Yarn Shop Day – 3rd May 2014

YARN SHOP DAY

Celebrate Your Local Yarn Shop

love knitting? Crazy about crochet? Celebrate your local wool store with leading magazines’ Love Your Yarn ShopCrafting has never been so popular. As increasing numbers of people turn their creative passion to needles and hooks, yarn stores are often the first port of call for novice knitters and experienced yarn crafters alike. With this in mind, leading publications, Let’s Get Crafting and Let’s Knit have joined forces with yarn stores across Britain to launch the Love Your Yarn Shop campaign.

 Says Let’s Knit Editor Sarah Neal: “Love Your Yarn Shop is designed to remind consumers of the value of their local wool store. With the growth of the internet we have far more shopping opportunities than ever before, but when it comes to knitting there’s no substitute for seeing and touching the yarn, and for having the advice of experienced knitters on hand. Yarn shops provide all this and more; they are sources of great inspiration and often a community hub. It’s been a tough time for the high street recently so we’re encouraging consumers to support these shops and enjoy all that they have to offer.”    

 I am so excited to tell you that Elizabeth Rose NI is  one of the outlets taking part. Although I am new to the knitting and crochet world I have learn’t very quickly that Knitting and crochet are more popular than ever, and this campaign is the perfect way in which to celebrate all those stores which stock yarn and needles, hooks and patterns, as well as offering crafters advice and inspiration.”

 Let’s Knit and Let’s Get Crafting magazines will publicise the campaign with the help of figures across the industry. “We’re really pleased to be launching Love Your Yarn Shop,” says Let’s Get Crafting Editor Ella Johnston. “An increasing number of people are taking up knitting and crochet, and it’s exciting to see how attitudes to these crafts have changed over the years – they’ve gone from old fashioned to cool, and are attracting all age groups, and men as well as women.”

The campaign will conclude with Yarn Shop Day on May 3rd, which will see retailers putting on a series of events. For more information, visit www.letsknit.co.uk

Keep a wee eye on our blog over the next couple of days as we continue to update you with our plans for Yarn Shop Day.  Our flyers have been dipatched from the printers and we look forward to getting them so we can fill you in