We had to spill the beans about a special workshop featuring internationally recognized felt artist Nicola Brown (Clasheen). She is making time in her first SF Bay Area trip to teach an intensive day long Mosaic Felt Workshop exclusively at Urban Fauna Studio.
Mosaic Felt Workshop
Date: Thursday October 1, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM to 04:30 [...]
We hope that you’re enjoying your summer! Sorry if we missed a couple of you this past week at the store. We were at Sock Summit and Crafty Wonderland in Portland, Oregon. It was fun to meet new customers and talk shop with fellow vendors. Portland is a great town and we look forward to going [...]
TABLE TOP WEAVING – Saturday July 25th 2009 – TOMORROW! Spaces Still Available!
This class will teach the basics of weaving with a table top rigid heddle loom. You will learn how to warp the yarn, thread it and weave it. The Cricket Loom by Schact is compact, capable and cute! At only 11″ x 18″ x 6″ and [...]
Urban Fauna Studio Goes Green(er)
We are excited to announce that we are now certified as a San Francisco Green Business! What does this mean exactly? Well, just because many shops are independently owned and selling green products does not make their business practice green. We decided that a more genuine commitment to sustainability was [...]
We got back to SF and two weekends later we had the Santa Cruz Sheep Retreat at Sheepie Dreams Organic Farms…there were about 18 participants in all. It was a nice sunny day, not too hot or windy. Perfect for communing with sheepy friends…who were frolicking all around us and enjoying the farm’s verdant pasture…..
Fiber [...]
Fiber Night At Cafe Kaleo - This Monday May 11th
We’ve been wanting to start a fiber meet up near the shop. The wonderful owners of Kaleo Cafe (1340 Irving Street between 14th and 15th Avenues.) have agreed to lend us their upstairs loft for fun fiber times! Our first meeting is this coming Monday May 11th [...]
We’re excited to annouce that the Santa Cruz Sheep Retreat for SUNDAY MAY 17th 2009 has been finalized and we’re taking registrations! Please frolick on over to the our webpage to read more about this fiber social event. LINK HERE
Why come?
Fun with baby sheep
Fleece Washing
Natural Fiber Dyeing with Sandra – Head lady of Sheepie Dreams [...]
The awesome folks of the Purl Jam knit group came out Tuesday evening to share some knitty love. We hope to make this a regular monthly event and expand the meetings to include all fiber crafts (knitting, crochet, felting, spinning, etc…). For people who want a weekly dose of Purl Jam you have to join [...]
We’ve added a couple great beginning/intermediate knitting classes taught by the talented Kira Dulaney of Kira K Designs! Kira was the former manager of Art Fibers and has been designing her own patterns for beginning to advanced knitters. I love her clean lines and attention to detail. The ladies of Stash and Burn even interviewed [...]
I’ll be giving a workshop at the California College of the Arts next Saturday….
Selling & Marketing Your Crafts
SF 134
Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., April 4
1 session. $75. Noncredit. Prerequisite: none.
Opportunities to sell handmade work continue to expand in the Bay Area. Learn about some of the emerging avenues for online sales and marketing, such as Etsy, [...]
