Yarn Shop Day - it’s coming!

With three weeks to go until Yarn Shop Day, we hope you are all making plans to go along and support your local yarn shop. Many will be offering discounts, fun workshops and opportunities to meet fellow knitters and crocheters. It’s also a great chance to support the British wool industry as well as an ideal opportunity to buy yarn for your summer projects!

WHAT’S OCCURING?

Fancy taking part in a ‘Mega Knit’? The Wool Cabin at Clacton, Essex aim to fill their shop with as many knitters/crocheters as possible between 2-3pm. There will also be cakes for sale with all proceeds going to charity. Their Clacton and Frinton shops will be beautifully decorated with yarn-based bunting and they are offering free pattern vouchers and exclusive discounts.

NEEDLES and PINS in Broughton Astley, Leicestershire are inviting customers to come along with their needles and yarn, for a knit, natter and piece of cake. They are offering 10% discount on the day (excluding yarns already reduced) and the chance to meet fellow crafters!

Franklin’s in Colchester, Essex will be welcoming two special visitors; King Cole’s Spike the Hedgehog, who is on a mission to raise the profile of local yarn shops and Colchester Madam Mayor Theresa Higgins, who will open the event at 10.30am. Customers can expect tea and cake, a free raffle with amazing prizes, goodie bags and discounts throughout the store. A knitting tutor and her pupils will be there to show off their skills and help out. There will be a chance to take part in a ‘make and take’ workshops and meet the Lets Knit team too! See you there!

LATEST SIGN-UPS:

BERKSHIRE
The Barn Yarn, c/o The Vintage Pavilion, Moss End Garden Village, Maidenhead Road, Warfield, Bracknell, RG42 6EJ

CHESHIRE
Crafts By The Card Fairy, 57B High Street, Cheadle, SK8 1BJ

CORNWALL
Woolly Sue’s, 5 Albert Street, Penzance, TR18 2LR

DENBIGHSHIRE
Rosie’s, Clwyd House, High Street, Rhuddlan, Wales, LL18 2TU

ESSEX
Tilly’s Wool Wagon, Bridge Barn, Bones Lane Antique Centre, Battlesbridge, Essex, SS11 7RF

GREATER MANCHESTER
Crookilley Crafts, Branhall Village Square, Ack Lane East, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 1AW

KENT
Whitknits, 5 Oxford Street, Whitsable, CT5 1DB

LANCASHIRE
& Sew What, 247 Eaves Lane, Chorley, PR6 0AG
The Yarn Loft, Guy Syke Warehouse, Primet Hill, Colne, BB8 9NF
The Craft N Sewin Shed, Market Street Works, Market Street, Church Accrington, BB5 0DP

NORTHERN IRELAND
Crafty Wishes, 14 Main Street, Bessbrook, Newry, County Down, BT32 3AG

NORTH YORKSHIRE
Purl & Jane, 4 Mount Pleasant, High Street, Skipton, BD23 1JZ
Ripping Yarns, 9a Milton Street, Saltburn By The Sea, Cleveland, TS12 1DH

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Andrea’s Treasures, 674 Mansfield Road, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 2GE

SHROPSHIRE
Sheepish, 1 Market Steps, High Street, Bishop Castle, Shropshire, SY9 5BE

WARWICKSHIRE
The Wool Shop, 4 Coventry Road, Bedworth, CV12 8NN

WEST SUSSEX
Sarah-Louise Designs, Unit 11, The Old Printworks Arcade, Tarrant Street, Arundel, BN18 9JH

YORKSHIRE
Duttons For Buttons, 32 Coppergate, York, YO1 9NR
Bobbins and Lace , Unit 29, The Craft Clearance Centre, Hornsea Freeport Shopping Centre, Rolston Road, Hornsea, Yorkshire, HU18 1UT

Why not ask your local yarn shop if they are planning an event? Alternatively, if you run your own yarn shop and are interested in getting involved, email leigh.johnson@letsknit.co.uk or call 01206 505913, or samantha.dean@aceville.co.uk or call 01206 505114.

Already signed up? Make sure you get in touch to tell us what your shop is doing for Yarn Shop Day!