This popular 9-day yarn crawl starts August 3 and runs through August 11. Everything Alpaca is 1 of 9 stores participating. Click here to check out the crawl information on the website and also like us on facebook and follow us on instragram for updates and in-depth information about the crawl.
SPECIAL CRAWL HOURS Everything Alpaca is open Saturdays and Sundays 10:00-5:00, Monday through Friday 10:00-5:30
EVENTS AT EVERYTHING ALPACA FOR THE CRAWL
Saturday, 8/3/24 Trunk Show – Skacel/Hikoo and The Alpaca Yarn Company. Join our rep Heather McVickar for a look at the beautiful yarns and finished products from these 2 companies. They will inspire!
Sunday, 8/4/24 Trunk Show – We will be hosting Kim Perkins from Cat Mountain Fibers as we showcase her gorgeous hand dyed yarns and texture combinations.
YARN SHOW CASE DAYS
Each day for the rest of the crawl, we will showcase one or two large commercial yarn companies and one or two small indie dyers and/or local alpaca ranch yarn.
Monday, 8/5/24 YARN SHOWCASE This day we will feature Malabrigo and BI Bar Ranch in Colorado Springs. BI Bar is one of our local alpaca breeders who are part of Everything Alpaca. BI Bar raises suri alpacas, and Julie’s yarns are in several of the 22 natural colors of alpaca or exquisitely hand dyed.
Tuesday, 8/6/24 YARN SHOWCASE Plymouth Yarn, Lang Yarn, Theodora’s Pearls and Alexandra’s. Alexandra Baldwin has gorgeous hand dyed yarns in merino and alpaca bases. She just relocated from Oregon to Colorado! Theodora’s Pearls is a Colorado indy dyer and specializes in hand dyed Bamboo yarn. We also have her hand dyed merino wool Rocky Mountain Hat Kits from the National Parks book.
Wednesday, 8/7/24 Berroco, Madelintosh, Art Yarns, Polka Dot Sheep and local alpaca ranch yarn collection. Take a look at the gorgeous colors of hand dyed Maddytosh Light and Montana’s hand dyed Polka Dot Sheep kits we have in stock. We have several local alpaca farms with yarn and roving in our store that we can introduce to you. Some hand spun, some hand dyed, some natural color. Iris Schreier of Art Yarns dyes up some gorgeous color combinations in her luxury lines of merino, cashmere, and silk yarns.
Thursday, 8/8/24 Blue Sky Fibers and Amano. We carry several lines of Blue Sky Fibers, in both their alpaca yarns and Highland Peruvian wool. Amano out of Peru has some of the finest alpaca yarn on the market. We carry their Anyi (baby alpaca and silk) and Mayu (Royal alpaca/cashmere/silk).
Friday, 8/9/24 Euro Yarns, Hand Spun Hope and Bella Vita Ranch. We carry several lines from Euro Yarns. Hand Spun Hope has organic cotton, merino, angora blend and Boracera silk, all hand spun and dyed with natural plant based dyes in Rawanda, Africa. This mission provides dignified work for these at-risk women and allow them to support their familes. A faith-based mission, they provide counseling services and other forms of help for these Rawandans who have survived genocide but still carry the scars and memories of the atrocities against their people. Fiber is produced from HSH’s own merino flock, and the cotton and silk is sourced from other female-based organizations. Then it is hand spun and dyed by the ladies of HSH. Bella Vita Ranch is Deb Power’s ranch, the founder of Everything Alpaca, and she has lots of yarn and roving in stock in several colors of the 22 natural shades of alpaca. Most of Bella Vita’s yarn is grade 1 to 2.
Saturday, 8/10/24 Knitting Fever, Greenwood Fibers and Angel’s Crossing Alpacas. We have Noro, Luisa Harding, and other lines from Knitting Fever. Greenwood Fibers hand dyes its luxury yarn in Utah. We stock her Cashmere Delight, a delicious combination of baby alpaca, cashmere and silk. Meet Heather Marley, owner of Angel’s Crossing Alpacas in Elizabeth, CO. Heather teaches our weaving classes here at Everything Alpaca and we stock her beautiful alpaca yarn and roving from her ranch.
Sunday, 8/11/24 Lamana, Leading Men, and Little Squirrel. Lamana, a German company with lots of yarn sourced from Italy, is a new commercial company for Everything Alpaca. We carry their Roma yarn at this time, a gorgeous blend of cashmere and silk, and hope to carry more in the future. We have a sample box of their other lines to share during the crawl. Give us some feedback on which lines you would like to see in our store. Leading Men from Illinois are indie dyers, and we carry a couple of their kits and mini skeins in extrafine merino. LIttle Squirrel is a small indy dyer yarn company in Colorado, and we carry their beautiful brushed suri/silk blend yarn which can be used in our crawl knit pattern, the Windswept Cowl.