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Knitting The Sky At Yarn Envy

10/11/2015

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Remember my excitement when I found this fabulous book?  Then my increased excitement when I found yarn at Yarn Quest?
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I started putting my kits together and guess what?  I didn't have enough blue.  Things I thought were blue (like bottom right) looked more like gray when I started looking close.  That may be what I think of when I think of Michigan weather, but that is only in the winter.  Springs in Michigan are beautiful.  Autumns are crisp, bracing with blue skies and fluffy clouds.  Just think of the perfect football day.  We have a lot of those.  Since I am getting ready to give a kit away, I felt I needed (yes, needed.  Not wanted, not would like but needed) some beautiful blue yarn.  

Not far from Adrian, on the way to Toledo is a wonderful LYS I haven't introduced you to:  Yarn Envy.  Isn't that a great name!?!?  I called Thea who comes to my Friday "Social Knitting for Charity" because Yarn Envy is her favorite.  I told her this was a quick because my Mom was coming, and our plans were made.

​For those of you who haven't been to Yarn Envy, it is one of the most unique environments I have been in.
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Yarn Envy resides in a small corner of a huge building that is a nursery.  When it first opened, they were pretty much all that was in the building.  As the years have past, the nursery business has gotten bigger and bigger.
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There are no walls separating Yarn Envy from the nursery, but there are always women knitting at this big table.  There didn't appear to be a class, just women dropping in to do what they love in a place they love.  I can't describe the warm friendly atmosphere.  The two women working (I assumed they were owners) looked happy and enthusiastic.  No fake, condescending smile here.  Just a genuine, warm "welcome to my store. I am so glad you are here" look.  I told them that I was searching for yarn to "Knit the Sky" and they were intrigued.  They let me roam, do my thing.  
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They have this wonderful area that is just jammed packed with high end yarns.  Wonderful ArtYarn. Colorful Noro. Yummy Cashmere.  Scrumptious Alpaca.  You name it and it is in this little space.  Everywhere you look there is yet another gorgeous yarn.  

After my trip to Yarn Quest and my excursion to Yarn Envy, I came up with this for a Knitting The Sky kit of yarn.
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I even have fluffy white for those days when clouds look good enough to spin on a cone and eat like cotton candy.  I also got two great ArtYarns that have crystal and sequins and look like rain.  I am sure as the year goes by, I will find yarn that I think must be in my sky.  I am going to start mine on January 1 in Myrtle Beach.  I can't wait. (Hopefully I will really wait not jump the gun.  There is just something about January 1 that seems so right.)
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I just want to leave you with the image of women knitting, talking, doing what they love and one of the friendliest LYS I have ever been in.  I salute Yarn Envy and will be back real soon.
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    This blog is dedicated to Mary Helen Growt my first knitting teacher and the woman who changed my life.  The mission of Knitting: A Love Story is to preserve, share and promote the love of knitting.

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