Trump Fans Threaten Knitting Studio With Blacklist in Leesburg

LEESBURG, VA — An unknown person sent an email last week to the owner of Finch Knitting + Sewing Studio saying the store might be placed on a blacklist of sorts for "local Leesburg businesses that are openly hostile to customers who voted for Donald Trump."

The owner, Nicole Morganthau, says the accusation is ridiculous.

She took to the shop's Facebook account to elaborate:

"We are not and never have been hostile toward any human being who wishes to step foot in the front door of Finch. As a matter of fact, the very groundwork of Finch has always been to be a place of inclusiveness."

Morgenthau, who attended the recent women's march in Washington, told the Loudoun Times-Mirror her going had nothing to do with the store or its customers.

"We carry yarn and we teach people to knit, but we didn't do an event specific for [the march]," she said. "I take it very personally who comes in my door every day. I know people very well who voted on both sides. I hope both sets of people will find common ground."

Morganthau told WRC television she thinks the email may have been a result of her posting a Facebook item inviting customers to stock up on pink yarn. Knit pink caps were worn by many of he protesters at the march.

"My initial reaction was that we should pull my Facebook page down," Morgenthau told Forbes. "But then I thought, why would I do that? I don't have anything to hide, and the bottom line is that I don't think it's coming from my core group of customers."

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