Archive for November, 2018

Local Yarn Shops

Thursday, November 8th, 2018

I make it my mission when we go away on holiday to find the little local yarn shops selling locally hand dyed yarn, and now floof too!  I’m just back from a trip to Florida and Vegas where I managed to visit 5 lovely little shops :o)

The first, A Bit O’ Yarn in Englewood didn’t seem to have any hand dyed yarn but did have a sale table ;o) I bought some lovely purple rafia to crochet a new hat and Chris chose some pink yarn for more socks :o)

Next up was Needlefish Yarns in Venice where I found some beautiful yarn hand dyed by Emma’s Yarn in this amazing Mexican Wedding Dress colourway. The shop was full of beautiful yarn, but a lot came from Ireland which seemed a bit crazy to buy in Florida! The lady in the shop even wound the yarn into a ball for me so I could get started on my next pair of socks whilst on holiday :o)

The final stop in Florida was to A Good Yarn in Sarasota. They were in the process of moving to new premises but still had some floof on display (and a lot of amazing yarn I somehow resisted!) I bought some lovely merino, bamboo, silk mix which was their fiber for Spinzilla :o) It’s beautiful :o)

Chris chose some bright neon fiber for me to play with and I also picked up a couple of replacement pin loom weaving needles as I’ve been having such a hard time finding them in the UK :o)

Once we were in Vegas I already knew of one yarn shop as I’ve been there before! Sin City Knit Shop has a good selection of local hand dyed yarn and I’d seen online that they had a new colourway for the local ice hockey team. Not that I know anything about ice hockey, but I wanted some anyway! ;o)

They’d actually sold out, but the owner asked her locals who were sitting knitting if anyone had an unused skein and happily sold me the yarn already wound into balls ;o) Chris chose some yarn and a pattern for a new hat too :o)

Oh, and they had a “trunk show” – a new to me phrase I had thankfully researched before being led into the back room ;o) Greenwood Fiberworks from Utah had sent a selection of beautiful yarn and fibre and I couldn’t resist this amazing rainbow braid with added sparkles :o)

The last stop was a new place in Vegas which had somehow never shown up in previous hunts despite having existed for years. Golden Needle Arts looks like a cross stitch kind of place mostly, but actually contains supplies for all kinds of crafts. I picked up some lovey purple malabrigo fibre and got to stroke a lot of kitties too :o)