The Studio Team 
 Alie
– finally fulfilled a longtime dream to own a knit shop. Good foil for
her other job as an ER doctor at a trauma center! She learned to knit in
college, hates to do a gauge swatch and loves to knit without patterns.
She likes lace knitting and doing petit point. She finds it easier to
start a project than finish it. She has 2 kids – Emma and Ethan – both knit (but never finish anything!) Cindy (mother of Matthew) – learned to knit in 1994 while chaperoning a group of Girl Scouts from the USA on an
international camping event in Norway. It is no surprise that her first project was a baby sweater. Prior to becoming the manager of The Studio she worked in various
capacities for non-profit agencies here in Kansas City. She finished her MBA in 2001 and started pricing yarn for the shop shortly after. The
prophecy from her graduating class was that she would own a yarn shop.
Well, they were almost right. She is the store manager and resident
forensic knitter. She just authored a book in May of 2007, Kid's Knitting Notebook. She has four important men in her life – husband, Marc and sons, Daniel, Andrew, and Matthew. Dee Anne
– walked into The Studio in Brookside 35 years ago and asked for a part time position. She was teaching
kindergarten and needed something to do in the afternoons. Three children and many stitches later we are lucky enough still have her. Each summer she transfers to Wald Fireworks and works with her brother and sisters in the family business. She keeps busy blocking our customer’s finished needlepoint projects and passes them on the to finishers. She learned to knit in the 4th grade so now she is picking up the knitting needles again to learn along with our very fun customers. Needlepoint is still her favorite but she enjoys having a fast knitting project on hand. Diane – is one of the “oldies but goodies” from the 63rd street Studio! She has dabbled in many
needle arts over the years and has recently converted to knitting – specializing in “baby” items (even though she has no grandchildren yet). She loves them because they are small, finishable and provide opportunities to learn new things. When she is not working on one of her many unfinished projects she can be found biking, cooking, golfing, gardening or running.
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 Mary K – She's a retired lawyer/lobbyist but decided that with two teenage boys at home she needed to find some work AWAY... The transition from being a customer to helping them has been a lot of fun! She's been knitting and needlepointing for over forty years (that's a very shattering thing to see in print) and enjoys it even more now than when she was making sweaters for boyfriends in college. Her husband is great about wearing handknit things and her goal is to get at least one of the boys to actually wear something she's made. Her cats seem to enjoy "wearing" works in progress all the time. Matthew – our store mascot – Born Nov. 4, 2002. Matthew now attend Border Star
Montessori but loves coming to visit and see all his friends at The Studio. We celebrate his birthday every year with a charity project for The Children's Place.  Staci – Staci has been knitting and needlepointing since college. She was a great customer who visited 63rd street often and then fell into Nirvana when offered a job with The Studio. She loves to combine fibers and pick color combo's. Her latest passion is trying her hand at the re-introduced craft of crocheting. Not to worry, her eye never wanders far from great knitting projects, and beautiful needlepoint canvases! Besides cranking out lots of stitched items, she is kept busy with her college seeking senior daughter, her oldest sons social
calendar, and her youngest sons travels to national fencing competitions. She also has become hooked on tandem bike riding with her husband, who is still patiently awaiting his sweater....stayed tuned!!!!
Lisa - Lisa used to own a needlepoint store in Wichita. She returned to both knitting & needlepointing while her oldest daughter was pregnant. She sells real estate when not knitting, needlepointing or babysitting.
And don't forget...
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