Wynona Studios

Portland Yarn Crawl March 4th-6th

The second annual Portland Yarn Crawl is coming up this weekend on Friday March 4th, Saturday March 5th, and Sunday March 6th. We are one of 20 participating yarn stores and are so excited! This is a free event and requires no sign up, you just head to any or all of the participating yarn stores and see what they have going on! Each shop has a raffle basket full (overflowingly full) of goodness. You can enter the raffle at each shop, no purchase neccessary. There is also a scavenger hunt, with each shop having a cowl with a number on it. If you collect all the numbers to match the shops, you can send it in to the crawl organizers to win another prize!  Our cowl was designed by the lovely and talented Tammy Burke and will be available for sale during the weekend for $2, with all profits being donated to the Humane Society. You can find the other shops on the crawl and all of the promotions they are having at www.portlandyarncrawl.com.

Please make sure when you are planning your route that you are taking into account the closure of the Oregon City Arch Bridge. Google maps is still showing it as open. The I-205 bridge is still open and only a mile away, so its easy to work around, but if you have not been here before it could be a little confusing!

We will have extended hours that weekend, open 9am-7pm Friday and Saturday and 9am-6pm on Sunday. This is important to note…as we will be giving away a free skein of cashmere recycled yarn to the first 10 people in the door each day of the crawl! Free cashmere people! Woohoo! There is cream, olive, pumpkin, raspberry, pale pink, coral, lavender, and deep purple cashmere in my basket to choose from. The skeins are all at least 100 yards and some are 300+ yards.  I am expecting a big line, like for a new video game release or Barry Manilow tickets, and will be sorely disappointed if there is not. So bring your camp chair, grab some coffee from Caufield House and form and orderly line. We open at 9am! We will also be having a 25% off sale on all of our recycled yarn!

We will have some special guests in the studio this weekend as well, including Kim Baller and Judy Herndon who are both spinners, and Sharon the lovely dyer from Stitchjones on Sunday. The lovely Wrightberry’s Cupcakes and Custom Cakes has kindly offered a $.25 discount off their regular sized cupcakes to anyone that says they are on the Yarn Crawl, so make sure you stop by and get yours! They are across the street and one block down (past Busch’s Furniture). We are really excited for this weekend and getting the opportunity to show Wynona Studios to all kinds of new people. We hope if you have not been in already that you will take this opportunity to claim some cashmere, enter the raffle, and take a look around. 

Free Cashmere to the first 10 people in the door March 4th, 5th and 6th 2011. Doors open at 9am!