Tours by Vogue Knitting!

Welcome to Tours by Vogue Knitting! We are delighted to offer specialized one of a kind tours for knitters with a passion to travel. Our tours allow you to experience travel with the added benefits of workshops, guest speakers, specialty yarn shopping experiences and excursions to textile manufactures, mills and so much more. Our inspiring trips give you the opportunity to work on your craft alongside some of the most sought after knitting instructors while traveling to amazing destination around the world. Knit your way through your travels and make new friends along the way.

Featured Tours: Limited Space so Book Early

Knit your way through Norway – 8 nights: April 16 – 24, 2021 – accepting reservations
Cruise to Canada and New England – 7 nights: postponed until late summer 2021
Knitting thru India – postponed until late 2021, tour will be posted soon

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Special Highlights Include

Exclusive Knitting Classes with Master Knitters of the local regions
VIP Access to Many Historical Sights
Authentic One of a Kind Dining Experiences
Exclusive Shopping Excursions
Guided Tours to Knitting, Textile and Needle Manufactories, Sheep Farms & Knitting Schools

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Featured Trips

Canada and New England

Late Summer 2021, reservations opening soon

KNITTER HIGHLIGHTS

Attend port-side Q&A panel with Andrea Mowry, Mary Jane Mucklestone and Bristol Ivy

Mingle with designers Brandi Harper and Franklin Habit and attend their specialty knitting classes on board

Portland

Enjoy the museums and art district and stop into Port Fiber for a special Q+A with Andrea Mowry, Mary Jane Mucklestone and Bristol Ivy three renowned local knitters who will share their art insights.

Bar Harbor

Stroll through Acadia National Park, stop into Bee’s Yarn Shop & peruse their specialty selection of yarns or take an excursion to the Good Karma Sheep Farm and tour the mills.

St John – Bay of Fundy

Explore the oldest city market in North America and visit the specialty yarn shop Good Fibrations and purchase some yarn that they have dyed exclusively for our group.

Halifax

Take an excursion to Gaspereau Valley Fibres and L’acadie Winery for a Wool and Wine Tour.

Call or Email to join the waitlist for this trip.

Ancient India

Late summer 2021, reservations opening soon

KNITTER HIGHLIGHTS

With Laura Zander, co-founder & co-owner of Jimmy Beans Wool (della Q, Namaste & Mad|Tosh)

Delhi

Take a class with knitting expert Dr. Shruti Sharma who will share her unique techniques of various patterns and designs, tour the historic Humayun’s Tomb and Qutub Minar a landmark from 1199. Enjoy a knitting session with Dr. Priya Shashank and learn how to make your own stitch markers.

Jaipur

Visit the City Palace Museum, the Printing Workshop, the Blue Pottery workshop, the Knitters Pride knitting needle manufacturer and enjoy a gala dinner celebration. Enjoy a guided yoga session amidst a natural setting, visit a local knitting institute and interact with local experts while participating in a knitting activity, take a turban tying class and take part in a roof top kite flying activity.

Ranthambore

Enjoy a safari drive through Ranthambore National Park and visit the Dastkar Project, an organization that works with traditional artisans in contemporary India.

Agra

Visit the Laxmi Niwas Palace and Agra Fort – a UNESCO World Heritage site, and stop in the local bazaars for spectacular shopping. Visit the Apna School, a local school where weavers, artisans and knitters will share insight into their local designs that were past down through generations.

Taj Mahal

A sunrise visit to the Taj Mahal and then onto visit Itmad-ud-Duala’s Tomb, situated on the left bank of River Jamuna.

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Nordic Norway

4/16/2021 – 4/24/2021

KNITTER HIGHLIGHTS

Attend knitting workshop with Norwegian knitters Anneli Belsvik Aras and Siri Angela Gamborg

Oslo

Visit the Magic Ice bar and enjoy a cloudberry cocktail while viewing ice sculptures inspired by the paintings of Edvard Munch. Visit the Folk Museum with a guided tour of the knitting and Bundad exhibitions. Join in a Yarn Crawl to the shops throughout Oslo. Tour Heimen Husflid, Oslo’s largest selection of yarn & knitting patterns, enjoy shopping.

