Crochet Cruises, developed in 2013, has been ‘Hook’n The High Seas’ since our inaugural crochet cruise in 2014. Eighteen crochet cruises have happened.
Hosted by Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan, aka Mikey & Diva Dan from The Crochet Crowd. Crochet Cruises was retired in March 2022 ready for the new Travel with The Boys concept for 2023.
Travelling with the general public will end with the final Azamara Cruise listed below.
Up and Coming Travel Adventures Links
- Crochet at Lake Tahoe – Full Crochet Retreat with our friends at Jimmy Beans Wool. Oct 18 to 22nd, 2023. SOLD OUT. Book directly through Jimmy Beans Wool.
- Supplies details are not ready for release at this time. March 2, 2023.
- Mystery Adventure in the USA – SOLD OUT. This trip is maxed out at 50 guests, so we will all be on one coach bus departing from the Airport Hotel to the mystery location. Yarnspirations.com sponsors this trip.
- Everyone will fly to the pre-hotel to gather on April 30, 2023.
- Everyone will be going to the location on May 1, 2023, and departing to fly home on Sunday, May 7, 2023.
- There are no structured workshops. Bring your project(s) to work on. There are no yarn shops within the region you will be visiting.
- Suggested Hooks to bring for the Mystery Gift Bags.
- 4 mm / G/6 to 6.5 mm K/10.5 regular crochet hooks.
- Scissors
- Stitch Markers
- Double Ended Tunisian Hook, 6 mm / J/10
- You may bring spare paper, a pen/pencil and an eraser.
- Christmas Markets on the Rhine River – Jingle Balls Tour Both Mikey and Daniel – January 19, 2023. There are 10 cabins left allotted to our party book.
- We may have a surprise for this event—details on crochet hook sizes and more will be released later.
- This is a port-intensive vacation. You may want to group with others who share your tour or day adventure interests. The ship will have tours that match the guests’ lifestyles, such as activity and intensity levels. Some activities may involve hills, cobble-stones and uneven surfaces.
- Bring an ugly Christmas Sweater with you. 😉
- IN DEVELOPMENT – Decorate the Ship’s Christmas Tree. Create one handmade crochet ornament for the tree. A dedicated event for trimming the tree will be on one of the evenings. We will have a list of suggestions in July 2023. Keep your ornament family-friendly.
- IN DEVELOPMENT – We are working on the Christmas Pass It On concept. Wrap a new item as a gift—minimum value $10 USD. Suggested items can be yarn ball(s); please include a whole and yarn ball label. If yarn, please ensure the yarn is smoke and pet-hair-free. Do not expect the same value to be returned to you if you go over. If you choose not to bring a gift, you must sit this out and let others who got something exchange. We are at the Christmas Markets, so if you forget, you can always find something in Europe if you want to play along. Please ensure the gift has no religious tone, inappropriate look, or meaning, as anyone can be the gift’s receiver.
- If you choose to make a crochet Christmas or Santa / Elf Hat, you may want to bring it.
- This is a small river cruise ship; we will run into each other in the evenings. Cruisers will be in the only lounge on the boat. There may be entertainment running simultaneously to enjoy with crocheters by your side.
- Spain Intensive 10 Night Starting In Barcelona Spain – Begins Oct 27, 2024
- We will be working on further details on ship details and meet-up times.
- This is a small river cruise ship; we will run into each other in the evenings. Cruisers will be in the only lounge on the boat. There may be entertainment running simultaneously to enjoy with crocheters by your side.
See below for more details.
New Beginning
With the Crochet Cruises behind us and the crochet conferences on the ships are now put aside, we have always wanted to enjoy a less stressed vacation to sit and gossip with you instead of being ‘ON’ all the time. Michael and I have, over the years with the crochet cruises, enjoyed ourselves so much by just having casual conversations stitching and b*&^hing with lots of laughter in the background. PLUS, we also learned a heck (hell of) a lot of fun crochet gossip.
Those that got to know us over the years would say we are just everyday people. We have feelings and get exhausted from being ‘ON’ all the time. When we do sit and gossip, we do swear a little. Oops…but we are having fun. It is exhausting trying to be perfect when the world expects us to do so, and yet the world will never be.
Bring Your Yarn
What about all the sponsored yarn? Because we no longer teach and host a conference, we no longer have the stress and additional work to provide yarn for our trips. Shipping pallets of yarn is an enormous cost and is limited to where it can go. You can bring your projects with you. We might even have a theme, and we can all work on something together for charity.
Current Tours
Christmas Markets on Ama Waterways River Cruises. Starting on Nov 30th, 2023
Travelling in the first week of December 2023, we are on a river cruise from Switzerland to the Netherlands, visiting Christmas Markets along the River Rhine. Many of our traditions are European based, and to see them at the markets during the season will light up and be so much fun. Our plan on the ship is to make Christmas decorations for our personal Travel with The Boys Tree on the ship itself plus more crochet holiday ideas. We have booked three-quarters of the ship. There is still room, but we are 70% sold out. A Christmas celebration with love, yarn and friends!
Travel with The Boys – Christmas Markets on the Rhine River – Jingle Balls Tour
Spain Intensive 10-Night Cruise from Barcelona to Lisbon
Announced September 9, 2022
Join The Boys in Europe on a 10-Night Getaway aboard the Azamara Onward luxury cruise ship. You are beginning in Barcelona, Valencia, Cartegena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Seville, and Lisbon. This cruise ship is new as of 2022—a small cruise ship designed with comfort and exquisite relaxing travel. If you would like to arrive earlier, there is also a pre-cruise tour option for Barcelona and a post-cruise tour option in Lisbon, Portugal.
This is your travelling hotel with early arrivals at the locations and late departures. An overnight experience in Seville, Spain. Daniel is looking forward to this location the most. Azamara backs itself up through the canal and docks directly in the old city, so your hotel is directly in the middle of the action so you can walk off the ship and begin your journey.
Unless the sale is pulled, an additional 20% off will be taken off the listed cruise price from now until the end of the year. The prices shown in our sign-up are the full price. Sherry, our agent, will deduct the 20% at your booking. If you decide to do a balcony or higher cabin, you will get 20% off and additional $300 shipboard credit to spend, plus free WIFI for one device per cabin.
Bring your yarn and come tour with us.
This will be our last public event for this concept.
If you have any questions, please contact our agent via Email. When you sign up on the form, your credit card will not be charged until our agent speaks to you to ensure you have booked properly. Necessary information is collected, such as meal preferences, accessibility issues and more.
Email: [email protected]
How do we sign up?
Right now, check in with The Crochet Crowd Website. We have a section called Travel with the Boys. It will have the latest information and will constantly be updated when new information is announced. You can also contact Sherry; her information is at the bottom of this blog. If you wish, she can add you to her email list so you can get the fastest updates.
We also have a Mystery Crochet Adventure. What is that? We give you clues, and you decide. More Information in the future will be provided on the Travel with the Boys Facebook Page.
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In collaboration with Sherry Leybovich, franchise owner of Cruise Planners™ based in Florida as our partner in the event planning. The Crochet Cruises has become a staple event travel dedicated to the art of crochet and, more importantly, the crochet community for an extended travel vacation.
Remembering The Crochet Cruises
Agent Contact
Sherry Leybovich ECCS, LCS, CTA. Sherry is in Florida & works on Eastern Standard Time Hours.
Toll Free 888-464-1827 ext 101
Local (Florida), 813-657-0844, fax 813-657-0854
Email: [email protected]
