I picked up the Holiday issue of Vogue Knitting magazine* yesterday. Mmmmmmmm… now, that gets the knitlust flowing through my veins. It’s a joy just to page through.
VK reviews a local yarn shop every issue and, this time, it was Tricoter in Seattle. It just looks like such a welcoming place for a knitter. How I wish I’d known about it before — I’ve been to Seattle several times visiting family, and I could have disappeared to there for an afternoon when all that family-ish-ness got too much! The trouble would be, of course, that I would return that evening poor as a church mouse and with enough yarn to fill another suitcase.
I know I have a reader or two from Seattle. Have you ever been to Tricoter? Is it as nice as it looks?
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* The Vogue Knitting magazine website is down at present, and has been months. I used to check it regularly for previews of coming issues, pattern corrections, intriguing discussions, and just plain inspiration. When oh when are they going to fix it?!?!?
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November 4, 2007 at 5:56 am
crayolaab
I haven’t been there. I’ve heard of it though. The main stores that the women in my knitting group mention are Hilltop Yarns (East and West - it just so happens that Hilltop East is literally right next door to my office, yikes! So that is the one I know best), Weaving Works, and Village Yarn and Tea. There is also Churchmouse yarns which is on one of the Islands, Bainbridge perhaps? We sure have a plethora of great knitting shops here. Expensive as all get-out, though!
I didn’t know you have family in this area. If you ever come this way for a visit, I would love to show you some of the local shops.
November 4, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Strawberry
Because I’m not in the States, I never know if these LYS reviews they do are for average shops or for really spectacular shops. In my mind, they are always for really spectacular ones.!
Crayolaab, I am so so soooooo jealous to hear you have so many LYSs near you. How wonderful! And yet… how awful! HOW do you keep yourself under control?
I don’t have family in the area anymore, much to my chagrin. My sister used to live right downtown, with a view of Ranier and the Sound from her flat windows. I first visited Seattle when I was in university and drummed it into her head that we would both live there someday — she, being a downtown kinda girl, would have a flat in the city and me, being a sticks kinda girl, would live on one of the islands or on the peninsula. She lived up to it but I never did. And now she’s got sick of waiting for me and of Seattle traffic, and moved back East where she’s happiest. *sigh*
November 5, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Abigail
(I keep forgetting what account I am logged in with when I leave comments - yikes!). The shop next to my office is a bad, bad temptation. Mostly I avoid the others because I don’t often have to drive anywhere, and they would require driving. I can’t quite justify spending the gas money and time sitting in traffic just to go to a yarn shop
But it is nice to have the resources available should I decide to use them.
Will you have many shops near where you are moving? It seems that yarn shops are springing up ALL OVER here in the States, I did not notice it nearly as much in the UK but maybe it is happening now too?
I love it here, love, love, love. I am astounded by the beauty on a regular basis
I am torn between being a city girl and a country girl but for now I’m happy with the fake city (it’s like suburbs, but a city - no night life but lots of high rises and office buildings. very bizarre).
November 18, 2007 at 12:24 am
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