All Things Change
On September 12, 2006, I started working at Make 1 Fibre Studio. Since that day, I have learnt more about knitting and spinning and dying yarn than I ever thought that I would. I have also learnt that I still dislike computers and Macs are not better than PCs.
What I treasure the most about my time working is without question the friendships that I have made. I have been amazed by the skills and talents of knitters. I have met so many people that I now count amoung my closest friends.
And I have laughed. It has been four years filled with much laughter. There have also been moments when I have worried with my friends and sometimes cried, but there have been far more hours spent laughing.
This is where I now draw a cheesy comparison to knitting so feel free to skip the next sentence.
Would we really enjoy the finished knitted project, if we didn't have to rip out our knitting once in awhile?
I am taking an extended leave while I wait for my name to come to the top of the list for Cataract surgery. This doesn't mean that you won't be seing me. I will be around. I will still be going to Guild meetings and various knitting days. I just won't be at work on Tuesdays.
Thank you Amy and Sandra for opening the amazing store that is Make 1 and for hiring me initially. Thank you Bess for buying the store and and for letting me continue to work there. Thank to everyone who ever worked there and helped me in my never-ending battle with the computer.
Excuse me while I now climb onto my soapbox.
Cateracts are often thought of as a disease of the elderly. They are becoming common in younger people because of lack of eye protection in childhood.
Get those sunglasses out! Put them on your kids. Protect your eyes.
Cataract surgery is a fairly routine proceedure and my eyesite should be corrected completely. Surgery dates are not actually being booked yet for for next year but I am looking at a seven month wait. This strikes me as slightly ridiculous.
So for the next year, I forsee that I will be driving less, and knitting more. I guess it's not all bad.
3 comments:
for certain things evolve, and make one certainly has done that. i have to say marilynn that there's some part of make one that will never be the same without you, because you own that part.. straight out. you have changed an entire city through lace knitting, and you have been such an invaluable asset to the store. it's an honour to know you, and i will forever more miss our tuesdays together.
Hey Marilyyn
Since I am in the same boat as you, as you know, just think, we can still knit using Braille! I wonder if they make needles with little bumps on them????? Sometimes I think that I am using it especially when I get holes where they don't belong! I guess if I can't see it, it's not there!
Betty
Love you Marilynn! xoxo
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