There. I've said it.
I had been looking forward to going to Colorful Stitches in the Berkshires for a long time. I extricated myself from the family for a precious hour during our trip and headed to downtown Lenox. I entered that store and it was even more beautiful and fabulous than I had imagined. Unlike other yarn stores I've been to, they actually even had crochet books and hooks for sale, but I was still overtaken by feelings of inferiority because I CAN'T KNIT. The salespeople were very friendly but I couldn't shake the feeling that I am still unworthy of such incredible yarn. Maybe I'll stick with Lion Brand Yarn, which I can buy at those huge, impersonal craft stores, until I feel more confident, or at least until I master casting on.
I have similar feelings of inadequacy when entering knitting stores. There is one by my house that is small but full of serious knitters who sit around a table knitting and gossiping while eating cheese and crackers and peanut m&m's. I have asked them for assistance on my screwed up knitting 101 projects and they have always been very nice and helpful. But somehow, I have not felt comfortable enough to join them and really dig in to the knitters' world.
I am also on the stitch-n-bitch yahoo group e-mail list...but I never read it.
Posted by: Naomi | May 01, 2008 at 05:18 PM