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On this page: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
Enjoy these seasonal or year-round fiber tours and yarn crawls.
January
February
| 2-5 | Online | Knit + Escape Virtual |
| 3-6 | Online | WEBS Virtual Winter Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons, Tanis Gray, Edie Eckman, Laura Nelkin, Mary Annarell & Elizabeth Smith. |
| 3-6 | Hilton Greenville, Greenville, SC | The Knit-Inn 2022 with Barbara Benson |
| 5-6 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 6-13 | Bellingham Irish Castle, Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland | MaggiKnits Bellingham Irish Castle Retreat |
| 7-10 | Online | Cambridge Yarn Festival |
| 7-11 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 11-13 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK & Online | 14th Annual Unravel, A Festival of Yarn |
| 12-13 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 14-21 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 12th Annual Fiber Week |
| 17-20 | Inn at Pine Knoll Shores, Bogue Banks, NC | Surf, Sand and Stitches |
| 17-20 | Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA | Red Alder Fiber Arts Retrat |
| 17-20 | Sunshine Mountain Lodge, Banff, Alberta, Canada | Rocky Mountain Men’s Knitting Retreat |
| 17-20 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 17-20 | Radisson Hotel Fossil Creek, Fort Worth, TX | Winter Fiber Fun Retreat |
| 18-20 | Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County, Nashville, IN | Winter Wooly Retreat |
| ** 21-Mar. 1 | Tampa Bay, FL | Bay Area Knitting Guild Yarn Crawl |
| 21-27 | Online | Fiber Art for All: A Festive Week Celebration |
| 24-27 | Portland, OR | 13th Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl |
| 25-27 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 26 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| ** 26-March 7 | Indiana | Roving Indiana Yarn Crawl: Renewal |
| 27-March 3 | Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, VA | Magpie Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 28-Mar 1 | Freeport, ME | 18th Annual New England Textile Arts Network’s Spa Knit and Spin |
| 28-March 4 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
March
| 3-6 | SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, Sacramento, CA | Stitches West |
| 3-6 | Lakeway Resort & Spa, Lakeway, TX | 8th Annual Knitting in the Hills Retreat with Gudrun Johnston, Mary Jane Mucklestone, Vincent Williams & Natasja Hornsby |
| 3-6 | Business Design Centre, London, England, UK | The Stitch Festival: The Ultimate Day Out for Craft Lovers |
| 4-6 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitting with Lace and Beads [fully booked] |
| 4-13 | Caribbean | Butterfly Knitting Group’s Spring Knitting Cruise with Friends & Fiberworks, Marin Melchior and Heidi Sunday |
| 6 | Russell’s Garden Center, Wayland, MA | Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market Fiber Farm Days |
| 6-7 | Hotel Nh Ventas, Madrid, Spain | Madrid Yarn Fest |
| 7 | Classic Club, Palm Desert, CA | Knitting Guild of the Desert’s 17th annual Fashion Show and Luncheon |
| 8-12 | Sheepwalk Ranch, Bandera, TX | Bandera Fiber & Arts Week: Celebrating Texas Fiber Raising & Ranching Life |
| 10-13 | Parc des Expositions, Paris, France | Salon Aiguille en Fête [Thread and Needle Enthusiasts} |
| 11-12 | NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 16th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 11-12 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival |
| 11-13 | Madison Marriott West, Madison, WI | Madison Knitters’ Guild Knit-In |
| 11-13 | Ocean City Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 8th Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| 14 | Westwood Farm, Kambah, Canberra, Australia | Capital Region Yarn & Fibre Showcase |
| 14-18 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 15-19 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 17-20 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 18-19 | Field House, Langley Events Centre, Langley, BC, Canada | 12th Annual Fibres West |
| 18-20 | Ettington Chase Hotel, Ettington, Stratford-upon-Avon England, UK | Stitchtopia Festival |
| 18-20 | Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY | Knit Along Club Yarn Retreat |
| 18-29 | Iceland | Iceland, Off the Beaten Path |
| 19 | Ramada Inn and Conference Center, State College, PA | For the Love of Fiber |
| 19 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 19 | Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR | Abernathy Spring Fiber Sale |
| 19-20 | Australia | Knitters’ Guilde NSW FibreFest |
| 19-20 | Fernhill Farm, Somerset, Bristol, England, UK | Fibre Quest |
| 20 | Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | Hamilton Fibre Market |
| 20-25 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat – Gotlands from All Angles with Deb Robson & Faith Hagenhofer |
