Two years ago my husband and our two best friends rented a house for two weeks on Cape Cod.  During our sightseeing adventures I found a charming and cozy yarn shop.  The first time I entered the store it was overwhelming.  The yarns were colorful and fun with strings, knots, fringes, and metallic threads swimming through them.  How yarn had changed since I had learned to knit several years ago.  I didn’t buy anything that day but I couldn’t get the yarns out of my head and I knew I would have to knit something.   I made a second visit to the shop and purchased enough yarn to knit an afghan.  The afghan didn’t work well but the yarns were spectacular and I started searching for something else to knit.

Another friend of mine had started knitting handbags.  Well, I wasn’t going to knit handbags since I remembered them as being floppy and ugly and not at all like my beautiful handbags.  Then I saw the cute handbag she had knitted and felted.  I decided this was a wonderful way to combine two hobbies I really love, knitting and buying handbags.

So I started knitting handbags, one after another.  When I got to twenty handbags, my husband finally had enough and said you either start a business or stop with the knitting.

He agreed that I needed more handbags to go with the hand knitted handbags and that is how our internet business started.