We were lucky to catch up with Kayla Johnson recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Kayla thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to go back in time and hear the story of how you came up with the name of your brand?

It was hard at first coming up with a first because I wanted a business name that represented both my love for knitting and crocheting. After some brainstorming and giving it, some thought that is when I came up with the name Elite Royal Stitches and Thread. I never thought about turning something that once started off a fun hobby and to help with my anxiety into a business.

Kayla, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Hey, my name is Kayla Johnson I am 34-year-old half black half white woman. When I first started and learned how to knit, I was 12 years old but was told that I wasn’t going to be good enough so I kind of gave up on it. Then in my early 20’s I taught myself how to crochet with the help of Youtube. My love for knitting and crocheting started as a hobby just something to do and keep me busy it also helped with my anxiety. I have knitted and crocheted things from blanket to graphgans to hats/beanies to shawls/scarves to granny squares even baby items like baby blankets, baby booties and hats. I think something that sets me apart from the rest is that everything that I create with my craft is that with every stitch no matter what it is that it’s made with love. Also being surrounded with amazing people who sees the potential in me to take my hobby to the next level. The thing that most proud of is that I found my love for knitting and crocheting again and knowing that new potential customers will be getting something that is handmade with love and that I will be able to make something that have visioned into art one stitch at a time.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the hardest lessons I had to unlearn that not everything that has to be perfect ever since I was a little thought that I had to be perfect. That has been one of my biggest struggles especially when it comes to my craft of knitting and crocheting. If it’s not perfect, I would undo all my work no matter how much progress that I have made and start from the beginning until I got right. I feel that my need to perfect in my knitting and crocheting projects on top of being told I wasn’t going to be good enough is what contributed to me losing the love and the passionate that I had for my crafts.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Finding something that you are really good is really hard to come by and that against all odds. On top of that having family members, friends/acquaintances etc. from my past telling me that I will never be good at something. Having the ability to keep pushing to never give up and finding some of that confidence that I had. That I am still looking to reclaim all of it because at the end of that day I have proven that in every stitch and every project that I have project I’ve created in the past, present, and what’s to come in the future. That the potential that I have has always been there which would have been possible without being around the right now who saw something in me that I am now seeing resurface. No matter what obstacles get thrown in my path I will never let another person make me doubt what I know that I am capable of doing ever again. I know that with knitting and crocheting project that I work on I am going to put my all into it.

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