For those who have not yet heard: XRX, which used to publish knitting books and a magazine while running Stitches events, then pulled back to just running Stitches events with all those classes for fiber artists and vendors on the floor and thousands of participants, was done in by the effects of the pandemic and as of today is formally out of business.
It is unfathomable that after 30 years of going to Stitches West and, once, Stitches East, there will not be another one. Not just the yarns and booths but all the friends I only get to see there, now how will we ever? Such a loss. And all that knowledge begging to be shared.
I thought their moving Stitches West from the Bay Area to Sacramento was a mistake–it was their biggest event–but this was absolutely not an opinion I wanted to be vindicated on.
Surely someone out there will take the sudden business opening and run with it.