6 Mar 2019
a plague on all your LYSes?
6 Mar 2019 07:44 pmToday we tried to go to TWO local yarn stores that had both had time to up sticks and move since the last time we saw them (Piikopirta, which used to be in the courtyard up the block from Kinopalatsi, and Tuuma, the one that used to be in the Mehiläinen Kauppiaskatu shopping center), one all the way to our suburb, Raisio, and one to Humalistonkatu around the corner from Kivikukkaro.
Thankfully the third one was still there, although it's changed its name from Käsityö Elisa to KäsityöAda (presumably due to inheritance, as Elisa was the owner and she already had the shop there before![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
waxjism was born, according to MIL). They crammed in a bunch more shelves and there are bags and baskets of yarn skeins piled on the floor in the corners. I bought a bunch of dk-weight merino to start making myself a Briochevron Cowl, and waxjism bought some sock yarn and some beautiful Finnish lace-weight yarn to make me another shawl (I don't force her to: she likes making things for me better than for herself and she says she's never cold!).
I've also started knitting a zig-zag striped blanket out of 7 Veljestä, so I picked up 4 more skeins of that at the department store before we caught the bus back. (It's way too Basic to be found in a LYS.)
Also the owner appears to be ofwaxjism's People (the Swedish-speaking Finns)! We've been going to this store for over a decade and it's always manned by a member of the same immediate family, yet we've never known that before, lol.
Thankfully the third one was still there, although it's changed its name from Käsityö Elisa to KäsityöAda (presumably due to inheritance, as Elisa was the owner and she already had the shop there before
waxjism was born, according to MIL). They crammed in a bunch more shelves and there are bags and baskets of yarn skeins piled on the floor in the corners. I bought a bunch of dk-weight merino to start making myself a Briochevron Cowl, and waxjism bought some sock yarn and some beautiful Finnish lace-weight yarn to make me another shawl (I don't force her to: she likes making things for me better than for herself and she says she's never cold!).I've also started knitting a zig-zag striped blanket out of 7 Veljestä, so I picked up 4 more skeins of that at the department store before we caught the bus back. (It's way too Basic to be found in a LYS.)
Also the owner appears to be of
waxjism's People (the Swedish-speaking Finns)! We've been going to this store for over a decade and it's always manned by a member of the same immediate family, yet we've never known that before, lol.