Wynona Studios

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!

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!

Today starts the Rose City Yarn Crawl! We have lots of great events planned all weekend but starting today:

Tami from Salon Joie de Vivre next door is here to add a felted wool dread hair extension to your hairdo! I just got mine (lime green of course!) and it is so cute! Its a quick, painless and temporary little celebration of yarn for the weekend. Come get yours, lots of colors available and only $6 each.

We are also having our usual Knit Night tonight from 5:30pm-7pm. Anyone and everyone is welcome, its always free and there is lots of fun to be had. See you there!

Lots of new yarn, stitch markers, shawl pins, jewelry and more! Come check it out!

Coming up in just a couple of days is the Rose City Yarn Crawl! This fun event will include 19 different shops this year and some exciting new features too! You can read all about it on the website www.rosecityyarncrawl.com. Here at Wynona Studios we will have all kinds of fun things going on, starting on Thursday with one of the lovely ladies from next door coming over to add wool dread hair extensions to your ‘do to help you celebrate the yarn crawl all weekend! These are temporary and will only cost $6 each, so come get a few (I want a pink and a turquoise I think!). We will also be having our usual Knit Night Thursday night and if you have been wanting to join us, this is the night to do it! We will be having treats and lots of laughter that evening and hope to see you there. The most exciting part might be each morning, when we give a skein of free recycled cashmere away to the first 10 people in the door each day! All I ask is to have a Barry Manilow ticket line when I open the door (you know, the people that camp out for days in advance….)

We also are please to announce a new series we are starting with Anne Berk, master knitter. On the third Wednesday of the month we will be gathering. We will provide some wine and nibbles, you bring your current project to work on and we will listen to Anne talk about some interesting and educational topics. We will be starting on April 18th with Block Party-The care and keeping of your hand knits. Each evening is only $12 and we would ask you to RSVP so we know how many chairs we need and how many bottles of wine to open!

With both of these fun events, as well as all of the exciting classes (now available on the website to sign up!) we hope to see you soon!

I know I am a little late, but here are my Knitting New Years Resolutions for 2012:

I will finish 12 sweaters in 2012. This include completing the 3 I already have on the needles as well as 9 more. I have a huge list in my queue on Ravelry to choose from, as well as those in already paired up with yarn here at the shop. Now all I have to do is actually knit them!

I will make something with lace, something with cables, something with fair isle, something with intarsia and something with entrelac this year.

And lastly, I will find a better balance between “obligation knitting” and “fun knitting”.

I would also like to teach a class outside of the studio, at a conference, festival or the like about recycling yarn and using recycled yarn. Not really a knitting resolution, but related.

So what are your New Years Knitting Resolutions? What are you planning to knit this year?