Kiki's Yarn Works
Wear your true colors.
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.
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 feels disorienting..
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 that make up who we are.
I hope you will follow me in this ever-evolving journey…
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