Crafting Out Their Knitch
Shelves are stuffed with brightly colored balls of yarn at the store tucked next to Harold’s on Campus Corner.
More balls and skeins litter the remaining surfaces. While still in the process of moving to its new location, Happy Cat Yarn Shop is already bursting with enthusiasm for knitting, just like its owner, Danya Streetman.
Happy Cat has outgrown two facilities in less than two years. This week the store is moving to a larger location at 588 Buchanan Ave. on Campus Corner.
Streetman said she is planning to open the new location Wednesday.
“She’s making a livelihood from her passion,” fellow-knitter Renee Wegemer said. “It really is an extension of herself.”
And Streetman incorporates all her passions into her job.
Streetman has been crocheting since she was in kindergarten. One of her mother’s college-age students taught Streetman to crochet using her fingers.
When she grew up, she had three children and was a stay-at-home mom. She would knit or crochet as she waited for her children to get out of school or extracurricular activities. That’s where she got the idea for starting a yarn shop.
Photo from morgueFile.
Crafting Out Their Knitch on August 6th, 2007 6:54 pm
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