It’s a chilly December morning and I’m sitting in one of the window dormers, staring at a computer screen, and trying to encapsulate all the ups and downs of 2024 as a first-time, local yarn store owner. “Hope” is the word that comes to mind, “the thing with feathers” as the poet Emily Dickinson described it.
Over and over again this year I found myself starting a thought with “I hope” as in: I hope I’ve ordered yarn the customers will like.
Likewise, I heard customers say, “I hope this will be enough yarn, the right color yarn, a hat he’ll wear, a blanket she’ll use.”
When it comes to knit and crochet, hope gets us planning and doing and finishing. Hope drives us to persevere. Let’s continue to hope in 2025.