About Us
Yarn Hollow was born in 2005 as a hand-dyed yarn business, selling yarn and assorted items at the Fulton Street Farmer’s Market. The product assortment expanded in 2006 to include fiber for spinning, felting, and crafting. Yarn Hollow is dedicated to helping support the local economy by purchasing local wools and using them in a variety of ways, adding value to the process. The products being offered at the West Michigan Cooperative will focus on using wool from Agriculture and Health Alive in Marne, MI as the basis for a variety of products: items dyed, designed, and crafted with love and care, meant to add beauty and function to your life.
Ingredients We Use
wool, dye, fabric, fiber, recycled felt waste
Our Practices
Using local raw wool to support the farmers raising sheep and producing wool with earth-friendly practices. Using water conservation wherever possible in the dyeing process. Using nature, culture, art, and inspiration from around the world to design and create useful and beautiful items for your life.
Highlights
Raw wool purchased from Agriculture and Heath Alive has been made into roving (washed, carded, and unspun fiber) that has been dyed by Yarn Hollow and then sold to fiber artists around the United States and North America. Felt made from these fibers has been dyed and used in felt for sculptural forms that has been placed in areas around the Midwest and has been taken to as far as Greece.
Misc.
Rita Petteys, proprietor. Grew up in Grand Rapids, moved to Grandville after spending about 17 years in Wisconsin and the Detroit area. Married, two children, 8 and 5.
