I like a good yarn hunt as much as the next person but I hadn't expected to bring back any yarn from Italy because I suspected I wouldn't have time to break away from the tour. I found a few skeins of basic sock yarn in a department store during a day trip to Switzerland. It was satisfying enough but I was curious to see how Italian knitters roll with their local yarn shops.
Happily - during a free afternoon in Venice, I spied a lovely bowl of yarn in the window of a dear shop called lellabella. The store is packed with beautiful yarns and uber-chic scarves - I could have spent a long long time in there pondering an alternate life with an Italian stash and a closet stuffed with new pashminas. In the end, I picked up two skeins of pretty laceweight cashmere.
Nice, right? They remind me of the canal waters slipping beneath Venice's caramel coloured bridges.
2 comments:
So pretty! What a great find!
This is a great way to select yarns, Tara - so that they remind you of the very place you bought them. Way to marry the world traveler with the knitter! Looking forward to more images in the blog. xov
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