Especially for a $250,000 grant. This money will help us set up the new studio and guest artist space. Plus help us with the final push to launch our own honest-to-goodness online storefront. AND provide us with staff support so we can finalize our very own pattern line. While also offering those of you who can't get into the shop, an opportunity to "make something" via online classes. We have big dreams and this grant will help them come true!

So if you happen to have a minute on your hands while checking out your ex-partners on Facebook, why not head over to Mission: Small Business and vote for us? <PREVIEWEND>As of this posting we only have: 2 days, 7 hours and 12 minutes to garner 250 votes. We currently have 60 votes, that means we only have 190 votes to go. On Friday at 9:47 AM we were up to 97 votes with 1 day and 15 hours left. We can definitely do this!

Go to missionsmallbusiness.com and click "Support", then find our business in the local listings and vote for us. Every vote will help us qualify for a $250,000 grant. We're a bit late to the game, only registering this morning but with over a thousand Facebook fans, 800+ twitter pals and lots of in-real-life people coming in each day, this shouldn't be hard. After the qualifying votes it's really out of our hands. We'll just cross our fingers!

Thank you for making us your neighborhood fabric and fiber shop. Thank you for supporting small business. And thank you for being awesome.

Fondly,

Virginia, Noah and the rest of the gather here family

(big dreamers, passionate crafters and your biggest fan)