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2018 Knitting & Fiber Events
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Enjoy these year-round fiber tours.
January
| 4-April 28 | Around the world, 40 ports of call | World Knitting Cruise with Judy and Pete Laszcz |
| 6 | Clarion Inn & Suites, Orlando Airport, Orlando, FL | 14th Annual Distaff Day |
| 11 | mYak Showroom, West Village, New York, NY | Launch of Traverse, Michele Wang Capsule Collection for mYak |
| 11-13 | Kanuga Conferences, Hendersonville, NC | Knitting & Quilting Retreat |
| 12-13 | New York Marriot Marquis, New York, NY | Vogue Knitting LIVE! New York |
| 13 | Columbian Theatre, Wamego, KS | Winter Woolfest: The Fiber Festival of Kansas |
| 17-20 | Prescott Resort, Prescott, AZ | 7th Annual Arizona Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 19-21 | Trad Arts Studio, Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI | 10th Annual Slater Mill Knitting Weekend & Fiber Art Marketplace |
| 20-Feb. 2 | Green Hotal, Mysore, India | Knitting Holiday India with Jane Crowfoot |
| 21 | Marriott Hotel, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, UK | 5th Annual Waltham Abbey Wool Show |
| 21-30 | Iceland | Iceland in the Heart of Winter with Cat Bordhi |
| 25-28 | Powerhouse Community Arts Center & Pavilion, Oxford, MS | 8th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival |
| 26-28 | Embassy Suites by Hilton, Las Vegas, NV | National NeedleArts Association Winter Needlearts Market |
| 26-28 | Birch Bay Ranch, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Knit Away: Eat, Laugh, Sleep, Knit |
| 27 | Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market, Wayland, MA | Farm Fiber Days |
| 27-28 | Oceanview Education Centre, Vancouver Island University, British Columbia, Canada | Fibre & Fabric From the Ground Up |
| 30-Feb. 6 | Madeira | Madeiran Knitting & Crochet Retreat with Carol Meldrum |
February
| 2-4 | Boone Tavern, Berea, KY | Pins & Needles Retreat |
| 2-4 | Seyon Lodge, Seyon Lodge State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| 9-11 | Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 5th Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 9-11 | Sauder Village, Archbold, OH | Knitting and Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 10-11 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 14th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show |
| 11 | Boston Public Market, Boston, MA | Boston Farm & Fiber Festival |
| 14-18 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 8th Annual Northern Fibers Retreat |
| 15-18 | Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA | Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat |
| 16-18 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK | 10th Annual Unravel |
| 17 | Beach Middle School, Chelsea, MI | Spinner’s Flock Fleece Sale |
| 19-22 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 Spin-to-Weave Retreat with Deb Robson, Longwools and Weft-faced Fabrics |
| 22-25 | Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA | Stitches West |
| 23 | Calvary Lutheran Church, Bemidji, MN | Fiber Festival |
| 23-24 | FIVE Exhibition Centre, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK | Knit & Stitch It |
| 23-24 | Calvary Lutheran Church, Bemidji, MN | Creative Spirit Fiber Festival |
| 23-25 | Crown Plaza Milwaukee Airport, Milwaukee, WI | Midwest Fiber Frolic |
| 23-25 | Hilton Garden Inn & Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, ME | New England Textile Arts Network’s Spa Knit & Spin |
| 23-Mar 11 | Indiana | Roving Indiana: Yarn Crawl |
| 24 | Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market, Wayland, MA | Farm Fiber Days |
| 26-28 | Wildwood Lodge, Inverness, CA | YOTH (Veronika Jobe) and Magpie (Dami Hunter) |
| 26-March 1 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 Four-by-Four Retreat: Four Days, Four Fibers with Deb Robson |
| 28-March 3 | Red Lion Inn, Berkshires, MA | Vogue Knitting Destination: Berkshires Knitting Intensive with Catherine Lowe, Amy Herzog & Courtney Kelley |
March
| 1-3 | Roslindale Public Library, Roslindale, MA | Yarn and Craft Book Sale |
| 1-4 | Portland, OR | Rose City Yarn Crawl: Unravel Portland |
| 1-4 | Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, London, UK | Spring Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 1-4 | Horseshoebay Resort, Horseshoe Bay, TX | 5th Annual Knitting in the Hills Getaway |
| 2-4 | Dunedin Centre, Dunedin, New Zealand | Unwind Fibrecraft Retreat |
| 2-10 | Central Florida, east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 3 | Bothwell Council Chambers Lawn, Alexander Street, Bothwell, Australia | SpinOUT 2018 |
| 3-April 4 | Neue Messe, Leipzig, Germany | Wolle-Fest & Stoffmesse |
| 4-9 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| 8-11 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: Sanquhar Gloves, A Scottish Tradition |
| 9-10 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival |
| 9-11 | Ames, IA | 23rd Annual Arnhild’s Knitting Studio Retreat |
| 9-11 | Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL | Vogue Knitting Live! Chicago |
| 11-16 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| 12 | Hilton Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL | Yarn Market News Summit: Collaborate, Network, Grow |
| 13-24 | Scotland & England | Vogue Knitting Tour of Scotland & England |
| 15-18 | Skipping Stone Beach B&B, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada | Knitting Retreat: Take the Fear Out of Fair Isle |
| 16-27 | Cedarburg, Grafton, Thiensville, WI | 4th Annual Fiber Arts Weekend in the ‘Burg! |
| 15-17 | Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | Edinburgh Yarn Festival |
| 15-18 | Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association 25th Annual Retreat |
| 15-18 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| 16-17 | Cedarburg, Grafton, hiensville, WI | 4th Annual Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| 16-18 | Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI | Madison Knitters’ Guild Knit In with Susan B. Anderson, Kate Larson, Laura Linneman, Patty Lyons & Laura Nelkin |
| 17 | Winterset Elementary School, Winterset, IA | 7th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| 17 | Ramada Inn and Conference Center, State College, PA | For the Love of Fiber |
| 17 | James Lee Community Center, Falls Church, VA | Fibernate Farmer’s Market |
| 17 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts Spring Fiber Frolic |
| 17-18 | Salt Lake City, UT | Salt Lake Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Romi Hill |
| 17-April 7 | Panama Canal | Inca & Panama Canal Discovery Knitting Cruise with Sally Melville |
| 18 | Heartlands, Robinson’s Shaft, Dudnance Lane, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UKK | Cornwoolly: Fibre & Textile Show for Cornwall |
| 18 | Great Room, Savage Mill, Savage, MD | 11th Annual Homespun Yarn Party |
| 18-23 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| 20-24 | Bandera, TX | 4th Annual Bandera Fiber Arts Retreat and Festival |
| 22-24 | Wisconsin River Valley & Baraboo Hills, WI | Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail Creativity Weekend |
| 22-25 | Connecticut Convention Center & Marriott, Hartford, CT | Stitches United |
