Come in and make Dad a gift for Father's Day! We will provide the tools and materials and your kids can provide the creativity! Button-making, magnets, greeting cards and other paper crafts!

Date/Time: Sunday, June 3, 9:30-11:30am
Cost: $10

No registration necessary; it's a drop-on-in kind of class!

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This means you’ll have an extra week to check out some of the garments from this lovely book, and receive a 10% discount if you purchase it!

Knitwear designers Alana Dakos and Hannah Fettig are two friends living on opposite ends of the United States. They have come together to produce Coastal Knits, a compilation of ten fresh designs inspired by Alana’s California and Hannah’s Maine coastlines.

Each design captures the essence of their favorite local destinations, and is accompanied by photographs and essays on the location’s special meaning to the designer. It is a personal, inspiration-based collection of sweaters and accessories that knitters of all levels will appreciate.

Regularly $22, Coastal Knits will be 10% off both online and in-store during the trunk show.

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Sunday, April 29 from 9:30-12:30

(drop-in anytime)

Bring the kids in to make some really special Mother’s Day gifts! Karie Galvin of Silver Purl will be in the shop for a drop-in fingerprint necklace studio. Come make the mother in your life a gift she will cherish forever – her precious little one’s fingerprint cast into precious metal clay to create a beautiful silver pendant! Our silver clay artist Karie will guide you through the process of making a fingerprint impression. She will then take those molds to her studio and create your pendant with those molds. Your fingerprint jewelry will be ready at the shop for pick up on Saturday May 5th.

Cost: $95 for one print
$170 for 2 prints
$250 for 3 prints
Includes a sterling silver necklace and gift wrap

In addition to these beautiful necklaces, your kids will have the opportunity to make other crafts for mom including: buttons, magnets, pom-poms, and more! For these non-silver-pendant crafts, there is just a $10 materials fee.

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The Coastal Knits Trunk Show is not, unfortunately, scheduled to arrive until Monday. BIG sad face, but it will be fantastic when it gets here, AND the book is still 10% off, starting this morning (Friday, 4/20).

Knitwear designers Alana Dakos and Hannah Fettig are two friends living on opposite ends of the United States. They have come together to produce Coastal Knits, a compilation of ten fresh designs inspired by Alana’s California and Hannah’s Maine coastlines.

Each design captures the essence of their favorite local destinations, and is accompanied by photographs and essays on the location’s special meaning to the designer. It is a personal, inspiration-based collection of sweaters and accessories that knitters of all levels will appreciate.

Regularly $22, Coastal Knits will be 10% off both online and in-store during the trunk show.

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Knitwear designers Alana Dakos and Hannah Fettig are two friends living on opposite ends of the United States. They have come together to produce Coastal Knits, a compilation of ten fresh designs inspired by Alana’s California and Hannah’s Maine coastlines.

Each design captures the essence of their favorite local destinations, and is accompanied by photographs and essays on the location’s special meaning to the designer. It is a personal, inspiration-based collection of sweaters and accessories that knitters of all levels will appreciate.

Regularly $22, Coastal Knits will be 10% off both online and in-store during the trunk show.

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Have you tried handknitting socks, and struggled through the process? Do you have joint pain that prevents you from working with small needles? Do you just want to try something new? Knitting socks on a sock loom is a fun alternative to traditional sock knitting. Using an adjustable sock loom, you’ll learn basic loom-knitting skills, including all the steps needed to create a sock. We’ll knit a top-down baby sock in class, and you’ll have the skills to knit socks of all sizes on your sock loom. We will not be using circular looms, but rectangular adjustable sock looms.

Materials: Materials – either bring your own or before/during class get 20% off on:A skein of sock yarn of your choice (preferably at a called-for gauge of 7 sts/in) and an adjustable, rectangle sock loom. Your loom may come with a recommended yarn weight. If so, please bring the yarn suggested by your loom.

