Ravelry at Rhinebeck!
October 15th, 2009
The New York Sheep and Wool Festival is this weekend in beautiful Rhinebeck, New York, and Ravelry will be there holding our third Ravelry Rhinebeck Party! This party has become a fun annual tradition for festival-goers, and it would not be possible without the help from our generous sponsors!
We love our qiviut sponsor Yarn Market; our cashmere sponsors, Juniper Moon Farm, loopsknitting.com, namaste, Unicorn Fibre Wash; and our merino sponsors, Bijou Basin Ranch, Classic Elite Yarns, Gardiner Yarn Works, Knit Picks, Lantern Moon, Miss Babs, Sandra Singh, Signature Needle Arts, St. Denis, The Loopy Ewe, and Twist Collective. Huge hugs!
We’re so happy to team up with these wonderful companies and members of our community to help us host a terrific party open to all, and grateful for their help and support. Thank you so much!
The party details:
Where: The Elks Lodge (outside pavilion) in Red Hook, NY (same place as last year!)
When: Saturday, October 17 from 6:30 - 11 pm
The address is: 7711 Albany Post Rd/ Route 9 Red Hook, NY 12571 (approximately 5 miles from the fairgrounds)
We’re going to have a cash bar, yummy snacks (please do eat dinner beforehand!), music, incredible prize giveaways from our sponsors, plenty of Hello! username buttons so that we can identify each other, and a really, really great time. Families are welcome! Though we strongly encourage you to carpool if at all possible, parking will be much easier this year - we have arranged for parking down the street at Mill Road Elementary School (Google maps link to the school), with a bus to transport Ravelers to the party location and back to their cars throughout the evening. Please park at the school parking lot (we’ll have folks helping to direct you) to take advantage of the party bus (and avoid parking backups). If you need a handicapped parking space, please just let the folks at the Elks Lodge know when you drive up and they’ll show you the best place for you to park (in the lodge parking lot).
It is going to be chilly on Saturday night (possibly even snowy!) and this party is in an open pavilion, so make sure you bring your woolies! We are going to have heaters (and possibly a bonfire!) and walled tents and the party location is fully covered, but please come prepared! This is the perfect chance to showcase your latest FO to a group of 600 or more people who will appreciate and admire your work. :) You can RSVP for the party on the Ravelry Events Page! See you there - we really can’t wait!
Lunchtime Ravelry Meetups!
We also have two meetups planned during the day on both Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 1 pm. The location for the meetups is shown on the map below- it is a shaded field up the walkway from the author’s tent. Come and meet your fellow Ravelers and get a Hello! username button.
For more information about the Ravelry festivities at Rhinebeck this year, check out the Final Details thread in the New York Sheep and Wool group!
Be sure to wear your Ravelry shirts and pins and carry your bags around the festival - some vendors are offering a discount to Ravelers! (Every little bit helps, right? Helps us buy more yarn, that is…) :)
See you in Rhinebeck!
October 15th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
i love the illustrations with bob! those would make awesome tshirts!
October 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Justonescarf will be there with my knitting posse from CT! :)
October 15th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I agree with Mimi! Or tote bags :)
October 15th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Please make those illustrations available in mug form or pin form or even knitting chart form or something! OMG how cute!
October 16th, 2009 at 3:50 am
The graphics are very good!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am
The graphics are awesome! Unusual to see Bostons with sheep and alpacas. Have the Bostons here, would love to have the sheep and alpacas.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Yes, please! Tote, tee, button….great graphics. Have fun!
October 16th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Is any event like this in Northwest? The event looks so much fun!
October 16th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Those designs would make fantastic shirts! I would buy both of them!!
October 17th, 2009 at 7:14 am
This is Vanessa from Upstate NY, I live one hour from Rhinebeck and this is the first time in 5 years that I am not going. I was planning on going but am not now - other things came into play - so please have a GREAT time and lots of fun! I cannot wait to hear all about it. If I were to go I would have looked for some silk or silk/merino - to spin and stopped by Galina Khmelevas’ booth - and also would have purchased a Bosworth spindle - (maybe next year)
Best wishes to you all at Rhinebeck!
October 17th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Love your logo with Bob! You guys need to make tee shirts or bags with it!!!!!
October 17th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Do you guys ever do events out in the S.W. like AZ. Knitting has become popular here. Love the logo too.
October 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
bookmarked them all into my “Knit shop” favorite’s folder of my browser :)
October 18th, 2009 at 11:16 am
WOW! I just moved away from upstate New York! Go figure! I would have loved to attend if I was there, or even in the country! Hope it is fun to all of you who go…
October 19th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Please please please use those lovely circular designs for some merchandise: Plates/mugs/totes/tees/clocks/pillows……
Pretty please?
Love them!
October 19th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I LOVE the circular images on your home page with bob and sheep, knitting in the fall. I would buy a t-shirt or tote bag with these images in a heart beat. Ever consider it???
October 19th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I just saw that Sue, above my comment, said the same thing about wanting merchandise with bob and the sheep. I’m sure we’re not the only ones who are thinking this way ;)
October 19th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sad I didn’t make it out to Rhinebeck despite being in NY last weekend anyway. But glad I ran into the Rav team at the Charlton rest area on the Pike and got to meet them anyway, although briefly. We were on our way out to Greene and then Horseheads. It was a great weekend in NY, came home to wet, cold snow in MA.
I love the designs above too!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Love the animal icons here! So cute!
October 20th, 2009 at 6:05 am
When are you coming to Houston for a ravelry party?????
October 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Another vote for the graphics to appear on a shirt. Perhaps not side-by-side, but in some other combined format.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Yet ANOTHER vote for the graphic of the sheep, angora bunny and Bob to appear on a shirt or bag. LOVE IT!!!! Just change the season background, perhaps??? LOVE IT!!! Please, please, please. TOO CUTE.
Kris in NH :)
October 21st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I am curious about the designer of both graphics. I am looking to hire someone to do a little work for and would like to be in contact. Thanks!
October 21st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I love those graphics…. Buttons or window clings would be great at the Ravelry shop.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 am
The Sunday Rav meet up was fun. I was great to see all the Rav buttons on folks at Rhinebeck