Where to begin? I’ve been on vacation, starting with an unpleasant medical procedure that left me with a two day headache and a bruised neck. There was nowhere to go from there, but up. Lets start with the two, five and nine:
Two countries,
five cities,
and nine yarn shops.
That sounds like a good holiday to me, but add in six good friends and four nights on a cruise ship and its a formula for perfection. Living on the West Coast gives us many opportunities for inexpensive shoulder season mini-cruises to ports laden with exceptional yarn booty. Enough talk, here are the pictures:
That’s the Mercury, which for us, started out in Seattle, where we visited the Acorn Street Yarn Shop, Weaving Works, the Fiber Gallery, the Math Store (which unbelievably has a yarn department) and So Much Yarn. Next stop – Nanaimo, BC, home to the Woolly Ewe.
There’s Blogless Marsha saying "It’s time to get you an evening knitting bag, rather than that muslin shopping bag." At Halloween, instead of cruise ship carved ice decor, there are wonderful jack o’lanterns.
Then there’s the parliament building in our province’s capitol, Victoria, with the best in BC knitting store – the Beehive Wool Shop. That’s a family of Vancouver Island sea otters. If they got any closer I’d be figuring out how to include some shed fur into a knitting project. You know I’ve knit possum before, right? Doesn’t seem so weird after that.
Back on land we hit Great Yarns in Everett and the new Apple Yarns in Bellingham. The icing on the cake was a visit to B’Ham’s Trader Joe’s, finally open after eighteen months of rumours and construction. So now it’s back to reality.
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