Hi All,

My boyfriend, Dan, lovingly created this awesome website for me to showcase my knitting hobby obsession–and if you don’t recognize the voice in those first couple of blog posts, it’s because he wrote them.  🙂

Now that I’ve finished putting all my previous projects into my portfolio (Heads, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes), I’m finally ready to publish this blog post that I started in January. So here it goes:

I’m currently living in Madison, WI and wanted to share some local places me and  my yarn habit have come to know and love.

Local stores to buy yarn or take classes:

• The Cat and Crow – I have taken two classes here, and they were both awesome. I’ve taken a stranded knitting class there one Saturday morning where I learned how to make this Baa-ble Hat. I also took a three part class there on Wednesday evenings where I learned how to make my very first sweater! They also periodically offer a hand-dyeing workshop that I want to take someday. The owners are also super nice and helpful, and there is usually a gaggle of knitters just hanging out in the front of the shop doing their thing: knitting.
• Wisconsin Craft Market– They have a humongous selection of yarn (and needles)! You can find pretty much anything you need there (and plenty of things you didn’t know you needed). It’s also right next to my grocery store, so it’s very easy (too easy?) to just pop in and see if there’s anything you just have to have.
• The Sow’s Ear – This place is unique because it is both a yarn store and a coffee shop! That means it has coffee shop hours, so when I snapped a size 2 wooden needle before 8am on a Saturday (what is my life?) they were open for me to go buy some stainless steal replacements. Who knew I was so strong…