Our Story
If you do what you love, what you are passionate about, the rest will fall into place.
For Weeks Dye Weeks Founder and President, Miranda Weeks, these are words to live by. They have guided her career and her adult life and make each day of work a joy, not a job.
In her youth, Miranda recalls spending time with her Grandma Winnifred making clothes, learning to cross stitch, crochet and sew. But she never mastered any of it. Instead, Miranda found herself drawn to the more creative side of design, with a particular passion for color. She would spray her Converse® shoes because she wanted different colors than were available at the time. She even dabbled in jewelry design, taking plastic curtain rings, painting them and turning them into necklaces. She was once described as “being bohemian before it was cool”.
Years later, Miranda found herself in the School of Design at North Carolina State University where she earned a degree in Environmental Design with a concentration in Fiber Arts. Here, she learned the finer points of dyeing fibers and fabrics. This is where she found her passion, noting she would often find herself more interested in the process of dyeing and color manipulation than the project itself.
After graduation, Miranda moved west to Colorado where a chance meeting served as the launching point for her career. It was the summer of 1994 when she walked into the studio of “Ewe and Eye and Friends”, hoping to sell cards that she had made with hand dyed fabrics. At the time, she thought she had walked into a gift shop, not a cross stitch studio.
While they liked the cards, they didn’t need them. But they saw something more in Miranda’s work and asked her to dye some thread. After a little time working out of her bathroom tub, dyeing thread, she returned to make her first sale for $400. The thread was included in their annual Christmas Santa Claus Kit, called “Kris Kringle”. She had no idea this would be the start of something bigger, much bigger.
In 1994, Miranda headed back to North Carolina where she founded what is known today as Weeks Dye Works. Far from her “bathtub” days, Weeks Dye Works now employes a team of 10 full-time employees and 9 part-time. Over time, the dyeing process has moved from plastic containers to a proprietary system and equipment housed in a nearly 10,000 square foot facility in Garner, North Carolina. The baths that originally created the thread colors have grown from a few 50-yard baths a week to several 13,000-yard baths a day.
Today, the Weeks Dye Works color line features close to 600 unique color/fiber combinations and a wide array of product lines, including pearl cotton, cotton sewing thread, and wool fabric. Our goal is to continue to grow, offering the highest quality, and most consistent colors to appeal to stitchers of all kinds.
No matter what brings you to Week Dye Works, we hope you find the products that meet your design needs, and most importantly, colors that bring you joy.