Clare Valley Festival of the Lamb is calling on crafters to help knit something truly ewe-nique
Shear brilliance is coming to the Clare Valley in 2025, and it’s about to knit the whole community together, one lamb at a time.
The Clare Valley Festival of the Lamb is teaming up with the SACWA Warnes Group to unleash a woolly good time, with the inaugural Flock of the Woollen Lambs.
Locals, tourists and champion knitters from all corners are invited to stitch up a storm and send in their handmade lambs – crocheted or knitted – to join a statewide flock that’ll take over cellar doors and shopfronts across the Clare Valley this spring.
Forget your run-of-the-mill art exhibition – this is the Flocking Lamb Exhibition, a handmade herd of fluffy goodness, proudly crafted from real sheep’s wool. Each cuddly creation will graze its way into public view during the Clare Valley Festival of the Lamb, before being rounded up and donated to children’s charities.
And don’t forget to name your sheep – Baa-bara, Wooliam, or Shaun – the more creative, the better!
There’s more in the pipeline too. The festival organisers and the SACWA Warnes Group are cooking up some crafty extras, including spinning and knitting workshops, a lamb pastie bake-off, and a forum spotlighting the women who’ve shaped the sheep industry.
The Clare Valley Festival of the Lamb isn’t just a foodie affair – it’s a celebration of spring, wool, wine, and everything that makes this region ewe-nique.
Want to join the flock?
Patterns and more info can be found here
Once you’ve got your sheep ready, post it to: 8 Spring Gully Road, Clare SA 5453 or drop it at the Clare Valley Wine, Food & Tourism Centre
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Questions? Call Simon Millcock on 0407 819 000 – he knows his sheep.
