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2023
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2024
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Enjoy these 2023 and 2024 seasonal or year-round fiber tours and yarn crawls.
2023
September
| 1-3 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Crochet & Pilates with Rosalind Hoyes and Emma Leith |
| 1-4 | New Orleans, LA | Knitopia New Orleans with Franklin Habit, Bristol Ivy & Safiyyah Talley |
| 1-6 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat |
| 1-8 | Clarion Collection Hotel, Havnekontoret, Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Frederica Patmore |
| 1-9 | Shetland Islands & Scotland | Best of Shetland Islands & Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 2 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel Fiber Fest |
| 2-3 | Double G Alpacas, Sierra Vista, AZ | Sierra Vista Fiber Festival |
| 2-3 | Newbury Racecourse, Newbury, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 2-3 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 10th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering |
| 2-9 | Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 2-9 | Alaska | Scenic Knitting Cruise of Alaska with host Carla Scott, Ana Campos & Michele Lee Bernstein |
| 2-14 | British Isles | Friends & Fiberworks British Isles Cruise |
| 3-9 | Schooner J&E Riggin, Coast of Maine | Maine Knitting Cruise with Margaret Radcliffe |
| 3-9 | Iceland | Knitting in Iceland with Hélène Magnússon |
| 3-10 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Lace Week |
| 4 | Reed’s Point, MT | 38th Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| 4-22 | France | La Belle France with Shirl the Purl |
| 5-24 | Northeast Ohio | 16th Annual Yarn Discovery Tour |
| 6-10 | Almonte Community Centre and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada | 28th Annual Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| 6-11 | Peppermill Resort, Reno, NV | Jimmy Beans Wool Biggest Little Getaway |
| 6-13 | Shetland, Scotland, UK | Knitting in Shetland |
| 7-10 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME | Knit Maine with Casey Ryder, Amy Snell, Jimenez Joseph & Xandy Peters |
| 7-10 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| 7-10 | Lake De Gray Resort, Bismarck, AR | A Weekend with Friends Fiber Retreat |
| 7-10, 14-17 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Fiber College |
| 7-19 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky Tour |
| 7-25 | Scotland | Scotland Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| 8-9 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 10th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| 8-9 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK | Unravel…Autumn |
| 8-10 | Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark | 10th Annual Knitting Festival Pakhusstrik |
| 8-10 | Caldas da Rainha, Portugal | À Procura do Novelo [Knitting & Crochet Festival] |
| 8-10 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| 8-10 | The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, UK | 43rd Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| 8-10 | Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 8-10 | Laurel Island, East Hampton, CT | Camp Knit-a-way |
| 8-17 | Iceland | Wool & Wonders of Iceland |
| 9 | Park Rapids Farmers Market, Park Rapids, MN | 9th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Harford Fairground, Harford, PA | 20th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Hunterdon County 4H Fairgrounds, Ringoes, NJ | 28th Annual New Jersey Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK & Online | Scottish Yarn Festival |
| 9-10 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 10th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| 9-10 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 31th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| 9-16 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 13th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| 9-24 | Yorkshire, England, UK | 2nd Annual North Yorkshire Yarn Trail |
| 10 | Wyong Race Club and Function Centre, Wyong NSW, Australia | Knitters’ Guilde NSW Fibrefest |
| 10-13 | Kimpton Brice Hotel, Savannah, GA | Interweave Escapes Knitting Retreat with Alexandra Davidoff |
| 10-14 | Relais Villa D’Amelia, Benevello, Langhe area, Italy | mYak Fall Knitting Retreat with Melanie Berg |
| 10-17 | Shetland Islands, Scotland | Makkin Our Way Through Shetland Tour: Fair Isle Week Week [sold out] |
| 11-14 | Minerals Resort and Spa, Hamburg, NJ | AffiKNITy Retreat with Patty Lyons, Kate Atherley, Julia Farwell-Clay & Safiyyah Talley |
| 12-19 | Four Views Hotel Baia, Funchal, Madeira | Madeira Crochet Retreat with Lucy of Attic24 |
| 13-19 | Orkney, Scotland, UK | Knitting in Orkney |
| 13-24 | Canadian Maritimes | Knitting in the Canadian Maritimes |
| 14-17 | Kansas City, MO | KC (Kansas City) Yarn Crawl |
| 14-17 | Vernonia Springs, Vernonia, OR | Starlight Knitting Society’s 6th Annual Camp Starlight |
| 14-17 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 18th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest |
| 14-21 | Iceland | Authentic Iceland Hiking and Knitting |
| 15-17 | BAZA Tent, Nordby, Denmark | Nordby Wooldays Fanø |
| 15-17 | Codington County Extension Complex, Watertown, SD | 31st Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 16 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | 6th Annual Prairie Fibre Festival |
| 16 | East Aurora Rink, East Aurora, NY | 18th Annual Western New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 16 | Shabbona Park, Earlville, IL | Fiber in the Park |
| 16-17 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 27th Annual Wool Gathering |
| 16-17 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | 12th Annual Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| 16-20 | Windjammer Angelique, Maine | Sail and Knit with Casapinka |
| 17 | The Pavilion Centre, Royal Cornwall Showground, Whitecross, Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, UK | 2nd Annual Kernow Yarn and Fibre Festival |
| 18-27 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| 20-22 | Colorado Rockies | Autumn Ranch Retreat with Patty Lyons |
| 20-28 | Yorkshire, England, UK | Knitting in Yorkshire |
| 21-24 | Nevada and California | 5th Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| 21-24 | Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Greenwich, NY | NorthEast Men’s Fall Fiber Retreat – Upstate NY |
| 21-24 | Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Monticello, IL | 4th Annual Knitting at the Estate Retreat with Laura Nelkin & Jennifer Davies |
| 21-24 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 21st Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| 21-24 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 7th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 22-23 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration at the Fall Harvest Festival |
| 22-24 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Tunisian Crochet Weekend with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 22-24 | Clark County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 17th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| 22-24 | Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West, Plymouth, MN | 36th Annual MN Knitters’ Guild Yarnover |
| 22-24 | PNE Forum, East Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Knit City Vancouver |
| 22-24 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| 22-24 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 23rd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| 22-24 | Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN | Textile Center Garage Sale |
| 22-24 & 30; Oct 1 | Online | Have a Ball Fall Crawl: A North American Virtual Yarn Crawl |
| 22-Oct. 2 | Lerwick Hotel, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Shetland Wool Week with Amy Detjen & Heather Black |
| 23 | Essex County Fairgrounds, Westport, NY | Adirondack Harvest Festival: Focus on Fiber & Wool |
| 23 | North Shore Recreation Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 5th Annual WoolstockEAST: Fibre Village and Marketplace |
| 23 | View Park, Los Angeles, CA | Griffin Dyeworks Fiber Frolic |
| 23-24 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 11th Annual Yarndale |
| 23-24 | Online | Weekend Rowan Connect |
| 23-30 | Charlotte, NC | Charlotte Area Yarn Crawl |
| 23-Oct. 1 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | 14th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| 23-24 | Varies | 17th Annual National Alpaca Farm Days |
| 23-24 | Aplex Events Complex, Alpena, MI | Northern Michigan Fiber Festival, Where Yarn and Friends Find Inspiration |
| 23-24 | Espace Tête d’Or-Congress Centre, Lyon, France | 4th Annual Knit Eat & Co. Festival |
| 23-24 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| 24 | Southwark Bridge, City of London, England, UK | 11th Annual Sheep Drive and Livery Fair |
| 24 | Freeville Farmers Market, Freeville, NY | Freeville Fiber Fest |
| 24-30 | Ireland | Southwest Ireland Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| 25-Oct. 4 | New York City, NY to Quebec, Canada | Stitch Cruise |
| 25-Oct. 4 | Norway | Knitting Expedition in Norway with Lorilee Beltman & Jim West |
| 28-29 | Al Bedoo Shrine, Billings, MT | 5th Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| 28-Oct. 1 | Catawba River Inn, Linville Falls, NC | Knitescape |
| 28-Oct. 1 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| 28-Oct. 1 | New York, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| 29-30 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 38th Annual Knitters’ Day Out: Knitting Friendships |