| 22-25 | Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY | Knitting Weekend with Paula Kucera, Laura Nelkin, Jill Draper, Cal Patch, Bristol Ivy & Katie Grove |
| 23-24 | Cloverdale Exhibition Park Grounds, AGRIPLEX Bldg., Cloverdale, BC | 10th Annual Fibres West |
| 23-24 | State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 12th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 23-25 | Brampton Inn, Chestertown, MD | Brioche Knitting Weekend with Heather Zoppetti |
| 23-25 | Pine Mountain Resort, Pineville, KY | Mountain Hollow Yarn Retreat |
| 24 | Junior Fair Building, Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH | 33rd Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair |
| 24 | Gymnasium, Ace Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA | Spring Indie Knit & Spin Marketplace |
| 24 | MA. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, MA | Woolapalooza |
| 26 | Chappaqua Library Auditorium, Chappaqua, NY | Westchester Knitting Guild: Fixing Lace Mistakes & Novus Construction with Laura Nelkin |
| 27-31 | Westin Kansas City at Crown Center, Kansas City, MO | 3rd Annual PLY Away: A Spinning Retreat |
| 28-April 11 | China, Korea, Japan | Asia Knitting Cruise with Gwen Bortner |
April
| 1-8 | Caribbean | Friends & Fiberworks Spring Knitting Cruise with Barry Klein |
| 5-8 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 11th Annual Minnesota Yarn Shop Hop |
| 5-8 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 13th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest featuring Franklin Habit |
| 5-8 | Triangle area, NC | Triangle Yarn Crawl |
| 6-7 | First United Methodist Church, Warren, PA | Kinzua Knit-Away |
| 6-8 | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival: Knit, Crochet, Quilt, Create! |
| 6-8 | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA | Fiber Forward: A Juried Exhibition Celebrating the Art of Knit & Crochet |
| 6-8 | Neighborhood Fiber Co. Studio Store, Baltimore, MD | City Zen Dye Retreat |
| 6-9 | First Baptist Church, Rochester, NY | Rochester Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Kate Atherley |
| 6-9 | Imperial Stock Ranch, Imperial Yarn & Imperial River Company, Maupin, OR | Vogue Knitting Destination: Imperial Yarn and Imperial Stock Ranch with Lorilee Beltman & Olga Buraya-Kefelian |
| 6-15 | Baltimore & environs, MD | Charm City Yarn Crawl |
| 7 | York Harbor Inn, York, ME | 6th Annual Fiber Market |
| 7 | Eyemouth Community Centre, Eyemouth, England, UK | St Abbs Wool Festival |
| 7-8 | Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, IL | YarnCon: Chicago’s 11th Annual Indie Fiber Fair |
| 7-8 | Nezinscot Farm, Turner, ME | Artisans Guild Open House |
| 7-8 | Grammar School, Harrogate Road, Leeds, England, UK | Spring into Wool: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 7-8 | Portland OR to Seattle, WA | Sheepish in Seattle: The Quadr-Ewe-ple |
| 8-13 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Weaving for Knitters with Cat Bordhi |
| 11-16 | 1661 Inn, Block Island, RI | Knitting on Block Island |
| 12-15 | Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO | Interweave Yarn Fest |
| 13-14 | Putnam County Fairgrounds, Greencastle, IN | Fiber Event at Greencastle: Celebrating 26 Years of Fiber |
| 13-14 | International Centre Entrance 1, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Spring creativ festival® |
| 13-15 | Chincoteague Island, VA | SoXperience |
| 13-15 | Amish View Inn, Bird-in-Hand, PA | Lancaster Knitter’s Retreat |
| 13-15 | Blue Mountain Inn, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Knitting Retreat: Dye Workshop |
| 13-16 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee |
| 14 | Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR | Annual Fiber Fair and All-Day Spin-In |
| 14 | Presbyterian Church, Pluckemin, NJ | 8th Annual New Jersey Needle Festival |
| 14 | Jane Addams Community Center, Cedarville, IL | 22nd Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair |
| 14 | Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville, NY | CNY Fiber Frolic |
| 14 | University of Minnesota ReUse Warehouse, Minneapolis, MN | 18th Annual World’s Largest Textile Garage Sale |
| 14 | 15th Avenue Baptist Church, Nashville, TN | The Big Stitch 38 |
| 14-15 | Merchants Square Mall, Allentown, PA | Allentown Fiber Festival |
| 14-15 | Newton’s Yarn Country, Anaheim, CA | Newton’s Spring Parking Lot Sale |
| 14-15 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Spring Fiber Expo |
| 15-20 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Cat Bordhi’s Island Knitting Retreat |
| 19-22 | Los Angeles County, CA | LA County Yarn Crawl |
| 19-22 | Long Island, NY | 4th Annual Long Island Yarn Crawl |
| 19-22 | New Jersey | New Jersey Wool Walk |
| 19-22 | Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA | Shepherd’s Extravaganza |
| 19-22 | Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, Greenwich, NY | Hudson Valley Knitter’s Retreat |
| 19-22 | Fuglafirði, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting Festival [Bindifestivalur: Strikkefestival] |
| 20-21 | Arcotel Wimberger Hotel, Vienna, Austria | Vienna Wool & Design Festival |
| 20-22 | Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Overland Park, KS | Knitting in the Heartland |
| 20-22 | Maryland countryside | Countryside Artisans 2017 Spring Studio Tour |
| 20-22 | Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN | 9th Annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival |
| 20-22 | Fern Resort, Orillia, Ontario, Canada | 6th Annual YarnOver SleepOver Retreat |
| 20-22 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Black Sheep Yarn Shop Retreat [sold out] |
| 20-21 | Brampton Inn, Chestertown, MD | Knitting Boutique Retreat: Brioche Knitting with Heather Zoppetti |
| 20-25 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Cat Bordhi’s Island Knitting Retreat |
| 21 | Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN | The World’s Largest 18th Annual Textile Garage Sale |
| 21 | Denmark Arts Center, Denmark, ME | Denmark Sheepfest |
| 21 | Highland Park Ruritan, Lenoir City, TN | Fab Fiber Yard Sale |
| 21 | Delmont Fire Hall, Delmont, PA | RaggZ Fiber Affair & Wool Market |
| 21 | Bedford Breakfast Lions Club, Bedford, VA | 10th Annual Olde Liberty Fibre Faire |
| 21 | Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY | Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase |
| 21 | Varies | Local Yarn Store Day: Yarn Shop Appreciation Day |
| 21-30 | Lake Hotel, Killarney, Ireland | Knit Ireland with Laura Nelkin |
| 22-23 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 2nd Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 22-25 | Resort at Paws Up, Greenough, MT | Interweave Escapes: Montana with Lorilee Beltman |
| 22-27 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Spring Island Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 22-May 1 | Ireland | Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 24-27 | South Australia | Creative Incentives Tour of South Austrailia |
| 26-29 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Yarn School |
| 26-29 | Doubletree Hotel by Hilton, Savannah, GA | Knit for Fun Retreat with Ann Budd, Meghan Fernandes, Sivia Harding & Joji Locatelli |
| 26-29 | IslandWood, Bainbridge Island, WA | Knitting with Company with Julie Hoover, Catherine Lowe, Melanie Falick & Kay Gardiner |
