Gathering Yarns

06/05/2025

Join Friends for Stitch in the Park, a World Wide Knit in Public Day event. Each year, stitchers all over the world gather in public to stitch and build community.

Stitch in the Park will be held on June 15, 2025, from 12-4 pm at Fort Washington Park, located in Fort Washington, MD. Parking is free, the event is handicap accessible and there are public bathrooms on site. Exact location in confirmation email with PDF tickets.

This event will also include short instructional sessions for both knitting and crochet called Tips on the 30. These sessions are first come, first serve. There will also be a raffle of yarn, needles, hooks, and other notions to raise funds for Project Knitwell, a local non-profit.You may purchase additional tickets through the instructions in your conformation email only.
Donations are apprecated. See confirmation email for more. Registration in bio or on Eventbrite. Be sure to share with all your stitching friends!

02/06/2025

We still have some great yarns in our remaining inventory.

Get 70% off all yarn. Orders will be processed and shipped in 1-2 weeks. Discount will be applied at checkout. www.gatheringyarns.com

*Note: This is not our .haynes.house.yarns business. That one is still going strong.*

11/25/2024

Black Friday Closeout Sale!

Friends, I know you haven't heard from us for a while.

It took some time for us to process closing the store. And in process, I mean take care of everything essential and not much more.

Just like the stages of grief, we are closing the shop in stages. Now is the stage where we sell the remaining inventory.

Starting today, all remaining yarn on the site is 60%. The discount will be applied at checkout so don't panic if you don't see it when you add items to your cart. Shipping is a flat $5 dollars.

We have lots of great yarns left, great for holiday gifts or to make holiday gifts (you still have a little time but not much 😁)

Thanks for your all your support and kind words. It's made this process easier.
Terri & Jazmyne

PS. We have not plans to reopen in another location. We closed because we ran out of funds. That fact is still true. If you would like to see a fuller explanation of the timeline of closing the shop, check out our Instagram page. There are several videos there.

11/25/2024

Friends, I know you haven't heard from us for a while.

It took some time for us to process closing the store. And in process, I mean take care of everything essential and not much more.

Just like the stages of grief, we are closing the shop in stages. Now is the stage where we sell the remaining inventory.

Starting today, all remaining yarn on the site is 60%. The discount will be applied at checkout so don't panic if you don't see it when you add items to your cart. Shipping is a flat $5 dollars.

We have lots of great yarns left, great for holiday gifts or to make holiday gifts (you still have a little time but not much 😁)
www.gatheringyarns.com

Thanks for your all your support and kind words. It's made this process easier.
Terri & Jazmyne

08/05/2024

Gathered.

We moved the rest of the small things out last night at 10 pm.

Glad I did it this way (although the Haynes are exhausted) because we didn’t make our funding goal.

Few more things to do to make it official.

Thank you to everyone whom helped us move yesterday. I appreciate you to the bottom of my heart.

And we’re keeping the best part of the shop: the community.

08/02/2024

Gathering Yarns is Closing

Stitching friends, it has been an honor to serve you as your local yarn store but the time has come to close our doors.

Several factors played into our decision. Commercial leases are not cheap. Out of the year we've been open, only two of those months have we been able to make enough sales to cover the rent. We could renegotiate the lease, but that brings us to the next challenge.

We didn't have the foot traffic coming through the doors. The shopping center where the shop is located is very slow, even with the new ALDIs. Also, although we have lots of knitters and crocheters in Southern Maryland, many of them spend their days commuting outside of Southern Maryland. I have lived in Fort Washington for 24 years, and it has always been that way. Residents leave for work in the morning and don't come back until the evening.

Another factor in our closing is that we couldn't obtain business funding. Statistics show that Black-owned and particularly Black-women-owned businesses only get 16% of business capital even though they are the fastest growing group of business start-ups. I made several attempts to get business funding from loans to grants with no success.

I faced the decision to stay open and incur more debt or to close. I have loved the community we built in the shop but it is time for us to close. But we could use your help.

We have to close and quickly. I would like to get out before I have to pay another month's rent. We are currently two months behind on rent and need to pay it before we leave. We are doing two things to make that happen:

-Everythintg in the store is 50% off except for Queen Sheba Beauty and the hand-dyed yarn. You can shop the sale online as well
-We have set up a Ko-Fi account for people to give if they can't shop
ko-fi.com/gatheringyarns/goal?g=10

Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated.

We have set aside Sunday for people to come in to say goodbye to the shop (we are not saying goodbye to Terri, Jazmyne, and Brian because we'll still be around). We will also be moving out on Sunday. We'd love to see you.

Thank you in advance and it has been wonderful to help improve your stitching skills and provide you with a safe place.

