The Yarn Room Adventure

I was on a great yarn adventure today. I packed my crochet into my basket, flung it into the back of the car, rolled down the windows and felt the warm wind on my smiling cheeks, actually, it was more of a big happy grin on my face that wind was touching. I drove for exactly 45 minuttes and hit The Next Big Thing!

I went to see the new home of  The Yarn Room in Ashford village. I was a bit early and enjoyed waiting for Stephanie outside and immediately started dreaming of a bench outside, the shop is roughly South facing and on a sunny day it would just be the ideal spot for a vitamin-D soak and some stitching…

I peeped in the window and saw boxes and boxes of yarn and felting wool and hooks and needles and books and stuff! And a HUGE table steeped in light from a roof window. The perfect space for a good yarn class!

After a couple of stitches on my crochet I was invited inside and I saw a colourful couch to die for, and a coffee table too ready to be laden down with all matter of yarn related literature. There is room for a lot of knitting and natting in that sofa. And there is even an armchair for himself to wait in… Clever woman, our Stephanie.

The adventure did not finish with that. I was allowed to touch the holy grail and filled in some of all
those empty squares in that yarn rack. Oh, what luxury.

I was even treated to lunch from the Avoca Cafe in Mount Usher. And coffee too. It was served to me in the The Yarn Couch^TM , and what a view!!! Cubbyhole upon cubbyhole full of the best of yarn.

What a luxury to have a real LYS! I have not tried that ever while living in Ireland, which I have done for 15 years this coming August. By Danish standards a 45 minutte drive to a yarn store cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be classified as a LOCAL Yarn Store, but that is merely a technicality! Right? Right!

On Saturday I will be going again!

The Yarn Room is opening at 10am on Saturday July 4th and I believe there will be spot prizes all day long. Or at least a bag of free wool for the first customer there. I can’t wait for Saturday to come so I can see The Yarn Room in all it’s new glory!

Now I just wonder if I will meet you there on Saturday? If I do, please make yourself known to me. I would love to meet you! That’s what yarnies do, isn’t it? Meet and greet and that…

Note: Bus 133 from Dublin to Wicklow goes right past the shop in Ashford, more or less.