What’s… making your passions occur after successful massive on a nationwide sport present? Former eight-day Jeopardy! champion, Hannah Wilson, took her earnings from the sport present and opened up a craft retailer with them.
Wilson, from Chicago, Illinois, was a knowledge scientist whereas she was on Jeopardy!. Now, she has switched careers and turned to arts and crafts. She made her debut on the present on Might 3, 2023, and defeated 3-day champion Kevin Belle in a near-runaway victory. Wilson went on to have seven spectacular video games, racking up an eight-day whole of $229,801. The contestant is the third-highest incomes feminine contestant in common gameplay and the fifth-highest feminine earnings general.
Ben Chan beat her throughout her ninth sport, incomes his fourth win in 9 straight runaway victories. Wilson went on to play within the 2024 Match of Champions, by which she positioned fourth, and the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Match.
Wilson’s success on Jeopardy! helped her and her spouse open The Dropped Sew in Chicago. In regards to the retailer, she instructed Axios Chicago, “My spouse and I used a few of my prize cash to place a down fee on a condominium in Andersonville, a neighborhood which had every part besides a superb yarn store.” It’s now solely one in every of a handful of devoted craft shops in Andersonville because the closure of Joann’s Materials and Crafts is imminent.
Based on the location, The Dropped Sew, positioned at 1524 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60660, is a yarn store and fiber arts emporium. It’s open Wednesdays via Sundays from 12 pm to six pm. Together with merchandise to promote, they provide courses and workshops taught by native artists. The shop opened in November 2024.
“Now, I spend all day knitting, assembly fellow crafters in my neighborhood, organizing courses and workshops, and getting newcomers set on their method. It’s fairly nice!” she mentioned.
Wilson talked to the outlet about what her typical day appears to be like like operating the shop. “After I wish to give myself a deal with earlier than opening my retailer, I head down the road to JB’s Deli and seize a breakfast sandwich (every part bagel, toasted, with bacon, egg, and swiss cheese,” she mentioned.
If she has further time, she goes birdwatching earlier than opening the shop. For lunch, she normally will get tacos. When Wilson isn’t at The Dropped Sew, she normally spends time in used bookstores throughout the town. She ends her day at Open Books in Logan Sq., a literacy nonprofit. “The place I spent a while volunteering throughout my post-Jeopardy! mini-retirement,” Wilson mentioned.
After procuring on the bookstores, she finds dinner after which makes her technique to Inexperienced Mill Jass Membership. “I’m too sleepy to remain for the second set, so I take the Broadway bus house and crash on the sofa with my knitting and an episode of Columbo. Goodnight!” she mentioned about ending the evening.
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