The DFW yarn crawl happened to me in August. My cohort was out of town for the beginning of it so I stayed pretty close to home for the first weekend. The following weekend we headed north just a ways to McKinney and were able to hit the local store there (McKinney Knittery) and also a yarn convergence inside Tupps brewery. What could be better? I can always go with: “The beer made me buy it”. Works, don’t you think?
My plan was this: 1. Go armed with a few patterns for which I wanted to find yarn. 2. If I found yarn I simply must buy, only buy worsted weight since fingering makes up far too much of my stash. Sounds like a good plan, yes? I went with four patterns.
We stopped first at the Knittery. Pattern yarn found. Check. Worsted weight. Check. Whew!
Then on to the brewery. And that’s where the plan started to falter. Well ok, actually got totally abandoned. At the first booth. But the yarns. Oh. My. So just take a look at this picture. Fingering. All four skeins. But wow, the colors; all four are merino super wash and soooo very soft.
This next pic is of the display table.
Noti Yarns is a one woman business. She hand paints her yarn. This is one of the woman I mentioned in an earlier post who got started doing this because she couldn’t find what she wanted. In her case, she was wanting to combine variegated with solids and couldn’t find matching colors in the palette she had chosen. And it happened more than once. So, she embarked on the journey that has led her to hand painting these fabulous color combinations. And I love the names she has chosen for her yarns. I could say that might sound like buying the wine for the label on the bottle but with that you never know what’s inside. With yarn it just adds charm.
I chatted with several other wonderful people. The next couple of posts will be devoted to them.
Happy yarning!