We saw this on Crafty Stylish Blog and has to post! Green Upgrader blogged about the design studios of Greetje van Tiem and her “Indruk” project. She could spin 20yds of yarn from a sheet of old newspaper. Their tutorial is nicely detailed. What a great way to use your spindle, some newspaper and a whole lot of eco sense!
Thank you so much to all the people who came out to the Urban Fauna Studio opening! We are so grateful to have such a wonderful bunch of fiber lovers in the SF Bay Area! We appreciate your patience and enthusiasm during the beginning of the day. Our computer quirks are worked out and we thank you for hanging in there with us! You can see more pictures on our Flickr Set.
Congrats to the Gift Basket Winner Jessica Berglund! You will be getting a wonderful gift basket of goodies donated by Craftzine, Maryjane’s Attic and Margaret Crossland.
We know everyone is excited about workshops and studio time. We’re going to start adding events this weekend so check the Calender Page starting next week for specific classes and studio time. The mini looms were very popular! We sold out of ALL by Monday. More are on their way! For all those new loom owners, we hope you’ll join Karrie W. from Girl On The Rocks in her upcoming Mini Loom class. What a great way to use your extra bits of yarn and precious hand spun.
Saturday
11 AM Mini Loom Demo
Visit with UFS instructor Karrie, from Girl on the Rocks. Karrie will be demoing the fun uses and quick ease of our Hazel Rose Mini Looms. These looms are a great portable project and come with almost instant satisfaction!
2pm - Spinning Demo
Watch Lynn Li of Red Sheep Crafts demo spinning on one of our most ancient textile tools….the drop spindle! We will demo using the beautiful handmade spindles from Greensleeves Spindles.
Sunday
11 AM Needle Felting Make and Take
Come make a simple bead from wool and felting needles! See examples of the endless forms and shapes you can create with this versatile raw fiber.
2 PM Wool Pom Pom Make and Take
photo from Clover.
Try out the fun Clover Pom Pom Maker! Make fuzzy pom poms from wool roving using this easy tool.
We hope to see you this weekend!
Urban Fauna Studio
Fiber Boutique & Craft Studio
1311 16th Avenue (cross street Irving)
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-664-1267
F-M 10-6:30pm and By Appt.
Susan Beal...the awesome gal behind the popular West Coast Crafty Blog, did a great write up about the shop on Crafty Stylish! Thank you Susan 
Nancy Flynn, one of my favorite crafty gals did a blog post about us. Thank you Nancy! Be sure to catch her on Get Crafty where all the craftistas hang out.
Be on the watch out for my Indie Craft Gossip blog. I’ll be posting a great giveaway plus discount for our store. Only for Craft Gossip Readers!
Patterns from the awesome Sublime Stitching company. They gave us four fun patterns…which one will you get?
O-Wool Mini Skeins from Vermont Organics. I skeined them up myself and this wool is super soft and bouncy with such great colors. Use your samples for trim or accent to a project. Or just cuddle it!
Knitting Daily Tape Measures from Interweave Press . Join their forums for lots of cool fiber arts ideas and discussions.
Handmade stitchmarkers from Girl On The Rocks. Karrie did an awesome job. What better way to keep track of stitches than with our cute quail family following you along!
All these and a few more fun donations will be in your goodie bags for the *first 75 customers! And don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list for your 15% coupon, which will be sent out tomorrow 12 noon!
Check out our Flickr Gallery for more pictures of our giveaways!
*First 75 customers to spend $10 or more.
We gocco-ed all the goodie bags with the Urban Fauna Logo. Looking forward to passing them out (filled with goodies of course) to the first 75 customers this weekend!
Snag this free teapot cozy knitting pattern next weekend. The first 75 paying customers will get a paper copy of this cute bunny tea pot cozy that Lynn of Red Sheep made exclusively for Urban Fauna Studio!
Our brick and mortar store, Urban Fauna Studio (UFS) is opening next weekend on August 30th 2008. We have lots of cool things to celebrate the opening:
- Demos from our instructors. We will have demos for Needle Felting, Weaving on Mini Looms, Spinning and Pom Pom Making.
- Goodie bags filled with samples and treats for the first 75 paying customers! Our generous donors include: Interweave Press, Sublime Stitching, Vermont Organic Yarn Company, Monkey Sock Monkey, Red Sheep (an exclusive Knitting Pattern was written for UFS), Fishcakes, Artgirlz, Girl on The Rocks and more!*
- A Gift Basket Raffle.
- Free cupcakes and treats for all 0ur visitors.
- Free 15% off coupon to all our mailing list subscribers. Subscribe Today for your chance to save during our opening!
We hope to see you at the shop….
Urban Fauna Studio
Fiber Boutique & Craft Studio
1311 16th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-664-1267
* $10 minimum purchase
