Woolly Good Gathering 2023 took place at Summerhall. For more information on vendors, and to read about next year's event, see the website. www.woollygood...
I have only discovered the knitting community about 3 years ago. I was so excited to find podcasts of knitting and have learned so much about yarn and patterns! It has become as much of a "hobby" for me as knitting!
My favourite part of the knitting community is that at my knit group I can be sat next to someone my age or younger or lots older and we get on fabulously regardless of age, just discussing what we are making and what we are doing generally. I love it :)
The online knitting community means a lot to me. I have lots of fun spending time with lovely podcasters while I knit along myself. It’s so inspirational to see so many people enjoying the craft I love! ❤
Knitting whilst watching knitting podcasts is total therapy for me. It lifts my mood, makes me feel part of a worldwide community and makes me proud of my creations.
The online knitting community has been a game changer for my knitting. I’ve learned so many new to me techniques, found resources to help, and discovered so many incredible patterns. It’s rekindled my love and of knitting and given me a creative outlet.
It is the greatest feeling when you see a knitter on RU-vid from the other side of the world knitting the same as you are, or reading the same book or listening to the same song ❤
I find that the knitting community worldwide is awesome!! Knitters love to share tips, patterns etc. freely. We always have things in common to talk about and inspirations to aspire to!
It was lovely to see what The Wooly Good Gathering was all about, thank you for sharing Rebecca. I have only been knitting for a year but the online knitting community have made it fun to learn all about this wonderful craft. 😊
The online knitting community is very inspiring and helpful. A special thank to your for fostering this community and for the advent calendar swap with which I met a very nice knitting friend IRL!
I love the knitting community (both online and in real life). Knitters are so friendly and inspiring. I love to encourage others to try knitting and help them the way that I was encouraged and helped. ❤
I absolutely love my knitting community. My fellow knitters are so generous with their time and knowledge. We always have something to talk about. I’ve made some amazing friends through the art of knitting.
Thanks for taking us along! What a fun festival. One of the best things about the knitting community is that we have this love for the craft and the fibers in common. I love being out in public, knitting, and meeting fellow knitters. We’re not strangers to each other!
I definitely appreciate both the online knitting community and the in person knit nights in my city. It’s always a great feeling to connect with someone and to be able to geek over knitting and wool.
This was a great episode. I loved seeing all the knitters gathered to knit and visit. The knitting community is definitely full of of lovely, giving and supportive people I am proud to call friends. Thank you Rebecca for all you bring to us.
The knitting community is brilliant for bringing a handful of strangers together and making them friends. When you knit, there's always a conversation starter if you find socialising hard. If you have long term health issues and can't always socialize in person. The online knitting community is always there for you.
I love the knitting community, my in person community made blankets for the earthquake victims here in Turkey, also love the on line community, keep me connected with what’s going on around the work crafting wise. Thanks for all your contributions to this amazing community, best wishes Frances
The comminuty is by far the best aspect of being a knitter. Being at a festival and making friends whether you're at a workshop or standing in the toilet queue. Wherever you go having people ask what you're wearing or knitting. Always happy to share their knitting expertise or foibles. Knitters are just the best. ❤
I really enjoyed seeing the festival - thanks Rebecca. The online knitting community has been an inspiration and an amazing support in helping to improve my knitting skills and realise mistakes are part of the journey. I’m lucky that a great new yarn shop has opened up locally and the knit nights there have been a lovely way to connect with knitters in person. 😊
I‘m always inspired by seeing other peoples projects and hearing about their experiences when knitting! I‘m so glad that knitting podcasts are a thing and I can see so many peoples knitting projects, I just love it!
The friends I have made in the knitting community are some of my nearest and dearest kindred spirits! I love that you create community around yourself and your patterns xxx
I love the virtual community of knitters here on RU-vid , from whom I’ve learned so much! I’ve spent many a long winter evening in their company. It’s a great way to feel connected with others who share a love of knitting!
