🎉 20th Anniversary of the Puget Sound LYS Tour! 🎉
Welcome to the official home of the Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour!
We are celebrating 20 Tour Years of exploring amazing local yarn shops together with yarn, patterns, community, creativity, and fibery goodness across the Puget Sound region! 🧶✨
Each spring, knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists from near and far have hit the road to explore local yarn shops, collect original patterns, enjoy special discounts, and connect with fellow enthusiasts — and now we’re marking two decades of this beloved tradition!
Stay up to date with everything happening for Tour this year!
📍 What’s New This Year?
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🥳 Celebrating 20 Years!
This is our biggest and most festive Tour yet — with special anniversary events, special patterns and projects, commemorative merchandise, and extra surprises along the way.
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🧶 25 Participating Shops Across the Region
From Bellingham thru Seattle to Kent, Port Townsend to Duvall, explore exceptional local yarn shops, find patterns and yarns to inspire, and meet the amazing people behind them.
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📅 Tour Dates:
The Tour runs for Five Fabulous days: May 13 - 17, 2026 — mark your calendars and plan your route!
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🎨 Art Contest Design with a new artist for our featured artwork on Totes, the Passport, and more!
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🐑 Special commemorative 20th Anniversary Progress Keepers
And More! Stay Tuned for new announcements.
🛍️ What to Expect
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✨ Free Knit & Crochet Patterns — As is tradition, each shop will have exclusive, new knitting and crochet patterns just for the Tour.
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💸 Discounts — Enjoy special featured yarn discounts at every participating shop.
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📘 Tour Passport (coming soon)— Grab a printed booklet as a keepsake or download your digital passport and print your stamps page to mark your visit to each shop.
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🎁 Daily Drawings — Every day every shop will draw a door prize for a fabulous prize bag prize given to in person visitors that enter the door prize drawing every day
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🏆 Grand Prizes — Grand Prizes will be given Win prizes just for visiting and collecting stamps! (Details in the “How to Tour” section.)
Here’s to 20 years of fiber journeys, new friendships, and unforgettable memories — we can’t wait to see you! 💜🧵
