Kristy Glass Knits: Chelsea Yarns

[Music] thanks red bag fight oh what's so interesting is I it both meaning live 2017 just sat down with you not you weren't there but who's Andrea Andre Andre I just sat down next to you and started chatting you up we didn't know who each other at work was explai probably because you can't get any decent food at both man so I had to go out to chick-fil-a and bring it back in right and then we were chatting and I found out you go to yarn shop and said oh you should be on my youtube channel and it was like unequivocal no yeah I was like no I've done that I was having a bad hair day you know I wasn't my makeup wasn't on point I had no highlighter on and so now you're a year later look where we were yeah but a year later here we are so I'm here girl hello so introduce yourselves I'm as if never drink at the top yeah totally I got my I have my TV so usually I have a kombucha and you have your iced tea but you've got your like going rogue it's a snow storm yeah okay so introduce yourself Miriam always goes fairest I always go first hi I'm Miriam you can find me that okay so you can find me on ravelry as busy mom zero seven seven five five you can find me on instagram as really mirroring its to or even find me teaching fourth grade it all depends on where you're looking Oh everyone remembers that fourth grade teacher she has she has like a whole Posse no she does that's a good great to teach me they were five-membered mm-hmm and who I am I am Christina and I am the owner of Chelsea yarns co-host of the Chelsea pearls and I'm on Instagram as trusty omens it's fun fact my name is also Christina okay I've just been called nice to Emily that's so fun see so we have to Christine so I want to know your individual fiber stories and then how you intersected so why don't you Thurmond okay um I started knitting it was my second full-time teaching job and one of the other teachers was a knitter and she taught me the net and I was obsessed in a graduate it was the widow age sweaters and all that stuff mohair sequins any black shoulder pads go that's a lot and I loved it I love being able to make something that I could wear because I had tried my hand at sewing and the end result was not pretty but this was something that I could do and I really enjoyed it Nick hard for several years then things kind of faded got married had a family started knitting again for the kids never had enough time to finish anything and got the bug again but there was a lack of yarn shops at that point in time hmm it was tough there were a couple of good places that ultimately closed and I was always on the lookout for something new something different and that's how I discovered Kristina and I remember when she came into the store we were read just open we opened five years ago March 3rd and we did a knit along I opened up online first so we had an online store and then I had asked Red Bank Mike I said he's like um maybe you want to start online first so I did and I started online and we got to the point of where he was helping on the weekends after work because I was inundated with orders and it was it got it went from like one order to here really fast so we needed a space we needed more space because we ran out of space so he said okay let's get a store so I opened up in Colts Neck five years ago it was March 3rd on Fri day we did a knit along of a three-color cow using Shibui silk cloud and it was a hombre it was sort of a fade and she came in she this one came in got her colors oh and they were gorgeous so there was the new raspberry I remember I remember the huns I remember odd like weird things of that some people like my customers I'll remember what they get she comes back like two weeks later and it's all chewed and and her dog Harley got to it so she had my home parties bad yeah he loves yarn he does Carly or her Harley Harley and did you forgive Harley ah yes my honey forgiven Harley still have Harley Harley he's bad though you have to watch the yarn so you live in the neighborhood then yeah I'd live not far from here yeah so when this open is a frickin Warner you were so happy I was so excited because I had been following them you were blogging mm-hmm and I were following a blob that was how I found you and you knew it was a New Jersey business I knew it was in New Jersey business I knew it was a local business I had tracked it down - I had an approximate area I was like a creepy stalker back then to an approximate geographic area like okay I think she's coming out of close to where I work maybe I could go to work I would work for your so I was following this one very closely and all of a sudden brick-and-mortar store it's like Oh even better so was there like an announcement on the blog but that's how you think yeah I announced it probably descent I remember sometime mid-december I announced it that we were opening up our store marks for as soon as I knew it was like secure and everything it was fun it's been an amazing five years I have to say my whole when you