Knitting stores in Santa Monica

Last week Todd and I went out to visit our friends on the west coast. We had an excellent time!

On the flight out I worked on my second lion washcloth. I had already ripped it out once because I ran out of yarn and was trying to make the loops more conservatively. This time I got 3/4 of he way done instead of only 1/2 way before I ran out of yarn. I convinced my friends to add a trip to a yarn store to the itinerary and we ended up going to not one or two but three different stores.

The first was Stitches From the Heart, a nice little store that knits baby clothes for charity. At the store there were several nice older women helping out and knitting. It has some nice, interesting yarns, but the store is fairly small and doesn't have such a wide variety of yarn; I couldn't find another ball of the yarn I was looking for.

Our next stop was Yarns Unlimited. Here there was a much larger variety of materials, weights and textures, but sadly still not the one I was looking for.

I persuaded my friends to try one more store so I got to visit Wildfiber. I learned about Wildfiber from the book that the former owner collaborated on: Knit 2 Together by Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark. I was very excited to go there and it turned out to be the coolest of the three. The space is huge, with comfy couches to relax on while perusing the books, or to hang out on while your knitting obsessed friends have a field day. I still could not find the yarn I was looking for, but I did find some needle point covers to hold my sock needles so that they no longer make swiss cheese out of the bag I've got them in and some shell accents for the table runner I'm working on.