I just saw a flyer for this on a telephone pole:

http://ctetsyteam.blogspot.com/2008/03/craftastic-is-on-its-way.html

The Connecticut Etsy Team presents:
Craftastic!

Sunday, April 13
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
free

Free swag bags stuffed to the brim with goodies
to the first 100 people through the door

Music by Fusions Sounds DJ

The Space
295 Treadwell Street
Hamden, CT
http://www.thespace.tk/
http://www.myspace.com/thespacect

[Not Brooklyn Fest 2008]

Not Brooklyn Fest 2008
http://www.manicproductions.org

punk rock flea market
Saturday, April 19
noon to 5 p.m.
It's five bucks to get in.


Heirloom Arts Theatre
155 Main Street
Danbury, CT 06810
http://www.myspace.com/heirloomartstheatre

"We are actually located around the back.
Walk down 'Palace Walk,' an old timey looking alley.
We are the last door on the right.
If you're driving, turn down Keeler Street from Main Street
and park in the first or second lot on your left."


Vendors: (as of February 11, 2008)
see the updated list at http://www.manicproductions.org/vendors.htm
CT Roller Girls - clothes, shoes, possible gear, maybe CDs/DVDs.
Jen Savage - hand-dyed, handspun yarn.
Heart of Gold Clothing - shoes, bags, shirts, hoodies, etc.
Steph - handmade stuff: barrettes, purses/bags, corny kitchen stuff.
Trash American Style http://www.trashamericanstyle.com
WXCI 91.7FM


Bands:
Neil Hamburger
Deer Tick http://www.myspace.com/deertick
Toby Goodshank (of the Moldy Peaches) http://www.myspace.com/tobygoodshank
Haunted Continents http://www.myspace.com/jamesdownes
Arms and Legs http://www.myspace.com/armsandlegs



Vendor info:
Full Table: 6 feet long (72 inches) by 2.5 feet wide (30 inches) $30
Half Table: 3 feet long (36 inches) by 2.5 feet wide (30 inches) $20

If you are interested, please e-mail vendors@manicproductions.org and let them know if you would like a full or half table and send some information on what you will be displaying.

[Knit For The Cure®]

Knit For The Cure®
http://www.komenct.org/Knit_Main.htm

Attention all knitters and crocheters, help fight breast cancer one stitch at at time! Here is your opportunity to help in the fight against breast cancer while doing what you love to do:

Donate hand-crafted items for the Pink Boutique, part of the Shop for the Cure on Race Day, June 7, 2008. Hats, scarves, mittens, shawls, felted bags, baby items, cell phone or iPod covers, or similar items. Creative use of pink is encouraged but any color items are welcome. 100% of the money raised through the sale of these items goes to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Connecticut Affiliate.

Donate comfort items for the oncology units of area hospitals. Chemo hats (winter and summer weights for men and women), lightweight shawls, lap robes or small throws, scarves and mittens (some types of chemo make people sensitive to the cold). These items are for anyone undergoing cancer treatment. The use of pink is encouraged but all colors are welcome.

Participate in Knit in the Park on Race Day, June 7, 2008. Participants will register for a special category of the race. There will be door prizes and an open area where everyone can come and spend the day knitting in the fresh air. More details will be available when registration opens in the Spring. Plan now! Form a team to join everyone in the park on Race Day!

Donated items will collected throughout the year at these locations:

• Burgis Brook Alpacas LLC, Canterbury burgisbrookalpacas. com
• Country Yarns, Wallingford countryarns.com
• Creative Fibers, Windsor creativefibersonlin e.com
• In Sheep's Clothing Yarn Shop & Fibre Arts Studio, Torrington in-sheeps-clothing.com
• Marji's Yarncrafts, Granby marjisyarncrafts.co m
• Saybrook Yarn, Old Saybrook saybrookyarn.com
• Sit-n-Knit & Sit-n-Knit Too, West Hartford & Wethersfield sit-n-knit.com
• Village Wool, Glastonbury
• Yarn LLC, Westville section of New Haven yarnllc.com
• The Yarn Barn, Woodbridge theyarnbarn.com
• The Yarn Garden, Meriden yarngardenllc.com

We appreciate the support of these participating retailers.

http://www.ragshop.com
Rag Shop
Going out of business
60-80% off everything
(lowest ticketed price)

All patterns 10 for $10 (McCall's, Simplicity & more)
All fabric 60-70% off

No checks
All sales final
No returns

Rag Shop
North Street Shopping Center
1 Padanaram Road
Danbury, CT   06811
203-743-1709



HOURS:
Mon-Fri: 10am - 9pm
Sat: 9am - 9pm
Sun: 11am - 6pm


Rag Shop
330 Connecticut Avenue
Norwalk, CT   06854
203-857-4109



HOURS:
Mon-Fri: 9am - 9pm
Sat: 9am - 9pm
Sun: 11am - 6pm

[UPDATE:]

UPDATE:
Yarn Harlot will be speaking this Friday at 7 p.m. at RJ Julia -- NOT at Scranton library, as previously announced.

