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Enjoy these year-round or seasonal fiber tours and yarn crawls.
January
February
| 3-7 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway |
| 6-9 | Hotel St. George, Marfa, TX | Yoga + Yarn Retreat |
| 7-9 | Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County, Nashville, IN | Winter Wooly Retreat |
| 7-9 | Hampton Inn and Conference Center Gardner, KS | Prairie Knits Studio Winter Retreat |
| 7-9 | Seyon Lodge, Seyon Lodge State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| 7-9 | Sauder Village, Archbold, OH | Knitting and Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 9 | Boston Public Market, Boston, MA | 3rd Annual Boston Farm & Fiber Festival |
| 11-17 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 10th Anniversary Fiber Week |
| 13-16 | Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA | Red Alder Fiber Arts Retrat |
| 14-15 | Jyväskylä, Finland | Knitting Festival Winter Weekend |
| 14-16 | Crown Plaza Milwaukee Airport, Milwaukee, WI | Midwest Fiber Frolic |
| 14-17 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway with Drop Spindle Workshop |
| 15 | Beach Middle School, Chelsea, MI | Spinner’s Flock Fleece Fair |
| ** 15-23 | Tampa Bay, FL | Bay Area Knitting Guild Yarn Crawl |
| 20-23 | Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA | Stitches West |
| 21-23 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK | 12th Annual Unravel, A Festival of Knitting |
| 22-23 | Calvary Lutheran Church, Bemidji, MN | Creative Spirit Fiber Festival |
| 23-29 | Thomas Shepherd Inn, Shepherdstown, WV | Stitch Makers Retreat |
| 24-27 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 26-March 8 | Caribbean | Trendsetter Knitting Group Caribbean Cruise with Friends & Fiberworks and Barry Klein |
| 26-March 12 | Australia and New Zealand | Australia & New Zealand Knitting Cruise with Lucy Neatby |
| 27-March 1 | Business Design Centre, London, England, UK | The Stitch Festival: The Ultimate Day Out for Craft Lovers |
| 28-Mar 1 | Freeport, ME | 18th Annual New England Textile Arts Network’s Spa Knit and Spin |
| 28-March 6 | Indiana | Roving Indiana: Yarn Crawl |
| 29 | Market Place, Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia | SpinOUT |
| 29-March 1 | Riverside Meeting & Event Hotel, Riverside, Switzerland | Swiss Yarn Festival |
March
| 1 | Russell’s Garden Center, Wayland, MA | Farm Fiber Days |
| 1-5 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Let the River Carry You Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 2-6 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 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 |
| 5-8 | Portland, OR | 11th Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl |
| 6-8 | Dunedin Centre, Dunedin, New Zealand | 9th Annual Unwind Fibrecraft Retreat |
| 6-8 | Kent Manor Inn, Stevensville, MD | Japanese Knitting Patterns with Gayle Rohem |
| 6-8 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Knitting Retreat |
| 6-14 | Central Florida, east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 6-15 | Caribbean | Trendsetter Knitting Group Caribbean Cruise with Friends and Fiberworks and Barry Klein |
| 7 | Delmont Fire Hall, Delmont, PA | Raggz Fiber Affair |
| 7-8 | Farmhouse Cà San Sebastiano, Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat with Federica Giudice | Women’s Day |
| 8-13 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| 10-14 | Suzoo’s Wool Works, Bandera, TX | 5th Annual Bandera Fiber & Arts Week: Celebrating Texas Hill Country Wool & Mohair |
| 13-14 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival |
| 13-14 | Field House, Langley Events Centre, Langley, BC, Canada | 12th Annual Fibres West |
| 13-14 | State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 14th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 13-15 | Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 7th Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 13-15 | Pine Mountain Resort, Pineville, KY | Mountain Hollow Farm Yarn Retreat |
| 13-15 | Sapphire, NC | 11th Annual Carolina Fiber Frolic Spring Retreat |
| 13-15 | Meydenbauer Convention Center, Seattle, WA | Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 14 | Ramada Inn and Conference Center, State College, PA | For the Love of Fiber |
| 14-15 | Millcreek Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT | Salt Lake Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Kate Atherley |
| ** 14-17 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| 15 | Cornwall College, Pool, Cornwall, England, UK | Cornwoolly: Fibre & Textile Show for Cornwall |
| 15-16 | Cedarburg, Grafton, Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur’s 5th Annual Fiber Arts Trail Tour |
| ** 15-17 | Hampton Inn, Brattleboro, VT | Sugar Season Knitting Retreat with Julia Farwell-Clay |
| 15-20 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| ** 16 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Spring Fiber Frolic |
| 16-19 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 [Fibers] Traditional Four by Four-by-Retreat with Deb Robson |
| 19-22 | Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association 27th Annual Retreat |
| 20-22 | Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI | Madison Knitters’ Guild Knit In |
| 20-22 | Doubletree by Hilton, Green Tree, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival: Knit, Crochet, Quilt, Create! |
| 20-22 | Kent Manor Inn, Stevensville, MD | Harry Potter Magical Knitting with Tanis Gray |
| 20-22 | Hotel de la Chaux d’Abel, La Chaux-d’Abel 88, 2333 La Ferriere, Switzerland | Swiss Jura Knit & Fibre Retreat |
| 20-22 | Stewiacke Community Centre, Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada | 1st Annual Fibre Frolic Stewiake |
| 21 | Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR | Abernethy Spring Fiber Sale |
| 21 | Winterset Middle School, Winterset, IA | 9th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| 21 | White Syke Farm, White Syke Fields, Sand Hutton, York, England, UK | 2nd Annual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 21-22 | Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network, Bainbridge Island, WA | Discover Six Pacific Northwest Local Sheep Breeds: A Spinning Workshop with Deborah Robson |
| 22 | Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | Hamilton Fibre Market |
| 22 | Great Room, Savage Mill, Savage, MD | 13th Annual Homespun Yarn Party |
| ** 23 | Rinn United Methodist Church, Frederick, CO | We Knit Colorado Knit/Crochet Day Out |
| 25-April 2 | Queens Guest House, Edinbuirgh, Scotland, UK | Wee Bit O’ Scotland: Yarnfest, Tartans, Traditions |
| 26-28 | Baraboo, Lodi, Prairie du Sac, North Freedom, WI | A Maker’s Experience: Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail |
| 26-29 | Hartford, CT | Stitches United |
| 26-29 | Los Angeles County, CA | Los Angeles County Yarn Crawl |
| 26-29 | Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Knit City Montreal: A Modern Fibre Festival |
| 27-28 | Sugar Factory, Groningen, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| 27-April 7 | New Zealand | Arne and Carlos Knitting Cruise |
| 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 |
| 28-29 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 15th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show |
| 28-29 | American Royal Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO | Midwest Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Invitational Alpaca Show |
| 28-29 | Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada | Knit City Montréal! |
| 28-30 | Embassy Suites by Hilton Loveland Hotel Conference Center & Spa, Loveland, CO | Interweave Yarn Fest |
| 29-April 3 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| ** 29-April 7 | Baltimore & environs, MD | Charm City Yarn Crawl |
| 31-April 11 | British Isles | British Isles Discovery Knitting & Crochet Cruise with Sophia Reed [sold out] |
April
| 2-5 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 15th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest |
| 2-5 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 14th Annual Minnesota Yarn Shop Hop |
| 2-5 | New Jersey | New Jersey Wool Walk |
| 3-5 | Brampton Inn, Chestertown, MD | Brioche Knitting with Heather Zoppetti |
| 3-5 | Amish View Inn, Bird-in-Hand, PA | Lancaster Knitter’s Retreat with Carson Demers and Lorilee Beltman |
| 3-5 | Lake Logan, NC | Spring Retreat with Friends & Fiberworks |
| 4 | Union Bluff Hotel, York Beach, ME | 7th Annual Fiber Market |
| 4-5 | Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, IL | YarnCon: Chicago’s 14th Annual Indie Fiber Fair |
| 4-5 | Portland OR to Seattle, WA | 6th Annual Sheepish in Seattle |
| 4-5 | L’Embarcadère, Lyon, France | Knit Eat Festival |
| 4-5 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Spring Fiber Expo |
| 4-5 | Neue Messe, Glashalle, Leipzig, Germany | Leipzig Wool Festival and Fabric Fair (Leipziger Wolle-Fest & Stoffmesse) |
| ** 4-7 | Long Island, NY | 5th Annual Long Island Yarn Crawl |
| ** 4-7 | Triangle area, NC | Triangle Yarn Crawl |
| 4-11 | Southwest Ireland | Luxury Knitting Retreat in Southwest Ireland |
| 4-14 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 5 | Ardtornish Primary School, St Agnes, South Australia | Fibre Feast SA: South Australia’s Premier Fibre & Yarn Craft Event |
| 5-10 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Spring Island Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| ** 6 | Eyemouth Community Centre, Eyemouth, England, UK | St Abbs Wool Festival |
| ** 6-7 | Clark County Event Center, Ridegefield, WA | Alpacapalooza |
| ** 8-May 31 | Bags by CAB Yarn Shoppe, Denver, CO | 9th Annual Spring #Makers Artisan Community Event |
| 11 | Jane Addams Community Center, Cedarville, IL | 24th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair |
| ** 11-14 | Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA | Shepherd’s Extravaganza |
| ** 12-13 | International Centre Entrance 1, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Spring creativ festival® |
| ** 13 | Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR | Annual Fiber Fair and All-Day Spin-In |
| ** 13-14 | Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville, NY | CNY Fiber Frolic |
| ** 13-14 | Merchants Square Mall, Allentown, PA | 4th Annual Allentown Fiber Festival |
| 14-18 | Westin at Crown Center, Kansas City, MO | 5th Annual PLY Away: A Spinning Retreat |
| 16-18 | University of Minnesota ReUse Warehouse, Minneapolis, MN | 20th Annual World’s Largest Textile Garage Sale |
| 16-19 | Yankee Clipper Inn, Rockport, MA | Knitting by the Sea with Denise Bayron [full] |
| 17-18 | Putnam County Fairgrounds, Greencastle, IN | The Fiber Event: Celebrating 28 Years of Fiber |
| 17-19 | Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Overland Park, KS | Knitting in the Heartland |
| 17-19 | Fern Resort, Orillia, Ontario, Canada | 8th Annual YarnOver SleepOver Retreat |
| 17-20 | First Baptist Church, Rochester, NY | Rochester Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Donna Lorilee Beltman |
| 18-19 | Grammar School, Harrogate Road, Leeds, England, UK | 4th Annual Spring into Wool: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 18-19 | Schulstraße 13, 74572 Blaufelden, Germany | 3rd Annual Hohenloher Woolfest |
| 19-24 | Ireland | Knit & Crochet in the West of Ireland with Carol Meldrum |
| 19-25 | Kandahar Lodge, Whitefish, MT | Stitch Makers Retreat |
| ** 20 | Denmark Arts Center, Denmark, ME | Denmark Sheepfest |
| 22-May 1 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 23-25 | Fuglafirði, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting Festival [Bindifestivalur: Strikkefestival] |
| 23-26 | Savannah, GA | Knit for Fun Retreat with Ann Budd and Cindy Hallam |
| 23-26 | Reykjavik, Iceland | Reykjavík Knitting Festival |
| 24-25 | Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN | 11th Annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival |
| 24-26 | Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West, Plymouth, MN | 33rd Annual MN. Knitters’ Guild Yarnover |
| 24-26 | Brampton Inn, Chestertown, MD | Bohus Knitting with Vicki Twigg |
| 24-27 | Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock, NC | 10th Annual Unwind: A Fiber Arts Getaway |
| 25 | Varies | 3rd Annual Local Yarn Store Day: Yarn Shop Appreciation Day |
| 25 | North Haven Fairgrounds, North Haven, CT | 111th Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival |
| 25 | Gore Place, Waltham, MA | 33rd Annual Sheep Shearing Festival |
| 25 | Village of Powhatan, Powhatan, VA | Powhatan’s Festival of Fiber |
| 25 | Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Toronto Knitter’s Frolic |
| 25-26 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 4th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 25-26 | Royal Welsh Show Ground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, UK | 15th Annual Wonderwool Wales: A Festival of Welsh Wool & Natural Fibers |
| 25-26 | Château de Miromesnil, Tourville sur Arques, Normandy, France | 3rd Annual Festival: The Thread of the Sleeve {Festival Le fil de la manche} |
| 25-26 | Alliant Energy Center, New Holland Pavilion, Madison, WI | Wisconsin Alpaca and Fiber Fest & The Great Midwest Alpaca Festival |
| 25-26 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn Yarn Crawl |
| ** 25-30 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Spring Fiber School |
