Knitting detour

Figuring Ms Soprano needed a day to work on the place without her mother hanging out – I set off to find the local yarn store.

This was after spending time at Dominick’s. What, you may ask, is Dominick’s? Think Safeway (well, it is part of the Safeway family). Large, really large grocery store complete with loyalty program, nice people at the cash register, good produce and a manager who is out talking to customers and bagging groceries rather than hiding in an office. We spent money – she now has staples, spices and food.

Back to the yarn expedition. I had noted (isn’t the Internet a wonderful thing?) there was a yarn store on W Polk, which should be close, that had a group meeting for lunch on Thursdays.

I hiked up Wabash, cut over to State Street and finally figured out (with the snow coming down in my face and my toes getting cold) that I had walked too far when I got to Washington. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Chicago has streets named for Presidents. What I don’t remember from the 5th Grade is the order of the presidents after Washington. Hello? Like I need this information because? It would be also useful to know that not all East-West streets are through streets.

You know what is coming next don’t you? Not being a complete fool, I headed down into one of the Blue Line entrances, found the map on the wall which told me I still had four blocks further south to head. Brilliant – right where it was supposed to be – there it was on W Polk.

Loopy Yarns

Loopy Yarns at Dearborn Station

Spent a lovely noontime and early afternoon with Vicky (the owner) and other knitters who dropped in.

I didn’t work on the After Hours Shawl

mostly through the second skein

mostly through the second skein


since I didn’t want to knit completely from memory.

Instead I managed to get from here

Spooky

Spooky


to here
the Halloween Cowl

the Halloween Cowl


on the cowl which I started on the flight over.

Obviously, my trip back to the apartment was much quicker than the one on the way over.

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4 Responses to Knitting detour

  1. Lovely knitterly goodness.

  2. Oooh – love those cats!

  3. Isobel says:

    Finding yarn shops is a VERY necessary part of staying sane. 🙂

  4. Alison says:

    By the way. The Safeway loyalty program? It’s administered by Rupert Murdoch and company, and they’re cited in Action Line in the paper here all the time. Of course, people who are happy with it don’t complain to Action Line, so I’ve only seen one side of it.

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