| 21-25 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 24-27 | Skelton 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Wirtz, VA | Skein Away Fiber Retreat 5 |
| 24-27 | Los Angeles County, CA | 10th Anniversary Los Angeles County Yarn Crawl |
| 25-27 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Knitaway [fully booked] |
| 25-27 | Inn at East Hill Farm, Troy, NH | Knitting and Spinning Retreat |
| 26 | Winterset Middle School Gym, Winterset, IA | 10th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| 26-27 | Bergerie Nationale farm, Rambouillet, France | Fête de la tonte et de la laine [Shearing and Wool Festival] |
| 26-27 | Holiday Inn Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK | East Anglia Yarn Festival |
| 26-27 | The Mansion at Glen Cove, Glen Cove, NY | Gold Coast Knitting Retreat |
| 26-27 | Barinaga Ranch, Marshall, CA | Symbolism in Norwegian Knitting with Kristin Drysdale of Scandiwork |
| 26-27 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 18th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show |
| 26-27 | BainBridge Artisan Resource Network, Bainbridge Island, WA | Discover Six Pacific NW Local Sheep Breeds with Deb Robson |
| 26-27 | Cape Ann Motor Inn, Gloucester, MA | 21st Annual Cape Ann Knitting Retreat |
| 26-April 2 | Central Florida, east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 27 | Hill-Stead Museum,, Farmington, CT | The Art of Shearing – A Sheep to Shawl Festival |
| ** 28 | Junior Fair Building, Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH | 35th Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| 8-April 1 | Westcliffe Hotel, Blackpool, England, UK | Gansey Pattern Motifs [fully booked] |
April
| 1-3 | American Royal Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO | Midwest Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Invitational Alpaca Show |
| 1-3 | Seyon Lodge, Seyon Lodge State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| 1-3 | Nome Schoolhouse, Nome, ND | Taste of Fiber Retreat |
| 1-3 | Debert Hospitality Centre, Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada | 1st Sisterhood Fibres Spring Retreat |
| 2 | Station Hotel, Perth, Scotland, UK | Scottish Wool Producers Show |
| 2-3 | Alliant Energy Center, New Holland Pavilion, Madison, WI | Wisconsin Alpaca and Fiber Fest & The Great Midwest Alpaca Festival |
| 2-3 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 2-3 | Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Knit City Montreal: A Modern Fibre Festival |
| 2-3 | Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, IL & Online | YarnCon: Chicago’s 13th Annual Indie Fiber |
| 2-9 | Creuse, France | Knit Pause Retreat |
| 2-10 | England, UK | Squidney Knits in England: A Vintage Knitting Experience with Sydney Crabaugh |
| 3-8 | Ireland | Knitting in the West of Ireland with Julie Dubreux |
| 4-11 | Best Western Hotel Le Donjon, Carcassonne, France | Carcassonne Crochet Retreat with Lucy from Attic24 |
| 6 | Online | European Wool Day: Madrid & Salamón, Spain |
| 6-10 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Knit 1 Springtime Knitting Retreat |
| 7-10 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 15th Annual Minnesota Yarn Shop Hop |
| 7-10 | Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa, Whitefield, NH | Knit New Hampshire with Mary Jane Mucklestone |
| 7-10 | Bellevue, WA | Vogue Knitting LIVE! |
| 8-10 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Weekend Knitting Retreat |
| 8-10 | AmishView Inn & Suites, Bird in Hand, PA | Lancaster Knitter’s Retreat |
| 9 | Jane Addams Community Center, Cedarville, IL | 26th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair |
| 9 | Union Bluff Hotel, York Beach, ME | 9th Annual Fiber Marketplace, sponsored by The Yarn Sellar |
| 9 | Union Bluff Hotel, York Beach, ME | 9th Annual Fiber Marketplace and Retreat |
| 9-10 | Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry, England, UK | National Wool Show |
| 9-10 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 9-10 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Spring Fiber Expo |
| 9-10 | Grammar School, Harrogate Road, Leeds, England, UK | 5th Annual Spring into Wool: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 14-16 | Expo New Mexico Manual Lujan Complex, Albuquerque, NM | Fiber Arts Fiesta |
| 15-16 | Putnam County Fairgrounds, Greencastle, IN | The Fiber Event at Greencastle: Celebrating 31 Years of Fiber |
| 18-29 | Southeast Europe | Gems of Southeast Europe Knitting Cruise |
| 19-23 | Westin Kansas City, Kansas City, MO | PLY Away Spinning Retreat |
| 19-May 1 | Wales & Cornwall | Woolen Tour of Wales and Cornwall with Beth Brown-Reinsel |
| 20-23 | Embassy Suites by Hilton Loveland Hotel Conference Center & Spa, Loveland, CO | Interweave Yarn Fest |
| 21-24 | Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA | Shepherd’s Extravaganza |
