I Love Yarn Day
Mikey of The Crochet Crowd is looking for ideas to celebrate this year’s I Love Yarn Day.
I Love Yarn Day is officially on Saturday, October 17, 2015.
Behind the Scenes
I Love Yarn Day is organized by the Craft Yarn Council. Behind the scenes of the yarn industry sits the Craft Yarn Council. Decision makers of major yarn manufacturers, publishers and implement makers sit on the council. The council establishes standards across the yarn industry so things like yarn ball bands have similar information presented by many brands instead of each brand having their own technical lingo and we, the users of the product, don’t have to learn all new abbreviations or understand how to read instructions for each company.
While the major companies compete for our business, they come together in this council for the benefit of anyone who uses yarn. While the major companies have the power to do their own thing, they encourage everyone to speak the same language such as abbreviations, symbols and more to provide standards to make it much easier for all of us.
For This Year
One of the council members has reached out to me to get involved with I Love Yarn Day for this year on the social sense. For this year, I Love Yarn Day falls directly on the final day of Creativ Festival, which The Crochet Crowd is attending.
We have an incredibly artistic approach for this show which include our nutcrackers, crochet igloo, crochet Christmas tree tower and amigurumi elves staged all over the place. It will leave guests in awe! You can always glimpse the workmanship involved with the nutcrackers.
We Are Tapped Out On Ideas and Need Your Thoughts!
When answering with your ideas, please leave your ideas in this blog. You can share them to Facebook but we need to keep these ideas on file and prefer you leave your answers on the blog comments below so I can review your ideas for consideration and keep them handy.
The Question
What would you do at the show to celebrate I Love Yarn Day?
- Competition?
- Flash Crochet & Knit Mob?
- Special Presentation on Main Stage?
What do you think we can do?
PS… Doing giveaways for all guests is not financially doable for us. Nearly 30,000 guests attend this show.
How about a Rock-a-thon ! Rocking chair and crocheting that would be great. When the item is done it goes to charity.
Our church did this some years ago. We had fifty rocker donated from the local hard ware store. We made 150 baby blankest for the NICU and for mother with out funds. We also made layette sets for burials..
Mikey I think you should yarn bomb Diva Dan live at the show..
Head to toe yarn bombing sounds like a good idea to me. Wear thing that you have made to showcase your own work. That would also help to get people intrested that normally wouldn’t have thought twice about what could be made with a little yarn and a hook or knitting needle. Good luck and I’m sure whatever you choose to do will be fabulous. ??
Competition at the festival. Give people a hook, yarn and 15 minutes. See what you get !
50% off your entire order from a major yarn manufacture would be awesome!
Everyone wear a crocheted or knitted wig, with embellishments of course. Maybe even donate them to charity.
Show beginners that we all create art in a easy and fascinating way.
Mikey, you are intuitively Bang On. The Crochet Crowd is one of my most favorite sites.
I understand not being able to gift so many people with free yarn, but what if……
You use one of the simple free patterns that you have on file. (I’m thinking having several different types to choose from. Blankets, animals, hats, scarves, etc.)
Pair it with a skein of appropriate yarn.
Attach a list of charities, and their addresses, that would benefit from the item.
Charge a reduced price, maybe closer to cost.
People can choose which project to buy, make, and give away.
Everyone benefits. If the patterns are kept simple, the item could be made quickly. Maybe a Christmas theme, then you can repeat for your own gift giving.
Just an idea to kick start the thinking process.
What if you invited people to come that day “yarn bombed”? That is, wearing as many items as possible, from head to toe, that they have crocheted/knitted? That would be cool 🙂
I like your idea.
Love this idea!
At the festival you could have a speed contest using the granny square. To see who can make the largest square in 5 minutes. Donations or $5 fee to enter. Prize could be selection of one snowflake from the Crowders.
Set up an CD filming of how yarn is made. Have fun.
Love the idea. Wish I could visit the show!
Since you’re doing holiday theme, I would suggest a competition to do either a Christmas tree skirt or Santa….along the lines of what y’all did with the Madhatter contest. Loved all those creative entries!
I think it would be fun to have a show and tell essay type contest- where all the folks could show their work and tell how their yarn work has made a difference to them. Some of those motivating stories could be shared or displayed at the creative festival. (It might be even fun if you asked for a hand knit/crocheted article to display with the essay for a visual display). You could ask for just about any thing and we would all go to work!
Have a birthday party complete with yarn bombed birthday cake, etc.
i think that a competition would be great, especially if it was an international competition, open for all levels of crochet expertise
I think you should do a live chat from the festival