| 29-30 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 5th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 29-30 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 5th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| 29-Oct. 1 | Textile Industry Museum and Mill, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 5th Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| 29-Oct. 1 | Online | Virtual Knitting Live! by Vogue Knitting |
| 29-Oct. 1 | Vern Burton Community Center, Port Angeles, WA | 2nd Annual Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition: A Gathering of Fiber Arts |
| 29-Oct. 7 | Hamburg, Germany | Hamburger Garn [Yarn] Gang [crawl] |
| 30 | Joe Stephenson Park, Bayfield, CO | 24th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Turnbridge, VT | 35th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 30-Oct. 1 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 36th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
| 30-Oct. 8 | Iceland | Autumn Knitting Retreat in Icelandic Nature |
October
| 1 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 27th Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| 1-8 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| 1-9 | New Hampshire | Fabulous Fiber & Foliage in New Hampshire |
| 4-5 | Old Art Building, Leland, MI | 22nd Annual Focus on Fiber |
| 4-8 | Wales | Welsh Knitting Retreat with Sasha Kagan |
| 4-8 | Wood River Valley, ID | 27th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 5-7 | Various locations, Hailey, ID | Wool Fest at Trailing of the Sheep Festival |
| 5-8 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Canada | Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival |
| 5-8 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The 31st Annual Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 5-8 | Kelly House, Tavistock, Devon, England, UK | Kelly House Woolly Weekend |
| 6-8 | Edward D. Hansen Conference Center, Everett, WA | International Quilt & Fiber Arts Expo |
| 6-8 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 6-15 | Hill Country, TX | 17th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas: Hill Country Yarn Crawl |
| 7 | Worthington Park, Quilcene, WA | 2nd Annual Quilcene Fiber Festival: From Sheep to Shawl |
| 7 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| 7 | Liskeard Public Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK | 3 Bags Full 8th Annual Wool Market |
| 7 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 11th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| 7-8 | James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA | 35th Annual Fall Fiber Festival & Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| 7-8 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 9th Annual American Craft Weekend |
| 7-8 | Dixon May Fairgrounds, Dixon, CA | 37th Annual Lambtown Festival |
| 7-8 | Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, Santa Fe, NM | 40th Annual Mountain and Valley Wool Festival |
| 7-8 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| 7-8 | Back roads of NH | 40th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| 7-8 | Monumental Complex of Santa Caterina, Finale Ligure, Italy | KN.IT: An All-Italian Knit Festival and Market Fair |
| 7-16 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coast Knitting Tour |
| 10-17 | Ireland | Knitting in County Kerry with Julie Debreux |
| 10-Dec. 17 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada | World of Threads Festival: Contemporary Fibre Art |
| 12-23 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky: Late Fall Edition |
| 13-14 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| 13-14 | Online | Top to Toe with Rowan Connect |
| 13-15 | Madison, WI | 7th Annual Madtown Yarn Shop Hop |
| 13-15 | MatSu Valley, St. Therese’s Camp, Wasalia, AK | Northern Lights Valley Knitters Fall Fiber Retreat |
| 13-15 | Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT | Junction Fiber Mill Yarn Retreat |
| 13-17 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Farm Tours |
| 14 | Various | I Love Yarn Day |
| 14 | Paris Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 14th Annual Woodstock ON |
| 14-15 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre & the Peak District, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| 14-15 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 6th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| 14-15 | Linn County Expo Center, Albany, OR | 26th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| 15-22 | Ireland | Country Manor Knitting Retreat with Edel MacBride |
| 15-23 | Scotland | Scotland Knitting Trail with Highlands Knitting Tour |
| 17-20 | Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM | Knitting and Hiking at Ghost Ranch with Lauren Baldwin & Selma Incesulu |
| 17-23 | Rhinebeck, New York | Brooklyn Boy Knits Does Rhinebeck & Beyond! |
| 18-22 | Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Lake Tahor, CA | Jimmy Beans wool Crochet Crowd Retreat |
| 18-24 | Iceland | Knitting on Ice |
| 19-22 | The INN, Montgomery Center, VT | Vermont Men’s Knitting Retreat |
| 19-26 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| 20 | HITS on the Hudson, Saugerties, NY | 10th Annual Indie Untangled – Rhinebeck |
| 20 | Stone Ridge Orchards, Stone Ridge, NY | Wool & Folk: Fiber and Music Festival |
| 20-21 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| 20-21 | Oakes, ND | North Dakota Handspinners Conference |
| 20-21 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival & Retreat |
| 20-22 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Colourful Crochet Flowers Weekend with Emma Leith |
| 20-22 | The Trades Hall, Glasgow, Scotland | Glasgow School of Yarn |
| 20-22 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| 20-22 | Boulder Hot Springs Lodge, Boulder, MT | Yarn & Yoga at the Hotsprings |
| 20-22 | Clarion Hotel Stavanger, Stavanger Hall, Stavanger, Norway | Stavanger Knitting Festival |
| 20-23 | Bedford, PA | Socktoberfest |
| 21 | Isanti County Fairgrounds, Cambridge MN | Minnesota Fiber Festival |
| 21 | The HUB at Cowichan Station, Cobble Hill, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| 21 | Genesis Centre, Alberta, Canada | The Fibre Shindig – Calgary’s Funky Fibre Fest! |
| 21 | Franklin Junior HS, Des Moines, IA | Fall Federation Meeting of the Iowa Federation of Handweavers & Spinners |
| 21 | Memory Lane Heritage Village, Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia, Canada | 3rd Annual Memory Lane Fibre Arts Festival |
| 21-22 | Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, OH | 10th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| 21-22 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | 43rd Annual New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 21-28 | Château de Parançay, Bernay-Saint-Martin, France | Knit Pause Fall Retreat |
| 22 | Madrid, Spain | Transhumance Festival: Sheep, Goats Cross Downtown Madrid |
| 23 | Windswept Acres Sheep Farm, Pittstown, NJ | Fall Fleece & Fiber Sale |
| 25-28 | Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, AZ | Yarn Fest Mesa |
| 26-28 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| 26-29 | Dutton Farmhouse, Dummerston, VT | Knitting Traditions Retreat with Beth Brown-Reinsel: The Cowichan-Inspired Cardigan |
| 26-29 | Poets Cove Resort & Spa, Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada | Poets Cove Retreat with Knit Social, Joji Locatelli & Olga Buraya-Kefelian |
| 26-Nov. 2 | Scotland | Knitting in the Scottish Highlands with Carol Meldrum |
| 27-29 | Hill Country Youth Event Center, Kerrville, TX | Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| 27-29 | Felletin, France | 23rd edition of National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| 28 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Fall Frederick Fiber Fest |
| 28 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| 28-29 | Insole Court, Cardiff, Wales, UK | 5th Annual Knit-Tea Retreat |
| 28-29 | Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | Kendal Wool Gathering |
| 28-31 | Ranches at Belt Creek, MT | Big Sky Country Retreat with Farmer’s Daughter Fibers |
| 28-Nov. 5 | South Island, New Zealand | Yarn Craft Inaugural Tour |
| 29 | Allegheny Rivertrail Park, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin: A Pittsburgh Indie Fiber Arts Marketplace |
| 29-Oct. 8 | Bergen, Norway | Ulveka [Wool Week]: A Celebration of Norwegian Wool |
| 29-Nov. 3 | Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO | Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) |
| 29-Nov. 4 | Asheville, NC | Asheville Through the Maker’s Lens |
| 29-Nov. 7 | Estonia & Latvia | Baltic Knitting Tour |
November
| 1-5 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | KK2Tog Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 1-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Fall Fiber Frolic [sold out] |
| 1-9 | Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan | Japan Craft Tour |
| 2-5 | Quechee Inn at Marshland Falls, Quechee, VT | Knit Vermont with Tanis Gray |
| 2-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Sun Valley Fibers Fall Fiber Frolic Retreat with Kate Oates |
| 2-5 | Kemper Campbell Ranch, Victorville, CA | Griffin Dyeworks 18th Annual Retreat |
| 2-5 | Pretty Lake Camp, Mattawan, MI | Great Lakes Men’s Fiber Retreat |
| 2-10 | Alentejo region, Portugal | Knitting with Cocoknits in Portugal |
| 3-4 | Meramec Baptist Conference Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| 3-5 | Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD | Fall Knitting Retreat |
| 3-5 | Ozark Retreat Center, Neosho, MO | Fiber Folks of SW MO Annual Guild Retreat |
| 3-5 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| 3-6 | Tanque Verde Ranch, Tucson, AZ | Casapinka Dude Ranch Retreat |
| 4 | Spring Mills YMCA, Spring Mills, PA | 4th Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
| 4 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 9th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| 4 | The Redd on Salmon, Portland, OR | Sacred Sheep |
| 4 | Peace Hill Farm, Charles City, VA | Peace Hill Farm Fiber and Craft Festival |
