Fibers
Fibers
465 S. Auburn Street
Grass Valley, CA 95945
530-274-9276
877-524-6362 Toll Free
Hours:
10:00AM-5:00PM Tuesday-Friday
10:00AM-4:00PM Saturday
My mother taught me to knit when I was 8 years old. She always held the yarn in her left hand, so I do, too, but I've learned to hold it in several different ways, so I can teach you in a way that works for you!
Because I learned with someone who was adept at showing me how to I learned to fix mistakes, and so I was willing to make plenty of them! As a result, I'm pretty fearless when it comes to knitting -- I'll try anything to see if it works, especially with yarn that doesn't mind being re-knit!
The other relevant experience I bring to our shop is decades of work as a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Trainer. The Feldenkrais Method® is a means of improving your ability to do just about anything, by learning to pay very detailed attention to what you're doing. I have a practice here in Grass Valley, and you can learn more about it here.)
This work has given me patience that I bring to teaching knitting, and also a wealth of different ways of explaining things, so that if you don't get it one way, you're likely to get it in another! My goal is to help you become the best knitter you can be, without ever feeling inadequate about what you haven't learned yet. I rarely will fix your mistakes, because I don't make house calls -- I want you to learn to fix them yourself, so that at midnight on Saturday -- when Fibers is going to be closed for 2 days, you can take care of what comes up without my help!
My vision for Fibers is that it's a place where we can connect with others who share our passion now, and with those who've come before and will come after after us, by continuing a tradition of handwork that spans the ages and the globe -- and if there's life on other planets, I'm sure those life-forms are also knitting! I see Fibers as a place of abundance, where we can indulge our own desire to knit and at the same time, choose to support those in areas of the world who struggle to survive.
For me, knitting is not only an addiction, but also a meditation, a stress-reducer, an outlet for my creativity and a never-ending source of contentment. From my first dream of Fibers, it has been a place where those who came to shop would find a feast for their senses, and those who work here couldn't wait to arrive. I hope you like what we've created!
As we expand into the future with our web store, I hope that we can create that same feeling of being a customer of a Local Yarn Shop, even if you're a thousand miles away from us and hundreds of miles from your nearest yarn store. We're only a phone call away, and if you have a web cam, you can have a lesson with me on line in real time! My goal is to make everyone who wants to shop a Local Yarn Shop feel like they've found what they're looking for at Fibers.
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