Yarn festivals are one of the great pleasures of life.
Yarn (and its fumes) everywhere, nice, smiling people, all dressed with some kind of hand knitted colourful accessory or garment.
What’s not to love?
But they can be a pitfall. Oh yes.
Why?
Mainly the yarn fumes, like the mermaids for Ulysses, are calling you into buying yarn, more than you need in debatable color choices. Then the people, the frenzy excitement of the other.
You need a survival guide from someone (me) who engaged in 10 different yarn festival all over Europe between 2014 and 2017. And now I am cured, maybe… But probably not.
- Do not go unprepared: on the festival website study venue and marketplace. Jot down the stall you MUST visit: give them precedence and memorise where they are.
- Set a budget. And you won’t go over it. It won’t be cheap, but you don’t need to go royal either!
- Make a list of colors you would like to buy. Not anymore reds in your stash? That the best time to buy them!
- For the first hour patrol the venue. Look at every stand, jolt down the number of stalls you would like to revisit. Do NOT make any purchase.
- Keep hydrated. And make frequent visit to a place with no yarn in the open air: yarn fumes can be dangerous 😉
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