| ** 26-27 | Bemidji, Turtle River, Tenstrike, MN | 4th Annual Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail Tour |
| ** 26-28 | Maryland countryside | Countryside Artisans Spring Studio Tour |
| ** 26-28 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Woolith Fair: A Greater Vancouver Yarn Crawl |
| ** 26-28 | Okanogan County Fairgrounds Agriplex, Okanogan, WA | 6th Annual OKfiberfest |
| ** 26-28 | Gilmer County Civic Center, Ellijay, GA | Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival |
| 26-May 5 | Ireland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands |
| ** 27 | Village Hall in Historic Gaslight Village, Wyoming, NY | 5th Annual Fiber Flurry Fiber Arts Festival with Laura Nelkin |
| ** 27-28 | Washington County, NY | 27th Annual New York’s Washington County Fiber Tour |
| 27-May 3 | Various venues, London, England, UK | London Craft Week |
| 27-May 4 | Pacific Coast | Pacific Coast Knitting Cruise with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| ** 28 | George Dawson Inn, Dawson Creek, BC | 1st Annual Peace Fibre Fest |
| 30-May 1 | From Fife down around and back up the west side of the Puget Sound, WA | Pacific Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 30-May 3 | Hotel UMass, Amherst, MA | WEBS Spring Knitting Retreat with Josh Bennett, Lily Chin, Laura Nelkin, Keith Leonard, Patty Lyons and Gudrun Johnston |
May
| 1-2 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days: Special Edition [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| 1-2 | Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum, Seguin, TX | 10th Annual Yellow Rose Fiber Producers Fiesta |
| 1-3 | Manoir Montpellier, Lac-Simon, Quebec, Canada | Twist Fibre Festival Spring Retreat |
| 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 |
| 2 | The Imperia, Somerset, NJ | 9th Annual New Jersey Needle Festival |
| 2-3 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 3-4 | Genesse Grand Hotel, Syracuse, NY | 9th Yarn Cupboard Annual Fiber Arts Retreat and Market |
| ** 3-4 | DoubleTree by Hilton, Durham, NC | Carolinas Machine Knitters Guild Seminar |
| 3-10 | Occidental Hotel, Buffalo, WY | Knitting in Buffalo, WY |
| ** 4 | Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY | Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase |
| ** 4-5 | Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria, England, UK | Rheged Knit and Stitch Show |
| 4-18 | Alaska | Great Alaskan Explorer Knitting Cruise with Sally Melville |
| 7-10 | Trafalgar Centre, Paru Parau, Nelson, New Zealand | Creative Fibre National Education Event |
| 8-9 | Legacy Event Center, Farmington, UT | Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair |
| 8-10 | Washington County Fair, Stillwater, MN | 23rd Annual Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 9-10 | Buxton Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK | Buxton Wool Gathering |
| 9-10 | Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, NH | 44th Annual New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 9-10 | Royal Cornwall Showground Exhibition Centre, Whitecross, Wadebridge, England, UK | Cornish Fibre Festival |
| ** 9-12 | North Carolina | Western North Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 9-16 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting and Crochet Workshop with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 11 | Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, OR | 34th Annual Sheep to Shawl Festival |
| ** 11 | Lopez Center for Community & the Arts, Lopez Village, Lopez Island, San Juan Islands, WA | Lopez Lamb, Wool & Goat Festival |
| 12-19 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| 13-17 | Puget Sound, WA | 15th Annual Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour |
| 13-24 | Northern Ireland, UK | Maggi’s Ireland Retreat [sold out] |
| 14-17 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Knitting Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 15-17 | Camp Myrtlewood, Myrtle Point, OR | Annual Fiber in the Forest |
| 15-17 | Block Island, RI | Block Island Knitting Retreat with Cecelia Campochiaro & Olga Jazzy |
| 15-24 | Verona, Italy | Knitting Retreat in Verona |
| 16-17 | Masterson State Park, Lexington, KY | 11th Annual Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 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 | Lycoming County Fairgrounds, Hughesville, PA | 8th Annual Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival |
| ** 16-19 | Hyatt Regency, Downtown Sarasota, FL | A Good Retreat II |
| 17 | Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Torrance, CA | Southern California Handweaver’s Guild Annual Weaving & Fiber Festival |
| ** 17-18 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration! |
| ** 17-19 | New Mexico | New Mexico Fiber Crawl |
| 17-22 | Ireland | Knit & Crochet in the West of Ireland with Sarah Hazell |
| 17-26 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands |
| ** 17-27 | Richmond to Virginia Beach, VA | James River Yarn Crawl |
| ** 18 | Rinn United Methodist Church, Frederick, CO | We Knit Colorado Knit/Crochet Day Out |
| ** 18 | Big Timber Civic Center, Big Timber, MT | Crazy Mountain Fiber Festival |
| ** 18-19 | Green County Fairgrounds, Waynesburg, PA | 16th Annual Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| ** 18-19 | Hallockville Museum Farm, Riverhead, Long Island, NY | 10th Annual Long Island Fleece & Fiber Fair |
| ** 20 | Coggeshall Farm Museum, Bristol, RI | Rhode Island Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 21-25 | Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA | Sacramento County Fair Wool Show |
| 21-28 | Grand Hotel, Andalsnes, Norway | Knitting Holiday Romsdal |
| 22-29 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| 22-Sept. 7 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| 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 | Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster, OH | 25th Annual Great Lakes Fiber Show |
| 23-24 | Herfordshire County Show, The Showground, Dunstable Road, Redbourn, Herts, England, UK | Festiwool to Pop-up @ the Herts County Show |
| 23-25 | Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England, UK | Woolly Weekend & 11th Annual Shipston Wool Fair |
| 23-29 | Iceland | Spring Knitting Tour in Icelandic Nature with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| 23-June 2 | Scotland | Scotland Knitting Tour [sold out] |
| 23-June 6 | Baltics | Baltic Explorer Knitting Cruise with Lily Chin |
| ** 24-25 | Dickson County Fairgrounds, Dickson, TN | 12th Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival |
| ** 25 | Lanchaster Community Free School, Watford, England, UK | Watford Festiwool |