| 26-May 1 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Spring Fiber School |
| 26-May 5 | Toronto & Montreal, Canada | Vogue Knitting Tour of Toronto & Montreal |
| 27-28 | Bemidji, Turtle River, Tenstrike, MN | 3rd Annual Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| 27-28 | Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum, Seguin, TX | 8th Annual Yellow Rose Fiber Producers Fiesta |
| 27-29 | Manoir Montpellier, Lac-Simon, Quebec, Canada | Twist Spring Retreat |
| 27-29 | Minneapolis Marriott Northwest, Minneapolis,MN | 31st Annual MN. Knitters’ Guild Yarnover with Bristol Ivy |
| 27-29 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Woolith Fair: A Greater Vancouver Yarn Crawl |
| 27-29 | Okanogan County Fairgrounds Agriplex, Okanogan, WA | 6th Annual OKfiberfest |
| 27-29 | Christ the King Retreat House, Syracuse, NY | 8th Yarn Cupboard Annual Fiber Arts Retreat and Market |
| 27-29 | Oregon Garden Resort, Silverton, OR | Knot Another Knitting Festival |
| 27-29 | Galiano Inn & Spa, Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada | Spring Retreat on Galiano Island with Susan B. Anderson & Andrea Rangel. |
| 27-29 | Gilmer County Civic Center, Ellijay, GA | Inaugural Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival |
| 27-30 | Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock, NC | Unwind: A Fiber Arts Getaway |
| 28 | First United Methodist Church, Roseburg, OR | Umpqua Fiber Fest, a Celebration of Fibers |
| 28 | Tolland Agricultural Center, Vernon/Rockville, CT | 109th Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival |
| 28 | Gore Place, Waltham, MA | 31th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival |
| 28 | Village of Powhatan, Powhatan, VA | Powhatan’s Festival of Fiber |
| 28 | Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Toronto Knitter’s Frolic |
| 28-29 | Royal Welsh Show Ground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales | 13th Annual Wonderwool Wales: A Festival of Welsh Wool and Natural Fibers |
| 28-29 | Washington County, NY | 26th Annual New York’s Washington County Fiber Tour |
| 28-29 | Château de Miromesnil, Tourville sur Arques, Normandy, France | Festival: The Thread of the Sleeve {Festival Le fil de la manche} |
| 28-29 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | Spring New York City Yarn Crawl |
| 28-May 4 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
May
| 2-12 | Lake Hotel, Killarney, Ireland | Knit Ireland with Laura Nelkin |
| 3-6 | Gisborne Showgrounds, Makaraka, Gisborne, Nouth Island, NZ | Creative Fibre National Education Event |
| 3-6 | From Fife down around and back up the west side of the Puget Sound, WA | PNW (Pacific Northwest) Yarn Crawl |
| 3-6 | Camden Harbour Inn, Camden, ME | Interweave Escapes Knitting Retreat with Kristen TenDyke & Amanda Scheuzger |
| 4-6 | Wisconsin | Rites of Spring: Fiber Frolic Yarn Tour |
| 4-6 | National Western Stock Show Complex, Denver, CO | Great Western Alpaca Show & Denver Fiber Fiesta |
| 5 | Fremont/West Sacramento, CA to Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Biggest Little Bus Tour! |
| 5 | Clarke Foley Centre, Ickley, England, UK | Wharfe Wool Fair |
| 5-6 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 5-6 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 2nd Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 5-12 | Canada & New England | Canada and New England Knitting Cruise with Carol Feller |
| 8-11 | Bailbrook House Hotel, Bath, England, UK | Curious Handmade Knitting Retreat [sold out] |
| 8-22 | Wales | Wild and Woolly Wales |
| 9-13 | Various venues, London, England, UK | London Craft Week |
| 9-16 | Occidental Hotel, Buffalo, WY | Knitting in Buffalo, Wyoming |
| 10-13 | North Carolina | Western North Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 10-13 | Portland Expo Center, Portland, OR | Alpacapalooza |
| 10-13 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Learnaway: Professional Finishing Techniques |
| 11-12 | Legacy Events Center, Farmington, UT | Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair |
| 11-13 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Lake Elmo, MN | 21st Annual Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 11-13 | Hyatt Place, Amherst, NY | Knitting Guild of Great Buffalo Seminar Weekend with Patty Lyons |
| 12 | Mission Mill, Salem, OR | 33rd Annual Mission Mill Sheep to Shawl |
| 12 | Loft at W83 Ministry Center, New York, NY | Moms & Makers Market |
| 12-13 | Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, NH | 42nd Annual New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 12-13 | Lower Drayton Farm, Penkridge, Stafford, England, UK | Wool @J13 |
| 13 | Braintree Town Hall, Warner Textile Archive, Braintree District Museum, Braintree, England, UK | Braintree Textile Fair |
| 13 | Doubletree Aberdeen TreeTops Hotel, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | Aberdeen Yarn Fest |
| 13-21 | South of Ireland | Southern Ireland Knitting Tour with the Aran Islands |
| 16-20 | Puget Sound, WA | Northwest LYS Tour: Four Days of Fiber Fun |
| 16-27 | Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast, Ireland | Ireland with Maggie Jackson |
| 17-20 | Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Greenwich, NY | Men’s Spring Knitting Retreat (Upstate New York) |
| 18-19 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration! |
| 18-20 | New Mexico | New Mexico Fiber Crawl |
| 18-20 | Block Island, RI | 8th Annual North Light Fibers Knitting Retreat with Bristol Ivy and Thea Colman |
| 18-20 | Camp Myrtlewood, Myrtle Point, OR | Annual Fiber in the Forest |
| 19-20 | Lycoming County Fairgrounds, Hughesville, PA | 6th Annual Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival |
| 19-20 | Sheep’s Head Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland | Sheep’s Head Yarn Festival |
| 19-20 | Green County Fairgrounds, Waynesburg, PA | 15th Annual Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 19-20 | Masterson State Park, Lexington, KY | 9th Annual Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 19-20 | Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey, MI | Tip of the Mitt Fiber Fair |
| 19-20 | Fibre Harvest Mill, Pathfields Industrial Estatee, South Molton, Devon, England, UK | 5th Annual John Arbon Textiles Mill Open Weekend with Rachel Atkinson |
| 19-20 | Hallockville Museum Farm, Riverhead, Long Island, NY | Long Island Fleece & Fiber Fair |
| 19-23 | Caribbean, Key West to Havana | Cruise with A Good Yarn & Josh Ryks |
| 19-25 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
| 20 | Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Torrance, CA | Southern California Handweaver’s Guild Annual Weaving & Fiber Festival |
| 20 | Coggeshall Farm Museum, Bristol, RI | Rhode Island Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 20-June 3 | Denmark, the UK & Norway | Highlands & Fjords Knitting Cruise with JC Briar |
| 23-29 | Iceland | Spring Knitting Retreat in Icelandic Nature with Hélène Magnússon |
| 23-30 | Grand Hotel, Andalsnes, Norway | Knitting Holiday in Norway |
| 24-27 | Bethel & Royalton, VT | Vermont Spring Fiber Arts Tour |
| 24-28 | Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA | Sacramento County Fair Wool Show |
| 24-28 | Vermont | Vermont Spring Fiber Arts Tour |
| 25-26 | Dickson County Fairgrounds, Dickson, TN | 11th Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival |
