Happening Near You:Nifty Knitter is hiring Join our Team! Your happy-go-lucky yarn shop is looking for 1-2 fiber enthusiasts to join our team! We're headed into our busiest time of year, so weekday and weekend availability is a must. Knitting experience is not required, but would be awesome! Sales experience preferred. Teaching experience ideal. Let us know what you have to offer. Email your resume to theniftyknittershop@gmail.com Local Color Fiber Studio 2020 Fiber CSA signups are open Local Color Fiber Studio 2020 Natural Dye Workshops: July 25 Natural Dye Workshop August 8 Indigo Workshop 
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Makers’ Mercantile Knit night 5-8pm Every Monday Makers’ Mercantile Make A Difference Mondays, all day Join us each Monday and help us create change in our community. We provide the materials and space, and you provide the time and talent. Together, we will create items for donation to organizations in need. No reservations needed! Just show up and be ready to create! Every Friday All Day Makers’ Mercantile Mermaid Walk KAL with Franklin Habit and the Audition Shawl MKAL with MIchelle Hunter March 14 Seattle Yarn Game Night AND Sock Madness Meet-Up 7pm to 9pm Game night continues! This monthly tradition (every second Saturday of the month) has become a favorite. This month we'll start an hour later to accommodate our Vogue Knitting Live Marketplace hours. We’ll have our usual Knitting the Card Game table, plus a collection of other options - or bring your own favorite. ...PLUS: Calling all Sock Madness knitters! Join us for a Sock Madness meetup Round #1 will be wrapping up, so come in and show off your socks...oh, and we might have a surprise guest or two! March 14 The Tea Cozy Jorstad Creek Trunk Show Kerry Graber of Jorstad Creek Yarns in Olympia, WA will be at the shop this Saturday, March 14 from 10 - 4, with her gorgeous hand dyed fibers. She will be bringing a colorful selection of her luminous Isle of Sky silk mohair blend and a brand new fiber, Boston Harbor, along with other fantastic goodies. The weather is supposed to be chilly, so we'll have the kettle on to sample our new Greenburn Tea as you shop. We hope you can join us! March 15 Churchmouse Yarns and Teas Meet Helga Isager 1pm-4pm Helga, visiting from Denmark, is introducing new Isager Alpaca 3, a chunky weight blend of alpaca and wool in ten signature Isager shades. She is also bringing samples from her newest collection! March 16-19 Explore 4 [Fibers] Traditional Four by Four-by-Retreat with Deb Robson Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA independentstitch.com/e4-spring1 March 19-22 Northwest Regional Spinners Association 27th Annual Retreat Camp Burton, Vashon Island, WA nwrsa.net/events/ March 21 Abernethy Spring Fiber Sale Abernethy Grange, Oregon City, OR abernethyspringfibersale.com March 21-22 Discover Six Pacific Northwest Local Sheep Breeds: A Spinning Workshop with Deborah Robson Bainbridge Island Artisan Network, Bainbridge Island, WA bainbridgebarn.wildapricot.org/event-3465269 April 4-5 6th Annual Sheepish in Seattle Portland OR to Seattle, WA thetravelingewe.com/shop/sheepish-in-seattle-2020 April 5-10 Springtime Island Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi Friday Harbor, Washington May 13-17 15th Annual Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour Puget Sound, WA lystour.com May 15-17 Annual Fiber in the Forest Camp Myrtlewood, Myrtle Point, OR eugenetextilecenter.com/fiber-in-the-forest May 28-31 Mount Rainer Retreat: Indie Untangled, Knitting our National Parks Wellspring Spa, Ashford, WA indieuntangled.com/mount-rainier-retreat May 29-31 Canada 22th Annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat Sorrento Centre, Sorrento, BC okanaganknittingretreat.ca June 26-28 46th Annual Black Sheep Gathering Linn County Fairgrounds, Albany, OR blacksheepgathering.org July 19-23 Knitting on a Lark with Lorilee Beltman Bainbridge Island, WA lorileebeltman.com/knitting-events August 16 Canada 10th Annual Fibrations! Fairfield Community Center, Porter Park, Victoria, BC, kbnfibres.ca/fibrations September 11-13 Sunshine Coast Fibre Camp Camp Sunrise, near Gibsons, BC, Canada fibrecamp.ca September 26-27 24th Annual Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival Clackamas County Events Center, Canby, OR flockandfiberfestival.com October 1-4 Knit City Vancouver: A Modern Fibre Event PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada October 4-9 Restorative Year’s End Knitting Retreat with Cat Bordhi Friday Harbor, Washington October 22-24 Seattle Weavers’ Guild Annual Show & Sale Blodel Hall, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, WA seattleweaversguild.com/sale.asp November 9-12 Explore 4 Wild Card Retreat with Deb Robson Lakedale Resort, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA independentstitch.com/e4 February 11-14, 2021 Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat Hotel Murano in downtown Tacoma, Washington As always, check out the Knitters Review for more fiber events in the world! |
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