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Enjoy these seasonal or year-round fiber tours and yarn crawls.
January
February
| 2-5 | Hilton Greenville, Greenville, SC | The KnitInn 2023 with Patty Lyons |
| 2-6 | Miramonte Resort, Palm Desert, CA | Knitting Retreat with Casapinka & Wild Onion’s Susan |
| 2-24 | South America & Antarctica | Antarctica Knitting Cruise with Lily Chin |
| 3-4 | Nome Schoolhouse, Nome, ND | Hearts and Flowers Felting Retreat with Jean Hainlen |
| 3-5 | Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 9th Annual Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 4 | Faubourg Brewing Co., New Orleans, LA | Yarni Gras, presented by Indie Untangled |
| 5 | Bradford Industrial Museum, Bradford, England UK | St Blaise Wool Festival |
| 5 | Boston Public Market, Boston, MA | New England Farm & Fiber Festival |
| 9-12 | New York Marriott Marquis, NY, NY | Knitting LIVE by Vogue Knitting! |
| 9-12 | de IJsselhallen, Zwolle, Netherlands | 19th Annual Handwerkbeurs [Handicraft Fair] |
| 10-12 | Brown County Inn, Nashville, IN | Winter Wooly Retreat |
| 10-12 | Glass Pavilion, Casa de Campo Fairgrounds, Madrid, Spain | Love Yarn Madrid |
| 11 | Central Maryland | Fiber Art Studio Tour |
| 11-12, 18-19 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 13-20 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 13th Annual Fiber Week |
| 13-24 | Panama Canal & S. Caribbean | Friends & Fiberworks Spring Cruise with Barry Klein |
| 15-19 | Inn at Pine Knoll Shores, Bogue Banks, NC | Surf, Sand and Stitches |
| 16-19 | Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA | Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 16-19 | Radisson Hotel Fossil Creek, Fort Worth, TX | Winter Fiber Fun Retreat |
| 17-20 | Sheraton Grand Nashville Downtown, Nashville, TN | Knitopia Nashville with Melissa Leapman, Marin Melchior, Bristol Ivy, and Jenny Noto |
| 18 | Lammers Town Hall, Solway, MN | 9th Annual Small Scale Sustainable Sheep Farming Event |
| 19 | RIT Inn & Conference Center, Henrietta, NY | 8th Annual Tina Turner Knits Fiber Arts Festival |
| 19-22 | Online | WEBS Winter Virtual Knitting Retreat with Lily Chin, Kim McBrien Evans, Edie Eckman, Fiona Ellis, Amy Snell, Shaina Bilow, & Keith Leonard |
| 19-26 | Bellingham Irish Castle, Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland | MaggiKnits Bellingham Irish Castle Retreat |
| 21-25 | Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN & Online | Fiber for All |
| 23-26 | Portland, OR | 14th Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl |
| 24-26 | Bazaar Girls Yarn Shop & Fibre Emporium, Port Townsend, WA | Designing Ganseys with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 24-26 | Freeport, ME | 19th Annual New England Textile Arts Network’s Spa Knit and Spin |
| 24-26 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK & Online | 15th Annual Unravel, A Festival of Yarn |
March
| 2 | Online | Rowan Connect: Spring Summer 2023 Celebration |
| 2-5 | SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, Sacramento, CA | Stitches West |
| 2-5 | Lakeway Resort and Spa, Lakeway, TX | 9th Annual Knitting in the Hills Retreat |
| 3-5 | Scandic Lillehammer Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway | Knitting Weekend to Lillehammer with Sidsel J. Høivik |
| 4 | The Lamplighter Restaurant, Delmont, PA | Raggz Fiber Affair |
| 4-5 | Sanburn Hall, York, England, UK | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 4-11 | Central Florida east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 5 | Russell’s Garden Center, Wayland, MA | Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market Fiber Farm Days |
| 6 | Classic Club, Palm Desert, CA | Knitting Guild of the Desert’s 17th annual Fashion Show and Luncheon |
| 7-11 | Sheepwalk Ranch, Bandera, TX | Texas Wool Week – Bandera Fiber & Arts Week: Celebrating Texas Fiber Raising & Ranching Lifek |
| 9-12 | Parc des Expositions, Paris, France | L’aiguille en Fêtes [Thread and Needle Lovers} |
| 9-12 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 10-11 | NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 17th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 10-11 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival |
| 10-12 | Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY | Knit Along Club Retreat |
| 10-12 | Hampton Inn & Suites, Corolla, NC | 10th Annual Knitting by the Sea Retreat with Laura Nelkin |
| 11 | Central Maryland | Fiber Art Studio Tour |
| 11-12 | Buxton Pavilion Gardens & the Peak District, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK | Buxton Wool Gathering | 12 | Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | 2nd Annual Hamilton Fibre Market |
| 12-18 | Española Valley Fiber Arts Center, Española, NM | Churro Week |
| 16-19 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| 17-19 | Debert Hospitality Centre, Debert, NS, Canada | 2nd Annual Sisterhood Fibre Retreat |
| 17-19 | Camp Asbury, Silver Lake, NY | Tina Turner Knits Retreat |
| 18 | Ramada Inn and Conference Center, State College, PA | For the Love of Fiber |
| 18 | Park Hills Community Church, View Park/Windsor Hills, CA | Griffin Dyeworks Spring Fiber Frolic |
| 18 | Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR | Abernathy Spring Fiber Sale |
| 18 | Onine | Project Knitwell’s Knitathon |
| 18-19 | Fernhill Farm, Somerset, Bristol, England, UK | Fibre Quest |
| 18-19 | Norfolk Showground Arena, Norfolk, England, UK | East Anglia Yarn Festival |
| 19 | Marazion Community Centre, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK | Far Woolly West |
| ** 19-22 | Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association Camp Burton 27th Annual Spinners’ Retreat |
| 19-29 | Italy | Italy Knitting Holiday with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 20-23 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Four-by-Four |
| 21 | Alice Baker Library, Eagle, WI | Sheep to Shawl: Discussion & Demonstration |
| 23 | Johnson County Fairgrounds Bldg. C, Iowa City, IA | 10th Annual Shepherd’s Market Iowa |
| 23-26 | Business Design Centre, London, England, UK | The Stitch Festival: The Ultimate Day Out for Craft Lovers |
