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“My passion is about building the community as well as elevating the yarn shop experience,” Sanjani Ramkissoon said of opening the new yarn store Stitch & Revel this year in Livermore.
The business, located at 2155 Las Positas Ct., Suite F, officially opened its doors to the public in September after Ramkissoon purchased a yarn store elsewhere in the city dubbed Knit This, Purl That! as well as the shop’s inventory.
In addition to selling yarn, Ramkissoon hosts introductory classes for crochet and knitting at the shop as well as project-based courses for specific items. She plans to introduce additional fiber art classes next year as well.
Ramkissoon also hosts a variety of events including monthly book clubs with fiber themes, social stitching of all mediums and holiday-related gatherings.
Ramkissoon said she aims for Stitch & Revel to be a fun, welcoming place for customers to shop and connect with fellow makers.
“At Stitch & Revel, the heart of the store is community,” she told Livermore Vine.
Upon hearing this past spring that KTPT owner Sandy Rowney was set to close shop, Ramkissoon offered to buy the business and inventory.
“It’s nice to be able to save a local yarn shop and keep it in the community,” Ramkissoon said of purchasing KTPT.
“It was an unexpected opportunity that came my way and I think it’s the best decision I made,” she added.
Through owning the store, she has been able to manifest her dream yarn shop, she said.
“As a BIPOC and AAPI-owned shop, Stitch & Revel is proud to be an inclusive, welcoming space for all makers,” the store’s website reads.
Offering a welcoming space is particularly important to Ramkissoon because, in her experience, she said that not all yarn stores provide an inclusive environment.
Stitch & Revel is a place where visitors are welcome to hang out and work on their projects, even for casual drop-ins between their errands and appointments, she added.
Ramkissoon’s passion for fiber arts began over 10 years ago, around the time of her father’s death.
While her dad was undergoing years of dialysis treatments, her mother crocheted to pass the time. But her mother was never really making anything, Ramkissoon recalled.
Ramkissoon later signed her mother up for a knitting class at JOANN and she signed up too for moral support.
“I didn’t really have an interest at that time,” Ramkissoon said. “But the more I stuck to it, I just fell in love with it”.
Stitch & Revel operates with the help of Ramkissoon’s husband and her twin daughters, both of whom are fiber artists too.
As for KTPT, Rowney is set to teach fiber arts at Stitch & Revel and remotely, sell original patterns online as well as host knitting and crochet events, trips and get-togethers, according to the company’s website.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the location of Stitch & Revel as being the same as Knit This, Purl That! Livermore Vine regrets the error.
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