Posts Tagged ‘knitting’
Knitwhits, Emeryville CA, joins PiPN list of hosts
Knitwhits is a knitting and crochet pattern company located in Emeryville CA. Recently, the company has expanded its offerings by adding a line of hand-painted knitting yarns, as well.
Located between Berkeley and Oakland and across the bay from San Francisco, this internship offers a great opportunity to learn all the basics of hand-dyeing yarns from prepping to post-dyeing yarn care, packaging and shipping. You’ll be assisting with marketing and promotions as well.
Knitwhits is a great place to work and a great place to learn. Check out more by downloading their information here.
PiPN Announces New Internship and Apprenticeship Opportunities for 2010-11
PiPN is happy to announce our new, exciting opportunities for internships or apprenticeships for the coming year.
Host companies include retailers, wholesalers, designers, retailers and manufacturers of products for the needlearts and crafts industries. Many of these companies are open to having someone either this fall yet, or during the winter months, as well as during the summer.
Download a pdf document with each company’s information and requirements by clicking on their names below.
Then, just fill out the intern/apprentice application on this site.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Knots – Knitting on the Square
Apply online to become a PiPN Host for 2010 – 2011
It’s time to sign up again to become a PiPN Host for the coming year (2010-2011).
NEW this year.
- Hosts and applicants can now choose any time period during the 2010-2011 academic year, as well as throughout the summer.
- Association members can now easily and quickly apply online. Click here for the Host Application.
- Applicants will also be able to register online.
Previous Hosts have applauded the program, and have commented that the experiences were enjoyable and rewarding.
Our interns have echoed those sentiments. Visit PiPN Lane to see more of what our interns have said about their experiences this year.
If you’ve never been a host, please consider participating this year.
It doesn’t take much . . . just a willingness to mentor a young, enthusiastic fiber arts lover, to share your knowledge and experience and love of this creative industry.
For more information, please visit TNNA.org College Outreach
There you will be able to download a quick overview of the PiPN program, as well as a more complete overview of the 2010-2011 requirements and schedules.
If you have been a PiPN host in the past, please complete the online application as well, so we have all your updated information.
PiPN 2010 Interns Announced
PiPN 2010 is proud to welcome the largest internship class to date.
This year, with the new format, close to 40 students registered for PiPN 2010. More than half have been placed, with several still pending.
Congratulations to the following:
- Bagsmith
- Ashley Schweikert – University of Akron
- BeSweet
- Caroline Moore – State University of NY at Geneseo
- Blue Ball Mountain Spindle
- Amy Church – Western Kentucky University
- CNS Yarns
- Helen Cosgrove-Davies - Bryan Mawr
- Coats-N-Clark
- Samantha Lever – East Tennessee State University
- Crooked Fence Alpacas
- Alyssa Edlund – University of Utah
- Kimberly Trusken – Kent State University
- Handworks Studio
- Trekina Miller – Missouri State University
- Knit Knack
- Julia Rhoden – Colorado State University
- Knitgrrl
- Abra Forman – apprentice
- Sarah Jo Mosbech – apprentice
- Knitting on the Square
- Alice Koelsch – University of Akron
- Loopy Yarns
- Jacqueline Shunnara – University of Alabama
- Royal School of Needlework
- Justin Campbell – University of Akron, graduate student
- SoHo Publishing
- Claire Kersey – Georgia College & State University
- Amanda Montgomery – University of Akron
- Stitches Etc., Beth Gantz Designs
- Diane Capuano – apprentice
- Tanglewood Fibers
- Mariel Snetman – University of Alabama
- Emily Sidle – University of Akron, graduate student
- Yarn Designers Boutique
- Erin Rice – Art Institute of California-SF
- Yellowbird Yarn Room
- Jennifer Weiland – University of Akron
There are still a number of opportunities available for this summer:
- Barbara Bergsten, Chagrin Falls OH
- City Knits, Detroit MI
- Cowgirl Yarn, Laramie WY
- Fiber Arts Yarn Shop, Cape May NJ
- Fine Points, Cleveland OH
- Kreinik Manufacturing, Parkersburg WV (2)
- Maria’s Knitting & Crochet, Chula Vista CA
- Red Barn Yarn, Pasadena CA
- The Needlepoint Boutique, Collingswood NJ
Zoe Valette’s internship at Knitgrrl – seeing what it takes to run a needlearts business
My time spent working at Knitgrrl Studio this summer with Shannon Okey has been a terrific learning experience. Shannon does a wide variety of things in her business; she is an author, magazine editor, designer, teacher, and more. She recently opened her own studio space, so I got to see firsthand what it takes to start a small business from the ground up. She works with a wide variety of fiber arts; not just knitting but also spinning, felting, dyeing, and sewing.
Shannon has been a great mentor, including me in her meetings and in the general planning of her business so that I could really see what it takes to run a small business in the art and craft world. I’ve gotten to do a little bit of everything while I’ve been here. I’ve worked on knitting patterns and knit samples, and I researched and wrote an article for Yarn Forward, the UK knitting magazine that she edits. I’ve gotten to meet other local artists and business people that she works with on a regular basis. It’s been really useful for me to see what kinds of opportunities, both in business and the arts, are available in this area and might apply to me back home. One of the big projects that I took on this summer was working on her new online store; she sells a wide variety of fiber arts supplies as well as knitting, crochet, embroidery, and cross-stitch patterns from a wide variety of designers. Tech-savviness is not one of my strengths, so it has been really useful for me to learn to work with some of the on-line software that she uses.
It’s been a great summer; I’ve gotten to help Shannon start really interesting several long-term projects in different areas. The hardest part about the internship ending is that I won’t get to see all of these cool projects that we started continue to develop first-hand.