waving goodbye to the wool shop

[julesjones]

I am bereft. My local wool shop has upped sticks and left for a neighbouring village, because their lease has expired and the renewal rates are only affordable by chains. I didn't go in there all that often, but it was very, very handy to have within walking distances on those occasions when I needed some piece or other of sewing kit. Their primary thing was knitting, but they also catered to cross-stitchers like me, and had a nice stock of general sewing kit. They are responsible for entirely too much of the non-book/fannish clutter in this house, not least because they have been very helpful in my recent attempts to (re-)learn to knit.

They've only moved, not closed, but they've moved somewhere that's far enough to require wheeled transport to get there. This is probably a good thing in terms of stopping me from popping in and buying something because it was there, but alas, what am I to do when I actively want or need something? At least I did get to their last day party on Saturday, and thus acquired entirely too many balls of scarf wool, along with a couple of things I actually needed as opposed to "Ooh, shiny!"

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[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's sad - we had a Lincraft (big wool and fabric) shop open in town last year, which is a little better than before when we had to drive halfway across the city :(

And a couple of other (totally different, but the principle's the same) shops I liked to browse in at Christmas closed this year: one of them had been there for 20 years and even if I didn't buy anything, I felt nostalgic and sad...

[julesjones]

I've still got a length of dove-grey lining silk in my stash which I bought in Lincraft nearly thirty years ago. One of these days I'll do something with it...