Wynona Studios

The 2013 Rose City Yarn Crawl is coming up this week! There is a lot more information on the website about how it works, which shops are particpating, and an events schedule to plan out your route: www.rosecityyarncrawl.com. There are two raffle baskets plus a $20 gift card to Wynona Studios that you can enter to win by simply showing up at the shop and filling out a raffle ticket. We also have two patterns (one knit and one crochet) available for free with ANY purchase. Get your passport (available on the Rose City Yarn Crawl website) stamped at all of the 18 participating shops to be entered to win one of the three grand prizes baskets as well!

We have a full scheduled planned, please note our expanded hours for the crawl:

Thursday, February 28th
9am – Open – Free skein of recycled cashmere to the first 10 people in the door!
9am-4pm Trunk Show – Three Fates Yarn
5:30pm-7pm – Free Knit Night – Anyone welcome!
7pm – close

Friday, March 1st
9am – Open – Free skein of recycled cashmere to the first 10 people in the door!
9am-7pm – Spin In – Free event, bring your wheel or spindle and come spin for a while!
9am-1pm Trunk Show – Spinner’s Candy Fiber
1pm-6pm Trunk Show – Olympic Spinning Wheels
7pm- close

Saturday, March 2nd
9am – Open – Free skein of recycled cashmere to the first 10 people in the door!
noon-4pm Trunk Show – Blissful Knits
4pm-7pm Trunk Show – Leethal Knits
7pm – close

Sunday, March 3rd
10am – Open – Free skein of recycled cashmere to the first 10 people in the door!
10am-6pm Trunk Show – Art by Eve yarns
5:30pm-6pm only! Free mini skein to anyone turning in a completed passport!
6pm – close

Our friendly downtown Oregon City neighbors have gotten in on the act and are offering some special deals for those on the Rose City Yarn Crawl as well. El Compadre Mexican restaurant will be offering a grab and crawl lunch to go special (they are just a few doors down from us!). Wrightberry’s Cakes and Cupcakes will once again be offering a special on their delicious cupcakes to crawlers. Bush’s Fine Furniture is offering a sale on comfy knitting chairs if you are in the market for one. And last, but not least, Lucky Supreme Tattoo is offering knitting and crochet themed tattoos starting at $30 each. (If you get a tattoo, you absolutely have to come show it off to us though!)

We are pleased to announce a new free knitting group…for the younger knitters! It starts this Sunday the 11th and will be from 2pm-3pm (and every second Sunday from now on). We are inviting young knitters ages 7-14 to join us for a fun knitting group to practice their knitting, crocheting or spinning. This is a free event and everyone is welcome, Moms  (and Dads) too! Bring your project and come join us for some fun!

Sunday November 11th from 2pm-3pm….Free event!

Sara has done an awesome job of redoing our website to be easier to load, easier to read and easier to use! Thank you! In particular, the classes page has been redone to make it easier to find and purchase space in our classes.

To celebrate we are offering a Chair Punchcard (a $35 value) with every Technique or Project Class that you sign up for on the website! We have lots available, and you can find them under the Classes tab above. The pdf has all of the classes listed through December and you can find one that works for you. You will receive your Chair Punchcard at your first class. The Chair Punchcard is good for 10 visits to the shop over a three month period to sit in the comfy chairs, use the Reference Library and visit with others.

This offer is good through August 11th, is only valid for classes purchased on the website, and there is a limit of one Chair Punchcard per person.

Tomorrow is the second Saturday in the City from 4pm-7pm and we would love to have you join us! We will have some of our friends and artists out front, including Charlene with her yarn bowls, Gwen with her jewelry, Tara with her watercolors and a few more friends as well! There will be other artists at You Can Leave Your Hat On, a Mozzarella making class at Bridgeview Beer and Wine Supply, happy hour specials at Cypress and lots more! Please come support your local downtown businesses!

Wednesday, July 18th at 6:30pm is the next installment of our Wednesdays at Wynona’s series with Anne Berk. I have been looking forward to this one since we started planning these…Work Out Knits to Get Fit-modifying pattern to fit and flatter you body style. Bring your current project, enjoy a glass of wine and something to nibble on as we listen to Anne explain it all to us. We do ask for an RSVP so we have enough chairs and wine for everyone. The cost is $12 per person and we start at 6:30pm.

We are also in the process of revamping our website, especially the classes page. We are hoping to make it more streamlined and easy for people to sign up for classes on line. We would love your feedback if you have any.

Come enjoy our A/C and knit and catch up for a little while! We would love to see you!

We will be hosting Raya from Blissful Knits and her stunningly beautiful hand-dyed yarns as well as Lindy from Knittique with her fun and very unique yarns for trunk shows here in the shop. We will also be hosting various familiar artists outside, including our beloved Ruth from Owl and Acorn Soaps, the always fun Gwen from Lubun Bay Jewelry, the very entertaining Charlene from Cheeky Ewe with her yarn bowls and more!

