Not just the yarn, the store itself, many a knitter's dream. Mine came true. After planning a roadtrip with friends from Bremen, Germany to Venice, I asked if Paffenhofen, home of Rohrspatz & Wollmeise, was within reasonable distance of our planned trip. It was meant to be, five minutes off our route on the autobahn, and on a day the shop was open. Come with me on a knitting adventure.
What was it like?
A feast of colour. An hour and a half of woolen bliss.
The store is small, three walls and the front lined with windows with a shelf below. Enter the door. The wall to the left is for yarn called "We are not perfect," seconds with slight flaws, each explained on the label. The wall to the right holds current perfect sockweight stock. The middle of the shop has couches surrounded by baskets of laceweight yarn, all seconds. Under the windowed wall are the clearance skeins.
There were 29 people, 25 knitters (24 women, 1 man), 2 lost men and 2 employees. It appeared there was a scheduled knitting group in progress. Imagine knitting plus a coffee table filled with German baking. I almost had to pinch myself. Am I really here?
Next post: What I bought and a review of the goods.
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