| 4-5 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 12th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| 4-5 | Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK | 7th Annual Stitch Fest South West |
| 4-5 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 5th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Fall Fest |
| 6-9 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Session 1, Shetlands |
| 10-11 | Cherry Creek Park, Canton, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| 10-12 | Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium | 6th Annual Ghent Handwerkbeurs [Handicraft Fair] |
| 10-13 | Barnsley Resort, Adairsville, GA | 2nd Annual Ewe Crew in the Woods Falloween Retreat |
| 11-12 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival |
| 12-18 | New Mexico | A Wool Lover’s Visit to New Mexico |
| ** 13-15 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| 13-16 | Online | Cambridge Yarn Winter Festival |
| 13-16 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson: Session 2, Shetlands |
| 16-19 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, England, UK | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| 16-19 | YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, NC | Southeast Men’s Knitting Retreat |
| 16-21 | Hotel Evenia Rosselló, Barcelona, Spain | Barcelona Knits Festival and Gaudi-Inspired workshops with expert Julie Dubreux |
| 16-22 | Barcelona, Spain | Knit Barcelona with Carol Feller |
| 17-18 | Old Shawnee Town Hall, Shawnee, KS | 37th Annual Creative Hand Show and Sale sponsored by the Weavers Guild and the Fiber Guild of Kansas City |
| 17-19 | Scottish Rite Temple, Santa Fe, NM | 11th Annual Fall Fiber Fiesta |
| 17-19 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Broomstick Crochet Weekend with Carol Meldrum |
| 18 | Route 2, London, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival: Great Big London Yarn Crawl |
| 18-19 | Pomona Fairplex, Pomona, CA | SoCal Fiber Fair |
| 18-19 | World Trade Center, Barcelona, Spain | 6th Annual Barcelona Knits |
| 18-19 | Franklin Jr High, Des Mointes, IA | Threads and Fiber Festival |
| 18-19 | Leesport Farmer’s Market, Leesport, PA | Pennsylvania Fall Fiber Arts Festival |
| 24-26 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Northamptonshire, Daventry, England, UK | Stitch Yourself Happy – Knitting & Pilates with Rosalind Hoyes & Anna Nikipirowicz. |
| 26 | Sanburn Hall, York, England, UK | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 26-Dec. 2 | Estonia & Latvia | Baltic Cities Christmas Markets Knitting Tour with Carol Meldrum |
December
| 1-3 | Sugarloaf Mountain, MD | Countryside Artisans Holiday Studio Tours |
| 1-9 | Switzerland, Germany & France | The Christmas Markets of Switzerland, the Black Forest & Alsace |
| 1-12 | Rhine River | Christmas Markets Knitting Cruise on the Rhine |
| 3-11 | Norway | Northern Lights Knitting Cruise with Anna Nikipirozwicz |
| 9-10 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
| 10-13 | Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | Vogue Knitting Retreat with Gudrun Johnston, Mary Jane Mucklestone, Jennifer Berg & Tressa Weidenaar |
| 15-17 | Staverton Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Crochet Socks Weekend with Anna Nikipirowicz |
2023 Fiber Tours and Other Year Round Events
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| May 15-Oct. 31 | New York State | NY Fiber Trail |
| July 1-Oct. 9 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl in Vacationland |
| Year round | Kentucky | Kentucky Fiber Trail |
| Year round | Madison, WI | Madison Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Baraboo-Lodi-Sauk Prairie-Portage, WI | Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Little Falls–Randall–Brainerd–Staples–Wadena–New York Mills, MN | Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Bemidji–Solway–Turtle River–Tenstrike, MN | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| Year round | Bergen, Norway | The Wool Heritage Route |
2024
January
| 5-6 | Wyndham Orlando Resort & Conference Center/Celebration, Orlando, FL | 20th Annual Distaff Day |
| 10-13 | Sheraton Hotel Downtown, Denver, CO | Make It With Wool National Finals |
| 11-14 | Expo, Houten, Netherlands | 20th Annual Handwerkbeurs [Handicraft Fair] |
| 12-14 | Sanburn Hall, York, England, UK | Yorkshire Yarn Fest |
| 12-25 | Nezinscot Farm, Turner, ME | Winter Weaving and Fiber Arts Retreat |
| 12-26 | The Green Hotel, Mysore, India | Knit for Peace Mysore with Carol Meldrum |
| 18-20 | Shepherd’s Cross, Claremore, OK | Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreat |
| 19-21 | Bradford Woods, Martinsville, IN | 1st Annual Rebel Purl Yarn Retreat |
| 20-Feb. 3 | Antarctica | Antarctica Cruise with Barry Klein & Casapinka |
| 17-21 | Powerhouse Community Arts Center & Pavilion, Oxford, MS | 14th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 22 | Russell’s Garden Center, Wayland, MA | Wayland Winter Farmers’ Market Fiber Farm Days |
| 22-25 | CA | San Diego North Coast Knitters Guild Winter Retreat |
| 25-28 | Marriott Marquis Times Square, New York, NY | Vogue Knitting LIVE |
| 27 | Faubourg Brewing Co., New Orleans, LA | 2nd Annual Yarni Gras hosted by Indie Untangled |
| ** 27-Feb. 12 | Tampa Bay, FL | Bay Area Knitting Guild Yarn Crawl |
February
| 1-4 | Hilton Greenville, Greenville, SC | The KnitINN |
| 2-4 | Roland Powell Convention Center, Ocean City, MD | 13th Annual Delmarva Wool and Fiber Expo |
| ** 5 | Bradford Industrial Museum, Bradford, England UK | Blaise Wool Festival |
| ** 5 | Boston Public Market, Boston, MA | New England Farm & Fiber Festival |
| 9-11 | Pabellón de Cristal del Recinto Ferial de la casa de Campo, Madrid, Spain | 2nd Annual Love Yarn Madrid |
| 12-19 | North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN | 14th Annual Fiber Week |
| 16-19 | Santa Fe, NM | Knitopia Santa Fe with Julie Weisenberger, Thea Colman, Kate Atherley, & Jennifer Berg |
| ** 18 | Lammers Town Hall, Solway, MN | 9th Annual Small Scale Sustainable Sheep Farming Event |
| 18 | RIT Inn & Conference Center, Henrietta, NY | 8th Annual Tina Turner Knits Fiber Arts Festival |
| 19-24 | Los Angeles-Cabo San Lucas-Los Angeles | Brioche Cruise with Terry Neal |
| 21-25 | Inn at Pine Knoll Shores, Atlantic Beach, NC | Surf, Sand & Stitches – Atlantic Beach |
| 25-March 3 | Bellingham Irish Castle, Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland | MaggiKnits Bellingham Irish Castle Retreat |
| 22-March 9 | Australia and New Zealand | Australia & New Zealand Knitting Cruise |
| 23-25 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK & Online | 16th Annual Unravel, A Festival of Yarn |
| ** 24-26 | Freeport, ME | 19th Annual New England Textile Arts Network’s Spa Knit and Spin |
| 25-March 3 | Bellingham Irish Castle, Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland | MaggiKnits Bellingham Irish Castle Retreat |
March
| 2 | Johnson County Fairgrounds Bldg. C, Iowa City, IA | 11th Annual Shepherd’s Market Iowa |
| 3 | Blackfriars Priory School, Prospect, South Australia | Fibre Feast SA: South Australia’s Premier Fibre & Yarn Craft Event |
| ** 4 | The Lamplighter Restaurant, Delmont, PA | Raggz Fiber Affair |
| 4 | Classic Club, Palm Desert, CA | Knitting Guild of the Desert’s 18th annual Fashion Show and Luncheon |
| ** 4-11 | Central Florida east of Tampa | Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl |
| 5-10 | Sheepwalk Ranch, Bandera, TX | Texas Wool Week – Bandera Fiber & Arts Week |
| 7-10 | Lakeway Resort and Spa, Lakeway, TX | 11th Annual Knitting in the Hills Retreat with Olga Buraya-Kefelian, Felicia Lo, Lindsey Elisabeth Fowler, Aimee’ Gille, Catherine Clark & Dawn Barker |
| 7-10 | Portland, OR | 15th Annual Rose City Yarn Crawl |
| 7-10 | Parc des Expositions, Paris, France | L’aiguille en Fêtes [Thread and Needle Lovers} |
| 8-9 | NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC | 18th Annual Carolina Fiber Fest |
| 8-9 | The Dunedin Centre, Dunedin, NZ | 13th Annual Unwind Fibrecraft Retreat |
| 8-10 | Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Stitchtopia Festival |
| 9-10 | Norfolk Showground Arena, Norfolk, England, UK | East Anglia Yarn Festival |
| ** 10-11 | Jay Community Center, Portland, IN | Jay County Fiber Arts Festival | ** 12 | Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | 2nd Annual Hamilton Fibre Market |
| 16 | Ramada Inn and Conference Center, State College, PA | For the Love of Fiber |
| 16 | Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR | Abernathy Spring Fiber Sale |
| 16 | Spinderigade, Veggie, Denmark | Fiberfolk Wool Festival |
| ** 16-19 | North Shore, Boston, MA | Knit North Yarn Crawl |
| ** 17-19 | Camp Asbury, Silver Lake, NY | Tina Turner Knits Retreat |
| ** 18 | Online | Project Knitwell’s Knitathon |
| ** 18-19 | Fernhill Farm, Somerset, Bristol, England, UK | Fibre Quest |
| 18-21 | Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, WA | Explore 4 Spring Fiber Retreat with Deb Robson |
| ** 19 | Marazion Community Centre, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK | Far Woolly West |
| ** 19-22 | Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA | Northwest Regional Spinners Association Camp Burton 27th Annual Spinners’ Retreat |
| 21-24 | Business Design Centre, London, England, UK | The Stitch Festival |
| 21-24 | W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center at Smith Mountain Lake, Wirtz, VA | Skein Away Fiber Retreat 9 |
| 22-23 | Dickson County Fairground, Dickson, TN | 15th Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival |
| 22-23 | Mesta Meadows, Glenallen, MO | Ozark Highlands Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| 22-24 | Inn at East Hill Farm, Troy, NH | Knitting and Spinning Retreat |
| 22-24 | Koelnmesse Exhibit Center, Cologne, Germany | h+h Cologne: International Trade Fair for Creative Handicraft & Hobby Supplies |
| 22-24 | American Royal Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO | Midwest Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Alpaca Show |