The online knitting community is great - a fantastic place to share ideas and inspiration and it has really helped me enjoy a hobby I have had for years….so much more ❤
Started knitting about a year and half ago and have found the knitting community to be very welcoming and supportive. I see lots of encouragement and appreciation of everyones work and excitement when they find a fellow knitter out in public. I see myself doing the same when i notice a familiar pattern being worn or just notice someone working on a project. Very glad to have stumbled upon this community, where people can appreciate the time and effort that goes into hand made projects.
My knitting community mostly revolves around my aunt who taught me how to knit socks. Every few weeks we get together with our basket full of projects and share what we are making over a coffee and cake. Those are some of the happiest moments of my life and I am super grateful for it 😊
I love the knitting community! I have dabbled in lots of crafts and other communities aren't always as giving or willing to help. Most of the people I have met at a knit night or yarn store are so nice and generous with their talents.
My favorite aspect of the knitting (and spinning) community is the generosity of spirit shown by all of its members. Everyone is so willing to help the rest of the group with ideas etc. to help everyone achieve their goals. So great of you Rebecca to help foster this new festival. Hope it remains successful and grows.
I love the knitting community in real life and online, I love finding someone who has made the same thing you’ve made and then going through all the other things they’ve made and discovering more to add to your “to make” list!!
I find the online knitting community so inspiring and has helped revive my love of knitting. I have found it has given me the push to do projects the I would previously considered to be out of my comfort zone.
I haven't been knitting for long, only a year and a bit however I am blown away by the knitting community support. Knitting for me has massively helped my mental health, it's my therapy. Sitting down with my current project and watching my favourite podcasters is like a hug after a long work day ❤
I’ve been knitting for many years, but I got bit by the knitting bug in 2019 and discovering a knitting community on RU-vid. Since it’s challenging to get to a local knit night, I really appreciate getting to hear other knitters talk about the yarn and their projects and just generally share the love of the craft whilst I knit. It’s a good outlet since no one in my really world is as excited about knitting as I am!
I found it friendly too. I loved that it was perfectly normal for us to stare, touch and comment on what each other was wearing. We all had an easy gateway into a conversation with a like minded stranger. Going back outside afterwards into the real world was actually kinna sad.
I am in Canada and the knitting community here is so inclusive and welcoming. I was able to attend Knit City Toronto this past weekend and it had workshops, speakers, a marketplace, and a sit and knitting space. It was so inspiring to see everything and everyone. My favourite part is chatting with attendees.
I LOVE the online knitting group/community I am part of. I look forward to that time every week. The vibe is super supportive, respectful and welcoming. In addition, like yourself, there are so many wonderful knitting/crocheting/making podcasters that I enjoy spending time with. Truly inspirational and comforting. Especially after a long day at work. Wishing you all the best. ❤
In general, my experience with the knitting community is that folks are generous, open and inclusive, supportive, whether in person, virtually or through social media access. I find so much learning and inspiration through all those avenues. I have come out of my knitting shell moreso over the past couple of years and I am grateful for all the people who have encouraged/been encouraging whether directly or by default. The community is really a wonderful place and I say would benefit anyone who is interested in knitting and enters the realm!
I am very lucky that I have a fabulous local yarn store and the community that comes with it in my life. I always get inspiration and motivation from the people who gather at my LYS. The online knitting community means just as much to me because they keep me company during long hours of knitting.
I very much enjoy the RU-vid knitting community and thoroughly enjoy my knitting time now while watching a knitting video! The Creabea Knitting Podcast is one of my favourites! ♥
For me, it's the local knitting community I love the most. I was asked by someone thirty years younger than I to be the experience they needed to start a local knit night. I met people so much younger, but because of our love of knitting, and crafting in general, we had a starting point to share experiences, and found in the process that there was much more we shared. Since then, the group has grown and changed, both in number and in age range, but still brings joy to us all.
I do love the 24/7 access to the online community. I can knit with podcast friends when I need to and am encouraged by what others make. it's a great supplement to a live group. the festival looked great! thanks for sharing.
