About Your Fiberista
To me, Springtree Road is about family and feeling connected to both the past and present. The actual Springtree Road is where I grew up: my grandparents’ house in Athens, Georgia, where I stayed after school and on most summer days. My grandparents were simple folks who gardened and built things, cooked and crafted. Before retiring, they both worked at the same textile mill together. My grandfather tended to the machines and my grandmother worked them to spin the fabric for the little bandages on Band-Aids.
So it feels like a lovely coincidence, a happy accident, a full-circle, good karma kind of thing that I would happen onto spinning yarn, which I sold on Etsy for a year and a half. I was looking for a way to ensure that I could stay home with my daughter and it fell right into my lap. Though I learned to knit when I was 16, spinning was always on my list of things I wanted to learn "someday." Of course someday almost never comes, so I’m thankful for the unforeseen push that led me to pursue fiber as both an art and a business.
As my daughter has grown, she needs ever-more time with me and even just making a small amount of handspun yarn is quite time consuming. So at the end of 2010 I decided to see how I liked dyeing millspun yarn.
Turns out that I love it! Having my own micro-business is a lot of work and a lot of fun. I wear all the hats in this business - sourcing the yarn, dyeing it here at home in very small batches (usually 4-6 skeins at a time), photographing it, and mailing it out to you. My 6-year-old personally hugs each package before we send it on its way. There’s a lot of love in what I do.
As for the particulars, I live with my family near Atlanta, Georgia. I have a degree in English education. I’ve worked for a typesetter, a real estate magazine, and as a copyeditor. I love kitty cats, songs that make me sad, photos of people from before I knew them, small towns, and vintage cameras.
Best wishes,
Maya
