Craft In, Rock Out
Princess Animal Productions Presents:
WHAT: Craft In, Rock Out
WHERE: The Makeout Room
WHEN: May 27th, 2-6p
WHO:
The Yellow Dress
Steve Long
Erin Brazill and the Brazillionaires
And you. And your friends. And even your kids, if you accompany them
and your 7 year old isn’t a heavy drinker.
WHY: Because craft & bands go together like vodka & tonic.
WHAT 2: We’ll keep the lights up a bit to facilitate the crafting.
You’ll bring your crafts. We’ll bring the rock. The Knitting Doctor
will be in to provide knitting help and light psychiatry. The sewing
station will be running, so you can sew yourself a ukelele, if you
wish. Didn’t bring a craft? No problem. We’ll have kits on sale at the
Princess Animal Station. Don’t craft at all? Just come and enjoy the
scene.
COST: FREE! Ultra FREE!
Questions? Confusion? RSVPs? Bring it to kathy@princessanimal.com.
Knitted Fender was created by Sarah Stollak.
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Next Craft-In: a double-shot of Love Boat & Fantasy Island
Set a course for craftventure, your mind on a new project…We’ll be revisiting our childhoods (or at least, some of our childhoods) for the next amazing Craft-In. Perhaps Isaac will agree to be our bartender as we knit, crochet, and generally craft to the relaxing adventures of yesteryear with the original Love Boat. Then, we’ll veer into darker waters as we watch millionaires learn a lesson more valuable than money on Fantasy Island.
Boss, da plane! Da plane!:
DATE: Thursday, April 26th
TIME: 7-10P
WHERE: Lost Weekend, 1034 Valencia
COST: Free, as always
WHAT: Bring yer crafts and yer friends
BUT CAN I DRINK THE WATER?: yes, but consider this a booze cruise. We’ll provide. Maybe even a pu pu platter.
Book your dream craft getaway now by rsvping to kathy@princessanimal.com.
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It’s New Yarn Happy Hour Mon-Thurs!
We’ve introduced three new hand-dyed yarn lines…so much yarn we’re drunk with fiber power!
So, call us Crazy Eddie (prices so low we’ve just gotta be crazy!), but Mon-Thurs of this week only, you get 20-freakin’-percent off Madeline Tosh, Becoming Art, or Cabin Fever yarns. Here’s the deal:
WHEN: March 19-22nd, Monday-Thursday that is
TIME: 5-8p, just like happy hour. Get it? Yarn Happy Hour?
WHAT: 20% off Madeline Tosh, Becoming Art, or Cabin Fever
LIMITS: The sale only applies during these times, on those days, and you can only pick up 4 skeins at a sale price–cause we’re not that crazy. You can buy as many others as you want full-price. Go nuts! You wanna save? You gotta come in the store and see us!
From Pints & Purls, the perfect book to enable your yarn binge.
Unleash the sale hounds! Yay!
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It’s the Craft-In All the World has been Waiting For!
Finally! The Wonder Woman Craft-In is a reality. We’ll be showing the first couple of episodes of the old, excellent Wonder Woman tv series, starring Lynda Carter. We’ll also potentially be downing red, white and blue jello shots. And note: this month we’re changing the location. We’re doing this as a joint venture with Lost Weekend, who has kindly ordered Wonder Woman for this event. They’ve got theater seats, too!
In your satin tights, fighting for your rights:
WHEN: Thursday, February 23rd
TIME: 8-10p, though we won’t cloroform you if you get there early
PLACE: Lost Weekend Video, 1034 Valencia Street
WHAT: Wonder Woman Craft-In
WHY: Need you ask? We need to stop a war with love! And craft…bring you, your friends, and your crafts. Or just watch the show.
COST: Free, just like liberty!
HOW: RSVP to kathy@princessanimal.com
New Season of Knitting 101 Starting in February!
Baby, it’s cold outside. Yes, even in San Francisco. More importantly, you need to learn how to knit. And, why, yes, we CAN help you with that.
Sign up for February’s Knitting 101 by swinging by the shop or emailing moi at kathy@princessanimal.com.
