Trips: Boston and New Orleans

It seems like my husband and I have been taking a ton of trips lately! For Thanksgiving, we headed up to Rhode Island to see my in-laws. While there, we took a day trip into Boston. Whenever we’re in a new city with time to kill, I hop on Google to see if we’re near any good yarn stores. (See: Hartford)

In Boston, we were able to make it to two stores. The first, Windsor Button, is downtown near Boston Common. Opened in 1936, the store is packed full of fun little notions, and a large yarn section:

There was a lot of Cascade, Malabrigo, and Berroco yarn (as well as some Lion Brand and other larger brand names)- the yarn is super well organized, and shopping there was quite a bit of fun, although I didn’t buy anything. I DID spend about ten minutes molesting the madelinetosh yarn at the front of the store, though. If you’re in Boston, doing a Freedom Trail tour, definitely get there early and hit Windsor Button.

We also happened to head to Cambridge, stopping at the adorable Gather Here. Here’s a cute little video from their birthday, which shows the store a bit:

If you’re near Harvard, you’ll want to stop there. Particularly if, like me, you knit AND sew. Too many adorable fabrics to walk away.

Last weekend, we were in New Orleans for a holiday party, and I ventured into the French Quarter to Quarter Stitch, a needlepoint/ yarn store. The Yarn Harlot wrote about going there in 2007, and I find her brief description of the store to be accurate. A ton of Malabrigo, a big basket of Blue Heron rayon, and bunches of other, smaller brands interspersed throughout the store. They don’t like photographs in the store(due to the needlepoint kits), but if you peruse this search for images of the store, you’ll see quite a few. I didn’t find anything that particularly struck my fancy on that day. 

I would have loved to explore some other stores in New Orleans, but time wasn’t on my side! Luckily, we have some more trips planned in the upcoming year: Columbus, Ohio (my hometown), and New York City are on the list, for sure. If we were just going somewhere for yarn? Portland, for me! How about you guys? Any yarny destinations on your list?

– YX

(PS- Don’t forget to enter to win some stitch markers! Someone asked for hummingbirds in the comments, and suddenly, hummingbirds appeared in the Snarky Llama etsy store! Now that’s service!)