| 25-27 | Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster, OH | 23rd Annual Great Lakes Fiber Show |
| 25-27 | ALSAA Sports and Social Centre, Toberbunny, Dublin 9, Ireland | Woollinn: The Dublin Festival of Yarn |
| 25-27 | Sorrento Centre, Sorrento, BC, Canada | 20th Annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat |
| 25-Sept. 3 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| 26 | Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand | Woolfest Auckland |
| 26 | Mart, Dingwall , Scotland, UK | Highland Wool & Textiles Festival |
| 26-27 | Cummington Fairgrounds, Cummington, MA | 44rd Annual Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair |
| 26-28 | Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT | Annual Green Mountain Spinnery Tent Sale |
| 27 | Bradley Centre, Coombs, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canada | 8th Annual 100 Mile Fleece & Fibre Fair |
| 26-June 3 | Virginia | Virginia Knits Virginia Yarn Crawl |
| 28-30 | Sorrento Centre, Sorrento, BC, Canada | 2nd Annual Yoga and Knitting Retreat |
| 29-June 3 | Alaska | Musk Ox Land Adventure: Knitting Land Tour |
| 30-June 3 | Wing and a Prayer Farm, Shaftsbury, VT | New England Fiber Art Summit |
| 31-June 2 | Red Lion Inn, Lacey, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association Annual Conference |
| 31-June 3 | Retreat Center, Pocono Mountains, Honesdale, PA | Vogue Knitting Destination: Knitting Skills Boot Camp with Amy DetJen & Patty Lyons: A Technique Intensive |
| 31-June 3 | Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT | Interweave Escapes with Laura Nelkin & Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 31-June 4 | Vermont | Camp Stitches |
| 31-June 4 | Phineas Swann B&B near Jay Peak Ski Resort, Montgomery, VT | Vermont Summer Knitting Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 31-June 5 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Spirit of the Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson [sold out] |
June
| 1-2 | Johnson County Fairgrounds, Franklin, IN | Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival |
| 2 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM | Spring & Fiber Fest |
| 2 | Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds, England, UK | Leeds Wool Festival |
| 2-3 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 2-3 | Windsor Fairgrounds, Windsor, ME | 18th Annual Maine Fiber Frolic |
| 2-3 | The Pioneer Museum, Flagstaff, AZ | 27th Annual Flag Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 2-3 | The Shops at Worthington Place Mall, Worthington, OH | Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair |
| 2-3 | Higgins Fairgrounds, Sparta, NC | 1st Annual Blue Ridge Fiber Fest |
| 2-3 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 2-9 | Sante Fe and Abiquiu, NM | Knitting & Yoga Adventures Retreat with Susan Mills |
| 2-9 | Chatenay, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France | France Knitting Retreat |
| 2-30 | Bags By CAB-Yarn Shoppe, Denver, CO | 9th Annual Spring Artisans Community Event Spectacular |
| 3-9 | Iceland | Iclandic Spring Hiking and Knitting Tour with Hélène Magnússon |
| 3-10 | Alaska | Musk Ox and Glaciers Knitting Cruise with Merike Saarniit |
| 5-9 | Rotorua Racecourse, Rotorua, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society GeyserKnit Festival |
| 6-10 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Workshops Spring Retreat |
| 7-10 | Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, Estes Park, CO | 28th Annual Estes Park Wool Market |
| 7-10 | Misty Isle Farms, Vashon Island, WA | Vashon Sheepdog Classic |
| 7-10 | Renaissance Hotel, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Knitting Retreat |
| 7-10 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Getaway with Belina Harris-Reid & Brenda M. Watson |
| 8 | Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, VT | Amy King: Spunky Eclectic Spinning Workshop |
| 8-9 | Trout Lake Grange, Trout Lake, WA | Trout Lake Fiber Arts Festival |
| 8-10 | Lake George Retreat Center, West Branch, MI | 2nd Bi-Annual Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
| 8-10 | Blönduós School & Sports Center, Blönduós, Iceland | 3rd Annual Prjónagleði – Knitting Festival |
| 8-10 | Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX | 46th Annual Texas Folklife Festival |
| 8-11 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee |
| 8-11 | Skipping Stone Beach B&B, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada | Take the Fear out of Fair Isle: Salt Spring Retreat |
| 9 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | FiberFest |
| 9 | Varies | World Wide Knit in Public Day |
| 9 | Carberry Memorial Hall, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada | 6th Annual Blue Hills Fibre Festival |
| 9 | Fenelon Falls Secondary School, Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada | Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival |
| 9 | Warren Wilson College, DeVries Gymnaium, Swannanoa, NC | 10th Annual Anything Fiber Sale |
| 9 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Fair |
| 9-10 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | 8th Annual Central New York Fiber Festival |
| 9-14 | Scotland | Baronial Borders Retreat: Knitting Retreat in the Scottish Borders |
| 9-Sept. 9 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Trail |
| 10-19 | Ireland | Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 13-16 | Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with with Mim Bird |
| 13-17 | Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, OH | National NeedleArts Association Summer NeedleArts Trade Show |
| 14-17 | Camp Mikell Retreat Village, Toccoa, GA | Spring Yoga + Knitting Retreat |
| 14-21 | Iceland | Hiking & Knitting under the Midnight Sun with Hélène Magnússon |
| 14-19 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Spirit of the Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson [sold out] |
| 15-16 | Rodeo Arena, Diné College, Tsailé, AZ, Navajo Nation | 22nd Annual Sheep Is Life Celebration |
| 15-17 | Heartstone Lodge, Buena Vista, VA | House Mountain Yarn Co. Knitting Retreat |
| 15-21 | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada | Fibre Week |
| 16-17 | Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, Ames, IA | 13th Annual Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 17-19 | 1912 Center, Moscow, ID | Palouse Fiber Arts Festival |
| 17-20 | Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Bill Huntington |
| 18-24 | Harvey’s Point Lakeside Hotel, Donegal, Ireland | Northwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 18-24 | Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI | Midwest Felting Symposium |
| 19-26 | Whale Pod Chalet, Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada | 18th Annual Knitting on Island Time: Knitting Cables without Going Crazy! [sold out] |
| 21-24 | Hew Haven, CT to Putney, VT | 9th Annual I-91 Shop Hop Connecticut |
| 21-28 | Tasmania, Australia | Yarn Ramble: Tasmania |
| 22-23 | Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England | 14th Annual Woolfest |
| 22-24 | Berry Center, Cypress, TX | Houston Fiber Fest |
| 22-24 | Denmark Municipal Building, Congregational Church & Public Library, Denmark, ME | Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshops |
