Becky McNaughton at Coats and Clark
Becky McNaughton
University of Missouri
interning at Coats and Clark, Charlotte NC
Becky McNaughton - 2008 PiPN Intern
This summer I worked with the Design Production Manager at Coats and Clark. I helped organize and keep track of four new knitting and crochet books she is putting together. Each book has 12 to 15 projects, which we had designers make. I was in charge of photographing and tagging each project as it came in. My favorite book was the book of projects to make for charities. I researched many charities and did write ups on each to be included in the book. It was great to see the whole process of how a project book gets made.
That was a majority of my summer as well as various other office duties including updating spreadsheets and making copies. I also did the color layout for one of our new yarn catalogs. There were many different projects I did along the way, but these two stick out.
For my final project I worked through an old learn-to-crochet book and then rewrote and retyped the entire book. I also suggested projects to go in the book and helped with the general layout.
This whole summer has been a whirlwind and a journery that I am so glad I took. I learned so much in the class in Akron and my eyes are now open to how big and wonderful this industry is. I didn’t really know anything about the yarn industry before this summer, and now I am considering a carreer in it! It is definately a program worth looking into.
Becky McNaughton working at Coats and Clark - PiPN 2008
Becky McNaughton at Coats and Clark