walk in I wanted people to feel as comfortable as they do in their living room I wanted the big farm table I wanted the candy on the table the candle burning this is sort of like how my house is hmm and it's very inviting and people are always you know cut well not really anymore because I work a lot but I was always entertaining and everyone always felt so nice and comfortable and we just had our five year anniversary a few weeks ago and the amount of people that came through those doors was so I mean it was it made it yeah it made it all worth what it really did right I mean there were so many people you people haven't seen in years that came out to support me and I was like you know what you know sometimes you have a bad day at work it's hard you know you screw something up you do something wrong I never quit I always just keep going keep keep unlike a grinder that's a Red Bank Pike said she was like a grinder you just keep going and seeing all those people come through those doors like oh I couldn't I didn't never wanted to miss it and I was like you know I really touched their lives and this that's a special thing so that's what makes this all worthwhile yeah yeah yeah I love seeing the coverage of that um I think it was just mostly on your Instagram yeah a little bit in your podcast and I just loved seeing all the the you just seemed really overwhelmed in like almost surprised I was the first day I opened I was surprised yeah my husband right-bank Mike said you know busy this weekend and I said no one we're not gonna be people don't know we're here we're not going to be busy he said I see he said I think there's gonna be a lot of people I said dad I don't think so I think maybe three four people will come maybe it's like three four people come be able to go out of business and I was just floored I mean we had a line of people and I kept apologizing to people like I'm so sorry I never anticipated anyone was going to be coming but everyone always makes fun of me and says you know Christina why would you think no one would come even for the anniversary I didn't never thought I never want to like go insane oh yeah I have tons of people are going to come I always think oh my friends okay and a few people and then anything else is wonderful you know that is called humility yes it's a trait that is very desirable so well done thank you so sorry I have a bit of a chest cold that I brought home from Scotland from Scotland means that Middle East it wasn't you know a Scottish man in the suitcase I was there for st. Patrick's Day in cold so talk about your favourite story how did it get from birth to opening burgers opening well my mom I knit when I was a little girl crocheted you know my aunt taught me and my grandmother taught me but I never really took to it was this in New Jersey um no I grew up in Staten Island the rock as we like to it was right back Mike likes to call it mm-hmm and I didn't really you know I didn't have everyone else there you kind of did it wasn't really popular until Sex in the City they were like really knitting oh really Sex in the City Sarah Jessica Parker was knitting away it was like the early late 90s early 2000 when it started you had the eyelash yarn and all that fancy glittery you know posh stuff I mean purl Soho I remember going to purl Soho when I moved back to America because I lived in London and that's where my mom came and showed me how to knit again she went to a store in Staten Island and she learned to knit and said you need to do this because I think you'll enjoy it I did it and I became hooked but when I lived in London there was only debbie bliss Noro and rowan which i mean yeah that beautiful yarns but that was it in the States everyone had glittering eyelash and ribbon and all this fancy stuff and I wanted that and I still have some ribbon in there oh please because I used to come over hoard the yarn and then bring it back mm-hmm and then when we moved back all the stores started you know vogue knitting I mean yes the magazine was there but it really became popular also hope and I remember one purl Soho was on that street separate yeah mm-hmm they had like purl the fabric and then Provost oh yeah yes and they had you know just a really really teeny-weeny store they sold growing I mean hand I girls weren't I think mal brigo was one of the malla brigo was so popular Manos was so popular I remember when Tosh was you know made and died in the kitchen yeah yeah yeah you know so it's I've been addicted a Ravelry I'm one of the first when it was in beta yeah I mean amazing yeah hardcore yeah like this one so use it and how old was your son at this time cuz I feel like there's and I want to help how old your kids or two and you kind of came back to it because I feel like there's it I think there's a time when your kids are younger that it's just very like triage situation get a little bit yeah and then when you finally can kind of come back to yourself right it's where I find some people rediscovered it that's probably when I think