Join our Team!

TYPICAL ACTIVITIES:

• Help customers pick out the fabrics, notions, and thread they need to bring their project ideas to life. Share product knowledge and recommend tools and techniques to help them accomplish their goals.
• Assist with longarm quilting, including supporting longarm rental customers to help them successfully quilt their projects. If you’re not familiar with longarm quilting, don’t worry—we’ll teach you everything you need to know!
• Design, create, and maintain eye-catching displays to highlight new fabric collections and other products.
• Process online orders, including cutting fabric, packaging, and shipping.
• Cleaning, dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, straightening, changing lightbulbs, and everything else it takes to give our customers a positive shopping experience.
• Oh--and occasionally, we get to sew!

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• We regularly move boxes, shelving, and other items weighing up to 40 lbs.
• Individual bolts of fabric aren’t heavy, but reshelving and rearranging them requires bending, kneeling, and reaching.
• Climbing and descending stairs is required to retrieve items from basement storage.
• We are regularly on our feet for several hours at a time without a break.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE IS…

• Friendly, easy-going, a great listener, has a positive attitude, and smiles often.
• A Jack- or Jill-of-all-trades with a variety of hobbies who loves learning new skills.
• An experienced sewist or quilter who’s eager to share her love of the hobby and knows there’s more than one “right way”.
• Attentive to details and takes pride in the quality of work he produces, but also agrees that finished is better than perfect.
• Good at math, including fractions, decimals, and basic geometry.
• A decent writer with strong spelling, grammar, and punctuation skills.
• At ease with computers, the internet, and social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest).
• Fluent in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel OR very eager to learn.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?!!

1.  Your name, address, phone number, and email.
2.  Provide a summary of your work experience and education.
3.  Tell me about your sewing and/or quilting experience.
4.  What do you enjoy most about sewing/quilting and why?
5.  Describe your computer-related skills and experience.
6.  What other superpowers do you possess?!!
7.  Why are you be a great fit for this role? 

Thank you for your interest.  We look forward to hearing from you!