February 16, 2014 will be Crochetville's official 10th birthday. We'll have a party that day here on the forum, but we thought our 10th anniversary was deserving of just a little bit more.
What better way to celebrate than by trying to get a bunch of our friends together all in one place for a big crochet retreat? So we're scheduling a fantastic retreat full of all kinds of crochet fun for February 20-23, 2014 in Huntsville, Alabama!
We are still very much in the planning stages, but things have moved swiftly over just the past few days. We hope to have a registration booklet available no later than the end of October. We'll have special early bird pricing through December 31, but registration will remain open through January 31.
Basic Retreat Information
The tentative registration price for the retreat is $100, which will include the following:
Goody bag
Door prizes
Daily sit and stitch with informal roundtable discussions
Daily crochet games with prizes
Hat collection for Halos of Hope (donated yarn available)
Trunk shows (designers will bring finished items from books and pattern stores)
Access to vendor area and book/pattern store
Yarn tasting (sample and play with lots of yummy yarns)
An incredible weekend full of more crochet fun than you will believe possible
Classes Classes will be 3 hours long with a tentative price of $40.00 each (which is about half what you'd pay for these teachers at a big national event.) Again, we're still in the planning stages, but our tentative class schedule includes the following:
Selling Your Crochet: Pricing, Marketing, and More
Crochet Tips and Tricks
Yarn and Fiber Dyeing Workshop
Spinning with a Drop Spindle (materials provided; spindles available for puchase)
Amigurumi
Bead Crochet
Troubleshooting Your Works-in-Progress
Crochet Socks
Project from the time period of Downton Abbey
Tunisian Crochet
Teachers
Deb Burger
Donna Childs
Kim Guzman
Tammy Hildebrand
Michele Maks
Kathleen Sams
Janelle Zorko Schultz
Amy Shelton
Retreat Swag Want something to help you remember the fun long after the retreat is over? We'll have a t-shirt, tote bag, and coffee mug with the retreat logo available for purchase. We're having a retreat logo contest, so be watching for a thread with all the details.
Hotel and Travel Info
Hotel, meal, and travel expenses not included. We are still finalizing our hotel accommodations, but hope to have an announcement soon.