| 21-24 | Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| 22-23 | Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN | 12th Annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival |
| 22-24 | Maryland countryside | Countryside Artisans Spring Gallery Studio Tour |
| 22-24 | Indian Bear Lodge & Winery, Walhonding, OH | 5th Annual Spring StitchEscape |
| 22-24 | Gilmer County Civic Center, Ellijay, GA | Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival |
| 22-30 | Norway | Knit Your Way Through Norway with Anneli Belsvik Aras and Siri Angela Gamborg |
| 22-May 1 | Wales | Woolen Wales [fully booked] |
| 22-May 1 | North Texas | 4th Annual North Teas Yarn Crawl |
| 23 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Spring Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 23 | Gore Place, Waltham, MA | 35th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival |
| 23 | Blue Mule Winery, Fayetteville, TX | Texas Yarn Lovers Event |
| 23-24 | Schulstraße 13, 74572 Blaufelden, Germany | 3rd Annual Hohenloher Woolfest |
| 23-24 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 5th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 23-24 | Online | Faux Toronto Knitter’s Frolic |
| 23-24 | Washington County, NY | 29th Annual New York’s Washington County Fiber Tour |
| 23-24 | Royal Welsh Show Ground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, UK | 16th Annual Wonderwool Wales: A Festival of Welsh Wool & Natural Fibers |
| ** 23-26 | Reykjavik, Iceland | Reykjavík Knitting Festival [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| ** 23-28 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Spring Fiber School (Dye, 23-26; Rigid Heddle, 27-28) [cancelled due to coronavirus] |
| 23-30 | The Barn, Bercloux, France | Blooming Marvellous Knitting & Crochet Workshop with Tutor Carol Meldrunm |
| 23-30 | The Watermill at Posara, Tuscany, Italy | A Week in Italy with Norah Gaughan |
| 23-May 1 | New Jersey | New Jersey Wool Walk |
| 23-May 1 | Copenhagen & the Faroe Islands | A Fiber Adventure in Copenhagen & the Faroe Islands |
| 24 | George Dawson Inn, Dawson Creek, BC, Canada | Peace Fibre Fest |
| ** 24-26 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Woolith Fair: A Greater Vancouver Yarn Crawl |
| 24-May 3 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour with Pauline Gallagher, Annie O Maille & Una McDonagh |
| 27-May 5 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour with André de Castro |
| 27-May 5 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge & Hazel Tindall |
| 28-29 | Fuglafirði, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | Knitting Festival [Bindifestivalur: Strikkefestival] |
| 28-May 1 | Good Commons Retreat Center, Plymouth, VT | Yoga + Yarn Retreat with Liza Laird and Kate Madden |
| 28-May 1 | From Fife down around and back up the west side of the Puget Sound, WA | Pacific Northwest Yarn Crawl |
| 29-30 | Coliseum at the Seguin Events Complex, Sequin, TX | 12th Annual Yellow Rose Fiber Festival |
| 29-May 1 | St. Leo the Great, Amherst, NY | Knitting Guild of Great Buffalo Seminar Weekend with Beth Brown Reinsel |
| 29-May 1 | Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West, Plymouth, MN | 33rd Annual MN. Knitters’ Guild Yarnover |
| 29-May 2 | Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock, NC | 10th Annual Unwind: A Fiber Arts Getaway |
| 30 | Lammers Town Hall, Solway, MN | 8th Annual Small Scale Sustainable Sheep Farming Event |
| 30 | Village of Wyoming, NY | 7th Annual Fiber Flurry Fiber Arts Festival |
| 30 | Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY | Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase |
| 30 | Bedford Farmers Market, Bedford, VA | Bedford Fiber Festival |
| 30 | North Haven Fairgrounds, North Haven, CT | 112th Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival |
| 30 | Varies | 4th Annual Local Yarn Store Day: A Day to Celebrate the Brick and Mortar Yarn Shop |
| 30 | Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville, NY | CNY Fiber Frolic |
| 30 | The Wool Mill, Belgrade, MT | 2nd Annual Spring Fiber Fling |
| 30 | St. Terese’s Camp, Wasilla, AK | Northern Lights Valley Knitters Fiber Break-In Camp |
| 30-May 1 | Neue Messe, Glashalle, Leipzig, Germany | Leipzig Wool Festival and Fabric Fair (Leipziger Wolle-Fest & Stoffmesse) |
| 30-May 2 | Galiano Inn & Spa, Galiano Island, BC, Canada | Knit Social Retreat |
| 30-May 7 | Online | Online International Fiber Festival |
May
June
July
| 2 | Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ | Capital Fibre Fest |
| 2-3 | Elko Euzkaldunak Club, Elko, NV | 58th Annual National Basque Festival |
| 7-11 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 2.75 |
| 8-10 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 8-17 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 32nd Annual Great Northern Arts Festival: Returning To Our Roots Artist Gathering |
| 9-10 | Birmingham, England, UK | Yarningham: Birmingham’s Yarn Festival |
| 9-10 | Cowan Civic Center, Lebanon, MO | 13th Annual Fiber U |