he was first grade it you know when when we moved back he went into the first grade and then I have sweaters I've gone for sweaters I never finished because he algorithm and you wouldn't never wear anything the magnet even now I mean I make hats for his friends and stuff and yeah like you would you like what good things it's like homemade you know everyone else like Miranda she makes hats for all the girls for your home daughters yes yes um trying to think my guys were little and I was trying to knit very unsuccessfully because I was trying to juggle two kids and working full-time and every time I turned around they were dueling with my knitting and I would be missing the needles that's how I started using a circuit because they would take the straight needle so I figured I'll fix up and I didn't have the chance to do it probably until the kids hit their teens and then I was able to refocus and get started yeah sitting in the car waiting and yes yeah I think my kids were a problem my youngest was my first grade when I really sort of go back into it and then I had a baby and she's a lot younger than the other two and I was so excited when I figured out nursing and knitting I was like look at this just balance that boob and the right spot and I can knit while you eat well you know you have it admits right yeah yes well that's so cute she makes just projects yeah that's pretty good at it but she goes in and out you know because it's so demanding it is bullying practicing she's on the swim team and yeah lots going on for her and she doesn't she doesn't have to do it every day like I have to write every day so she comes she comes in and out I think part of it is she realize she's the middle childhood she really wants special attention she's gotta like do what I do right right that's right eventually so she has to go along with you too right but I mean yeah but she's good at it although she's not allowed to go to Rhinebeck yet but we did go to Maryland she oh yes yeah that's where I saw her yeah but she's good at it like she understands it and I don't know if it's because I'm a pretty good knitter now so I can teach her things whereas someone who can only make a scarf they're only gonna be able to teach a scarf right right so maybe that's why what she really seems to get it and she's a problem solver that she would never do but that's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah so anyway so um you came back to the states and you dope into everything that was available here at cetera yeah and then my son was probably seventh grade I think seventh grade and that's I wanted to create a place like I said that I can go to there was never really a place that was local that I could go to that you know had you know long table and meat fiber friends and I mean this table how many friends have you met from here you know from just this table there's people who sit down yes and we have a whole crew yeah I mean it's amazing and that's what I wanted to create and when I open the store I said you know I could do this I could take this but why did you go online first because Red Bank Mike wanted me to dabble into it to see if I like yeah yeah yeah it was soft opening into it you know it's a big responsibility it's a financial commitment I mean it's very expensive now were you working before or were you when I have a nice son I I you were saying stay-at-home mom and I and I raised him I said you know what I've raised to seven years of you know some seven grades are good you're on your own now but you really strike out a lot of independence at that agent so it's that's when you start looking for something else to do because it was boy you know I thank my you know I think we're lucky stars every day that I have this business now my son's at college you know a freshman in college and you know the only one that's really missing out well that's why I read Mike Mike some I dunno my son's at college and you don't realize you this takes up so much of my time it's great you know I bet it was an easier transition it was I didn't have the business yeah I can't imagine not working because you have an only child oh yeah raise that child and then know what yeah right ten years of that and Miriam over here she's gonna retire soon okay so we say keep saying you have to retire so you can come hang out with us I really do yeah do you work here at the store I do not work at this door I had my 15 seconds of working in five minutes it was about me it's it's overwhelming and you only know when you were in California it was more than I anticipated yes because I think a lot of us dream of having a yarn store so what's your insight from taking over so just to explain christina worldtravellers she went to stitches west and it was that for fun or about business for fun and so you volunteered right - - I got this Thursday night it's all that I'm here anyway I know this and I'm thinking I give her the key she's like about it's official I was doing say it's like I can come and play with you anytime I move it