Details for Handcrafted in the Hills

Details:

Dates:  May 13-15
Friday evening registration and fiber circle starts at 4 pm
Location: Sunrise Guest Ranch in Edgemont SD
Cost:  Early Registration by 4/30/11--$125.00
          Tuition (due at the door)--$150.00
          Offsite Stay (food and classes)--$90.00
          Saturday Date Rate (classes and lunch)--$50.00
          Catered Dinner (Saturday evening) by Sunrise Ranch Meats--$10.00

Classes that are currently planned:
--Dartmore Dyeing (or perhaps a different dye workshop still to be determined)
--Needle Felting
--Tunisia Crochet
--Colorwork
--Beginning Knit & Crochet (offered as needed)

Payment can be made by credit card through the shop at 605-791-KNIT (5648) or you may pay through paypal, bu there is no early registration discount for this (email for an invoice if this is your preference to cryarn (at) midconetwork.com)

evenings will include a fiber circle for everyone to hang out and learn more about spinning and knitting and crochet (or whatever).  If there is call for a beginning wheel spinning class one may be added with enough requests.

There will of course be sheep and lambs and shearing.  the B&B also has trailride options and is located in a lovely area that is well worth exploring.

Squee!!! Wheels are here!

Just in time for the Fiber Retreat, our Louet Wheels have arrived!


Meet Victoria:

Weight: 8lbs.
Length: 23 ins.

"Born on" March 10, 2011!

Comes with her own Baby Carrier and toy!

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 :-)