Our Business Members

At the Greater Boston Knitting Guild, we're fortunate to have top-notch business members. Their support helps us offer engaging workshops, meetings, and projects. They also give back to their communities. We're grateful for their support and encourage you to visit their shops and websites, sign-up for their newsletters and visit their online stores.

GBKG Members: Browse the Business Member Directory

Business Member Spotlight

From time to time, we'd like to highlight some of our business members. Currently, our spotlight is on two spectacular businesses. Be sure to explore their fantastic offerings and browse the entire business directory below.

Repertoire Design

Debi Leibovitz

I started my first business, hand-knit children’s sweaters, when people were willing to spend $200 - $300+ for a handmade item.

After a long corporate career at large media companies, in 2019 it was time to follow my first love, and I opened my own design business, repertoire design. In addition to custom knitwear, I make clay buttons, shawl pins, stitch markers and yarn bowls that I wholesale to local yarn shops. My designs are carried by more than 95 yarn/fabric shops throughout New England and the West Coast, as well as The Fuller Craft Museum.

This year I’ve expanded my business to teach a workshop, “Playing With Clay”. Partnering with Artisans Asylum, as well as local yarn shops, I’ll be sharing the how-to of polymer clay and how you can create things that complement your handmade designs.

This year is also a first for me to write a pattern. By popular demand, I’ve created three versions of my “Pillow Talk” pillow sham, featuring all the yarn needed to create one of three designs, as well as my handmade coordinated buttons. These will be available at The Fuller Craft Museum, Russells Fiber Show on March 9 and a variety of local yarn shops.

Elissa’s Creative Warehouse

Needham, MA

My grandmother Bubbie had a store selling yarn and yard goods in Upham’s Corner in Dorchester for over 40 years. I loved her store and have wonderful memories of time spent there as a child. Those memories inspired me to open Elissa’s Creative Warehouse thirty-five years ago. In addition to yarn, we have a wonderful selection of buttons and also carry needlepoint canvases and supplies as well as weaving supplies.

Bubbie taught me to knit when I was six. She tried teaching me crochet, but that really didn’t click for me until I was a teenager. Now I teach people to knit, crochet and needlepoint, offering classes and private lessons at the store. I love the sense of community we’ve built here. I’m an energy medicine practitioner and I find that the act of creating and of being in community is so healing for people. This store is a refuge, and no matter what is happening in the world, as long knitters can gather and create, we’ll endure.