For our last day we visited the MPLS city shops. First was Needlework Unlimited. They have the best crochet offerings of any of the stores we visited and their crochet samples are beautiful! The atmosphere was bright and cheerful.
Next we went to StevenBe's and what a visual experience we had. StevenBe worked the crowd wonderfully and signed my Vogue Knitting copy!! I was so overwhelmed there,with all there was, I didn't get to the very back where the roving was. It was fun to find yarn in drawers and a dog sweater on a twig dog, quirky things in corners and gorgeous yarn everywhere.
Our last stop was at Crafty Planet. They are a fabric store besides carrying yarn. They had some local fiber artist yarns and great fabrics. The LE yarn was bright and they had socks worked up in the yarn along with the nesting doll pouches.
I will end this post with two pictures from our first day of the event. They really describe what we loved about our time in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Color, Creativity, Customer Service, Local Fiber Artists, Fun, Flair, Energy, ....We can't wait until next year.
Since I have taken so much time to get this shop hop experience posted, I must say the elapsed time has caused us to take another day trip to Minneapolis because Mairin won a door prize at 3Kittens Needle Arts and a first prize at Needlework Unlimited. We drove down to collect the prize and managed to squeeze in a visit to the Mall of America and the Walker Art Center. Mairin is now busily knitting. She had already completed the shrug pattern from The Sheepy Yarn Shoppe and wore it on the return trip. It was nice to visit both shops again without the crowds from the shop hop event, and we were able to take in more of the stores offerings. The Fab Grab Bag at 3 Kittens was super awesome. Two of my other daughters each bought one and they loved the yarn that was in the bags, yarn they can't normally afford. So I guess you could say we had a mini shop hop because we couldn't get enough the first time around.
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