Handcrafted in the Hills is coming!!

We have been busy little sheep here at the shop.

We have been putting together a Fiber Retreat weekend for you!

We have had a generous invitation by Mark at Sunrise Guest Ranch in Edgemont, SD to see his organically raised sheep and witness a spring shearing! So to make this an acceptable outing, we decided to make a weekend of it, offering classes and spending the night(s) at his GORGEOUS ranch!

(Yes.. that is a Ram standing on the porch. He likes to participate, in everything-- including our tour.)

This is the Guest Ranch Lodge. There are plenty rooms for us to stay in, a HUGE kitchen, and more sheep than we know what to do with. See...
There is a Spinning Wheel in the background there.. He and his Wife are just waiting for us to come, spin, and enjoy his fiber!

Mark's major shearing will be in April,
but he promised to keep a few of the nicest for us to see and feel, still on the sheep. He will shear them for our retreat. Prior sheared Fleeces will be available for purchase when we arrive.

The bonus is that May is the middle of

the normal lambing season. Mark is planning a wagon ride for us to
see some of the new baby lambs.

Handcrafted in the Hills: a Fiber Weekend will take place at Sunrise Guest Ranch in Edgemont, SD on May 13-15.

Early Registration is open now.

The weekend begins at 4pm on Friday to get you settled in your rooms and get to knitting, crocheting, and
spinning as soon as possible!

Classes offered all day Saturday

• Dartmore dying
• Needle Felting
• Tunisian Crochet
• Colorwork (what kind TBD)

no knit night tonight

i'm feeling lousy and the weather looks cruddy as well... please stay home and stay warm!

so... what's the plan?

Over the next few months i'm hoping to add spinning wheels... I'm still considering what is the best brand to add, and am doing a bit of research and contacting companies. 

We'll have new yarn in for spring in February.  can't wait.  so....what's on your needles?

adieu and good luck

i am tempted to type lots of trite "all good things come to an end" kind of comments, but i'll try to restrain myself. :-)

for those of you who have been with C. R. Yarn from the beginning, you know that it has been a partnership. that Candis and I decided to open this shop together, and we were going to run it together as well. In September after lots of planning Candis moved to Eugene OR. after lots of thinking on both our parts we decided to part ways. i am in the process of buying Candis out of her share of the business and the shop will be just mine then, i suppose.

i will miss candis's company and advice and number genius. I hope that her move takes her the places that she wants to go. so, adieu and good luck!

tomorrow--what's next for the shop!

New Yarn and more

If you haven't been into the shop lately, you're missing out.

we've new yarn--from lovely self-striping to big and bulky--we're expanding.

the scarf knitting project is coming along well. we still need about 20 scarves so, if you've got time, consider coming in, i'll give you yarn for a scarf. SHHHHH don't tell :-)

One woman's trash is another woman's STASH!

come on down to knit night tonight... bring all that unwanted/unloved yarn that hangs out in the bottom of your stash. you may think it's trash... hopefully someone else will want it in their STASH! see you at 7pm.

Happy November

I hope this finds all of you warm and healthy! It's been an interesting and busy Sept. and Oct. Amanda has moved to Vermillion to attend colllege and I've hired Katy to help out a few hours each month. She's marvelous and comes with some amazing skills that i can't wait for her to share with all of you!

During Nov. starting this Sat. we will be starting to have a knitting cohort again--this group will meet from 2:30-4:00pm. cost of the cohort is $25.00/month and includes knitting/crochet support if you need it. This won't substitute for beginning to knit/crochet classes, but if you have a project you'd like to work on, this is the perfect group for you. Either Katy or I will be on hand to help out and offer all the support in terms of how to with a project that we can, from selecting the right yarn to blocking!

November also bring Thanksgiving and Black Friday! We'll be opening at 8am on Nov. 26 and there will be specials all day long as well as a drawing at the end of the day for a gift certificate and several skeins of yarn. Come in Nov. 26, to register! also, get your name in the drawing an additional time for each $25.00 spent in from Nov. 3-Nov. 26!

From 8am-9am on Nov. 26 get 25% off all purchases*
From 9am-10am get 15% off all purchases*
From 10-12pm get 10% off all purchases*
From 12-2 buy any 3 items and get a grab bag item free
From 2-5 buy any 3 items get a stitch marker free

Additionally, all day long get a free hat or felted bag pattern if you purchase LanaLoft yarn to make it! (hat requires two skeins, felted bag requires 3)

*excludes handspun and other consignment items

happy knitting--
Rita, Katy & Amanda