| 23-26 | Online | The Knit School Virtual Retreat |
| 24-25 | Dickson County Fairground, Dickson, TN | 14th Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival |
| 24-25 | Cloverdale Agriplex, Surrey, BC, Canada | 12th Annual Fibres West |
| 24-25 | Online | Rowan Connect |
| 24-26 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Workshop: Closed Celtic Cables |
| 24-26 | Inn at East Hill Farm, Troy, NH | Knitting and Spinning Retreat |
| 25 | Island Farm, Roanoke Island, NC | Sheep Shearing |
| 25 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK | Scottish Wool Producers Show |
| 25 | Winterset Middle School Gym, Winterset, IA | 11th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| 25 | Junior Fair Building, Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH | 35th Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair |
| 25 | Old McCaskill’s Farm, Rembert, SC | Spring Shearing Day |
| 25-26 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 19th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show |
| 25-26 | Cape Ann Motor Inn, Gloucester, MA | 22nd Annual Cape Ann Knitting Retreat |
| 25-26 | Bergerie Nationale farm, Rambouillet, France | Fête de la tonte et de la laine [Shearing and Wool Festival] |
| 25-26 | Petty Thieves Brewery, Charlotte, NC | Craft Fest: Charlotte Region Arts, Fibers, and Textiles |
| 26 | Blackfriars Priory School, Prospect, South Australia | Fibre Feast SA: South Australia’s Premier Fibre & Yarn Craft Event |
| 26 | Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT | The Art of Shearing – A Sheep to Shawl Festival |
| 26 | Online | Knit for Food Knit-a-thom 2023 |
| ** 28 | MA. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, MA | Woolapalooza |
| 30-April 2 | Mountain View Grand Resort, Whitefield, NH | Knit New Hampshire with Sivia Harding |
| 30-April 2 | Highland Lodge, Greensboro, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| 31-April 2 | Indian Bear Lodge & Winery, Walhonding, OH | 6th Annual Spring StitchEscape [sold out] |
| 31-April 2 | Online | Stitches Expo at Home |
| 31-April 2 | American Royal Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO | Midwest Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Invitational Alpaca Show |
| 31-April 2 | Plumbers Hall, Chicago, IL | YarnCon: Chicago’s 14th Annual Indie Fiber Fair |
| 31-April 2 | Koelnmesse Exhibit Center, Cologne, Germany | h+h International Trade Fair for Creative Handicraft & Hobby Supplies |
April
May
June
| 2-3 | Higgins Fairgrounds, Sparta, NC | 5th Annual Blue Ridge Fiber Fest |
| 2-3 | Johnson County 4-H Fairgrounds, Franklin, IN | Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival |
| 2-4 | Ontario, Canada | 59th Annual Ontario Handspinning Seminar |
| 3 | Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds, England, UK | 9th Annual Leeds Wool Festival |
| 3 | Auglaize Village, Defiance, OH | Fiberpalooza Festival |
| 3-4 | Vilar Seminary, Porto, Portugal | 4th Annual Knit with Friends Knitting Festival |
| 3-4 | Boyne Mountain Complex, Civic Center, Boyne Falls, MI | Tip of the Mitt Fiber Fair |
| 3-4 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, WA | 11th Annual Fiber Fusion Northwest |
| 3-4 | Arizona Historical Society Pioneer Museum, Flagstoff, AZ | 9th Annual Flag Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 3-4 | Windsor Fairgrounds, Windsor, ME | 21th Annual Maine Fiber Frolic |
| 3-4 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM | 18th Annual Santa Fe Spring & Fiber Festival |
| 4-6 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | North Light Fibers Retreat: Complete Yoke Sweater Workshop with Kristin Drysdale |
| 5-12 | Faroe Islands | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina I Geil |
| 6-8 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | North Light Fibers Retreat: Complete Yoke Sweater Workshop with Kristin Drysdale |
| 7-10 | St. Andrews-Sewanee School, Sewanee, TN | 5th Annual Shakerag Knitting Getaway with Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Day Knitting |
| 7-11 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Knit 1 Summer Knitting Retreat |
| 7-11 | Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Sacred Makers Soul Retreat |
| 8-10 | Northern Indiana Event Center, Elkhart, IN | Elkhart County Quilt & Fiber Expo |
| 9-11 | Blönduós School & Sports Center, Blönduós, Iceland | Prjónagleðin: 7th Annual Iceland Knit Fest |
| 9-11 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 9-17 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands & Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 10 | Burgess Hall, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival |
| 10 | Fenelon Falls Community Centre, Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada | Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival |
| 10 | Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK | 11th Annual Thread: A Festival of Textiles |
| 10 | Canal Market District, Newark, OH | Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair |
| 10 | Brewlando, Orlando, FL | Yarn Lounge |
| 10 | Varies | World Wide Knit in Public Day |
| 10-11 | Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, Estes Park, CO | 31th Annual Estes Park Wool Market |
| 10-11 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | 13th Annual Central New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 10-11 | Dilham, Norfolk, England, UK | 6th Annual Woolly Weekend | Worstead Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| ** 10-12 | Bårdshaug Guest House and Farm, Orkanger, Norway | 5th Annual Central Norwegian Culture and Knitting Festival |
| 10-17 | Château de Parançay, Bernay-Saint-Martin, France | Knit Pause Spring Retreat |
| 10-18 | Ireland | Knit in the Pit in Ireland |
| 11 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | New York State Fiber Conference |
| 11-13 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | North Light Fibers Retreat: Shawl Design Immersion with Bristol Ivy |
| 11-19 | Republic of Ireland | Yarn Lovers Knitting Tour |
| 11-July 2 | Polar Ice Caps | Polar Ice Caps Knitting Cruise with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 12-15 | Ranches at Belt Creek, MT | Big Sky Country Retreat with Farmer’s Daughter Fibers |