| ** 25-26 | Cummington Fairgrounds, Cummington, MA | 45th Annual Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair |
| ** 25-June 2 | Virginia | Virginia Knits Virginia Yarn Crawl |
| ** 26 | Bradley Centre, Coombs, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canada | 9th Annual 100 Mile Fleece & Fibre Fair |
| ** 26-27 | Lloyd Square, Nampa, ID | Fiber Train Wool Festival |
| 26-June 6 | Canada & New England | Canada New England Knitting Cruise with Judith Durant |
| 27-31 | Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, OH | National NeedleArts Association Summer NeedleArts Trade Show |
| 27-June 1 | Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, VA | Allegheny Fiber Retreat 2020 |
| 28-31 | Wellspring Spa, Ashford, WA | Mount Rainer Retreat: Indie Untangled, Knitting our National Parks |
| 28-June 8 | Sweden | Knit and Cruise Sweden’s Scenic Waterways with Karie Westermann |
| 29-31 | Sorrento Centre, Sorrento, BC, Canada | 22th Annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat |
| 30-31 | The Pioneer Museum, Flagstaff, AZ | 29th Annual Flag Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 31-June 4 | Block Island, RI | Knitwear Design Plus Retreat with Deborah Newton |
| 31-June 7 | Chatenay, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France | 3rd Annual Farm to Fiber France Knitting Retreat |
| 31-June 9 | Ireland | Kerry, Kilkenny and Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| ** 31-June 15 | East Tennessee | East Tennessee Yarn Crawl |
June
| ** 1-2 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| ** 1-2 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM | Spring & Fiber Fest |
| ** 1-2 | The Shops at Worthington Place Mall, Worthington, OH | Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair |
| ** 1-2 | Windsor Fairgrounds, Windsor, ME | 18th Annual Maine Fiber Frolic |
| ** 2-3 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 3-8 | Scotland | The Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall [sold out] |
| 3-14 | Ireland | Knit Ireland and Woollinn with Laura Nelkin |
| 5-6 | Johnson County Fairgrounds, Franklin, IN | Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival |
| 5-6 | Justice Carlisle Higgins Fairgrounds & Agricultural Center, Sparta, NC | 3rd Annual Blue Ridge Fiber Fest |
| 5-7 | Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX | 49th Annual Texas Folklife Festival |
| 6 | Kumeu Showgrounds, Kumeu, Auckland, New Zealand | Woolfest Auckland |
| 6 | Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds, England, UK | 7th Annual Leeds Wool Festival |
| 6 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Fair |
| 6-7 | Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey, MI | Tip of the Mitt Fiber Fair |
| 6-7 | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK | Fibre Rocks |
| 6-7 | Fibre Harvest Mill, Pathfields Industrial Estatee, South Molton, Devon, England, UK | 7th Annual John Arbon Textiles Mill Open Weekend |
| 6-7 | Vilar Seminar, Porto, Portugal | 2nd Annual Knit with Friends Knitting Festival |
| ** 6-9 | Misty Isle Farms, Vashon Island, WA | 9th Annual Vashon Sheepdog Classic |
| 6-13 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting Retreat [fully booked] |
| 7-9 | Block Island, RI | Block Island Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg & Sarah Solomon |
| ** 7-11 | Blönduós School & Sports Center, Blönduós, Iceland | 3rd Annual Iceland Knit Fest |
| ** 8-9 | Trout Lake Grange, Trout Lake, WA | Trout Lake Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 8-9 | Keystone Centre, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada | 7th Annual Blue Hills Fibre Festival |
| ** 8-10 | Lake George Retreat Center, West Branch, MI | 2nd Bi-Annual Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
| ** 8-Aug. 17 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Trail |
| ** 9-10 | Sandia Park, Edgewood, and Stanley, NM | East Mountain Fiber Tour |
| 9-16 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting with the Puffins, with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| ** 9-20 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Shetland Islands Knitting Tour |
| ** 10-12 | Heartstone Lodge, Buena Vista, VA | House Mountain Yarn Co. Knitting Retreat |
| 10-13 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Mimi Bird |
| 10-19 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour |
| ** 12-14 | Ravalli County Fairgrounds, Hamilton, MT | Big Sky Fiber Festival |
| 12-14 | The Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland | Woollinn: The Dublin Festival of Yarn |
| 12-18 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Shetland Knitting Tour |
| 12-21 | Ireland | Woollinn Adventure Dublin, Cavan & Donegal |
| 13 | Varies | World Wide Knit in Public Day |
| 13 | Fenelon Falls Community Centre, Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada | Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival |
| 13-14 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | 10th Annual Central New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 13-14 | Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, Estes Park, CO | 30th Annual Estes Park Wool Market |
| 13-14 | FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield, England, UK | The Wool Monty |
| ** 13-16 | Parker Ranch, Clayton, GA | Southeastern Yarn + Yoga Retreat |
| 14-17 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Bill Huntington |
| ** 14-Sept. 15 | Northwestern Canada | Playing with String: The Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 15-20 | Rodeo Arena, Diné College, Tsailé, AZ, Navajo Nation | 24th Annual Sheep Is Life Celebration |
| 15-22 | Faroe Islands, Denmark | Knitting in the Faroe Isles with Katrina I Geil [sold out] |
| 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 | Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI | Midwest Felting Symposium |
| 19-21 | Denmark Municipal Building, Congregational Church & Public Library, Denmark, ME | Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshops |
| 19-22 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with designer Casapinka [sold out] |
| 19-25 | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada | Fibre Week |
| 19-26 | Baia Azul Hotel, Madeira, Portugal | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy |
| 20-21 | Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, Ames, IA | 14th Annual Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 20-26 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Shetland Knitting Tour |
| 20-27 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting Retreat |
| ** 21-23 | Seven Sister’s Studio, Bisbee, AZ | 2nd Annual Bisbee Fiber Arts Retreat & Gathering |
| 21-28 | Parcevall Hall, Yorkshire, England, UK | Ann Kingstone Yorkshire Knitting Tour |
