“It’s a very community-based event,” said Kristen Couchot, who has been running the crawl since 2014, and in 2018 launched the Brooklyn Yarn Crawl . To her knowledge, the NYC Crawl is the country's second-biggest yarn crawl, topped only by Portland, Oregon’s. Next weekend, though, should be a bright spot: Friday through Sunday is the NYC Yarn Crawl , a reliably blockbuster day for Brooklyn and Manhattan’s myriad yarn sellers, when lovers of the craft will make their way to exclusive offers and events at 10 shops throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. New York City yarn shop owners report that the fiber arts — such as knitting, weaving and in particular crocheting — are having a moment. It serves as an accessible, practical, creative outlet and offers a sustainable way to engage with fashion, noted Carolyn Heitmann, owner of Greenpoint’s Brooklyn Craft Company, yet another crawl stop.