Well, 1/2 of my dream* has come true! I now live about a 7-minute walk away from my closest LYS! Or rather, there is now a LYS within 7 minutes from where I live, since I have not moved.
Knitty Couture just sort of appeared, and it is such a nice place! Granted you have to walk past a few hobos and a sketchy area (the gas station at Skinker and Delmar, which I am very familiar with and therefore less sketched out than most people), but then for some reason it stops being the ghetto again for a few blocks (mostly because the ghetto seems to run north/south and Delmar is an east/west street) and there's all these OTHER boutiques! And to think if I had never gone to see Hanson at the venue across the street, I never would have known the place existed. And for that matter, if Isaac Hanson hadn't had that pulmonary embolism, the concert would have been in early October, before the store opened, and I never would have known it was there (it just opened a few weeks ago). So, thanks, Isaac Hanson's potentially fatal health conditions!
Oops, I promised myself I wouldn't get fangirl juice all over this blog. Oh well. I also promised myself I wouldn't buy any more yarn but I always feel like a bitch going into a yarn store and then leaving without buying anything. Especially a little one like Knitty Couture, because they'd totally see me leaving with nothing, which would be horribly embarrassing since I'd talked to all the employees. I ended up with 3 skeins of Berroco Comfort to make the Shaped Lace Tee from Knitting Lingerie Style, and the Vogue Knitting Magazine from spring 2006 (I think--it's the one with the pretty pink skirt on the cover) and all in all I didn't spend too much money, but it was also my first visit! However, it is winter and therefore they've stocked a lot of wool, and since I am hella allergic to wool I don't foresee too many purchases in my future. I wanted to get sock yarn, but when the hell did sock yarn get so expensive? I'm not spending 40 dollars on my first pair of socks! I guess it will have to be knitpicks.
*My dream is to live within walking distance of a LYS and a bakery. Preferably, I would live in an apartment above the bakery and have a pole to slide down into the bakery, but I know that is just a pipe dream.
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