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Items marked ** are not yet confirmed for 2021.
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Enjoy these year-round or seasonal fiber tours and yarn crawls.
2021
January
| 8-9 | Online | 17th Annual Distaff Day |
| 11-14 | Viña Lestonnac Retreat Center, Temecula, CA | San Diego North Coast Knitters Guild Winter Retreat |
| 14-17 | Kanuga Conferences, Hendersonville, NC | Knitting & Quilting Retreat |
| 14-17 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 17 | Online | 8th Annual Waltham Abbey Wool Show at Home |
| 17-30 | Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia Knitting Cruise with JC Briar |
| 20-24 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 8th Annual January Thaw Retreat with Amy Detjen and Marie Greene |
| 21-24 | Powerhouse Community Arts Center & Pavilion, Oxford, MS | 11th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival |
| 23 | Online | Winter Woolfest Fiber Festival of Kansas – VirtuWool Edition |
| 30 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 30-Feb. 13 | China and Japan | China and Japan Knitting Cruise with JC Briar |
February
| 1-5 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 4-7 | Hilton Greenville, Greenville, SC | The Knit-Inn 2021 with Kathleen Dames |
| 5-7 | Online | Knit City Virtual |
| 5-7 | Seyon Lodge, Seyon Lodge State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| 8-12 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway |
| 8-15 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 11th Annual Fiber Week |
| 11-14 | Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA | Red Alder Fiber Arts Retrat [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| 11-14 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 12-14 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK | 13th Annual Unravel, A Festival of Knitting |
| ** 15 | Lammers Town Hall, Solway, MN | 6th Annual Small Scale Sustainable Sheep Event |
| 18-21 | Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA | Stitches West |
| ** 21-Mar. 1 | Tampa Bay, FL | Bay Area Knitting Guild Yarn Crawl |
| 21-27 | Online | Fiber Art for All: A Festive Week Celebration |
| 25-28 | Business Design Centre, London, England, UK | The Stitch Festival: The Ultimate Day Out for Craft Lovers |
| 26-28 | Inn at East Hill Farm, Troy, NH | Knitting and Spinning Retreat |
| 26-March 7 | Indiana | Roving Indiana Yarn Crawl: Renewal |
| 26-March 8 | Caribbean | Trendsetter Knitting Group Caribbean Cruise with Friends & Fiberworks and Barry Klein |
| 27 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 27-28 | Schulstraße 13, 74572 Blaufelden, Germany | 3rd Annual Hohenloher Woolfest |
March
| 5-7 | Dunedin Centre, Dunedin, New Zealand | 10th Annual Unwind Fibrecraft Retreat |
| 1-5 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway |
| 4-14 | Portland, OR | 12th Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 5-8 | Lakeway Resort & Spa, Lakeway, TX | 7th Annual Knitting in the Hills Retreat with Caitlin Hunter, Romi Hill, Julie Hoover and Lesley Anne Robinson |
| 5-6 | Mansfield Park, Bandera, TX | Bandera Fiber & Art Festival |
| ** 5-8 | Long Island, NY | 6th Annual Long Island Yarn Crawl |
| 6-7 | Hotel Nh Ventas, Madrid, Spain | Madrid Yarn Fest |
| ** 6-14 | Central Florida, east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 8-21 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 12-13 | State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 15th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 12-14 | Kent Manor Inn, Stevensville, MD | Harry Potter Magical Knitting with Tanis Gray |
| ** 13-14 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 13-15 | Daaden im Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany | Hand Heart Soul Creative Weekend |
| ** 13-15 | Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 7th Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 14 | Westwood Farm, Kambah, Canberra, Australia | Capital Region Yarn & Fibre Showcase |
| ** 14-15 | Old Butler High School, Butler, MO | All Missouri Spin In |
| 15-19 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 18-21 | Paris Expo, Paris, France | Salon Aiguille en Fête [Thread and Needle Enthusiasts} |
| 19-20 | Field House, Langley Events Centre, Langley, BC, Canada | 13th Annual Fibres West |
| 19-21 | Brampton Inn, Chestertown, MD | Brioche Knitting with Heather Zoppetti |
| 19-21 | Online | Indie Untangled Across the Pond |
| ** 19-22 | Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association Camp Burton 27th Annual Spinners’ Retreat |
| ** 19-22 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| 20-21 | Online | Madison Knitters’ Guild Knit-In |
| ** 20-22 | Hotel de la Chaux d’Abel, La Chaux-d’Abel 88, 2333 La Ferriere, Switzerland | Swiss Jura Knit & Fibre Retreat |
| ** 20-23 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Judith MacKenzie and Debbi Stone |
| ** 20-29 | Baltimore & environs, MD | Charm City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21 | Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR | Abernethy Spring Fiber Sale |
| 21 | Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | Hamilton Fibre Market |
| ** 22 | Great Room, Savage Mill, Savage, MD | 13th Annual Homespun Yarn Party |
| 22-25 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Spring Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Gotland from All Angles |
| 24 | Winterset Middle School, Winterset, IA | 10th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| 26-28 | Skelton 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Wirtz, VA | Skein Away Fiber Retreat |
| 26-28 | Lake Logan Retreat Center, Lake Logan, NC | Spring Retreat at Lake Logan |
| ** 26-29 | Los Angeles County, CA | Los Angeles County Yarn Crawl |
| 27 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| ** 27-28 | Tradex, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada | Creativ Festival WEST |
| 27-28 | American Royal Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO | Midwest Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Invitational Alpaca Show |
| Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 17th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show | |
| 28 | Pudsey Civic Hall, West Yorkshire, England, UK | Leeds Machine Knitting Show |
| ** 28 | Junior Fair Building, Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH | 35th Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair |
| ** 28 | MA. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, MA | Woolapalooza |
April