| 14-18 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Mim Bird |
| 15-17 | Shepherd’s Cross, Claremore, OK | Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreat |
| 15-18 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | KnitWit at the Shores: A Knitting Retreat in Maine |
| 16-17 | Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ | 27th Annual Sheep Is Life Celebration |
| 16-18 | John Arbon Textiles, South Molton, England, UK | John Arbon Textiles Mill Open Weekend |
| ** 16-19 | Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland | Woollinn: Ireland’s Festival of Yarn |
| 16-22 | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada | Fibre Week |
| 17 | Central Maryland | Fiber Art Studio Tour |
| 17 | Gurteen Agricultural College, Ballingarry, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Ireland | Sheep 2023 |
| 17-18 | Sønderborg, Denmark | Sønderborg Knitting Festival (Sønderborg Strickfestival] |
| 17-24 | Shetland | Shetland With Knitting Crafts and History with Tove Fevang |
| 17-24 | Iceland | Knitting and Riding an Icelandic Horse |
| ** 18-19 | FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield, England, UK | The Wool Monty |
| ** 18-Aug. 20 | Hudson Valley, NY | 5th Annual Hudson Valley Yarn Crawl |
| 20-26 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Penoobscot Bay, ME | Sail & Knit in Maine |
| 20-27 | Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada | Felted Garment Workshop with Laurie Steffler |
| 21 | Doubletree Hotel, Rochester, MN | Zombie Knitapocalypse: An Urban Knitting Retreat |
| 21-23 | Donald E. Stephens Convention & Conference Center, Rosemont, IL | h+h Americas: For Handmade Business, Uniting the Soft Crafts Industries in North America |
| 21-26 | Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson |
| 22-25 | Royal Highland Show, Ingliston, Newbridge, Scotland, UK | Golden Shears World Sheep Shearing & Woolhandling Championships |
| 22-25 | Middleburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa | Karoo Winter Wool Festival |
| 22-26 | Maine | Maine Sailing & Knitting Retreat |
| 23-25 | Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR | 46th Annual Black Sheep Gathering |
| 23-25 | The Berry Center, Cypress, TX | Houston Fiber Fest |
| 23-26 | Red Centre, Alice Springs, Australia | 26th Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival |
| 23-26 | Bedford, PA | Knitting Retreat |
| 24-25 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Paca-Tent Ladies Fiber Event |
| 24-25 | 336 Rural Auction Centre, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England, UK | Cumbrian Wool Gathering |
| 25-30 | Ireland | Knit and Crochet in the West of Ireland with Carol Meldrum |
| 27-July 3 | Billströmska Folk High School, Tjörn, Sweden | Nordic Knitting Symposium (Nordisk Strikkesymposium) |
| 27-July 4 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting Under the Midnight Sun |
| 28-July 3 | Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson |
| 30-July 2 | Kemmerer Events Center, Kemmerer, WY | Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival |
July
| 1 | Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ | Capital Fibre Fest |
| 1-2 | Elbeuf en Bray, Normandy, France | 3rd Annual Thread of Sleeve Festival {Festival Le fil de la manche} |
| 4-10 | Finland | Knit & Crochet in Finland with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 6-9 | Toivola Old Courtyard, Jyväskylä, Finland | Jyväskylä Knit Fest |
| 6-10 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 1 & 2 |
| 6-13 | Four Views Hotel Baia, Funchal, Madeira | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy of Attic24 |
| 8-9 | Cowan Civic Center, Lebanon, MO | 14th Annual Fiber U |
| 9-12 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Summer Workshop: Double Knitting |
| 9-15 | University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy’s Vilma Building, Viljandi, Estonia | Estonian Craft Camp: Traditional Craft Workshops |
| 9-17 | Scotland | Scotland Knitting Trail with Highlands Knitting Tour |
| 9-20 | Online | Summer Fiberside Yarn Crawl |
| 10-19 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| 11-19 | Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania | Baltic Cities Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 12-19 | Hotel Narsarsuaq, Narsarsuaq, Greenland | North Atlantic Native Sheep & Wool Conference |
| 12-26 | Norway | Midnight Sun Knitting Knitting Cruise with Martina Behm |
| 13-17 | Lindisfarne Community Centre, Invercargill, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society Festival |
| 13-17 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 2.75 |
| 13-18 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird |
| 13-21 | Australia | Victorian Sheep & Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| 14-16 | Camp Asbury, Silver Lake, NY | Tina Turner Knits Retreat |
| 14=16 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 143rd Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| 14-16 | 4-star Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club. Daventry, England, UK | Beginners Crochet Weekend with Emma Leith |
| 14-16 | Sonoma County, CA | Wine Country Yarn Hop |
| 14-16 | Online | Virtual Knitting Tour to the Baltics |
| ** 14-17 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 15 | Woodstock Community Church, Woodstock, GA | North Georgia Knitting Guild Beat the Heat Retreat |
| 15-16 | Copper K Barn, 8 miles south of Whitehall, MT | 7th Annual Copper K Fiber Festival |
| 16-19 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Summer Retreat: Learn Stranded/Fair Isle Knitting |
| 17-24 | Faroe Islands | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina I Geil |
| 17-24 | Hope Scott Wing at Abbotsford, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland | Dyeing to Stitch in the Scottish Borders |
| 19-21 | Colorado Rockies | Summer Hiking & Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 19-23 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 20-24 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 3 |
| 20-29 | Michigan | 2nd Annual Middle of the Mitten Yarn Crawl |
