[Nfb-krafters-korner] Want to Know Wednesday 1/31/18

[Henry Osborne]

Hi Amy, where is this Clover Hill shop located please?
they sound very blind user friendly, which we have found some shops not to 
be.
We are in the Germantown area of Montgomery County.
thanks for your help.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Melanie Peskoe via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:18 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Cc: Melanie Peskoe
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Want to Know Wednesday 1/31/18

Hi Amy, there is something absolutely magical about local yarn shops. I 
absolutely love them and every city I visit I make it a priority to visit 
one while I’m there. I wish I could afford to buy all of my on there. I once 
bought a miss Babs skein of yarn in Arlington  Virginia and I just don’t 
have the heart to use it LOL I like to touch and squish it a lot ha ha. It 
sounds like you have a very nice local yarn shop there how lucky you are! 
Are you in Baltimore? Melanie

> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Amy Herstein via Nfb-krafters-korner 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone.
>
> It is windy here in Maryland, too, but the difference is that it has
> turned extremely cold ... again. We had a tiny veneer of snow, nothing
> much, but enough to frost the grass a little.
>
> If I have a choice, I love to buy my crafting tools and supplies from
> smaller businesses. Don't get me wrong. I do frequent larger
> businesses, especially online warehouses, but I've never grown weary
> of the charm of the smal-business craftsperson. I love and am grateful
> for their good service, their knowledge of the crafts, and their
> passion for what they do, and I love the chance to enroll in classes
> at local yarn stores and to network with other crafters. When I choose
> my sewing machine, I'd like to find a similar place; ditto for my
> fabric. Now that I've finished up my generalizing, here is some info
> about my specific place of choice.
>
> Specifically, I love Clover Hill Yarn Shop. It was originally owned by
> a woman who had a young daughter, a husband, and five cats. She spins
> her own yarn and is a crocheting and knitting guru. So were the other
> women she hired; many was the time I came to see Jolene or her staff
> with a very hopelessly tangled mess of yarn or a project I'd goofed up
> so badly I couldn't make heads or tails of the mistakes I'd made. She
> or her staff always fixed them and sent me on my way ready to work on
> it again. During the time she owned the shop, I took classes from her
> or the others: a designing class, a tank top class (one of the
> projects I goofed up and then lost), a class during which we made a
> shawl, a mittens class, and more. Among my various and sundry
> unfinished objects is a beautiful, cabled, button-less sweater made
> out of a yarn no longer produced, one featuring a diamond cable on the
> back and each front, adorned with lace. Her shop is small, but the
> yarns are lovely, and the samples she knitted were lusciously
> tantalizing. The staff always remembered me, helped me sort out masses
> of complex knitting charts, and loved to help me choose just the right
> yarn for each project.
>
> A while ago, Jolene sold her shop, but the women who bought it from
> her are just as good. They have chosen to structure their classes
> differently, but they've kept the sit-and-knit and sit-and-spin
> socials. They are just as helpful with charts, correcting badly abused
> projects, and selecting quality yarns.
>
> Amy
>
> On 1/31/18, Nella Foster via Nfb-krafters-korner
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello to all of you crafters out there.  I'm still trying to get used to
>> writing 2018.
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope all of you are having a wonderful day.  It is very windy here in
>> northwest Arkansas, but the temps are warm.
>>
>>
>>
>> Today's question comes from Cathy and she wants to know the name of your
>> favorite place to purchase craft items and why you like this store.
>>
>>
>>
>> I sure hope this discussion isn't going to cost me more money. Lol
>>
>>
>>
>> As usual I look forward to reading all the responses.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nella
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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