| ** 2-5 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 14th Annual Minnesota Yarn Shop Hop [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 2-5 | Triangle area, NC | Triangle Yarn Crawl |
| 3 | Jane Addams Community Center, Cedarville, IL | 25th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair |
| 3-4 | L’Embarcadère, Lyon, France | Knit Eat Festival |
| ** 3-5 | Hampton Inn, Brattleboro, VT | Spring Knitters’ Weekend Retreat with Angela Tong |
| ** 4-5 | Merchants Square Mall, Allentown, PA | 5th Annual Allentown Fiber Festival |
| ** 4-5 | Clark County Event Center, Ridegefield, WA | 22nd Annual Alpacapalooza |
| ** 5 | West Park Leisure Centre, Long Eaton, Nottingham, England, UK | Nottingham Machine Knitting Show |
| 7-10 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Knit 1 Springtime Knitting Retreat |
| 9-11 | Online | Virtual Knit City Montreal |
| 9-11 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Spring Knitting Retreat |
| 9-12 | Online | Rochester Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Lorilee Beltman |
| 10 | Union Bluff Hotel, York Beach, ME | 8th Annual Fiber Marketplace and Retreat |
| 10-11 | Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, IL | YarnCon: Chicago’s 13th Annual Indie Fiber |
| 10-11 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Spring Fiber Expo |
| 10-11 | Grammar School, Harrogate Road, Leeds, England, UK | 5th Annual Spring into Wool: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 11-18 | Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas, Bahamas | 2nd Annual Wool and Fiber Expo Cruise |
| ** 14-18 | Westin at Crown Center, Kansas City, MO | 5th Annual PLY Away: A Spinning Retreat |
| 15-18 | Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA | Shepherd’s Extravaganza |
| 15-18 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 16-17 | Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN | 11th Annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival |
| 16-17 | Putnam County Fairgrounds, Greencastle, IN | The Fiber Event at Greencastle: Celebrating 29 Years of Fiber |
| ** 16-18 | University of Minnesota ReUse Warehouse, Minneapolis, MN | 20th Annual World’s Largest Textile Garage Sale |
| 16-18 | Maryland countryside | Countryside Artisans Spring Gallery Studio Tour |
| 17 | Varies | 4th Annual Local Yarn Store Day: A Day to Celebrate the Brick and Mortar Yarn Shop |
| 17 | Denmark Arts Center, Denmark, ME | Denmark Sheepfest [cancelled] |
| 17-18 | Millcreek Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT | Salt Lake Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Kate Atherley |
| ** 17-19 | Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Overland Park, KS | Knitting in the Heartland |
| 17-24 | California | California Coastal Knitting Cruise with Alissa Barton |
| 17-25 | New Jersey | New Jersey Wool Walk |
| 17-25 | Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn Yarn Crawl |
| ** 18 | Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY | Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase |
| 18-27 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands with Una McDonagh, Liz Spillane and Carol Feller |
| ** 19 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Spring Fiber Frolic |
| 19-24 | Online | 6th Annual Fiber Flurry Fiber Arts Festival |
| 21-24 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Purl 2 Springtime Knitting Retreat |
| ** 23-28 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Spring Fiber School (Dye, 23-26; Rigid Heddle, 27-28) [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| 23-May 2 | Wales | Woolen Wales |
| 24 | Online | Virtual John Arbon Textiles Mill Tour |
| 24 | North Haven Fairgrounds, North Haven, CT | 111th Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival |
| 24 | Gore Place, Waltham, MA | 34th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival |
| 24 | Village of Powhatan, Powhatan, VA | Powhatan’s Festival of Fiber |
| 24 | Delmont Fire Hall, Delmont, PA | Raggz Fiber Affair |
| 24-25 | Royal Welsh Show Ground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, UK | 15th Annual Wonderwool Wales: A Festival of Welsh Wool & Natural Fibers |
| 24-25 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 4th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 24-25 | Alliant Energy Center, New Holland Pavilion, Madison, WI | Wisconsin Alpaca and Fiber Fest & The Great Midwest Alpaca Festival |
| 24-25 | Washington County, NY | 28th Annual New York’s Washington County Fiber Tour |
| ** 24-26 | Educatorio del Fuligno, Florence, Italy | KN.IT |
| ** 24-26 | Gilmer County Civic Center, Ellijay, GA | Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 24-26 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Woolith Fair: A Greater Vancouver Yarn Crawl |
| ** 25 | Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Toronto Knitter’s Frolic |
| ** 25-26 | Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville, NY | CNY Fiber Frolic [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 26 | George Dawson Inn, Dawson Creek, BC, Canada | Peace Fibre Fest [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| 26-30 | Taranaki Diocesan School, Stratford, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society National Festival: Knitalong 2021 |
| 27 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 29-May 2 | Hotel UMass, Amherst, MA | WEBS Spring Knitting Retreat |
| 30-May 2 | Galiano Inn & Spa, Galiano Island, BC, Canada | Knit Social Retreat |
| 30-May 8 | Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge and Hazel Tindall |
May
| 1 | Online | Botanica: Global Natural Yarn Festival |
| 1-2 | Online | 48th Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 1-3 | Campbell River Community Centre, Campbell River, BC, Canada | Vancouver Island Fibre Fest |
| ** 1-3 | Hyatt Place Hotel, Amherst, NY | Knitting Guild of Great Buffalo Seminar Weekend with Kate Atherley |
| ** 1-8 | Online | Online International Fiber Festival |
| ** 1-3, 8-10, 15-17 | New Mexico | New Mexico Fiber Crawl |
| May 1-31 | From Fife down around and back up the west side of the Puget Sound, WA | Pacific Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| ** 2 | The Imperia, Somerset, NJ | 9th Annual New Jersey Needle Festival |
| 2-10 | Scotland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands with Di Gilpin, Donna from ERIBE, and Emily Wessel |
| 2-12 | West Country, England, UK | A Knitter’s Tour of British Breeds |
| ** 7-10 | North Carolina | Western North Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 8 | Online | Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair |
| 8-9 | Buxton Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK | Buxton Wool Gathering |
| 8-9 | Washington County Fair, Stillwater, MN | 23rd Annual Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 8-9 | Royal Cornwall Showground Exhibition Centre, Whitecross, Wadebridge, England, UK | Cornish Fibre Festival |
| 8-17 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour with Edel MacBridge, Ciara Ni Reachtnin and Aine Dunne |
| ** 9 | Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, OR | 35th Annual Sheep to Shawl Festival |
| ** 9 | Big Timber Civic Center, Big Timber, MT | Crazy Mountain Fiber Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, NH | 44th Annual New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Crossroads Market, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Calgary Spring Fibre Festival |
| 10-21 | Various venues, London, England, UK | London Craft Week |
| ** 11 | Lopez Center for Community & the Arts, Lopez Village, Lopez Island, San Juan Islands, WA | Lopez Lamb, Wool & Goat Festival |
| 12-23 | Northern Ireland, UK | Maggi’s Ireland Retreat |
| 13-16 | Niagara Crossing Hotel and Spa, Lewiston, NY | Knit Niagara Falls with Norah Gaughan |
| 14-16 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | Block Island Knitting Retreat with Cecelia Campochiaro & Olga Jazzy |
| 14-21 | Greece | Make. Walk. Explore Greece with Fiber Artist Susan Rock |
| 15-16 | Masterson State Park, Lexington, KY | 11th Annual Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 15-16 | Lycoming County Fairgrounds, Hughesville, PA | 8th Annual Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival |
| ** 15-17 | Camp Myrtlewood, Myrtle Point, OR | Annual Fiber in the Forest |
| ** 16-17 | Braintree Town Hall, Warner Textile Archive, Braintree District Museum, Braintree, England, UK | Braintree Textile Fair |
| ** 16-17 | Lower Drayton Farm, Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, UK | Wool @J13 |
| ** 16-17 | Green County Fairgrounds, Waynesburg, PA | 17th Annual Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| ** 16-17 | Hallockville Museum Farm, Riverhead, Long Island, NY | 11th Annual Long Island Fleece & Fiber Fair |
| ** 17 | The WaterShed, Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England, UK | Wild About Wool Pop-Up Yarn Market |
| ** 17 | Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Torrance, CA | Southern California Handweaver’s Guild Annual Weaving & Fiber Festival |
| ** 17-27 | Richmond to Virginia Beach, VA | James River Yarn Crawl |
| 18-19 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration! |
| 19-26 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour with André de Castro |
| 20-23 | Cobb Galleria Centre & Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, GA | Stitches United 2021 |
| 21-23 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | Block Island Knitting Retreat with Norah Gaughan & Sarah Solomon |
| 21-30 | Greece | Knit the Greek Isles Fantastic with Louis Boria (Brooklyn Boy Knits) and Gaye Glasspie (GGmadeit) |
| ** 22-23 | Dickson County Fairgrounds, Dickson, TN | 13th Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival |
| ** 23 | Picton Arena and Community Centre, Picton, Ontario, Canada | 4th Annual Prince Edward County FibreFest |
| ** 23 | Dingwall Mart, Dingwall, England, UK | Highland Wool & Textiles Spring Fair |
| ** 23-24 | Renaissance Hotel, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Spring Bus Tour (pickup/dropoff spots: Fremont or Sacramento, CA) |
| ** 23-24 | Herfordshire County Show, The Showground, Dunstable Road, Redbourn, Herts, England, UK | Festiwool to Pop-up @ the Herts County Show |
| ** 23-31 | Virginia | Virginia Knits Virginia Yarn Crawl |
| ** 25 | Lanchaster Community Free School, Watford, England, UK | Watford Festiwool |
| ** 26-27 | Lloyd Square, Nampa, ID | Fiber Train Wool Festival |
| 26-June 6 | Markree Castle, Clooneenroe, Collooney, Co. Sligo, Ireland | Maggie Knit’s Ireland |
| 27-31 | Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA | Sacramento County Fair Wool Show |
| 28-31 | Rock Point Cewnter, Burlington, VT | Unwind Retreat with Must Love Yarn |
| 28-Sept. 6 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| 29 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 29 | Kumeu Showgrounds, Kumeu, Auckland, New Zealand | Woolfest Auckland |
| 29-30 | Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster, OH | 25th Annual Great Lakes Fiber Show |
| 29-30 | Priory School, Hitchin, Herts, England, UK | Hitchin Festiwool: The Yarn and Wool Fair |
| 29-30 | Cummington Fairgrounds, Cummington, MA | 46th Annual Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair |
| ** 29-30 | Trout Lake Grange, Trout Lake, WA | Trout Lake Fiber Arts Festival |
| 29-31 | Wing and a Prayer Farm, Shaftsbury, VT | Fiber Intensive Study with Deborah Robson + Fiber Arts with Blubird Studio |
| 29-31 | Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England, UK | Woolly Weekend & 11th Annual Shipston Wool Fair |
| ** 29-31 | Christ the King Retreat and Conference Center, Syracuse, NY | 10th Yarn Cupboard Annual Fiber Arts Retreat and Market |
| ** 31 | Bradley Centre, Coombs, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canada | 10th Annual 100 Mile Fleece & Fibre Fair |
| ** 31-June 15 | East Tennessee | East Tennessee Yarn Crawl |
June
| ** 2-6 | Yarn Shoppe Denver, Denver, CO | 10th Annual Spring Yarn Community Event Spectacular |
| 2-6 | Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Spring Retreat: Session One |
| 6-10 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | Color, Shaping & New! Knitwear Design + Retreat with Deborah Newton |
| 6-10 | Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Spring Retreat: Session Tw0 |
| 2-7 | Lerwick Hotel, Lerwick, Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Hholiday with Hazel Tindall and Kathleen Anderson |
| 4-5 | Johnson County Fairgrounds, Franklin, IN | Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival |
| 4-6 | Online | John Arbon Textiles Virtual Mill Open Weekend |
| 4-6 | Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey, MI | Tip of the Mitt Fiber Fair |
| 5-6 | Arizona Historical Society Pioneer Museum, Flagstoff, AZ | 29th Annual Flag Wool and Fiber Festival |
| ** 5-6 | Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds & Agricultural Center, Sparta, NC | 3rd Annual Blue Ridge Fiber Fest |
| 5-6 | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK | Fibre Rocks |
| 5-6 | Vilar Seminar, Porto, Portugal | 3rd Annual Knit with Friends Knitting Festival |