| 20-30 | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | Jumpers & Jazz in July: Yarnbombing & Jazz Winter Festival |
| 21-23 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Crochet & Yoga with Jane Crowfoot |
| 21-23 | Finnegan’s Run, Fredericksburg, VA | Finnegan’s Run Knitting Retreat |
| 21-23 | Finnigan’s Run, Fredericksburg, VA | 2nd Annual Finnigan’s Run Knitting Retreat |
| 21-29 | Arkansas | 7th Annual Arkansas Yarn Crawl |
| 21-30 | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, VA | 73rd Annual Virginia Highlands Festival |
| 21-30 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 3erd Annual Great Northern Arts Festival |
| 22-23 | Ridgway, CO | 9th Annual Sneffels Fiber Arts Festival |
| 22-30 | Chicago, IL | 14th Annual Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| 23 | Maine | Maine Open Farm Day (farms offer fibers/yarn) |
| ** 23 | Lopez Island Historical Museum, Lopez Island, WA | 2nd Annual Kids’ Fiber and Wool Fest |
| 23-28 | Ireland | Knit and Crochet in the West of Ireland with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 24-30 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 26=Aug. 2 | North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK | North Ronaldsay 7th Annual SheepFest |
| 28-29 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 17th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| 28-30 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Tapestry Crochet Weekend with Carol Meldrum |
| 28-30 | Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT | Junction Fiber Mill Yarn Retreat |
| 28-30 | Delaware River Club, Starlight, PA | Fiber Center in the Catskills Retreat |
| 28-30 | Prairie City, OR | 5th Annual Prairie City Fiber Fest |
| 28-31 | Sequim, WA | Salish Sea & Sky Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 28-Aug. 6 | Greater Pittsburgh region, PA | 10th Annual Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
| 29-30 | Redborne School, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, UK | Summer Wool Festival |
| 29-Aug.12 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
| 31-Aug. 2 | San Juan Islands, Washington | Nautical Knitting with Northwest Yarns & Michele Lee Berstein |
August
| 1-5 | Lancaster, PA | Yarn Fest Lancaster |
| 1-6 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | 75th Annual McHenry County Fair, featuring the Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 1-7 | Finland | Knit & Crochet in Finland with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 2-5 | Ranches at Belt Creek, MT | Big Sky Country Retreat with Farmer’s Daughter Fibers |
| 3-6 | Minneapolis, MN | Stitches Boutique |
| 3-6 | Chapel Rock Camp & Conference Center, Prescott, AZ | 8th Annual Grandma’s Sheep Thrills Retreat |
| 4-5 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House |
| 4-6 | Camp Jonah, Trout Lake, WA | Trout Lake Fair: Celebrating the Fiber Arts |
| 5-6 | Hangar 30 at Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA | Flock Fiber Festival |
| 5-6 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka |
| 5-6 | Hartl Building, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| 7-10 | Wellspring Spa and Woodland Retreat, Ashford, WA | Indie Untangled Mount Rainer First Retreat with Lindsay Fowler |
| 7-14 | Faroe Islands | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina I Geil |
| 7-19 | New Haven, CT to Putney, VT | 13th Annual I-91 Shop Hop |
| 9-23 | British Isles | British Isles Knitting Cruise |
| 10-12 | Shepherd’s Cross, Claremore, OK | Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreat |
| 10-14 | Amherst, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada | 14th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival |
| 11-12 | Oasis Shriner Auditorium, Charlotte, NC | 3rd Annual Southern Comforts Fiber Market |
| 11-13 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 11th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| 11-19 | Indiana/Illinois border | P.U.R.L. (Peace-Unity-Respect-Love) Indiana Yarn Crawl |
| 12 | Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival: Great Big Crochet/Knit Meet Up |
| 12-13 | Newcastle Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK | North East Wool Show |
| 12-13 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival [Wool Festival] |
| ** 13-21 | Colorado Front Range | 8th Annual Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| 16-20 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Fiber Festival |
| 17-20 | Terrace Hotel, Lake Junaluska, NC | Knit Junaluska Summer |
| 17-20 | Camp Ida-Haven, McCall, ID | 2nd Annual Fiber.Love.Retreat. |
| 17-21 | Great George Hotel, Prince Edward Island, Canada | 2nd Annual Casapinka MKAL Retreat |
| 18-19 | Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center, San Angelo, TX | 50th Annual Texas Sheep and Goat Field Day & Expo |
| 18-20 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Knitting & Yoga with Carol Meldrum |
| 18-20 | Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY | Knit Along Club Retreat |
| 19 | Hulme Hall, Bebington, Wirral, England, UK | 9th Annual Pop Up Wool Show |
| 20 | Fernword Community Center, Victoria, BC, Canada | 12th Annual Fibrations! |
| 20-23 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Summer Workshop: All About Short Rows |
| 20-26 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting Between Fire and Ice |
| 20-27 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Contemporary Crafts |
| 24-26 | Doubletree Hotel, Green Tree, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival |
| 24-27 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights Retreat |
| ** 25-27 | Textile Center Annex (Unit #230) at the Art & Architecture building, Minneapolis, MN | Textile Center Garage Sale Occasional Shop |
| 25-28 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 25-Sept. 3 | Greater Southeast Texas | 5th Annual Texas Yarn Trail: A Texas Yarn Crawl |
| 26 | Barrie Curling Club, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | 5th Annual Fibre Spirit |
| 26-Sept. 4 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 26-Sept. 9 | Norway, Iceland, Scotland | The Ultimate Knitting Cruise with Laura Nelkin |
