Handmade Portraits: MV Knits


http://... See the article on Etsy's blog: the Storque, for more information.This video was featured on YouTube!

After quitting her day job in Los Angeles and moving to Martha's Vineyard, a quiet island off the Massachusetts coast, Susan Gibbs aka MVKnits had a great idea. She started Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm and figured out how to make a living making yarn. Why not use the local food movement's model of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and apply it to a yarn harvest? Shareholders pay for a share in the yarn harvest as a way to support a local farm (or in this case, a local farm supported through the internet) and in return they get weekly updates, photos from the farm, an invitation to the shearing and ultimately a share of the yarn.
Etsian Tara Young aka weirdwolf headed to Martha's Vineyard to visit Susan Gibbs and her fiber farm. Music by Barry London and Charlie Parr.







Channel: People
Uploaded: July 10, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Author: etsy

Length: 00:06:32
Rating: 4.51
Views: 149596

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Video Comments:
gsteinmon (October 7, 2008 at 12:20 pm)
Awesome video... I love the birthing of sheep
cacdl1 (October 1, 2008 at 11:33 pm)
This was amazing! You look so happy and enthusiastic. Im proud of you..Cyndi
dinajill (September 21, 2008 at 1:26 am)
Love this video - can't get enough footage of the sheep and goats. Really looking forward to my yarn share! (dinajill)
shazzbazz (September 8, 2008 at 9:18 pm)
Inspiring indeed, I wish you all the best!

Thanks
GEERUP (August 12, 2008 at 6:12 am)
thumbs up I this video is VERY INSPIRING
THANK YOU
silencethestorm (August 9, 2008 at 2:12 am)
Amazing! You are an inspiration!
GEERUP (August 6, 2008 at 9:29 am)
sablechicken will love this :)
mrozshow (August 6, 2008 at 6:35 am)
I don't know about this...I think you guys would have a much better time watching some of my Twisted and Brutal CLAYMATIONS aswell as a whole array of the wildest sketch comedy you've ever seen..
Hell, subscribe while your at it, because I'm the only channel that updates with CLAYMATIONS and Sketch comedy more than twice aweek!

I promise it doesn't suck, and if it does- say so!!

-Mr.Oz
waxywaxy245 (August 5, 2008 at 8:18 pm)
everyone watch "jamie eharmony" its HILARIOUS!! be sure to comment!!
MacsTuts (August 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm)
Wo nice vid, and nice courage for that girl.

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