knitting and crochet

John C. Campbell Folk School
based: North Carolina, USA
website: www.folkschool.org
Short vacations and courses teaching a diverse range of time honoured crafts, music and dance in a beautiful location in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Offering year-round week and weekend residential courses.
| dancing | basket making | felt making / felt work | storytelling | weaving | knitting | quilting | printmaking | calligraphy | wood crafts | metal crafts | musical instrument making | music playing courses | USA |

 Rainbow Cottage Workshops
based: Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
website: www.rainbowcottageworkshops.co.uk
Enjoy a rewarding and relaxing holiday in Carmarthenshire, Wales by partaking in a residential course at Rainbow Cottage Workshops. Courses include watercolours, oil painting, bespoke curtain making and soft furnishings. Indulge your creativeness in their rural retreat with character accommodation, hot tub, panoramic views and wildlife haven.
| soft furnishing | painting/drawing | knitting/crochet | dressmaking/tailoring | paper crafts | scrapbooking | Wales |

 Textile Tours and Trails
based: Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK
website: www.coinachan.com
Spring and autumn, small group tours based out of the Old Shepherd's House in the West Highlands of Scotland. Workshops with local experts on knitting techniques, spinning and dyeing, while seeing some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery including Ben Nevis, Skye, Glenfinnan, the Great Glen, the Ardgour peninsula and much more.
| knitting / crochet | textile tours | weaving | felt making / felt work | small group motor tours | groups | tailor made | ethical / ecotourism | Scotland |

 Westcliffe Hotel
based: Lancashire, UK
website: www.westcliffehotel.com
Treat yourself to a knitting holiday, meet other knitters and relax in comfortable surroundings. The Westcliffe Hotel offers nationally accredited accommodation, a friendly atmosphere and is licensed. They offer full-day and half-day workshops, full board, evening talks and a trip to a local knitting centre. Single knitters are made very welcome.
| knitting/crochet | singles holidays | England |

 Maine Merino
based: Maine, USA
website: www.mainemerino.com/knitcorner.html
Knitting vacations – knit with friends in peace and comfort.
| knitting / crochet | USA |

 Metropolitan Machine Knitting
based: Cheshire, UK
website: www.metropolitanmachineknitting.co.uk
A range of courses and workshops for machine knitters.
| knitting / crochet | UK |

 Rowan Tree
based: Inverness, Scotland, UK
website: www.rowan-tree-scotland.co.uk
Special interest holidays in the highlands of Scotland.
| genealogy / family history | historical tours | garden tours | golf | whisky tours | bird watching | knitting / crochet | Scotland |