A New Knitting Shop? Time to Strike!

It is about TIME!!! Those of us who live in Vancouver, Washington may be just over the bridge from Portland, Oregon (and admittedly a quick 9 miles for me), but sometimes you just want your own LYS!!

Me and two sweater quantities of yarn!

Urban Wolves Fibre Arts is the first of two very local yarn shops to open in Vancouver this month. Owners Michael and Christine Arrington are doing all of us a huge favor by providing a cozy, new space, complete with some stylish and cushy chairs, a large meeting table, and incredible natural light coming from the wall of windows that frame two walls of the shop. In addition to the ambiance and helpful customer service from Michael and Christine, there is also coffee and tea and a large flat screen TV on one wall--one can only imagine the likes of Jane Austen or anything Colin Firth coming out of that for countless hours of knitted bliss.

A unique feature of this store is the dyeing center. It's worth a look! They hope people will come in to buy the raw yarns/dyes they have in the shop and feel free to do it there, thus saving the trouble, stain potential and smells at home. ( I personally really love those smells, but I digress....)

2 yarns for 2 sweaters! Martin Storey's Dale's Aran and
Kathy Zimmerman's Plaits and Links cardigan! One for me,
one for my son.

Urban Wolves is carrying yarns like Manos Del Uruguay, Rown, Madelinetosh, Tahki and Sweet
Gerogia sock, just to name a few. There are plans for more yarns, supplies and classes in the works, too. They already have knit nights and mornings set up, see details
here.

Their official opening was on September 8th and I have the distinct honor of being the "biggest basket of the day." What can I say? I had been waiting for this!

You may be wondering, "Wait! You said two yarn shops!" Yes! Blizzard Yarn and Fiber is open here as well! I will be visiting them very soon!! :)