YDT Shop #7 – Cornerstone Yarns
Shop #7 on my Yarn Discovery Tour reminds me of a phrase I love - "small but mighty". Cornerstone Yarns is a little shop with a fun array of yarns in Brecksville. I enjoyed meeting Kathryn, the owner, whose many beautiful shop samples reflect her decades of [...]
YDT Shop #6 – Crochet Innovations
While crochet may be the emphasis in expertise for stop #6 on my Yarn Discovery Tour, there are plenty of delightful yarns to be found for any yarn lover at Crochet Innovations. I like that the yarns are arranged by fiber. As a designer one [...]
YDT #5 – A Milestone – The Artful Yarn
The Artful Yarn in Chagrin Falls was shop #5 on my Yarn Discovery Tour. It's the closest store to where I live, and feels like "home". Part of my affection for the store is that when I had my trunk show and taught a class the owner [...]
YDT Shop #4 – River Colors Studio
Stop #4 on the Yarn Discovery Tour took me to Cleveland's west side. River Colors Studio is an amazing place. It's enormous, with an astounding range of yarns. This picture doesn't begin to convey how big the store is; there's a whole additional room [...]
YDT Shop #3 – Fiber Addiction
Don't you love the name of this store? Fiber Addiction, as well as being an accurate description of the knitting obsession, is a nice new store in Chardon, Ohio. I love meeting yarns that are new to me. I hadn't seen the Queensland Collection [...]
YDT Shop #2 – The Flaming Ice Cube
My stop #2 on the Yarn Discovery Tour was in the Boardman/Canfield area near Youngstown. When I first looked up The Flaming Ice Cube on the internet, I thought, "Huh? I thought this was supposed to be a yarn shop, but here's information about cafés. What [...]
YDT Shop #1 – Knit Wits
My first stop on the Yarn Discovery Tour was Knit Wits in Salem, Ohio. When I stopped in there was a table surrounded by friends knitting together and sharing lunch. I loved the camaraderie and was made to feel welcome. A display showed off some [...]