| ** 5-30 | Northwest Canada (BC, Alberta, NWT) | Playing with String – the Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| ** 6 | Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds, England, UK | 7th Annual Leeds Wool Festival |
| ** 6 | Carberry Community Memorial Hall, Canberry, Manitoba, Canada | 7th Annual Blue Hills Fibre Festival |
| ** 6-7 | Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX | 49th Annual Texas Folklife Festival |
| ** 6-7 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM | Spring & Fiber Fest: Tiera Agua e Vida |
| ** 6-7 | Windsor Fairgrounds, Windsor, ME | 20th Annual Maine Fiber Frolic |
| 6-14 | Ireland | Wool Lovers Tour of Ireland Knitting Tour with Una McDonagh and Liz Spillane |
| 8-15 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting with the Puffins |
| 9-13 | Misty Isle Farms, Vashon Island, WA | 12th Annual Vashon Sheepdog Classic [handlers only, closed to public in 2021] |
| 10-13 | Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, Estes Park, CO | 30th Annual Estes Park Wool Market |
| 10-13 | Yankee Clipper Inn, Rockport, MA | Knitting by the Sea |
| 11-13 | Online | 57th Annual Ontario Handspinning Seminar: Sustainable Fibers |
| 11-13 | Hyatt Regency by the Mall of America, Bloomington, MN | Cloud9 Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 11-13 | Blönduós School & Sports Center, Blönduós, Iceland | Prjónagleðin: 5th Annual Iceland Knit Fest |
| 11-13 | Seven Sister’s Studio, Bisbee, AZ | 3rd Annual Bisbee Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 11-14 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Mim Bird |
| ** 11-14 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| 12 | Fenelon Falls Community Centre, Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada | Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival |
| Canal Market District, Newark, OH | Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair | |
| 12-13 | FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield, England, UK | The Wool Monty |
| 12-13 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | 10th Annual Central New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 12-15 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Judith MacKenzie and Debbi Stone: Knit, Play, Cook |
| 13 | Ardtornish Primary School, St Agnes, South Australia | Fibre Feast SA: South Australia’s Premier Fibre & Yarn Craft Event |
| ** 13 | Stewiacke Community Centre, Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada | 1st Annual Fibre Frolic Stewiake |
| ** 13 | Varies | World Wide Knit in Public Day |
| ** 13-Aug. 17 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Trail |
| ** 14-17 | Parker Ranch, Clayton, GA | Southeastern Yarn + Yoga Retreat |
| 15-18 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Bill Huntington |
| ** 15-20 | Rodeo Arena, Diné College, Tsailé, AZ, Navajo Nation | 24th Annual Sheep Is Life Celebration |
| 17-20 | Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland | Woollinn: Ireland’s Festival of Yarn |
| ** 18-21 | Bahnhof Hohenstein, near Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, Germany | Ziggurat Knitting Retreat with Åsa Tricosa |
| ** 18-21 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | 6th Annual City Zen Dye Retreat with Karida Collins |
| 18-24 | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada | Fibre Week |
| 18-25 | Baia Azul Hotel, Madeira | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy at Attic24 |
| 18-26 | Ireland | Woollinn Adventure – Dublin, Cavan & Donegal with Edel MacBride, Aine Dunne and Carol Feller |
| 19-20 | Dilham, Norfolk, England, UK | 5th Annual Worstead Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Woolly Weekend |
| ** 19-21 | Denmark Municipal Building, Congregational Church & Public Library, Denmark, ME | Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshops |
| 20-28 | Scotland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands with Di Gilpin, Donna from ERIBE, and Emily Wessel |
| ** 21-28 | Parcevall Hall, Yorkshire, England, UK | Ann Kingstone Yorkshire Knitting Tour |
| ** 22-28 | Billströmska Folk High School, Tjörn, Sweden | Nordic Knitting Symposium (Nordisk Strikkesymposium) |
| ** 24 | Doubletree by Hilton, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | 3rd Annual Aberdeen YarnFest |
| 25-26 | Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, UK | 16th Annual Woolfest: The Original British Wool Festival |
| 25-27 | The Berry Center, Cypress, TX | Houston Fiber Fest |
| 25-28 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with designer Casapinka |
| 25-28 | Red Centre, Alice Springs, Australia | 24th Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival |
| ** 25-28 | Renaissance Hotel, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Biggest Little Getaway Wool Retreat |
| 25-29 | Albuquerque, NM | Camp Stitches: Destination New Mexico |
| 26 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 26 | Doubletree Hotel, Rochester, MN | Zombie Knitapocalypse: An Urban Knitting Retreat |
| ** 26-28 | Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR | 46th Annual Black Sheep Gathering [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 27-30 | New Haven, CT to Putney, VT | 9th Annual I-91 Shop Hop |
| ** 27-30 | Arrowhead Ranch, Arrowhead, CA | Griffin Dyeworks 15th Annual Retreat |
| 28-July 6 | Wales | Wild Wool in Wales with Bristol Ivy |
| 30-July 5 | Lerwick Hotel, Lerwick, Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Hholiday with Hazel Tindall and Kathleen Anderson |
July
| ** 1-31 | Northwest Canada (BC, Alberta, NWT) | Playing with String – the Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 2-10 | Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge and Hazel Tindall |
| 5-11 | Viljandi, Estonia | Estonian Craft Camp: Traditional Craft Workshops |
| 9-11 | Wilson County Exposition Center, Lebanon, TN | Natural Fiber Extravaganza |
| 10 | Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ | Capital Fibre Fest |
| 10-11 | Online | Yarningham: Birmingham’s Yarn Festival |
| 10-11 | Grazing Hills Alpaca Ranch, Viola, ID | 2nd Annual Grazing Hills Fiber Festival |
| ** 10-12 | Sheep to Shawl Studio & Store, Barton, VT | String to Sock Knitting Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| ** 10-19 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 31th Annual Great Northern Arts Festival |
| ** 11 | Farm Equipment Museum, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada | 3rd Annual Truro Fibre Frolic |
| 11-19 | Tallinn, Estonia | Vilnius, Lithuania | Riga, Latvia | Baltic Cities Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum [sold out] |
| 11-20 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands with Una McDonagh, Liz Spillane and Carol Feller |