I love getting to know people who I never would have met but for knitting. There's so many great people out in the world and knitting brings me closer to many of them!
I’ve been knitting for 2 years and I love the online community as well as visiting my LYS- there’s a shared interest there already and it’s a great way to make friends online and ITL. Everyone I’ve met has been so kind and helpful! ❤
Hi from NZ. Absolutely love the online knitting and crafting community. So relaxing to watch while knitting my projects where I can learn so much and get lots of ideas from others. It’s like knitting with friends!
I love your designs - very wearable. Yeah, it was be nice, strange, and rewarding to see you design that you have poured your heart and soul into being worn by another person. What a lovely yarn festival you shared. It is great to see this pop up in such a great city!
Knitting, stitching, crochet, spinning, weaving …there are so many of us that participate in the fibre arts …. Love it when I spot a hand knit and the delight of the wearers face when I comment. It takes one to know one! The not so secret society of the community of knitters! (And other fibre arts !)
I live currently in Saudi and restarted knitting during the pandemic, probably like many. Its not really a thing here so its been lovely to sit and knit with creators, even if it’s virtually
Community is really important. Online is great but in-person is even better. Last winter four or five lovely knitters in New Brunswick Canada planned a knitting getaway. We had a huge room what starts as 15-20 friends grew to 100+. We knit, we chatted, we ate good food and enjoyed each others company. There were a few vendors on the Saturday afternoon ( mostly people attending who also sold things etc). By Saturday evening we were so relaxed and it was a perfect weekend. Best of all it was accessible to everyone. We split the cost of the big room so it was a very low fee for the whole weekend plus food and accommodation if you chose to stay at the hotel. They certainly are my people and we all made new friends of every age and all different fibre crafts. I highly recommend doing social activities with other crafters/knitters!
I love the way knitting builds community, in online spaces and real-life spaces through my local yarn store and knit night. I feel part of the community through social media too, reading other people's comments on RU-vid here. I've knitted on my own for decades, and enjoy seeing the craft grow x
I have learned so, so much from my online knitting friends. These are people I’ve mostly not met in person, but feel like I could spend whole days just sitting and knitting and chatting with them. In fact, because of the online community, I met a lovely knitter from Albuquerque who invited me to her IRL knitting group when I was out there, and it was so lovely, I’m going to spend several days at a knitting retreat with them this fall!! Knitters on the whole seem to be so welcoming, so patient, so willing to share their knowledge and help others. I am grateful to be a part of this community and all the little neighborhoods of it I’ve managed to visit so far. ❤
Knitting and crochet really helped me during my masters, I made an incredible friend who also loves fibre arts and it was a great way to decompress after long days writing our disses! We still keep each other updated on our projects now, sharing techniques and hyping each other up, and it's so wonderful to have her ❤
I love the online knitting community, they’re always quick to comment and to help if you’re stuck! Watching youtube vids really is an outlet and makes me feel less alone in my nerdiness over yarn.
I gather with some women who are 60-68 years old every Sunday. We are advanced knitters always challenging each other our skills. More importantly we support each other in major events in our lives and are good friends! I was a transplant to where I live in 2017 and finding new knitting friends was hard. I am really grateful for this group!
I love being part of the knitting community through online knitting vlogs. You are one of my favorites to knit with and I tend to save the episode for when I can truly enjoy your beautiful designs and your joyful personality! 😊
Living in an area where yarn shops are few and far between, the online knitting community has been an endless source of inspiration and connection for me over the hobby that is so important to me, especially the knitting podcasters I love to keep up with every month!
I am lucky as not only do I have a LYS that does Knit and Natter sessions 3 days a week, but since joining Ravelry British Banter group, have met many others IRL. This weekend am now travelling in a group to Riverknits Open Day as a direct result. Without the knitting community I would not have had this varied social interaction, so thank to ALL all that put so much time and effort to keep us sane in the post Covid world.
I never went to a knitting or yarn festival. Nobody around me knit. But I follow many podcasters that inspires me as a knit! Thank you for making us visit that lovely wool festival and for brignig us with you when you travel !
