In a cozy navy-blue room, surrounded by stacks of yarn spun from everything using sugarcane to alpaca fur, Marilyn Scott sits making colorful creations using nothing but sticks and string.
“People are afraid of knitting,” Scott, 56, of Lovingston said. “And it’s only sticks and string. That’s all it is.”
For the past year, Scott has been teaching others in Nelson County to knit at the Nelson Center.
Now, with the demand for more classes and more supplies, she has opened up the Yarn Boutique and moved her classes to her home.
“I decided to have them at my home because it was more cozy here and then I didn’t have to drag all my yarn (to the Nelson Center),” she said. “Here, (students) could just come in here and get what they wanted. Sometimes we sit on the floor and knit, which is really cool.”
Scott has held four classes per week, with 11 students in each class. She said those numbers have increased since last year and to accommodate more students with smaller class sizes, she now teaches several days per week in her home on Scottie’s Lane in Lovingston.
A retired naturopathic doctor by trade, Scott said her true love is knitting and that she decided to it into a business a few years ago when the economy started to struggle.
“My passion is knitting,” she said. “When you find your passion, you just have to go for it.”
Scott started knitting when she was 5 and has taken “hundreds of hours” of knitting classes since. She also crochets, beads and sews.
“To me, it’s a big stress releaser,” she said. “If I have the chance, I will knit all day.”
Knitting an average of six hours per day, Scott makes everything from sweaters to scarves to cupcakes out of yarn.
“There is only two stitches, knitting and pearling,” she said. “What you do with those combination of stitches is what makes fabrics.”
Scott sells her creations out of her shop as well, along with everything else a knitter or crocheter might need.
For more information, call Marilyn Scott at (434) 263-6724.
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