i was listening to a podcast today called hello craft (.com). they had a woman speaking about her business called sublime stitching. it was inspiring and even though i thought i would never want to embroidery, i believe i will try a project with it. the project i would like to do is numbering, or initialing a set of cloth napkins. i won't be ordering anything from sublime stitching, but their designs are fun, very indie, no teddy bears or geese w/bonnets, as they like to say. http://www.sublimestitching.com/


another thing i heard about today was a company called knitouttathebox.com this woman was stuck in an airport for a few hours and tried and tried to find some supplies to knit with. she ultimately put a small business together on the basic premise that if available, people would buy a knitting kit as something to do when at an airport or even stuck on the plane. i enjoy knitting when traveling, and thought this was a great idea. everything you need in a cardboard tube, along with instructions for 3 different projects. there's enough yarn to choose one design.