I knitted commercially in the 1980’s and for some reason stopped for 25 years or so… have dived back in recently and am loving the community of knitters and information that I can find on-line … a very different world! ❤
What a beautiful and cool building to have a yarn festival in! I went to my first yarn festival in Minnesota, USA, and met a delightful group of knitters and sat knitting and chatting with them for a few hours! I love the knitting community so much ❤
I love the yarny community! My yarn shop in California has wool gatherings each Friday morning and Sunday afternoon - informal drop-in style - bring a project, hang out and work on it. We talk about everything and nothing - what we watched on Netflix, what we are making, what we are making for dinner, etc. I love it and it is such a great community!
Love the knitting community in all its forms. I watch/listen to podcasters, I’ve been to local fibre festivals and get together with knitting friends to knit. All great ways to share our love of knitting.
I have learned so much from the online community about the wonderful British yarns that are available. I then share that with the local craft group I go to, spread the love. We really must, as a yarn based community, support these local producers and the local yarn stores. Use them or lose them. Thank you Rebecca for putting me on to Woolly Knit and Kinross 4 ply amongst others.
Although I have been knitting for many years, I just recently found the online community. I absolutely love to watch and listen to your podcasts and other knitting podcasters while knitting. Thank you sharing the knitting festival. I love when you and other podcasters take us to yarn festivals all over the world! I so enjoy the various vendors and yarns! I look for inspiration within the online community and all the recommendations and suggestions on knitting needles and projects. You make my knitting live so much easier, exciting and colorful. I definitely stretch my knitting skills with each project!
I live on Kent Island, the gateway to the Eastern Shore of Maryland USA. The festivals I attend are Rhinebeck and the maryland sheep and Wool festival, this year for the first time I attended yarncentric and I met so many great podcasters. A real thrill! RU-vid is such a great community not only to learn techniques via tutorials, but to explore and learn about the communities of each podcaster. My husband is from Stonehaven Scotland, and he enjoys watching the Scottish podcasts and hearing the brogue and sometimes seeing the landscape of their communities. We’ve enjoyed your podcast from day one!🏴 Well done Rebecca!❤
The online knitting community was what first helped me really find my knitting mojo! Since then I have made some fantastic friends and joined a local group of amazing crafty people! I have also really enjoyed the knitting podcasts on youtube, getting to hear what others are making, what yarn they are using has really helped inspire some of my own projects!
When I started knitting a few years ago I went to the local knit night and I’ve ended up being one of the organisers and found some lovely friends through this group. It’s open for everyone and it’s a lovely way to meet people in a city where you don’t know anyone. Knitting is a wonderful hobby because everyone who sees you knit always have such nice associations with knitting. So you end up meeting so many people through knitting 😊
Through the online knitting community I feel I have lots of likeminded friends all over the world. Your podcasts have kept me company for many hours while I knit and have also offered me so many useful tips, tricks and most of all inspiration. Thank you Rebecca for all your lovely patterns. ❤❤
I have to agree the online community of yarn lovers means a lot to me. I feel a connection with them all, so that when we get to meet in person, it's like we are just getting to catch up again, like we already know each other. ❤
I have so so many things I love about the knitting community. I made a really good friend through the La Mercerie Sock Swap who I’ve been able to meet in person - if it weren’t for knitting we’d never have interacted and now we send each other cards, birthday gifts, and get together for the occasional video chat knit night. Yesterday was my birthday and I met someone at work (I work at an ecolodge and she was a guest), and she’s a knitter and we had the BEST chat about what podcasts we watch and what we are knitting on - it was the highlight of my birthday. I rarely get to interact with other knitters in person so finding people online who share the same love and passion for creating makes me feel so connected. I am so grateful to the content creators that go out of their way to bring us all together and give us a sense of community regardless of where we are in the world. I love being introduced to new yarns from all over the world as well - I went to Scotland last summer to see some family and I picked up some Kinross 4ply due to your recommendation and it made me so happy that I had the chance to try it out myself.