| 23 | Junior Fair Building, Wood County Fairgrounds, Bowling Green, OH | 36th Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair |
| ** 23-26 | Online | The Knit School Virtual Retreat |
| ** 25 | Island Farm, Roanoke Island, NC | Annual Sheep Shearing |
| ** 25 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK | Scottish Wool Producers Show |
| ** 25 | Winterset Middle School Gym, Winterset, IA | 11th Annual Heartland Fiberpalooza |
| ** 25 | Old McCaskill’s Farm, Rembert, SC | 13th Annual Spring Shearing Day |
| ** 25-26 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 19th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Show |
| ** 25-26 | Cape Ann Motor Inn, Gloucester, MA | 22nd Annual Cape Ann Knitting Retreat |
| ** 25-26 | Bergerie Nationale farm, Rambouillet, France | Fête de la tonte et de la laine [Shearing and Wool Festival] |
| ** 25-26 | Petty Thieves Brewery, Charlotte, NC | Craft Fest: Charlotte Region Arts, Fibers, and Textiles |
| ** 26 | Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT | The Art of Shearing – A Sheep to Shawl Festival |
| ** 26 | Online | Knit for Food Knit-a-thon |
| ** 28 | MA. Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, MA | Woolapalooza |
| 29-30 | Cloverdale Agriplex, Surrey, BC, Canada | 13th Annual Fibres West |
| 29-31 | Highland Lodge, Greensboro, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat |
| ** 31-April 2 | Indian Bear Lodge & Winery, Walhonding, OH | 6th Annual Spring StitchEscape |
April
| ** 1-2 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Spring Fiber Expo |
| 1-10 | Ireland | Knit Social Retreat Ireland |
| 3-7 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Knit 1 Spring |
| 4-7 | Brigid’s Loft, Port Townsend, WA | 7th Annual Getaway Retreat with Olga Buraya-Kefelian |
| 4-20 | New Zealand | Wool and Wonders of New Zealand with Grandma’s Spinning Wheel |
| 5-7 | Riverside, Meeting & Event Hotel, Zweidlen-Glattfelden!, Switzerland | 4th Annual Swiss Yarn Festival |
| 5-7 | AmishView Inn & Suites, Bird in Hand, PA | Lancaster Knitter’s Retreat |
| 6 | Jane Addams Community Center, Cedarville, IL | 28th Annual Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair |
| 6 | Union Bluff Hotel, York Beach, ME | 11th Annual Fiber Marketplace |
| 6-7 | Grammar School, Leeds, England, UK | 7th Annual Spring into Wool: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 6-7 | Neue Messe, Glashalle, Leipzig, Germany | 14th Annual Leipzig Wool Festival & Fabric Fair (Leipziger Wolle-Fest & Stoffmesse) |
| 6-7 | Oak Harbor High School, Oak Harbor, WA | 51th Annual Whidbey Weavers Guild Spin-In |
| ** 9 | Online | 3rd European Wool Day: Serbia |
| 9-13 | Embassy Suites Loveland, Loveland, CO | Maker Festival Colorado |
| 9-16 | Occidental Hotel, Buffalo, WY | Knitting in Buffalo, Wyoming |
| 11-14 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland NC | Knit North Carolina with the Traveling Yarn Yogi & Kimberly McAlindin |
| 11-22 | Scotland | Wool & Whisky: Our Signature Tour |
| ** 12 | SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY | 6th Annual Hudson Valley Textiles Summit & Market |
| 12-13 | Expo New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | Fiber Art Extravaganza |
| 12-19 | England | Wool & Wanders: The Lake District, a Retreat to Make Your Own |
| 13 | Monroe County Fairgrounds, Waterloo, IL | 38th Annual Southern Illinois Sheep & Craft Festival |
| ** 13-15 | Putnam County Fairgrounds, Greencastle, IN | The Fiber Event at Greencastle: Celebrating 32 Years of Fiber |
| ** 13-16 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 16th Annual Minnesota Yarn Shop Hop |
| ** 14-17 | Online | Rochester Knitting Guild Spring Workshop with Alasdair Post-Quinn |
| ** 15 | Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, UT | Lamb and Wool Festival |
| ** 15 | Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville, NY | Fiber Frolic |
| ** 15-16 | Allegan County Fairgrounds, Allegan, MI | 26th Annual Michigan Alpaca Fest |
| 15-16 | RHS Garden Rosemoor, Great Torrington Rosemoor, Torrington Devon, England, UK | The Great Wool Weekend |
| 15-18 | Crowne Plaza Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort, Chandler, AZ | DanDoh In the Desert Retreat |
| 15-24 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| ** 17-22 | Crown Center Westin, Kansas City, MO | PLY Away Spinning Retreat |
| 17-24 | The Lark, Bozeman, MT | Knitting Under the Big Sky |
| 18-22 | The Colonial Inn, Hillsborough, NC | Cozy Murder Mystery Cowl with Criminal Knits |
| 19-21 | Online | The Knitting Guild Association Next Level Conference |
| 19-28 | North Texas | 6th Annual North Texas Yarn Crawl |
| 20-21 | Schulstraße 13, 74572 Blaufelden, Germany | 5th Annual Hohenloher Wollfest |
| 20-21 | Plumbers Hall, Chicago, IL | YarnCon: Chicago’s 15th Annual Indie Fiber Fair |
| ** 20-22 | Fuglafjørður (Fuglefjord), Faroe Islands, Denmark | Bindifestivalurin 2023 (Strikkefestivalen 2023) (Knitting Festival) |
| ** 20-23 | Los Angeles County, CA | 11th Annual Los Angeles County Yarn Crawl |
| ** 20-23 | Good Commons Retreat Center, Plymouth, VT | Yoga + Yarn Retreat with Liza Laird and Kate Madden |
| ** 20-23 | Washington State Fairgrounds J Barn, Puyallup, WA | Shepherd’s Extravaganza |
| 20-30 | Wales | Wool Wales |
| ** 21 | Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN | Sheep Shearing Days |
| ** 21-22 | Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN | 13th Annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 21-23 | Gilmer County Civic Center, Ellijay, GA | 4th Annual Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival |
| 21-27 | Ireland | Ireland Country Manor Knitting Retreat |
| 21-May 2 | Scotland | Travel to Scotland with the Yarny Ewes |
| ** 22 | Winneshiek County Fairgrounds, Danan Lansing Building, Decorah, IA | Spring Meeting of the Iowa Federation of Handweavers & Spinners |
| ** 22 | Hoover Ridge Park, Madison, VA | 6th Annual Hoover Ridge Wool and Wine Festival |
| ** 22 | Gore Place, Waltham, MA | 36th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival |
| ** 22 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Spring Frederick Fiber Fest |
| ** 22 | Genesis Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Spring Fibre Shindig – Calgary’s Funky Fibre Fest |
| ** 22 | Knik, AK | Northern Lights Valley Knitters Spring Retreat |
| ** 22 | Blue Mule Winery, Fayetteville, TX | Texas Yarn Lovers Event |
| ** 22-23 | Glen Cove Mansion, Glen Cove, NY | Gold Coast Knitting Retreat |
| 22-29 | Dorint Thermenhote, Freiburg, Germany | Knit or Crochet in the Black Forest with Anna Nikipirowicz & Frederica Patmore |
| 23-May 8 | New Zealand | Wool & Wonders of New Zealand with Kid Ewe Knit |
| ** 24-26 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Woolith Fair: A Greater Vancouver Yarn Crawl |
| 26-28 | Embassy Suites, Olathe, KS | Knitting in the Heartland with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee |
| 26-29 | Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock, NC | 12th Annual Unwind: A Fiber Arts Getaway in the Mountains |
| ** 26-30 | New Jersey | New Jersey Wool Walk |
| 27 | Varies | 6th Annual Local Yarn Store Day: A Day to Celebrate the Brick and Mortar Yarn Shop |
| 27-28 | Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, UK | 19th Annual Wonderwool Wales: A Festival of Welsh Wool & Natural Fibers |
| 27-28 | Alliant Energy Center, New Holland Pavilion, Madison, WI | Wisconsin Alpaca and Fiber Fest | The Great Midwest Alpaca Festival |
| 27-28 | Coliseum at the Seguin Events Complex, Sequin, TX | 13th Annual Yellow Rose Fiber Festival |
| ** 27-29 | Shepherd’s Cross, Claremore, OK | Woolly Weekend |
| ** 27-30 | Occidental Hotel, Buffalo, WY | Wild West Fiber Retreat |
| ** 28-29 | Legacy Event Center, Farmington UT | Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair |
| ** 29 | North Haven Fairgrounds, North Haven, CT | 113th Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival |
| ** 29 | Bedford Farmers Market, Bedford, VA | Bedford Fiber Festival |
| ** 29 | Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center, Redmond, OR | High Desert Wool Growers 24th Annual Fiber Market Day |
| ** 29 | Village of Wyoming, NY | 8th Annual Fiber Flurry Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 29 | Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY | Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase |
| ** 29 | The Wool Mill, Belgrade, MT | 3rd Annual Spring Fiber Fling |
| ** 29-30 | Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn Yarn Crawl |
| ** 29-30 | Farmpark, Kirtland, OH | Lamb Jam |
| ** 29-30 | Washington County, NY | 30th Annual Washington County Fiber Tour |
| ** 29-May 1 | Corn Hall, Corinium Museum & New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, England, UK | Cotswold Wool Weekend |
| ** 30 | George Dawson Inn, Dawson Creek, BC, Canada | 3rd Annual Peace Fibre Fest |
May
| 1-3 | Donald E. Stephens Convention & Conference Center, Rosemont, IL | h+h Americas: For Handmade Business, Uniting the Soft Crafts Industries in North America |
| 2-3 | The Arc at Market Street, Frederick, MD | Yarncentrick Fiber Pop-Up |
| 2-6 | Murano island, Venice, Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat with Isabell Kraemer [sold out] |
| 3-5 | The Sherman Zavitz Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada | Knitting Guild of Great Buffalo Seminar Weekend with Mary W. Martin & Lucy Neatby |
| 3-10 | Grand Hotel, Andalsnes, Norway | Knitting Holiday in Norway |
| 4-5 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | 51th Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 4-7 | Washington | PNW (Pacific Northwest) Yarn Crawl: A Yarn to Remember |
| 4-13 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coastal (including Dublin) Knitting Tour |
| 4-5 | Birchwood Community Center, Birchwood, TN | 2nd Annual Birchwood Fiber Festival |
| ** 5 | Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN | Sheep Shearing Days |
