Welcome to our store ... we are Tim, Nancy and Katie
Wyatt. We opened Knitted Together
"a yarn store & learning experience" on March 16th 2006, but the
creation of Knitted Together really started long ago.I once read that "knitting is the
essence of creation" and we absolutely believe this to be the truth.In Psalm 139:13 David wrote that "God
made all my inner most delicate parts and knit them together in my mother's
womb."How awesome to know that
even in the essence of our creation ... God has his hands at work stitching our
lives together.Nancy, who was once a
senior editor of magazines for Better Homes and Gardens Creative Collection,
where she wrote Knit It magazine and Simply Creative Crochet magazine, has
been a knitter since she was nine years old.Nancy has always had a gift for arts and crafts ... she graduated from
Drake University with a degree in fine art with a major in jewelry making and
design and somewhere along the way she worked for a clever woman named Alice
Brown in a yarn store and learned to run the store.If I said that we are knitters and that we
love great yarn ... it would be true ... although Nancy is the real needle
artist with knowledge and passion for knitting and the compassion to help
others succeed with their projects ... Tim mostly likes the yarn, the colors
and fibers, and the promoting of what beautiful things can be made from the
gorgeous yarns.
Yet still God stitched the dream in Nancy's heart to have
her own yarn store and while Nancy worked for Meredith Corporation and Tim at
Baldwin White Architects, they began to collaborate what Nancy's dream would
look like.As we continued to study all
the aspects of business God continued to knit us together.In Colossians 2:2 the Apostle Paul wrote
"my goal is that they will be encouragedand knit together by strong ties
of God's love."As that happened in
our lives we began to see how God would work His plan out of the dream he placed
in Nancy's heart long ago ... a plan not just for us to be knit together but
for a community of people to become completely "knitted
together".The Apostle Paul
continues in Colossians 3:12 and basically tells us to take the fabric knitted
out of love and clothe ourselves with it that we would have "tenderhearted
mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience" so that we would make
allowances for others faults and forgive the person that offends us the way God
has forgiven us.So clearly we are not
perfect people here ... just forgiven ... and ready to forgive.
Tim eventually got to live out his dream of developing a business,
designing a fabulous retail space and becoming a business partner with his wife
and best friend ... Nancy.Looking into
the heart of God and plagiarizing design from the most amazing architect ...
our awesome, loving, kind and generous creator God ... it was beyond
words.
You will also notice our sweet and lovely daughter Katie
in our photo and doing some modeling in the customer photo gallery ... she is
truly a great asset of God and his plan for us.There was a time when Katie was the glue that God used to hold us
together.Katie was born on March 16th
and was the inspiration for birthing our store on that same date ... hmm ...
maybe there is something about 3:16 and amazing love.
Tim, Nancy & Katie Wyatt
P.S Don't just take our word for it ... no one says it better than LIFE BEAUTIFUL magazine.
