Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Wonderful Women of Cottage Yarn!!

Last night I had knitting group. It was a smaller group last night of about 10 or so. The women in the group have interesting jobs: one is an author, another a nurse at a Veteran's hospital, another teaches nursing, one is a young mother with a job, goes to the gym regularly and goes to college full time, one is a manager at a laboratory, one is the shop owner, one worked at a mid-western college and is now retired, another is an admitting nurse at a local hospital, one is a teacher at an elementary school, one is a stay at home mom with a card making business on the side and I'm in commercial construction. We all have knitting in common, but the bond is even deeper than that. These women have faced losing a child, breast and ovarian cancer, divorce, unfaithful husbands, etc., etc. but they have all been strong and made it through anything life has thrown at them! We meet every Tuesday night and when we walk through the door individually it is like being Norm on the old TV show Cheers-everyone says your name like you are the most important person on the earth!! Then we all catch up with each other and check out each others knitting projects or yarn finds. We go in search of new yarn for new projects, someone always brings something they have made to eat, so we share that too. We help each other with problems in our knitting (or crocheting for some of the ladies). More than that though we have shared parts or all of our lives and everyone pulls as a group to help the person that is having some trouble or is upset about something that has happened to them.

In this day and age I find it a comforting to know there are still groups like this that you can go to and be a part of. Sometimes we have had bumps in our little group with personalities but it all seems to work out. Alot of the ladies say jokingly that coming to our knitting group is cheaper than therapy! I feel it is a kind of therapy! Just meeting with the same women every week and sometimes on the weekend and sharing is like group therapy. I also get alot of therapy from the knitting process. After rushing around all day at work and being so busy, busy, busy it is so nice to just sit, relax, chat and knit. We are a form of a family. We have celebrated birthdays, the birth of grandsons or granddaughters, Christmas parties, people graduating from college or high school.

I just wanted to put my thoughts down about how I feel about my knitting group and hope that if someone is searching for a knitting group, bookclub, quilting group, church group, etc., etc. they find what I have found in the group of women at Cottage Yarn! Love you girls!!

12 comments:

  1. How blessed you are to have such a wonderful group of ladies to share your life with. Knitting is something I would love to learn and spending time with friends would be icing on the cake.

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  2. How nice for all of you. I miss getting together with friends like that. Maybe it's time to start our Bible study back up.
    You are such a blessing to me as a blogging friend, Sherri.
    xxoo

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  3. Debbie, you are so sweet!! You are a blessing to everyone!!!

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  4. What a lovely tribute to your friends, Sherri. I'm sure they feel the same about you. I know I do.

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  5. Hey Sherri, I'm gonna move to Charlotte - I want so much to be in your wonderful group! Lovely knowing you have such a great support group who share in the love of knitting. I know your friends are also blessed having you there too.

    Happy week - don't work too hard - keep some of that energy for knitting.
    Hugs - Mary

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  6. It is so true...a strong network of women is a powerfully restorative thing! Blogging is my group of women....

    I love those books by Debbie MacComber called, A GOOD YARN ...etc....
    you should read those, you just might enjoy them.

    ciao bella
    Creative Carmelina

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  7. Carmelina-I have read all those book and I loved them!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

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  8. A shared interest can promote friendships that last. Your group sounds wonderful, Sherri!

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  9. Maybe Karrie and I need to invite more people to hang out in the back of the store with us so that we have more to talk about :) It's great to have this connection Sherri ~ we have a friend that belongs to a knitting club and always shares her stories....maybe someday, when we have a little time, we could join, then we could learn to knit as well ~ lol!!
    Have a great day today Sherri!

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  10. How lucky you are to have such a group you belong to. Sounds fantastic.

    Have a great weekend,

    Victoria xx

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  11. I would love to have a great group like that here in my area. But it sounds lovely!

    Angie

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  12. Sherri- I truly believe that knitting is the stitch that binds our souls--- your knitting group sounds like a wonderful group of ladies. You are blessed to have the opportunity to be not only friends who knit together but a support system for each other as well. I wish I lived close enough to join--
    Vicki

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