This class is being taught by Parna this Saturday, March 31 from 10-2:30 with a half hour break for lunch.

Call us or come by the shop to register!

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She was among 287 (!) people to visit all 19 shops and submit a completed passport. Wow!

Runners up will be drawn later today from other folks who submitted completed passports. Check out these winners at the Rose City Yarn Crawl website.

Jill H. – Twisted’s Rose City Yarn Crawl basket!

Check out the full list of all the 19 shop’s winners at the Rose City Yarn Crawl website.


In addition, Twisted had 5 extra raffle prizes – one donated by each of our amazing trunk show vendors. The winners of these are:

Kelsey Y. – wins a Star Athena pattern pack

Emily B. – wins a Blue Moon Fiber Arts chicken slipper kit

Congrats to all!

RCYC post-crawl survey!

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An annual Portland experience, the Rose City Yarn Crawl is a four-day event for knitters to explore the many knitting shops in and around Portland. 2012 marks our third year of celebrating Portland as a yarn and knitting destination.

PRIZES / PASSPORTS
Explore all nineteen participating shops and sign up to win a raffle prize basket at each shop. One super special grand prize basket will be drawn from people who have completed their passport by visiting all 19 shops.

SPECIAL PATTERN/DISCOUNT
Each shop will also offer a special pattern free with purchase. Twisted's pattern is a new cowl by Shannon called Cracklin' Rosie. It's worked in Blue Moon Fiber Arts' Luscious Single Silk and we're offering 10% off one skein of this great yarn during the Crawl (in store only)!

EVENTS
At Twisted, we have oodles of fun events planned. Join us for trunk shows with Blue Moon Fiber arts, Imperial Stock Ranch, West Coast Juju, Plover Designs, and Star Athena. As a bit of icing on the cake, we are also having extra raffles all weekend, with a prize from each Trunk Show. Enter by signing in on the sign-in sheet during the Crawl.

FREE GIFTS
Any crawler who spend $75 or more with us here at Twisted will earn a free Twisted Canvas Tote! (In store only, while supplies last.) Bring it back to Twisted for a future visit and get our ongoing 5% Twisted Pride discount.

PLUS, with any purchase at Twisted, you'll get a Twisted-made pin… and there are some very special pins. Most are simply cute, and crafty, and fun. You'll be super happy to pin these buttons to your bag or your sweatshirt or your coat and strut your crafty stuff. But, if you are very, very lucky, you may get one of the limited number of prize buttons! Prize button options include a 40% discount coupon for a future purchase, a free Twisted Yarn Ball Tee, a free skein of Twisted's new 45° North Yarn (your choice of color), a free Twisted pattern, and many more! ***

*** Fine print regarding prize buttons: Lucky prize button winners can claim their prizes after the Crawl starting Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:00am. You cannot claim your prize during the Rose City Yarn Crawl weekend. Prize buttons are valid from Monday, March 5, 2012, through Monday, April 30, 2012.

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At Twisted, we have oodles of fun events planned:

Friday, March 2nd:

Star Athena Trunk Show: 10-4

Come hang out with Star and talk knitting inspiration. 

Plover Designs Trunk Show: 10–4

Collin and Donna are a match made in awesome jewelry and shawl pin heaven.

Saturday, March 3rd:

Blue Moon Fiber Arts Trunk Show: 10-4

Tina will be here, and so will lots of her gorgeous yarn. Spend time with the mastress of color.

Juju Skirts Trunk Show: 10–4

Juju skirts are the best! Comfy, cute and oh, so unique! Try a few on today!

Sunday, March 4th:

Imperial Stock Ranch Trunk Show: 10-4

If you haven't heard the Imperial Stock Ranch story yet, now's the time. Local sheep, a family-run ranch. What's not to love?

As a bit of icing on the cake, we are also having a raffle all weekend, with a prize from each Trunk Show, by signing in on the sign-in sheet during the Crawl.

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