I love my on-line knitting community! I have learned so much from them. Knitters are a very diverse group so I learn more than knitting, life stuff, cultural stuff… wish more festivals focused on community! Thanks for doing what you do Rebecca!
Finding an online community on Facebook rekindled my knitting mojo and inspired me to find a class near me where I’ve met a really fun, talented group of women. Knitting along while watching my favorite RU-vidrs makes a solitary interest soooo much more fun and helps me find beautiful yarns and patterns that I may never have discovered otherwise.
So excited to see your tour of the show and the giveaway👏👏🤤 my knitting group are my closest and most wonderful friends, the most supportive, kind and generous people, I'd be lost without them. Thank you for another wonderful episode and being the kind, generous and inspiring person you are x
I had never really knit with other people much until this past year. I've now joined two yarny groups, one at my local library and one through my synagogue. Both have been so fun! I didn't realize how much I'd enjoy having folks to show off my craft with and bond over the highs and lows. It's really been lovely!
I don't have a local knitting community but I love the online community. I have also made a wonderful new friend in Canada through the scrappy Advent swap last year and am loving our knit and chat sessions! Wether it's watching a podcaster or comments on instagram or joining a class at a yarn shop - I am always SO inspired and delighted by all the creativity and enthusiasm.
I started knitting during the pandemic, initially joined an online group started by my LYS, now, several of us continue to meet regularly to knit in a local park. So fortunate to enjoy such a supportive, encouraging community - both IRL and online. The fibre community really is the best!
Loved your podcast. Your enthusiasm shines through. This episode was a unique behind the scene look at a Fibre Festival. Definitely suffering from FOMO. And how generous of you to offer your goody bag yarn as a give away!
I find so much inspiration in the online knitting community. I love seeing other people’s versions of knits, seeing their yarn choices and how it affects the final product. I know so many knitting designs and yarns that I would never come across in my local yarn shop.
Knitting started as a fun bonding activity with my grandma and a friend and I’ve since learned so much from both my local and online knitting community. People are so supportive and make it exciting to try new things!
I love the community aspect of knitting. I do not have a local knitting store close to me and I do not have friends or family that knit. I love how I will go to a retreat knowing no one and I am welcomed into the group like we have always known each other. The community of knitting brightens my day and encourages me.
Thank you for sharing this awesome experience with us! It looks like it was a lot of fun. Fiber festivals are always so much fun! I absolutely adore the fiber/knitting community. I started out crocheting back in 2016 and finally started knitting in 2020. I made my own podcast in November of 2022 a month after having my first baby and I felt so welcomed. Everyone is so kind and encouraging and welcoming! It’s also just so fun to watch other podcasters and feel like you’re talking with a friend. I feel all the same and cozy feels, probably because this is a warm and cozy craft lol! 💕
Your knitting community is amazing! I would come just to see that beautiful building this was held in! What I enjoyed most about watching this was all the seating for the knitting community! I am going to my first yarn festival in about 4 years! I am so excited! Not so much for the marketplace but more for the people! To me when I have gone to my past festivals it reminds me of an adult Disneyland! Everyone is happy and smiling! So very glad this festival has come back to Edinburgh for you!
I love how disability-friendly and intergenerational the knitting community is! I learned to knit from my Nana, and I've gotten to meet other people like me who use knitting to deal with chronic pain. I recently taught my mom how to knit, and it's been fun seeing her discover a lot of my favorite yarns and designers.
Community of knitters is so important to me. I have a wonderful LYS and they host several events during the year such as LYS day, WWKIP day and a big sale for Black Friday shopping (day after American thanksgiving day). We are more than just local, though! Our Tuesday night knitting Zoom has knitters from across the state. Tuesday was started during the PHE and we kept it going because it includes people from farther away as well as a few that can’t travel for personal or health reasons. Last fall a few of us travelled to Rhinebeck and had a great time. These ladies are more than my knitting buddies-they are my friends within the knitting community and we support one another through life’s ups and downs.
