April - Humble Beginnings
The references are relayed in the images above this one.
May - Ramping Up
Courtesy of The Wayback Machine, I have dredged up some snippets from my original weebly website and blog....
Yarn on the move...
It started like this...
June
Pop ups hit the calendar. I want to point out that NOBODY knew me. I was some random knitter that built an idea off a meme, and then canvassed traders at Woolfest with that idea. I also got approached by dyers that heard about what I was doing and wanted to be on the yarn wagon. I put together a contract of sorts as this was a very big trust exercise (and still is) and I wanted to keep everything above board.
I ended up collecting 36 suppliers for the debut road show.
stitching up a road trip
July
Sh!t gets real
latest happenings
October - Hitting the Road
I was new at the documentation thing so I have very few photos from the debut trip, but I have some. This is from the Tauranga pop up at Chapel Cafe.
This was from the Napier one.
This is from the Wellington one.
And I think this was me re-organising myself at my brother's place in Wellington
And this is from Palmerston North
And this is from Taupō.
In all honesty I can't remember a lot from this trip (7 years on). There are snippets peeking through though...
I was still employed at the time and my colleagues very much enjoyed the yarn deliveries to the office. We all stopped for morning or afternoon tea so I could see what colours were becoming part of my inventory.
I remember the full feeling in my chest when people descended on the pop up - like I couldn't believe it was real even though it was happening right in front of me.
And I think it was on the drive from Napier to Taupō, but I remember knowing that this was something that I wanted to keep doing, and (after other contributing factors) I quit my job and embraced self employment. Something I never thought I'd do.