Brooklyn General Store strives to recreate a time when people would center their day around a trip to the general store. It is more than a shop, it is a calm, creatively stimulating, and comforting space, a counterpoint to hurried NYC life. It is a place where the peaceful nature of handwork is loved and respected. It is where country fiber warms the big city. It is a space where people can be surrounded by their favorite materials and where high quality materials can provide inspiration for people in the community who share a creative passion.

Catherine Clark is the owner of Brooklyn General Store. As a child, Catherine was drawn to little creatures, mostly mice, squirrels, bunnies and bears. They were her muses. She collected them, drew them, and eventually learned to sew them and their wardrobes by piecing together some fabric. Today, Catherine is most inspired by projects that try to recreate nature through sewing, felting, crochet, and knitting. If she has any time to knit or sew, it is usually to make some sweet lovable creature. In addition to her retail endeavors, Catherine is a Midwife practicing in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

Heather Love is a Manager at Brooklyn General Store. She lives up to her surname in countless ways. Heather can be found at the shop Monday-Wednesday. Heather is also a mixed-media artist that lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a devoted knitter and seamstress since learning from her mother and grandmother at an early age. In 1997, she graduated with a BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has been teaching fine art and crafting workshops since that time. Her label hellomello handspun features handmade knitwear, knitting patterns, hand dyed and hand spun luxury yarns. These are available for purchase through her etsy shop www.hellomellohandspun.etsy.com or at Brooklyn General Store. She currently teaches knitting, quilting and spinning at Brooklyn General.

Marcie Farwell is a Manager at Brooklyn General Store. She sometimes goes by the name of her great aunt Zora Jane, whom she never actually met but liked the moment she found out Zora tripped over things a lot. Miss Farwell moved from California to attend New York University in order to study Architectural History but instead fell in love with photography and making things by hand. She lives in Brooklyn and while you will still catch her looking up to read dates on cornices she is usually otherwise occupied with a thrift store find, a sewing machine, fabric, knitting needles, a camera or any combination thereof. Marcie is mostly a self taught sewer and was lucky enough to work with the wedding dress designer Mary Adams in New York where she learned the fine art of welding a needle and thread. She has worked at Brooklyn General Store since 2009, where the owner Catherine sometimes lets her make bustled Victorian skirts, 1950's blouses and knitted aprons and puts them in the window. Marcie can be found at the shop Thursday-Saturday.

Adelaide Wainwright is a diehard knitter, an increasingly able quilter, and a bumbling but fascinated sewer. A native of Northern California, academics and pure life pursuits have found her unpacking her bags in far-flung corners of the country and the world: New England; Paris; Portland, OR; Martinique; and the sublime and rugged Southern Oregon Coast, where she lived on a goat fiber farm. She moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and thinks she'll stay awhile. These days, she is pursuing a dual masters in General Childhood Education and Reading and Literacy at Bank Street College of Education, and feverishly knitting and reading brainy fiction whenever she gets the chance. Eventually, she would like to live way out in the country, surrounded by Pygora goats. Adelaide is our Sunday shop gal extraordinaire.

Emily Wensberg is a New Hampshire native who grew tired of the country and decided to try her hand at life in the big city. She is happiest when making things, whether it be sewing a blouse, knitting a sweater, embroidering handkercheifs, baking bread, canning applesauce, or painting with watercolors. She recently graduated from Boston University where she studied Art History and Psychology, and then decided to venture out into the wide world and found herself living on an apple orchard in northern France. She learned to sew from her mother at a young age, and has been crafting ever since. Nowadays she can be found running in between her two internships, reading books on the train, and teaching her cat important life lessons. She dreams of a cross-country road trip, trees, and an unlimited supply of floral printed fabrics. She can be found working at Brooklyn General Thursday through Sunday.