Yarn A Palooza!

Up bright and early and ready to attack the unsuspecting Portland Yarn Emporiums. First stop, Yarn Garden! If you look at the picture below, you will see that the Yarn Garden stretches across 5 store fronts on this Portland Street. Once 5 different businesses, now the yarn has moved in and taken over. Never turn your back on yarn it is mighty powerful stuff.



Naomi is sitting in the Sipperie of the Yarn Garden. It is a Portland innovation to put a espresso bar and cafe into a yarn store. Brilliant! Naomi is my knitting buddy from Seattle and she took the very late train ride down with me (I'm not bitter, I am totally over it). We met 3 years ago at a YMCA Women's retreat. When our eyes met each other's knitting project, we became instant friends and have been that way ever since.



After the Yarn Garden it was off to Abundant Yarn and then Mabel's Cafe and Knittery. Mabel's is the cutest little shop and cafe in a little house in the Hawthorne District. It is very cozy and a favorite place for Portland's knitters and spinners to hang out for hours. And they have enough yarn to get anyone into trouble.





After Mabel's we picked Katie up from school and went to lunch at a great little restaurant called Cha Cha Chas. Then it was back to the mean streets of Portland to hunt more yarn. We visited the Naked Sheep and Lint. We were still committed to shop til ya drop!