Needle & Grain Blog

Chocolate, peanut butter and a long-overdue birthday gift.

We owe a lot of love to Lucy McEwen and her amazing store Lily Jane. Susan was the manager there for a few years and learned a lot about running a business before we decided to open our store. Lucy and her husband Dan are some of our closest friends in town and have been big supporters of our dreams since day one.

Dresses, movies and some throwback EMO are part of our list this week.

We are pretty simple people who typically love food and crafty things. I thought it might be fun each week to take a look at our favorite things this week. I know a couple of bloggers do this, and I love it because they are typically short, and I love a good list. 

We are on vacation as I type this, and it's a great way to reflect on the year we've had. 2017 has been a great one with great highs, and it's been a hard one with some low lows. What better way to show you a recap of our year than with photos, right!? 

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we want you to win at the baked goods table this year! Make these for your family or yourself, and we know you'll love them.

It's been a bit since we've updated you about our shop progress! It's been kind of slow and kind of tricky to maneuver our growing list of orders and a few markets and some personal career changes (Bryson) and a messy house! 

The tennant before us had a thing for souping up cars and black paint. This space was dark y'all,albeit quite clean, it was still a cave that needed a coat of sunshine fast. So, while we wait on the A/C and commercial doors to be installed we made use of a long weekend to get started on paint!

If you’ve been a fan of Needle & Grain it’s no secret that we LOVE The Andy Griffith Show. It’s become the background music to our workshop and overtime is the trigger to keep us focused. Having a hard time getting back to the grind? Flip on an episode of Andy. It’s cathartic and spiritual and full of rich wisdom...