Part 2 of the North Shore Yarn Crawl.
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Coveted Yarn- So much yarn to see here. They have a lot variety of yarns, maybe the best selection of Malabrigo yarns around this area. You can spend tons of time here. I've visited this yarn store before and always end up wanting more yarn than I can afford. One of these days, I'm going to try the BBQ place next door. Here, I got these yarns:
Malabrigo yarn Silkpaca-a lace weight yarn. I've never used it before and I love the sheen and color:
And 6 skeins of Miss Priss from the Schaefer Yarn Company. It's an aran weight yarn, which I'm thinking of knitting
Ratana (cardigan), but I may change my mind.
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A loom with a view- I went to this store last year as well. I dropped a lot of $ here for Shibui sock yarn-sweater worth last year which I haven't used yet. All in good time. This year, I dropped a lot of $ for these Donegal Tweed yarn (homespun). They were buy 2, get 1 plus 10% off so I feel like I got a good deal after buying 9 of them (paying for 6). I'm thinking about
Central Park Hoodie for this one.
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Village Stitchery-I was getting pretty tired at this point. This store in Topsfield was new to me. It's a nice store with good selection of yarn. I bought a ball of Uluru from the Queensland Collection. I have no idea what I will knit (it's a fingering weight yarn) but I suspect it will be some sort of shawl or cowl. It's pretty so it landed in my shopping basket:
7) Seed Stitch Fine Yarns- I guess I lied yesterday when I said I visited 6 yarns stores. I visited 7 apparently. This was my last stop since it's the closest to me being in Salem. I always like walking into Seed stitch and yesterday was no exception. I bought this bright yellow/ orange fingering weight yarn because it's such a 'happy' color. Probably a shawl or something-we shall see. It's from Toil and Trouble. She is a local dyer and she was on hand for the show and sale which was really cool.
I also got this yarn Metalico from Blue Sky Alpacas. It's a DK weight yarn made with silk and alpaca-so ridiculously soft and silky. I have no idea yet what I will knit with it, but it said 'hello' to me when I saw it and I had to have it.
The yarn crawl was fun as always, now it's time to find enough time to knit all of these up. I updated on some of the projects yesterday, but here are two more.
Susie Roger's Reading mitts: It's always cold where I sit at work. My fingers feel numb sometimes so i knit my self these mitts. I used Alchemy Yarns of Transformation Sanctuary. Super fast knit and the yarn is gorgeous.
I'm currently working on
Dragonflies Jumper. It's lace sweater I'm knitting for myself using Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool. The torso is done, just need to work on the sleeves and neck. I tried it on after knitting the torso and it looked perfect! So excited.
Enough knitting updates for this weekend! I will leave you with a picture of this pretty girl: