do with fiber and all things MOHAIR. We are excited to announce that the fruits of their projects will be raffeled off in the fall at the annual Great Frederick Agricultural Fair to benifit the guild and thier fiber education efforts. Come to our show to see: Hand Spinning Weaving Needle craft Sock Machine

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By-Laws

Angora Goat

Colored Angora Goat

10 FREE DEMOS

FREE DEMOS

Spinning Guild
Bunny Spinning
Art Batts
Goat Shearing
Fleece Skirting
Drop Spindle
Kids Felting
Fiber Equipment
Knit & Crochet, Alpacas
Cashmere Goats

Annual Show

June 26-27, 2010

The Great Frederick Fairgrounds

Frederick, Maryland

2010 CAGBA NATIONALS are being held at EAGMA

Mindy and her goat

Puff The Magic Rabbit holds a winner at our last show.

Goat

show happiness

Giant Cricket Farm with beautiful white Angora Goat.

Dise Goat

Colored Angora Goat

Come Join the Fun!

Here are some interesting activites going on at the Great Frederick Fairgrounds on the same weekend as our show:

Local Farmers Market, Bldg. 12
Parzow (Antiques & Collectibles) Auction, Bldg. 12
African Handcrafts, Bldg. 14
Northeast Texas Longhorn Association Show, Bldg. 18
Western MD Tractor Pullers Assn., Grandstand

Check back later for updates...

Fun for "Kids" too!

We will also be hosting an number of Youth Friendly activites at our EAGMA show! Here are some details:

Kool Aid Dyeing Workshop by Melissa Verill is offered for kids ages 7 and up.
FELTING FUN FOR CHILDREN by Marlene's Felting Madness. Stop by Marlene's vendor booth and learn how to turn wool into felt. In this free mini-workshop, learn how to use traditional wet felting techniques to create a unique piece of felt. Students will lay out colorful merino roving, wet the fiber with water and soap, and apply friction until a beautiful piece of felt is created. (No age limit.)
Beginning Knitting and Crocheting by Mary of Alpacas of Maryland. Want to learn to knit, puzzled by how to cast on or what is "knit one purl two"? Want to do the beautiful patterns and lacy effects of crocheting, wonder how they do that? Then come to Mary's tent. You do not have to any particular age, this is a youth friendly actifiity. Sit amoungst the yarn, fiber and alpacas and learn with Mary.

Check back later for further additions to this list!

Hand Dyed Fiber

Mohair based fiber Roving

Hand dyed by Persimmon Tree Farm, Greta Dise

Mohair Roving

EAGMA

(formerly VAGMA)

was founded in 1987 to foster and support, through education and marketing, small Angora goat farming, mohair-based businesses and the acceptance of a non-traditional farm animal, the white and colored Angora Goat.

White Angora

Check out our ever growing list of vendors!

Welcome "It's Fiber Optics" Guild of Frederick

Come visit your guild friends at our show. They will be demonstrating so many neat things all to do with fiber and all things MOHAIR. We are excited to announce that the fruits of their projects will be raffeled off in the fall at the annual Great Frederick Agricultural Fair to benifit the guild and thier fiber education efforts.

Come to our show to see:

Hand Spinning
Weaving
Needle craft
Sock Machine