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Nine days until Halloween! Hello Yarnies541 community and happy mid-fall, we’re solidly in the “Ber” months. The Member-Maker page is up on the Yarnies541.org website. Paid-Tier members: if you have a craft related business, let us know and we’ll list it on the member-maker page. You can email Yarnies541@gmail.com with any questions.

The club has been discussing a “helping hands” community building idea that we were introduced to by our friends at UnWind: a craft lounge located in Klamath Falls. They have a few folks that come to the shop during sit & stitch once a week and offer some assistance to other crafters with questions or not-too-complicated project issues. Think “I don’t know what this word means in my pattern”, or “can you help me understand this bind off”. This is friendly craft attention and simple help, NOT a class or in-depth “how to”. It’s meant to be what many of us would naturally do with each other when we’re confused with the craft and allows folks who may not be as embedded in our community feel like they can approach and learn, connect, etc. Taylor has made a sign up through this link if you are interested in being a Yarnies541 helping hand during specific sit & stitches at both shops. A great way to support and continue to build our craft community. Link for sign up here: Yarnies541 helping hand sign up link

Keep reading for upcoming events and things to look forward to:

Saturday, October 25th: Ewethful Fiber Farm is hosting an open mill shop day from 11am-3pm. Ewethful Fiber Mill Shop is located at 891 W. 1st in Halsey. Worth the short drive out there!

Did you know that October 25th is Malabrigo Day? What?!? This is a celebration of 20 years of Malabrigo Yarn. Malabrigo is a family owned business featuring incredible hand dyed yarn in a multitude of wonderful bases and at a great price point coming to us from Uruguay and Peru. On October 25th both local yarn stores are hosting Malabrigo yarn tastings: Stringfield Yarn Collective (11-2) and Cozy (2-4) so you can get your hands on some of this scrumptious yarn. And they have some new bases as well that we are excited about! There will be giveaways, raffle prizes, and more! If you show up ion your own Malabrigo creation you will get extra entries into the raffles! Find Cozy and Stringfield Yarn Collective on facebook and instagram where they will be posting more about Malabrigo Day events!

Paid-tier Member event this weekend! Yarnies541 is celebrating our Business Birthday Yarnie-versary in a few days! Paid-tier members: mark your calendars for October 26th 5:30 pm at Roaring Rapids Pizza Parlor. Pizza and cake provided. We’ll be celebrating what we’ve built so far and having a stitch marker swap! Like a trick or treat for stitchers! So bring a handful of stitch markers to share, or make some DIY. 30-40 stitch markers will be plenty.

Yarnies541 Holiday Gift Bingo to support our local food bank Food for Lane County is back again and will drop on November 1st! Expect an announcement via newsletter, website, socials, and discord when it drops. With every Bingo earned on your gift making and seasonal enjoyment journey earns you a chance to win some awesome gift baskets! Sliding scale donation starts at five dollars and up to however much you want to give.  This year 100% of the proceeds after processing fees will go to Food for Lane County. Learn more about them here: https://www.foodforlanecounty.org and Stay Tuned!

Monday, November 3rd at 7pm is the crafter’s movie night at the Eugene Art House!  Crafter’s movie nights mean the lights stay low, but not off so we are able to see our work and can craft away while we watch the show! This month’s feature will be the David Cronenburg body-horror flick “VideoDrome”, rated R. Link to purchase tickets here: Crafter’s movie night link

Saturday, November 8th is the community craft swap at the Springfield Public Library (Yay Libraries!) learn more here: https://springfield-or.libcal.com/event/15287236?hs=a

November 14-16th is the Sacred Sheep marketplace and maker event in Portland. Tickets for Saturday 2pm entry and Sunday 10am and Noon entry still available. Learn more at www.thesacredsheep.com

Trunk shows are getting scheduled! Paid-tier members, be on the lookout for emails with details for early sneak peek shopping and meet & greets with the dyers!

Saturday, November 8th Stringfield is hosting Shaggy Bear Farms trunk show from 9-4. A local farm located in Scio Oregon and specializing in rare, endangered and lesser-known fiber animals. Shaggy Bear has some of the softest bases and in some extraordinary colors and unusual bases. They will also be bringing fleece roving too! This is a trunk show worth seeing!

November 29th from 9-4 JadaWoo Designs will be a featured trunk show at Stringfield for Small Business Saturday.  A Tacoma, Washington based dyer, JadaWoo Designs has a deep love for craft and a desire to welcome and encourage everyone at the table to create beautiful things and experience the joy of making. 

Thank you for reading until the end! The ‘ber months are always jam-packed with info!

As always, Thank you for building this great community! Please consider supporting our local businesses that support our club: cozy-yarn.com and stringfieldyarncollective.com as well as ebbandflowboutique.com and www.alwaysbekindyarn.com

Please check out our calendar on the main page of the website www.Yarnies541.org for recurring events. And please, as always, email or comment about events we may have missed! Or post them on the Yarnies541 Discord: Yarnies541 discord link