I can sleep here if I really wanted to cuss but um there are certain things that I can do and there are a lot of things that I can't do Sonique hands first um I can ring the register if you know okay got this $26 - ching ching that i can do put the receipt over that's great you walk through the door hi how are you welcome to Chelsea yarn can I help you with anything and then I have to pray that they say no because that's where the wheels come off you know what need to pick a color do you like pink black and gray because that bit my wheelhouse don't you see everyone wears baby pink everywhere you go I mean Christy if you if you had a pick of color if you owned a yarn shop what colors would you won't be your first choices the thing that I think I just thought if I open a yarn store do with me Oh pink yarn yeah yeah I'm getting better I'm trying to challenge myself because here I bought yellow oh wait I have that too you know that I will I didn't buy it I should have bought that that's what is that the sport I got the Erin oh god I'm so job that was a what is that the last 17 yeah it was beautiful prose job good there Erin we yeah so I got it in fingering because creative CC has it in her so that my way and I have to do that now yeah that'll be good that so much time I'm gonna have my that's it fingering weight sweater yeah so so they can swear you felt paralyzed by people asking for a really personal help yeah um just basically like help me pick a color Oh normally winter and Christine is very good at putting colors together and seeing the potential and I tend to have very limited focus this is what I like this is what I wear this is what I'm gonna do if somebody else says oh you should try this it's like okay yeah I'll do it but I probably would not walk over there and pick those colors for myself so that was like the first bit and to make matters even more trying it was a customer calling from Oklahoma who wanted me to pick yarn for and her response was well Christina does it all the time and it's like but that's like Christina's good at this is not what I'm good at so she's panicking I wasn't mean I'm like Davey wavey are sending them to Christina and this agreement is on the phone with me for probably 40 minutes I'm like well what color did you wear and she said Oh Christina just put something together it's fine I'm not fussy and it's like we've got to be kidding me - did she have a project that she wanted to do she had a house that she wanted to make and she was just you know like just pick like if I can post something they'll call and say oh you posted blah blah blah today I want it pick me something out pick out something for me and then ship it oh and I have a lot of customers like that so it's it's sort of like oh I wanted to paint just give it to me in paint do you want you're in the loop of Blues I'll go with the blues so she was like I mean I think that's so fun I'm like oh yeah I remember I was I was deer in the headlights it was like oh my god this is so much harder than I thought it was gonna be I can't really work here because I'm realizing no oh yeah I really don't know enough about needing to help people with their programs oh well they dress you totally that's a stitch there you go you need to pick it back right up or oh I think you went the wrong way that sort of thing I can do but there's a lot of things that are not quite in my comfort zone and I'm realizing those I think readiness it's legal practice you know being you know you're in it all day long every day you know sometimes even when I work by myself I don't like working by myself I like the crutch of having someone with me is the second opinion I always have second opinions but I don't have that fake it till you make it personality where somebody can come in and say oh yeah these two colors are perfect together you should buy this but you could see I am kind of like the yeah and that's when I say oh I don't really work here I swear she goes this is our famous like I don't really work here yeah can I help you and then when they go and get it I bail completely like oh no sorry I really work here I was just sitting in it so that's not claim to fame my mom and I always ate I'm not from here um well I think that I too would be bogged down by all of the business side the business side is hard I mean it's a lot of work that's all it is if you I thought and I say this to enjoy I'll never forget she helped me set up the whole store and everything and one day I went to her on the back deck we were knitting and I said I think I'm gonna open up an online store just like oh that sounds like fun you know so anyway here we are setting up the store I thought it was going to be Andre and I and a few customers maybe coming in maybe not and all the yarn around us and me knitting on projects all day in my little world that's that's what I thought I was like oh it's a perfect situation if we want a snack we go coffee we have a coffee machine back there needless to say I was it was it is complete opposite I never