Flying Fingers!

It's amazing how much time I can waste when I get on the computer and start reading blogs.

The people and atmosphere of a yarn store greatly affect the appeal of yarn for me. On Sunday, a bunch of the ladies from my knitting group and I took a field trip to Flying Fingers. It is by far the nicest yarn store I've been to, and consequently, I wanted everything.


Look at how neat and bright everything is!


We were all very happy knitters.

The owners and everyone who worked there was so friendly and helpful. I wandered around for a good long while with my patterns and notebook. I'm a very precise when it comes to buying yarn. I look for my choices and do the math to figure out how many skeins I'll need for a particular project and how much those skeins will cost me.

My patternbook came in the mail on Friday. For my sweater, I decided to go with Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Damson, color 24. It's this rich and deep eggplant purple that can't really be captured on camera. It's amazingly soft, a superwash, and I'm told that it wears like iron.

Those are just a couple of the thirteen balls I bought.

I also picked up two skeins of Manos in Lava Multi, #105 for a hat for D and two skeins of Mountain Colors' Mountain Goat in Juniper for a scarf for me. The purple needles were a gift from the lovely owner, Elise.


My only small regret is that I bought and had all my yarn wound before a few of us stopped in this little boutique down the street. There was this adorable knit hat. I didn't have any yarn budget left to run back to the yarn shop and buy the yarn to recreate it, and I certainly didn't have the funds to buy the hat itself (it cost $80!), but I had Efrat snap a couple surreptitious pictures for me in the store so I could make it at a later date.


Bottom line: If you're ever in the area of Irvington, NY, stop into Flying Fingers. If you can make it to NYC, they'll even come pick you up in their Yarn Bus.


How freakin cool is that?