We’d love to welcome you to join us on a Whistlebare Retreat – a relaxing day based around knitting or crochet held on our Northumberland farm.
Rather like an extended knit and natter group a retreat gives you a chance to come along to Whistlebare and knit with us, whilst also learning more about what we do here on the farm and why Yeavering Bell and our flock of Angora goats is so important to us.
We are very proud of our livestock husbandry and the environmental care we take of our land and we know that our customers care about this too. So we are offering to show you all around Whistlebare and introduce you to our Angora goats, the Wensleydale sheep, and our new small flock of Shetland x Merino sheep as well the dairy goats, chickens and our new draught ponies, Rain and Blue.
Whilst on the farm tour Alice will also explain about the production of the yarns we sell and the dyeing process and anything else you wish to ask about the farm and yarn!
Knitting can be a hungry business and there will be lashings of homemade cake, local produce for lunch and plenty of teas and coffees to keep you content.
There will of course also be lots of yarn!
Alice is wonderful at helping you choose the colours that will suit you and will be able to advise you on which patterns you might wish to cast on, and with the first skein of yarn included in the day you will be ready to start your project!
We will have a tutor here to help and support you throughout the day, and by the end of the day we hope you will be confident that you can finish at home.
You can see all of our patterns here if you want to look in advance. Several of our patterns are single skein and therefore your complementary skein will be enough to finish your project. If the pattern you choose requires more than one skein then the rest may be purchased on the day with a 10% discount.
INCLUDED IN THE DAY ARE
- Whistlebare Pattern and skein of Whistlebare Yarn.
- Tutor on hand to help with pattern.
- Morning coffee/tea and cake.
- Home cooked lunch of soup, bread and local cheese.
- Afternoon coffee/tea with yes, more cake!
- Meeting the livestock and easy farm walk.
- 10% discount on any purchase made on the day.
Lunch will be made from local produce, all diets can be catered for but please let us know in advance.
We have had a number of enquiries about getting to Whistlebare and it is true we are in a very rural area. We are however, close to the main East Coast Line, our local train station is Berwick-Upon-Tweed which is 40 minutes from both Newcastle and Edinburgh stations and we are going to provide a bus service from and to Berwick station. Please let us know if you are interested in travelling by Whistlebare Bus!
Whistlebare retreats are available to book now, and are next running on October 8th 2022, May 13th 2023, July 8th 2023 and September 16th 2023.
We’d love to see you at one and we hope you will leave feeling refreshed, inspired, looked after and having done some lovely knitting.
To book your place please click HERE!