Please join us Saturday, June 9th from 4pm-7pm! And check out what the other area businesses are doing…including homemade root beer classes for only $5, Happy Hour at Cypress and MiFamiglia, the Opie band at Willamette Valley Books and Bullion/Seven Seas Canvas/Stryker’s Main Street Arcade, and lots more!

Saturdays in the City

We are having a party tonight! Saturday, June 2nd from 5pm-8pm. We are calling it a Stimulus Party….we will stimulate your senses with champagne and strawberries and you can help stimulate us by shopping our hourly specials! We will different items on sale every hour for you to shop. Also…..we will be having a raffle for a sweaters worth of cashmere yarn, you get a raffle ticket for every $10 spent. Plus, if you spend $50 or more you will receive your choice of a skein of yarn from our basket, PLUS if you spend $100 or more you will also receive a free chair punchcard.  Charlene from Cheeky Ewe will be here for a trunk show with her yarn bowls as well.

We were realizing the other day that there are quite a few people that we have not seen recently, mostly due to the construction downtown, so we decided to throw a party to hopefully lure some of you in! We miss you! Hope to see you tonight!

Colorful and whimsical yarn bowls from the Cheeky Ewe at Wynona Studios in Oregon City

We will be closed Saturday-Tuesday May 26th-29th for the Memorial Day holiday. Please plan your yarn/fiber/button/needle/stitch marker/shawl pin/needs accordingly!

The first Wednesdays at Wynona’s was a big success and we learned a lot, had some fun, drank a little wine and nibbled on some goodies. Anne did an amazing job to covering a huge topic in an orderly and thorough way. We learned about washing and blocking, including care instructions in your handknit gifts, and storing your items for the summer.

This week we are getting ready for our second one…this time it is Fun Knitting Facts/History-Trivia Night! Anne will tell us about all kinds of cool knitting facts, educate us a little on the history of hand knitting, and ask some questions to see if we know the answers! Even if you are not a knitter, but love history and trivia, this is a great one to come to. Anne has written articles on the history of knitting for Piecework magazine and knows what she is talking about, but is also a very entertaining speaker.

Please remember to RSVP, either by clicking on the classes tab above and registering for the class, giving us a call at 503-974-9193 (you can even leave a message after hours on the machine), sending an email, or stopping by. It is so helpful if we know how many chairs to set up and make sure we have enough wine and snacks for everyone. The cost is $12/per person and the evening starts at 6:30pm and ends around 8:30pm.

We hope to see you there!

As you might have guessed from our total emphasis on local and recycled yarn and fiber, one of our favorite holidays is Earth Day, Sunday April 22nd!

This year to celebrate we have three classes (all with spots still available in them!). First there is Deconstructing a Sweater with me (JJ Foster), where you will learn to take an unloved sweater from your closet or the thrift store and turn it back into yarn to use for a new project. This class starts at 10:00am, is $35 and includes the sweater to take apart. Second there is Felted Dryer balls with Ruth Beck where you will learn to turn raw fiber (from her family’s sheep farm here in Oregon City) into a ball you can throw into the dryer to help get your clothes dry faster, so you can use less energy. This class starts at 10:30am, is $35 and also includes all supplies. And last but not least we have Mason Jar Cozies with the always entertaining Arminda Barnes, where you will learn to take recycled yarn and turn it into a cozy for a mason jar that will allow you to use it to transport hot beverages or simply to decorate those jars of homemade jam you give for the holidays. Arminda will show you how to use the magic loop technique to work in the round and when you are done with your cozy you will be able to dye it with Kool Aid to make it totally unique. This class starts at 1pm and is $35 with all supplies excpet the knitting needles included.

Additionally, we will have our recycled yarn on sale for 25% off! If you have not had a chance to try recycled yarn yet, this is a great chance to give it a whirl!

We are very excited about our new series…Wednesdays at Wynona’s with Anne Berk! Join us on the third Wednesday of the month to listen to Anne Berk, a Master Knitter, talk about a different subject each month that relates to knitting and crocheting. Bring your current project, sip a glass of wine and nibble on a little something while she educates us and then leads a short discussion on the topic. These should be a lot of fun and we would love to have you join us.

We do ask that you RSVP so we can make sure to have enough chairs, wine and nibbles for everyone. The evenings start at 6:30pm and cost $12 per person. The dates and topics are as follows:

April 18: Block Party-Care and keeping of hand knits
May 16: Fun Knitting Facts-Trivia night
June 13: Everyone’s a Critic-Reading patterns critically
July 18: Work Out Knits to Get Fit-Modifying pattersn to flatter your shape
August 15: Stump Anne-Bring your questions and we’ll answer them

You can sign up here on the website, under the classes tab, by stopping by the shop or giving us a call at 503-974-9193. See you there!