From the outside, The Elegant Needle is a simple, green one-story house nestled along Government Street. Inside the quaint ...

Krista LeRay turned a simple needlepoint hobby into a $4.4M business by using what she had and starting from home. Here's how she scaled fast—and what you can take from her journey.

“And then in one of the Quad-City needlepoint groups, they suggested the Loose Ends (Project),” she said. “That’s all it took.” The Loose Ends Project was started by Jennifer Simonic and ...