What to stash this week: Welcome to Wool-ville
We’re entering fall Fiber Festival Season, which means that Lambtown is almost here! This fiber festival in Dixon, California, is celebrating its 38th year on October 5th and 6th. There will be plenty of fiber festival staples, including shearing and sheepdog herding demos, workshops and, of course, vendors — 75 of them bringing yarn and fiber, tools, handmade textiles, baskets, pottery, notions, skincare and more.
There will also be live judging of fleece,…
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Fiber festival flavor: Barcelona Knits 2019 and Stitches West 2020
One of the things I love most about traveling to fiber festivals around the world — and I’m privileged to consider this part of my work — is getting to experience joining the local fiber community, if only for a few days. I’m very lucky to be part of an active and vibrant knitting community in New York City, and while many events have become destinations in and of themselves (the Edinburgh Yarn Festival,…
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Rhinebeck Trunk Show 2.0
This year, I got a decent head start in preparing for Rhinebeck. Not only have I been diligently working on one of my Rhinebeck sweaters (Laura Aylor’s appropriately named Rhinecliff) but I’ve also been scheming on how to make that little trunk show even better…
I’m excited to announce that the second annual Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Trunk Show will take place on Friday, Oct. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m….
Fiber festival season
If it were possible to overdose on yarn (but really, we all know that it isn’t) this time of year is when it would happen. Just like non-knitting folks see Pumpkin Spice Everything, there is so much going on in the fiber world.
Take this weekend, for example. Not only is it the NYC Yarn Crawl, but there’s also another fun event that you should really check out if you happen to be in the New York area….