12th October I Love Yarn Day

 

I Love Yarn Day is celebrated annually on the second Saturday of October. It's a day dedicated to all things yarn, promoting the joy of knitting, crocheting, and other yarn crafts. Enthusiasts often participate in events like knitting and crocheting in public, teaching someone else their yarn craft, and sharing their love of yarn on social media.

Yarn is any spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing.Yarn is made from a mixture of about 15 different types of fibres from the two categories of fibres — natural and synthetic. 

If you are not using yarn or teaching a child to use yarn to knit, crochet, weave, sew or macrame then do the next best thing...read about it.

Three books with 'yarn' in their title:

• A Friendship Yarn  by Lisa Moder and Olga Demidova

• Extra Yarn  by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

• A Bedtime Yarn  by Nicola Winstanley and Olivia Chin Mueller

Then enjoy a series of books where knitting features as the 'hero' for Granny McFlitter.

• Granny McFlitter, the Champion Knitter

• Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn

• Granny McFlitter: The Knit Before Christmas

• Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter all by Heather Haycock and Lael Chisholm