Neighborhood Fiber Co.
My name is Rachel Wheeler and I’m a Junior Fiber major. Over the 2012 fall semester I was the fiber intern for Neighborhood Fiber Co. a small business that hand dyes yarn for wholesale and retail. I found the internship through the Mica Network website and submitted a letter of intent to the owner Karida Collins. She scheduled an interview that week and let me know that I was hired the very next day. The Neighborhood Fiber Co. opened it’s doors in Station North in October of this year and up to that point had been run from the owners apartment as an online store. They now have one retail day a month and spend the rest of the time dyeing yarn in the studio to ship out to their wholesale buyers. My supervisor was Karida Collins who owns the company and does all of the dyeing and color development. My responsibility in the studio was to assist in dyeing the yarn for order. I helped with all the prep work including mixing, rinsing, and winding, as well as the ac...