All Work, No Play

I would like to sincerely thank each and every one of you for you sweet words of encouragement regarding Yarntopia. It truly means a lot to me to know that I have such a wonderful set of friends out there cheering us on. I'm so glad that you are taking this journey with me.

Sheryl and I both really appreciate your taking our little survey as well.

As for the title of this post, it alludes to what I've been doing the last couple of weeks. I volunteered myself the duty of coming up with the yarns we are going to sell in the shop. I am a person that likes to confront a situation well informed, so I pulled out all of my most recent knitting magazines and books to survey what yarns designers are knitting with. That helped me decide which yarn companies we should concentrate on. From there, I took all of the color catalogs from those companies and divided their yarn into 19 different categories (wool, cotton, boucle, sock, eyelash, etc.) Then, I separated those piles into the various yarn weights. Finally, I calculated the price per yard on every yarn to see which yarn in each category was the best value.

Sheryl came over this morning to help. As usual, we are on the same page. (Love ya Sheryl!) We will not make the final decisions until we meet with the yarn reps to see what they recommend and to see their spring and summer lines. I have figured out how our inventory budget will be allocated between the different lines so that we will come to the meetings prepared.

We will be making our first yarn purchases on Monday. Wish us luck!

In normal life news, I'm knitting Christmas presents like a demon. The sad thing is, what I want to be doing is knitting something for myself. Sad, but true.