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Gist Yarn opened in 2017 as a little yarn shop with a big idea: inspire a growing community of weavers with quality weaving yarn, fresh pattern designs, and a warm and welcoming spot to find your weaving home.
Since then, we’ve grown to a small team proud to contribute to a thriving textile industry by working with fiber farmers, spinning mills, dyehouses, weaving teachers, pattern designers, and brick and mortar yarn shops.
We offer a growing collection of patterns for rigid heddle and multi-shaft weavers. We also host the Weave podcast, which brings together a community of weavers and makers, farmers and mill owners, dyers and loom manufacturers, to tell the stories of the threads that bind us together. We are proud that thousands of our patterns and podcast episodes are downloaded each week from people around the world.
Our community of customers has helped this small business thrive every step of the way - powering our growth with pre-orders, sharing your feedback, cheering us on, and weaving your magic into our yarn. We wouldn’t be here without you, and we are grateful for your support.
Christine Jablonski(she/her) is Gist Yarn's Director of Channel Development and Customer Experience. Through wit, relentless enthusiasm and enough knowledge to be dangerous, Christine seeks to introduce the wonders of weaving to every person possible. Put another way, she is responsible for expanding and nurturing our partnerships with local yarn shops, schools and other institutions that promote the fiber arts. She is also our resident weaving whisperer, who is happy to help demystify any pattern and answer any loom or equipment questions you might have. In addition to her duties at Gist Yarn, she is an exhibiting artist whose work has been shown in New England galleries and is held in private collections across the country. She is a contributor to Little Loomsand Handwovenmagazines, and the author of SoulSpace Notes, a monthly column on weaving, art and life.
Email Christine at christine@gistyarn.com
Emma Rhodes (she/her) is Gist Yarn's Creative Director.
Emma leads the creative and artistic vision of the brand, managing projects from concept to completion.
She also oversees marketing and content creation—building relationships and collaborations with independent artists, designers and photographers to inspire the weaving community.
Email Emma at emma@gistyarn.com
LaChaun Moore(she/her) is Gist Yarn's Director of Collaborations and Partnerships. LaChaun co-hosts and produces the Weave podcast. She also works to recruit and retain a pool of creative, diverse weaving pattern designers and will lead future collaborative weaving community-based projects. In addition to her role at Gist Yarn, LaChaun is an interdisciplinary artist who engages the public with her ethnographic fiber making practice. Her work focuses on plant species that are linked specifically to black and indigenous growers and cultivators who’ve been systematically exploited for their agricultural contributions and ingenuity. On a small scale, she grows naturally colored cotton as well as ancestral indigo with goals for a large scale fiber to the consumer-based business model.
Email LaChaun at LaChaun@gistyarn.com
Sarah Resnick(she/her) is the Founderof Gist Yarn. She manages our finances, works to keep our team happy and thriving, and builds partnerships with mills and dyehouses to bring new lines of yarn to life. Sarah started her career as a community and union organizer, and made the switch to small business when she helped to launch a sewing factory in 2016. Sarah also designs a line of Jewish ritual textiles.
Email Sarah at sarah@gistyarn.com
Susie Martinez(she/her) is Gist Yarn's E-Commerce Director. She helps new people discover Gist Yarn, and optimizes our website and emails so it's easy for you to find exactly what you're looking for. Susie holds a BFA in Textiles from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is thrilled to pair her love of all things fiber with her data-nerd tendencies in her role at Gist. Susie's fiber interests include quilt making, embroidery, and experimenting with natural dyes. When she's not inside stitching, she's outside foraging for mushrooms throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Email Susie at susie@gistyarn.com
Vale Cabezas (they/them) is Gist Yarn’s Procurement and Logistics Manager. Their role is to coordinate every aspect of the yarn production supply chain, research and vet new potential production partners, and support the development of new yarn lines. Vale’s professional career has taken them through the textile, publication, construction, and landscaping industries. Prior to joining Gist Yarn, Vale took time to get back into their artistic practice as a weaver and painter. In their spare time, you can catch Vale reading Octavia Butler, binge watching anime, watercoloring, swimming in the sun, tapestry weaving, dreaming big futures with the PRESS PRESS publication team, and making hand tufted rugs with their local queer rug club. They’re excited to be back in the textile world where they get to merge their educational background in Fiber with their procurement experience.
Email Vale at vale@gistyarn.com
