Urban Craft Uprising is Seattle's largest indie craft show! At UCU, now in its eighth year, fans can choose from a wide variety of hand-crafted goods, including clothing of all types, jewelry, gifts, bags, wallets, buttons, accessories, aprons, children's goods, toys, housewares, paper goods, candles, kits, art, food, and much, much more.

That's right, this February, Yarnia turns FIVE years old!

Come on by to enjoy food, drinks, music, and mingling! Come meet your fellow Yarnia enthusiasts from around PDX, and score some great prizes while you're at it.

During party hours only, we'll be having a bunch of fun in-store treats, including:

* 10% off all pre-made cones in the shop, and 25% off all Bargain Basket cones
* Free raffle prizes from local businesses, including The Victory Bar, Mi Mero Mole, Village Merchants, Stock & Barrel, Por Que No?, Mag-Big, Townshend's Tea, Trade Up Music, and Knit Picks!

On December 12th, we'll be holding our next Knit & Crochet night, here at the store.

Bring your patterns, projects, ideas, questions, and meet some other crafty peeps in the neighborhood!

Swing on by after work and we’ll make a night of it. We’ll be here knitting from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., and will have tea, wine, music, good company, and some little snackies to keep us going!

And don't forget -- any purchase made at our Knit & Crochet Nights will garner you 20 extra points on your Supportland card!

"DIY Hems and Alterations"
on 3-hour class $34 (including $2 materials fee)
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Want your pants to fit? Combine technical skills and rule breaking to foster creativity -- learn to hem pants, adjust side seams for fit, add darts or elastic, adjust the armcye, insert a gusset and techniques for refashioning garments. This course is as varied as the garments brought to class, encouraging Seamsters to come back with new alterations time and again!

"Decorative Finishing"
on 3-hour class $47 (including $6 materials fee)
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The perfect way to start sewing -- or to get back into it! Learn techniques for sewing French Seams, Elastic smocking, lace appliqué, sewing with the bobbin thread, using the feed dogs to ease as well as gathering and ruffling feet. In a French seam, the raw edges of the fabric are fully enclosed for a neat finish. Machine smocking is a technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Appliqué involves pieces of fabric, embroidery, or other materials which are sewn onto another piece of fabric to create designs, patterns or pictures. Learn all this and so much more!

"Hand Sewing Fundamentals"
four 3-hour classes $39 (including $4 materials fee)
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Make and take home your own needle wallet! Learn how the professionals sew on buttons as well as an assortment of basic hand stitches that will repair your clothes and give you a quality finish on your sewing projects. In this class we will teach you to sew a back-stitch, pick-stitch, slip-stitch, slanted hem stitch, uneven slip-stitch and the cross-stitch!