We meet Claudia McClean, who is the Claudia behind Claudia’s Handpainted Yarn in Harrisonburg. She 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.