KnitPics in Flamingo Pink (Photo – Robin Southworth).
The L.A. County Yarn Crawl is back with a live event inside of a 143-mile crawl across L.A. County.
By News Desk
Experience parts of L.A. you never knew about through one event with 15 local women-owned small businesses uniting in the name of the fiber arts industry. Whether you’re a new or veteran crafter, or yarn artist or are looking for a great in-quarantine hobby with the greatest supportive community – Join the 10th celebration! Get your “passport” started at one of these local businesses and start your L.A. County Yarn Crawl.
The 10th L.A. Yarn Crawl will be bringing a mix of old and new to the event. Returning will be the classic crawl popular passport prize promotion, where each of the fifteen shops will feature a $300 gift basket prize. To enter, crawl participants will drop their completed passports with stamps from the Yarn Crawl sprawl of shops visited: https://layarncrawl.org/pages/about-the-la-yarn-crawl. Other prize level components will feature general crawl prizes with a certain number of shops visited. In addition to the free patterns given away as a regular feature of the crawl each year, to celebrate the 10th crawl will be a first-time additional Treasure Hunt pattern giveaway in both knit and crochet.
The participating yarn shops sprawled across L.A. include the following areas:
San Gabriel Valley: Wollhaus (Pasadena), Yarnaholic™ Store & Boutique (Claremont), Phebie’s NeedleArt (Claremont), and in La Verne, BUKU Yarns (with The Yarnover Truck mobile appearance 03/27/22).
San Fernando Valley: L’Atelier on Ventura (Encino) and Valley Village’s The Altered Stitch (with The Yarnover Truck mobile appearance 03/24/22).
The Westside: Wildfiber Studio (Santa Monica) and Jennifer Knits (Brentwood).
Long Beach/Bellflower: Stitches in Time Yarn (Bellflower) and Long Beach’s Alamitos Bay Yarn Company under new ownership, (with The Yarnover Truck mobile appearance 03/25/22).
South Bay: L’Atelier (Redondo Beach) and Inglewood’s The Knitting Tree L.A. (with The Yarnover Truck mobile appearance 03/26/22).
Downtown Los Angeles: Gather (DTLA) and The Little Knittery (Los Feliz).
For event details, COVID safety protocol and more information on the L.A. County Yarn Crawl 2022 please go to layarncrawl.org.
Date/Time 3/24 - 3/27/2022 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Various Locations
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