Why Would A Life Coach Open An Online Yarn-Dyeing Business?
I get asked this question quite a bit because life coaching and hand dyeing seem so different.
Perhaps the best way to describe this evolution, would be to go back to my grandmothers. Even though they were not hand dyers of yarn, they both used yarn in their handwork.
The women in my family were known as “makers.” My children and grandchildren were baptized in the christening dress that was made for my father in 1916. The last grandchild to wear it, did so 100 years later. This handmade garment has withstood 100 years of use and was still usable all these many years later.
One of my grandmothers’ supported her family during the depression with her dressmaking, corset-making and hat making abilities. She taught me to sew when I was 9 years old and how to make a nickel stretch.
Off and on throughout my life, I have had to depend on the very basic skills she taught me to make ends meet. Yarn was a constant companion to my mother and my grandmothers. They were always in the process of making a garment or a afghan (known as a blanket) or a gift for someone. Even at age 93, my mother crocheted 5 hours a day and credited her handwork with keeping her brain active.
As I settled into an active retirement a few years ago, I began to do more handwork myself, now that I had the time. I had always wanted to learn to knit socks and You Tube has many tutorials that showed me how to do it. So I turned to buying sock yarn and realized quickly that there was not much selection in the stores I’d always frequented for yarn projects. And that is when the world of hand dyed yarns opened up and I was hooked! This is exactly what I wanted to work with and make.
And so with only You Tube as my teacher, I have jumped into the yarn world ‘head first’ and have begun to make yarns that I’m in love with. Shortly, I will be putting these yarns into my shop and out into the world.
I invite you to stay tuned and follow along on my new adventure.