Category Archives: News

As you know, we love our Yarndale community and love sharing with you a passion for yarn, creativity and all things woolly.

One of the most exciting parts of Yarndale is the creative challenges we set – and the enthusiastic response from everyone who joins in and we hope you will love this one!

Yarndale has become well known for it’s stunning creative displays which have wowed our visitors year after year. By inviting makers from all over the world to join in, we’ve managed to create some truly breathtaking, large scale visual displays which have become a unique way for us to share our love of all things […]

One of the things that we most love about Yarndale is the way that it brings so many people together to celebrate a shared love of yarn and creativity. The community spirit that exists within the yarn-loving world is amazing, and lucky us, we get to experience this every year through our famous Creative Community […]

OXFAM Oxfam Skipton raised £220 from the Bag Creche at this year’s Yarndale, and collected a staggering FIFTY (50!!) sacks of yarn from the Yarn Amnesty which is incredible!! Some of the donated yarn will be sold in the Skipton shop and the rest will be used by OMG (Oxfam Makers Group) who make beautiful […]

Summer is here and there are only twelve weeks left before we open wide the Yarndale doors for the fourth year. It’s an exciting time for the Yarndale team as we work hard to make our festival a fun, exciting and inspirational event for our amazing exhibitors and our thousands of visitors. Those of you […]

Now that Summer is here, preparations for Yarndale 2015 are in full woolly swing. The team are busy working on all manner of things in preparation for this year’s event, but today we would like to introduce the Creative Community Display that we are organising. If you’ve been following Yarndale’s journey since the beginning, then […]

The Yarndale 2015 calendar features twelve beautiful images styled and photographed in the Yorkshire Dales. Two members of the Yarndale team had a heap load of fun creating a calendar which celebrates the joy of yarn and handmade living. Between them, Carole and Lucy took more than three hundred photographs featuring knitting, crochet, felting, tapestry, […]

This year Yarndale helped to raise valuable funds for  some wonderful local and National charities. The Park and Ride  was a great success for our visitors this year, and we couldn’t have done it without the help of two wonderful charities. The Rotary Club of Skipton runs a charity car park in the grounds of […]

Those of you who visited Yarndale last year may remember our Tea Cosy Challenge. It was was a huge success with 31 amazing tea cosies made by our talented visitors to raise money for Macmillan Nurses. This was a joint venture between Yarndale and local business The Tempest Arms, and we were both thrilled by […]