| ** 5-7 | Downtown Washington, PA | Running of the Wools |
| ** 6 | Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, OR | Sheep to Shawl |
| 7-12 | North Carolina | Western North Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 8-16 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 9-17 | Cotswolds, England | Cotswolds Walking Holiday: Sheep and Fresh Air |
| 9-21 | Ireland | Maggie’s Emerald Isle |
| 10-12 | Washington County Fair, Stillwater, MN | 25th Annual Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep & Wool Festival |
| 10-12 | Staverton Park & Golf Club, Daventry, England, UK | Crochet Spring Wreath Weekend with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| 11 | Lopez Center for Community & the Arts, Lopez Village, WA | Lopez Lamb, Wool and Goat Festival |
| 11-12 | Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, NH | 45th Annual New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival |
| 11-23 | Ireland | Maggie’s Emerald Isle |
| ** 12 | Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN | Sheep Shearing Days |
| 12-17 | Galway Bay Hotel, Upper Salthill, Galway, Ireland | Knit and Crochet in the West of Ireland with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 12-20 | Richmond to Virginia Beach, VA | James River Yarn Crawl |
| ** 13 | Chicago, IL | Windy City LYS Tour: The Mother’s Day Trolley |
| ** 13 | Ilinois Amish Heritage Center, Arthur, IL | Sheep to Yarn to Quilts |
| ** 13 | Rush, NY | 15th Annual Shepherd’s Wool Market |
| ** 13-14, 20-21 | New Jersey | 2nd Annual NJ Fibershed’s Barn Crawl |
| 13-19 | Various venues, London, England, UK | London Craft Week |
| 13-22 | England | Squidney Knits in Vintage England |
| 17-19 | Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, ON, Canada | Knit City Toronto |
| 17-19 | Riverview Community Hall, Scio, OR | Linn County Lamb & Wool Fair |
| ** 17-21 | Puget Sound, WA | 16th Annual Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour |
| 17-24 | Grand Hotel, Andalsnes, Norway | Knitting Holiday in Norway [full] |
| 18-19 | Buxton Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK | Buxton Wool Gathering |
| 18-19 | Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston, ACT, Australia | Canberra Wool Expo |
| ** 19-20 | Big Timber Civic Center, Big Timber, MT | Crazy Mountain Fiber Festival |
| ** 19-21 | Camp Myrtlewood, Myrtle Point, OR | Annual Fiber in the Forest |
| ** 19-21 | Dungog Inn, Dungog, NSW, Australia | The Knitter’s Picnic |
| ** 19-21 | Sheraton Suites, Cuyahoga Falls, OH | 2nd Annual Twisted River Fiber Retreat with Anne Hanson |
| ** 20-21 | Macktown Living History, Rockton, IL | Macktown Fiber Event: It’s All About Fiber |
| ** 20-21 | Lycoming County Fairgrounds, Hughesville, PA | 9th Annual Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival |
| ** 20-21 | Lake County Fairgrounds, Crown Point, IN | Illiana Yarn Festival |
| ** 20-21 | Masterson Station Park, Lexington, KY | 14th Annual Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| ** 20-21 | National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Scotland | Woolly Weekend |
| ** 21 | Boston Public Market, Boston, MA | New England Farm & Fiber Festival |
| ** 21 | Hallockville Museum Farm, Riverhead, Long Island, NY | 12th Annual Hallockville Museum Farm Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| 22-27 | Lerwick Hotel, Shetland Islands, Scotland | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall, Janette Budge & Kathleen Anderson |
| 22-June 1 | Greece | Greece: An Ionian Knitting Odyssey |
| 23-27 | Parcevall Hall, Wharfedale, Yorkshre Dales, England, UK | Ann Kingstone Yorkshire Knitting School |
| ** 24-31 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| 25 | Kumeu Showgrounds, Kumeu, Auckland, New Zealand | Woolfest Auckland |
| 25-26 | Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster, OH | 28th Annual Great Lakes Fiber Show |
| ** 25-29 | Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA | Sacramento County Fair Wool Show |
| 25-June 8 | Baltics | Baltic Knitting Cruise |
| ** 26-28 | Sorrento Centre, Sorrento, BC, Canada | 25th Annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat |
| ** 27 | Cornhill Community Hall, Cornhill, New Brunswick, Canada | Fundy Fibre Artisans Spring Fling |
| ** 27-28 | Cummington Fairgrounds, Cummington, MA | 47th Annual Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair |
| ** 27-June 4 | Virginia | 10th Annual Virginia Blue Ridge Yarn Crawl |
| 28-June 4 | Fanø Krogaard, Fanø, Denmark | Knitting in Fanø with Christel Seyfarth |
| 30-June 2 | Park City Peak Hotel, Park City, UT | Knit Utah with Kyle Kunnecke |
| 31-June 1 | Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI | Madison Knitters’ Guild Knit-In |
| 31-June 1 | Johnson County 4-H Fairgrounds, Franklin, IN | Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival |
| 31-June 7 | Scotland | Textiles & Treasures of the Scottish Borders |
June
| 1 | Fayette County Fairgrounds, Dunbar, PA | 2nd Annual Fayette County Fiber Festival |
| 1-2 | Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon, England, UK | The Great British Fibre Festival |
| ** 3 | Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds, England, UK | 9th Annual Leeds Wool Festival |
| ** 3 | Auglaize Village, Defiance, OH | Fiberpalooza Festival |
| ** 3-4 | Boyne Mountain Complex, Civic Center, Boyne Falls, MI | Tip of the Mitt Fiber Fair |
| ** 3-4 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, WA | 11th Annual Fiber Fusion Northwest |
| ** 3-4 | Arizona Historical Society Pioneer Museum, Flagstoff, AZ | 9th Annual Flag Wool and Fiber Festival |
| ** 3-4 | Windsor Fairgrounds, Windsor, ME | 21th Annual Maine Fiber Frolic |
| ** 3-4 | El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM | 18th Annual Santa Fe Spring & Fiber Festival |
| ** 3-9 | Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England UK | WOVEN Festival of Textiles |
| 4-8 | Milwaukee, WI | Maker Festival Milwaukee |
| 5-8 | Shakerag Workshops, Sewanee, TN | MDK Knitting Getaway |
| 6-7 | Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, Estes Park, CO | 32nd Annual Estes Park Wool Market |
| ** 6-7 | Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX | 49th Annual Texas Folklife Festival |
| 6-8 | Event Center at the RV/MH Hall of Fame Museum, Elkhart, IN | Elkhart County Quilt & Fiber Expo |
| 7-8 | Higgins Fairgrounds, Sparta, NC | 6th Annual Blue Ridge Fiber Fest |
| 7-9 | Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo Campus), Ontario, Canada | 60th Annual Ontario Handspinning Seminar |
| 7-14 | Alaska | Alaska Dawes Glacier Cruise with Terry Neal |
| 7-16 | Norway | Midsummer Knitting in Norway |
| ** 7-20 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Shetland Islands with Amy Detjen & Claudia Kinville |
| 8 | Canal Market District, Newark, OH | Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair |
| 8-9 | Butternut Hill Campground, Bouckville, NY | 13th Annual (CNY) Central New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| 8-9 | South Molton, North Devon, England, UK | John Arbon Textiles Open Mill Weekend |
| ** 9-11 | Blönduós School & Sports Center, Blönduós, Iceland | Prjónagleðin: 7th Annual Iceland Knit Fest |
| ** 9-13 | Misty Isle Farms, Vashon Island, WA | 12th Annual Vashon Sheepdog Classic |
| ** 10 | Burgess Hall, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival |
| ** 10 | Fenelon Falls Community Centre, Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada | Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival |
| ** 10 | Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK | 11th Annual Thread: A Festival of Textiles |
| ** 10 | Brewlando, Orlando, FL | Yarn Lounge |
| ** 10 | Varies | World Wide Knit in Public Day |
| ** 10-11 | Dilham, Norfolk, England, UK | 6th Annual Woolly Weekend | Worstead Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| ** 10-12 | Bårdshaug Guest House and Farm, Orkanger, Norway | 5th Annual Central Norwegian Culture and Knitting Festival |
| ** 10-Aug. 20 | Hudson Valley, NY | 6th Annual Hudson Valley Yarn Crawl |
| 13-16 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | KnitWit at the Shores: A Knitting Retreat in Maine |
| 14-20 | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada | Fibre Week |
| 15-16 | Sønderborg, Denmark | Sønderborg Knitting Festival (Sønderborg Strickfestival] |
| ** 15-17 | Shepherd’s Cross, Claremore, OK | Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreat |
| ** 16-17 | Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ | 27th Annual Sheep Is Life Celebration |
| 16-20 | Eco-Hotel Park Hotel Azalea, Val Di Fiemme in the Dolomites, Italy | mYak Knitting Retreat in the Italian Dolomites with Joji Locatelli |
| 16-25 | Norway | Midsummer Knitting in Norway [sold out] |
| ** 17 | Gurteen Agricultural College, Ballingarry, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Ireland | Sheep 2023 |
| 19 | Doubletree Hotel, Rochester, MN | Zombie Knitapocalypse: An Urban Knitting Retreat |
| 21-24 | Red Centre, Alice Springs, Australia | 26th Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival |
| 22 | JD Lang Activity Park, Bracebridge Fairgrounds, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada | Muskoka Yarn & Fibrefest |
| 22-23 | Vilar Seminary, Porto, Portugal | 5th Annual Knit with Friends Knitting Festival |
| 22-23 | J36 Rural Auction Centre, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England, UK | Cumbrian Wool Gathering |
| ** 22-25 | Middleburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa | Karoo Winter Wool Festival |
| ** 23-25 | Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR | 46th Annual Black Sheep Gathering |
| ** 23-25 | The Berry Center, Cypress, TX | Houston Fiber Fest |
| ** 23-26 | Bedford, PA | Knitting Retreat |
| 23-28 | Galway Bay Hotel, Galway, Ireland | Knitting in the West of Ireland with Julie Dubreux |
| ** 24-25 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | PACA Tent Ladies Fiber Event: Fiber Art Food Fellowship |
