By Julianna Parker

Transcript Staff Writer

Shelves are stuffed with brightly colored balls of yarn at the store tucked next to Harold’s on Campus Corner.

More balls and skeins litter the remaining surfaces. While still in the process of moving to its new location, Happy Cat Yarn Shop is already bursting with enthusiasm for knitting, just like its owner, Danya Streetman.

Happy Cat has outgrown two facilities in less than two years. This week the store is moving to a larger location at 588 Buchanan Ave. on Campus Corner.

Streetman said she is planning to open the new location Wednesday.

She left a few items in the old store, including the yarn for making Harry Potter-themed scarves and sweaters. When she opens, she plans to have a celebration and pass down the house colors to the new shop by means of a human chain.

Streetman is enthusiastic about her work.

“She’s making a livelihood from her passion,” fellow-knitter Renee Wegemer said. “It really is an extension of herself.”

And Streetman incorporates all her passions into her job.

A Harry Potter knitting club will begin soon after the store opens.

Streetman said her daughter, Dalyn Boyd, is the real Harry Potter fan. But both sported Harry and the Potters band T-shirts Wednesday at Happy Cat.

Boyd said she got the idea to start a Harry Potter knitting group when she found “Charmed Knits,” a book with patterns for knitting anything remotely related to Harry Potter.

Boyd said she modifies some of the patterns and is creating her own pattern for the Sorting Hat featured in the series.

Knitting and Harry Potter may not seem to relate at first glance, but Streetman and Boyd pointed out knitting frequently was featured in the books and movies: Hermione’s house elf clothes, the Weasleys’ matching homemade sweaters, Dobby’s mismatched socks he gave to Harry and even the multi-colored house coat Mrs. Weasley wore in one of the movies.