| 27 | Connaught Youth Centre, Prince George, BC, Canada | 6th Annual Great Northwest Fibre Fest |
| 27-Sept. 3 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Fair Isle Week [sold out] |
| 30-Sept. 4 | Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson |
| 30-Sept. 6 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Knitting in Shetland |
| 31-Sept. 3 | Dumas Bay Center, Federal Way, WA | Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 31-Sept. 4 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
| 31-Sept. 14 | Peru | Knitting Traditions and Cultures of Peru |
September
| 1-3 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Crochet & Pilates with Rosalind Hoyes and Emma Leith |
| 1-4 | New Orleans, LA | Knitopia New Orleans with Franklin Habit, Bristol Ivy & Safiyyah Talley |
| ** 1-6 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat |
| 1-8 | Clarion Collection Hotel, Havnekontoret, Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Frederica Patmore |
| 1-9 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands & Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 2 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel Fiber Fest |
| 2-3 | Double G Alpacas, Sierra Vista, AZ | Sierra Vista Fiber Festival |
| 2-3 | Newbury Racecourse, Newbury, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 2-3 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 10th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering |
| 2-9 | Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 2-9 | Alaska | Scenic Knitting Cruise of Alaska with host Carla Scott |
| 2-14 | British Isles | Friends & Fiberworks British Isles Cruise |
| ** 3-4 | Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT | Green Mountain Spinnery’s 2nd Annual Fiber Pop-Up |
| 3-9 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| 3-9 | Iceland | Knitting in Iceland with Hélène Magnússon |
| 3-10 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Lace Week |
| 4 | Reed’s Point, MT | 38th Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| 4-22 | France | La Belle France with Shirl the Purl |
| 6-10 | Almonte Community Centre and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada | 28th Annual Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| 6-11 | Peppermill Resort, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Biggest Little Getaway |
| 6-13 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Knitting in Shetland |
| 7-10 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME | Knit Maine with Casey Ryder, Amy Snell, Jimenez Joseph & Xandy Peters |
| 7-10 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| 7-10, 14-17 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Fiber College |
| 7-19 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky Tour |
| 7-25 | Scotland | Scotland Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| ** 8-9 | North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, Denmark | Knitting Festival |
| 8-9 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 10th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| 8-10 | Caldas da Rainha, Portugal | À Procura do Novelo [Knitting & Crochet Festival] |
| 8-10 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 8-10 | The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, UK | 43rd Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| 8-10 | Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 8-17 | Iceland | Wool & Wonders of Iceland |
| 9 | Park Rapids Farmers Market, Park Rapids, MN | 9th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Harford Fairground, Harford, PA | 20th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Hunterdon County 4H Fairgrounds, Ringoes, NJ | 28th Annual New Jersey Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK & Online | Perth Festival of Yarn |
| 9-10 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 10th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 31th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| 10 | Wyong Race Club and Function Centre, Wyong NSW, Australia | Knitters’ Guilde NSW Fibrefest |
| 10-14 | Relais Villa D’Amelia, Benevello, Langhe area, Italy | mYak Fall Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg |
| 10-17 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Fair Isle Week Week [sold out] |
| ** 10-18 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 13th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| 11-14 | Minerals Resort and Spa, Hamburg, NJ | AffiKNITy Retreat with Patty Lyons, Kate Atherley, Julia Farwell-Clay & Safiyyah Talley |
| 12-19 | Four Views Hotel Baia, Funchal, Madeira | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy of Attic24 |
| 13-16 | North Shore Recreation Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 5th Annual WoolstockEAST: Fibre Village and Marketplace |
| 13-19 | Orkney, Scotland, UK | Knitting in Orkney |
| 13-24 | Canadian Maritimes | Knitting in the Canadian Maritimes |
| 14-17 | Kansas City, MO | Kansas City Yarn Crawl |
| 14-17 | Vernonia Springs, Vernonia, OR | Starlight Knitting Society’s 6th Annual Camp Starlight |
| 14-17 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 18th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest |
| 14-21 | Iceland | Authentic Iceland Hiking and Knitting |
| 15-17 | BAZA Tent, Nordby, Denmark | Nordby Wooldays Fanø |
| 15-17 | Codington County Extension Complex, Watertown, SD | 31st Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 16 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | 6th Annual Prairie Fibre Festival |
| 16 | East Aurora Rink, East Aurora, NY | 18th Annual Western New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 16 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| 16-17 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 27th Annual Wool Gathering |
| 16-17 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | 12th Annual Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| ** 16-18 | Fredrikstad Old Town, Fredrikstad, Norway | Strikkefestvalen/Knitting Festival in Fredrikstad |
| 16-20 | Windjammer Angelique, Maine | Sail and Knit with Casapinka |
