What a success!!!!

The 1st Rochester Yarn Crawl was held on Saturday, November 14. Early on Saturday no one knew exactly what to expect, but there was a great sense of expectation. Just before 12:00 noon, people started filling into the four stores participating in the event; Spirit Work, Yarn Boutique, Yarne Source and Village Yarn and Fiber. It was quickly obvious to everyone that this would be an incredibly fun day. Stores saw more people in one day than they have ever seen before, over 220 participants came through their doors. People came from as far as Syracuse, Buffalo and the Finger Lakes area. In each store people patiently stood in long lines to take advantage of the 20% off all in-store yarn and demonstrations. Snacks in each store kept the energy flowing.

At each store participants had the opportunity to participate in raffles for door prizes and the grand prizes of 4 huge baskets stuffed with yarn, patterns, buttons, books, needles and more. The lucky winners were all thrilled with their good fortune.

All comments were very positive, even the anonymous ones! Everyone is now eagerly anticipating next year's event.
A very special thanks to our very generous sponsors and the four local store owners for their participation.

Countdown to the Yarn Crawl!!!

Don’t miss out on the first ever Rochester YARN CRAWL this coming Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009.

The primary yarn and fiber stores in the Rochester, NY area will be participating in a Yarn Crawl. We want to showcase the great resources we have in our area for lovers of our crafts, be that knitting, crocheting, spinning or any of the related activities.

The four participating stores are:

Yarn Boutique and Spirit Work in Brighton, Yarne Source in Henrietta and Village Yarn & Fiber in East Rochester. ”

What’s a Yarn Crawl? Easy!

Visit all four stores on Saturday, Nov 14, between 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

Pick up an official brochure at any of the four participating stores. On the back of the brochure will be your “passport”. Just get it stamped/signed at all four stores.

Leave the fully stamped/signed brochure at the last store of the four to visit.

The fully stamped/signed brochure gives you an entry for a raffle of one of four FABULOUS baskets full of enough yarn, needles, books, kits, and notions to fulfill your wildest fiber fantasy!!!

All this for FREE!!!! Nothing to buy!

Just visit all four stores, enjoy demonstrations, snacks, door prizes and awesome yarn sales.

Yarn Crawl Demos!!!

Whew, we have so much to report!

Our Yarn Crawl shops have their demos lined up and what a line up!

The Yarn Source will have needle felting, fabric crochet border gifts and free form crochet demos.

The Village Yarn and Fiber Shop will feature spinning and making a scarf on a loom.

Spirit Works will have Linda Lawrence, a local artist doing a demo using her glass buttons and felt to make pins

The Yarn Boutique will host "Joan, the knitter in the know". She will demonstrate a waste yarn cast on that uses no extra row or crochet chain. Also demos on sewing a seam, Kitchner stitch and adding beads to knitting. She will have handouts for those of us that can't remember things from one minute to the next!!!

Posters and flyers will be available soon at the LYS and passports is next on the "To Do" list.

Stay close for more info and mark your calendars for Saturday Nov 14th.

Despite being fallen by illness, the Yarn Crawl team has made great progress in planning the inaugural event.

We have been in contact with vendors that are graciously helping to sponsor the event. What this means is that it will cost the attendees nothing. It doesn’t get any less expensive than that! Some vendors have promised goodies for the raffles. We are hoping to fill our raffle chairperson’s condo with all kind of fiber stuff!

The local yarn stores are thinking about what demos they will offer. Village Yarn on East Rochester will have spinning classes going on and also a shawl on a loom. I have never seen someone work on a loom so now I am trying to figure out how I can visit while I am helping run the event…..

The best news is that all 4 stores will be offering a great sale on their yarn. We are not telling yet but it is between 19% and 21%. (Read between the numbers!)

In the next few weeks we will information at the shops with more specifics and should have the passports available too. Don’t worry if you don’t get one before the 14th, they will be available that day too.

Check back here as we will have updates every week.

Check back often for updates and news

We will be updating regularly of news on the events for the day of the Yarn Crawl.  We will be postings the specials, workshops, demonstrations of each participating store. 

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Welcome to our 2009 Yarn Crawl in Rochester, NY

The primary yarn and fiber stores in the Rochester, NY area will be participating in a Yarn Crawl. We want to showcase the great resources we have in our area for lovers of our crafts, be that knitting, crocheting, spinning or any of the related activities.


The four participating stores are:


Yarn Boutique and Spirit Works in Brighton, Yarne Source in Henrietta and Village Yarn in East Rochester. "Passport Tickets" will be made available at all four stores so that you can start your "Crawl" at whichever store you prefer. At the end of the day all "Passports" collected at the last store you visit and they will be entered into the drawing for incredible gift baskets with wonderful goodies from our participating sponsors.


Check back often for updates on our Sponsors, news about the sales and activities to be hosted by each shop and details leading up to this fun event.


Meet new people, see the wonderful variety of yarn and fibers each store offers and have a fabulous time.


Participation is FREE!!!