Kiki's Yarn Works

The arts played a vital role in my life from a very early age. I made a career in the theater for three decades before the pandemic forced me to rethink my priorities. It was then that I turned to knitting as a creative way to process a new beginning. 

 

I had originally learned to knit from my grandmother as a small child.  Many years later I was reintroduced to it while rehearsing the show "Cascabel" at the Goodman Theater in Chicago: I was sharing a dressing room with an acrobat who in between her incredible physical feats, would wind down by knitting. I  envied her stillness. I was reminded of her years later and picked up the knitting needles she had gifted me.

 

I loved the tactile quality of it. Working with fiber was soothing. It was something I could manipulate in my hands and make something useful and beautiful out of. It was a way to find order in a world that often doesn't make sense..

 

I claimed my childhood nickname, Kiki, for the name of my small business as a way to reopen the doors to the endless creativity I experienced early on in my life. It was also embracing the idea that the aging process is not a kind of wilting of the self, but a way of becoming everything you were always meant to be. The layers we wear, and the layers who make us who we are.

 

Kiki's Yarn Works was born out of reinvention; the ability we all have to shape our own lives in a way that invites authenticity. 

 

I hope you will follow me in this ever-evolving journey…

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