Yarn Crawl

Ok, we've talked about it and no one's gotten around to organizing it. I propose we get our plans together for an all-day yarn crawl at our favourite knitting stores, starting with coffee and croissants (I like butter) at a central location and ending with dinner and a drink at a knitting-friendly restaurant.

Leanne posted a list of some yarn stores:

• Urban Yarns on West 10th


• Homecraft Importers on West 4th


• Birkland Brothers on Main Street


• The Knit and Stitch Shoppe in West Vancouver


• Dressew


• Wool and Wicker


• A Touch of Wool on Dunbar


• The Granville Island place


• Burnaby Knitworks


• The Coquitlam Como Lake Store


• The snooty place in Steveston

To avoid too many impulse purchases, the rule will be that we need to bring our patterns for future projects and we must only buy yarn for those projects. Anyone who appears to be breaking their budget will be restrained by their fellow yarn crawlers and permitted only to pet the wool. (I left out Daiso, Walmart, Lewiscraft and Michael's so we can focus our attention on the really fun places.)

The people without cars will pair up with the folks with cars so that no one has to bother with transit to the farflung regions of the GVRD. Participants with cars should also let us know if they are willing to accept passengers in the comment section.

I propose a Saturday in the latter part of April or even the beginning of May (though next Saturday appears to bear a good omen as well). Please add your opinions in the comments section. Here are dates to consider:

• March 19


• April 9


• April 16


• April 23


• April 30


• May 7


• May 14

(I left out Daiso, Walmart, Lewiscraft and Michael's so we can focus our attention on the really fun places.)

Once we choose the itinerary, the organizer will prepare a route. All participants can pitch a suggestion for the brunch and dinner places. Participants are encouraged to attend the dinner so we can do show'n'tell with our new yarn.

I also propose that anyone with a digital camera step forward to be the Official Yarn Crawl Photographer and we will post (anonymous) photos here. As all of us are bloggers, we will be a joint Official Yarn Crawl Scribe.

Once we decide on a date, we will inform other knitting groups (i.e. Seamrippers, the Meetup folks, coworkers, the group at Blake's - if anyone's infiltrated that group, and so on). If our group is big, we might even want to alert the yarn stores ahead of time, and we may want to put up signs in their stores to invite other knitters to join us. Ok, ok, I work in marketing so I might be getting too extravagant with this. But maybe the yarn stores might give us special treatment or something.

Let me know via the comments if I am missing anything.