| 22-July 7 | East Tennessee | East Tennessee Yarn Crawl |
| 23 | Doubletree Hotel, Rochester, MN | Zombie Knitapocalypse Market |
| 23 | Vienna Community Center, Vienna, VA | Fibernate: John Crane Studio Sheep Breed Exhibit |
| 24-Jul 1 | Scottish Isles & Faroe Islands | Scottish Isles to the Faroes Knitting Cruise with Jane Crowfoot [sold out] |
| 22-28 | Cordova Community Center, Cordova, AK | Net Loft Fiber & Friends: FisherFolk – Land & Sea |
| 25-July 2 | Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina i Geil |
| 26-July 2 | Parknasilla Resort Hotel, Kerry, Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 27-30 | Penobscott Bay, Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise |
| 28-July 1 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | 4th Annual City Zen Dye Retreat |
| 29-July 1 | Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR | Black Sheep Gathering |
| 29-July 2 | Red Centre, Alice Springs, Australia | 22nd Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival |
| 30 | Parker Library, Parker, CO | We Knit Colorado Knit/Crochet Day Out |
| 30-July 6 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
July
| 2-9 | Enotel Quinta Do Sol, Madeira | Madeira Knitting Retreat with Justhands-on.TV with Sarah Hatton & Rosee Woodland |
| 5-8 | Toivola Old Courtyard, Jyväskylä, Finland | Summer Knit Festival |
| 5-9 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 1 |
| 6-8 | Arrowhead Ranch, Arrowhead, CA | Griffin Dyeworks 14th Annual Retreat |
| 6-8 | Radcliffe Conference Centre, Warwick University, Coventry, England, UK | 40th Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| 6-12 | Peppermill Resort, Reno, NV | Convergence: Handweavers Guild of America Biennial Conference |
| 7-21 | Norway, Iceland, the Faroes and Shetland Isles | Northern Isles Knitting Cruise with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 8-15 | Ireland | Kerry & Kilkenny Irish Knitting and Craft Tour |
| 8-15 | Yorkshire, England, UK | Ann Kingstone Yorkshire Knitting Tour |
| 11-15 | Airport Holiday Inn, Colorado Springs, CO | Colorado Knitting Camp with Evelyn Clark, e-mail: nams1 at comcast dot net |
| 12-15 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Learnaway: Beaded Lace Knitting |
| 12-16 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 2.75 |
| 13-22 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 30th Annual Great Northern Arts Festival |
| 13-22 | Indiana/Illinois border | Illiana Yarn Crawl |
| 14-15 | Uffculme Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK | Yarningham |
| 14-22 | Victoria, Australia | Yarn Ramble: Victoria |
| ** 15 | Wren Community Center, Wren, OR | Midsummers Spin In |
| 15-21 | Parknasilla Resort Hotel, Kerry, Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 18-22 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 19-23 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Getaway: Brioche Knitting |
| 19-23 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 2 |
| 19-23 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird |
| 20-22 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 140th Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| ** 20-22 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 21-22 | Sonoma County, CA | 6th Annual Sonoma County Yarn Hop |
| 24-Aug. 5 | Argentina & Uruguay | Argentina for Knitters with Joji Locatelli and Alejandra Pont |
| 25-29 | Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, OR | Crochet Guild of American Chain Link Conference |
| 26-29 | Telluride School, Telluride, CO | Many Hands Fiber Arts Festival 2.0 |
| 26-30 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp Retreat 3 |
| 27-28 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 12th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| 27-28 | Edinburgh, Scotland | Indie Burgh Craft Crawl |
| 27-29 | Jordan Summit Hotel, Sunday River Resort, Sunday River, ME | 6th Annual Maine Spinners’ Registry Summer Fiber Retreat |
| 27-29 | Southeast Wisconsin | Southeastern Wisconsin Yarn Crawl |
| 27-29 | Telluride Middle/High School, Telluride, CO | Many Hands Fiber Arts Festival |
| 27-Aug. 5 | Historic Abingdon, VA | Virginia Highlands Festival |
| 28 | James Lee Community Center, Falls Church, VA | Fibernate: Fiber Farmers Market & Spinning Circle |
| 28 | Grange Fair Grounds, Centre Hall, PA | Knitting & Spinning Demonstrations at Farm Fest |
| 28-29 | Redborne School and Community College, Ampthill, England, UK | Fibre East: British Natural Fibre & Craft |
| 28-Aug. 5 | Chicago, IL | Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| 28-Aug. 12 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
| 29-Aug. 4 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | New England Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 29-Aug. 10 | Orkney Islands, North Ronaldsay, Scotland | North Ronaldsay 2nd Summer Sheep Festival |
| 30-Aug 12 | Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor, ME | Schoodic Arts Festival: Felting & Fiber Workshops |
| 31-Aug. 9 | Iceland & Norway | Knitting on a Lark with Lorilee Beltman |
August
| 2-5 | Schaumburg, IL | Stitches Midwest |
| 3-4 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House | 3-12 | Pittsburgh, PA | Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
| 3-13 | Norway | Tour of Norway with Arnhild’s Knitting Studio |
| 4 | Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland | 2nd Annual Yarnfolk Wool Fest |
| 4-5 | Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| 4-5 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka!! |
| 4-5 | Mule Train Alpaca Ranch, Molt, MT | Fiber Arts Fusion |
| 6-12 | Schloss Münchenwiler near Murten, Canton Bern, Switzerland | Knitting Retreat with Nancy Marchant and Simone Kereit |
| 7-14 | Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee | I75 Yarn Crawl |
| 9-12 | Chapel Rock Camp & Conference Center, Prescott, AZ | 5th Annual Grandma’s Sheep Thrills Retreat |
| 9-12 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Learnaway: Lecture & Spinning Workshop with Sue Blacker & Jean Field |
| 10-11 | York Auction Centre, Murton, York, England, UK | 8th Annual British Wool Show |
| 10-11 | York Auction Centre, Murton, York, England, UK | 8th Annual British Wool Show |
| 10-13 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 11-18 | Ireland | Northwest & West Ireland Knitting Tour with Donegal and Galway |
| 12-16 | Sugar Bowl Lodge, Truckee, CA | Blue Bee Studios: The Muslin Sweater in the High Sierras with Elizabeth Doherty |
| 12-18 | Iceland | Hiking & Knitting between Fire and Ice with Hélène Magnússon |
| 12-21 | South of Ireland | Southern Ireland Knitting Tour with the Aran Islands |
| 13-17 | Los Altos, CA | Guadalupe-Moebius Retreat with Cat Bordhi |
| 13-19 | Riederalp-Aletsch Arena, Rhone Valley/Valais Region, Switzerland | Slow Stitching Retreat with Simone Kereit |
| 13-20 | Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina i Geil |
| 14-24 | Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden & Germany | Baltic Knitting Cruise with Melanie Berg |
| 15-19 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Fiber Festival & Fiber Arts Workshops |
| 15-19 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 6th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| 16-20 | Sheep to Shawl Studio & Store, Barton, VT | Artsy Fartsy Knit Dyeing Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 17-18 | Slessor Gardens, Dundee, Scotland, UK | Ewefest |
