Young entrepreneur stitches together her own business
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What began as a generous impulse to continue a family tradition ended up earning 12-year-old Alayna Kennedy a nice little pile of cash. It all started with hand-knitted dish cloths.
“My aunt’s mother-in-law used to make them for the family,” Alayna said. “She had passed away, and I wanted to do it for the family to give one to everybody for Christmas.”
So she and her mother, Shannon Kennedy, went to the knitting and crocheting circle that meets twice a month at the Alliance YWCA.
“We began showing her the basics, casting on, basic stitches,” said knitter Jodene Hardy. “She was a natural — she caught on so quickly. We would only show her something once, maybe twice, and she had it. She had very good control of the needles and the tension of the yarn.”
“My grandma told me that other people would need them, and I wanted to get an iPod Touch, so I started selling them,” Alayna said.
Thanks to some sales help from mom and grandma, she had no trouble finding customers and is now the proud owner of an iPod Touch.
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