The Yarn Place
Tuesday July 24th 2007, 10:49 am
Filed under: Knit

Yarn Place down the aisleYesterday, Nancy, Gracie Larsen, and I headed over to a yarn store neither Gracie nor I had been to before. The Yarn Place, yarnplace.com, imports its own line of laceweight merino and sells it to Purlescence, my favorite LYS, but I’d never gone directly to the source. Gracie is the founder of the Lace Museum and the Lacy Knitters Guild, so of course she was interested.

I stood there in the shop looking at some gorgeous, exquisitely soft (and I’m picky) Angel, a superthin superfine laceweight in superwash merino (okay, cue Charlie Brown appearing with the dog dish and Snoopy dancing: it’s sup sup supertiiiiiiime).  It was just the most perfect shade of raspberry.  No way was that not going home with me.

Meantime, I had asked about their colors, and Nancy’s showing something knitted up from one of the balls in this lineup–which makes it so I really can call this a photo of a stitch kabob.

Stitch kabob


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Sounds like a fun trip, doing some yarn retail therapy!

Comment by Amanda 07.24.07 @ 6:58 pm

New yarn stores are always fun! And the yarn-kabob! *thud*

Comment by Carol 07.24.07 @ 7:40 pm

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Comment by Adrian 07.24.07 @ 8:17 pm

I want that stick o’ yarn!

Comment by Sonya 07.24.07 @ 9:31 pm

I saw her stuff at Stitches. Gorgeous!!!

Comment by Romi 07.27.07 @ 2:28 pm



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