Welcome to Fabulous Fibers

This is a Utah County, Utah knitting/crocheting what-have you group that originated in August 2009 as a place to knit when the local yarn store shut for the night at 6. We meet on Thursdays at the Barnes and Noble Cafe in Orem, Utah. Our first night we had between twelve and fifteen people, some coming and going as the night went on. The first meeting was held at the F-Stop Cafe. Due to hour changes, we moved to various other locations (including one week at the Wells Fargo Building in Provo, and about two or three weeks at Borders Books and Music in Provo) before settling on the Barnes and Noble Cafe. We have been meeting here since October or November 2009.

At the present, there are 40 members on the e-mailing list and between seven to ten that show up regularly. We are an open group and like people. So long as you are old enough to hold hooks/needles and not get injured doing so, feel free to swing by.

The group is free. For the most part, I figure that materials (bring your own or there are occasionally yarn swaps) and gas cost more than enough and I don't want to deal with whatever tax items would be necessary to charge people for the privilege of doing what they love anyway, so I don't.

Dress is whatever you would feel comfortable in within a bookstore. I've come in sweats and T-shirts or even Sunday clothes depending upon what else I was doing before/after. Frequently, members (what we call anyone who comes more than once or is on the e-mail list) come in jeans, skirts, or dress slacks. Feel free to be comfy.

If you need or want food, that's why we're in the cafe, in part. Good lighting, decently-comfortable chairs for the two hours or so that we're there each week, move-able furniture to scale up to however many chairs we need, open till 10PM, and free. If there were a better location, we would consider it, but this suits the needs of the group for the present.

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