Romsey residents should get their knitting needles ready because the All About Fibre and Yarn Festival is coming to town on September 17.
The festival will be held at the Romsey Mechanics Institute from 10am to 3pm, and is the perfect event for all lovers of knitting, crochet, feltmaking, weaving, spinning, dyeing, and all things woolly.
Event organiser Nelly Rageva said this year is the first year organisers have held the festival following COVID-19 delays.
“We started to organise in 2018 and 2019, but in 2020 we were stopped for two years due to COVID-19,” Ms Rageva said.
“Our first event was in Lancefield and it was a very good success… I can say the majority of the people came with a family and it was a family day.
“It was very touching when the children were picking the colours…. and the grandparents were buying. We were very happy to see it was going very well.”
Donations from the day will go to the Kilmore District Health Hospital maternity ward and charity knitting for newborn babies in these areas.
“There will be a gold coin donation on entry… I think it’s a good idea to donate,” Ms Rageva said.
“We had more than 200 people attend the Lancefield event and we are expecting more people at the Romsey festival.
“We had a lot of people coming from Melbourne when it was in Lancefield… [and] are expecting people from other towns at the [Romsey] event, not just the Macedon Ranges.
“I think it will be good for the local businesses in Romsey as well.”
Zoe Moffatt
