Okay, so hello and welcome to the YarniX podcast.

This is episode 30, and I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And we have a special guest today, Benjamin Levesay from XRX, the company that produces all of the

amazing Stitches events, Knitters Magazine, and the XRX books.

So welcome to the show.

Well, thank you so much.

It's great to be here with you.

We are very, very happy to have you on the show.

And we wanted to thank you for two things.

One, for being on the show.

We're honored to have you here.

And two, a huge thank you for the events known as Stitches because they are incredible.

Thank you very much.

You know, I just want to add that I also teach and work at a local yarn store, and so

throughout the year we have knitters who come in, and at some point, stitches West always

comes up, and people talk about saving money for the entire year to attend to these events.

There's, you know, with the recession and locally the economy hasn't been very good.

I myself included, I know a lot of people that have been laid off in the past few years,

but people really save up for these events.

They'll say, I'm saving my birthday money and my Christmas money, and I'm talking about adults here.

You know, they save up, and then they go, and then they have their Christmas and their birthday at Stitches Quest.

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