| 10-16 | Viljandi, Estonia | Estonian Craft Camp: Traditional Craft Workshops |
| 10-18 | Baltic States | Baltic Cities Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum |
| 10-19 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour with Pauline Gallagher, Annie O Maille & Una McDonagh |
| 10-Aug. 21 | Online | Summer Fiberside Yarn Crawl |
| 12-15 | Colorado Rockies | Hiking and Knitting Retreat with Mary Anne Benedetto |
| 12-15 | Whanganui Collegiate, College Estate, Whanganui, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society Riverfest |
| 14-17 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 14-18 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 1 & 2 |
| 14-19 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird [full] |
| 15-17 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 142nd Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| 15-21 | Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, TV | Convergence: Handweavers Guild of America Biennial Conference |
| 15-23 | Arkansas | 6th Annual Arkansas Yarn Crawl |
| 16 | Woodstock Community Church, Woodstock, GA | North Georgia Knitting Guild Beat the Heat Retreat |
| 16 | Central Maryland | Fiber Art Studio Tour |
| 16-17 | Copper K Barn, 8 miles south of Whitehall, MT | 6th Annual Copper K Fiber Festival |
| 17-20 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Knitting Retreat: Learn Brioche Knitting |
| 18-25 | Faroe Islands | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina i Geil |
| 20-23 | New Orleans Marriott Warehouse Arts District, New Orleans, LA | Crochet Guild of American Chain Link Conference |
| 20-24 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 21-25 | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Marshfield, WI | Knitting Camp – Retreat 3 |
| 21-31 | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | Jumpers & Jazz in July: Yarnbombing & Jazz Winter Festival |
| 22-23 | Finnigan’s Run, Fredericksburg, VA | 1st Annual Finnigan’s Run Knitting Retreat |
| 22-24 | Sonoma County, CA | Wine Country Yarn Hop |
| 22-31 | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, VA | 73rd Annual Virginia Highlands Festival |
| 23 | Lopez Island Historical Museum, Lopez Island, WA | 2nd Annual Kids’ Fiber and Wool Fest |
| 24 | Maine | Maine Open Farm Day (19 farms offer fibers/yarn) |
| 25 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 27-Aug. 1 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Spirit of the Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall & Kathleen Anderson |
| 28-31 | Southeastern Wisconsin | Wandering Ewe: Southeastern Wisconsin Yarn Crawl |
| 29-30 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 16th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| 29-Aug. 6 | Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan | Carnation Yarn Trail |
| 29-Aug. 7 | Denver, CO | 4th Annual Denver Boutique Week |
| 29-Aug. 9 | Greater Pittsburgh region, PA | 9th Annual Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
| 30-31 | Redborne School, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, UK | Summer Wool Festival |
| ** 30-Aug. 7 | Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee | I75 Yarn Crawl |
| 30-Aug. 7 | Chicago, IL | 13th Annual Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| 30-Aug.13 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
August
| 1-7 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 1-12 | North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK | North Ronaldsay 6th Annual SheepFest |
| 2-7 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| 3-27 | Canada, Greenland, Iceland & New England | Canada, Greenland, Iceland & New England Knitting Cruise with Kristin Drysdale |
| 4-7 | Marriot Marquis, New York City, NY | Vogue Knitting LIVE! |
| 4-7 | Chapel Rock Camp & Conference Center, Prescott, AZ | 7th Annual Grandma’s Sheep Thrills Retreat |
| 5-6 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Eureka Fiber Fest |
| 5-6 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House |
| 6-7 | Hartl Building, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| 6-7 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka |
| 6-7 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 6-7 | Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| 8-15 | Faroe Islands | Knitting in the Faroe Islands with Katrina i Geil |
| 8-20 | New Haven, CT to Putney, VT | 12th Annual I-91 Shop Hop |
| 10-13 | North Shore Recreation Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 5th Annual WoolstockEAST: Fibre Village and Marketplaced |
| 11-14 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 8th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| 13-14 | Online | Stitches at Home |
| 13-14 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival |
| 13-20 | Indiana/Illinois border | P.U.R.L. (Peace-Unity-Respect-Love) Indiana Yarn Crawl |
