Crochet & knitting tours, courses & holidays

CROCHET & KNITTING COURSES DIRECTORY

 

us flagCraft Cruises

based: USA

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Craft themed cruises catering for travellers who enjoy a shared travel experience, cultural exchange and learning new skills. Typical cruises include: knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, hand spinning, beading, mixed media and Christmas craft markets.

| theme cruises | beadwork | knitting | needlepoint/cross-stitch | mixed media | Christmas shopping/markets | USA | Worldwide |

 

uk flag Craft Tours

based: Illinois, USA
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Large craft focused tour company offering worldwide tours and cruises based around a wide range of craft skills including felting, crocheting, embroidery, jewelry and beading, knitting, mixed media, pottery, quilting, scrapbooking, stained glass and weaving.

| mixed media | textile tours | knitting/crochet | patchwork/quilting | beadwork | embroidery | weaving | felt making | scrapbooking | Worldwide |

 

uk flagGlobalyell – Centre for Creative Industries in Shetland

based: Shetland Isles, Scotland, UK
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Textiles tours – a four day tour of textiles and scenery offering a unique insight into the textiles heritage and skills of Shetland. Covering knitwear, knitting and spinning, weaving and visiting textile collections.
| textile tours | knitting | weaving | Scotland |

 

Knitting Holidays in France

based: Charente-Maritime, France
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Knitting, crochet and textile retreats and workshops in the heart of rural France; with British knitting designer, Sue Culligan; Debbie Abrahams, best for her beautiful knitted blanket designs; and crochet artist and design consultant Jane Crowfoot.

| knitting | France |

 

uk flagMetropolitan Machine Knitting

based: Cheshire, UK
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Short and week-long residential machine knit courses in Cheshire. Serving students from all over the world, and run by top quality tutors, these courses offer accommodation, food and a relaxed learning environment.

| knitting | England |

 

usa flagSchooner J. & E. Riggin

based: Maine, USA
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Cruise and knit! With a choice of 3-day to 6-day knitting cruises aboard a beautiful old schooner, departing from Rockland in Knox County, Maine, in the Northeastern US. Travel the spectacular coastline while you knit with experienced knitting guides and tutors and fellow knitting passengers.

| knitting | USA |

 

uk flagCraft Cruises

based: Colorado, USA

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Offering both land tours and Worldwide cruises for knitters, allowing guests to go yarn shopping, meet other fiber artists as well as take classes.
| knitting/crochet | Worldwide |

 

uk flagKnitweave

based: Cornwall, UK

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Workshops and summer schools covering fabric construction techniques including knitting, weaving and feltmaking.

| felt making | knitting/crochet | weaving | UK |

 

american flagMen's Knitting Retreat

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Weekend knitting and spinning retreats and workshops for men in Colorado and Michigan.

| knitting/crochet | men only | USA |

 

uk flagNational Wool Museum

based: Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK

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Short courses and day courses covering wool related crafts such as felting, knitting and crochet.

| felt making | knitting/crochet | Wales |

 

ARTICLE: PLACES TO VISIT FOR KNITTERS

Other sites of interest for knitters

knittingThe following links are intended to provide ideas and suggestions that will allow you to built knitting, crochet and other wool crafts into your travel and holidays; including permanent knitting and wool exhibitions and collections, museums, and knitting and wool themed shows and events.

Woolfest: a two-day festival held in the English Lake District, celebrating natural fibers and all things wool, follow the wool from fleece to finished knitwear. Related demonstrations, workshops and masterclasses are on offer. The event is organised by 'The Wool Clip', a Cumbrian crafts people co-op.

The Knitting & Stitching Show: unique shows (in London, Dublin, Harrogate and Edinburgh) celebrating knitting, stitching and textiles in all forms, from traditional to cutting edge, including a huge workshop programme, gallery displays and specialist suppliers.

Framework Knitters Museum: Nottingham's working textile museum of framework knitting, a mechanical knitting technique that's been around for over 400 years. Learn how the knitters lived and worked, visit the workshops, see a framework knitter in action, knit your own piece on a circular knitting machine, discover the craft which gave birth to the Nottingham lace industry.

Shetland Textile Museum: Shetland's community museum, dedicated to the textile heritage of the island. The collection includes over 500 knitted and woven textile artifacts and patterns.

The Norwegian Knitting Industry Museum: based in one of the first knitwear factories in Norway, you can now join a guided tour of the factory as it was in 1859. You can see the old carding machines, the spooling, knitting and sewing departments, and see the old machinery in use.

Planet Purl Travel Guide: a site offering free downloadable knitters travel dictionaries that translate those all important knitting terms in a lot of different languages.