I absolutely loved Aloha Yarns and Nanea and would be overjoyed to spend an afternoon knitting, visiting and laughing with Nanea and filling up my happiness tank.
Well, we are home (for about 2 hours.) Hawaii was fabulous from a double rainbow, to huge waves on the North Shore to a Luau to Pearl Harbor. It was all wonderful. But I must admit visiting LYS was one of my favorites. I tried to post this on the plane from Honolulu to Seattle but the gogoinflight wasn't allowing me into Weebly. Then when it did, I was rolling along when everything shut down AND I lost everything. Now let's visit Aloha Yarns from beautiful Adrian, Michigan. Above a Chinese Restaurant on Kamehameha Drive in Kaneohe, you will find Aloha Yarns. I walked in and saw two women visiting, knitting and laughing. It was love at first sight. Aloha Yarns is a tiny shop filled with colorful, beautiful yarn. After one of the knitting partners left, I got to meet Nanea. What a delightful, upbeat, friendly knitter. I am guessing Nanea is the shop owner though I didn't ask. I felt like I was being welcomed into the home of an old friend After a couple of minutes I asked the burning question, "Do you sell wool yarn?" Nanea laughed her beautiful musical laughter. "It's just something I've been wondering," I said. "After all, you really can't wear wool here. Too hot, too prickly." Nanea told me, yes indeed, she carried wool. After all many of her friends and customers had children in college on the mainland. "That sweater I am knitting is wool and it's for my daughter." She also has customers who knit socks. She also said she carries wool for tourists from the mainland, like me. So intermingled with yummy linens and crisp cottons are beautiful wools and alpacas. Just take a peak This is my treasure from Aloha Yarns. A soft, vivid alpaca. This is totally UDY (undesignated yarn). I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I couldn't leave for home without it. I can't wait to knit this and see what the colors are, how they stack and blend. Some day I'll post something that is absolutely exquisite made from this. One word I would use to describe Aloha Yarn is cozy. I could just see myself curling up with a knitting project in that chair and spending the afternoon with Nanea. Don't you just love it! Some stores you go to just to buy yarn while others you go to to have your soul renewed. That's what Aloha Yarns feels like. This is also something I bought at Aloha Yarns. Remember when I set one of my knitting goals for the year as designing a new class for Ann's By Design? Well, I think I will try an Amigurumi class. Teaching people to knit little critters. What do you think? I think it sounds fun and whimsical.
I absolutely loved Aloha Yarns and Nanea and would be overjoyed to spend an afternoon knitting, visiting and laughing with Nanea and filling up my happiness tank.
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