Open Day/ Mini Christmas Market - 1st Dec 2024
We are holding another Open Day. This time we have invited some friends and it'll be more like a Mini Christmas Market, perfect for those craftly Christmas presents for fellow crafters and a bit more.
Date: Sunday 1st Dec
Time: 10am - 2pm
Location: 1356A Remembrance Drive, Burrumbeet, 3252
Check out what we will be offering, our other vendors and our food option below (tbc)
What will be on offer from us:
- The release of our new 5 ply Summer Fiesta yarn
- Running mill tours (gold coin donation)
- Destash yarns - definitely a bargain to be had
We will also have some demonstrations from the The Ballarat Spinners & Weavers Guild, sock making demonstrations and more
Vendors:
- Crystal Catch Stitchery:
A place for you to find thoughtfully hand crafted bags, tools and notions designed to elevate your making experience. Each bag is handcrafted in a minimal waste, small batch production process from our small studio in regional Victoria and we use high quality materials and sewing practices to make sure our products last as long as possible through as many adventures as you can find for them.
- Sanna_and Co:
A knitting pattern designer with her patterns and samples as well as a technique sampler bar with some of the techniques used in her patterns (e.g. Brioche)
- Shelley Husband:
Crochet granny sqaure designer, author and teacher. Shelley will be here with her crochet books which you could get signed for that special gift.
- Sunnybank Farm: (our lovely neighbours) A multi generational family farm in Burrumbeet, Victoria. We proudly uphold ethical and sustainable principles utilising holistic and regenerative practices to farm alongside nature.Grass-fed meats and pastured-raised eggs, farmed within a “whole system” approach. Anchored on chemical free and soil health regeneration, allowing nature to do the work and our animals be their natural selves.
- Tarndie:
A variety of tops and natually coloured and hand dyed yarns using Polwarth wool from the Tarndwarncoort flock and nearby farms creating soft handling fabric with bounce and loft. One range of yarns is entirely grown and produced in a 300km journey from the paddock back to Tarndie – the home of Polwarth sheep.
- Wool Witchery:
Hand dyed merino yarn grown in the Victorian High Country with local plants and botanical extracts using traditional methods.
- Wyndara - Black Sheep:
Based in Western Victoria and are breeders of coloured Polwarth sheep. They pride themselves on their sustainable and ethical farming practices on their RWS certified farm and are proud to have their natural coloured wool processed entirely in Western Victoria, including having their yarns spun by GOR woollen mill. They will have their yarns, tops & fleece.