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New Carmel yarn shop highlights community ties, mental-health benefits of knitting
Summary
The owner of a recently opened yarn shop in Carmel says she opened the store after 20 years of knitting to provide a local space for craft, community and wellbeing; she highlighted collaborations with a Bloomington dyer and community-named yarn colors.
The owner of a new yarn shop in Carmel said she opened the business after two decades of knitting to bring a local place for knitters and crocheters to gather and learn.
"I've been knitting for 20 years and just thought we needed a yarn shop in Carmel," the shop owner said, adding that the store is intended to build connections and "showing people strengths and highlighting them in the store too."
The owner described the shop as both creative and restorative: "It's that and more. ... It's a way to express…
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