| ** 17-18 | Hemlock Fairgrounds, Hemlock, NY | 28th Annual Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 18-19 | River Bend Hotel & Casino, Wyandotte, OK | 10th Annual Fiber Daze |
| ** 18-21 | Beaver Meadows Resort Ranch, Red Feather Lakes, CO | 8th Annual Wild West Knitting Retreat |
| 18-27 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| ** 20-22 | Rockland, ME | 7th Annual Maine Spinners’ Registry Fiber Retreat |
| 20-22 | Colorado Rockies | Autumn Ranch Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 20-28 | Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting in Yorkshire |
| 21-24 | Nevada and California | 5th Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| 21-24 | Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Greenwich, NY | NorthEast Men’s Fall Fiber Retreat – Upstate NY |
| 21-24 | Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Monticello, IL | 4th Annual Knitting at the Estate Retreat with Laura Nelkin & Jennifer Davies |
| 21-24 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 21st Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| 21-24 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 7th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 22-23 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration at the Fall Harvest Festival |
| 22-24 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Tunisian Crochet Weekend with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 22-24 | Clark County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 17th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| 22-24 | Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West, Plymouth, MN | 36th Annual MN Knitters’ Guild Yarnover |
| 22-24 | PNE Forum, East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Knit City Vancouver |
| 22-24 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| 22-24 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 23rd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 23 | Essex County Fairgrounds, Westport, NY | Adirondack Harvest Festival: Focus on Fiber & Wool |
| 23-24 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 11th Annual Yarndale |
| ** 23-25 | St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, CA | Knitting Guild of Santa Cruz Fall Retreat |
| 23-30 | Charlotte, NC | Charlotte Area Yarn Crawl |
| 23-Oct. 1 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | 14th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| 23-24 | Varies | 17th Annual National Alpaca Farm Days |
| 23-24 | Aplex Events Complex, Alpena, MI | Northern Michigan Fiber Festival, Where Yarn and Friends Find Inspiration |
| 23-24 | Espace Tête d’Or-Congress Centre, Lyon, France | 4th Annual Knit Eat & Co. Festival |
| 23-24 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| ** 24 | Draper Merc Farms, Draper, VA | 2nd Annual G.O.A.T. Sheep & Goat Festival |
| 24 | Southwark Bridge, City of London, England, UK | 11th Annual Sheep Drive and Livery Fair |
| ** 24-25 | Nome Schoolhouse, Nome, ND | Nomecoming Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 24-27 | Cross Roads Retreat Center, Caldwell, TX | Stitches, S’mores and More – A Texas Knit Retreat |
| 24-30 | Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| ** 25 | Freeville Farmers Market, Freeville, NY | Freeville Fiber Fest |
| 25-Oct. 4 | New York City, NY to Quebec, Canada | Stitch Cruise |
| 25-Oct. 4 | Norway | Knitting Expedition in Norway with Lorilee Beltman & Jim West |
| ** 27-Oct. 2 | Abiquiu and Taos, NM | Fiber Trails of the Upper Rio Grande |
| 28-29 | Al Bedoo Shrine, Billings, MT | 5th Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| 28-Oct. 1 | Catawba River Inn, Linville Falls, NC | Knitescape |
| 29-30 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 38th Annual Knitter’s Day Out |
| 29-30 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 5th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 29-30 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 5th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 29-Oct. 1 | Textile Industry Museum and Mill, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 5th Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| ** 29-Oct. 2 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 30 | Joe Stephenson Park, Bayfield, CO | 24th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Vern Burton Community Center, Port Angeles, WA | Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition: A Gathering of Fiber Arts |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Turnbridge, VT | 35th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 36th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| 30-Oct. 8 | Iceland | Autumn Knitting Retreat in Icelandic Nature |
October
| ** 1 | Studentski Centar, Zagreb, Croatia | Zagreb Yarn Craft Fest |
| 1 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 27th Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| ** 1-2 | Vienna, Austria | 5th Annual Vienna Woll-und Stofffest [Vienna Wool & Fabric Festival] |
| 1-8 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| ** 1-8 | Online | 4th Annual Spin Together |
| 1-9 | New Hampshire | Fabulous Fiber & Foliage in New Hampshire |
| ** 3 | Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods, Bethel, NY | Catskills Fiber Festival |
| 4-8 | Wales | Welsh Knitting Retreat |
| 4-8 | Wood River Valley, ID | 27th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 5-7 | Various locations, Hailey, ID | Wool Fest at Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 5-8 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Canada | Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival |
| 5-8 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The 31st Annual Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 5-8 | Kelly House, Tavistock, Devon, England, UK | Kelly House Woolly Weekend |
| 6-8 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 7 | Worthington Park, Quilcene, WA | 2nd Annual Quilcene Fiber Festival: From Sheep to Shawl |
| 7 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 7 | Liskeard Public Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK | 3 Bags Full 8th Annual Wool Market |