Ulvik

Enjoy a private tour of the Stave Church established in 1180. Visit the family run Syse Farm and enjoy a lunch on the farm amongst the sheep and fruit trees.

Cruise

Cruise on the Aurland and Nærøyfjords and ride on the Flåm Railway.

Bergen

Visit two of Norways’ most famous sweater factors, Dale Sweaters and Oleana, enjoy a Be our Guest dinner with a local family on the Øvre Eide Farm. Go on a guided tour and workshop at the Norwegian Knitting Museum. Take part in a workshop on Norwegian hand knitting inspired by traditional patterns.

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Our very special guests include:

Anneli Belsvik Aras

Anneli has a Master’s degree in specialized art (ceramics and print) and a 1-year study of art history. She has a long experience as an arts and crafts teacher at high school level. She designed a shawl for Bergen Knitting festival in 2018, and also works as a curator for the gallery space at the museum.

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www.anneliba.com

Siri Angela Gamborg

Siri has a Bachelor’s degree of music and craft and holds a Master’s degree in art history. She has worked as teacher for many years.

She is the regular designer of knitting kits for the museum as well as co-author of the museum’s own book of traditional knitting patterns (to be translated to English in 2020).

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Mary Jane Mucklestone

Mary Jane Mucklestone is a knitwear designer and author of 4 books specializing in colorwork knitting. With an extensive background in art and textiles she travels the world to learn traditional knitting techniques.

Mary Jane is a guest speaker at our first port stop in Portland NE on our Cruise to Canada & New England

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Andrea Mowry

Andrea is one of the many who was lucky enough to learn how to knit as a child from her grandma. After leaving her life as a pastry chef to start a family with her husband, her hands found the necessary freedom to begin creating with fiber instead of flour.

Andrea is a guest speaker at our first port stop in Portland NE on our Cruise to Canada & New England

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Bristol Ivy

Bristol Ivy is a knitting designer, teacher, and author from Portland, Maine. Her work has been published with PomPom Magazine, amirisu, Quince & Co., Making Magazine, and her own eponymous pattern line.

Bristol is a guest speaker at our first port stop in Portland NE on our Cruise to Canada & New England

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Laura Zander

Laura Zander is the co-owner of market-leading yarn retailer Jimmy Beans Wool. Laura and her husband, Doug, worked as software engineers during the dot-com era in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Laura is a guest traveling on our trip through India

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Brandi Harper

Brandi is a self-taught knitwear designer specializing in natural handmade goods for all genders. She is all about intricate construction, shaping techniques, and creating classic, wearable pieces with pops of color.

Brandi is teaching an on-board class on the NCL Breakaway cruise

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Franklin Habit

Designer, teacher, writer, and illustrator Franklin Habit is the author of I Dream of Yarn (Sixth&Spring Books), It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and proprietor of The Panopticon (the-panopticon.blogspot.com), one of the most popular knitting blogs on the Internet. On an average day, upward of 2,500 readers worldwide drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons, and the continuing adventures of Dolores the Sheep.

Franklin is teaching an on-board class on the NCL Breakaway cruise

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Dr Priya Shashank

Dr. Priya Shashank is a physician and an IBCLC by profession, working with new parents, helping to empower them to breastfeed. She is passionate about knitting and crochet and has 30 years of experience practicing and teaching the crafts. She is associated with prestigious yarn and knitting needle making companies and works with them as a knitting and social media expert.

Dr. Priya Shashank is one of the guest knitters teaching a class on the India tour

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Dr Shruti Sharma

Dr Shruti Sharma, a practicing Sr Ophthalmologist in Delhi. Learnt knitting in class 2 and learnt crochet in class 7. It was just basics. Life had been hectic till I was on family way, and then I picked up knitting needles, and a close family friend introduced me to written patterns – in English. All I knew was knit and purl.

Dr. Priya Shashank is one of the guest knitters teaching a class on the India tour

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*as new dates and tours become available, instructors may change