| 13-21 | Colorado Front Range | 8th Annual Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| 13-25 | British Isles & Ireland | British Isles & Ireland Knitting Cruise with Julie Dubreux |
| 14-17 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | All About Short Rows |
| 14-28 | British Isles | British Isles Knitting Cruise with Lucy Neatby |
| 17-21 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Summer KAL |
| 17-21 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Fiber Festival |
| 18-21 | Camp Ida-Haven, McCall, ID | Fiber.Love.Retreat. |
| 19 | Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center, San Angelo, TX | 49th Annual Sheep and Goat Field Day |
| 19-21 | Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY | Knit Along Club Yarn Retreat |
| 19-22 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 21 | Fairfield Community Center, Porter Park, Victoria, BC, Canada | 11th Annual Fibrations! |
| 21-28 | Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland: Fair Isle Week with Anne Frost |
| 23-29 | Finland | Knitting and Crochet in Finland with Jane Crowfoot or Carol Meldrum |
| 25-27 | Textile Center Annex (Unit #230) at the Art & Architecture building, Minneapolis, MN | Textile Center Garage Sale Occasional Shop |
| 25-27 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 4th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 25-27 | Doubletree Hotel, Green Tree, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival |
| 25-28 | W.E. Skelton 4-H Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Wirtz, VA | Skein Away 6 Fiber Retreat |
| 25-28 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights Retreat |
| 26-Sept. 4 | Greater Southeast Texas | 4th Annual Texas Yarn Trail: A Texas Yarn Crawl |
| 27 | Portsoy Church Centre & Station Hotel Hall, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK | 4th Annual Wool@Portsoy |
| 27 | Barrie Curling Club, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | 4th Annual Fibre Spirit |
| 27 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| ** 27-28 | Rapid City, SD | Black Hills Fiber Frenzy |
| 27-Sept. 5 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour with Una McDonagh, Edel MacBridge & Ciara Ní Reachtnín |
| 28-Sept. 4 | Canada & New England | Cruise to Canada & New England with Michele Bernstein, Norah Gaughan and Carla Scott |
| 28-Sept. 4 | Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland: Lace Week with Anne Frost |
| 28-Sept. 10 | France to Italy | European Explorer Knitting Cruise with André de Castro |
| 28-Sept. 11 | Norway, Iceland & Scotland | Northern Isles Knitting Cruise with MC Briar |
September
| 1-5 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
| 1-6 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat |
| 2-5 | Las Vegas Marriott, Las Vegas, NV | Knitopia Las Vegas with Melissa Leapman, Franklin Habit, Denise Bayron, and Marie Greene |
| 2-9 | Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 3 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel Fiber Fest |
| 3-4 | Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 3-4 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 9th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering |
| 3-4 | Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT | Green Mountain Spinnery’s 2nd Annual Fiber Pop-Up |
| 4-10 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| 4-11 | Shetland Islands, UK | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland, Fair Isle Week |
| ** 5 | Reed Point, MT | 33rd Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| 7-11 | Almonte Community Centre and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada | 27th Annual Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| 8-11 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| 8-11 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME | Knit Maine |
| 8-11 | Sebasco Harbor Resort, Casco Bay, ME | AffiKNITy Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons, Cecelia Campochiaro, Bristol Ivy, Gudrun Johnson, and Diane Ivey |
| 8-11 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Fiber College Maine |
| 8-11 | La Posada de Santa Fe, a Tribute Portfolio Resort & Spa, Santa Fe, NM | Yarn in Santa Fe with Julie Weisenberger, Kristine Vejar & Adrienne Rodriguez |
| 9-10 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 10th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| 9-10 | Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK | Unravel Autumn |
| 9-11 | Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 9-11 | Online | Stitches Expo at Home |
| 9-11 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 10 | Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | 30th Annual Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair |
| 10 | Hubbard County Fairgrounds, Park Rapids, MN | 8th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| 10 | Machias, ME | 4th Annual Machias Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK & Online | Perth Festival of Yarn |