When: Saturday afternoons 2/18, 2/25, and 1/3 from 2pm to 4pm
$65 for the series
We’ll cover the basics: the knit stitch, the purl stitch, increasing, decreasing, pattern reading, and much more. Sounds like gibberish to you? That will change soon. We’re keeping the class small enough for individual attention so that everyone can get good at the basics. Stop by the shop for your supplies, you’ll need a skein of worsted weight yarn and a pair of size 8 needles.
Knitted Geometry Class with Jill Draper on Jan. 26th
Geometry? Ho hum, you say! You would be wrong, Madam and/or Sir! At least when it comes to knitting.
Many of you have experienced the heady cashmere/superwash/crazy/sexy/delicious/colorful/amazing yarns from Jill Draper Makes Stuff. The lovely Jill Draper herself is coming out from the Hudson Valley in New York to teach an awesome class.
WHEN: Thursday, January 26th
TIME: 7-9:30pm
WHERE: Show up at the store 10 minutes prior to class, and we’ll head over to Borderlands Cafe
COST: $40.00, though a bargain at any price
Form + function = fun. Equals funk-shun. That’s what we say. We also say this:
In this class we will explore right angles and geometric shapes in knitting. We will talk about and swatch many different ways of making squares, circles, triangles and other geometric forms. This is a great intro to modular knitting. In class a pattern for a geometric headband/earwarmer will be handed out. A little knowledge of how shapes are created is helpful and this will open up a whole new world of knitting without patterns. Skillz? You’ll need to know how to knit and purl, and precious little else.
Materials List:
Worsted weight smooth yarn any odds & ends are fine
#7 or 8 US needles for swatching
stitch markers
for headband you will need ~100 yards of worsted weight in 2 contrasting yarns, can be solids, multis almost any fiber you’d like to wear near your precious, precious face.
Want to sign up for this hotness? Email kathy@princessanimal.com tout suite!
Knitting 101: The Class.
When: Saturday afternoons 1/14, 1/21, and 1/28 from 2pm to 4pm
$65 for the series
We’ll cover the basics: the knit stitch, the purl stitch, increasing, decreasing, pattern reading, and much more. Sounds like gibberish to you? That will change soon. We’re keeping the class small enough for individual attention so that everyone can get good at the basics. Stop by the shop for your supplies, you’ll need a skein of worsted weight yarn and a pair of size 8 needles.
Wanna sign up? Just stop by the shop or email kathy@princessanimal.com. Yay!
The Great San Francisco Needle Exchange Continues!
With the holidays over, we crafters can get back to the business of making things for ourselves. Or finishing the gifts that ended up wrapped and still on the needles. We’ve decided to extend the GREAT SAN FRANCISCO NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM.
Trade in your old needles and hooks for projects gone by, and get 15% off brand spanking new needles.
Uh oh. You finished knitting the winter wedding gowns for your cats, but you’ll need to go up several sizes to make those hot pants for Grandma. You’re jonesin’ for new needles now! There’s no shame in it. Bring those cast-offs down to the Princess, and we’ll swap ‘em right out for new ones.
Get clean with this awesome program. Here’s the rulez:
Needles and hooks can be made out of any material, as long as it’s not something creepy like human bone. Although really, only extensive tests would reveal that.
Needles and hooks must be in good condition.
Needles must not have “fallen off a truck.”
For needles, they have to come in a pair.
This is a 1/1 policy…so one pair of old needles gets you 15% off one new pair, not 15% off two pairs.
Doesn’t apply to other notions like stitch markers and the like.
What is the Princess going to do with these old needles, you ask?
Like true merchants, We’re going to turn around and resell them real cheap. That means that someone who needs the size you just cast off will benefit as well. They may not be as nice as the Clover Velvet Takumi highly polished bamboo needles We sell, or the fabulous KnitPicks kits We’ve got, but still, a cheap pair of alumineeum needles will still a sweater make.
Needles to say (hahahahaha!), we’ve got lots of new books, patterns, and yarn to get your crafty motor running. In fact, We just got a huge shipment of super cute patterns, including the much-coveted Beekeeper’s Quilt, yesterday. So come on down to Princess Animal, and get crafty!
Get yourself some real old-skool skillz. Like knitting and crochet.
The Princess selects a highly-trained group of professional ninja crafters to pass on the necessary skills so that the populace will be prepared for the coming Craftopolypse. We teach lessons one-on-one, for $40.00 a session, which is about an hour or an hour and a half, whatever it takes.