Knitters are always looking for great yarn to add to their stash. That’s what Ohio native Robin Richey was doing when she happened upon a mobile yarn store at a local fiber festival. The yarn truck selling colorful fibers was all the inspiration Robin needed. She was hooked.
“A yarn shop on wheels, how cool is that?” Robin excitedly told her husband. She had toyed with the idea of having a traditional brick and mortar shop, but wasn’t too thrilled about the overhead costs of maintaining it. “I wanted a food truck and I kept pitching the idea to my husband,” she explains, “but he kept coming back to an RV. “Robin’s husband was convinced she wouldn’t be comfortable driving around in a food truck. Plus, he further added that it would cost more …show more content…
Birdie travels locally to fiber events and festivals. “I’ve done some farmers markets, but yarn venues are the best places,” says Robin. The mobile yarn shop features top of the line fibers from American business. She also carries indie yarns dyed exclusively for her shop. The RV stock needles, unique stitch markers, project bags, shawl pins, yarn bowls, soaps, buttons, and other items knitters love.
Robin says the best part of owning a mobile business is the flexibility. “I roll in and I roll out,” she says, “there’s no stress and drama of a store.” Birdie has been in business for nearly a year now. Robin has already mapped out her summer fiber festivals tours which will include all the ones in Ohio and some in Indiana and Kentucky.
What does the future hold for Robin and her mobile yard shop? “For right now, I enjoy this. It works so well,” she says. She has no plan to open a brick and mortar shop, although she might expand her website. There’s also plans in the workings to renovate one of the spaces above one of her barns on her eight-acre property for a gathering space for knitters. “In knitting, you never know a stranger,” says Robin. She hopes to have a space to let knitters create and shop the RV for
“A yarn shop on wheels, how cool is that?” Robin excitedly told her husband. She had toyed with the idea of having a traditional brick and mortar shop, but wasn’t too thrilled about the overhead costs of maintaining it. “I wanted a food truck and I kept pitching the idea to my husband,” she explains, “but he kept coming back to an RV. “Robin’s husband was convinced she wouldn’t be comfortable driving around in a food truck. Plus, he further added that it would cost more …show more content…
Birdie travels locally to fiber events and festivals. “I’ve done some farmers markets, but yarn venues are the best places,” says Robin. The mobile yarn shop features top of the line fibers from American business. She also carries indie yarns dyed exclusively for her shop. The RV stock needles, unique stitch markers, project bags, shawl pins, yarn bowls, soaps, buttons, and other items knitters love.
Robin says the best part of owning a mobile business is the flexibility. “I roll in and I roll out,” she says, “there’s no stress and drama of a store.” Birdie has been in business for nearly a year now. Robin has already mapped out her summer fiber festivals tours which will include all the ones in Ohio and some in Indiana and Kentucky.
What does the future hold for Robin and her mobile yard shop? “For right now, I enjoy this. It works so well,” she says. She has no plan to open a brick and mortar shop, although she might expand her website. There’s also plans in the workings to renovate one of the spaces above one of her barns on her eight-acre property for a gathering space for knitters. “In knitting, you never know a stranger,” says Robin. She hopes to have a space to let knitters create and shop the RV for