Events & Festivals

2026

• January 24 – Guild Special Saturday Meeting 9:00am – 12:00pm
• January 24 – 25 Maryland Sheep & Wool Winterfest (online)
• January 29 – 2/1 Vogue Knitting Live
• January  Delmarva Wool & Fiber Expo

• February 6 – 8  Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat
• February 7  Fiber Arts Festival – Henrietta
• February 8  New England Farm & Fiber Festival
• February  Sauder Village Knitting and Fiber Arts Retreat
• February 26 – March 1  Rochester Knitting Guild Retreat

• March  Rochester Knitting Guild Spring Workshop
• March 21  For the LOVE of Fiber – PA
• March 20 – 22 Knitting & Spinning Retreat – NH
• March 21 36th Annual Black Swamp Spinners Guild Market Day & Fiber Fair – OH
• March  Hamilton Fibre Market – Ontario
• March  Longmeadow Farm Open House and Day Retreat at the BrickInn
• March 27-29  Tina Turner Knits Retreat – Silver Lake, Perry NY
• March 28 – 29  Ann Arbor Fiber Expo

• April 10 – 12 Lancaster Knitter’s Retreat
• April 18  CNY Fiber Frolic
• April 18 – 19 Gold Coast Knitting Retreat
• April  The Knitting Guild Association Next Level Conference – online
• April 24 – 46  Fiber Witch Festival
• April 25 Frederick Fiber Fest
• April  Fiber Flurry, Perry NY
• April
  • Local Yarn Store Day
  • Twin Tiers Yarn Crawl
  • CT Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival
  • NY Washington County Fiber Tour

• May 2 -3 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
• May Shepherd’s Wool Market – Rush NY
• May 9 – 10 NH Sheep & Wool Festival
• May 16 – 17 Buffalo Knitting Guild Spring Presentation
• May 14-17 NorthEast Men’s Spring Knitting/Fiber Retreat
• May Fairport Floating Fiber Festival Cruise
• May 16-17
  • Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival
• May 23-24
  • MA Sheep & Woolcraft
  • Great Lakes Fiber Show
• May Maine Fiber Frolic

• June 4 Buffalo Knitting Guild Yarn Auction – members only event
• June 5 – 7  Ontario Handspinning Seminar
• June 6 Fayette County Fiber Festival
• June 6 -7
  • Central NY Fiber Festival
• June 13
  • Kawartha Yarn & Fibre Festival
  • World Wide Knit in Public Day 
  • MID-OHIO FIBER FAIR
  • Virginia Fiber Fest

• July – Tina Turner Knits Retreat – Silver Lake, Perry NY
• July – Interweave Makers Festival – PA

• August Makers Festival PA
• August  Folk Art Guild Craft Weekend – Rochester
• August 12 – 16 Michigan Fiber Festival
• August 7 – 10  Vermont Knit & Fiber Retreat
• August – Fairport Fiber Festival
• August 21 – 23   Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival

• September 12 – 13
  • PA Endless Mountains Fiber Festival
• September 12
  • Kitchener Waterloo Knitters’ Fair
• September
  • WNY Fiber Arts Festival
• September
  • Garden State Sheep & Fiber Festival
• September  
  • Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival
  • Lehigh Valley Fiber Festival
• September 25-26  Knitters’ Day Out – PA
• September Little Lakes Fiber Fair
• September 24 NorthEast Men’s Fall Knitting/Fiber Retreat

• October 3-4 Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival
• October Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference 
• October  Kings County Fiber Festival
• October 11 – 12  Ann Arbor Fiber Expo
• October 16
  • Indie Untangled
• October 15-16
  • A Woolen Affair
• October 17-18 NY State Sheep & Wool Festival (Rhinebeck)
• October 17  Woolstock ON
• October 24
  • Queens Fiber Arts Festival
  • Frederick Fiber Fest
• October  
  • Knitting Circle: Fall Knit Train
  • Catskills Fiber Festival
  • Indie Knit & Spin
• October – November Great Lakes Men’s Knitting Retreat (Michigan)

• November 7 – 9  New England Fiber Festival
• November 5 – 8 Knit Vermont
• November
  • Rochester Weavers’ Guild Holiday Sale
  • Maryland Alpaca & Fleece Festival
• November  PA Fall Fiber Arts Festival

• December – Tina Turner Mens Makers Retreat – Silver Lake, Perry NY