When Webs opened their doors on May 16, the first day of the store’s annual tent sale, store manager Angela Cheek watched as a rush of people flowed through the doors for three whole continuous ...
Kathy and Steve Elkins (right) accepts the Human Service Forum Business Award from HSF Board President Barbara Pilarcik (left). HOLYOKE --The Human Service Forum and nearly 200 attendees celebrated ...
NORTHAMPTON — It’s such a good feeling — as the song goes — for WEBS yarn store in Northampton to know it helped bring Mister Rogers to the big screen. Costume designer Yasemin Esmek knitted all the ...
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – A popular yarn store in Northampton named ‘Webs’ has been recently sold to new ownership. The owners Kathy and Steve Elkins have kept the business in the family for more ...
Ordinary citizens of Northampton, MA, may not have known who the Yarn Harlot is, but the more than 600 knitting enthusiasts who converged on the town of 29,000 people on May 30 sure did. Also known as ...
Kathy and Steve Elkins, former longtime owners of WEBS America’s Yarn Store, who will still be running the business, talk Thursday about the changes at the company. Credit: STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS ...
Knitting has never been hipper. New York City yarn shop owners report that the fiber arts — such as knitting, weaving and in particular crocheting — are having a moment. Gen Z, in discovering the ...