Sweet Georgia Party of Five at WEBS

WEBS, America's Yarn Shop, as they proclaim it, is now selling Sweet Georgia yarns and advertising it on Facebook!

WEBS is a huge yarn shop located in Northhampton, Massachusetts. I have been getting e-mail updates from them for years. The shops annual sale (going on until the end of August 2016) draw thousands of customers due to their proximity to New York City. The business started with Barbara and Art Elkins in 1974 out of the basement of their home. The emphasis was on loom weaving at the time; by 1984 the business had to move to a new location and added knitting yarn to their stock and then moved again in 1987. At that time Art had retired from his professorship in business management at the University of Massachusetts and began working in the store full-time. It is about then their mail order business took off. Skip forward to 2002 when the second generation took over, Steve and Kathy Elkins. For more details check out the history of WEBS here.

Like Jimmy Bean in Reno, Nevada, WEBS is a destination yarn shop on the East Coast. The types of yarns they carry is so wide ranging and the prices so competitive, knitters have to see the spot for themselves.

The Sea to Sky combination

Imagine my surprise when I recently received a notification that WEBS is now selling Sweet Georgia Party of Five packs. If you join Sweet Georgia's club you receive a set of five small hanks of sock yarn each month. I was shocked to see they are also available at WEBS, an enterprise about as far away from the Canadian West as can be.

Good for you Sweet Georgia, good for you!

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