So on Friday after work (after the conference I went to at the Newberry to be more precise) I meet up with Amy from work at Nina's on Division. I have only been to 3 Local yarn stores in Chicago, but Nina's is my favorite, but closley tied with Loopy yarns downtown, and Arcadia is a distant 3rd. I enjoy Nina's because she always has wide range of yarns, I really like that she carrys the Manus del Uraguay, which is awesome yarn. Although I do wish she carried more sock yarn, oh well Loopy yarns carrys a lot of sock yarn. And she is very nice, and approchable.
Anyways Nina was having a Trunk show for the book AltherKnits. This is the crazy knitting book with patterns ranging from how to knit a screen door (yes a screen door), a couch coushin, a leather wrist cuff, a few more traditional things, and my favorite item in the book thus far is the laced fingerless gloves. Nina also had out some wine and desserts and after abotu 20-30 minutes the store was packed. I bought the alterkints book (it was 20%) off and some more Lorna's Laces sock yarn for myself. I went home and Saturday afternoon I started working on the fingerless gloves, that are knitting up really quickly, in fact I am almost done with one, and James' socks are paintently waiting in the knitting basket to be finished. Well as soon as I have the gloves done I will post a picture.
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