| ** 27-July 3 | Billströmska Folk High School, Tjörn, Sweden | Nordic Knitting Symposium (Nordisk Strikkesymposium) |
| 28-July 5 | Hotel Neya Porto & Hotel Vila Galé Cascais, Portugal | Portugal Crochet Retreat with Lucy of Attic24 |
| 29-30 | The Haritage, Bishton, Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire, England, UK | Wool @J13 |
| ** 30-July 2 | Kemmerer Events Center, Kemmerer, WY | Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival |
July
| ** 1 | Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ | Capital Fibre Fest |
| ** 1 | Farmers Arms, Lowick Green, Nr Ulverston, England, UK | Farmer’s Yarn Festival |
| ** 1-23 | Online [Ravelry] | Tour de Fleece |
| 3-11 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour |
| 6-7 | Online | John Arbon Textiles Virtual Mill Open Weekend |
| 6-7 | Bray, Normandy, France | 3rd Annual Thread of Sleeve Festival {Festival Le fil de la manche} |
| ** 6-9 | Toivola Old Courtyard, Jyväskylä, Finland | Jyväskylä Knit Fest |
| ** 7-30 | Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine | 8th Annual Great Northern Yarn Haul [yarn crawl] |
| ** 9-15 | University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy’s Vilma Building, Viljandi, Estonia | Estonian Craft Camp: Traditional Craft Workshops |
| ** 9-Aug. 13 | Online | Fiberside Summer Crawl |
| 11-17 | Hyatt Regency & Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Wichita, KS | Convergence: Handweavers Guild of America Biennial Conference |
| ** 12-16 | Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC | Central Carolina Yarn Crawl |
| 13-14 | Latah County Fairgrounds, Moscow, ID | 4th Annual Grazing Hills Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 13-17 | Lindisfarne Community Centre, Invercargill, New Zealand | NZ Machine Knitters’ Society Festival |
| ** 13-18 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Knitting Retreat with Mim Bird |
| ** 13-21 | Australia | Victorian Sheep & Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| ** 14-16 | Camp Asbury, Silver Lake, NY | Tina Turner Knits Retreat |
| ** 14-16 | Sonoma County, CA | Wine Country Yarn Hop |
| ** 15 | Woodstock Community Church, Woodstock, GA | North Georgia Knitting Guild Beat the Heat Retreat |
| 18-28 | Warwick, Queensland, Australia | Jumpers & Jazz in July: Yarnbombing & Jazz Winter Festival |
| 18-Aug. 1 | Peru | Knitting Traditions and Cultures of Peru with Jane Crowfoot |
| 19-21 | Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 144th Annual Australian Sheep & Wool Show |
| ** 19-23 | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN | Super Summer Knittogether |
| 20-21 | Cowan Civic Center, Lebanon, MO | 15th Annual Fiber U |
| 20-21 | Copper K Barn, 8 miles south of Whitehall, MT | 8th Annual Copper K Fiber Festival |
| ** 20-29 | Michigan | 2nd Annual Middle of the Mitten Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21-23 | Finnigan’s Run, Fredericksburg, VA | 2nd Annual Finnigan’s Run Knitting Retreat |
| ** 21-24 | Sew-clusion Retreats, Sebago, ME | 8th Annual Maine Spinners’ Registry Fiber Retreat |
| ** 21-29 | Arkansas | 7th Annual Arkansas Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21-30 | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, VA | 73rd Annual Virginia Highlands Festival |
| ** 21-30 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada | 3rd Annual Great Northern Arts Festival |
| ** 22-23 | Ridgway, CO | 9th Annual Sneffels Fiber Arts Festival |
| 22-28 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat |
| ** 22-30 | Chicago, IL | 14th Annual Chicago Yarn Crawl |
| 25-Aug. 2 | Oaxaca, Mexico | Oaxaca Through the Lens of La Guelaguetza |
| ** 26-Aug. 2 | North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK | North Ronaldsay 7th Annual SheepFest |
| 27-28 | Redborne School, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, UK | Summer Wool Festival |
| ** 28-29 | Creek County Fairgrounds, Kellyville, OK | 17th Annual Fiber Christmas in July |
| ** 28-30 | Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT | Junction Fiber Mill Yarn Retreat |
| ** 28-30 | Delaware River Club, Starlight, PA | Fiber Center in the Catskills Retreat |
| ** 28-30 | Prairie City, OR | 5th Annual Prairie City Fiber Fest |
| ** 28-31 | Sequim, WA | Salish Sea & Sky Fiber Arts Retreat |
| ** 28-31 | Southeastern Wisconsin | Wandering Ewe: Southeastern Wisconsin Yarn Crawl |
| ** 28-Aug. 5 | Downtown Denver, CO | 5th Annual Mile High Denver Boutique Week |
| ** 28-Aug. 6 | Greater Pittsburgh region, PA | 10th Annual Steel Valley Yarn Crawl |
| ** 28-Aug. 6 | Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana | Heartland Yarn Adventure [yarn crawl] |
| 29-Aug. 4 | Medomak Retreat Center, Washington, ME | Medomak Fiber Arts Retreat |
| ** 29-Aug.12 | Northern Colorado & Southern Wyoming | Hot August Knits Yarn Crawl |
| 30-Aug. 3 | Lancaster, PA | Maker Festival Lancaster |
| 30-Aug. 4 | McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock, IL | 76th Annual McHenry County Fair, featuring the Northern Illinois Sheep and Fiber Festival |
| ** 31-Aug. 2 | San Juan Islands, Washington | Nautical Knitting with Northwest Yarns & Michele Lee Berstein |
| 31-Aug. 5 | Lerwick Hotel, Shetland Islands, Scotland | Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday with Hazel Tindall, Janette Budge & Kathleen Anderson |
August
| 1-4 | Billings Hotel & Convention Center, Billings, MT | Montana Association of Weavers & Spinners Conference: Our Fiber Planet |
| 3-4 | Lincoln County Fairgrounds, Eureka, MT | Fiberfest Eureka |
| 3-4 | Hartl Building, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND | Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 4-5 | Bartlett Yarns, Harmony, ME | Annual Bartlett Yarns Open House |
| ** 4-6 | Camp Jonah, Trout Lake, WA | Trout Lake Fair: Celebrating the Fiber Arts |
| 4-16 | NYC-Canadian Maritime-Greenland-Iceland | KNITopia 2024 Knitting Cruise with Joji Locatelli, Xandy Peters & Melissa Leapman [sold out] |
| 7-11 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | Summer KAL |
| 9-12 | Kettle Pond State Park, Groton, VT | Vermont Knit & Fiber Summer Retreat |
| 10-11 | Newcastle Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK | North East Wool Show |
| ** 11 | The Canyon, Tarras, NZ | WoolOn |
| ** 11-12 | Oasis Shriner Auditorium, Charlotte, NC | 3rd Annual Southern Comforts Fiber Market |
| ** 11-13 | St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec, Canada | 11th Annual Twist Fibre Festival |
| ** 11-19 | Indiana/Illinois border | P.U.R.L. (Peace-Unity-Respect-Love) Indiana Yarn Crawl |
| ** 12 | Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival: Great Big Crochet/Knit Meet Up |
| ** 12-13 | Rheinterrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany | Wollfestival [Wool Festival] |
| ** 13-21 | Colorado Front Range | 8th Annual Yarn Along the Rockies (Yarn Crawl) |
| 14-18 | Allegan County Fairgounds, Allegan, MI | Michigan Fiber Festival |
| 17 | Hulme Hall, Bebington, Wirral, England, UK | 10th Annual Pop Up Wool Show |
| ** 17-20 | Camp Ida-Haven, McCall, ID | 2nd Annual Fiber.Love.Retreat. |
| 18 | Fernword Community Center, Victoria, BC, Canada | 13th Annual Fibrations Festival |
| ** 18-19 | Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center, San Angelo, TX | 50th Annual Texas Sheep and Goat Field Day & Expo |
| 23-25 | Doubletree Hotel, Green Tree, PA | Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival |
| 23-Sept. 1 | Greater Southeast Texas | 6th Annual Texas Yarn Trail: A Texas Yarn Crawl |
| 23-Sept. 2 | Canadian Maritimes | Knitting in the Canadian Maritimes |
| ** 24-27 | East Pier & Crown Hotel, Ahuriri, Napier, NZ | Knit August Nights Retreat |
| ** 26 | Barrie Curling Club, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | 5th Annual Fibre Spirit |
| ** 26 | Sedbergh, England, UK | Sedbergh Sheepfest 2023 |
| ** 27 | Connaught Youth Centre, Prince George, BC, Canada | 6th Annual Great Northwest Fibre Fest |
| ** 31-Sept. 4 | Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA | Monterey County Fair Wool Show |
September
| ** 1-6 | Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, ME | Island Knitting Retreat |
| ** 2 | Lower Sherwood Farm, Charlottesville, VA | Flock-n-Spiel Fiber Fest |
| ** 2-3 | Double G Alpacas, Sierra Vista, AZ | Sierra Vista Fiber Festival |
| ** 2-3 | Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM | 10th Annual Heart of New Mexico Fiber and Art Gathering |
| 2-9 | Clarion Collection Hotel Havnekontoret, Bergen, Norway | Norway Knitting Retreat with Julie Debreux |
| 3-17 | Peru | Knitting Traditions and Cultures of Peru with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 4 | Reed’s Point, MT | 38th Annual Great Montana Sheep Drive |
| 4-12 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland Knitting Tour |
| ** 5-24 | Northeast Ohio | 16th Annual Yarn Discovery Tour |
| 6-8 | High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddeston, Hertfordshire, England, UK | Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention 2024 |
| ** 6-10 | Almonte Community Centre and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada | 28th Annual Altmonte Fibrefest: A Festival of the Fibre Arts |
| 7-8 | Newbury Racecourse, Newbury, England, UK | Southern Wool Show: A Festival of Woolly Crafts |
| 7-8 | Harford Fairground, Harford, PA | 20th Annual Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival |
| ** 7-10 | San Diego, CA | San Diego Yarn Crawl |
| ** 7-10 | Lake De Gray Resort, Bismarck, AR | A Weekend with Friends Fiber Retreat |
| ** 7-10, 14-17 | Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Searsport, ME | Fiber College |
| 7-14 | Villa Maddalena, Montisi, Tuscany, Italy | Knitting in Tuscany [full] |
| ** 7-25 | Scotland | Scotland Yarn Tour with Gaille Smith |
| ** 8-9 | Red River Exhibition Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 10th Annual Manitoba Fibre Festival |
| ** 8-9 | Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, UK | Unravel…Autumn |
