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Business Overview
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Business Overview
Avocado Fiber Arts currently in its first year as an online cooperative yarn store. Liz, Carly, and Becca are working to create a whimsical brand of yarn and fiber accessories. The store is currently hosted at http://avocadofiberarts.etsy.com. They are currently located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Avocado Fibers can be contacted at avocadofibers@gmail.com
Beginning in September of 2010, Avocado Fiber Arts yarn is now for sale at the Nomad Yarn Shop in Plainfield, Indiana. This is your chance to come feel our fabulous yarn in person.
The long term plans for Avocado Fiber Arts include marketing to existing yarn stores and to opening a yarn store centered around the Avocado Fibers brand.
Cooperative Members
Carly Zimmerman has been an avid knitter for 7 years, knitting designer for 6 years, and spinner for a bit over one year. She has also done some crochet and tunisian crochet. Carly operates the blog Goddess Sue Knits at http://goddesssue13.wordpress.com. She has numerous patterns published on Ravelry (free and for sale) and can be found under the username "goddessSue13". Carly is also a graduate student at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the program of Library Science. She also works part-time in retail and volunteers twice monthly at the fair trade store Global Gifts.
Liz Frost learned to knit 15 years ago (Because she is old), made one pair of leg warmers, and promptly forgot everything about knitting for a very, very long time. Always one to embody a cliche, Liz picked up the needles again in 2006 while pregnant with her first child. Liz crochets more proficiently than she knits, but her unhealthy obsession with miniature and sock knitting is closing the gap. She picked up spinning about a year and a half ago and has discovered spinning your own yarn does not, in fact, help limit yarn purchases. Liz sporadically updates the blog I Make Stuff and even more sporadically maintains a Ravelry profile under the alias "everinbluejeans". The only one of the collective unstable enough to both have and raise children, Liz stays home with two small boys every. single. day.
Becca Cross is not available to write her own biography. She is a professional jouster, with a penchant for pennants. She enjoys deep sea diving in vintage diving gear (you know, fish bowl + garden hose). In spite of being raised by wolves, she has proven to be a competent congresswoman and gardener. She knits on big needles only, and thinks Liz is somewhat nuts with her tiny instruments of torture. Eye Strain is not good for knitters! Becca spins haphazardly, knits compulsively and crochets when she can't think of anything else to do. She excels at procrastinating - hence someone else writing her biography.
Product Information
Avocado Fiber Arts produced high-quality handspun yarn from various fibers along with whimsical stitch markers made from polymer clay. Prices vary for skeins of yarn depending on what fibers and techniques were used to create them. Currently sale prices vary from $20 to $50. Stitch markers may vary depending on how many are in a set and the complexity of each set. Currently, all stitch marker sets are in the range of $8.
Avocado Fibers can also be commissioned for custom works. Collectively, they can manage orders for custom roving, yarn, knitted and crocheted goods, stitch markers, along with various other ideas. Liz especially would like to be commissioned for a pair of hand-spun, hand-knit socks. Anyone interested in commissioning custom items should submit requests on the Alchemy page of the Avocado Fiber Art's Etsy Store.
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