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tea + yarn = awesomesauce
Mar. 19th, 2010 12:36 pmI have been wanting for a while to take my roommates to a yarn shop and a tea shop, both approx. half an hour away.
Yesterday, we finally got around to going. \o/ And unsurprisingly, it was completely awesome.
Wandering around yarn storesgroping petting yarn is so much fun. Even if I can't buy everything that makes me go "ooh" (of which there was plenty, both color-wise and texture-wise), it's just ... bliss. And so much more fun than shopping for yarn online, because, hey, touching!
I did get some 10" dpns, to see if that will work for knitting. They're long enough that I can hold one in my left hand and have the tip by my right hand, which /may/ work for needle-knitting. If it does, I may seriously look into trying to find someone willing to make me circulars with a long needle part. I doubt it would work for sock-weight yarn (long thin needles would kind of be prone to breakage), but if nothing else I have some shawls that I would love to try making, and looms really do not work for that.
(I still need to undo the sock-what-was-knitted-wrong and start over. I did get some pictures of it first. I just ... *flail* Technically, I don't /have/ to start over, I could just do the first two repeats of the other sock wrong as well, but that's not a decision I can live with. It looks wrong. But undoing all that work makes me a sad kitty.)
(...speaking of knitting, though, these are seriously adorable.)
And then we went to the tea place. Which involved less petting but just as much gawking, because they have some seriously awesome teas. And it's not like we need more tea (seriously, I need to get a photo of our combined tea stash; it's kind of on the scary side of awesome), but we easily could have walked away with several dozen things of tea from them.
(We were good, though, and only got a couple.)
The combined expedition -- wandering around the yarn shop, and wandering around the tea shop -- took around four hours. (We didn't even have a chance to sit down and /drink/ tea at the tea store, because we ran out of time.) But it was a nice relaxed outing. and I am Happy.
(the irony, however, is learning after the fact that there was a tea shop /in the same building/ as the yarn shop. obviously, next time we make a yarn pilgrimage, there shall have to be extra tea-ing.)
Yesterday, we finally got around to going. \o/ And unsurprisingly, it was completely awesome.
Wandering around yarn stores
I did get some 10" dpns, to see if that will work for knitting. They're long enough that I can hold one in my left hand and have the tip by my right hand, which /may/ work for needle-knitting. If it does, I may seriously look into trying to find someone willing to make me circulars with a long needle part. I doubt it would work for sock-weight yarn (long thin needles would kind of be prone to breakage), but if nothing else I have some shawls that I would love to try making, and looms really do not work for that.
(I still need to undo the sock-what-was-knitted-wrong and start over. I did get some pictures of it first. I just ... *flail* Technically, I don't /have/ to start over, I could just do the first two repeats of the other sock wrong as well, but that's not a decision I can live with. It looks wrong. But undoing all that work makes me a sad kitty.)
(...speaking of knitting, though, these are seriously adorable.)
And then we went to the tea place. Which involved less petting but just as much gawking, because they have some seriously awesome teas. And it's not like we need more tea (seriously, I need to get a photo of our combined tea stash; it's kind of on the scary side of awesome), but we easily could have walked away with several dozen things of tea from them.
(We were good, though, and only got a couple.)
The combined expedition -- wandering around the yarn shop, and wandering around the tea shop -- took around four hours. (We didn't even have a chance to sit down and /drink/ tea at the tea store, because we ran out of time.) But it was a nice relaxed outing. and I am Happy.
(the irony, however, is learning after the fact that there was a tea shop /in the same building/ as the yarn shop. obviously, next time we make a yarn pilgrimage, there shall have to be extra tea-ing.)