I had called her to get help on the shawl that I was making.....I was using a Boomerang type pattern: The Quaker Yarn stretcher pattern that I have looked at for years.....I loved the way the yarn looked as it is a variegated yarn and there is just enough pattern that it was not pooling...instead the colors were actually popping out. But I was unhappy with the fact that there would not be two long ends to come back over my shoulder if I wear it with the triangle part in the front. I am still fussing with this project trying to decide just what I am going to do.
However, in the middle of our conversation, my tennis game got cancelled because of various and sundry reasons and we decide on a whim to drive to Bridgeport to check out a yarn shop that has a wonderful website.....who would have thought? Bridgeport? So this post is about our jaunt to The Nest.
https://www.thenestyarn.com
Diana is the owner and she was there with Shirley (her skinny friend).....That was a funny conversation that took place while Dar and I were browsing....but I do like to note names for future reference.
I have the feeling that Diana works hard to have a selection of whatever her customers find to be the "hot" item of the time. She had some Noro on sale in the sale bin....but there was not a selection of Noro yarns....telling me that Noro had been hot but was no longer hot in her shop.
Mostly what I noticed was a HUGE selection of Madeleine Tosh in three weights....It was really fun to see them in person and feel them and play with them to see what colors went together....which is a lot of what Dar did...making two wonderful purchases! I particularly liked the shawl samples on the wall and bought enough Tosh to make hmmmmmmm........And the below photo doesn't do justice the the wonderful Tosh yarn....and somehow I failed to take a photo of the Drachefels Shawl that the colors were knit into. Diana didn't have the lavender that was used, so I bought pink....but I might buy the lavender on line ....honestly I loved the color selection that had been used! I can not believe that I forgot to take a photo of the actual shawl.
But here is the photo from the pattern:
But it doesn't do justice to the colors that were used in the shawl in the store!
I was thinking of Mitzi and her hat projects....and Diana had a darling hat that came down very well in the back:
What yarn did you use? Techno.....oh my gosh....it is WONDERFUL....and I could not resist again:
At the bottom of the website, there is a place to put one's e-mail address in order to hear special events and etc from the shop. Diana says that Nikki Epstein is from Clarksburg and on occasion, Nikki will do special events in the shop! Also Diana mentioned that Claudia has been wanting to come and bring her yarns ....oh, my gosh...perhaps my favorite vendor at SAFF!
http://marshamosesknitting.blogspot.com/2017/10/christmas-project.html
But where I am going with this is that Diana worried that she wouldn't have a big enough crowd to warrant Claudia bringing her wares....and I promised her that if she would work with us on final date that we would bring a group from Huntington!
The trip was a lot of fun! Beautiful yarn! Fun projects!
Oh, I almost forgot.....the restaurant next door looks great! Dar and I had stopped at Subway....and it was tasty.....but this place seems to be a destination of it's own:
And Lunch menu:
And one more knitting project that Diana had on display. I bought two skeins of Noro that would be good for this project and would be a good project to use up some of my stash. Diana did not have the actual pattern that she had used, but she helped me to pick out something similar....I could vary the size. I couldn't find the one that Diana chose....so I picked something at random on Ravelry:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/entrelac-tutorial
Below is an easier pattern that I could use for the same sort of look. It is called Stripe the Squares by Jenny Garcia
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