…I wouldn’t have any appointments.”*
Okay, maybe a touch dramatic, but it’s a great line. And we are disappointed, but you know what, these are weird times, and we are all doing the best we can, and we don’t always know how it will work out. In this case, we thought that offering online classes would be something people might enjoy, and a very small number of you thought so too, but sadly not in the numbers necessary to run 2 days worth of classes.
For those who had registered, we have already sent refunds. It seems some of you got the refunds before the emails letting you know you would get getting refunds, and I am so sorry about the confusion that has caused. To our teachers, thank you for all of your efforts, we can’t wait to work with you in the future.
BUT! The good news is we are still going forward with the Panel Discussion on Diversity and Inclusion in the Fiber World on Friday, April 1 at 6:30pm CDT. Tickets are still available, and if you have questions or thoughts you would like us to cover during the discussion, please leave them in the comments, or email them to info@yarncon.com.
And please keep following us here and on social media, we will be planning at least a little fun on our YarnCon weekend, even if it can’t be in person this year.
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https://www.instagram.com/yarncon/
*From “Snowball in Hell,” by They Might Be Giants.
I thought I was on your mailing list, having attended a number of times over the years. I only got an e-mail two weeks before the event, and promptly signed up for a class.
Please do not blame folks for not signing up in a reasonable time frame for necessary cancellation deadlines and other logistics if you haven’t been reaching out to them.
An apparently overlooked resource for getting out the word is the Windy City Knitting Guild newsletter. Its editor welcomes local news.
I was looking forward to my class (single breed yarns) and learning something distinctive.
I know that you are an effort driven by volunteers, and how challenging that can be, especially during these times, and how sorry we all are that this had to happen. I look forward to a lively event next year and in the meantime will research some of the vendors.
I am very sorry for how late the newsletter went out. We had been promoting it online, and did see a lot of responses to it, but we had technical difficulties with the mailing list program, and we messed that part up.
We need to reach back out to the WCKG, thank you for that reminder.
Thank you for your kind words, it has been a tough couple of years, and we look forward to being able to work with our volunteers to put on a live show again, which is what we do best.
I will be glad when we are back face to face, with or without masks. Some of the best people are yarnies.