| 17-26 | Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | DFW Yarn Crawl |
| 18 | Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Wirral, England, UK | Popup Wool Show |
| 18-19 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival |
| 18-26 | Colorado Front Range | Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| 19 | Fairfield Gonzales Community Place, Porter Park, Victoria, BC, Canada | Fibrations! |
| 19-26 | Ireland | Kerry & Kilkenny Irish Knitting and Craft Tour |
| 22-31 | North Island, New Zealand | Creative Incentives New Zealand North Island Tour |
| 24-26 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights: Yarn and Stitch Retreat |
| 24-Sept. 13 | Copenhagen to New York | Viking Passage Knitting Cruise with Hazel Tindall |
| 25 | Portsoy Salmon Boothy, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK | 2nd Annual Wool@Portsoy |
| 25-26 | Forum Finkenau, Hamburg, Germany | Hamburger Wollfestival 2018 |
| 31-Sept. 4 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
September
| 1 | London, England, UK | 5th Annual Great London Yarn Crawl & Pop-up Marketplace |
| 1 | Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 1 | Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, England, UK | Wool Is the Festival |
| 1-2 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 6th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber Gathering & Harvest Festival |
| 1-4 | Cherokee Park Ranch, Livermore, CO | 5th Annual Wild West Knitting Retreat |
| 2 | Reed Point, MT | 30th Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| ** 2-3 | Michigan State University Pavilion, E. Lansing, MI | Llamafest Showcase |
| 2-16 | Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Russia, Estonia and Sweden | Baltic Knitting Cruise with Galina Khmeleva |
| 3-8 | Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| 4-13 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky Tour |
| 5-9 | Searsport Shores Ocean Camping, Searsport, ME | Fiber College of Maine |
| 6-8 | Columbus Convention & Trade Center, Columbus, GA | 8th Annual Georgia FiberFest with Cat Bordhi |
| 6-9 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Learnaway: Project Workshop – Octavia Shawl with Anniken Allis |
| 6-9 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: Designing Tams, a Fair Isle Tradition |
| 6-9 | Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME | Knitting & Yoga Adventures Knit Maine with Kate Atherley, Julia Farwell-Clay, Katharine Cobey, Norah Gaughan, Patty Lyons, Susan Mills & Kristen Tendyke |
| 7-9 | Hillbrook Spa, Charlestown, WV | Domino Knitting with Brigitte Elliott |
| 7-9 | Jefferson Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 8 | Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | 26th Annual Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair |
| ** 8-9 | Scotts Bluff County Fairgrounds, Event Center, Mitchell, NE | Scotts Bluff Valley Fiber Arts Fair |
| 8-9 | Harford Fairgrounds, Harford, PA | 15th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| 8-9 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 7th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| 8-9 | Hunterdon County Fairgrounds, Lambertville, NJ | 24th Annual Garden State Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 8-9 | Mississippi Valley Textile Museum & Almonte Arena, Almonte, Ontario, Canada | Fibrefest 2018 – Festival of Fibre Arts |
| 8-9 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK | Perth Festival of Yarn |
| 8-14 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat & Workshop with Carol Meldrum |
| 8-15 | Ireland | Northwest & West Ireland Knitting Tour with Donegal and Galway |
| 8-18 | Czech Republic, Austria & Hungary | Knitting Adventure to Czech Republic, Austria & Hungary with Nicky Epstein |
| 12-16 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Workshops Fall Retreat |
| 13-16 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | Stitches Texas |
| 13-16 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| 13-16 | Hillbrook Inn and Spa, Charles Town, WV | Knitting Boutique Retreat: Portuguese Knitting with Andrea Wong |
| 13-16 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 3rd Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 14-15 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 6th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| 14-16 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 14-16 | Codington County Extension Complex, Watertown, SD | 26th Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 14-16 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 21st Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 14-15 | Marc Center, Mt. Vernon, MO | 8th Annual Fiber Daze |
| 15 | Bellingham, WA | Purls and PopUps: A Micro Yarn Tour |
| 15 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| 15 | Rockywald Deephaven Camps, Holderness, NH | Squam Art Fair |
| 15-16 | Hemlock Fairgrounds, Hemlock, NY | 24th Annual Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival |
| 15-16 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 23rd Annual Wool Gathering |
| 15-16 | St Johns Hall, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK | Cornish Yarn Festival |
| 15-17 | Inn at Huntingfield Creek, Rock Hall, M | Portuguese Knitting with Andrea Wong |
| 17-25 | Scotland | Scottish Knitting Tour |
| 19-26 | Iceland | Authentic Iceland Hiking & Knitting Tour with Hélène Magnússon |
| 20-23 | Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Greenwich, NY | North East Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat (Upstate NY) |
| 20-23 | Fanø, Denmark | 13th Annual Fanø International Knit Festival |
| 20-23 | The Lodge at Leathem Smith, Sturgeon Bay, WI | Knit for Fun Retreat with Susan B. Anderson, Olga Buraya-Kefelian & Laura Nelkin |
| 21-22 | Brainerd to New York Mills, MN | 2nd Annual Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail Weekend |
| ** 21-22 | San Luis Obispo, CA | SLO County Yarn Crawl |
| 21-22 | Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 21-23 | Iona House, Dawlish, Devon, England, UK | The Knitting Hotel Getaway: Ceramic Button Making with Emily Cross |
| 21-23 | Clarion Orlando Airport Resort Hotel, Orlando, FL | Florida Fiber-In |
| 21-23 | Hilton Union Square, San Francisco, CA | Vogue Knitting LIVE! San Francisco |
| 21-23 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Fleece Tent & Fiber Marketplace at Common Ground Country Fair |
| 21-23 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Knitting Retreat |
| 21-Oct. 1 | Hawaii | Knit & Cruise from Vancouver to Hawaii with Barry Klein, sponsored by Friends and Fiberworks |
| 22-23 | Clackamas County Events Center, Canby, OR | 22nd Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| 22-23 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| 22-28 | Harvey’s Point Lakeside Hotel, Donegal, Ireland | Northwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 22-30 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | 8th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| 23-27 | Northlight Fibers, Block Island, RI | Knitwear Design Workshop with Deborah Newton |
| 23-31 | The Dunloe, Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland | Ballycastle Knits Ireland Knitting Retreat |