knit mm-hmm I just by the time I get home sometimes I don't because you know I have to take care of the house and the things and you know your life gets in the way and sometimes when you're helping people at the table all day the last thing you want to look at when you go home sometimes you just want to like stare yeah am I gonna like this turn thought meditation yeah where you're like let me just stare at the wall yeah sorry anymore well your story's beautiful thank you and how has it changed in five years or is it pretty much the same it's evolved I mean it's changed with the yarns that we carry and the I guess projects that we're knitting you know we always knit with the top whatever's in style whatever's hot talk about the community that you have here like what if people are if they're gonna adopt this as their local yarn shop what happens here like what knit alongs went in at night we have a Thursday night is our late night and people come and hang out around the table and really every day people come and hang out there are certain people that come certain days the big days would be like Thursday night but then there's a group of ladies that come Friday and then Saturday is a huge day like the table is always packed and we're like two tables but you know every day there's always a different group some people can't come Thursday or Saturday so they then they create their own little Sunday group so it's you know some people work during the week they're too tired to come out on the Thursday night sometimes Miriam's like you know you work all week it's hard to but people manage to find time to come and they really enjoy it they have little knit alums that they start by themselves something secret that you know one can look at it with in her bag which is worth she oh she was like a secret she likes to have that privacy yeah there's like people looking in her bag to see what she's doing she does or she'll have a decoy project she'll think something to need here and she's working on the good stuff at home yes she's funny like she's very fun I do have a hard time socially anything though because I can't stay yeah me too no that's actually if you had those garter stitch projects yeah that's what you're just knitting yeah yeah that's what I like yeah and now talk about when you started dyeing yarn so I I'm really distracted by this in the bowl I want to wear that this one no the other one it's that Chelsey mixer do I need to wear this so I started dying we were waiting on a delivery for one of our hand dyed yarns three years in 2012 no it was about three three years ago or four years ago long story short it was the wool walk and we needed to get a delivery of this yarn and it didn't show up more I found out was wasn't going to show up in time so I was panicking and I said I could do this oh yeah I could do this this is no problem so I ordered the yarn or the thing and I'm autistic I mean I went to art school it's like you know I know what I'm I know what I'm doing so Mike okay here we go so I start dabbling in I've bought a lot of kool-aid I tried it out I said okay I got this Here I am how many years later and I think that that is the most that's the most popular yarn at the shop your hand in my hand I go yeah mm-hmm it's like crazy if I put it in up secretly sometimes yeah it's gone it's like it just dosed people come in they call if we talk about her on the podcast I mean I mean I posted they inbox me it's I can't keep up with the demand I spent the time that you were away wanting the back office because I was sure you had left me to earn for the hipster oh all right it's like I saw it I saw it in the pot she sent me a picture of it I know it's gotta be here somewhere she would die any second for me and Spacey and I thought yeah if you put it down it goes it's I mean it's it's a good feeling it's a little overwhelming because it's a lot of work yeah I mean a lot of work and now I did it I used to dedicate Sunday's to dying that was my day off I need one day you have to have a one day otherwise you get burnt out I do all the social media I do all the store so everything but the dying is a lot of legwork yeah and heavy lifting pots of water it's you know I mean my workout clothes I'm dripping sweat by the time I'm done but I enjoy it I enjoy being creative it's it sets me apart from everyone else yeah and I love it okay so you die at once a week once sometimes twice a week but definitely once a week yeah so I fill orders that I have online or I feel I fill the shop the shops been bare for a while because we have a trunk show at Navy City next month and then we're doing the New Jersey Wawa waaahh so been hoarding mm-hmm but I actually made you a present you did mm-hmm that's for you and everything inside yeah feels very heavy yeah oh my gosh this is all for me yeah look at is that not your color I love it it's so it's so soft that's our single base oh my goodness I can make it I can make objects mm-hmm yes I did and that's from right back Mike okay so this I have to talk