Walk & Knit & Walk & Crochet Challenge Relay!

COME AND SERENADE A SHEEP!

The Walk & Knit and Walk & Crochet Challenge Relay is a favorite of festival goers and was inspired by a similar team-relay race that takes place in Estonia and known there as Käi ja Koo. If you knit or crochet, then join in the fun and put a team together for this fast-paced, walking and knitting – or walking and crocheting - event. OR sign up individually and we can put a team together for you. Proceeds from this event will support youth activities related to wool. But if you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, come and watch as teams take on the challenge of knitting/crocheting while walking and cheer on your favorite team as they weave through the cones, rock in a rocking chair and YES - sing to a sheep!

Over $2000 in prizes donated in 2023 by our amazing Country Store vendors!

RULES:

• Each team will have a single knitting or crocheting project. The yarn ball will be kept in a project bag, hanging on the competitor’s wrist. The bag and project will be handed over from one team member to another at the end of each lap, just as in a relay race.
• Each team member walks one lap about 100 yards long, while knitting in stockinette stitch on circular needles OR crocheting single crochets (sc) with a crochet hook.
• Points will be given to each team based on the number of stitches knit or crocheted (higher number of stitches = more points) and the time to finish the course (faster time = more points), and points will be subtracted for errors (dropped stitches, etc). The team with the most points wins.
• Teams will be composed of four members (at the discretion of the judges, teams with fewer members may participate and individual members may walk more than one lap so that a total of four laps are completed by each team).
• Supplies (yarn, circular needles, hooks, knitting project bags) will be provided by organizers.
• All team members must report to Walk & Knit Way (just south of BUILDING 1) between 3:45-4:15 on Saturday. The event will take place on Walk & Knit Way beginning at 4:30 pm.
• Knitting Teams: Before the start, each team’s knitting project will be prepared, with 100 stitches cast on and the first four rounds knit using circular needles, completed in the “round,” so no going back and forth.
• Crocheting Teams: Before the start, each team’s crocheting project will be prepared, with 51 ch(s) and 50 sc(s) on foundation row and first 4 rows using sport weight yarn and size G hook.
• The race takes place on an asphalt surface. Please wear suitable footwear and be aware that knitting needles and crochet hooks can be hazardous. Participants enter at their own risk and the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival, its volunteers and organizers are not liable for injuries.
• IMPORTANT! Please email Lisa Shuppe ([email protected]) by September 1 if you are forming a team or you are entering as an individual so that the proper number of kits can be prepared. Note if knit or crochet.

Walk-Ins MAY be accepted (but may not be able to be accommodated). Those persons registering as an individual will be assigned to teams by the organizers. No refunds given for cancellations.

Questions? Text/email Lisa Shuppe, [email protected] 262-573-3110.