Connections
Posted November 12th, 2006 by Holli Yeoh
Holli is the WCKG past president. She runs a home-based knitwear design business while caring for her young son.
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When we knit, our yarn connects one stitch to the next, one row to the next and our knitting connects us to people – the recipient of our work, the LYS, the people who talk to us when they catch us knitting. Knitting is the “yarn” that connects people and events in a knitter’s life.
And for the guild we all make connections for the knitting we do for the children in a Kindergarten classroom in New York, the women and children of Nova House, the people we meet at our craft sales as well as our own weekend retreats.
Isn’t it great to be connected to a community of knitters? Our knitting connections have taken us to guild meetings, Knit in the Park where we knit together and meet new friends, and across the country for knitting retreats. The Internet brings us even more knitting connections from around the world through knitlists, on-line yarn stores and personal connections we make which have us talking to strangers about knitting half-way around the world.
A case in point: Jo An, the Opal yarn distributor in the Netherlands introduced me to Nola, the owner of an on-line shop called Bead and Opal Wool Queen in Australia. As you probably know, I am the Queen Bee of Bee’s Knees Knits. “Queen Nola” and I have a great time emailing back and forth and trying to outdo one another by using regal and flowery language and proper etiquette when addressing royalty. Both Jo An and Nola now carry my patterns. Talk about the connections I’ve made!
My knitting connections have been invaluable to me. They have brought me new friendships with guild members, knitwear designers, LYS owners and others. I meet knitters every week in my neighbourhood because I am out knitting in the playground and at my son’s preschool activities. And, of course, I’ve made connections with many of my knitting customers.
Everyone in our guild has these stories that connect us. Let’s continue to work for our community of knitters to expand our horizons, make new friends, learn new skills, and revel in the pleasures of knitting, which no matter how we think of it as a solitary pastime in fact is a connection with the larger world outside.
Keep Canada knitting, and keep the world knitting too.
Originally published in the West Coast Knitters’ News Volume 8 Issue 5 September 2006
I have an awful lot of yarn I wish to donate to knitters who knit for charity…..[ed: email address removed, instead contact the guild at info(at)westcoastknitters.org]
can someone get back to me asap. we are downsizing and I really need to get rid of this.
thanks Sandra (if you answer today before 3:15 please use my work email.)