Little House of Yarn opens in Princeton – Princeton Clarion
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Updated: March 31, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Sarah Loesch/Daily Clarion Little House of Yarn in Princeton has a variety of options for customers, including wool, cotton, alpaca blends and acrylic yarns.
Yarn lines the wall of the newly opened Little House of Yarn located at 129 West Broadway St. in Princeton. The shop has a variety of options for customers, including wool, cotton, alpaca blends and acrylic yarns and is open 10-5 p.m. Wednesday, 10-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 10-5 p.m. Saturday.
Sarah Loesch/Daily Clarion Diana Christie, owner of Little House of Yarn, discusses the varieties of yarn she carries in Princeton. The shop opened to customers Feb. 26.
Sarah Loesch/Daily Clarion Little House of Yarn in Princeton has a variety of options for customers, including wool, cotton, alpaca blends and acrylic yarns.
Yarn lines the wall of the newly opened Little House of Yarn located at 129 West Broadway St. in Princeton. The shop has a variety of options for customers, including wool, cotton, alpaca blends and acrylic yarns and is open 10-5 p.m. Wednesday, 10-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 10-5 p.m. Saturday.
Sarah Loesch/Daily Clarion Diana Christie, owner of Little House of Yarn, discusses the varieties of yarn she carries in Princeton. The shop opened to customers Feb. 26.
PRINCETON
The underlying mission of Diana Christie’s newly-opened yarn shop is joy and community.
The Illinois native opened Little House of Yarn on the southwest side of the Princeton square last week, and opened the door to a goal about five years in the making.
Yarn has been a part of Christie’s life since her mom taught her to knit around age 6, though there was a time where she put down the needles to work on earning her bachelors degree in business administration.
“There was a 10-year span where no creative anything was coming out of my body,” she said.
It was all about studying, with work and school, she just didn’t have the time. Then around five years ago, her mother bought some yarn at a yard sale and sent it her way. Christie used that yarn to make her mother a blanket, and she was thrilled.
“I think it’s just the joy when people receive the handmade gift that I like the most,” she said.
The joy she saw got Christie thinking about how much she enjoyed making people happy. She began crocheting and selling some items, before telling her husband she wanted to open a yarn shop.
Christie visited a yarn shop in Huntingburg, and said the owner was very candid about her successes and struggles. After that, she began to look for a space, originally in Mount Carmel, but ended up finding 129 W. Broadway.
Now open for business, Christie has a variety of products in stock for customers. Yarns ranging in type from worsted to baby yarn to super chunky. She also has a variety of fibers including, wool blends, wool, cotton, cotton blends, alpaca blends and acrylics.
“I do offer books as well, books and pamphlets,” she said. “There’s some free patterns.”
She also plans to have needles in stock in the coming days.
Christie said so far she’s sold a little bit of everything, but the sock yarn is a popular item right now.
“(Customers) might buy something they’ve never used before,” she said. “Sometimes they might have something in mind, sometimes they don’t, as far as what they want to make.”
Another aspect to the shop is its designated “sit and stitch” events on Thursday nights. From 5-7 p.m. community members are invited to come work on projects with other people at the shop.
Christie said “sit and stitch” is tradition with a lot of yarn shops, and she felt it fit well with her goal of creating community.
“I’m hoping if we get a little group going on Thursday nights we can do something community oriented,” she said.
Christie said the community begins in the shop, but her mission is to bring it into the overarching community. She belonged to a group that would make projects for patients going through chemo, and she would like to start something similar with the shop.
“There’s lot of needs in the community,” she said.
Thursday night is the designated stitch night, but Christie welcomes people to come in and work on projects throughout the day if they’d like.
“If you’ve got some time to kill and you’ve got a project,” she said.
For Christie personally, she often creates projects for other people more than herself. That’s part of the draw to knitting and crocheting, of which she does both, but leans toward crochet.
Whatever their method, Christie’s shop aims to bring joy to others through yarn.
“When you complete a project and you really like it, and especially when you give it away and someone just loves the dickens out of it,” she said. “That’s just a lot of self gratification there.”
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