Also, reservations are required. To reserve seats, call 203.245.3959 or 800.74.READS, or e-mail books@rjjulia.com

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WHO:
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -- Knitting & Humor
http://www.rjjulia.com/events/event_detail.lasso?id=292
Knitting enthusiasts, this event is for you! The author of the bestselling At Knit's End, and creator of the popular knitting blog http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/, will guide us through the "Land of Knitting" with her latest yarn, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off. Come hear her tongue-in-cheek observations about a land she knows so well -- its people, etiquette and cultural customs.

WHEN:
Friday, August 3, 2007 at 7:00 PM

WHERE:
RJ Julia
768 Boston Post Rd. (Rte. 1)
Madison, CT 06443
Directions: http://www.rjjulia.com/store/directionsmad.lasso

PS. From Yarn Harlot's blog, http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/

I'm positive they will just let you in if you come, but since the very nice lady behind the counter told Amy that only 30 people had signed up (probably because we didn't know we should register) and she "didn't expect it to be busy", if you're planning on coming, could you give them a heads up so we don't have the chair thing again?

[Farmhouse Yarns, LLCTuesday through Saturday, August 14-188 a.m.-5 p.m.]

Largest hand-dyed yarn sale in New England
Farmhouse Yarns, LLC
Tuesday through Saturday, August 14-18
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Rain dates: Aug. 23-25

Hand-dyed yarn by the skein or by the bag
Roving
Premium raw fleeces
Knitting patterns
Hand-cranked knitting machines
Hand-knitted garments & accessories

Personal checks, cash, Visa & MasterCard accepted

Carol M. Martin
Farmhouse Yarns, LLC (home of Hopyard Spinnery)
283 Mt. Parnassus Rd.
East Haddam, CT 06423
(860) 575-9050
carolmorgain@earthlink.net


From Hartford:
Rte. 9 south to exit 7
Follow Rte. 82 connector to the T, then go left toward the swing bridge
At the light, go right to cross the bridge into East Haddam
Follow Rte. 82 through town
At the stop sign (T), go right
Then take a quick left on Mt. Parnassus Rd. (Shagbark Lumber is on the corner)
Go 2.7 miles up the hill
It's on the left
If you see big yellow colonial & barn on the left, you've gone one house too far

From New Haven:
I-95 north to Old Saybrook
Take the exit for Rte. 9, then follow the directions above

Chris Murray Morgan will provide a hands-on demonstration on how to spin your own yarn using natural fibers at Borders Books & Music at Westfield Meriden on Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.

Morgan is a fiber artist in central Connecticut who spins yarn, knits and makes fine felt products using a wet felting process. She specializes in soft luxury fiber blends, using angora from her own pet angora rabbits in most of her fiber blends. Chris teaches spinning, felted scarf and mitten techniques, and angora rabbit grooming and care. She can be reached at http://woolybuns.typepad.com.

This event is free to the public. 

Borders
470 Lewis Avenue
Meriden, CT 06451
(203) 237-5510
http://www.bordersstores.com/locator/displayMap.do?storeId=155

Not in Connecticut, but only a train ride away!
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http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2007/02/16/represent.html

The new book comes out soon and since it's a book about knitting as a destination and the community of knitters that populate it, we thought that this would be an excellent time to make a point. We would like to show the media and the muggles exactly how many knitters there are, how seriously we take it, and exactly how large a demographic they are ticking off when they discount our numbers and our buying power by ignoring the things that we tell them.

To that end, we would like to invite you to a Really Big Book Launch. The shock the muggles night event will be March 22nd in New York City at FIT, The Fashion Institute of Technology. (They have a Knitting Laboratory.) It'll be in the Haft Auditorium, which is in the C building on 27th street just off of 7th Avenue. It's really easy to get there. It will be 6 p.m. or later.

I'll talk of course, but that's not the point of the evening. The point of the evening is to get a whole whack of knitters into one room, then invite the media to come and see. The auditorium holds 750 people. This means that I could really, really be humiliated here(that's the only part I don't like. The image of me and the media in this huge auditorium while I try to explain that there really, really are a lot of knitters, I swear it.) but I don't think that that's going to be the case.

Obviously, this plan needs you. We're planning on working some charitable action into it, we're thinking about combining with other people (like the Craft Yarn Council), but I would love to hear your ideas for how to make this the most fun a whack of knitters have ever had. Maybe a NYC yarn shop crawl? 700+ travelling socks posed in Central Park? Get crazy with it.

Represent, knitters. Represent.

I just saw this posted on the Knitty board:
http://p083.ezboard.com/fknittymagazinefrm27.showMessage?topicID=60.topic

Not an official SnB....but I'd like to KIP, that's Knit in Park, on Friday, since it's supposed to be beautiful out. I'm thinking the one in Union Square since it's close to transportation and if anyone needs anything from a shop, Knit NY is only a few blocks down (14th and 2nd Ave.).
Anyone want to join me? I won't be there til 5:30pmish....If you can make it, the more the merrier!

There's now an S'nB for Fairfield County:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/snbfairfield