Fibre on a Foggy Saturday

What a great way to spend a Saturday.... with a good friend, perusing yarn and fibre stores!

Susan (my Knit Night buddy and dear friend), and I started with The Needle  Emporium in Ancaster, where Julie's amazing array of yarns was enough to stop you in your tracks the minute you walked through the door! I'll bet your first look at this picture (left) makes you say "WOW!" (...that definitely seemed to be the reaction of first-time visitors when we were in the store). What a myriad of temptation in terms of colour, fibres and patterns..... as much as I tried, resistance was futile!

More exploring needed to be done, so we headed into Toronto and with some amazing (yet unintentional) navigation, ended up steps away from the Purple Purl in the eastern end of Toronto's core. A quick visit there led us to discover what yarny goodness was hidden in their shelves, and then off to Lettuce Knit to the west of downtown Toronto. I have to say the atmosphere at both Toronto stores was very welcoming. Staff were incredibly friendly (one of the Purple Purl People actually recognized us from our visit to the KW Knitter's Fair!).  Add the weather to that (you can't even see the top of the CN Tower in the photo to the right), and it was a great day to be indoors and visiting stores with yarn and fibre -- kind of like walking into a big, warm hug by a long-time friend wearing a soft, well-worn handknit sweater. I have to admit something followed me home from each store, but the pièce de résistance was my new 15" Cricket loom.

It's put together and awaiting my perusal of the related warping/wefting online videos...  That's contingent on my discovery of where time actually goes the week before Christmas, and trying to recoup some of it from the clutches of the space/time continuum or vortex that literally sucks hours out of a day without us really being aware.... but I digress.  With all the fibre temptations from the weekend, it's going to be a long week -- in a good way!!