| ** 8-10 | Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark | 10th Annual Knitting Festival Pakhusstrik |
| ** 8-10 | Caldas da Rainha, Portugal | À Procura do Novelo [Knitting & Crochet Festival] |
| ** 8-10 | Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada | Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp |
| ** 8-10 | The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, UK | 43rd Annual Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention |
| ** 8-10 | Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI | Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival |
| ** 8-10 | Laurel Island, East Hampton, CT | Camp Knit-a-way |
| 8-15 | Alaska | Men’s Knitting Retreat Alaska Cruise |
| ** 9 | Park Rapids Farmers Market, Park Rapids, MN | 9th Annual Farm to Fiber Festival |
| ** 9 | Kiwanis & Kinsmen Arenas, Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | 31st Annual Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Fair |
| ** 9 | Machias, ME | 5th Annual Machias Fiber Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Hunterdon County 4H Fairgrounds, Ringoes, NJ | 28th Annual New Jersey Sheep & Fiber Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland, UK & Online | Scottish Yarn Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Riverside Park, Salida, CO | 10th Annual Salida Fiber Festival |
| ** 9-10 | Arcata Community Center, Arcata, CA | 31th Annual Natural Fiber Fair |
| ** 9-16 | Fylingthorpe Methodist Chapel, Robin Hoods Bay, N. Yorkshire, England, UK | 13th Annual Propagansey: The Fascinating World of the Knitted Gansey |
| ** 9-24 | Yorkshire England, UK | 2nd Annual North Yorkshire Yarn Trail |
| ** 10 | Wyong Race Club and Function Centre, Wyong NSW, Australia | Knitters’ Guilde NSW Fibrefest |
| ** 11-14 | Minerals Resort and Spa, Hamburg, NJ | AffiKNITy Retreat with Patty Lyons, Kate Atherley, Julia Farwell-Clay & Safiyyah Talley |
| ** 14-17 | Kansas City, MO | KC (Kansas City) Yarn Crawl |
| ** 14-17 | Vernonia Springs, Vernonia, OR | Starlight Knitting Society’s 6th Annual Camp Starlight |
| ** 14-17 | Irving Convention Center, Irving, TX | 18th Annual DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) Fiber Fest |
| ** 15-17 | Hurup Thy, Jutland, Denmark | Hurup Wooldays Thy |
| ** 15-17 | Codington County Extension Complex, Watertown, SD | 31st Annual North Country Fiber Fair |
| 15-21 | Ireland | Kerry Manor Luxury Knitting Retreat |
| ** 16 | Lacombe Memorial Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | 6th Annual Prairie Fibre Festival |
| ** 16 | East Aurora Rink, East Aurora, NY | 18th Annual Western New York Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 16-17 | Young’s Jersey Dairy, Yellow Springs, OH | 27th Annual Wool Gathering |
| ** 16-17 | Llandovery, Camarthenshire, Wales, UK | 12th Annual Llandovery Sheep Festival |
| 16-25 | Ireland | South of Ireland with Aran Islands Knitting Tour |
| ** 17 | The Pavilion Centre, Royal Cornwall Showground, Whitecross, Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, UK | 2nd Annual Kernow Yarn and Fibre Festival |
| ** 18-19 | River Bend Hotel & Casino, Wyandotte, OK | 10th Annual Fiber Daze |
| 19-22 | Athens, Greece | My Big Fat Greek Crafty Retreat |
| 19-22 | Sports & Culture Center, Allinge, Bornholm, Denmark | Strik Bornholm (Knit Bornholm) |
| ** 21-24 | Nevada and California | 5th Annual Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl |
| ** 21-24 | Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Monticello, IL | 4th Annual Knitting at the Estate Retreat with Laura Nelkin & Jennifer Davies |
| ** 21-24 | Alta Lodge, Alta, UT | 21st Annual Rocky Mountain Knitter’s Retreat |
| ** 21-24 | UMass Hotel, Amherst, MA | 7th Annual WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat |
| ** 22-23 | Salomon Farm Park, Fort Wayne, IN | Salomon Farm Fiber Arts Celebration at the Fall Harvest Festival |
| ** 22-24 | Clark County Ruritan Fairgrounds, Berryville, VA | 17th Annual Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival |
| ** 22-24 | Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West, Plymouth, MN | 36th Annual MN Knitters’ Guild Yarnover |
| ** 22-24 | Common Ground Fairgrounds, Unity, ME | Common Ground Fiber Marketplace & Fleece Tent |
| ** 22-24 | Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA | 23rd Annual California Wool and Fiber Festival |
| ** 22-24 | Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN | Textile Center Garage Sale |
| ** 22-Oct. 2 | Lerwick Hotel, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | Shetland Wool Week with Amy Detjen & Heather Black |
| ** 23 | North Shore Recreation Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada | 5th Annual WoolstockEAST: Fibre Village and Marketplace |
| ** 23 | Essex County Fairgrounds, Westport, NY | Adirondack Harvest Festival: Focus on Fiber & Wool |
| ** 23 | View Park, Los Angeles, CA | Griffin Dyeworks Fiber Frolic |
| ** 23-24 | Skipton Auction Mart, Skipton, England, UK | 11th Annual Yarndale |
| ** 23-25 | St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, CA | Knitting Guild of Santa Cruz Fall Retreat |
| ** 23-30 | Charlotte, NC | Charlotte Area Yarn Crawl |
| ** 23-Oct. 1 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK | 14th Annual Shetland Wool Week |
| ** 23-24 | Varies | 17th Annual National Alpaca Farm Days |
| ** 23-24 | Aplex Events Complex, Alpena, MI | Northern Michigan Fiber Festival, Where Yarn and Friends Find Inspiration |
| ** 23-24 | Espace Tête d’Or-Congress Centre, Lyon, France | 4th Annual Knit Eat & Co. Festival |
| ** 23-24 | Washington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich, NY | Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival |
| ** 24 | Draper Merc Farms, Draper, VA | 2nd Annual G.O.A.T. Sheep & Goat Festival |
| ** 24 | Southwark Bridge, City of London, England, UK | 11th Annual Sheep Drive and Livery Fair |
| ** 24 | Freeville Farmers Market, Freeville, NY | Freeville Fiber Fest |
| ** 25-Oct. 4 | New York City, NY to Quebec, Canada | Stitch Cruise |
| 26-28 | Catawba River Inn, Lynville Falls, NC | Knitescape |
| ** 28-29 | Al Bedoo Shrine, Billings, MT | 5th Annual Prairie Handspinners Fiber Fest |
| ** 28-Oct. 1 | Boston, MA | Greater Boston Yarn Crawl |
| ** 29-30 | Central Pennsylvania College, Summerdale, PA | 38th Annual Knitters’ Day Out: Knitting Friendships |
| ** 29-30 | Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg, MS | 5th Annual Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip |
| ** 29-Oct. 1 | Winter Clove Inn, Round Top, NY | Rip Van Winkle Fall Weekend Knitting & Spinning Retreat |
| ** 29-Oct. 1 | Textile Industry Museum and Mill, Salhus, Bergen, Norway | 5th Annual Bergen Knitting Festival |
| ** 29-Oct. 7 | Hamburg, Germany | Hamburger Garn [Yarn] Gang [crawl] |
| ** 30 | Joe Stephenson Park, Bayfield, CO | 24th Annual Bayfield Heritage Days and Sheep Trailing |
| ** 29-Oct. 1 | Vern Burton Community Center, Port Angeles, WA | 2nd Annual Pacific Northwest Fiber Arts Exposition |
| ** 30-Oct. 1 | Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Turnbridge, VT | 35th Annual Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 30-Oct. 1 | Masham, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK | 36th Annual Masham Sheep Fair |
October
| ** 1 | Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | 27th Annual Boorowa Irish Woolfest: The Running of the Sheep |
| ** 1-2 | Vienna, Austria | 5th Annual Vienna Woll-und Stofffest [Vienna Wool & Fabric Festival] |
| ** 1-8 | Fryeburg, ME | Fiber Center at the Fryeburg Fair |
| ** 1-8 | Online | 4th Annual Spin Together |
| ** 4-8 | Wood River Valley, ID | 27th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival & Wool Fest |
| ** 5-8 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Canada | Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival |
| ** 5-8 | Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, England, UK | The 31st Annual Knitting & Stitching Show |
| ** 5-8 | Kelly House, Tavistock, Devon, England, UK | Kelly House Woolly Weekend |
| 5-14 | Ireland | Aran Islands, Donegal & Causeway Coastal (including Dublin) Knitting Tour |
| ** 6-8 | Edward D. Hansen Conference Center, Everett, WA | International Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 6-8 | Near Kincaid Lake State Park, Falmouth, KY | Kentucky Wool Festival |
| 6-13 | Best Western Inverness Palace Hotel & Spa, Inverness, Scotland, UK | Knitting in the Scottish Highlands with Carol Meldrum |
| ** 6-15 | Hill Country, TX | 17th Annual Best Little Yarn Crawl in Texas: Hill Country Yarn Crawl |
| ** 7 | Worthington Park, Quilcene, WA | 2nd Annual Quilcene Fiber Festival: From Sheep to Shawl |
| ** 7 | Queens Hall and Plas Hyfryd Hotel, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK | West Wales Wool Show |
| ** 7 | Liskeard Public Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK | 3 Bags Full 8th Annual Wool Market |
| ** 7 | Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY | 11th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival |
| ** 7-8 | James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA | 35th Annual Fall Fiber Festival & Montpelier Sheepdog Trials |
| ** 7-8 | Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA | 9th Annual American Craft Weekend |
| ** 7-8 | Dixon May Fairgrounds, Dixon, CA | 37th Annual Lambtown Festival |
| ** 7-8 | Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, Santa Fe, NM | 40th Annual Mountain and Valley Wool Festival |
| ** 7-8 | Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Ann Arbor, MI | Fall Fiber Expo |
| ** 7-8 | Back roads of NH | 40th Annual New Hampshire Wool Arts Tour |
| ** 7-8 | Monumental Complex of Santa Caterina, Finale Ligure, Italy | KN.IT: An All-Italian Knit Festival and Market Fair |
| ** 7-9 | Dunwoody Parks North Shallowford Annex, Dunwoody, GA | Atlanta Knitting Guild Superstar Weekend |
| ** 7-9 | Madison, WI | 6th Annual Madtown Yarn Shop Hop |
| ** 7-12 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Fall Fiber School (Yarn + Felt + Dye) |