| 21-28 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting Under the Midnight Sun with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| ** 22-23 | UMass Lowell iHub, Lowell, MA | Fiber Camp |
| ** 22-28 | Cordova Community Center, Cordova, AK | Net Loft Fiber & Friends: FisherFolk – Land & Sea |
| 24 | Doubletree by Hilton, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | 3rd Annual Aberdeen YarnFest |
| 24-29 | Scotland | The Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Kathleen Anderson [sold out] |
| 24-27 | Doubletree Hotel, Rochester, MN | Zombie Knitapocalypse: An Urban Knitting Retreat |
| 25-28 | Rotorua Racecourse, Glenholme, Rotorua, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society National Festival: SteamKnit |
| 26-27 | Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, UK | 16th Annual Woolfest: The Original British Wool Festival |
| 26-28 | The Berry Center, Cypress, TX | Houston Fiber Fest |
| 26-28 | Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR | 46th Annual Black Sheep Gathering |
| 26-29 | Red Centre, Alice Springs, Australia | 24th Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival |
| ** 26-July 2 | Les Soeurs Anglaises, Briançon, 24320 Verteillac, France | Knitting Im-Mercerie III with Åsa Tricosa |
| ** 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 |
| ** 27-30 | Renaissance Hotel , Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Biggest Little Getaway Wool Retreat |
| 29-July 8 | Iceland | Knitting through Iceland’s Wonders & Wildlife with Jane Crowfoot [sold out] |
July
| ** 1-31 | Northwestern Canada | Playing with String: The Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 2-5 | Jyväskylä, Finland | Summer Knitting Festival |
| 2-9 | Austria, Hungary, Slovakia | Stitch & Cruise Along the Danube from Vienna to Budapest with Lisa Walton |
| 2-16 | Norway, Iceland, Scotland | Northern Isles Knitting Cruise with JC Briar |
| 5-11 | Viljandi, Estonia | Estonian Craft Camp: Traditional Craft Workshops |
| 5-13 | Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania | Baltic Cities Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum: Tallinn, Riga & Vilnius |
| ** 6 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | Indie Burgh Craft Crawl |
| 6-17 | Iceland & Irish Sea | Celebrity Cruise with Friends and Fiberworks |
| 9-13 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 2.75 |
| 9-19 | Iceland | Knitting through Iceland’s Wonders & Wildlife with Jane Crowfoot |
| 10-12 | Wilson County Exposition Center, Lebanon, TN | Natural Fiber Extravaganza |
| ** 10-13 | Manchester, NH | Crochet Guild of American 25th Anniversary Chain Link Conference |
| 11-12 | Uffculme Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK | Yarningham |
| ** 11-15 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird |
| 11-21 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 11-25 | British Isles | British Isles Knitting Cruise with Gwen Bortner |
| 10-12 | The Queens Hotel, City Square, Leeds, England, UK | 41th Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| ** 12-14 | Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, NSW, Australia | Knitters’ Guild NSW Conference |
| ** 12-21 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 30th Annual Great Northern Arts Festival |
| ** 13 | Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ | Capital FibreFest |
| ** 13 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 13th Annual Great Toronto Yarn Hop |
| ** 13-14 | Grazing Hills Alpaca Ranch, Viola, ID | 1st Annual Grazing Hills Fiber Festival |
| ** 14-23 | Indiana/Illinois border | Illiana Yarn Crawl |
| 16-20 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 1 & 2 |
| 16-26 | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | Jumpers & Jazz in July |
| 17-19 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 142nd Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| 17-19 | Sonoma County, CA | Wine Country Yarn Hop |
| ** 17-21 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 18-19 | Copper K Barn, 8 miles south of Whitehall, MT | 4th Annual Copper K Fiber Festival |
| ** 18-21 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 19-23 | Bainbridge Island, WA | Knitting on a Lark with Lorilee Beltman |
| 19-28 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands |
| 23-27 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 3 |
| 24-25 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 14th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| 24-30 | Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxvile, TV | 25th Biannual Convergence: Handweavers Guild of America Biennial Conference |
| 24-Aug. 2 | Historic Abingdon, VA | Virginia Highlands Festival |
| 24-Aug. 9 | Bergen, Reykjavik and Shetland | The ULTIMATE Knitting Cruise with Laura Nelkin |
| 25-26 | Redborne School and Community College, Ampthill, England, UK | Fibre East: British Natural Fibre & Craft |
| ** 26-28 | Hotel RL, Olympia, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association Annual Conference: Back to Basics-Fiber, Prep, Twist |
| ** 26-28 | Southeast Wisconsin | Wandering Ewe: Southeastern Wisconsin Yarn Crawl |
| ** 27-Aug. 4 | Chicago, IL | 10th Annual Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| 27-Aug. 7 | Orkney Islands, North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK | North Ronaldsay 4th Annual Sheep Festival |
| ** 27-Aug. 11 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
| 30-Aug. 2 | Schaumburg, IL | Stitches Midwest |
| 31-Aug. 2 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka |
| 31-Aug. 9 | Pennsylvania | 7th Annual Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
August
| 1-2 | Hartl Building, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| 1-2 | Life Science Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK | WoolNEss |
| ** 1-31 | Northwestern Canada | Playing with String: The Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| ** 2-11 | Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee | I75 Yarn Crawl |
| ** 3 | Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK | 3rd Annual Yarnfolk Wool Fest |
| ** 5-11 | Brandbjerg Højskole, Denmark | Nordic Knitting Symposium (Nordisk Strikkesymposium) |
| 7-8 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House |
| ** 7-10 | Lancaster Convention Center & Marriott, Lancaster, PA | 2nd Annual Lancaster Fiber Festival: A Celebration of Paper, Fabric, Yarn & Thread! |
| ** 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 with Dana Fadel and Bristol Ivy |
| 12-16 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 14-16 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 7th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| 14-17 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 15-16 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival |
