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Ottawa yarn 08/25/2010
Ottawa Yarn 2 08/28/2010

zilliah's Favorite Locations

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Knit Knackers
Smiths Falls, ON
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Shall We Knit?
Waterloo, ON
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Yarn Indulgences
Kitchener, ON
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Ottawa, ON
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about Yarn Indulgences on Wed Aug 25 19:00:51 +0000 2010

This is a wonderful stall in the Kitchener marker! Has a good selection of lovely yarn (I drool every time I go there), particularly for the size of the store. The staff are wonderfully helpful (but not pushy) who are happy to gossip about yarn and help with your projects.

I get my spinning fiber here - they've got a good selection of dyed fiber, as well as undyed (which is what I like). There are some different fiber types, but (I believe) they are all wool, no silk or alpaca roving. I could be wrong, I only really look at the undyed stuff.

about Wabi Sabi on Sat Aug 28 02:15:39 +0000 2010

A beautiful store, but I definitely felt like its focus was on Fiber Arts (with capitals), not knitting. There was a decent-small selection of yarn (mostly Berroco), as well as some gorgeous top. There were also some lovely fiber art pieces for display and sale, which was really nice! I liked the yarn-bombed railing outside the shop too! The lady there was very friendly and helpful.

Small selection, but what's there is great.

about Yarns Etc. on Sat Aug 28 02:20:28 +0000 2010

This is a fantastic little store! It's got a wide variety of yarns, from cheaper to reeeeally gorgeous and expensive, I'm impressed with how much fits in there! The owner was super nice and friendly, I had a lovely chat with her. I wish I lived near here, this would be a great LYS!

Oh, and she had a couple bundles of roving, but they were stacked with the yarns and had gotten a little pilled. But I guess that's ok since she doesn't seem to be focussing on spinners?

Great store!

about Yarn Forward - Glebe Store on Sat Aug 28 02:41:37 +0000 2010

Despite there being a lot of yarn at this store, I somehow didn't find anything I wanted to buy (and I want to buy ALL THE YARN). Well organized, with lots of space, and a lot of yarn, but I think a lot of the yarn is very similar, there is not a great deal of variety? They had a little bit of top, which was nice. The staff were not unfriendly, but I did feel a little awkward shopping, almost like I was intruding.

A nice variety of yarn, but I don't think this will be somewhere I'll regularly visit.

about Knit Knackers on Sat Aug 28 03:17:07 +0000 2010

Oh my god, this store is soooooo amazing!! A crazy amount of yarn, from cheap to the most gorgeous expensive stuff, some really reasonably priced gorgeous yarn! And a whole lot of it I haven't seen anywhere else, a fantastic collection!

I was even more excited about the amount of unspun fiber they had in the back half of the store! Some of it I didn't even know existed (fiber made from milk? and corn? crazy!). A fabulous selection of more conventional fibers too, for very reasonable prices! Most of it was undyed, but there was a wall with dyed top as well. I can't get anything like this selection near where I live, so I was ecstatic to see all of this!

The staff were SUPER friendly and helpful, even though I took ages to choose what fiber I wanted.

This is my new favourite store, everything was just so wonderful!

about London Yarns on Sat Aug 28 03:20:38 +0000 2010

Good selection of yarn, some of it I haven't seen elsewhere. Service varies with who's in there, but everyone is pretty nice. Reasonable prices but not cheap.

about Wool-Tyme Flagship Store on Wed Sep 01 06:31:39 +0000 2010

So much yarn, which was super, but it seemed like a lot of it was acrylic...admittedly, there was some nice acrylic, but it still seemed like a lot of cheap yarn. There was a good amount of higher quality yarn as well. They were in the middle of expanding, which was exciting but made everything a bit chaotic. I loved the sale room!

I didn't talk to the staff much, they didn't approach me and I didn't have any questions. The lady at the cash didn't really seemed all that pleased to help me, so I guess I'd agree with the previous reviews - I'm in my 20s.