You won’t get fleeced at the Social Wool Fair

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You won’t get fleeced at the Social Wool Fair!

On June 15, knitters, spinners, crochet fans, dyers and weavers are invited to sell their stash – and pick up a bargain or two - at the first Social Wool Fair.

The Fair is a spin-off of the very popular fabricabrac. Like fabricabrac, it’s a community event, with profits donated to Mary Potter and Te Omanga hospices. Anyone can apply to have a stall, as long as it’s yarn and fibre connected.

“This is a celebration of the Wellington knitting community,” says event sponsor, Nanette Cormack. “While there will be commercial indie yarn sellers there, it’s also a chance for obsessive yarnies to pull items out of their stash and sell them, or to donate them for sale on our hospice stall.

All items wool and fibre related are welcome, as are patterns, equipment, notions – anything to do with knitting, crochet, weaving and spinning, as long as it’s not finished items, says Nanette. “This isn’t a craft market, it’s a chance for people who love to make things from fibre to find equipment, tools, materials and ideas.”

Stallholders currently booked who are selling new yarn include Yarnz, Verandah Yarns, Anna Gratton, Joy of Yarn and Skeinz from Napier. Other stall holders include 2 Minute Needles, Sue B patchwork squares, Knitty Kits knitted plant kits and stitchmarkers, Denise Best fleeeces and sliver.

Plus there are the people who have cleared out their stash, so there should be bargains to be had.

Planned for the 2 - 4 afternoon session are a UFO (unfinished object) dump and swap, a knit-in and knitting and crochet clinics. Beginners can learn to knit and crochet in the afternoon for a gold coin donation.

The Social Wool Fair will be held 9.30 – 1 on Saturday 15 June at St John’s Church conference centre. Donations of wool for the hospice stall can be dropped off at your local hospice shop or at Cuba street Knitworld.

Find out more at http://socialwoolfair.wordpress.com or enter the caption competition on the Social Wool Fair's facebook page to win a set of stitchmarkers

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The Social Wool Fair – what is it?
It’s a community event that
• raises funds for hospice
• celebrates the Wellington region knitting community
• allows people to recycle their unused stash (and replace it with more)

Timing
15 June 2013 Market 9.30 – 1, activities 2-4

Venue
St John’s Church, cnr Willis St and Dixon Street

What will be sold?
Anything for knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and dyers including
• New and second hand equipment
• New and stashed, but clean, fibre and yarn
• Buttons, threads, patterns, books

Who will be there?
• Trade stalls selling non-mainstream yarns
• Individuals selling their stash
• Fibre groups
• Stall for hospice fund raising

Afternoon activities
All these are dependent on volunteers
UFO dump : bring your unfinished objects to swap or find inspiration to finish them
Angel landings : get help with techniques fromo ur knitting gurus
How now? : beginner crochet, knitting
Unraveling : find out how to navigate Ravelry, the world’s largest on-line yarn community

What it isn’t
Sewing, scrapbooking
Finished items

What does it cost?
Cost of a stall
Trade : : $50 1700 x 700 mm trestle table
Individuals : $20 700 mm sq table

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