about this because I still don't know what money coming in that is a Kahuna okay so why is it called the government said you have to ask read back Mike back such a night said thank you I've been trying to figure out what it must have missed one of your podcast is that cuz then you were talking about the Cahoon all the time I'm like I need to figure out what the equipment so explain what this gorgeous amazing gift I just got it is so Red Bank Mike actually wanted to be here to give it to you but unfortunately his real job didn't get in the way that's right I understand so what the Kahuna I bought a cake over like last summer or the over the summer from skiing cocaine mm-hmm I bought a cake of yarn I wanted to make crochet this blanket and it was like 20 skeins of yarn went into a magic knot and it was all different colors it to be like a wheel like this yeah so you don't have it's continuous so you don't have to change colors it's all done for you did she have it in one of her options honestly yeah and I thought I was like what I want that I want to make a blanket but I'm not a bright colored person I'm very subdued baby pink and muted tones and everything yes yes totally got it so I had all my yarn and I said babe can you make me one of these and he said sure so I gave him yarn and he I said you have to learn the magic not so he's like yeah I'll do it for you he loves winding my yarn yeah it's therapeutic there's groups of people in there in the New York Times that that right did you read that that there were they were unwound yarn or Andrea was telling us about that someone was telling us that so like they would like to unravel us gather or why yarn but not knitter no that's all balled up but it's like a puzzle get to the end so I gave it to Red Bank Mike and he's like yeah sure he watched the video on YouTube there he was he's standing there into this big cake and people at the store like oh I'll buy that how much is that I want that how much is that like Germany more cuz it's several schemes of yarn at 1 we get the whole project yeah the whole project that's what the DK 700 yards yeah it's close bits and bobs he names them too yeah really yeah it's healthy luck DK colors yes so it started out that we were just making little ones and then people and I was like wait um I want money you did this to make me at one where is my never got one thing all started flying out the door playing at the door and then he made I gave him my yard I said this is mine don't sell it ha ha ha and then it really came out nice and he said I would never sell it that's and I was so excited I had my thing he made it people who were haunting us on our social media like I want that cake I have to have it and he just there there was Red Bank Mike was born so why okay think all right ready because he used to be Stan we used to create a nickname for him when we were in Colts Neck that was Stan host and stuff and Stockwell so he used to stock the shelves he didn't but we were like babe you know yelped out with the orders tag just sent in some like hats kind of hands yeah it was too fancy for the we needed some kind of like a worker like supporter is going to like casual or white collar the little desk job you know we need someone to help us out around ya jock they muscley knew the muscles like forklift yeah everything so he's like yeah I love so he signs start signing orders love Stan well when we moved to Red Bank Stan just didn't he just didn't he didn't cut it yeah so Red Bank Mike took over now has anyone ever seen him on the hunt you so that's the mystery okay am I allowed to see a picture oh sure yeah I'm gonna tell you if you look like Red Bank there is very mysterious very mysterious so we we joke around we want to get the enamel pin with the bag over his head holding of kahuna right I think what we call it a Cahoon that yeah I think he just he just started I think one day the Big Kahuna is the what would I make with this uh we could do a shawl I mean you have 700 yards so you could do a shawl I was thinking about a little like a little granny oh yeah that would be really cute because then I don't have to think about right you just go yeah you crochet I do crochet and I have been lately like finding myself on websites where I think I'll let me get five colors I can easily but this is Sunday we go like go really fast and we could like spring/summer thank you because it's 700 yards of DK so I got so now I die all the yarn for him or the cojones well actually this says a big mix of fingering superwash merino singles up nylon glitter but but this is oh okay idea so that's what just the label principle and he adds notes mmm I love that and this I think maybe gonna make a cardigan yeah what do you think I think so like isn't there one called the featherweight oh yeah good pretty good yeah because I keep thinking like today I was like it's not a little card yeah empanada yeah okay so talk about when you started the podcast and wine whoa oh yeah Miriam and Miriam was saying I was obsessed with