Port Orchard Knitters' Retreat

09/07/2026

Some sad yarny news about a long-time and beloved LYS 🧶

07/30/2026

Our fellow retreater Irene Weber is going to be teaching this amazing class on finger loop braiding at the Arbutus Folk School in Olympia next month! I’ve taken this class from Irene - it’s wonderful and I highly recommend it!! Details about the class are in the link:

In this workshop, we'll learn about loop-manipulated braiding, a technique to make laces, straps, and bands that can be used in a variety of ways. We'll talk about the history of this technique, what it was used for in the past, as well as how it can be incorporated into your craft projects today...

07/29/2026

In keeping with sharing things of general yarny interest: Another LYS (and other fiber finds) has joined the mix here in Kitsap County! Callow Fibers opened its doors last Saturday and it is definitely worth a visit!! 🧶🧶

(The weaving cotton had me at hello 😂😂😂)

Today is the day: Callow Fibers Grand Opening from 10-6! Come in and enter to win a $100 store gift card. We are located at 339 N Callow Ave in Bremerton.

06/12/2026

Greetings, POKR community! Just a reminder that Worldwide Knit in Public Day is tomorrow (Saturday, June 13)!! We'd love for you to share in the comments any pictures or descriptions of how you spent the day! Happy knitting!!!

05/13/2026

In case any of you are interested ....

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04/09/2026

Hello POKR community! From time to time here on the POKR retreat page, we will be posting knitterly related things that we think will be of general interest.

Coming up this Saturday, April 11, is the sixth annual Knit for Food knit-a-thon. Knit for Food is a 12-hour knitting marathon to raise funds for hunger and food insecurity. 100% of all donations will be divided equally between Feeding America, World Central Kitchen, No Kid Hungry, and Meals on Wheels. A link for more information is in the comments.

03/27/2026

Thank you again to these amazing individuals who generously donated door prizes or their time and talent to creating the lovely raffle shawls. We are so grateful to you for your continuing support of POKR!

03/26/2026

An update on our POKR shawl raffles: the final tally was a total of $270 for the benefit of Heifer International and Firwood Farm Alpacas & Rescue! Here's another look at the lovely shawls ❤️🩶❤️🩶 Congratulations again to Boni Russell (the winner of the red shawl raffle) and Kathi Gose (the winner of the gray shawl raffle)!

The red shawl was knit by the talented Ruth Ann Hanks - the pattern is the Kyler Shawl by Isabel Kraemer and knit with Elmer Tweed from The Lamb & Kid. The gray shawl was gifted to POKR by Doris Martin and the pattern is a lovely mystery ❤️🩶❤️🩶

03/24/2026

We're sharing because many of our wonderful door prize donors are part of the PNW Yarn Crawl. Please consider attending the crawl and thanking our donors personally for their longstanding support of the Port Orchard Knitters' Retreat! One of the beneficiaries of our shawl raffles, Firwood Farm & Alpaca Rescue, is also a part of the crawl.

Thank you again to the Allyn Knit Shop & Spinning Supply, The Artful Ewe, Heart2Heart Knitting & Fiber Arts, LaMercerie, and The Lamb & Kid!! We are so grateful for your generosity!! We will be doing individual shop features here in the next week or so (because we are HUGE fans of our local yarn stores!), but we wanted to do an extra shout out so that you can plan for the PNW Yarn Crawl!

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Ok...we still have time so you don't actually have to be ready yet...but you should probably be training! ;)

03/23/2026

What can we say, POKR community?!?! You blew our socks off!!! We are so grateful to each and every one of you who joined us on Saturday, March 21! We couldn't do this without you 💚💚💚 There are more pictures to come soon -- including the shawl raffles and a general photo album (we're still playing a bit of catch-up behind the scenes). Thank YOU for making POKR 2026 a retreat to remember!