Handmade Portraits: MV Knits

http://www.etsy.com/storque/ar... See the article on Etsy's blog: the Storque, for more information. This video was featured on YouTube!After quitting her day job in Los Angeles and moving to Martha's Vineyard, a quiet island off the Massachusetts coast, Susan Gibbs aka MVKnits had a great idea. She started Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm and figured out how to make a living making yarn. Why not use the local food movement's model of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and apply it to a yarn harvest? Shareholders pay for a share in the yarn harvest as a way to support a local farm (or in this case, a local farm supported through the internet) and in return they get weekly updates, photos from the farm, an invitation to the shearing and ultimately a share of the yarn.Etsian Tara Young aka weirdwolf headed to Martha's Vineyard to visit Susan Gibbs and her fiber farm. Music by Barry London and Charlie Parr.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: etsy

Length: 06:32
Rating: 4.50
Views: 149108

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