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Being bad at capitalism from a business perspective.
When I first started my knitting design business, it was to support my friend Jen at 626 Yarn and her Thai Iced Tea gradient sock set. We ended up raising funds to donate towards organizations that supported Asians and Asian Americans, during a time of rising hate crime against us. To be honest, as new businesses it doesn’t make very much financial sense to donate huge chunks of income. And yet, we have continually made choices which in any reasonable capitalist society would be called “bad business.” At…
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Making better sock choices: How I think about yarn.
Now that we've talked about all the ways to evaluate a yarn for sustainability reasons and for our personal values, why we shouldn't be horrible to other people who make different choices than we do, and the different things that make this a personal choice and not one size fits all... It's time to take a little look at how I personally make choices as a way to look into how one person might balance different factors in making yarn choices for a better world! This post is…