| 10-11 | Harford Fairground, Harford, PA | 19th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO & Online | 9th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 30th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| 10-11 | Hunterdon County Fairgrounds, Ringoes, NJ | 27th Annual Garden State Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 10-11 | Quality Airport Hotel, Vaernes, Norway | Strikkeweekend I Stjørdal |
| 10-18 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 13th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| 10-23 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky II: Highlands & Islands [tour is full] |
| 10-25 | Iceland | Iceland Knitting Tour with Janine Bajus & Jillian Moreno |
| 11 | Keepsake Cidery, Dundas, MN | Keepsake Cidery’s Fiber Fest |
| 11 | Connaught Youth Centre, Prince George, BC, Canada | 5th Annual Great Northwest Fibre Fest |
| ** 13-15 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 22nd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 13-22 | Ireland | Knit Ireland with Laura Nelkin |
| 15-18 | Vernonia Springs, Vernonia, OR | Starlight Knitting Society’s 5th Annual Camp Starlight |
| 15-18 | Fanø, Denmark | 15th Annual Fanø International Knit Festival |
| 15-18 | Kansas City, MO | Kansas City Yarn Crawl |
| 15-18 | Nevada and California | 4th Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| 16-17 | Online | Rowan Connect Autumn Event |
| 16-18 | The Hayes, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, UK | 42nd Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| 16-18 | Watertown, SD | 30th Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 16-24 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge & Hazel Tindall |
| 16-24 | Charlotte, NC | Charlotte Area Yarn Crawl |
| 16-24 | Iceland | Wool & Wonders of Iceland with Blaime Fleece & Fiber |
| 17 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | 5th Annual Prairie Fibre Festival |
| 17 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 17 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Celebrating the Memory of Katherine Cobey |
| 17 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| 17-18 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 26th Annual Wool Gathering |
| 17-18 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | 12th Annual Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| ** 18-19 | River Bend Hotel & Casino, Wyandotte, OK | 10th Annual Fiber Daze |
| 18-25 | Bellingham Irish Castle, Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland | MaggiKnits Bellingham Irish Castle Retreat |
| 18-27 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour with Pauline Gallagher, Annie O Maille & Una McDonagh |
| 20-27 | The Barn, Bercloux, France | Knitting & Crochet Retreat |
| 21-25 | Peppermill Resort, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Biggest Little Getaway |
| 22-25 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 20th Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| 22-25 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 17th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest |
| 22-25 | Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Greenwich, NY | NorthEast Men’s Fall Knitting/Fiber Retreat (Upstate NY) |
| 23-25 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| 23-25 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Canada | Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival |
| 23-25 | St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, CA | Knitting Guild of Santa Cruz Fall Retreat |
| 23-27 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Penobscot Bay, ME | Sail in Maine and Knit with Casapinka |
| 24 | Joe Stephenson Park, Bayfield, CO | 21th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| 24-25 | Varies | 16th Annual National Alpaca Farm Days |
| 24-25 | Aplex Events Complex, Alpena, MI | Northern Michigan Fiber Festival, Where Yarn and Friends Find Inspiration |
| 24-25 | 4-H Events Center, Ouray County Fairgrounds, Ridgway, CO | 9th Annual Sneffels Fiber Festival |
| 24-25 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 10th Annual Yarndale |
| 24-25 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 36th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| 24-25 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| 24-25 | Clark County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 16th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| 24-25 | PNE Forum, East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Knit City Vancouver |
| 24-Oct. 1 | Old Oak Country Master house, Tuscany, Italy | Knitting Retreat in Tuscany |
| 25 | Southwark Bridge, City of London, England, UK | 10th Anniversary Sheep Drive and Wool & Livery Fair |
| 25-29 | Langhe Region, Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat with Isabell Krämer |
| 25-Oct. 1 | Southwest Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat with Carol Feller |
