Sentences with phrase «own yarn»

They're passing a ball of yarn as part of a team - building exercise.

There's a lot of talk about really granular stuff, like the challenges of yarn dying and weaving.

The answer is two-fold: first, investors seem to view the company more as a tech business than a retailer; and secondly, Eve can spin a good yarn.

Today, the peer - led programming in health and communications — the yarn - toss curriculum — is just one aspect of what's happening in Nazareno.

To launch Playboy, Hefner managed to gather $ 8,000 from friends, relatives and a bank loan (the classic yarn is that he used his furniture as collateral).

Darn Good Yarn won last year's Community Excellence Award presented by the US Chamber of Commerce, so Snow is definitely doing something right.

«Think about how you, as a business owner, want to impact the world,» said Darn Good Yarn's Snow, who has made it her mission to create opportunities for other people and small businesses within her supply chain.

This versatile floss style, made of a yarn - like fabric, has a rigid end which makes it easy to maneuver and is usually extra spongy.

But that still leaves about a dozen slides with which we can spin our yarn about what the world looks like now and what it will look like when we've executed our vision.

Disruptive innovation: Reinvented the way shoes are made, going from multiple materials cut and sewn together to knit strands of yarn that form a nearly seamless upper, dramatically decreasing waste while enabling increased athletic performance.

Chief financial officer Jeff McCuaig recalls questioning whether an aggressive online strategy would play with yarn buyers when he joined the company in 2008.

With the help of 500 employees across two production facilities (the other is in North Carolina), Spinrite packages and sells more than 50 million balls of yarn a year under seven brands to big retailers like Michaels and Walmart, as well as smaller independent shops.

For instance, it sends reps to runway shows in Europe to scout for new trends; the product development team takes that intel, weighs it against sales stats and buying forecasts, and incorporates it all into creating the dozen new yarns the company launches each year.

«Lots of people would say, «Yarn is yarn,»» says Dowding at Deloitte, «but Spinrite is actually really innovative in the world of yarn.»

«Spinrite is in the old, old business of yarn,» says Chris Dowding, a Deloitte partner and Spinrite's coach in its successful pursuit of the Best Managed Companies designation this year.

«We know nobody wakes up and says, «Today I need a ball of yarn,»» says Newell.

«The majority still want to buy at a bricks - and - mortar store, because the feel of the yarn is so important,» she explains.

«And of the businesses that made yarn in 1952, almost none still exist.»

Instead, Spinrite is the largest craft - yarn company in North America.

To keep these shoppers engaged, the company devotes significant resources to the seemingly arcane task of designing new yarns.

Susan Gibbs turned her part - time hobby into a going business when she financed her yarn company, Juniper Moon Farm, with CSA investments: Members pay $ 175 per share in return for about 1,800 yards of yarn a year.

A call to Trisha Malcom, editor - in - chief at Vogue Knitting International, led to the online yarn retailer being featured in Vogue Knitting International and Yarn Market News, creating huge buzz for the brand.

While some will spin engaging yarns about their exciting travels, there's more to it than that.

Madoff underscores one of those old yarns of general investing advice: For best results, don't go with fancy mutual funds or high - fee managed accounts.

It retails and wholesales yarn made from repurposed waste, and employs women in Nepal and India.

Whether it's a fairy tale, a classic yarn, a sporting success, a tale of personal triumph or a fine romance, stories are part of our DNA.

You might see some shirtmakers use terms like «yarn number» (referring to the thickness of the yarn) or «ply» (meaning the number of threads comprising the yarn, e.g. «two - ply»).

The latest book is full of Grumpy insight such as: «People are like balls of yarn.

Using $ 30,000 of her savings, she opened the first Jimmy Beans Wool yarn shop and coffeehouse in 2002.

When we used our modest life savings to open a yarn shop and website, we had a very small amount of inventory.

In his new book, «David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,» Malcolm Gladwell says most people get this famous Biblical yarn all wrong because they misunderstand who really has the upper hand.

As always, Gladwell spins a great yarn.

Together, they deconstructed a premium yarn for the American Giant hoodie that was previously available only from India.

For example, American Giant partners with Carolina Cotton Works in Gaffney, S.C., a mill that exports 75 percent of its product and is considered one of the most modern yarning facilities in the world.

His yarns about famous and infamous pitches, success stories and burnouts, describe the end of Madison Avenue as a stuffy bastion of WASPiness and the beginning of its golden age.

«Under the Trump administration, you'll be saying «Merry Christmas» again when you go shopping, believe me,» Trump said, reviving an old campaign - trail yarn.

There is an entire group of industries like wool, silk, cotton, and rayon weaving when the Jewish interest in production is small, being 5 to 10 per cent in wool (for example, L. Bachmann of Uxbridge Worsted, Austin T. Levy of Stillwater Worsted, and Allen and Bernard Goldfine), 15 per cent in silk (for example, Hess, Goldsmith & Co., David Silks, Inc., Widder Bros.), 5 per cent in cotton (the Cone family of North Carolina, Sigmund Odenheimer of New Orleans, Elias Reiss of New York), and 16 per cent in rayon - yarn production (Industrial Rayon and Celanese Corp.) But in these same industries the Jewish interest in distribution is large, half the wool sales agents and jobbers, three - quarters of the silk converters, and three - quarters of the cotton converters being Jews.

For example, here's a dead simple guide to crafting compelling stories for those who don't have the natural gift of spinning a yarn.

For a clothing manufacturer, the inventory would include raw materials (yarn, thread, etc.), work - in - progress (started but not finished), and finished goods (shirts and pants ready to sell to customers).

«They're connected with red yarn, SVU - style.»

Fabric made from bottles The main garment used in Emma Watson's dress is from Newlife, a yarn and fabric manufacturer that makes their garment from discarded plastic bottles.

Her latest project is YESS: Yarn Ethically & Sustainably Sourced, which aims to eliminate forced labor from cotton sourcing globally.

A services company shares its experience weaving a thread and yarn maker into the era of the Internet of Things.

Under a yarn - forward rule, fabric woven in a NAFTA country does not meet the rules of origin unless the yarn originates in a NAFTA country.

There's an important difference between — a piece of wood and a baseball bat, a ball of yarn and a sweater, and a piece of plastic and a Rubik's Cube.

«If you think of the organization as a giant ball of yarn — you can plan out how to untangle it — or everyone can draw out their own tension.

All we know is that the yuan is an important yarn with an unknown ending.

Google's lead designer for home hardware, Isabelle Olsson, said the company invented its own yarn for the Mini — going through 157 iterations to find just the right colors: chalk, charcoal, and coral.

Problem is, this yarn is utterly at odds with the data, which tells a very different story.

The yarn is designed to allow sound and light to pass through it.