‘Store Spotlight’ Archives
Knit & Needlepoint: Boston, MA
store: Knit & Needlepoint address: 11 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 website: http://www.needlepoint-boston.com date of visit: August, 2010 Knit & Needlepoint is located on Newbury street- the 'high fashion' street of Boston- less than a block away from the Boston Common. It's a long street, so don't despair... as long as the street [...]
Knit New Haven: New Haven, CT
store: Knit New Haven address: 26 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06510 website: http://www.knitnewhaven.com date of visit: ongoing I always find the store spotlight posts the most difficult to write. After all, how can you be sure that you're properly conveying the calmness that a yarn store has, or the softness of the wonderful yarns on [...]
Fibre Space: Alexandria, VA
store: Fibre Space address: 102 N. Fayette Street Alexandria, VA 22314 website: http://www.fibrespace.com/ date of visit: May, 2010 Alright... I'll be honest. I have a crush on Fibre Space. Yup, I'm infatuated with a store. It's everything you could want a yarn store to be. It's beautiful, it's comfortable, it has an awesome supply [...]
The Yarn Spot: Wheaton, MD
store: The Yarn Spot address: 11406A Georgia Ave, Wheaton, MD 20902 website: http://www.theyarnspot.com/ date of visit: May, 2010 The Yarn Spot is a newcomer to the DC-area yarn-shop scene... but don't let that fool you! They're a fabulous, beautiful and well-stocked store! The first thing you notice about the store is that it's [...]
Nangellini: Philadelphia, PA
store: Nangellini address: 832 South Street, Philadelphia, PA website: www.nangellini.com date of visit: March, 2010 I had never heard of Nangellini before visiting Philadelphia... but after stumbling upon it, it became my favorite shop in the city! I feel like I'm short-changing the shop by calling it a 'yarn store', because it's really [...]
Rosie’s Yarn Cellar: Philadelphia, PA
store: Rosie's Yarn Cellar address: 2017 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA website: www.rosiesyarncellar.com date of visit: March, 2010 Visiting yarn stores in Philadelphia turned into a trip that dispelled all myths that I had heard... which is a good thing! Remember that, in my post about Loop, I had been told that it was 'too clean' and [...]
Loop: Philadelphia, PA
store: Loop address: 1914 South Street, Philadelphia, PA website: www.loopyarn.com date of visit: March, 2010 I was very excited to visit Loop, because I had heard things. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a neat freak... and I had been told that Loop was too neat, even for me. Someone even used the word 'sterile'. To tell you the [...]
Morris and Sons: Sydney, NSW, Australia
store: Morris and Sons (formerly Tapestry Craft) address: 50 York St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia website: www.morrisandsons.com.au date of visit: January, 2010 This is my last post about the yarn shops I visited in my recent trip to Australia (although, fingers crossed that I'll go back soon!). And, although I don't mean to [...]
Craft NSW: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
store: Craft NSW address: 104 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia website: www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/ date of visit: January, 2010 Okay, so this category is usually reserved for yarn stores... but today is an exception. Australian yarn can be very difficult to find (as I've said in my previous posts about visits to [...]
Sew and Tell: Berry, New South Wales, Australia
store: Sew and Tell address: Shop 2, 133 Queen Street, Berry, New South Wales, Australia website: N/A date of visit: December, 2009 Like many other yarn stores in Australia, Sew and Tell sells many things other than yarn, including materials for sewing, needle felting, cross stitch and needle point. Even though the yarn collection takes [...]
