Snuggly Monkey

This happens every year. I come home from QuiltCon inspired to organize my creative fiber life, and as I inch closer to retirement (yes, I am picking a date, and yes, it is looming within sight) I feel like I need to get geared up and organized in order to launch immediately into a productive post-work life. It needs to have handwork and machine work. I need to have my supplies and I need to be able to find them (this is a story for another day). This year, in the ugly war that my own government launched against it's own people in Minneapolis, where I work, I am also quite commited to buying from people who side with decency. I used to think it was more common than it turns out to be. Last year I bought from Snuggly Monkey because the site had a wonderful and reasonably priced array of Sashiko products and while I have a lot of embroidery supplies, not many of them came from Japan, and I rectified that because Sashiko is something I want to do more of. This year, Snuggly Monkey was outspoken about doing the right thing, which is resist resist resist this ugly facist regime that is disappearing and murdering people because of the color of their skin, and so this year I spend my creative dollars with them because they are with me philosophically as well as artisitcally. And the bonus is that they have an even better array of things that inspire me than they did last year.