If you’re waiting for the forthcoming diatribe, it isn’t. There’s no big issue. There’s a small one, I suppose, but that’s just that I’ve not been able to get the RSS feed to work on either Rob’s or my site except through Bloglines, and I’ve had friends telling me to move to Movable Type since…
Gotta Love Wool Weather
If you’re a yarn shop owner and you’re complaining about the cold, bite your tongue. Folks keep coming into the shop asking my transplanted Southern ASCII if I’m surviving the cold. Uh… yeah! I sell wool. My business is booming! As a matter of fact, as I was setting up Movable Type this morning at…
Knitting Survey
I got a very interesting e-mail from one of my staff earlier today. Check it out: I got this off the ‘spindlers list’, thought you might be interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Posted by: "Kathie [hidden]" [hidden]@[hidden] Thu Feb 1, 2007 11:05 am (PST) My niece, herself a knitter, is doing her thesis on knitters & knitting and…
Marathon Running
Ok. The first person who asks if my fat a$$ is actually running marathon gets whacked in the head with a drop spindle. No, the point is that I’ve been trying a) to work harder in 2007, and more importantly b) to work smarter. I’m actually getting much more accomplished, but I have not, yet,…
Happiest Holidays
I’m here, and oddly enough, I really haven’t been anywhere. Well, I’ve been to ThreadBear, and there are lots of folks who would envy me that. I get to play in fiber every day. I have a wonderful staff who make my work infinitely easier. I have a phenomenal clientele who—often against my own judgement—seem…
Back in the Swing
You know, whoever said that summer is deadtime in yarn shops hasn’t spent a whole lot of time in my company. I feel like I’ve been scrambling since the first blades of grass started poking through the snow in my front yard, and only in the last few weeks have I started to feel like…
Best Foot Forward
Just as most of my in-person customers are used to me occasionally redesigning the layout of the retail store, so too are many of ThreadBear’s long-term mail order customers used to the idea that occasionally the website gets a nice little nip and tuck. Well, if you hadn’t already noticed, there’s been a little nipping…
Color Conundrum
God knows retail is fickle, and only fashion is moreso. Is it just me, though, or has Pantone® gone seriously soft this year? I hadn’t really noticed until Rob‘s newsletter went out this week and I started looking at Fall as a here-and-now kind of thing, but their Fall Forecast for 2006 is kind of…
Commentary
kristi and otis write on 07/17/2006 10:32pmLooks great! I’m on bedrest for a couple days and am in search of new scenary – those sofas look like they could do the trick! matt writes:Good lord, woman! Get to the shop immediately before those animals smother you in your sleep for taking up so much of…
Hogwart’s: Fait Accompli!
I dood it! Yet again, I’ve warped our poor little yarn shop into a mad alter-ego of itself. Ok. It’s not that dramatic. It’s just better—hopefully. In all seriousness, as stock rolls through, we’re constantly moving bits and pieces of shelves and tables around to accomodate new merchandise or displays. Eventually, we look around and…