| ** 12-14 | Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, NSW, Australia | Knitters’ Guild NSW Conference |
| 13-17 | Denver, CO | Crochet Guild of American 26th Anniversary Chain Link Conference |
| ** 14-23 | Indiana/Illinois border | Illiana Yarn Crawl |
| ** 15-19 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 15-21 | Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxvile, TV | Convergence: Handweavers Guild of America Biennial Conference |
| 15-25 | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | Jumpers & Jazz in July |
| 16-18 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 142nd Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| ** 16-19 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| ** 16-21 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird [course is full] |
| 17-18 | Copper K Barn, 8 miles south of Whitehall, MT | 5th Annual Copper K Fiber Festival |
| ** 18 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 14th Annual Great Toronto Yarn Hop |
| 18-22 | Bainbridge Island, WA | Knitting on a Lark with Lorilee Beltman |
| 18-Aug. 1 | Norway, Iceland, Scotland | Northern Isles Knitting Cruise with JC Briar |
| 19-26 | Faroe Island | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina I Geil |
| 21-25 | Online | Fiberworld 2021 – Fiber and Lifestyle: Evolved |
| ** 24-25 | Southeastern Wisconsin | Wandering Ewe: Southeastern Wisconsin Yarn Crawl |
| ** 24-Aug. 2 | Historic Abingdon, VA | Virginia Highlands Festival |
| 26-Aug. 6 | Orkney Islands, North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK | North Ronaldsay 5th Annual Sheep Festival |
| 30-31 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 15th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| 31 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 31-Aug. 1 | Redborne School and Community College, Ampthill, England, UK | Fibre-East: 10th Annual British Natural Fibre & Craft |
| 31-Aug. 1 | Hartl Building, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 31-Aug. 2 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka |
| ** 31-Aug. 7 | Denver, CO | 2nd Annual Mile High Denver Boutique Week |
| ** 31-Aug. 8 | Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee | I75 Yarn Crawl |
| 31-Aug. 8 | Chicago, IL | 12th Annual Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| ** 31-Aug. 9 | Pennsylvania | 7th Annual Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
August
| ** 1-2 | Life Science Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK | WoolNEss |
| ** 1-15 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
| ** 3-9 | Comfort Inn & Suites, DeForest, WI | Midwest Felting Symposium |
| ** 4-9 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| ** 7-8 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House |
| 7-8 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Eureka Fiber Fest |
| ** 8-11 | Chapel Rock Camp & Conference Center, Prescott, AZ | 6th Annual Grandma’s Sheep Thrills Retreat |
| ** 9-10 | York Auction Centre, Murton, York, England, UK | 9th Annual British Wool Show |
| ** 11-17 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | New England Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 12-14 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 8th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| 12-14 | Doubletree by Hilton, Green Tree, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival: Knit, Crochet, Quilt, Create! |
| 12-15 | Dutton Farm House, Dummerston, VT | Estonian Roositud Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| ** 12-16 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 13-16 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 13-27 | Puget Sound, WA [possibly virtual] | 15th Annual Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour |
| 14-15 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival |
| 15 | Fairfield Community Center, Porter Park, Victoria, BC, Canada | 11th Annual Fibrations! |
| 16-23 | Faroe Island | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina I Geil |
| ** 18-21 | Abrahm Seminar Center, Eifel, Germany | Hand Heart Soul Summer Creative Retreat |
| 19-23 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Get Crafty |
| ** 22 | Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Wirral, England, UK | Popup Wool Show |
| ** 22 | Barrie Curling Club, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | 3rd Annual Fibre Spirit |
| ** 22-23 | Renaissance Hotel, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans’ Wool Summer Bus Tour (pickup/dropoff spots: Fremont or Sacramento, CA) |
| ** 22-30 | Colorado Front Range | 7th Annual Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| ** 24-25 | Nova Labs, Reston, VA | Fiber at the Lab |
| 26-29 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights Retreat |
| 27-29 | At or near Bårdshaug Manor, Orkanger, Norway | Central Norwegian Culture and Knitting Festival |
| 27-29 | Stitch Yourself Happy – Yoga & Yarn: Yoga with Molly Melhuish, Crochet with Emma Leith | |
| ** 27-30 | Bahnhof Hohenstein, near Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, Germany | Mairlynd Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg |
| ** 27-30 | Skelton 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Wirtz, VA | Skein Away Fiber Retreat |
| 27-Sept. 3 | Borders of Scotland, UK | Make.Walk.Explore: The Fall Abbotsford Retreat |
| 28 | Online | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 28-Sept. 2 | Scotland | Scenic Scotland Knitting and Crochet Cruise with Sophia Reed |
| 28-Sept. 6 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour with Edel MacBridge, Ciara Ni Reachtnin and Aine Dunne |
| ** 31 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel Fiber Fest |
| ** 30-Sept. 6 | New England and Maritimes Canada | Knit & Cruise to Canada & New England |
September
| 1-6 | Lerwick Hotel, Lerwick, Shetland Islands | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Hholiday with Hazel Tindall and Kathleen Anderson [full] |
| ** 1-8 | London, England, UK | 6th Annual Great London Yarn Crawl |
| 1-12 | Scotland | A Knitting Trip to Scotland & Shetland with Mary Penxa & Sawmill Creek Fiber Events [sold out] |
| ** 3-7 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
| 3-10 | Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Sarah Hazell |
| 4 | Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK | 3rd Annual Wool@Portsoy |
| 4-5 | Teuchelweiher, Winterthur, Switzerland | Swiss Yarn Festival Goes Urban [cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic] |
