We stopped at a few yarn stores that weren't part of the crawl on our way down. If you ever have a chance to visit Monarch Knitting in Pacific Grove, do it, what an amazing shop! It will be one of my visit a few times a year shops; I would move to Pacific Grove just to have that as my local yarn shop.
We spent the night in an amazing hotel and had a knitting sleepover. This was a great prep-trip for Rhinebeck next month (24 DAYS!) sidenote: my sweater just needs the last sleeve and ends woven in!
The first shop was Yarns & Beads (in Grover Beach) who was having an Anzula trunk show, most of my knitting group is now ready to do a beaded shawl. We made a little beach pit stop first; in our excitement we arrived way before opening.
Then we moved on Yarns...At the Adobe. They also had a few local dyers there for a trunk show and snacks for everyone. Marilyn, in my knitting group, just found out she won their door prize!
The next shop we visited was Never Not Knitting! I'm am so excited that we got to visit this shop! They shop is tiny but stuffed full of amazing yarn and treasures! I didn't buy any yarn but ended up with fun little treasures. And Alana had an amazing gift bag for everyone who visited the shop!
We had two shops left to visit, the first was Ranch Dog Knitting and the last on our fun journey was Ball & Skein & More.
We had a total blast! I really enjoy visiting other shops, seeing their samples, trying new yarn. I came home with a couple hanks of yarn and other lovely yarn goodies. Can't wait until my local fiber fest the first weekend of October!
I'm joining Ginny for the Yarn Along and Frontier Dreams in their Craft Along this week. I'm currently reading the illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone! It's making me so happy to hop back into this world and the illustrations are lovely! Still chugging along on my Rhinebeck Sweater, I'm so close to done I can almost taste it!
What a cool adventure. I'd totally join you if I could. Sadly there aren't a lot of interesting yarn shops in Switzerland, so I usually order online. Also I am often overwhelmed in yarn shops and kind of prefer buying yarn in front of a computer. But just driving around and looking at different kinds of yarn sounds cool.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually find myself overwhelmed in yarn shops unless they are really disorganized. I work at a yarn shop so I'm really familiar with yarns and textures so visiting other shops is just inspiration for the one I work at!
DeleteI was somewhat jealous at first of your having that many yarn shops near. Then I thought of how much money I save by not being so lucky.
ReplyDeleteI definitely have to watch my spending sometimes. I very rarely buy online so I stay away from that temptation:)
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