| 16 | Fairfield Community Center, Porter Park, Victoria, BC, Canada | 10th Annual Fibrations! |
| ** 16-17 | Slessor Gardens, Dundee, Scotland, UK | Ewefest: Scotland’s National Wool Festival |
| ** 16-18 | Pine Mountain Resort, Pineville, KY | Mountain Hollow Farm Yarn Retreat: All Yarn, All Weekend |
| 16-22 | Iceland | Hiking and Knitting between Fire and Ice, with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| ** 17-24 | Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 2nd Annual Woolstock: 8 Days of Fleece & Sisterhood |
| 17-24 | Faroe Islands, Denmark | Knitting in the Faroe Isles with Katrina I Geil [sold out] |
| ** 18-26 | Colorado Front Range | 7th Annual Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| 22 | Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Wirral, England, UK | Popup Wool Show |
| ** 22-25 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights: Yarn and Stitch Retreat |
| ** 24 | Barrie Curling Club, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | 2nd Annual Fibre Spirit |
| ** 24 | Portsoy Salmon Boothy, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK | 3rd Annual Wool@Portsoy |
| ** 24-25 | Nova Labs, Reston, VA | Fiber at the Lab |
| ** 24-26 | Anglesey Showground, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, UK | Internationwool Festival |
| 24-30 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Shetland Knitting Tour |
| 27-30 | Bahnhof Hohenstein, near Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, Germany | Mairlynd Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg |
| 29 | Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK | Wool @ Portsoy |
| ** 29-Sept. 2 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
| ** 30-Sept. 1 | Michigan State University Pavilion, E. Lansing, MI | LamaFest Showcase |
| 30-Sept. 9 | Ireland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands |
| ** 31 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel |
| ** 31-Sept. 1 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 7th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber Gathering |
September
| 1-7 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Shetland Knitting Tour |
| ** 1-8 | London, England, UK | 6th Annual Great London Yarn Crawl |
| ** 1-15 | Northwestern Canada | Playing with String: The Great Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 3-6 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME | Knit Maine |
| ** 4-8 | Searsport Shores Ocean Camping, Searsport, ME | Fiber College of Maine |
| 5-6 | Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 5-6 | St Johns Hall, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK | Cornish Yarn Festival |
| 5-8 | Cherokee Park Ranch, Livermore, CO | 7th Annual Wild West Knitting Retreat |
| 5-12 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting and Crochet Workshop with Carol Meldrum |
| 6 | Reed Point, MT | 32nd Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| ** 6-8 | Norsk Folkemuseum and Deichmanske Main Library, Oslo, Norway | 4th Annual Oslo Strikkefestival (Knitting Festival) |
| 6-17 | Scotland & Shetland | A Knitting Trip to Scotland & Shetland with Mary Penxa |
| ** 7-8 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 8th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| ** 7-8 | Almonte, Ontario, Canada | Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| 7-12 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| ** 8-15 | The Dunloe, Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland | Ballycastle Knits Ireland Knitting Retreat |
| 9-16 | Iceland | Authentic Iceland Hiking and Knitting with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| 10-13 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Knitting Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 10-13 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| 11-13 | Jefferson Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 11-13 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 11-14 | Sebasco Harbor, ME | Patty Lyons Knitting Retreat |
| 12 | Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | 28th Annual Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair |
| 12-13 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 30th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| 12-13 | Dewars Centre, 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 |
| ** 12-15 | Islandwood, Bainbridge Island, WA | Hand Serial Makers Retreat |
| 12-22 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| ** 13-14 | 90 Main St., Machias, ME | 2nd Annual Machias Fiber Festival |
| ** 13-15 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 22nd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| ** 13-15 | Convention Center (Educatorio del Fuligno), Florence, Italy | Third Annual Elizabeth Zimmermann Italian Style International Rally with Meg Swansen |
| 13-17 | Block Island, RI | 4th Annual Knitwear Design Workshop Retreat with Deborah Newton |
| ** 14 | Bedford Breakfast Lions Club, Bedford, VA | 11th Annual Olde Liberty Fibre Faire |
| ** 14 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | Prairie Fibre Festival |
| ** 14-22 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 12th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| ** 15 | Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY | Catskills Fiber Festival |
| 16-25 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Shetland Islands Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 17-20 | Fanø, Denmark | 15th Annual Fanø International Knit Festival |
| ** 16-21 | Vistaterra, Castello di Parella, Italy | 2nd Annual mYak Knitting Retreat with Olga Buraya-Kefelian |
| 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 |
| 19 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Fair |
| 19-20 | Hemlock Fairgrounds, Hemlock, NY | 26th Annual Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival |
| 19-20 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 25th Annual Wool Gathering |
| 19-20 | 4-H Events Center, Ouray County Fairgrounds, Ridgway, CO | 8th Annual Sneffels Fiber Festival |
| ** 19-22 | Nevada and California | 1st Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| ** 19-22 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 4th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 19-26 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting Retreat |
| ** 20-22 | Codington County Extension Complex, Watertown, SD | 27th Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| ** 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 |
