This year the tour celebrated Year 12! This year’s tour featured 26 shops from seven Western Washington counties. The tour was five days from Wednesday-Sunday, May 17th-21st 2017 and each shop had extended hours to serve our fiber-loving friends. This year’s theme was Stitch Two Together.
Each shop had a free collector’s shop pin, gave away free knit and crochet patterns, and discounted yarns for those patterns. The tour hosted a daily drawing at each shop and gave away $1500 in grand prize gift certificates. We had more sponsor support than ever and attendees coming from all over the nation and the world.
PARTICIPATING SHOPS this year were:
Acorn Street
All Wound Up Yarn Shop
Apple Yarns
Bazaar Girls
Churchmouse Yarns and Teas
Country Yarns
Fidalgo Artisan Yarn Company
Great Yarns
Knitty Purls
Mad Cow Yarn
Maker’s Mercantile
Northwest Yarns
Perfectly Knotty Yarns and Antiques
Pinckknitter Yarns
Quintessential Knits
Seattle Yarn
Serial Knitters
The Fiber Gallery
The Knittery
The Tea Cozy Yarn Shop
The Weaving Works
Tolt Yarn and Wool
Wear On Earth
Whidbey Isle Yarns, Gifts, and Teas
Wildfibers
Yarn of Eden
Congratulations to our GRAND PRIZE WINNERS!
$100 gift certificates to: Blair D., Robin B., Lisa M., Ardie J., & Kit N.
$250 gift certificates to: Kim S. & Ray S.
$500 gift certificate to: Melissa R. (from BC!)
SPONSOR SUPPORT was critical to the Western Washington Yarn Shop Tour. Many thanks to:
Berroco
Bryson Distributing
Cascade Yarns
Ella Rae
Fiber Fusion
Henry’s Attic
Juniper Moon Farm
Lykke
Noro
Skacel Addi
We also had unprecedented support from the following companies who donated to the DAILY DRAWING:
Knitting Fever; Malabrigo Yarns; Vogue; Plymouth Yarns; Whidbey Isle Yarns, Gifts & Teas; Bryson Distributing; Apple Fiber Studio; Serial Knitters; Maker’s Mercantile, Jaggerspun; XRX, Inc.; Mountain Colors; Yoth; Blue Sky, Knit Picks; Weaving Works; Kraemer, and Churchmouse Yarns & Teas.
View the Official 2017 LYS Passport here.