The Downtown Knit Collective
15th Annual Knitter's Frolic
Saturday & Sunday, April 28-29, 2012
Marketplace: Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Workshops: Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Garamond Court, Toronto, Ontario
This is the big one—the knitting event of the year!
Vendors, classes, prizes, food and fun.
The Knitter’s Frolic is Toronto’s premiere spring fibre festival organzied by the Downtown Knit Collective.
Featuring a one-day marketplace on Saturday with vendors from across Ontario, Quebec, New York, and Michigan retailing fibre, knitting, crochet products, and related accessories. The Knitter’s Frolic features prize draws, The Knit Cafe, and the beautiful venue of The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to socialize with like minded fibre enthusiasts.
The Knitter’s Frolic also features two days of workshops for both knitting, crochet, and spinning on Saturday and Sunday.
More information about the 2012 show to come in January.
Please Note: vendor attendance at this fibre festival is by invitation only. To be considered for a vendor space please contact the DKC Special Events Coordinator Joan Kass.
2010 Knitter's Frolic
What a day! The weather was perfect... dull, grey, drizzly and windy. Over 1,500 knitters, spinners and crocheters spent it indoors at our 13th Annual Knitters Frolic. They came from as far away as England and the North West Territories, Quebec, Manitoba, northern United States and Ontario.
The 66 vendors in the marketplace were spread over two floors of the Japanese Cultural Centre. Once again, Indigo Moon came from Canada’s west coast and Ilga Leja from our east coast. There were many new companies from Ontario, Quebec, New York State and even England. The selection was amazing from gorgeous handdyed yarn, bags to books and spinning supplies. The ball winding station was run off their feet with requests. The marketplace was humming. The classrooms were busy for both days. All in all, a perfect weekend!
2009 Knitter's Frolic
They came, they saw, they went fibre wild! The 12th Annual DKC Frolic was our biggest yet, with over 1400 attendees, 55 vendors and120 raffle prizes won. Visitors came from all over Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, New York and Maryland. Thank you to all our vendors, visitors and of course our tireless volunteers for making this year’s Frolic a resounding success.
Take a look at the pictures taken at the 2009 Knitter's Frolic in our Picture Gallery.