| 4-5 | Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 4-16 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky |
| ** 5-6 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 8th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering |
| ** 5-6 | Michigan State University Pavilion, E. Lansing, MI | LamaFest Showcase |
| ** 5-7 | Nezinscot Farm, Turner, ME | Annual Weaving & Fiber Arts Weekend |
| 5-8 | Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, Schaumburg, IL | Stitches Midwest |
| ** 5-8 | Cherokee Park Ranch, Livermore, CO | 7th Annual Wild West Knitting Retreat |
| ** 6 | Reed Point, MT | 32nd Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| 6-11 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| ** 8-9 | Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark | Knitting Festival |
| ** 8-12 | Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 3rd Annual WoolstockEAST: 5 Days of Fleece & Sisterhood |
| 9-12 | Sebasco Harbor Resort, Casco Bay, ME | AffiKNITy Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 9-12 | Inn at Boltwood, Amherst, MA | Knitting in New England |
| ** 9-17 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Fiber College of Maine |
| 10-12 | Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 10-12 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 10-12 | The Queens Hotel, City Square, Leeds, England, UK | 41th Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| ** 10-13 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| ** 11-12 | 90 Main St., Machias, ME | 3rd Annual Machias Fiber Festival |
| 11-12 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | 4th Annual Prairie Fibre Festival |
| ** 11-13 | Battersea Park, London, England, UK | The Handmade Festival |
| ** 12 | Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | 28th Annual Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair |
| ** 12-13 | Almonte, Ontario, Canada | Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| ** 12-13 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 30th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| ** 12-13 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 8th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| ** 12-13 | Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth, Scotland, UK | Perth Festival of Yarn |
| ** 12-13 | Hunterdon County Fairgrounds, Lambertville, NJ | 26th Annual Garden State Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| ** 12-13 | Harford Fairgrounds, Harford, PA | 17th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| 12-16 | North Light Fibers, Block Island, RI | 4th Annual Knitwear Design Retreat with Deborah Newton |
| ** 12-20 | Sonoma County, CA | Wine Country Yarn Hop |
| ** 13-15 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 22nd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| ** 14-22 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 12th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| 15-19 | Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Fall Retreat [full] |
| 16-19 | Fanø, Denmark | 15th Annual Fanø International Knit Festival |
| 16-19 | Nevada and California | 3rd Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| 17 | Glenwood Center, Bedford County Fair, Bedford, VA | 11th Annual Olde Liberty Fibre Faire |
| 17-19 | Online | 29th Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 17-24 | Baia Azul Hotel, Madeira | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy at Attic24 |
| 17-25 | Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge and Hazel Tindall |
| ** 18-19 | River Bend Hotel & Casino, Wyandotte, OK | 10th Annual Fiber Daze |
| ** 18-19 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 8th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| 18-19 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 25th Annual Wool Gathering |
| ** 19 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| ** 19 | North Grenville Municipal Centre, Kemptville, Ontario, Canada | Fibre Extravaganza |
| ** 19-20 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | 11th Annual Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| 19-28 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands with Una McDonagh, Liz Spillane and Carol Feller |
| ** 20 | Harvest Festival t Bethel Woods, Bethel, NY | Catskills Fiber Festival |
| ** 20-22 | Rockland, ME | 7th Annual Maine Spinners’ Registry Fiber Retreat |
| ** 20-22 | Holiday Inn & Suites, Orlando, Fl – Celebration Area in Kissimmee, FL | 15th Annual Florida Fiber-In |
| 20-23 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise |
| ** 21 | Bellingham, WA | 3rd Annual Whatcom County Purls and Pop-Ups Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21-22 | One Tree Hill, Murrumbateman, NSW. Australia | Fibre with Friends Retreat |
| 23-26 | Dutton Farm House, Dummerston, VT | British Gansey and Latvian Fingerless Mitts with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 23-28 | Colorado Chautauqua, Boulder, CO | Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) |
| ** 24-26 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 3rd Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 24-26 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| 24-26 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| ** 24-27 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 4th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| ** 24-27 | Hyatt Regency in Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, NV | Jimmy Beans’ Tahoe Untangled Knitter’s Retreat |
| ** 24-27 | Cross Roads Retreat Center, Caldwell, TX | Stitches, S’mores and More – A Texas Knit Retreat |
| 24-Oct. 3 | Denmark | A Fiber Adventure in Copenhagen & The Faroe Islands |
| ** 25-26 | Shrine Auditorium, Billings, MT | 4th Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| 25-26 | Clackamas County Events Center, Canby, OR | 24th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| 25-26 | 4-H Events Center, Ouray County Fairgrounds, Ridgway, CO | 8th Annual Sneffels Fiber Festival |
| 25-26 | Ogemaw County Fairgrounds, Lower Penninsula, West Branch, MI | 21th Annual Northern Michigan Lamb & Wool Festival |
| 25-26 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 9th Annual Yarndale |
| 25-26 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| 25-26 | Clark County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 15th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| ** 25-27 | Norwegian Knitting Industry Museum, Salhusvegen 201, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 5th Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| 25-Oct. 3 | Online | 11th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| 26 | Southwark Bridge, City of London, England, UK | Sheep Drive and Wool & Livery Fair |
