On this episode of The Spark: Harrisonburg's Claudia McClain picked up her knitting years ago when she put down alcohol. And not being able to find the right yarns, she decided to design and manufacture her own. Voila! Claudia's Hand painted Yarn. When she's knitting, Claudia says that four words repeat like a mantra in her mind as she knits: peace, love, comfort, joy.
And she hopes they somehow reach the wearer, "this is why I knit and dye yarns.... an almost compulsive need to make physical my feelings so that I may share them."
Her proudly woman-operated business has been going since 2005.