Behind the Business: The Yarn Shop

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) —Needles to say this story will have you hooked.

“I didn’t have any yarn shops and I’d come home and I’d go up to my husband and he’d get tired of it and I would do that over and over and over again until one October he said open your own yarn shop already," Kelly Souder, owner of The Yarn Shop recalled.

And that’s exactly what Kelly did. She opened her own shop at the Lynwood Plaza in Twin Falls for people who share the same passion, crocheting and knitting.

“When I was seven my grandmother taught me how to crochet. It’s always been a part of my life," Souder reminisced.

You’ll find yarn of every color you can imagine inside the store, and every type you’ll need.

“One hundred percent wools, to merino, the really soft, buttery merino wools, cottons, we have blends, we have alpaca, we have some of the synthetics as well, we kind of carry it all. Thinking about not just the product that we’re getting, we’re thinking about the animals that it’s coming from," she said.

Souder added that quality is better than quantity and she tries to find yarn distributors that are ethical in how they acquire the yarn, “We’re thinking about the sustainability of those farms.”

Souder said that knitting and crocheting has helped her through tough times, especially keeping her grounded when she was in the military and got deployed, “For me, going back to that and having crocheting to go to really helped me to ground myself and kind of bring me back home from the chaos that was happening during deployment.”

The Duke Cannon products they sell help veterans, something Souder considers very special.

The Yarn Shop also has socials and classes where you can learn how to knit, crotchet and take part in the yarning community.

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