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A Sale and a Giveaway from Red Heart

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red heart with woolRed Heart is now having its fall sale, which will get you a good deal on a range of yarns at their shop. They are also offering 20 percent off all downloadable ebooks through Sept. 24.

In addition, the company is launching a new yarn called With Wool. This blend of 80 percent acrylic and 20 percent wool is soft and machine washable. It comes in 14 solid colors. You can get a chance to try out the yarn for free by checking out Red Heart’s Facebook page. Scroll down to the post on With Wool and like it by 3 p.m. Eastern tomorrow, and two randomly selected likers will get five skeins to try.

[Photo by Red Heart.]

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  1. i looked at the with wool and they have some really pretty colors which i would expect from red heart. i have used red heart since i was 13yrs old and still using it at 63yrs. love it

  2. I attempted to like their page to be told that the link doesn’t work. I do like Red Heart yarns with I use with my Kumihino for jewelry.

  3. Grandma taught me how to crochet by making a rug way back when I was a teenager. She had lots of Red Heart yarns.

  5. I like Red Heart yarn and have used it for years. I don’t understand why the FB page is lined through up above.

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What’s Next for Joann?

Now that all the Joann stores have closed, a mysterious message has appeared on the company’s website:

For generations, Joann has been honored to be part of your creativity: your quilts, costumes, school projects, and handmade moments of love. It has been our joy to serve markers and dreamers across the country.

We’re stitching up something new behind the scenes and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

Stay tuned for exciting news about the future of Joann.

To quickly recap, Joann filed for bankruptcy in January for the second time in less than a year. In February, in the hope of making the company more attractive to potential buyers, it petitioned the court for permission to close about 500 of its 800 stores. The company was put up for auction, with Gordon Brothers set to buy the company, sell its assets and close all the stores if no other buyer materialized.

In the end the winning bidder was GA Group, but the result was the same: all stores were to be closed by the end of May if not sooner.

Once store closure sales started the company quickly stopped selling on its website, and now all that remains is this jpeg image hinting at new ventures.

I’m sure there will be a tone of speculation in the coming days and weeks (or as long as it takes for them to announce the meaning of the message) as to what sorts of plans Joann could be cooking up.

My theory based on nothing but my gut is that they will transition to an online only storefront, probably with much reduced inventory, sort of like Herrschners (which had previously announced that it will be carrying Big Twist yarn, the beloved private label yarn brand sold at Joann). I also think they will use whatever retail sales they do to support CreativeBug, the digital learning platform that Joann purchased in 2017. That could mean producing kits for projects that already have classes, or developing classes based on products they want to sell, or both.

As of this writing the CreativeBug website seems to still be functional and there’s a full slate of new classes planned for June. I’ve got my eye on both the Joann website and the Joann restructuring website and will let you know as soon as I see changes.

In the meantime, I’d love to hear your speculation as to what the next chapter might be for Joann.