Purchasing Classes in Advance

On your right side over there>>>>>>>>>>>>
you should see some paypal buttons to purchase classes for HandCrafted.

A couple of things--sign up for a class and you get into the festival for free. so, if you buy a class, don't buy the entrance fee.

When you purchase a class, put the title of the class that you want to take in the notes of the purchase. Classes will be filled on a first come first served basis. there are 6 spots in each class, and if a class becomes full we'll post it here so you'll know, and if you try to sign up for a class that's full we'll refund your money.

We expect classes to fill up very quickly. you'll want to sign up quickly to get the classes you want!

OOPS! Updated HandCrafted Class Schedule

Seems like I don't know my days from my nights!! Also, we added two new classes: Color Blending and Navajo Plying.

CLASS SCHEDULE

Saturday April 27
9am-11am Beginning Knitting (2 hr) Classroom A (4 spots left)
11am-1pm Wacky Warping (2 hr) Classroom A (1 spots left)
1pm-2pm Toe Up Sock Toes (first half of class) (1 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)
1pm-3pm  Spindle Spinning (2 hr) Classroom B (6 spots left)
2pm-4pm Beginning Crochet (2 hr)Classroom B (5 spots left)
3pm-5pm Beginning Wheel Spinning (2 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)

Sunday Arpril 28
10am-12pm 3D Needle Felting (2 hr) Classroom A (5 spots left)
10am-12pm Hat Recipe (2 hr) Classroom B (6 spots left)

12pm-2pm  Blending Board (2 hr) Classroom A (4 spots left)
12pm-1pm Toe Up Sock Heels (1 hr)Classroom B (second half of sock class)
1pm-3pm Rigid Heddle Weaving- (2 hr) Classroom B (FULL)
2pm-4pm Rug Hooking (2 hr) Classroom A (6 spots left)

3pm-4pm Navajo Plying (1 hr) (6 spots left)

Sue

Hand Crafted in the hills and Crafted in Rapid ROCK!

Well, we are zipping along with schedules and it looks like our Fiber Festival is really going to ROCK! We have the Hand Crafted in the hills Schedule and Class Schedule ready for you. Here it is:

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday

3pm-6pm—Vendor set up &check in

6pm—check in

7pm—One knitter’s Trash is another Knitter’s Stash

8:30pm—Fashion/unTalent show

Saturday

7am—late vendor set up

8:30am—check in

9am—classes begin (refer to class schedule please)

            MarketPlace opens

            Fiber circle opens

            Installation art piece yarn hand out

            Fiber collection begins

5pm—MarketPlace closes

            Classes end

Dinner on your own!

7pm—Raveling and unRaveling!

Sunday

10am—MarketPlace opens

              Classes begin

              Installation art piece needle felting fun!

              Fiber Collection/Drum carder demo

              Fiber circle opens

4pm—classes end

            Last minute purchases

5pm—MarketPlace closes

5:01: start planning for next year!

5-8pm Vendor take down

CLASS SCHEDULE

Saturday
9am Beginning Knitting (2 hr)
11am Wacky Warping (2 hr)
1pm Toe Up Sock Toes (1 hr)
2pm Beginning Crochet (2 hr)
2pm Beginning Wheel Spinning (2 hr)
4pm Spindle Spinning (2 hr)

Sunday
10pm 3D Needle Felting (2 hr)
10pm Hat Recipe (2 hr)
12pm Toe Up Sock Heels (1 hr)
1pm Rigid Heddle Weaving (2 hr)
3pm Rug Hooking (2 hr)

 The entrance fee for the Festival will be $5 and you will receive a goody bag full of fun things. Our vendors have been very generous to donate items for the goody bags and for the Door Prizes. We will post our Vendor List as soon as we have it completed. Tell everyone you know about the Festival, it is going to be so MUCH fun!

CRAFTED IN RAPID our consignment area of c r yarn is filling up with the most WONDERFUL items for sale. All items in our booths are hand-crafted from various materials. There are no two vendors alike and their merchandise is awesome. There are 3 vendors that come from other states but have ties to the Rapid City area and all the rest of our vendors make their items in Rapid City or real close! Here is the list of Vendors that are in the booths in the back. Not all of them are ready to sell, but their stuff is coming in soon.

Backporch Fiber and Metalworks Studio
Chinook Winds Bison Fiber and Yarn
Eagles Wings Enterprises
Fuzzbee Yarns
Native Life Designs
SageRidge Mill and Critters
Spindlers Cottage
Yarnsanity

So come in and C R yarn and C our Crafts in the back.
 

Long Week

This has been a long week for Rita and Sue. We both had our challenges and crazy moments. We had traveling, company, headaches, heartbreaks and little sleep. BUT, we survived! We are moving along on the Hand Crafted in the hills Fiber Festival preparations. We have a bunch of vendors interested, we have classes forming, exciting FUN things to do together in the evenings planned and we are getting lots of interest from people. This is going to be so much fun!