| 23-Oct. 2 | South of Ireland | Southern Ireland Knitting Tour with the Aran Islands |
| ** 24-27 | Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey, MI | Super Charge Your Knitting with Sally Melville |
| 26-30 | Vermont | Fall Fiber Arts Tour with Donna Druchunas, Sarah Scully & Tammy White |
| 26-Oct. 4 | Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting in Yorkshire, England: A Wool Heritage |
| 27-30 | Cross Roads Retreat Center, Caldwell, TX | Stitches, S’mores and More – A Texas Knit Retreat |
| 28-29 | Shrine Auditorium, Billings, MT | 3rd Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| 28-29 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 33rd Annual Knitter’s Day Out |
| 28-29 | Port Watson Mini Conference Center, Cortland, NY | Finger Lakes Machine Knitting Seminar |
| 28-30 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| 28-30 | Norwegian Knitting Industry Museum, Salhusvegen 201, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 3rd Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| 28-30 | Kulturhus, Copenhagen, Denmark | Knitwork 2018 |
| 29-30 | 4-H Events Center, Ouray County Fairgrounds, Ridgway, CO | 6th Annual Sneffels Fiber Festival |
| 29-30 | Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 13th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| 29-30 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 6th Annual Yarndale |
| 29-30 | Ogemaw County Fairgrounds, Lower Penninsula, West Branch, MI | 19th Annual Northern Michigan Lamb & Wool Festival |
| 29-30 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 33rd Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| 29-30 | Sauder Village, Archbold, OH | Fiber Arts Fest |
| 29-30 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Tunbridge, VT | 30th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 29-30 | PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada | 7th Annual Knit City Fibre Festival |
| 29-Oct. 1 | St. Anthony Retreat Center, Three Rivers, CA | What the Knit Guild Fall Retreat with Beth Brown Reinsel & Binka Schwan |
| ** 29-Oct. 1 | Unitarian Society, Ridgewood, NJ | North Jersey Fiber Arts Festival |
| 30 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 21st Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest |
| ** 30-Oct. 1 | Twin Cities, MN & WI | North Star Farm Tour |
| 30-Oct. 7 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| 30-Oct. 10 | New Mexico | New Mexico Fiber Arts Tour |
October
| 1-7 | Varies | Spinzilla: A Spinning Week |
| 2-7 | Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, and Taos, NM | Fiber Trails of the Upper Rio Grande |
| 2-7 | Vistaterra, Castello di Parella, Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg |
| 4-6 | Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center, Pomona, CA | Create: Textile Arts Festival |
| 5-6 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Leland, MI | 18th Annual Leland Fiber Festival |
| 5-7 | Hampton Inn, Brattleboro, VT | Green Mountain Spinnery Fall Retreat with Kate Atherley |
| 5-7 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 5-14 | Hill Country, TX | Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas |
| 6 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 7th Annual King’s County Fiber Festival |
| 6 | Halcyon Yarn, Bath, ME | Halcyon Annual Open House |
| 6 | Fosston, MN | 4th Annual Fosston Fiber Festival |
| 6-7 | Kit Carson Park, Taos, NM | 35th Annual Taos Wool Festival |
| 6-7 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Felt School |
| 6-7 | Montpelier Station, Orange County, VA | Fall Fiber Festival and Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 6-7 | Dixon May Fair Grounds, Dixon, CA | 32nd Annual Lambtown USA Fiber Fair |
| 6-7 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta |
| 6-7 | Back roads of NH | 35th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| 6-12 | The Barn, outside Brizambourg, Charente-Maritime, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
| 6-13 | Villa Maddalena, Montisi, Italy | Knitting in Tuscany: Ciao! |
| 7-11 | Sagebrush Inn, Taos, NM | On Higher Ground III: Explore a New Creative Path of Knitting, Spinning and Weaving |
| 7-12 | Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland | Knit & Crochet in the West of Ireland with Carol Meldrum [sold out] |
| 7-12 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Cat Bordhi’s Island Knitting Retreat |
| 7-16 | Ireland | Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| ** 8 | Veterans Memorial Park, Palisade, CO | 3rd Annual Palisade Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 8-9 | Patrick Ranch and Museum, Chico, CA | Fiber Fusion |
| 8-19 | Ireland | Fiber Tour of Ireland |
| 9-13 | Amherst, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada | 11th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival |
| 9-15 | Parknasilla Resort Hotel, Kerry, Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 10-14 | Sun Valley, Ketchum & Hailey, ID | 22nd Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 11-13 | International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Creativ Festival: A Celebration of Creativity |
| 11-14 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 11-14 | Ogden, UT | Vogue Knitting Destination: Cook & Cable with Norah Gaughan |
| 11-14 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 11-15 | Coeur d’Alene, ID | Camp Stitches |
| 11-16 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Fall Fiber School |
| 12-13 | Our Lady of Peace Retreat Center, Beaverton, OR | Tigard Knitting Guild Fall Retreat |
| 12-14 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| 12-13 | Briny Bay Inn & Cafe, Nova Scotia, Canada | Five Islands Color Work Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 12-15 | Marconi Hotel, Marconi Historic State Park, Marshall, CA | Shetland in Point Reyes with Gudrun Johnston & Mary Jane Mucklestone |
| 13 | Woodstock Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | Woodstock Fleece Festival |
| 13 | Ashland County Fairgrounds, Ashland, OH | 7th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| 13 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 14th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| 13-14 | Summit Sports and Ice Complex, Dimondale, MI | 22nd Michigan International Alpaca Fest |
| 13-14 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| ** 13-15 | Gray’s Harbor Event Center, Elma, WA | Schafer Meadows Fiber Fest & Alpaca Show |
| 13-20 | Villa Maddalena, Montisi, Italy | Knitting in Tuscany: Ciao! |
| 13-Nov. 25 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada | World of Threads Festival: International Festival of Contemporary Fibre Art |
| ** 14 | Lamar Community Center, St. Croix Falls, WI | Lamar Fiber Fest |
| ** 14 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 14-19 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Cat Bordhi’s Island Knitting Retreat |
| ** 15 | Unita County Library, Evanston, WY | Sagebrush Fiber & Folk Art Festival |
| ** 15 | Mossville Junior High and Elementary School, Mossville, IL | Bishop Hill Fiber Guild F.A.L.L. {Fiber Arts Leisurely Learning} |
| 15-25 | Scotland, UK | Knit Scotland! with Laura Nelkin (w/ a wee dram) |
| 16-22 | Harvey’s Point Lakeside Hotel, Donegal, Ireland | Northwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 17-30 | Green Hotel, Mysore, India | Knitting Holiday India with Debbie Bliss |
