You may have noticed this brightly colored sheep in the previous post about the Tarrytown Music Hall.
As you can see in the picture, it stands outside a yarn shop situated right next to the Music Hall. It’s certainly an interesting concept and it’s pretty much impossible to miss it. The shop is actually called Flying Fingers and it describes itself as follows:
Here at Flying Fingers, we are a family, woman owned and operated yarn shop. We strive to offer the best and most interesting yarns the world has to offer, and primarily focus on natural fibers, including wool, cotton, silk, alpaca, cashmere, and soy and bamboo. Flying Fingers grew out of Elise’s passion to knit, which started when she was taught fiber arts by her Mother all the way back in 1963. Elise was always making knit items for her kids, and when they grew out of the cute sizes, she then began designing and hand knitting sweaters, hats, and accessories which she sold at craft fairs across NYC and the tristate area, and Flying Fingers was born. It was a natural progression into a space where she could teach people her craft, the retail and classroom space opened in 2003. Shortly thereafter, we opened our web shop, and invited people across the country and the globe to be a part of our knitting family.
As we opened the shop, Elise’s father, who had always worked in retail running small shops of his own, was concerned when he learned his daughter sought to do the same. His main issue was always waiting around for customers to walk through the door. Elise chuckled, and said, Dad, I’ll just go get ’em! And the seed of the Yarn Bus was planted! Not one to do things by half measures, Elise called the company who was famous for making the Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile, and cooked up an idea to help bring the knitters straight to her door. The Yarn Bus hit with a huge splash, and brought Flying Fingers to local and national media across the country, including the Martha Stewart Show, The New Yorker, Regis Live, and more.
Over the years, our classes have continued to grow and thrive, and our website has expanded to the point where we decided to build a new one from the ground up! The timing is perfect, as the new Flying Fingers Generation is on the rise. This includes two of Elise’s children… Diana, who teaches several of our classes and is a crochet wiz, and Dillon, who’s art school background makes him the color maven, and has ventured into dying his own line, House Yarns! Our family has come to include Tina, who was Flying Fingers first employee, and is our main and most beloved teacher. As times change, so have we, and our classes are now both in person and through Zoom. We have reconfigured the shop for the time being to have individual desks, instead of a communal table. As hand crafters, we have been excited to find that there can be lots of fun fiber learning through modern means!
Our Flying Fingers Family is always growing, and we are excited for you to be a part of it!
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.
