International Back to Back Wool Challenge
San Diego County Spinners Record Setters and Record Breakers
For the second year in a row in 2025, San Diego County Spinners earned 1st place beating their 2024 record of 7 hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds by about 4 minutes with a new time of 7 hours, 12 minutes and 5 seconds!
International Back to Back Wool Challenge
The Back to Back wool challenge is an annual event promoting Wool World Wide & Fund Raising for Cancer Research with teams competing internatinoally to shear, spin, and knit a sweater in one day and fundraise for a local cancer research/support nonprofit.
Each team consists of a blade shearer, a country-of-origin sheep and seven hand spinners (with spinning wheels) and knitters who follow the identical challenge rules and pattern to knit the adult size jumper.
Back to Back 2026 in San Diego
This year's event will be held Saturday May 16th in conjunction with the San Diego Craft Collective's Fiber Festival located in Liberty Station beginning with shearing at 9:00 am See https://sandiegocraft.org/fiber-fest/ for more info and to save the date!
The Back to Back includes
Event includes:
- live sheep shearing 9:00 am
- Vendors
- Live timed spinning and knitting of the back to back wool sweater
- Guided practice with a drop spindle, spinning wheels, knitting machines and weaving demos.
If you are interested in being a vendor, please contact our event coordinator
Back to Back as a fundraiser
We are please to announce that the recipient of our fundraiser will be California Colorectal Cancer Coalition (C4).
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