Announcing Schedule and Pre-Registration for Fantastic Fiber Fest 2011!!!

YTwo Great Shops........One Amazing Schedule:

Wednesday, April 27th through Sunday, May 1st StevenBe and The Yarn Garage host a series of classes and events in conjunction with YarnOver, the Minnesota Knitter's Guild Annual Knitters event. Classes, Parties, special rates for members, individual rates. Join us for any or all of this Fiber Weekend. You can learn from renown teachers at the Yarn Garage or at StevenBe.

Classes are filling fast, register today to take advantage of Early Bird discounts!
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The Cast for the Weekend at the Shops

Annie Modesitt I knit for a living. I have a blog, I write about knitting, I teach classes online (and in person) and I love what I do!
Nicky Epstein Nicky Epstein is a world renowned knit wear designer, teacher and author of over 20 bestselling books. Her knitting and crochet books range from highly original resource books, to historical books, to travel books, to Barbie Doll books, to amazingly creative design fashion/pattern books. Her books are “must haves” in the libraries of designers and knitters alike, and she has won the National Independent Book Publisher’s Award for Best Craft Book Of The Year…three times! Her innovative, fashionable, whimsical and award winning designs have appeared in every major knitwear magazine, in museums and on television, and she has taught classes to knitters around the world and hosted many Vogue Knitting Tours overseas as well as others.
Julie Wiesenberg, CoCo Knits In 2004, I began teaching classes at Article Pract, a yarn shop in Oakland, California, and in 2006, at knit-one-one, a knitting atelier in Emeryville, California. I offer knitters of all levels a wide variety of classes, including felted work, custom-designed sweaters, and finishing techniques.
Mary-Heather & Sarah from Ravelry Ravelry Staff will be with us to talk about the system and the joys and fun of being the home of thousands of fiber artists online.

Early Morning Breakfast Hop, Stitch and a Jump

Steven and Cis of 3 Kittens Needle Arts are cohosting Hop, Stitch and a Jump this weekend and have guests Cookie A and Lucy Neatby in town teaching at their stores. Here is a little slideshow taken at the breakfast this morning.

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This is an exciting opportunity to meet and greet some of the top knitters in the country. Stephen West is also at StevenBe's. Yarnover is tomorrow in Hopkins. What a great Spring weekend for fiber artists!! Call the shop and you might be able to get into one of the fabulous classes this weekend.

Steven is doing a wonderful seminar for the Minnesota Knitters Guild, Northern Lights Affiliate at Fitger's Inn, Duluth today. Note the worlds largest fiber color wheel. This is the core of Steven's super stashbuster which all in attendance will understand when the day is done.

Great Day at Brookdale Center with the Minnesota Knitters Guild

Steven and the Glitter Knitter gang in their continued strong support of the Minnesota Knitters Guild were at The Brookdale Mall in Brooklyn Center with a truckload of Yarn and Joy and a lot of Yarn Garage Knitters including the Urban Knitters and the Glitter Knitter Gang. We had a blast.  You can see a short movie of the action on YouTube here.

The Glitter Knitter on the North Shore

Here are some photos from the Northland Division Meeting at the Fitger's Inn in Duluth. Steven spent the morning sharing a fascinating illustrated story of how he began and grew to be the fiber artist he is today. In the afternoon, he shared stash busters and special techniques with the 80 Northern Minnesota Knitters. His creations and creativity inspired one and all.

Getting Ready for a grand Seminar in Duluth

Steven is at Fitger's Inn in Duluth.  

He is presenting to the Northland section of the Minnesota Knitters guild in a few minutes. We will be having 70 Northern Minnesota Knitters for the day.  This is going to be fun and exciting.

Sparkling at the Minnesota Knitter's Guild Yarn Over 2008

Steven and the Stitch Mechanics were out in force at the Minnesota Knitter's Guild Yarnover 2008 at Hopkins High School. There were Oooo's and Aaaaah's at the new and unique fiber that only Steven finds from around the world. Renee was there spinning away showing that you can make your own yarn at home. Renee is our in-house spin expert. She and Angela will be hosting a spin-off next Starbuck's Glitter Knitter Jam on May 12. She has years of spinning expertise and will be demonstrating for us again at the Shepard's Harvest event on Mother's Day weekend. The Yarn Garage has many natural and beautifully dyed Rovings for spinning from Louet and Local fleecers.We had yarns from Appalachia to Northern Wales, South America to South Africa.

As usual Steven brought a ton of creative power for his friends at Yarnover. He was surrounded by the unusual creative team that helps at the Glitter Knitter Home, the Yarn Garage. Attendees at Yarnover found you need not have those plain jane patterns with ho hum fibers from the standard old fashioned yarn shops. You can get designs and fiber at the Fiber Arts Celebration Shop, the Yarn Garage, from Minnesota's own fashion designer and fiber artist, Steven Berg.

As we were loading in the treasure trove Bob was moving the U-Haul truck out into the parking lot and heard someone comment, "Looks like Steven, the Glitter Knitter, is here. Bob asked how did they knew that.

They said, "Steven is the only one that brings a U-Haul of fiber treasures, tools and yarns."