My local yarn shop, Yarn Over.

At the end of this month my local yarn shop will close its doors and the business will then sell only online. Like a lot of local businesses,Yarn Over was never 'just a shop'. Both the present owner and the former owner always encouraged people to come to social gatherings based on a common love/interest in knitting and crocheting. Many groups would meet during each month and of course there were classes that people could attend. 

The knitting group I belong to, K4BN would conduct their monthly Knit and Natter at the store and member's purchases always attracted a 10% discount. And all customers could use loyalty cards to collect points for purchases and trade them in. And of course there was the staff...always helpful and friendly and ready to put the 'kettle on' for when regular customers dropped by...we could browse the shelves while we sipped or lounge on the sofas! 

Today was therefore the last Knit and Natter at Yarn Over for K4BN...and as usual we had fun...

There were generous discounts on stock...even a free giveaway basket to rummage through...our usual coffee/tea/ food goodies...but it was all tinged with a bit of sadness.

(All of us who attended were able to set up our User ID and password for the new website during the morning as well)