| 7-14 | Lake Hotel Killarney, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland | Knitting and Craft Trip of Ireland |
| ** 8 | Nova Scotia | I Love Yarn Day (Crawl) in Northern Nova Scotia |
| ** 8 | Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Bozeman, MT | Montana Fibershed’s Farm-to-Fashion |
| ** 8 | Community Christian Church, Camdenton, MO | 17th Annual Lake Area Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 8-9 | Clark County Event Center, Ridegefield, WA | 22nd Annual Alpacapalooza |
| ** 8-9 | Leelanau Community Cultural Center at the Old Art Building, Leland, MI | 21th Annual Leland Fiber Festival: Focus on Fiber |
| ** 8-11 | New York, NY | New York City Yarn Crawl |
| ** 9 | Maine | Real Maine Fiber Tour and Trail |
| ** 10-Dec. 17 | Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada | World of Threads Festival: Contemporary Fibre Art |
| ** 13-14 | Kromhousthal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch Knitting Days [Nederlandse Breidagen] |
| ** 13-15 | Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT | Junction Fiber Mill Yarn Retreat |
| ** 13-15 | MatSu Valley, St. Therese’s Camp, Wasalia, AK | Northern Lights Valley Knitters Fall Fiber Retreat |
| 13-21 | Scotland, UK | Scotland with Scotttish Highlands Knitting Tour |
| ** 14 | Paris Fairgrounds, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada | 14th Annual Woodstock ON |
| ** 14-15 | Bakewell Agricultural Centre & the Peak District, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK | Bakewell Wool Gathering |
| ** 14-15 | York County Fairgrounds, York, NE | 6th Annual Mid-Plains Fiber Fair |
| ** 14-15 | Linn County Expo Center, Albany, OR | 26th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival |
| ** 17-20 | Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM | Knitting and Hiking at Ghost Ranch with Lauren Baldwin & Selma Incesulu |
| 19-20 | Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY | 44th Annual New York State Sheep and Wool Festival |
| ** 19-23 | Central Kansas | 15th Annual Central Kansas Yarn Hop |
| ** 19-26 | Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, Bettona, Umbria, Italy | Lace Knitting Tour in Umbria with André de Castro |
| ** 20 | Stone Ridge Orchards, Stone Ridge, NY | Wool & Folk: Fiber and Music Festival |
| ** 20-21 | Harrison County Fairgrounds, Corydon, IN | Southern Indiana Fiber & Arts Festival |
| ** 20-21 | Oakes, ND | North Dakota Handspinners Conference |
| ** 20-22 | The Trades Hall, Glasgow, Scotland | Glasgow School of Yarn |
| ** 20-22 | Western NC Agricultural Center, Fletcher, NC | Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair |
| ** 20-22 | Boulder Hot Springs Lodge, Boulder, MT | Yarn & Yoga at the Hotsprings |
| ** 20-22 | Clarion Hotel Stavanger, Stavanger Hall, Stavanger, Norway | Stavanger Knitting Festival |
| ** 20-23 | Bedford, PA | Socktoberfest |
| ** 21 | Isanti County Fairgrounds, Cambridge MN | Minnesota Fiber Festival |
| ** 21 | The HUB at Cowichan Station, Cobble Hill, BC, Canada | Annual Cowichan Valley Fleece and Fibre Festival |
| ** 21 | Genesis Centre, Alberta, Canada | The Fibre Shindig – Calgary’s Funky Fibre Fest! |
| ** 21 | Franklin Junior HS, Des Moines, IA | Fall Federation Meeting of the Iowa Federation of Handweavers & Spinners |
| ** 21 | Memory Lane Heritage Village, Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia, Canada | 3rd Annual Memory Lane Fibre Arts Festival |
| ** 21-22 | Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, OH | 10th Annual Autumn Fiber Festival |
| ** 21-22 | Camp Cavell Conservancy on Lake Huron, Lexington, MI | Thumb Fiber Festival & Retreat |
| ** 21-28 | Château de Parançay, Bernay-Saint-Martin, France | Knit Pause Fall Retreat |
| ** 22 | King Manor Museum, Queens, NY | Queens Fiber Arts Festival |
| ** 22 | Madrid, Spain | Transhumance Festival: Sheep, Goats Cross Downtown Madrid |
| ** 23 | Windswept Acres Sheep Farm, Pittstown, NJ | Fall Fleece & Fiber Sale |
| ** 26-28 | Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA | Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale |
| ** 27-29 | Hill Country Youth Event Center, Kerrville, TX | Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival |
| ** 27-29 | Felletin, France | 23rd edition of National Wool Days (Journées Nationales de la Laine) |
| ** 28 | Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD | Fall Frederick Fiber Fest |
| ** 28 | Main Street, Cedar City, UT | Sheep Parade: Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival |
| ** 28-29 | Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK | Kendal Wool Gathering |
| ** 28-29 | Insole Court, Cardiff, Wales, UK | 5th Annual Knit-Tea Retreat |
| ** 28-Nov. 5 | South Island, New Zealand | Yarn Craft Inaugural Tour |
| ** 29 | Lane-Agripark, Murfreesboro, TN | 11th Annual Fiber in the Boro |
| ** 29 | Allegheny Rivertrail Park, Pittsburgh, PA | Indie Knit & Spin: A Pittsburgh Indie Fiber Arts Marketplace |
| ** 29-30 | Leicester Racecourse, Oadby, Leicester, England, UK | The Big Textile Show |
| ** 29-Oct. 8 | Bergen, Norway | Ulveka [Wool Week]: A Celebration of Norwegian Wool |
| ** 29-Nov. 3 | Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO | Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) |
| ** 29-Nov. 7 | Estonia & Latvia | Baltic Knitting Tour |
November
| ** 1-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Fall Fiber Frolic [sold out] |
| ** 1-9 | Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan | Japan Craft Tour |
| ** 2-5 | Hilton Garden Inn, Middleton, WI | 10th Annual Sun Valley Fibers Fall Fiber Frolic Retreat with Kate Oates |
| ** 2-5 | Kemper Campbell Ranch, Victorville, CA | Griffin Dyeworks 18th Annual Retreat |
| ** 2-10 | Alentejo region, Portugal | Knitting with Cocoknits in Portugal |
| 3 | Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Torrance, CA | Southern California Handweaver’s Guild Annual Weaving & Fiber Festival: Fiber Fun for Creative People |
| ** 3-4 | Meramec Baptist Conference Center, Steelville, MO | Ozark Fiber Fling |
| ** 3-5 | Ozark Retreat Center, Neosho, MO | Fiber Folks of SW MO Annual Guild Retreat |
| ** 3-5 | Perkins Mansion, Rochester, NY | Weaver’s Guild Holiday Sale |
| ** 4 | Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins, MN | 9th Annual Fall Fiber Festival |
| ** 4 | Spring Mills YMCA, Spring Mills, PA | 4th Annual Penns Valley Fiber Festival |
| ** 4 | The Redd on Salmon, Portland, OR | Sacred Sheep |
| ** 4 | Peace Hill Farm, Charles City, VA | Peace Hill Farm Fiber and Craft Festival |
| ** 4-5 | Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA | 12th Annual Fiber Festival of New England |
| ** 4-5 | Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK | 7th Annual Stitch Fest South West |
| ** 4-5 | Arena Complex, Summit County Fairgrounds, Tallmadge, OH | 5th Annual Buckeye Alpaca Fall Fest |
| ** 4-6 | The Doubletree, Danvers, MA | 16th Annual Northeast Handspinners’ The Gathering |
| 6-10 | Big Lynn Lodge, Little Switzerland, NC | KTOG Fall Retreat |
| ** 10-11 | Cherry Creek Park, Canton, TX | East Texas Fiber Festival |
| ** 10-12 | Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium | 6th Annual Ghent Handwerkbeurs [Handicraft Fair] |
| ** 10-13 | Barnsley Resort, Adairsville, GA | 2nd Annual Ewe Crew in the Woods Falloween Retreat |
| ** 11-12 | Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD | Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival |
| ** 13-15 | Harveyville Project, Harveyville, KS | Mitten School |
| ** 13-16 | Online | Cambridge Yarn Winter Festival |
| ** 16-19 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, England, UK | Knitting & Stitching Show |
| ** 17-19 | Scottish Rite Temple, Santa Fe, NM | 11th Annual Fall Fiber Fiesta |
| ** 18 | Route 2, London, England, UK | Cambridge Yarn Festival: Great Big London Yarn Crawl |
| ** 18-19 | Pomona Fairplex, Pomona, CA | SoCal Fiber Fair |
| ** 18-19 | World Trade Center, Barcelona, Spain | 6th Annual Barcelona Knits |
| ** 18-19 | Old Shawnee Town Hall, Shawnee, KS | 38th Annual Creative Hand Show and Sale sponsored by the Weavers Guild and the Fiber Guild of Kansas City |
| ** 18-19 | Franklin Jr High, Des Mointes, IA | Threads and Fiber Festival |
| ** 18-19 | Leesport Farmer’s Market, Leesport, PA | Pennsylvania Fall Fiber Arts Festival |
| 25 | Studentski Centar, Zagreb, Croatia | Zagreb Yarn Craft Fest |
December
| 8-16 | Norway | Northern Lights Knitting Cruise with Anna Nikipirowicz |
| ** 9-10 | Alpaca Pines Farm & Fiber Mill, Poplar Grove, IL | Christmas at the Farm |
| 9-12 | Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, England, UK | Harrogate Festive Knitting and Crochet Retreat with Frederica Patmore |
Fiber Tours and Other Year Round Events
Seasonal |
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| ** May 15-Oct. 31 | New York State | NY Fiber Trail |
| ** May 26-Sept. 4 | Pacific Northwest | Slow Yarn Crawl PNW |
| ** May 27-Sept. 2 | Wyoming | 6th Annual Cowboy Yarn Crawl |
| ** June 10-Aug. 20 | Hudson Valley, NY | 6th Annual Hudson Valley Yarn Crawl |
| ** July 1-Oct. 9 | Maine | Maine Yarn Cruise: Summer-Long Yarn Crawl in Vacationland |
| ** July 9-Aug. 13 | Online | Fiberside Summer Crawl |
Year Round |
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| ** Year round | Kentucky | Kentucky Fiber Trail |
| ** Year round | Madison, WI | Madison Fiber Arts Trail |
| ** Year round | Baraboo-Lodi-Sauk Prairie-Portage, WI | Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail |
| ** Year round | Cedarburg-Grafton-Thiensville, WI | Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail |
| ** Year round | Little Falls–Randall–Brainerd–Staples–Wadena–New York Mills, MN | Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail |
| ** Year round | Bemidji–Solway–Turtle River–Tenstrike, MN | Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail |
| ** Year round | Bergen, Norway | The Wool Heritage Route |
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