rec and request for help

[sofiaviolet]

sl1 k2tog psso by carleton97 (MCR, Bob/Frank/Jamia, ~9k)

You guys. Bob owns a yarn shop. Eeeee! (Basically, this fic and Buy Handmade by jjtaylor are the fics of my crafty fangirl soul. Buy Handmade sustained me through "I'm going to learn to make SOMETHING, dammit" - which turned out to be jewelry - and sl1 k2tog psso is going to sustain me through "I'm going to learn to knit, dammit.")

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Anyone got recs for a yarn shop in or near Boston? T-accessible is preferred, although Ellie has a car and can sometimes be bribed or badgered into driving me around.

Comments

[pinesandmaples]

Honestly, I don't think WEBS is good for a beginner. --> particularly when it involves a road trip
People need a few months of futzing around, ruining yarn by ripping it eighteen times, and preference-building before running off to WEBS. I know that most of the yarn I purchased in the first year of knitting--even though it was purchased from an excellent yarn store with wise staff after a lot of advice and consideration--was completely worthless and against my style. Yes, I love some of the brands and yarns I found, but they don't work with the kind of things I like knitting or the way I like working.

WEBS is a good reward for finishing a couple projects and starting to form some ideas of where to go from there.

[zarhooie]

And see, I think that a place like WEBS, *especially* if you take the break in the middle, is a great place to go to get an idea for what is out there. So many people start with crappy acrylic and never progress past that. You can (and should!) practice and work with cotton worsted to get stitch patterns and technique down, but having a couple (or more than a couple) skeins of nice stuff around to play with when you feel like it... there's no better feeling.

Don't spend a ton your first trip and only get what you *really* love.

[sofiaviolet]

I mainly need to learn the starting and finishing bits - someone did once teach me the in-between part and I think I still remember it.

Lol weird way of learning. And I am going to go with synecdochic's whole "knit dishcloths!" thing, so cotton is good. We can probably use them. (Besides, I need to get revenge on my mom for her housewares thing. "You need pillows? Here's ten of them! You need flatware? Here's enough for sixteen full place settings!" etc.)

[sofiaviolet]

It'll take me a while to get out there anyway. Maybe a couple of finished projects would help convince my sister to provide transportation.

[bookofcalm]

If you're visiting Noho you can always sleep on my couches for an overnight trip. If I am home, I mean. Which I usually am. INCENTIVE, y/y?

[sofiaviolet]

:D Y.

[bookofcalm]

Actually, I am also thinking about trying to come in for part of Arisia (you're going, right?), but classes start like the day after the con is over and that weekend is SUPER BUSY at work usually, so IDK if they'd let me have any of it off. I'm also not sure I want Post-Con Crash right before throwing myself back into classes. But Arisia! I haven't gone in years! We'll see.

We have an upstairs couch and a futon couch downstairs and a bed in my actual room that I can always sleep on for a night (I would not subject anyone to my room ahahaha) and, uh. Two parents! But since I stayed with you, I don't think they'd mind you two staying here.

[sofiaviolet]

I am going to Arisia. You can stay at my place like you did for MJ, if you want.

We shall see whether Ellie wants to drive me out there. :\

[bookofcalm]

I'm trying to figure out when to visit and stuff because a friend is moving on the sixteenth so I am going to help her out with that if I can but then there's no point in bothering with Arisia, except for how it is potentially going to gather like ten of my friends in one place. AUGH. I have to ask off TODAY if I am going to do it and I still have no clue what is going on. :(

[sofiaviolet]

Let me know your plans whenever. I am flexible.