I’ve always loved that a “yarn” can be a story, as well as something you can knit or crochet with. Some people even take the connection further and say “she spun an outlandish yarn” to mean “she told an outlandish story.” Isn’t it great that it could also mean that she’s sitting at the spinning wheel, making some kind of cool eyelash, slub, sparkle yarn? Or both!?
So it seems spiritually correct to seek yarn (to knit with) at a conference of yarn-spinners (story-tellers). That is what I did. The Summer Gallery that advertised luxury yarns (see a couple of posts ago), has spun off its yarn business (how about that one, Alissa?) to a little store called Art Fibers, just off the square at Chautauqua.
Art Fibers is a small store, but it has a big selection of yarn. I was tempted by some kettle-dyed, golden/yellow yarn to use with an ultramarine blue from the same company. But the yarn that drew me in, that got me tangled in its plot, was this happy yarn from Cherry Tree Hill. (Twister, 75% merino, 25% superwash, colorway “Sugar Maple”) It was so cheerful, I had to say yes. Let’s just say it may foreshadow a future project.