| 25-Oct. 4 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | 12th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| 26-Oct 5 | Canadian Maritimes | Knitting in the Canadian Maritimes [tour is full] |
| 26-Oct. 6 | North of England, UK | A Wool Lover’s Visit to the North of England |
| 27-Oct. 2 | Abiquiu and Taos, NM | Fiber Trails of the Upper Rio Grande |
| 29-Oct. 2 | Catawba River Inn, Linville Fall, NC | KnitEscape [sold out] |
| 29-Oct. 2 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 6th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 29-Oct. 2 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 38th Annual Knitter’s Day Out |
| 30-Oct. 8 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour with Elizabeth Johnston, Janette Budge & Hazel Tindall |
October
| 1 | East Aurora Rink, East Aurora, NY | 17th Annual Western New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 1 | The Public Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK | 3 Bags Full 7th Annual Wool Market |
| 1 | Online | Rowan Connect Festive Evening with Arne & Carlos |
| 1-2 | Vern Burton Community Center, Port Angeles, WA | Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition: A Gathering of Fiber Arts |
| 1-2 | Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, Santa Fe, NM | 39th Annual Mountain and Valley Wool Festival |
| 1-2 | Dixon May Fair Grounds, Dixon, CA | 35th Annual Lambtown USA Fiber Fair |
| 1-2 | James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA | 34th Annual Fall Fiber Festival & Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 1-2 | Vienna, Austria | 6th Annual Vienna Woll-und Stofffest [Vienna Wool & Fabric Festival] |
| 1-2 | L’Embarcadère, Lyon, France | Knit Eat Festival |
| 1-2 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Turnbridge, VT | 34th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 1-2 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 8th Annual Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta (American Craft Weekend) |
| 1-8 | Online | Spin Together |
| 2 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 26th Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| 2-9 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| 2-15 | Baltic | Jewels of the Baltic Knitting Cruise with Galina Khmeleva |
| 3 | Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods, Bethel, NY | Catskills Fiber Festival |
| 3-6 | Amherst, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada | 14th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival |
| 3-10 | Best Western Hotel Le Donjon, Carcassonne, France | Carcassonne Crochet Retreat with Lucy from Attic24 |
| 5-9 | Sun Valley, Ketchum & Hailey, ID | 26th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 6-9 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The 30th Annual Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 6-10 | Wales | Welsh Knitting Retreat with Sasha Kagan |
| 7-9 | Dunwoody Parks North Shallowford Annex, Dunwoody, GA | Atlanta Knitting Guild Superstar Weekend |
| 7-9 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 7-9 | Online | Stitches Expo at Home |
| 7-9 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| 7-9 | Madison, WI | 6th Annual Madtown Yarn Shop Hop |
| 7-16 | Hill Country, TX | 16th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas: Hill Country Yarn Crawl |
| 8 | Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Bozeman, MT | Montana Fibershed’s Farm-to-Fashion |
| 8 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 17th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| 8 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 8 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 10th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| 8 | Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA | Fall Federation Meeting of the Iowa Federation of Handweavers & Spinners with Martina Celerin |
| 8-9 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 8-13 | Northwest Ireland | Northwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 8-17 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour with Una McDonagh, Edel MacBridge & Ciara Ní Reachtnín |
| 8-9 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| 8-9 | Clark County Event Center, Ridegefield, WA | 22nd Annual Alpacapalooza |
| 8-9 | Back roads of NH | 39th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| 8-9 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center at the Old Art Building, Leland, MI | 21th Annual Leland Fiber Festival: Focus on Fiber |
| 9 | Maine | Real Maine Fiber Tour and Trail |
| 9-17 | Scotland | Best of Scotland with the Highlands Knitting Tour with Karie Westermann, Di Gilpin & Donna from ERIBÉ |
| 9-20 | Australia | Australia Knitting Tour: Wool, Wine & Wildlife |
| 11-14 | Phaeton Gallery at the Carriage Works Studios, Charlottesville, VA | Carriage Works Knitting Retreat with Lorilee Beltman |
