A wide variety of experiences awaits you with the many different internships and apprenticeships offered through PiPN.

Host companies include breeders, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, designers, publishers and other professonal consultants and manufacturers of products for the needlearts and crafts industries.  Many of these companies are open to having someone either during the summer or winter.

2011 PiPN Internships

positions as of March 1, 2011

Please note:  Summer 2011 placements are noted.
Those opportunities, as well as the other open positions may be available for fall or winter placements.

Opportunities will be edited and added on a quarterly basis for the remainder of 2011 and 2012.

Acorn Street Shop — Seattle WA TAKEN

Anzula — Fresno CA

BagSmith — Shaker Heights OH

Barbara Bergsten Designs — Hunting Valley OH

Be Sweet, Inc — Sausalito CA TAKEN

Brown Sheep Co. — Mitchell NE: more information to come

Classic Elite Yarns — Lowell MA

Colonial Needle — White Plains NY  TAKEN

Craft Akron — Akron OH  TAKEN

Crooked Fence Alpaca & Mill — Mona UT

Fiber Arts Yarn Shop — Cape May Court House NJ

Gone Stitching — Bergenfield NJ

Helen Hamann — Decatur TN TAKEN

Knitwhits — Emeryville CA TAKEN

Knots – Knitting on the Square — Chardon OH

Kreinik Manufacturing — Parkersburg WV

Lovelyarns — Baltimore MD

Misti Alpaca — Peru TAKEN

Premier Yarns — Concord NC

Send It Home — West Yellowstone MT

SoHo Publishing/Vogue Knitting — New York  NY — 1 position TAKEN

Stitchgrrl/Knitgrrl Studio — Lakewood OH TAKEN

Tanglewood Fiber Creations — St. Helens OR TAKEN

The National NeedleArts Association — Columbus OH TAKEN

The Handwork Studio — 6 positions available in Pennsylvania and DC TAKEN

The Stitcher’s Muse — Nanaimo BC

The Urban Sheep — Modesto CA

The Yarn Shop — Columbus OH

Unicorn Books — Petaluma CA: more information to follow

Universal Yarn — Concord NC

Y2Knit —Funkstown MD and San Francisco CA +remote

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To become a PiPN intern or apprentice, please follow the steps below:

• Download a pdf document with each company’s information and requirements by clicking on their names.
• Consider each placement.
  Is this something you would be interested in doing?
  Do you have the right set of skills and talents to do the job?
  Are you interested in living in this particular area?
  Are you ok with the compensation (housing, pay, stipend, in-kind, etc.)?
  Are you able to be available for the months, times, you will be needed?

• Then, just fill out the intern/apprentice application on this site and press send.

You will receive an email verification, along with a form for your $25 registration fee if appropriate (not required for PiPN Summer Scholar Interns).

You will also be asked, at that time, to email your resume to us.

• Complete the registration fee form, and send it with your check or credit card  information to:
  TNNA at 1100-H Brandywine Blvd., Zanesville OH 43701.
• Email your resume.

Your information will be reviewed, and you will be matched with the host (or hosts) most appropriate for you.

Once matched, your host company will contact you to arrange for an interiew if necessary.  If you are accepted by your host, you will then receive a formal letter of confirmation from PiPN.

At that point, you are free to make final arrangements for your internship directly with your host.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.