My mom is here for a visit -- in knitting news, she brought my new Jaeger booklet and the three skeins of Jo Sharp kid mohair that I ordered a few weeks ago!
The other day while the girls were in school, we went yarn-shop-hunting, and found this one --
The main Tailor & Alteration shop at 1/F Shing Wah Mansion,451-457 Hennessy Road, in Causeway Bay. Very hole-in-the-wall, I thought for sure that we'd blundered into some service hallway, but the little man at the desk took one look at us and pointed to the ceiling -- or so I thought -- after repeating this a number of times, I finally saw that he was pointing at a sign, one which matched the business card in my hand.
The shop was much larger than it seemed, full of nooks and crannies, a good-ish selection of yarns, but mostly sewing fabrics and accessories. (Good to know, as Julia's got a hole in her purple dress....)
Grandma was delighted to finish the poncho I started for Julia, in Lion Brand Homespun. Couldn't get her to stand still long enough, but she was obviously having a good time!
And here is my progress on "Forbes Forest," after about a skein and a half --
The Jaeger merino is very pleasant to work with, softer than it had seemed at first. Am tempted to stock up on it....
Love reading about your yarn shop visits - so interesting to see these little upstairs shops. I have used Jaeger merino DK and it is the softest wool I can get locally. But I recently bought some extra fine in aran weight and it is not so soft, I wonder why though.
Posted by: erin | June 04, 2005 at 02:33 AM