Last weekend I was in Telluride, Colorado, and I visited Needle Rock Fiberarts. What a pretty little store! The owner was very friendly too.
Here it is from the outside. Can you see my colorful Clapotis on the "man-bench"? Probably not, but it's there. Boyfriend waited on the bench while I was shopping. He'd gone to get the car by the time I took this picture.
So what did I buy? I am such a sucker for the projects that are made up and displayed in a yarn store. There were some very pretty triangle shawls made of mohair and a coordinating yarn on display. So I bought yarn to make one of these. In the upper left that's Mountain Colors mohair in the Ruby River colorway and on the right is Karabella Aurora 8 in red. 
Below is a yarn unique to the area, alpaca by Pinon Woods Fibers of Norwood, Colorado. It's Colorado-grown, hand-spun, and in the natural color of the alpaca it came from, Ellana. Beads from Sedona are in the yarn too. There's even a picture of Ellana attached to the skein. She's got such a pretty face.
I thought it was cool to see the alpaca that the yarn came from! I showed the boyfriend and he thought Ellana "gave her life" to become this skein of yarn. I tried to explain that it wasn't so, but I don't think he was convinced. City men!
3 comments:
That looks like a cool little shop from the outside..I like the sign :-)
I love the sign on that shop. It was very creative. It sounds like you had a fun time. I like the colors of yard you picked out.
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