| 7 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 11th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| 7-8 | James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA | 35th Annual Fall Fiber Festival & Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 7-8 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 9th Annual American Craft Weekend |
| 7-8 | Dixon May Fairgrounds, Dixon, CA | 37th Annual Lambtown Festival |
| 7-8 | Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, Santa Fe, NM | 40th Annual Mountain and Valley Wool Festival |
| 7-8 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 7-8 | Back roads of NH | 40th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| ** 7-9 | Dunwoody Parks North Shallowford Annex, Dunwoody, GA | Atlanta Knitting Guild Superstar Weekend |
| ** 7-9 | Madison, WI | 6th Annual Madtown Yarn Shop Hop |
| ** 7-12 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Fall Fiber School (Yarn + Felt + Dye) |
| ** 7-16 | Hill Country, TX | 16th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas: Hill Country Yarn Crawl |
| 7-16 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| ** 8 | Nova Scotia | I Love Yarn Day (Crawl) in Northern Nova Scotia |
| ** 8 | Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Bozeman, MT | Montana Fibershed’s Farm-to-Fashion |
| ** 8 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 17th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 8 | Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA | Fall Federation Meeting of the Iowa Federation of Handweavers & Spinners with Martina Celerin |
| ** 8-9 | Clark County Event Center, Ridegefield, WA | 22nd Annual Alpacapalooza |
| ** 8-9 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center at the Old Art Building, Leland, MI | 21th Annual Leland Fiber Festival: Focus on Fiber |
| ** 8-11 | New York, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 9 | Maine | Real Maine Fiber Tour and Trail |
| ** 9 | Nova Place, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin: A Pittsburgh Indie Fiber Arts Marketplace |
| ** 9-20 | Australia | Australia Knitting Tour: Wool, Wine & Wildlife |
| 10-17 | Ireland | Knitting in County Kerry with Julie Debreux |
| 10-Dec. 17 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada | World of Threads Festival: Contemporary Fibre Art |
| 13-14 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| 13-15 | Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT | Junction Fiber Mill Yarn Retreat |
| 13-17 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| 14 | Paris Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 14th Annual Woodstock ON |
| 14-15 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre & the Peak District, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| 14-15 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 6th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 14-15 | Linn County Expo Center, Albany, OR | 26th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| ** 15 | Summit Sports and Ice Complex, Dimondale, MI | 26th Annual Michigan International Alpaca Fest |
| 15-22 | Ireland | Country Manor Knitting Retreat with Edel MacBride |
| 15-23 | Scotland | Scotland Knitting Trail with Highlands Knitting Tour |
| 18-24 | Iceland | Knitting on Ice |
| ** 19-23 | Central Kansas | 15th Annual Central Kansas Yarn Hop |
| 19-26 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| 20 | HITS on the Hudson, Saugerties, NY | 9th Annual Indie Untangled – Rhinebeck |
| ** 20 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Fall Fiber Frolic |
| 20 | Stone Ridge Orchards, Stone Ridge, NY | Wool & Folk: Fiber and Music Festival |
| 20-21 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| 20-22 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Colourful Crochet Flowers Weekend with Emma Leith |
| 20-22 | The Trades Hall, Glasgow, Scotland | Glasgow School of Yarn |
| 20-22 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| 20-22 | Boulder Hot Springs Lodge, Boulder, MT | Yarn & Yoga at the Hotsprings |
| 20-23 | Bedford, PA | Socktoberfest |
| 21 | Isanti County Fairgrounds, Cambridge MN | Minnesota Fiber Festival |
| 21 | Memory Lane Heritage Village, Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia, Canada | 3rd Annual Memory Lane Fibre Arts Festival |
| 21-22 | Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, OH | 10th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| ** 21-22 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival & Retreat |
| ** 21-22 | Oakes, ND | North Dakota Handspinners Conference |
| 21-22 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | 43rd Annual New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 20-22 | Clarion Hotel Stavanger, Stavanger Hall, Stavanger, Norway | Stavanger Knitting Festival |
| 21 | Genesis Centre, Alberta, Canada | The Fibre Shindig – Calgary’s Funky Fibre Fest! |
| 21-28 | Château de Parançay, Bernay-Saint-Martin, France | Knit Pause Fall Retreat |
| ** 22 | King Manor Museum, Queens, NY | Queens Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 22 | The HUB at Cowichan Station, Cobble Hill, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| 22 | Madrid, Spain | Transhumance Festival: Sheep, Goats Cross Downtown Madrid |
| ** 22-23 | Insole Court, Cardiff, Wales, UK | Knit-Tea Retreat |
| 23 | Windswept Acres Sheep Farm, Pittstown, NJ | Fall Fleece & Fiber Sale |
| 26-28 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 26-29 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Knitting Traditions Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: The Cowichan-Inspired Cardigan |
| 26-Nov. 2 | Scotland | Knitting in the Scottish Highlands with Carol Meldrum |
| 27-29 | Hill Country Youth Event Center, Kerrville, TX | Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| 27-29 | Felletin, France | 23rd edition of National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| 28 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Fall Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 28 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| 28-29 | Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | Kendal Wool Gathering |