| ** 12 | Halcyon Yarn, Bath, ME | Halcyon Annual Open House |
| 14 | Hutton Brickyards, Kingston, NY | Wool & Folk: Fiber and Music Festival |
| 14 | HITS on the Hudson, Saugerties, NY | 8th Annual Indie Untangled – Rhinebeck |
| 14-15 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Day [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| 14-15 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| 14-17 | Bedford, PA | Socktoberfest |
| 15 | Isanti County Fairgrounds, Cambridge MN | Minnesota Fiber Festival |
| 15 | Paris Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 13th Annual Woodstock ON |
| 15 | Summit Sports and Ice Complex, Dimondale, MI | 26th Annual Michigan International Alpaca Fest |
| 15-16 | Linn County Expo Center, Albany, OR | 25th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| 15-16 | Ashland County Fairgrounds, Mozelle Hall, Ashland, OH | 9th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| 15-16 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | 42nd Annual New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 18-25 | Goodnestone Park, Kent, England, UK | Cocoknits: Travelling Yarns Retreat with Julie Weisenberger & Tracy Russell |
| 21-22 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival & Retreat |
| 21-22 | Oakes, ND | North Dakota Handspinners Conference |
| 21-23 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 21-23 | Villa San Fermo, Lonigo VI, Italy | KN.IT |
| 21-23 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| 22 | Genesis Centre, NE Calgary, Alberta, Canada | The Fibre Shindig |
| 22 | The HUB at Cowichan Station, Cobble Hill, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| 22 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Fall Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 23 | Windswept Acres Sheep Farm, Pittstown, NJ | Fall Fleece & Fiber Sale |
| 23-26 | Crowne Plaza Resort, Asheville, NC | Interweave Escapes with Marie Greene |
| 22-29 | Westin Hotel Resort, Hilton Head Island, SC | Berta Karapetyan’s Knitting Retreat [Berta@schoolproducts.com] |
| 22-30 | Iceland | Fire & Ice Knitting Experience in Iceland with Tanis Gray [sold out] |
| 23-28 | Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan, WI | Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) |
| 23-Nov. 2 | Stockholm, Estonia, Latvia | Knitters Tour of Stockholm, Estonia & Latvia |
| 24-27 | Allegretto Vineyard Resort by Ayres, Paso Robles, CA | Vogue Knitting Destinations: Special Knitting Retreat with Patty Lyons & Safiyyah Talley: |
| 26-Nov. 5 | Oaxaca, Mexico | Day of the Dead: An Intriguing Fiber & Culture Adventure |
| 27-29 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 27-30 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Knitting Traditions Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: Saami-Inspired Mittens |
| 28-30 | Hill Country Youth Event Center, Kerrville, TX | Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| 28-30 | Salon des Créateurs, Felletin, France | National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| 28-30 | Ozark Retreat Center, Neosho, MO | Fiber Folks of SW MO Annual Guild Retreat |
| 28-31 | Barnsley Resort, Adairsville, GA | Ewe Crew in the Woods Falloween Retreat |
| 28-Nov. 4 | Tasmania | Tasmanian Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| 29 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 29 | Lane-Agripark, Murfreesboro, TN | 11th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| 29 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| 29-30 | The Trades Hall, Glasgow, Scotland | Glasgow School of Yarn |
| 29-30 | Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | Kendal Wool Gathering |
| 29-30 | Leicester Racecourse, Oadby, Leicester, England, UK | The Big Textile Show |
| 30 | Old Gregg School and Community Center, Spring Mills, PA | 3rd Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
November
December
| 2-4 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Holiday Studio Tours |
| 3-11 | Estonia & Latvia | Knitting through the Christmas Markets of Estonia & Latvia with Lorilee Beltman |
| 10 | Online | Virtual Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 11-12 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
| 14-22 | Norway | Northern Lights Knitting Cruise with Julie Dubreux |
| 29-Jan.1, 2023 | Big Lynn Lodge, New Switzerland, NC | Celebrate the New Ewe! |
Fiber Tours and Other Year Round Events
| May 30-Sept. 5 | Wyoming | 3rd Annual Cowboy Yarn Crawl |
| June 11-Sept. 6 | Ontario, Canada | Cottage Country Yarn Crawl |
| June 18-Aug. 15 | Hudson Valley, NY | Hudson Valley Yarn Trail |
| July 1-Oct. 10 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl in Vacationland |
Year Round |
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| Year round | Kentucky | Kentucky Fiber Trail |
| Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Minnesota | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
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