Spring Fling Road Trip

Finally in a Yarn Shop!

We were telling the truth, we were hitting all the yarn shops we could and went to Artisan Knitworks in St Claire Shores in the Northern Detroit area. Found it easily with an ATM (US cash) and a McDonalds (grilled chicken salad) close by. Well we thought we had died and gone to heaven!!! This is a large store with all sorts of hand dyed and hand spun and hand made yarns!!! Books, dyes, buttons…and so much more.  We walked in and a gentleman approached from a back room…that is Larry Hart, co owner with his wife.                                           Here’s a pic of Larry and Sonja after he had shown her the boa she is wearing, made of wool tops, yarn and ribbons.

Here I am in one part of the store with some hand spun yarn that I eventually purchased….I’ll use it in my felting. The two tone yarn is made from ends from a yarn spinning business where the owner saves the ends and makes up multicoloured skeins (yum).  Her yarn is featured on the back wall of the back studio room where I also found some dye.  Larry’s wife designs and knits the sweaters we found displayed around the shop.

Workroom where lots happens, I got an email in a day or so telling me of upcoming classes and events.

Now….if you want buttons, Larry has TONS of vintage buttons, beautiful, interesting parts of our textile history. I drooled over them….but had already put down $$$ for yarn.
Here is their wall of

Sonja found some yummy felted mits. By this time we had our jackets off, had brought in a couple of things from the car, like Sonja’s copper dress, which we were taking to Spring Fling to display, and I was grazing through the excellent book shelf. We could have gone seriously broke here and it would be a regular haunt if we lived there!  I purchased some dyes and hand spun yarn….I have a scarf in mind and some felting……..

Oh, and we had a great time at Spring Fling and Peru.