| ** 26 | St. Andrews Inn, Cleveland, Tasmania, Australia | SpinOUT |
| ** 28-29 | Sauder Village, Archbold, OH | Fiber Arts Fest |
| 26-Oct. 2 | Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat with Carol Feller |
| ** 27-28 | Bayfield, CO | 20th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| ** 27-29 | St. Anthony Retreat Center, Three Rivers, CA | What the Knit! Guild Fall Retreat with Alisdair Post-Quinn and Janine Bajus |
| ** 27-29 | Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT | Green Mountain Spinnery’s Fall Knitter’s Weekend Retreat with Maria Muscarella |
| ** 27-29 | Kulturhus, Copenhagen, Denmark | Knitwork: 5th Knitting and Crochet Festival |
| 27-Oct. 4 | Bellingham Castle, Louth & Dublin, Ireland | 4th Annual Maggie’s Irish Castle Bellingham Retreat |
| ** 29-Oct. 4 | Abiquiu and Taos, NM | Fiber Trails of the Upper Rio Grande |
October
| ** 1-4 | Hyatt Regency in Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, NV | Jimmy Beans’ Crochet at the Lake Retreat with the Crochet Crowd |
| 2 | The Public Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK | 3 Bags Full 7th Annual Wool Market |
| 2-3 | Montpelier Station, Orange County, VA | 33rd Annual Fall Fiber Festival and Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 2-3 | Kit Carson Park, Taos, NM | 36th Annual Taos Wool Festival |
| 2-3 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Turnbridge, VT | 34th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 2-3 | Vienna, Austria | 5th Annual Vienna Woll-und Stofffest [Vienna Wool & Fabric Festival] |
| ** 2-4 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Knit City Vancouver: A Modern Fibre Event |
| ** 2-4 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 2-4 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 2-9 | Online | Spin Together |
| ** 3 | Nova Place, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin: A Pittsburgh Indie Fiber Arts Marketplace |
| ** 3 | Lammers Town Hall, Solway, MN | 6th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| ** 3 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 3 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 25th Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| ** 3-4 | Dixon May Fair Grounds, Dixon, CA | 34th Annual Lambtown USA Fiber Fair |
| ** 3-6 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 3-10 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| ** 5-6 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 7th Annual Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta |
| 5-15 | Iceland | Iceland, Off the Beaten Track |
| 6-10 | Sun Valley, Ketchum & Hailey, ID | 25th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 7-12 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Fall Fiber School (Yarn + Felt + Dye) |
| 8-10 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| ** 8-11 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 9 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 9th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 9-10 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| ** 9-11 | Sheep to Shawl Studio & Store, Barton, VT | Knit that Cable Knitting Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 9-18 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour with Edel MacBridge, Ciara Ni Reachtnin and Aine Dunne |
| ** 9-18 | Hill Country, TX | 14th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas: Hill Country Yarn Crawl |
| ** 10 | Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK | 4th Annual Yarnfolk Festival of Wool |
| ** 10 | Okanogan County Fairgrounds Agriplex, Okanogan, WA | 7th Annual OKfiberfest |
| ** 10 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 16th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 10-11 | Back roads of NH | 37th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| 10-15 | Ireland | Northwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat with Edel MacBride |
| 10-18 | Scotland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands with Di Gilpin, Donna from ERIBE, and Emily Wessel |
| ** 12 | Lamar Community Center, St. Croix Falls, WI | 5th Annual Lamar Fiber Fest |
| ** 12 | Halcyon Yarn, Bath, ME | Halcyon Annual Open House |
| ** 12-13 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Leland, MI | 19th Annual Leland Fiber Festival |
| ** 13-17 | Amherst, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada | 13th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival |
| 15-16 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days: Special Edition [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| ** 15-17 | International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Creativ Festival: A Celebration of Creativity |
| 16 | Paris Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 12th Annual Woodstock ON |
| 16-17 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, WA | 10th Annual Fiber Fusion Northwest |
| ** 16-17 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| 16-17 | Summit Sports and Ice Complex, Dimondale, MI | 25th Annual Michigan International Alpaca Fest |
| 16-17 | Ashland County Fairgrounds, Mozelle Hall, Ashland, OH | 9th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| ** 17-18 | Château de Miromesnil, Tourville sur Arques, Normandy, France | 3rd Annual Festival: The Thread of the Sleeve {Festival Le fil de la manche} |
| ** 17-18 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 17-18 | Staybridge Suites, Lincoln, NE | 2nd Annual Yarnaholic Retreat |
| 17-24 | Markree Castle, Clooneenroe, Collooney, Co. Sligo, Ireland | Maggie Knit’s Ireland |
| ** 17 | Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, Berkeley, CA | 7th Annual Nevada County Fiber Arts Trunk Show |
| ** 20 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Fall Fiber Frolic |
| ** 20-22 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival Workshop Retreat |
| ** 22-24 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 22-24 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| 22-30 | Tasmania | Tasmanian Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| 23 | Cobble Hill, The Hub, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| ** 23-24 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival |
| 23-31 | Salon des Créateurs, Felletin, France | National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| ** 24 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| ** 24-25 | Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | 7th Annual Kendal Wool Gathering |