| 18-21 | Inverness, Scotland, UK | Loch Ness Knit Fest with Louise Smith & Sara Huntington |
| 18-23 | La Mancha B&B, Cuernavaca, Mexico | Eternal Mexico Knitting Retreat |
| 19 | Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties, NY | 5th Annual Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Trunk Show |
| 19-21 | Sheep to Shawl Studio & Shop, Barton, VT | Toe Up Socks from Around the World Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 19-21 | Inverness Leisure Centre, Inverness, Scotland, UK | Loch Ness Knit Fest |
| 20 | Delmont Fire Hall, Delmont, PA | RaggZ Fiber Affair & Wool Market 2017 |
| 20-21 | Washetenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 20-21 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 20-21 | Trinity Park Conference & Events Centre, Ipswich, East Anglia, England, UK | Wooltown |
| 20-21 | Evergreen Fairgrounds Building, Monroe, WA | 8th Annual Fiber Fusion Northwest |
| ** 21 | Johnson County Fairgrounds, Iowa City, IA | Shepherds Market Fall Fiber Festival |
| 21-22 | College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL | Interknit Machine Knitting Club with Carol Scott |
| 21-26 | Island Inn, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Cat Bordhi’s Island Knitting Retreat |
| 24-30 | Iceland | Knitting on Ice with Hélène Magnússon |
| 25-27 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 25-28 | Asbury Hills, Cleveland, SC | Southeast Men’s Knitting Retreat |
| 25-28 | DoubleTree by Hilton, Edmonton, Canada | Knit for Fun Retreat with Carson Demers, Bristol Ivy & Justyna Lorkowska |
| 25-Nov. 8 | Australia and New Zealand | Australia and New Zealand with Anne Berk |
| 26-28 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| 26-28 | Fort Dalles Readiness Center, The Dalles, OR | Knot Another Knitting Festival |
| 27 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| 27-28 | Josephine County Fairgrounds, Grants Pass, OR | 9th Annual FiberMania |
| 27-28 | Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | Kendal Wool Gathering |
| ** 29 | Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ | Tucson Handweavers & Spinners Guild: A Palette of Fiber Arts |
| 30-Nov. 6 | Grand Hotel, Andalsnes, Norway | Knitting Holiday in Norway |
November
| 1-4 | Portland, OR | Vogue Knitting Destination: Behind the Yarns Visit with Brooklyn Tweed and Shibui Knits |
| 1-4 | Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA | Stitches SoCal |
| 1-4 | Good Commons, Plymouth, VT | Yoga and Yarn Retreat with Liza Laird and Kate Madden |
| 1-4 | Quechee Inn, Quechee, VT | Knitting & Yoga Adventures Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 2-3 | Conference Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| 2-3 | Central Hall Westminster, London, England, UK | Yarnporium |
| 2-4 | Sapphire Valley Resort, Sapphire, NC | Fall Carolina Fiber Frolic |
| 2-4 | The Radisson of Nashua, Nashua, NH | Northeast Handspinners’ The Gathering |
| 2-4 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| 3 | Lane Agricultural Park, Murfreesboro, TN | 8th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| 3 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 7th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| 3-4 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 8th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| 3-4 | Civic Hall & The Grove School, Totnes, Devon, England, UK | Stitch Fest |
| 3-4 | Big 4 Building, Calgary Stampede Grounds, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | 5th Annual Calgary Fibre Arts Fair |
| ** 3-5 | Lodge at Lake Chatuge, Hiawassee, GA | Wine and Wool Knit Retreat |
| 5-8 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 Wild Card Retreat: Shetlands with Deb Robson |
| 5-11 | Iceland | Knitting on Ice with Hélène Magnússon |
| 6-12 | Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | Wool Traditions of Santa Fe |
| 7-10 | Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL | 3rd Annual Magical Fiber Fantasy Retreat |
| 8-11 | Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin, Ireland | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 8-11 | Wisp Resort, McHenry, MD | Knittreat |
| 8-12 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Vermont Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: Designing Ganseys, a British Tradition |
| 9-10 | Camp Cavell Conservancy, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Picker’s Pavilion at Blackberry Square, Lindale, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| 9-11 | Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN | Vogue Knitting LIVE! Minneapolis |
| 9-11 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| 9-12 | Resort at Port Ludlow, Port Ludlow, WA | Strung Along Retreat with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee |
| 9-12 | Downtown Marriott, Ithaca, NY | 2nd Annual Knit Ithaca with Mary Jane Mucklestone & Laura Nelkin |
| 10-12 | Nezinscot Farm, Turner, ME | Weaving and Fiber Arts Weekend |
| ** 10-12 | Kendall County Fairgrounds, Boerne, TX | 29th Annual Kid n’ Ewe & Llamas Too Festival |
| 11 | Ace Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin |
| ** 11 | Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, Sherman Oaks, CA | Fall Fiber Frolic with Griffin Dyeworks |
| ** 11 | Beach Middle School, Chelsea, MI | Spinner’s Flock Fall Fleece Sale |
| 12-15 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA | Explore 4 Four-by-Four Retreat: Four Days, Four Fibers with Deb Robson |
| 15-18 | Dahlonega Spa & Resort, Dahlonega, GA | Southeastern Yarn and Yoga Retreat |
| ** 17-18 | Old Shawnee Town Hall, Shawnee, KS | 35th Annual Creative Hand Show and Sale sponsored by the Weavers Guild and the Fiber Guild of Kansas City |
| 17-18 | Barcelona, Spain | Barcelona Knits Festival |
| 17-30 | Mexico | Textile Traditions Oaxaca: Coast & Isthmus & Chiapas Highlands |
| ** 18-19 | Leesport Farmers Market, Leesport, PA | Fall Fiber Arts Festival |
| 19-Dec.3 | South America | South America Knitting Cruise with Gwen Bortner |
| 22-25 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting and Stitching Show |
| ** 27-28 | Northside Park, Ocean City, MD | 4th Annual Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 30-Dec. 2 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Studio Tours |
December
| 7-8 | Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT | Winter Lace Knitting Retreat with Donna Druchunas |
| 9 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
| ** 9-10 | UGA Livestock Instructional Arena, Athens, GA | Royal Alpaca Challenge Walking Fleece Extravaganza |
| 11-18 | Norway | Knit & Crochet: In Search of the Northern Lights with Carol Meldrum |
| 15-20 | Haiti & Jamaica | Nautical Knitting Cruise with Melissa Leapman, Patty Lyons, Brooke Nico & Carol Sulkoski |
Fiber Tours
| 25-Sept. 3 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl Around Maine |
| Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Minnesota | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Portland, OR | The Traveling Ewe: Short day and weekend tours for knitters, crocheters, and spinners in the Portland, OR area |
| Year round | New Mexico | New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails |
| Year round | Nazareth, PA | Kraemer Yarns Manufacturing Tour |
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