Consignment-heavy yarn shop: interesting idea or just messy?
I run a small yarn shop and ended up leaning pretty heavily into consignment, but not really for the usual reason.
What I was actually looking for was some kind of proper space for yarn resale. There’s a lot of good yarn just sitting in people’s stashes or getting passed around in random destash groups, and it always felt a bit scattered.
So I started bringing that into the shop alongside regular inventory.
In theory it made sense to me: less waste, access to yarn you can’t always find anymore, more of a range in price.
In reality… I’m not totally sure how it comes across. Some of it moves, some of it really doesn’t, and I can’t tell if it feels curated or just kind of all over the place.
I’ve also been using “heirloom” as a general direction, but I’m starting to question if that even lands when things are coming from a mix of sources.
Curious how this reads from the outside:
\- does a resale/consignment setup feel interesting at all, or just messy?
\- would you ever buy destash yarn from a shop vs directly from someone?
\- what would make you trust it?
Trying to figure out if this is something worth refining or if I’m just overcomplicating things.