yarnia

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a number of months ago, my friend melissa decided she wanted to go for it and make a dream come true.
now we have a new yarn shop in our city. this is very good.

the doors to yarnia opened thursday evening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony

complete with family and yarn-happy friends. that’s melissa’s husband and daughter with her (the matching purple outfits are a total coincidence . . . these things happen in good partnerships), and her mom is there too, but somehow i cut her out of the photo.

but there she is on the left. melissa shed a little tear, but not for long . . the stampede began almost immediately after the ribbon fell.

here we are in the peanut gallery, ready to make a run for the goods—i’m wearing david’s hypoteneuse; it’s not jsut for guys, you know. that’s another anne on the left there in her new twinings stole, knit with fearless fibers classic sock yarn. didn’t she do a great job? and fast—wow.

because well, much as we all enjoyed melissa’s moment, it was the yarn we came to see.

and we were NOT disappointed. selections from rowan, lorna’s laces, the alpaca yarn company, auracania, harris tweeds, and myriad others crowd the shop. she has some awesome blocking wire sets and a line of specialty cremes for knitting hands made from all natural ingredients. there is a coffee bar and there are classrooms, good lighting and and a cheery atmosphere. sigh.

the wool fumes were strong and the excitement was high. the lorna’s laces sock yarn in ohio state colors was especially popular—especially with janet (left). janet, debbie, debby, and anne are in my wednesday afternoon class. they are all accomplished knitters so i think they come to class every week just to have fun (and hey, why not?).

and the proprietor could not be more enthusiastic (can you believe this woman got a yarn shop up and running in the last 2 months and still looks this great? i mean construction just ended a week ago; how frazzled was she?).

i indulged in some foot-warming alpaca superwash sock yarn

i’m pretty excited about this yarn—i am longing for truly warm socks and i’m hoping this one fills the bill. the colorways are gorgeous, too.

of course, not everyone was as thrilled as the knitters all were

karen’s son could have used a little less woman-power that night.

many thanks to debbie for the additional pictures!!)

21 thoughts on “yarnia

  1. LOL! Karen’s son should start corresponding with College Boy, Loopy-Ewe-Sheri’s son. Looks like they’re kindred souls. Either that or he needs to take a peek at some of the teen and preteen knitters that stalk the Harlot – being the son of a yarn shop owner could have its dating benefits! Hee.
    PS – I LOVE that sock yarn. Gonna have to check out that website.

  2. OOOO . . . I’ll have to take 77 South when I go home now! Love charting my trips back to Ohio via yarnshops! Best of luck with the shop, Melissa!

  3. The next time I’m in your area, I’m going to find Melissa’s shop! She looks thrilled. What is the colorway on that alpaca?

  4. He could not imagine why we would ever need to go to yet another place to buy yarn when we’d just spent six days in another state buying yarn. Heh.

    He did perk up when we found the Ohio State University colorway of Lorna’s Laces sock yarn. How could you not perk up at the sight of that? I sent my sister a picture of it and she went nutso.

  5. Poor kid, I am glad he perked up. I am amazed Melissa wasn’t in a heap on the floor if construcion didn’t end till last week. A new yarn store, a good one is always needed. How great for you all. it seems everyone was happy with their yarn purchases. I love the sweater you are wearing, and cool glasses. Anne’s twinings stole looks great, such quick knitting! glad you all had fun.

  6. i can’t wait to check yarnia out – although the way my stash has been growing lately (without even making it to…out of state fiber festivals 😉 ) – i don’t need another yarn shop on hand! do you know, is it officially open now, or is that at a later date?

  7. You know, I hate socks with a passion – I wear my Birkinstocks barefoot in the winter as long as I can before I have to break down and put socks on. And the socks come off as soon as possible.

    That being said, alpaca superwash Just Might get me to try knitting some socks!

    Hey, does anyone have a cloning machine I can borrow? I have too much yarn to knit up!

  8. wow- looks like a great yarn shop there – love the photo of the two annes all decked out for shopping.
    you’ve sure been busy!

  9. I’m coveting the purple-y/golden yarn in your beautiful sweater. I bet you spun it yourself.

  10. HA,HA,HA–That is a portrait of my two son’s at the yarn store as well!! Congrats to Melissa, and there can never be enough yarn stores IMO 😉

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