I asked someone a question yesterday and it is still running through my mind. She originally asked me for a scarf to enter into a raffle for my 21st high school reunion. Why it is the 21st reunion and not the 20th--who knows...
Anyway, when she asked me for the scarf months ago I thought, "Will anyone really want this scarf?" My deepest fear would be seeing my scarf displayed at the reunion, with all my business info surrounding it, and NO RAFFLE TICKETS waiting to be plucked.
Not to mention--would anyone really remember me anyway?? But that's a different story all together.
So the scarf is ready this week and I contacted the reunion organizer to tell her the news. Then I asked her, "Do you think someone will want this??? Just curious..." Her response surprised me, "Umm absolutely!!! I've seen some if your work.. Beautiful! Definitely will be a hit!"
Why did it surprise me? I can go deep and say it's a self esteem issue or something psychological like that--but really the answer, I think, is quite apparent.
I must confess, my KnottedKnot business was not born out of a deep drive to sell knitted goods. It was actually thrust at me by my younger sister. She told some ladies she knew that I had a shop (I did not have a shop) and then she told me to hurry up and make a shop (and I did--at the McDonald's playland). It really started that simply.
But sometimes from simple things comes great things. I'm happy to be knitting and learning new things every day. I'm glad my sister "forced" me into starting my own little business. Maybe I will get over the shock that people like what I make some time in the next few years.
Everything happens for a reason.....
Join me at https://www.facebook.com/theKnottedKnot as I go through this journey.
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