And the Crafted in Rapid booths are coming along quite nicely too. We hope to have everyone in their booths and set up to sell by March 1, which is Friday already! We have such a wonderful list of vendors in the Crafted in Rapid booths, they are: Eagles Wings Enterprises, Yarnsanity, Chinook Winds Bison, SageRidge Mill and Critters, Native Life Designs, Backporch Fiber and Metalworks Studio, Spindlers Cottage and Fuzzbee Yarns. It is so nice to see the booths filling up with merchandise, knowing that the people who created these items have done this with their own hands and expertise, bringing age-old crafts to our midst.

Rita is feeling better and will be back in the shop, while Sue has to take a couple of days off for a funeral. Amanda is busily preparing items for the Fiber Festival while all of us are looking forward to seeing you in the shop.

Thank you to our Fiberly Community for shopping with us, sharing our lives and our passion about fiberly, yarny stuff. We appreciate you so much!

Sue

Wow! Technology is a pain!

Well, we have been off and on, mostly off, the internet for several days now. I did not realize how much I use the internet. I have a question in my mind, or I want to see how much something costs, or what it looks like and I am off to the search engine. I communicate with friends on facebook, through email and on blogs but only if I am connected to the internet.

I did more reading and knitting in the last few days than previously. I also went to bed earlier than usual, hmmm wonder if I am addicted to the internet? Ha! not me! I am not addicted to yarn either!

So, with all this non-internet time on my hands I paid more attention to the yarn and fiber in my stash. I found so many lovely yarns that I had hand-spun. Then there were all the unfinished projects lounging around in my multitude of canvas bags (can one have too many canvas bags?) I worked on knitting my mittens before summer and actually finished one. (I already have 3 "pairs" of one mitten each) And I helped my husband get ready to put his jewelry into his booth at Crafted in Rapid. And I worked at the shop.

I am amazed at how much time I spend online and how much I depend on the internet. Maybe I have been entertained by different things for a few days, but I am much happier that I have my connection to the world back.

Speaking of connecting, we now have needlepoint yarns at the shop called Waverly Wool by Brown Sheep. And the craft booths are slowly getting set up in the Crafted in Rapid area of the store. So come in and connect with us and see what we have going on in the back room.

Sue

CRAFTED IN RAPID, a new adventure in hand craftedness

Ah, yes, I am still making up words. My poor mother, who was a High School English Teacher is probably rolling her eyes at me from heaven right now! At least I am not making up math, just words!

We have a new adventure coming up at C R Yarn. We have opened up our back room, which used to be full of stock and other things (too messy to talk about), and are converting it to a vendor booth area. We have all hand crafted items from the Rapid City, SD area, with the exception of Chinook Winds Bison which comes from Bozeman, MT and Fuzzbee Yarns which comes from Minneapolis, MN.

We are so excited about this venture into more hand craftedness (sorry Mom). We will have hand crafted spindles, rovings, batts, yarn, hand woven rugs, metalworks, soaps, lotions, doll patterns, doll clothes (knitted and sewn), Native American jewelry, Silver jewelry, bison blend yarns, handspun yarns and more. We plan on opening as soon as possible, watch facebook and this blog for the actual opening date.

Our desire is to give hand crafters space so that they can share the beautiful items that they make with others. We want a designated place that people can come to and see exactly the workmanship that is put into these items. We love anything hand crafted and are certain that you will too!

You may come into C R Yarn and C the "hole in the wall" aka "door" right now, but the goodies won't be in the booths for a little while longer.

We love our customers and want to give you all something special along with our yarn. Thanks for shopping with us and learning with us, we soooooo appreciate you all.

Shops coming to Crafted in Rapid:

Backporch Fiber and Metalworks Studio
Chinook Winds Bison
Eagle Wings Enterprises
Fuzzbee Yarns
Lance Creek Jewelry
Native Life Designs
Spindlers Cottage
Yarnsanity

January is over and February is NOW.

January I am happy to see you leave! I noticed that the sun wasn't completely finished with the sky tonight until after 5pm. Yay! More light, means Spring isn't too far away. And remember, Spring ALWAYS comes back.

I found these the other day when I let the dog outside in 5 degree temps and thought, poor birdies, wonder if their feet get cold.

Well I won't get cold this February because I have found a new love. I want to cuddle with this love all the time. It is soft, strokeable and colorful. It is YARN! Cascade Heritage Sock Yarn in Paints and Solids have just been delivered by the UPS man. (Did you know that the UPS man is really Santa? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgggyUdVw4) We have some lovely colors and the softness of this yarn is amazing. Merino of course.

And, we also have Cascade 220 Yarn which is Peruvian Highland Wool that knits up knicely and also is feltable. I love making up new words. You will find some lovely colors of both of these "new to our store" yarns.

Cascade Heritage Sock Yarn

Cascade 220 Wool Yarn

Have you ever wanted to add a little color to your knitted item and couldn't find just a "little bit" of yarn to make that embellishment? We have had some requests for little bits of yarn that could be used to crochet a flower, or add a tassel and we have made some up for you. They are 99cents a "skein" which is between 3 and 8 grams of yarn. We even have a lovely book that gives you patterns for such "Oddball Knitting".

Why don't you give up the January blues and come in and C R Yarn? We are open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and have Knit Night on Thursday evenings from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.

Hope to C U Soon!

Sue