Local Yarn Stores

Well, I visited a new LYS today. This would be Knitorious, in St Louis City. This has to have been the friendliest Yarn Store I've been to yet. I had a lot of help showing me the various yarns for my SuperSecretProject™. Then, yarn selected, I chose some needles.

Next, they kindly wound the yarn from the skein it was in into a centre-pull ball. Fascinating watching the umbrella thingy and the ball-winder to make it all happen. Well, I guess it was fascinating the first time. More than that, maybe not so much.

Then they let me try out the needles with the yarn to see if they were a good fit for my SuperSecretProject™. They were a little too small, so I exchanged them for one size up, which worked just fine. I received a 10% discount, for being a member of the Greater St. Louis Knitters' Guild.

I was also given a handy tip - if your circular needles are doing annoying bendy stuff, boil some water, dip the cable part in it (keeping the needles themselves dry) for about a minute, then hold them out taut for a minute or so. That should prevent further curlage.

I also showed them some of my projects online, and Sandy, the proprietor, wanted me to bring one or two in to show her. I will, when I next have some time (and gas prices have gone down again - they jumped around 25c overnight!).

And for extra bonus points, they had KWMU (our local NPR station) on the radio.

Oh, and if you're in the St Louis area, you can see Knitorious on Channel 5's "Show Me St. Louis" tomorrow (Wednesday 16th March) at 3pm. They taped this morning, but I found out about it too late to have my 15 2 minutes of fame. And if you can't watch it, tape it at three as they say.

By the way, if you'd not noticed, I'm embarking on a SuperSecretProject™. I can't tell you about it, though, obviously. Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.