Who is Sherrill Nesbit?
By Marge Schwartz
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Who is she? I never met her but I can tell you that she was both kind and talented.
Her daughter, Jan Taylor, contacted SedonaKind to donate yarn from her mom’s condo in Las Vegas. She said she had several big bags of yarn so I hopped into my truck to pick it up for Katie while she was in Alaska.
It sounded simple but the truth is that there were 11 big black trash bags and brand new knitting machines along with books and magazines on knitting, beading and needlepoint. I pressed my husband into service and we sorted and bagged a lot of yarn for the knitters group. As I dumped out one of the bags, to my surprise, I found a sleeve, a back and the front of a sweater in the midst of its creation. Another bag contained the other sleeve. Each of about 5 bags contained pieces of sweaters completed but never sewn together.
Jan came over to go through some books that she had second thoughts about and I asked her about the sweaters. She said that her mom had wanted to start a sweater business and had even bought her two daughters knitting machines but had forgotten to tell them of her dream. Sherrill had a serious fall and her daughter Jan was trying to get her admitted to Sedona Winds but her mom passed before the arrangements were complete.
I had put a few of the sweaters together in case she might like to have them back. She brightened up and asked me to put them together and to donate them to Sedona Winds as gifts. The SedonaKind Board approved so I have assembled, sized and wrapped them in individual gift boxes I think that quite a few women and even a few men living at Sedona Winds will be surprised and pleased to receive these beautiful creations knitted by Sherrill Nesbit.
I felt a strong urge to complete these sweaters so that her work could come to fruition. The hours and hours of work she did deserved to be recognized and now a gift will reach a senior. It felt really good to pass along the kindness of someone I never met.
It is as simple as just passing along kindness no matter the delivery system.
Her daughter, Jan Taylor, contacted SedonaKind to donate yarn from her mom’s condo in Las Vegas. She said she had several big bags of yarn so I hopped into my truck to pick it up for Katie while she was in Alaska.
It sounded simple but the truth is that there were 11 big black trash bags and brand new knitting machines along with books and magazines on knitting, beading and needlepoint. I pressed my husband into service and we sorted and bagged a lot of yarn for the knitters group. As I dumped out one of the bags, to my surprise, I found a sleeve, a back and the front of a sweater in the midst of its creation. Another bag contained the other sleeve. Each of about 5 bags contained pieces of sweaters completed but never sewn together.
Jan came over to go through some books that she had second thoughts about and I asked her about the sweaters. She said that her mom had wanted to start a sweater business and had even bought her two daughters knitting machines but had forgotten to tell them of her dream. Sherrill had a serious fall and her daughter Jan was trying to get her admitted to Sedona Winds but her mom passed before the arrangements were complete.
I had put a few of the sweaters together in case she might like to have them back. She brightened up and asked me to put them together and to donate them to Sedona Winds as gifts. The SedonaKind Board approved so I have assembled, sized and wrapped them in individual gift boxes I think that quite a few women and even a few men living at Sedona Winds will be surprised and pleased to receive these beautiful creations knitted by Sherrill Nesbit.
I felt a strong urge to complete these sweaters so that her work could come to fruition. The hours and hours of work she did deserved to be recognized and now a gift will reach a senior. It felt really good to pass along the kindness of someone I never met.
It is as simple as just passing along kindness no matter the delivery system.