Last Week at Staci’s Stitches

The last two weeks saw some changes at the shop! It’s beginning to look very festive for the holidays! With yarn bowls filled with peppermints, hot cocoa at the tea bar and sugar beet accessories ornaments for sale on the tree!

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​Would you like that yarn bowl for Christmas, some hand dyed yarn, or a special book? We have new wishlists at the register that you can fill out and give to a loved one. They can come in and shop right for you with our help!!

​New in at the shop we’ve expanded our pattern books, holiday Stitch Markers, Holiday colors in Hypnotic Yarns like Grinchmas and Winter Rain. We also saw a new Sugarbush worsted - Bold popped up at the shop for Small Business Saturday where we had a huge Sugarbush sale and gave away mugs!

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The week before Thanksgiving I hosted my first social. The NorEaster held off just until we were leaving and 13 brave weatherproof women came, ate treats and talked all things yarn. This was so much fun. Last night we had another group of women. Some fresh faces and some returning friends. We had lots of laughs, discussed projects, researched and shared patterns and the lemon cake by Mary was amazing.

​Classes are now up on the website and spaces are still left in Beginners Knitting, Advanced Beginners Knitting and Intermediate Crochet. I was completely shocked that my beginners crochet class sold out in 5 hours. I hope I can live up to that level of enthusiasm! New Beginners Crochet will start in March where I will have 2 dates to try to keep up with demand!
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As we end month 2, I feel pretty settled in shop life and have started planning new ideas to enhance the store and help our customers. At Thanksgiving I felt so grateful for my supportive family who believed in me so much to make this shop a reality and all of you for making it such a success. I often reflect on my life this time of year and all the difficult things I’ve had to walk through and could not be more grateful at how things have turned out right now in this moment. I hope you are all enjoying the gifts of the holiday season as well.

​Staci