| ** 21 | Bellingham, WA | 3rd Annual Whatcom County Purls and Pop-Ups Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21 | North Grenville Municipal Centre, Kemptville, Ontario, Canada | Leeds Grenville Fibre Extravaganza |
| ** 21 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| ** 21-22 | One Tree Hill”, Murrumbateman, NSW. Australia | Fibre with Friends Retreat |
| ** 21-22 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| ** 22 | Brunswick Seniors Activity Centre, Prince George, BC, Canada | Playing with string: The Great Northwest Fibre Fest |
| ** 22-29 | Orlando, Coco Bay, St. Thomas, St. Maarten | Nautical Knitting Cruise with Melissa Leapman and Keith Leonard |
| 23-Oct. 1 | Arden House, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK | Yorkshire Knitting Tour |
| 24-26 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 3rd Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 25-26 | Shrine Auditorium, Billings, MT | 4th Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| 25-27 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| 26-27 | Clackamas County Events Center, Canby, OR | 24th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| 26-27 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 8th Annual Yarndale |
| ** 26-29 | Cross Roads Retreat Center, Caldwell, TX | Stitches, S’mores and More – A Texas Knit Retreat |
| 26-Oct. 4 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | 10th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| ** 27-28 | Bayfield, CO | 20th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| ** 27-28 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 34th Annual Knitter’s Day Out |
| ** 27-29 | Norwegian Knitting Industry Museum, Salhusvegen 201, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 4th Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| ** 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 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 27-29 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| 27-Oct. 4 | Bellingham Castle, Louth & Dublin, Ireland | 4th Annual Maggie’s Irish Castle Bellingham Retreat [sold out] |
| ** 28-29 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| ** 28-29 | Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 14th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| ** 28-29 | Ogemaw County Fairgrounds, Lower Penninsula, West Branch, MI | 19th Annual Northern Michigan Lamb & Wool Festival |
| ** 28-29 | Sauder Village, Archbold, OH | Fiber Arts Fest |
| ** 28-29 | Twin Cities, MN & WI | North Star Farm Tour |
| ** 28-30 | Kulturhus, Copenhagen, Denmark | Knitwork: 4th Knitting and Crochet Festival |
| ** 29-Oct. 5 | Belfast and Camden, ME | Tatter Blue Library Textile Retreat |
October
| 1-4 | PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Knit City Vancouver: A Modern Fibre Event |
| ** 1-6 | Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, and Taos, NM | Fiber Trails of the Upper Rio Grande |
| 2-4 | Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | Vogue Knitting Live! San Francisco |
| 3 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 3-4 | Kit Carson Park, Taos, NM | 36th Annual Taos Wool Festival |
| 3-4 | Montpelier Station, Orange County, VA | 33rd Annual Fall Fiber Festival and Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 3-4 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Tunbridge, VT | 33rd Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 3-4 | Dixon May Fair Grounds, Dixon, CA | 34th Annual Lambtown USA Fiber Fair |
| ** 3-6 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 3-10 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting Retreat |
| 3-10 | Villa Maddalena, Montisi, Tuscany, Italy | Knitting in Tuscany |
| ** 4-6 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| ** 4-6 | From Fife down around and back up the west side of the Puget Sound, WA | Yarnival: PNW (Pacific Northwest) Fall Yarn Crawl |
| 4-9 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Restorative Year’s End Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 4-11 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| 4-13 | Ireland | Best of Scotland Knitting Tour with Highlands |
| ** 5-6 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 7th Annual Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta |
| ** 5-6 | Clearbrook City Hall/Community Center, Clearbrook, MN | 5th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| 5-10 | Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat in Italy with Isabell Krämer [sold out] |
| ** 6 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 23rd Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| ** 6-12 | Online event | Spin Together |
| 7-11 | Sun Valley, Ketchum & Hailey, ID | 24th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 8-11 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 10 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 9th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 10-11 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| ** 10-15 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Fall Fiber School (Yarn Oct. 10–13 | Felt Oct. 14–15) |
| 10-17 | Villa Maddalena, Montisi, Tuscany, Italy | Knitting in Tuscany |
| ** 11-12 | IJsselhallen, Zwolle, Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Festival (Nederlandse Breidagen) |
| ** 11-13 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| 11-16 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Restorative Year’s End Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 11-17 | Nortwest Ireland | Luzury Knitting Retreat in Nortwest Ireland |
| ** 11-20 | Hill Country, TX | 13th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas |
| ** 12 | Lamar Community Center, St. Croix Falls, WI | 5th Annual Lamar Fiber Fest |
| ** 12 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 15th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 12-13 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Leland, MI | 19th Annual Leland Fiber Festival |
| ** 12-13 | Back roads of NH | 36th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| ** 12-13 | Jackson County Fairgrounds, Central Point, OR | 10th Annual FiberMania |
| ** 14 | Halcyon Yarn, Bath, ME | Halcyon Annual Open House |
| ** 15-19 | Amherst, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada | 12th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival |
| 16-17 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| 17-18 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 17-18 | Summit Sports and Ice Complex, Dimondale, MI | 25th Annual Michigan International Alpaca Fest |
| 17-18 | Ashland County Fairgrounds, Ashland, OH | 9th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| ** 17-19 | International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Creativ Festival: A Celebration of Creativity |