watching podcast I kept saying I want we should podcast we should behind counties we should really podcast I knew she'd never do it so it was safe it was in a memory at your comfort like yeah yeah Christina we should podcast and then one day you said I said well I said yeah we're rocking I mean we said it for two years yeah we really said - we were talking with it back in forth until this summer you were off you know she's off she's a teacher so she's off in the summer and we said all right let's do it okay Sunday we're gonna podcast and I showed up so not my Yummie just a twin with t-shirt and I had on my like far outfit you know I just came back from bar and I and I was like okay we're gonna do this you think we would really post it I mean I didn't know anything about editing but of course I taught myself how to do that and there we go I like it I think you've really hit your stride mm-hmm do you think that you have seen that you've come you've come a long way yeah I mean we gotten more comfortable yeah yeah Rajani what happened you have here you know each other so yes Miriam's great everyone says you picked the right person for the podcast and I said hi I didn't pick her we sort of like you know we fell in yeah yeah and I think that we're great I mean we're two opposite you know and it's it's but like it's opposite like I I'm very extravagant and and everything and you're always like the calm cool and she just leaves me in she just will lead me into it and I'll now do you notice when you put up a podcast that you get sales from it like is that is that happening we do yeah we do yeah yeah on it yeah yeah yeah a lot of people a big reason why should have one if you're a little air I you know we didn't do it for that just for fun every this is what we're doing just add to your social media yeah so I I did it because we wanted to talk about the love of our fibers and you know I mean I never in my wildest imagination thought that anyone was going to buy anything from the podcast first of all can I watch it and dust free yarn the only person that ever since this free yarn with Leon Alexander blesses art yes he's from Oklahoma he sent us a package that thing went around Red Bank and back we got it in January he says yes so funny but duh who's gonna send to your shop make it happen happy to share I know I'll totally share fun I mean it's it's definitely fun I mean we don't really we don't have show notes or anything we do you know do you do show not very very little yeah I expect my people to figure it out mm-hmm I have playlist I'm like if you want to know what I'm wearing go to the finished objects playlist it's on there okay I do try not to wear something unless I've already talked about it okay for example this is the I heart cardi you can go to the finished objects playlist and see all about it one of these we didn't we didn't talk about all the bases and we got distracted by my gift your love this is the hundred percent the marina Barbarino hmm I love those my why that's my favorite base and this is that's our DK oh hello it's my bad I like that too it's really soggy sheet and then you got them oh I'm like obsessed with yeah I don't do that we have a chunky a glitter in a sock glitter and then we have like a know you have a lot you don't know I mean I do this was I told her to show me a favor my favorite and so if you want to come to the wall walk when is it April the third week in April 19 20 21 okay they're having their we are called on to love it you are a man here but it's yeah good weekend it was bring I hope you in town no you gonna miss it uh yeah but it is exciting for oh yeah here here's the sparkle whoo so this is a little twisting in this part go yeah that's the stuff it's fun I am you guys so many things I know I'm like the jack of all trade your grinder I know you what I miss having that so yeah we oh I'm doing the trunk show at Nidhi City we're just going to be fun yeah that is really cool I'm really excited about that yeah I've never I never thought that I would people ask you know do you sell your yarn wholesale and I never thought about it I was gonna like to keep it exclusive when I was at Beau pearl said we want your yarn we wanted you and Red Bank Mike to come to a trunk show I can't turn them pearl no I mean I've known her for years I I mean she's like iconic in this India she's like an icon like I that's like saying no to you no no sorry I'm not gonna yeah yeah yeah I'm sorry Elizabeth like I'm sorry I can't yeah so and my mom is friendly with pearl I've known pearl my mom is one of her you know biggest fans of whatever and she always goes there and I said sure if there's one shop I'm gonna do it at yeah I feel like I always see you and your mama you're in events knowing one second and we're both like hi yeah the directions when we see each other but your mom and how are you we have met yours I'm Troy misty gears to all three of us yeah so we're like the traveling pack we go all over now we we had to bucket list this year of going to switches West