| 28-31 | Ranches at Belt Creek, MT | Big Sky Country Retreat with Farmer’s Daughter Fibers |
| 28-Nov. 5 | South Island, New Zealand | Yarn Craft Inaugural Tour |
| ** 29 | Lane-Agripark, Murfreesboro, TN | 11th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| 29-Oct. 8 | Bergen, Norway | Ulveka [Wool Week]: A Celebration of Norwegian Wool |
| 29-Nov. 3 | Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO | Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) |
| 29-Nov. 4 | Asheville, NC | Asheville Through the Maker’s Lens |
| 29-Nov. 7 | Estonia & Latvia | Baltic Knitting Tour |
November
| 1-5 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | KK2Tog Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 1-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Fall Fiber Frolic [sold out] |
| 2-5 | Quechee Inn at Marshland Falls, Quechee, VT | Knit Vermont with Tanis Gray |
| 2-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Sun Valley Fibers Fall Fiber Frolic Retreat with Kate Oates |
| 2-5 | Kemper Campbell Ranch, Victorville, CA | Griffin Dyeworks 18th Annual Retreat |
| 2-5 | Pretty Lake Camp, Mattawan, MI | Great Lakes Men’s Fiber Retreat |
| 2-10 | Alentejo region, Portugal | Knitting with Cocoknits in Portugal |
| 3-4 | Meramec Baptist Conference Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| 3-5 | Ozark Retreat Center, Neosho, MO | Fiber Folks of SW MO Annual Guild Retreat |
| 3-5 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| 3-6 | Tanque Verde Ranch, Tucson, AZ | Casapinka Dude Ranch Retreat |
| 4 | Spring Mills YMCA, Spring Mills, PA | 4th Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
| 4 | Peace Hill Farm, Charles City, VA | Peace Hill Farm Fiber and Craft Festival |
| 4-5 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 12th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| 4-5 | Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK | 7th Annual Stitch Fest South West |
| 4-5 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 5th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Fall Fest |
| ** 4-7 | Ithaca Marriott Downtown on the Commons, Ithaca, NY | 5th Annual Knit Ithaca with Laura Nelkin |
| ** 5 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 8th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| 6-9 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Session 1, Shetlands |
| ** 9-16 | Online | Online International Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Cherry Creek Park, Canton, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| 10-12 | Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium | 6th Annual Ghent Handwerkbeurs [Handicraft Fair] |
| 10-13 | Barnsley Resort, Adairsville, GA | 2nd Annual Ewe Crew in the Woods Falloween Retreat |
| 11-12 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival |
| ** 12-13 | Online | The Big Wool Show |
| 12-18 | New Mexico | A Wool Lover’s Visit to New Mexico |
| ** 13-15 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| 13-16 | Online | Cambridge Yarn Winter Festival |
| 13-16 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Session 2, Shetlands |
| 16-19 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, England, UK | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 16-21 | Hotel Evenia Rosselló, Barcelona, Spain | Barcelona Knits Festival and Gaudi-Inspired workshops with expert Julie Dubreux |
| 16-22 | Barcelona, Spain | Knit Barcelona with Carol Feller |
| 17-19 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Broomstick Crochet Weekend with Carol Meldrum |
| 18 | Route 2, London, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival: Great Big London Yarn Crawl |
| 18-19 | World Trade Center, Barcelona, Spain | 6th Annual Barcelona Knits |
| ** 18-19 | Old Shawnee Town Hall, Shawnee, KS | 38th Annual Creative Hand Show and Sale sponsored by the Weavers Guild and the Fiber Guild of Kansas City |
| 18-19 | Franklin Jr High, Des Mointes, IA | Threads and Fiber Festival |
| 18-19 | Leesport Farmer’s Market, Leesport, PA | Pennsylvania Fall Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 18-20 | New Mexico Fiber Arts Center, Española, NM | 10th Annual Fall Fiber Fiesta |
| 24-26 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Northamptonshire, Daventry, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Knitting & Pilates with Rosalind Hoyes & Anna Nikipirowicz. |
| 26 | Sanburn Hall, York, England, UK | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 26-Dec. 2 | Estonia & Latvia | Baltic Cities Christmas Markets Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum |
December
| 1-3 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Holiday Studio Tours |
| 1-9 | Switzerland, Germany & France | The Christmas Markets of Switzerland, the Black Forest & Alsace |
| 1-12 | Rhine River | Christmas Markets Knitting Cruise on the Rhine |
| 3-11 | Norway | Northern Lights Knitting Cruise with Anna Nikipirozwicz |
| 9-10 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
| 15-17 | Staverton Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Crochet Socks Weekend with Anna Nikipirowicz |
Fiber Tours and Other Year Round Events
Seasonal |
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| May 15-Oct. 31 | New York State | NY Fiber Trail |
| May 27-Sept. 2 | Wyoming | 6th Annual Cowboy Yarn Crawl |
| ** June 11-Sept. 6 | Ontario, Canada | Cottage Country Yarn Crawl |
| ** June 18-Aug. 20 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Crawl |
| July 1-Oct. 9 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl in Vacationland |
Year Round |
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| Year round | Kentucky | Kentucky Fiber Trail |
| Year round | Madison, WI | Madison Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Baraboo-Lodi-Sauk Prairie-Portage, WI | Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Little Falls–Randall–Brainerd–Staples–Wadena–New York Mills, MN | Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Bemidji–Solway–Turtle River–Tenstrike, MN | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Bergen, Norway | The Wool Heritage Route |
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