🧶 The Official Pre-Crawl Make-A-Long
for the 2026 Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl

The Sugar Pine Shawl by Alexandra Frankel 

The Bridgeway Shawl by Rachel Black

Grab your project, snap a few photos, and lace up your boots—or your coziest camp slippers—for a pre-crawl make-a-long filled with yarn, scenery, and a spirit of adventure. Whether you are stitching with friends, working in a few rows at a roadside stop, casting on from a mountaintop, crocheting on a boat deck, or crafting from a faraway corner of the globe, you're part of the adventure.

All patterns will be available for purchase on Ravelry beginning June 1, 2026.

Knit Pattern: Sugar Pine, a shawl by Alexandra Frankel

Crochet Pattern: Bridgeway Shawl by Rachel Black of Blackbird Mountain Designs

Available in Fingering and DK weight versions.

Let's stitch the world together, one adventurous photo at a time!


By sharing photos in the gallery, you give us permission to use them to help promote the Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl.

Show us your progress!

Bring your project along, snap photos wherever you stitch, and share them in our Guestpix community gallery by scanning the QR code or clicking here.

In each caption, include your name, which project you're making, and where the photo was taken. Photos may be uploaded June 14 through September 12, 2026.


Monthly Zoom Meetups 

Join SNYC's live Pre-Crawl MAL Zoom Meetup once a month and stitch with us! 

June 14
2pm–3:30pm PST
Cast on together! 

July 12
2pm–3:30pm PST
Share your progress! 

August 16
2pm–3:30pmPST
Show & Tell (finished or not!) 


Prize Categories 

Group Awards

  • Largest group stitching together 

  • Most group adventures joined 

Individual Awards

  • Most adventurous locations shared 

  • Highest elevation reached (include elevation in caption) 

  • Lowest elevation reached (include elevation in caption) 

  • Wildest stitching spot 

  • Most relaxing location 

  • Most miles traveled (include miles in caption) 

  • Most far-flung destination 

  • Most obstacles overcome (explain in caption) 

2024 MAL pattern is still available.

2024 MAL is still available.