Ever Wanted To Own a Yarn Shop?

It’s every knitter’s secret fantasy, isn’t it? To run your own yarn shop… to be surrounded by all that wool and silk and cotton… and lovely wooden needles and all those fun bits and bobs that go along with knitting. To make your life’s work out of your life’s passion — what joy!

Here’s your chance: Yarnsmith is up for sale. Brooke is having her second baby soon and will be focusing on that for the time being. Here are all the details from her email:

Many of you may already know that yarnsmith is for sale. I’m expecting another child next March and have decided that I don’t have the mental or physical space for it any more. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in a viable business that will allow them the flexibility of working on their own from home.

The sale includes £3,500 worth of stock, a fully functioning website, a recognised brand including electronic logo, stationary, and advertising designs, and an existing customer base and mailing list. The asking price is £6,500.

If you are interested, please contact me by e-mail on brooke@yarnsmith.co.uk.

In the meantime, we are still taking orders on remaining stock by e-mail or phone. Everything is 20% off of the website price and payment is by cheque or paypal.

Thank you,

Brooke McConochy

www.yarnsmith.co.uk

For those of you who aren’t in a position to buy your yarn-shop dream right now, don’t miss that 20% discount tucked in amongst the details above.

Brooke, I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy and with the birth. You are in for quite a ride, but it’s a wonderful one!

LYS-lust

I picked up the Holiday issue of Vogue Knitting magazine* yesterday. Mmmmmmmm… now, that gets the knitlust flowing through my veins. It’s a joy just to page through.

VK reviews a local yarn shop every issue and, this time, it was Tricoter in Seattle. It just looks like such a welcoming place for a knitter. How I wish I’d known about it before — I’ve been to Seattle several times visiting family, and I could have disappeared to there for an afternoon when all that family-ish-ness got too much! The trouble would be, of course, that I would return that evening poor as a church mouse and with enough yarn to fill another suitcase.

I know I have a reader or two from Seattle. Have you ever been to Tricoter? Is it as nice as it looks?

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* The Vogue Knitting magazine website is down at present, and has been months. I used to check it regularly for previews of coming issues, pattern corrections, intriguing discussions, and just plain inspiration. When oh when are they going to fix it?!?!?