and Edinburgh yeah that was really that was really good yeah so I want to do a little tour of the shop before we go but I am instead of nine questions I'm just asking one this year so I will ask it to both of you why do you know um oh my gosh that is such a tough question to answer because there are so many reasons for it I knit because I liked create beautiful things and I'm it because it saves my sanity sometimes it's hard to tell which is which mm-hmm III mean I definitely can say I knit I like my fingers moving I like the feel of the fingers moving with the fiber through my hands and then creating a garment a hat or a sock or something that you can wear it's amazing and with all this you know mass-producing of clothing you know away and not in the America I love sourcils and things that are made in the USA and and knitting it here and not buying it from overseas when you buy a cardigan like if you want to buy this yeah it would be hundreds if not a thousand dollars your hand knit garment yeah and you can make it yourself with fiber that's nicer than what's in the stores I love it I can't I can't imagine my life without it well thanks Chelsea pearls of Chelsea yarn and red make my we're gonna do a little tomorrow okay so now we're gonna do a quick little tour of Chelsea yarns and it's such a beautiful store when you walk in it's just like clean organized I feel like I could shop here on time so you show me what you have this is our this is where I have all the Chelsea locks mm-hmm I love the candles by the way they smell always burning yeah it's not something yes okay here's we have this is like a huge major with pom-poms and this is depleted actually this is like build-a-bear yeah you come in and you like create your hat it's like a hat station the shop is set up by weights so we start with fingering hmm I have a bunch of indie tires I support a lot of the locals yeah so all the local New Jersey New York a lot of that yeah I like that we have DK worsted nice fancy worsted you know yes you're on over there yeah there's the fancy words dang so everything is I love how you have the cubbies I think that I think I like white yeah I do too it's really nice and you have shutters color yeah and you have sweaters quantities everything yes there are some things like usually I mean usually we do yeah so this is where it happened this is where the Big Kahuna magic happened what he calls the Kahuna car huh I like that I put a whole bunch of stuff on here but he's cleared it out since I love this this is like a major Swift here this is the real this is and it's electric so I can put it on and walk away and I love that it's good I like this little section this is nice good you can get the patterns and we don't know you this is my favorite stuff hookah girls like oh yeah it's like the best fun it's a good one right there mm-hmm and a lot of yarn shops to only have the minis so you just went to the bullfight talked about it and it's so good so it's crazy I just click OK it's so soft it's so everything special reminder I'm doing a Carolyn hell cashmere and I 40th birthday you have till January to save up because it starts January 1st 2019 really yep and it ends my birthday in April I name so what do your doing your own pattern no we're just using Clinton Hill cashmere so we're saving up for the year for our garments worth of Clinton Hill cashmere because it's like you have to save $40 a month you do starting in January where it all depends on the person well yeah I mean think of it that way yeah like going up yeah so you have one year to save we're in month four now so you can still catch up beautiful beautiful beautiful I still have a name of Woolfolk I really want to sub one of our biggest sellers so beautiful beautiful I mean it's gorgeous and then we get bulkier and chunkier as we go chunky primrose Tosh back there fibers like a lot of you know yeah our favorite yeah and the little spinning action I think I skipped over the samples hold on let's look at these you have samples here we come cute I should have a baby huh yeah I just I can just knit for the baby no I'll have grandbabies little maybe I'll just start knitting for the grandbabies now mary-kate listen my daughter's 16 and I made my mom my grandma when she around the corner around the corner okay and then over here we have the loopy chunky chunky boogie boogie yeah love the Marino number five yeah I saw that video that you guys didn't love I love dinner maybe not them I mean I I just love it yeah so good and look at your cash wrap it's adorbs I love all the tasks is to look at your tassels do you make all these yeah they're so cute pin action yes oh you tubers holding them out I love it it does feel like home yeah well done be real wholehearted creative vulnerable humble there's the humble again thanks so much Christy for happy-ass thank you good [Music]

Channel: kristyglassknits

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Length: 47min 3sec (2823 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 17 2018