| ** 24-25 | Sisters of Mercy Convent, Singleton, New South Wales, Australia | NSW Knitter’s Guild FibreFest |
| ** 24-Dec. 30 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. | World of Threads Festival |
| ** 26-27 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 35th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| ** 26-28 | Fort Dalles Readiness Center, The Dalles, OR | Knot Another Knitting Festival |
| 27-30 | Embassy Suites by Hilton Loveland Hotel Conference Center & Spa, Loveland, CO | Interweave Yarn Fest |
| 28-30 | Fuglafirði, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting Festival [Bindifestivalur: Strikkefestival] |
| 28-31 | Hill Country Youth Event Center, Kerrville, TX | Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| 30-31 | The KUBE, Leicester Racecourse, Oadby, Leicester, England, UK | The Big Textile Show |
| 30-31 | Leicester Racecourse, Leicester, England, UK | The Big Textile Show |
| 30-Nov. 6 | Barn at Bercloux, Brizambourg, France | Knitting and Crochet Retreat |
| ** 31-Nov. 1 | Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK | 5th Annual Stitch Fest South West |
November
| 1-9 | New Mexico | A Wool Lover’s Visit to New Mexico |
| 4-7 | Multnomah Hotel/Embassy Suites, Portland, OR | The Knitting Guild Association Retreat |
| 4-7 | Dutton Farm House, Dummerston, VT | Korsnäs Techniques with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 4-7 | Quechee Inn at Marshland Farms, Quechee, VT | Knitting in the Mountains with with Alison Green |
| 5-6 | Meramec Baptist Retreat Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| ** 5-8 | Good Commons Retreat Center, Plymouth, VT | Yoga + Yarn Retreat |
| 6 | Lane Agricultural Park, Murfreesboro, TN | 10th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| 6 | Peace Hill Farm, Charles City, VA | Peace Hill Farm, Fiber and Craft Festivalhttps://www.historicpeacehill.com/fall-fiber-and-craft-festival |
| 6 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 6-7 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 10th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| 6-7 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 2nd Annual Buckeye Alpaca Fall Fest |
| ** 6-8 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| ** 6-9 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Judith MacKenzie and Debbi Stone: Totally Textured |
| ** 6-9 | Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace, Lake Buena Vista, FL | 4th Annual Magical Fiber Fantasy Retreat |
| ** 7 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 7th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| ** 7 | Old Gregg School and Community Center, Spring Mills, PA | 3rd Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
| ** 7 | Priory School, Hitchin, Herts, England, UK | Hitchin Festiwool: The Yarn and Wool Fair |
| ** 7-8 | WTC Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | 3rd Annual Barcelona Knits |
| ** 7-8 | EXPO, Jackson County Fairgrounds, Central Point, OR | 10th Annual FiberMania |
| ** 7-10 | Wisp Resort, McHenry, MD | Knittreat |
| ** 8-10 | Sapphire Valley Resort, Sapphire, NC | Fall Carolina Fiber Frolic |
| 8-11 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fall Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Classic English Longwools |
| ** 9-16 | Online | Online International Fiber Festival |
| ** 10 | Nile Shrine Golf Center, Mountlake Terrace, WA | Yarn Revolution |
| 10-14 | Grand Hotel & Spa Oceanfront Hotel, Ocean City, MD | Fall Ocean Retreat: A Yarn Get-Away!! |
| 11-14 | Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA | Stitches SoCal |
| 11-14 | Roxbury at Stratton Falls and the Roxbury Motel, Roxbury, NY | Knit + Escape in the Catskills with Kristy Glass, Casapinka, Amanda Solomon and Lesley Anne Robinson |
| 12-14 | Alexandra House, Swindon, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy: Yoga and Yarn with Jane Crowfoot and Molly Melhuish |
| 12-15 | Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock, NC | 10th Annual Unwind: A Fiber Arts Getaway |
| ** 12-15 | Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin, Ireland | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| ** 13-15 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| ** 14 | Beach Middle School, Chelsea, MI | Spinner’s Flock Fall Fleece Fair |
| ** 17 | Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham, England, UK | Nottingham Yarn Expo |
| 18-21 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting and Stitching Show |
| 19-22 | 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 |
| ** 20-21 | Canton Civic Center, Canton, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| ** 20-24 | Yandina, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia | 3rd Annual Fibre Arts Festival |
| 20-30 | New Zealand | New Zealand Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| ** 21-24 | Parker Ranch, Clayton, GA | Southeastern Yarn and Yoga Fall Retreat |
| ** 22 | Española Valley Fiber Arts Center, Española, NM | Fall Fiber Fiesta: Artists’ Reception & Silent Auction |
| ** 27-29 | Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, MA | Knit Pray Love: A Knitting and Yoga Retreat |
| 27-Dec. 3 | Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia | Baltic Cities Christmas Markets Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 30-Dec. 1 | Black Forest Community Center, Colorado Springs, CO | 14th Annual Alpaca Holiday Extravaganza |
December
| 3-5 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Holiday Studio Tours |
| 4-12 | Norway | Northern Lights Knitting Cruise with Julie Dubreux |
| 5-12 | Orlando, Coco Bay, St. Thomas, St. Maarten | Nautical Knitting Cruise with Melissa Leapman and Keith Leonard |
| 5-16 | Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands | Rhine Christmas Markets Knitting Cruise |
| ** 12 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
Fiber Tours and Other Year Round Events
| May 22-Sept. 7 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| May 23-Aug. 30 | Wyoming | 3rd Annual Cowboy Yarn Crawl |
| ** June 8-Sept. 4 | Ontario, Canada | Cottage Country Yarn Crawl |
| June 13-Aug. 17 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Trail |
| Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Minnesota | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Nazareth, PA | Kraemer Yarns Manufacturing Tour: Open Houses Monthly. Call for times and dates. Get a behind the scenes look at how we make yarn! |
| Year round | Online | Camp Yarnsie: A Virtual Fiber Arts Festival & Events Platform |
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