YO2020 is Cancelled.We are sad to share that this year's Yarn Okanagan event is cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cancelling fibre events like Yarn Okanagan comes at a cost to all parties involved but most of all our vendors. We encourage you to shop online from the comfort and safety of your home and support the artists we love in this industry.  Some shops may run promotions closer to the event. Please watch our (and their) social media platforms for more information.
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Yarn Candy / Okanagan Bag Co
Isis Fibre Arts
Boostani Crafts
Intwined Fibre Arts with Skimikin Studios
Cattails farm Fibre
Yellow Star Ranch Alpacas
The Twisted Purl Yarn Studio
Things Created Equal
That DARN Yarn Shop and Fibre Mill
K-Zip Knits
The Small Bird Workshop
Big Blue Momma
Sparrow's Reach
Two Sticks and Ewe
Orchard Valley Studio
Smith and Ewe
Magbags etc.
Riverstone Yarns
Knox Mountain Knit Co.
Fat Marmot Knits
Sea Turtle Fiber Arts
Hewetopia Fiber Art
Chester Knits
handmade by whoo
Okanagan Dye Works
Kelowna Yarn and Needlecrafts
Colour Adventures
Twisted Fae Fibreworks
4 Elements Pottery
West Coast Colour
Black Cat Custom Yarn

Leanne Praine and Kim Werker are joining forces to unite two communities here in Vancouver BC: makers who write, and writers who make in the Crafted Reading Series. They are hoping to have an audience full of listeners who make be entertained by writers who will read about all kinds of making. 

If you live in the area, you are invited to apply to participate. They would love to have a diverse line up of experienced and inexperienced readers.

the ongoing series is hosted by Iron Dog Books, an Indigenous-owned bookshop and booktruck dedicated to bringing low cost reading to Tsleil-Waututh, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Musqueam territories (metro Vancouver).

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SAVE THE DATES 2020:
Launch Date Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 7-9 pm (doors 6:30)
Iron Dog Books – 2671 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (doors 6:30)
Location TBA
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 doors 6:30)
Iron Dog Books – 2671 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC

Curatorial themes

• Craft as Camouflage (hiding behind or amongst craft)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Craft (love stories can go many ways)
• Ravelled / Unravelled (on coming undone or remade)
• Crafted Fictions (creating new realities with what we make)

YOUR HOSTS:
Leanne Prain helps communities and people connect through creative ideas. She is the author of three books, Strange Material: Storytelling Through Textiles (2014); Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti  (2009 & 2019) co-authored with Mandy Moore; and Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery (2014), all published by Arsenal Pulp Press. When she’s not writing, Leanne organizes art and design events in the city, and acts as the co-artistic director of The Imprint, a literary collective that she founded with Laura Farina to explore participatory acts of writing in public spaces.
leanneprain.com | @leanneprain
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Kim Werker is a creative community builder who’s like a camp counsellor for grownups, helping folks to connect with and explore their creativity and have more fun making crafts and art. She is the author of six crochet books and Make It Mighty Ugly (2014), and she leads workshops on creative experimentation and slaying creative demons. She is a writer, editor and podcaster, and she hosts an online community of creative adventurers. An avid reader, compulsive craft dabbler and climate activist, Kim lives in Dunbar with her family and their mutt who’s named after a tree.
kimwerker.com | @kpwerker


Please direct your Reading Salon questions to Leanne and Kim at ReadingSalon@CraftedVancouver.com

Tapestry is a weft-faced cloth. Wefts are laid into the warp as the weaver desires, and packed by beating them down until the warp thread is covered. Tapestry is usually a simple two-shed process: only the colours change. Traditional French tapestry techniques become knowledge that frees up artistic expression: one is always learning. This course explores pictorial possibilities of the woven grid within your chosen colour palette. It is an opportunity to begin a new tapestry. You will explore solutions to both technical and aesthetic challenges. Your tapestry may be completed at home, subsequent to the classes, with materials provided.At the first class, each student will be offered to choose their tapestry materials from a selection of SWS\Sanjo silks of various textures in natural colours, and\or DMC Article 478 from France, in limited colour ways. For example, at our last class, we had a basket of pre-wound yarns to choose from (in black-white-grey-pink-blue palette) included in the course price. Optional colour choices may be purchased at $12-16 per ball.
This course is suited to your level of experience. Beginners, you will try out techniques on a pre-warped loom following a traditional sampler. Experienced weavers are encouraged to bring a black-and-white working drawing or trace a photo that inspires- it will serve as concept for your experiments.
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Class size is limited to 5, allowing more personal instruction.
This course will take place on 3 consecutive Thursday evenings: February 6, 13 and 20th, 2020, from 6:30-9 pm. You may register at Eventbrite:( see link below).
​Course price only (bring your own warped loom, tools and yarn to the classroom): $195

If you need a loom, the cost will be an additional $140, please contact silkweave@telus.net to get it ordered before the class starts.

Ruth Jones is an Aubusson-trained tapestry designer and weaver with a background in Classics and Fine Arts. She believes that patience, required for skill-building, pays off in gained visual and manual dexterity.



 To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tapestry-weaving-with-ruth-jones-tickets-84034590723

88 Stitches Yarn Shop
21183 88th Ave Langley, BC
Pop Up Shop Hours

Thursday, October 3rd  - 10am-5pm & 7-9pm*
*late night shopping + knit night

Friday, October 4th - 10am-5pm

Saturday, October 5th - 10am-5pm