This post was written by Bee Happy Pride, Vancouver! We hope you’re staying cool and colourful out there. One thing about working at a yarn store? You get to see first-hand how large the middle of the Venn diagram is between the crafter community and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Fibre Arts
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I started working as a knitter for Granted, a local handknit sweater retailer, in the spring of 2024. It was a dream job for me, as a stay-at-home mom to homeschooled preteen, be being a hand knitter for a job that wassuper flexible was the perfect combination for me at
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A few weeks ago, a customer came into the shop searching for the perfect cotton to bring a little crochet whale to life. As I helped her choose the right yarn, we couldn’t help but smile at how perfectly her project fit with the ocean theme that has been inspiring
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Copperspoon has a newer series of yarn called the Salmonoid Series. This collection was created out of a love for the iconic BC keystone species. Each skein is dyed to look like our many local salmon species. Each colourway is named for the different salmon in their different lifecycles in
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Some yarns deserve a project that lets them be the star.SweetGeorgia Mulberry Silk is one of them. Spun from 100% mulberry silk and hand-dyed at SweetGeorgia’s Vancouver dye studio, this lace-weight yarn has an unmistakable luminosity and fluid drape that transforms even the simplest stitches into something extraordinary. Our sample ofKrouse
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