November 06, 2004
Mouliné yarns
Toronto move over! You now have competition in Montreal, could it be!? I am talking about a NEW yarn store in Montreal called Mouliné Yarns. Yup, you heard me right, I can now find Debbie Bliss, Rowan, Noro and Elsebeth Lavold yarns locally. Oh dear, I feel like I'm cheating on my Toronto yarn shop friends but you have to pardon me as finding these yarns locally ROCKS!!! 
There's even a table and chairs in the store, could it suggest wanting customers to stick around, how about S&B meetings. Can you just stand all this excitement! teehee! I am happy, FINALLY a yarn store worth mentioning. Oh wait, the owner even encouraged my mini-spy aka Lucas to touch all the yarns too, hey, that's what they are for. So Lucas agreed to this and touched every yarn at his height, each colors, had a few balls that fell, the owner didn't even flinch. I'm in LOVE!
I'm being teased I believe: Ann has completed her beautiful Shedir hat. Each time I see this hat done on someone's blog I am 1- jealous 2- encourage to start mine 3- loving this hat even more. There's not even a knit-along for this Knitty creation but I can see that many like this hat just as much as I do. Aren't we just the luckiest knitters to have access to such gorgeous patterns for free? I am so thankful for Knitty as it started just around the same time I taught myself to knit with these videos. Each new issue made me want to learn more about knitting and I have made several of the designs offered too.
At the yarn store yesterday, I saw some yarn I couldn't resist also I wanted to know if I liked Zara yarn before it goes on sale at Elann. LOL! I doubt I'd knit a sweater using Zara yarn as I'd need tons of balls but I wonder if this would be good to knit baby items with!? Would this yarn be easy enough to care for especially for a non-knitter or should I go with a superwash yarn?
Wishing everyone a great weekend! After skating lessons this morning, we're going to go see Santa coming into town, I mean at the mall! LOL!
hugs,
Posted by Jo at November 6, 2004 08:20 AM
Dear Jo, please don't get me wrong - I was waiting for your "review" of the new yarn store on your blog! Can't wait to go myself - hope to do so today. The outside looks quite nice, too, doesn't it?
Jo, thank goodness you put the picture with the phone number up, because there's no info on their website about where they're located...and I reeeeeally need to go yarn shopping today, was going to take Tali, my six year old daughter, with me, and I'm thrilled to hear that they don't mind kids. Tali wants to pick out yarn for a kitty hat...so of course she has to touch it...it's for HER hat :-) I'm so excited, I can barely stand it :-)))
Thank you Jo for the info on the new yarn shop! I can't wait to go! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the possible excistence of SnB in the near future.
sounds like a cool yarn shop! cool!
Age of Aquarius is from Knitter's Stash. Kathy Zimmerman pattern. I love it!
How exciting that there's a new yarn shop in Mtl! And especially that it is friendly -- unlike ::cough cough:: the other one. :)
I'm so glad you posted about this new shop. Ever since I've moved to Montreal from Toronto 3 years ago, the main bulk of my stash has been purchased at Walmart. We have a cool LYS now! YAY!
Hiya Jo... see, you can't resist Shedir.... you're using Zara for it? I'll be eager to see your results. I made my boyfriend a simple 2x2 ribbed stocking cap last year out of Zara -- you're right, it's heaven to work with! -- but it didn't seem to hold its elasticity... he now has a floppy hat. That was on US6's, though... I've been thinking it would work better on smaller needles, so I'll be keeping an eye on you! It would be heaven for a sweater. Must... resist... elann....
Lurk alert! Yeah, I'm one of those, but I mean well.
http://local.google.com/local?sc=1&hl=en&q=yarn+store&near=Montreal&btnG=Google+Search
See :-) A handy listing of yarn and hobby shops in the Montreal area that 'should' carry yarn.
Of course, you've probably found most of these, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Anyway, www.local.google.com is a fab tool to pass along. Go ahead, search for anything, anywhere