| 17-24 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting Retreat [fully booked] |
| 18 | Pudsey Civic Hall, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England, UK | Leeds Machine Knitting Show |
| ** 18-20 | Lincoln, NE | Yarn-a-Holics Retreat Nebraska |
| 18-23 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Restorative Year’s End Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 18-27 | Ireland | South of Ireland Knitting Tour with Aran Islands |
| ** 19 | Woodstock Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 11th Annual Woodstock Fleece Festival |
| ** 19 | Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, Berkeley, CA | 6th Annual Nevada County Fiber Arts Trunk Show |
| ** 19-20 | Evergreen Fairgrounds Building, Monroe, WA | 9th Annual Fiber Fusion Northwest |
| ** 20 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Fall Fiber Frolic |
| 21-27 | Iceland | Knitting on Ice, with Hélène Magnússon [sold out] |
| 22-24 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 23-25 | University of the Highlands & Islands, Inverness, Scotland, UK | 5th Annual Loch Ness Knit Fest |
| 23-30 | Baia Azul Hotel, Madeira, Portugal | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy [sold out] |
| 24 | Delmont Fire Hall, Delmont, PA | Raggz Fiber Affair |
| 24-Dec. 30 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. | World of Threads Festival |
| ** 25-27 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| ** 25-27 | Salon des Créateurs, Felletin, France | National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| 25-30 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Restorative Year’s End Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| ** 26 | Cobble Hill Hall and Fairgrounds, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| ** 26 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| 26-27 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 35th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| ** 26-27 | Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | 7th Annual Kendal Wool Gathering |
| ** 26-27 | Singleton, New South Wales, Australia | NSW Knitter’s Guild FibreFest |
| ** 26-28 | Fort Dalles Readiness Center, The Dalles, OR | Knot Another Knitting Festival |
| ** 26-Nov. 3 | Denmark | Battenkill Fibers Knitters Tour of Denmark |
| 30-Nov. 1 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Knitting Retreat |
November
| ** 1-3 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| ** 2 | Ontario, Canada | Wool and Wanderlust Tour |
| ** 2 | Eyemouth Community Centre, Eyemouth, England, UK | St Abbs Wool Festival |
| ** 2 | Peace Hill Farm, Charles City, VA | Peace Hill Farm, Fiber and Craft Festival |
| ** 2-3 | Central Hall Westminster, London, England, UK | Yarnporium |
| ** 2-3 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 9th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| ** 2-3 | Civic Hall & The Grove School, Totnes, Devon, England, UK | Stitch Fest South West |
| ** 3 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 7th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| ** 3-4 | Big 4 Building, Calgary Stampede Grounds, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | 5th Annual Calgary Fibre Arts Fair |
| 5-8 | Quechee Inn at Marshland Farms, Quechee, VT | Knitting in the Mountains with Mary Annarella |
| 5-8 | Good Commons Retreat Center, Plymouth, VT | Yoga + Yarn Retreat |
| 5-8 | Ithaca, NY | 4th Annual Knit Ithaca with Laura Nelkin |
| 5-8 | Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA | Stitches SoCal |
| 6-7 | Meramec Baptist Retreat Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| 6-8 | The Doubletree, Danvers, MA | Northeast Handspinners’ The Gathering |
| ** 6-9 | Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace, Lake Buena Vista, FL | 4th Annual Magical Fiber Fantasy Retreat |
| 7 | Old Gregg School and Community Center, Spring Mills, PA | 3rd Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
| 7 | Lane Agricultural Park, Murfreesboro, TN | 10th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| ** 7-10 | Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin, Ireland | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| ** 7-10 | Wisp Resort, McHenry, MD | Knittreat |
| 8 | Priory School, Hitchin, Herts, England, UK | Hitchin Festiwool: The Yarn and Wool Fair |
| ** 8-9 | Camp Cavell Conservancy, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival |
| ** 8-10 | Sapphire Valley Resort, Sapphire, NC | Fall Carolina Fiber Frolic |
| ** 9 | Beach Middle School, Chelsea, MI | Spinner’s Flock Fall Fleece Fair |
| ** 9-10 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival |
| ** 9-11 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| 9-12 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 Wild Card Retreat with Deb Robson |
| ** 10 | Nile Shrine Golf Center, Mountlake Terrace, WA | Yarn Revolution |
| 12-15 | Naulakha, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Knitting Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 13-15 | Hill Country Youth Events Center, Kerrville, TX | 32nd Annual Kid n’ Ewe & Llamas Too Festival |
| ** 16 | Red Barn at Sycamore Farm, Terre Haute, IN | WintersEve: A Fiberarts Gathering |
| ** 16 | St David’s Episcopal Church, Topeka, KS | Twisted Fiber Festival |
| ** 16-17 | WTC Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | 2nd Annual Barcelona Knits |
| ** 17 | Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham, England, UK | Nottingham Yarn Expo |
| ** 17 | Ace Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin: A Pittsburgh Indie Fiber Arts Marketplace |
| 20-21 | Canton Civic Center, Canton, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| 20-23 | Yandina, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia | 3rd Annual Fibre Arts Festival |
| ** 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 |
| ** 22-23 | Old Shawnee Town Hall, Shawnee, KS | 37th Annual Creative Hand Show and Sale sponsored by the Weavers Guild and the Fiber Guild of Kansas City |
| 26-29 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting and Stitching Show |
| ** 29-Dec 1 | Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, MA | Knit Pray Love: A Knitting and Yoga Retreat |
| ** 30-Dec. 1 | Black Forest Community Center, Colorado Springs, CO | 14th Annual Alpaca Holiday Extravaganza |
December
| ** 6-8, 13-15 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Studio Tours |
| ** 8 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
Fiber Tours
| May 22-Sept. 7 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| ** May 25-Aug. 31 | Wyoming | 2nd 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! |
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