How This Podiatrist Became a Yarn Store Owner - Tea with Shira #72
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Shira sits down with Felicia Eve owner of New York yarn shop String Thing Studio. Felicia shares her journey from doctor to local yarn shop owner and what her community means to her.
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What would you want in your dream yarn shop?
LionBrandYarn My dream yarn place is exactly what she described, a healing place. I learned as a child from my Grandmother. I started back under the instruction of my grief counselor, my Mom passed away January 2018. She told me to find something we did together and crochet was it. It brought me peace and made me feel close to her by bringing back memories. I started an accidental business... LOL
Thanks for sharing!! Can't wait to see the next one.
A place where I can feel comfortable going there. An owner that treats the customers as family or friends, people that are welcoming to foreigners. Comfy chairs, good coffee, a place to sit and knit or crochet for hours. A community
If I had a dream yarn shop, I would want a section of handmade items for sale on consignment. There are people out there who do amazing things with yarn, and I would want to showcase their work, making it available to the public for purchase.
Congratulations string things. What a wonderful story.
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I love when people join in yarn groups. Where you meet, share, laugh and have so much fun together! That's the best!
What a great dream come true!!!!! Keep it up if I ever visit New York IM SOOOOOOO THERE!!!!! Congratulations keep it going girl love ya from Wisconsin!!!!
Congratulations on achieving your dream. Your shop is beautiful. My dream shop would include a book section with not just “how to” books but also lots of knitting fiction. There’s so many knitting novels. It might be fun to have a monthly read and a project based on something knitted in the story.
You have my heart all tied up, with your String Thing Shop!!! (Sorry, I couldn't resist that one). Congratulations on such a lovely space and business. If I had a dream of opening a yarn shop, I can imagine that your shop would be my dream realized. Suggestions: Offer various yarn/string craft learning series OR themed craft workshops in which they conclude with an actual finished product. Perhaps with a multi-generational classes but especially by age-group series (elementary kids, teens, seniors, holiday).
I wish I had a yarn shop near me that sounded this inviting! That is what would be important to me....a place where you feel comfortable enough to ask questions of someone when you are stuck with a question. I also crochet and not knit. I would like to learn to knit someday.
My mom, a single mother of 4 children with a degree in 'data processing', moved to Arizona in 1971. She couldn't get a job in her field -- discrimination against women the likely reason. She got a job in a yarn shop in Phoenix, selling the benefits of different yarns for different projects, teaching all the fiber arts, and displaying her creations in the shop window. Eventually my mom was hired into her field of study, but her skills with needles, hooks, and yarn carried her through that tough time. My ideal yarn shop would have a space dedicated to the display of a customer's marvelous creation to both inspire & motivate others to learn & excel in the yarn arts. It would also have a community outreach program: seeking community grants to take the fiber arts into elementary schools, to addiction treatment and other rehabilitation centers, and other such places where people are hurting in body, mind or spirit. My mom, now 87 years old, has a crippling genetically-carried hand disorder called dupetrans contracture. She can no longer knit or crochet, but she's still encouraging others to use the yarn she so loves!
Thanks for sharing your mother's beautiful story!
Thank you for sharing your story.
Congratulations! 🎉🎊 great interview! My dream LYS would be for StringThing Studio to move near me , in Easton, PA. We don’t have a yarn store near us. Just “Big Box” stores.
This was fun!🧶
Used to live in NYC and would visit both StringThing and LB today if I was still there!!
Way out in CA now...I would love to create a relaxing atmosphere for all ages...music, lighting, conversation prompts to gather and connect folks:)
Hi in my dream yarn shop I would have a waterfall. I'm having a hard time getting started, thanks for sharing.
Oh Em Gee, I love her hair!!
What a great interview! I would love to have a comfy chair to sit and people/studio watch while I knit.
Margarita Deverson we’ve got one of those Chairs! It’s just big enough for two, or just you and your project!
Inspiration!
Having a place for people to get rid of stress with yarn.
Customer Service!
Thank you for having her!! Love Stringthing Studio
Classes or a resourceful/knowledgeable persn to ask questions to.
Is she set up for online sales? With the Corona virus limiting the outside activities of some folks ... Just saying string things could beat down some of the inevitable cabin fever.
my dream is to have my own yarn store with a coffee bar.
wine
Comfy chair. Beautiful yarn at reasonable prices. Tea, coffee, healthy snacks.
So much fun, Aloha Felicia. I really love the concept of your shop what a blessing. I personally would just love to have a shop close to me.
Naomi Conaway Aloha!
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME DREAM COME TRUE!!! In my dream shop I would like Inspirational sayings and crafts that reflect me. Anything that makes people feel at home
I would love to visit your shop someday. I'm about 90mins North of NYC.
Marion Conley we’d love to have you!
What a delight! I so enjoyed this interview, but it was not long enough--want to hear more. Good for you, Felicia Eve, for following your dream and good for your friends for giving you the nudges to do so. I would love to come see your shop, but I am in Texas. Congratulations on your success. Enjoy your shop and your customers.
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