It’s the worsted

Bay Area Yarn Crawl shenanigans, round two.

So we have now been to eight yarn stores. Most of them had sock yarns and chunky yarns but the first four had no or nearly no worsted weight yarn, much less a superwash merino like Rios. It was so strange. Today’s gallivanting found more, but only Imagiknit San Francisco had it in more than a half-handful of colors. Most of what I did find was non-superwash, which is fine, but if you’re going to do the kind of massive intarsia afghan project like I like to do you want to know it will survive what non-knitters will do to it in the laundry.

Granted, there have been a lot of knitters missing their Stitches West fix swooping down on these guys. But I mean, you plan for that, right?

We’ll see what the sister store Imagiknit East will be like on Saturday because we’re both curious, but meantime I bought more at the original one than I’d intended just because by store #6 I wanted to make a statement on behalf of my favorite wool that I use so much of. Plus it was–this is the point of getting your customers into your store–so soft and so perfect in the colors I was hoping for that I wanted it in my yarn library. I threw in the one skein of Mecha at the top for Zoom hat knitting.

Plus that shimmery skein of Ecola Worsted merino/silk at Firebird Yarns, and yeah, that will have to get knitted up for someone who’s willing to hand wash it but it’ll just be one small thing, not three months of my time on the line.

Cottage Yarns really has had me spoiled because if it’s Malabrigo, they have it. (They are not on the BAYarn Crawl list.)

How does a yarn store not have worsted weight superwash wool?