Fondly,
Terri, Jazmyne, and Brian

08/02/2024

Gathering Yarns is closing. Please shop our 50% off sale or donate to our Ko-Fi to help us transition out.

Support Gathering Yarns On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

08/01/2024

Please join us as we share important news.

07/26/2024

July makes one year and one month since we opened our doors. Fun fact: Sales are very slow for many yarn stores in the summer. When we opened, we really didn't have any idea about how the summer would go. Now that we know, we decided it's not worth the payroll to open on Friday. Unfortunately, we've made sales less than 20 Fridays last year.

So we'll be open by appointment only on Fridays. If you have a yarn emergency, schedule a shopping appointment. We're pretty flexible since we only live 2 minutes away. We'll still host the Friday Lunch Online Gathering. Also, if you already know what you want to buy, use the online store and select in-store pickup.

As always, we thank you all for being so supportive as we figure out what works for us as a business.

07/25/2024

New Friday Hours

July makes one year and one month since we opened our doors. Fun fact: Sales are very slow for many yarn stores in the summer. When we opened, we really didn't have any idea about how the summer would go. Now that we know, we decided it's not worth the payroll to open on Friday. Unfortunately, we've made sales less than 20 Fridays last year.

So we'll be open by appointment only on Fridays. If you have a yarn emergency, schedule a shopping appointment. We're pretty flexible since we only live 2 minutes. We'll still host the Friday Lunch Online Gathering. Also, if you already know what you want to buy, used the online store and select in-store pickup.

The link to schedule an appointment is on the website.
As always, we thank you all for being so supportive as we figure out what works for us as a business.

New Product Alert: Gathering Wool Box

Since we're talking about how our sales have been for the past year, one product that has sold exceptionally well is AT Haynes House Yarn. We love that you all love both our businesses.

So we've come up with a new collaboration....with ourselves. Introducing our Gathering Wool monthly box. Each month, we will have an exclusive AT Haynes House Yarns colorway and a small notion. We will offer the colorway on two of our bases. This is not a mystery box. We'll preview the colorway the last week of the month.

This month's colorway is called Stitch Night.
AHHY Colorway Story: Grab you project, have a seat on our couch and make a friend.

This colorway is availvle this month on AT Haynes House Yarns Bare Feet Sock (75% merino, 25% nylon, 463 yds/100 grams) and Community DK (100% merino, 231 yrds/100 grams).

This box is available online or in-store pickup. Get your box below. Remember, there will be a limited amount of these offered. Orders will be shipped the following Friday from when your order was placed.

Summer in Paris KAL/CAL

Our Summer in Paris KAL/CAL starts tomorrow. It's you chance to win a gift card as we craft and watch our athletes in Paris.

Here is the rules:

-Cast on/Chain on a project with the word "Paris" in the title. You can also do a Paris-themed project
-Register your project through our Google forms. This will count as your entry (it's too hard to track projects on all our social media profiles). Link below
-There will be two chances to win a $50 gift card. One participant will be drawn from the registrations. The other gift card (Gold Medal) will drawn from participants who finish their project.
-Cast on/Chain on July 26th. Projects entered into the gold medal category must be completed by August 11th

Register your project here: forms.gle/EfDCff79Nn3v7Cza7

And check out this Paris-themed pattern suggestion bundle on Ravelry. ravel.me/ButterFlutter/sip

07/24/2024

Cinnamon Roll Sunday was a great successes!

We feasted on banana rum and classic cinnamon rolls provided by my cousin Danita Talk about yummy and well worth the wait. It was such a great treat to enjoy with this group of peeps cause you know the conversation was LIT! 🔥🔥🔥

The next Cinnamon Roll Sunday is August 18th. The rolls are first come, first serve and we ain't saving no seats for nobody.

My heart was so full hanging out with stitching friends and we used every chair in the building. A time was had.

07/19/2024

Have you signed up for our Summer in Paris KAL/CAL?

We're stitching along with the world's best athletes this summer and you can join in. You also have a chance to win a gift card. Here's what you need to do:

-Cast on/Chain on a project with the word "Paris" in the title. You can also do a Paris-themed project
-Register your project through our Google forms. This will count as your entry (it's too hard to track projects on all our social media profiles). Link below
-There will be two chances to win a $50 gift card. One participant will be drawn from the registrations. The other gift card (Gold Medal) will drawn from participants who finish their project.
-Cast on/Chain on July 26th. Projects entered into the gold medal category must be completed by August 11th

If you need some project ideas, check out our suggested patterns. Of course, we're here to help you learn whatever skills you need to cross the finish line.

Register here! https://forms.gle/Jj7udAkXy6F6wBmB8